<p class="poetry">Just watch! The wrath of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">will come like a storm.p> <p class="poetry">Like a raging storm it will rage downp> <p class="poetry">on the heads of those who are wicked.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" />

&#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.<n id="1" />

King Zedekiah said to them, &#8220;Very well, you can do what you want with him.<n id="1" /> For I cannot do anything to stop you.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! Like an eagle with outspread wingsp> <p class="poetry">a nation will swoop down on Moab.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet in days to comep> <p class="poetry">I will reverse Moab&#8217;s ill fortune.&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">The judgment against Moab ends here.p>

<p class="poetry">But Babylonia will be put to great shame.p> <p class="poetry">The land where you were born<n id="1" /> will be disgraced.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> Babylonia will become the least important of all nations.p> <p class="poetry">It will become a dry and barren desert.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! An army is about to come from the north.p> <p class="poetry">A mighty nation and many kings<n id="1" /> are stirring into actionp> <p class="poetry">in faraway parts of the earth.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have made your face adamant<n id="1" /> to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: A disaster<n id="1" /> &#8211; a one-of-a-kind<n id="2" /> disaster &#8211; is coming!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.<n id="1" />

This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath<n id="1" /> into you and you will live.

Realize that it is coming and it will be done, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. It is the day I have spoken about.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">However, in the future I will allure her;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will lead<n id="2" /> her back into the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">and speak tenderly to her.p>

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(4:1)" /><n id="1" /> For look! In those<n id="2" /> days and at that timep> <p class="poetry">I will return the exiles<n id="3" /> to Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look! I will press you down,p> <p class="poetry">like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, look! The <sc>Lordsc> is giving the command.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He will smash the large house to bits,p> <p class="poetry">and the small house into little pieces.p>

<p class="poetry">Look,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> is coming out of his dwelling place!p> <p class="poetry">He will descend and march on the earth&#8217;s mountaintops!<n id="2" />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>