<p class="poetry">Do not exploit<n id="1" /> a poor person because he is poorp> <p class="poetry">and do not crush the needy in court,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your very best valleys were full of chariots;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">horsemen confidently took their positions<n id="2" /> at the gate.p>

<p class="poetry">He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions,p> <p class="poetry">and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">those who bear false testimony against a person,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I thought,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;In the middle of my life<n id="2" /> I must walk through the gates of Sheol,p> <p class="poetry">I am deprived<n id="3" /> of the rest of my years.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">I will make your pinnacles out of gems,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your gates out of beryl,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your outer wall<n id="3" /> out of beautiful<n id="4" /> stones.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;The people of Judah are in mourning.p> <p class="poetry">The people in her cities are pining away.p> <p class="poetry">They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Cries of distress come up to me<n id="2" /> from Jerusalem.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> continued,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;In every town in the land I will purge themp> <p class="poetry">like straw blown away by the wind.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will destroy my people.p> <p class="poetry">I will kill off their children.p> <p class="poetry">I will do so because they did not change their behavior.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Indeed a time is coming,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> &#8220;when the city of Jerusalem<n id="3" /> will be rebuilt as my special city.<n id="4" /> It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.<n id="5" />

He measured<n id="1" /> the porch<n id="2" /> at 105 feet<n id="3" /> high;<n id="4" /> the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.

<p class="bodytext">He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

Four tables were on each side of the gate, eight tables on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

The glory of the <sc>Lordsc> came into the temple by way of the gate that faces east.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the <sc>Lordsc> on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

<p class="poetry">Indeed, the residents of Maroth<n id="1" /> hope for something good to happen,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">though the <sc>Lordsc> has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be like women in your midst;p> <p class="poetry">the gates of your land will be wide open<n id="1" /> to your enemies;p> <p class="poetry">fire will consume<n id="2" /> the bars of your gates.<n id="3" />p>

and he said to them, &#8220;Thus says the <sc>Lord,sc> the God of Israel, &#8216;Each man fasten<n id="1" /> his sword on his side, and go back and forth<n id="2" /> from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

They will besiege all of your villages<n id="1" /> until all of your high and fortified walls collapse &#8211; those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.