<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

Thus they will provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil morning by morning, as a perpetual burnt offering.p>

Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;And you, son of man, prophesy,p> <p class="poetry">and clap your hands together.p> <p class="poetry">Let the sword strike twice, even three times!p> <p class="poetry">It is a sword for slaughter,p> <p class="poetry">a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.p>

<p class="bodytext">I saw<n id="1" /> a wall all around the outside of the temple.<n id="2" /> In the man&#8217;s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet<n id="3" /> long. He measured the thickness of the wall<n id="4" /> as 10½ feet,<n id="5" /> and its height as 10½ feet.

You will be<n id="1" /> an object of scorn and taunting,<n id="2" /> a prime example of destruction<n id="3" /> among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury.<n id="4" /> I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!

He stretched out the form<n id="1" /> of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind<n id="2" /> lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem<n id="3" /> by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue<n id="4" /> which provokes to jealousy was located.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,<n id="1" /> planted by water.p> <p class="poetry">It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.p>

Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.p>

Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle<n id="1" /> to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow<n id="2" /> concerning them, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, that they will be responsible<n id="3" /> for their sin.

&#8220;Son of man, say to her: &#8216;You are a land that receives no rain<n id="1" /> or showers in the day of my anger.&#8217;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill<n id="1" /> every person and every animal.

This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

When I had returned, I noticed<n id="1" /> a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides.

Now the altar hearth<n id="1" /> is a perfect square, 21 feet<n id="2" /> long and 21 feet wide.

I saw an amber glow<n id="1" /> like a fire enclosed all around<n id="2" /> from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire,<n id="1" /> and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.p>

He took one from the royal family,<n id="1" /> made a treaty with him, and put him under oath.<n id="2" /> He then took the leaders of the land

<p class="poetry">A total ruin I will make it!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will come to an endp> <p class="poetry">when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>