<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw<n id="1" /> chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion&#8217;s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around;

They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast,<n id="1" /> he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.p>

He will provide a grain offering: an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wishes,<n id="1" /> and a gallon<n id="2" /> of olive oil with each ephah of grain.<n id="3" />

And you<n id="1" /> will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon<n id="2" /> of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the <sc>Lordsc>; this is a perpetual statute.

When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design &#8211; all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt,<n id="1" /> put them in a single container, and make food<n id="2" /> from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side &#8211; 390 days<n id="3" /> &#8211; you will eat it.

Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize<n id="1" /> how I was crushed by their unfaithful<n id="2" /> heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves<n id="3" /> because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images?<n id="1" /> For they think, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> does not see us! The <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned the land!&#8217;&#8221;

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Go through the city of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and put a mark<n id="2" /> on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, &#8220;Alas, sovereign <sc>Lordsc>! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand,<n id="1" /> although they are a rebellious house.

<p class="bodytext">So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage<n id="1" /> on my shoulder while they watched.p>

Therefore say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: None of my words will be delayed any longer! The word I speak will come to pass, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

and say &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Woe to those who sew bands<n id="1" /> on all their wrists<n id="2" /> and make headbands<n id="3" /> for heads of every size to entrap people&#8217;s lives!<n id="4" /> Will you entrap my people&#8217;s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you;<n id="1" /> you were thrown out into the open field<n id="2" /> because you were detested on the day you were born.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done,<n id="1" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?p>

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent<n id="1" /> when I make atonement for all you have done,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>