He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

When I had returned, I noticed ¹  a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides.

So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip ¹  and slander among the people,