They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel. ¹ 

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; ¹  she reared her cubs.

He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

As they wail they will lament over you, chanting: “Who was like Tyre, like a tower ¹  in the midst of the sea?”

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem ¹  and put a mark ²  on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”

I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. ¹  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

In the thirtieth year, ¹  on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles ²  at the Kebar River, ³  the heavens opened ⁴  and I saw a divine vision. ⁵ 

The appearance of the wheels and their construction ¹  was like gleaming jasper, ²  and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel. ³ 

Then a wind ¹  came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord ²  spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.

As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

You will become fuel for the fire – your blood will stain the middle of the land; ¹  you will no longer be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; ¹  they are the worthless slag of silver.

As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”

On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.