There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet<n id="1" /> on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet<n id="2" /> on either side.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

I will call for a sword to attack<n id="1" /> Gog<n id="2" /> on all my mountains, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>; every man&#8217;s sword will be against his brother.

Next, I noticed<n id="1" /> six men<n id="2" /> coming from the direction of the upper gate<n id="3" /> which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit<n id="4" /> at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.p>

&#8220;Son of man, speak to your people,<n id="1" /> and say to them, &#8216;Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.

Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.p>

<p class="poetry">When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky;p> <p class="poetry">I will darken its stars.p> <p class="poetry">I will cover the sun with a cloud,p> <p class="poetry">and the moon will not shine.<n id="1" />p>

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it;<n id="1" /> because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them;<n id="1" /> I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies<n id="2" /> and I will give them tender hearts,<n id="3" />

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain.<n id="1" /> This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the <sc>Lordsc>. When I saw<n id="2" /> it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.p>

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove<n id="1" /> them, for they are a rebellious house.

Recite a proverb to this rebellious house<n id="1" /> and say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Set on the pot,<n id="2" /> set it on,p> <p class="poetry">pour water in it too;p>

Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel<n id="1" /> (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant<n id="2" /> vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.p>

Into his right hand<n id="1" /> comes the portent for Jerusalem &#8211; to set up battering rams, to give the signal<n id="2" /> for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry,<n id="3" /> to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

<p class="poetry">They will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">when I ignite a fire in Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and all her allies are defeated.<n id="1" />p>

I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword<n id="1" /> and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">A sword will come against Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and panic will overtake Ethiopiap> <p class="poetry">when the slain fall in Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and they carry away her wealthp> <p class="poetry">and dismantle her foundations.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> and the width three and one-third miles.<n id="3" /> This entire area will be holy.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">(The cherubim were standing on the south side<n id="1" /> of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

You will be overcome by<n id="1" /> drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.