<p class="poetry">All the trees of the field will know that I am the <sc>Lord.sc>p> <p class="poetry">I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.p> <p class="poetry">I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken, and I will do it!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yet you say, &#8216;Why should the son not suffer<n id="1" /> for his father&#8217;s iniquity?&#8217; When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.<n id="1" />p>

For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them<n id="1" /> in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod,<n id="1" /> Shoa,<n id="2" /> and Koa,<n id="3" /> and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.

All the princes of the sea will vacate<n id="1" /> their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">You were in Eden, the garden of God.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Every precious stone was your covering,p> <p class="poetry">the ruby, topaz, and emerald,p> <p class="poetry">the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,p> <p class="poetry">the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your settings and mounts were made of gold.p> <p class="poetry">On the day you were created they were prepared.p>

<p class="poetry">I will leave you in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">you and all the fish of your waterways;p> <p class="poetry">you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.p>

&#8220;Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar<n id="1" /> of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre.<n id="2" /> Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

<p class="poetry">The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,p> <p class="poetry">nor could the fir trees<n id="1" /> match its boughs;p> <p class="poetry">the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;p> <p class="poetry">no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.p>

Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land<n id="1" /> have departed<n id="2" /> from its shade and left it.

Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.

therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.&#8217;p>

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types,<n id="1" /> all of them armed with swords.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog.<n id="1" />

The man said to me, &#8220;Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention<n id="1" /> to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you.<n id="2" /> Tell the house of Israel everything you see.&#8221;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to me: &#8220;Son of man, pay attention,<n id="1" /> watch closely and listen carefully to<n id="2" /> everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances<n id="3" /> to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate<n id="1" /> it &#8211; even my house &#8211; when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You<n id="2" /> have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.<n id="1" />p>

On both sides of the river&#8217;s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>