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Moreover, I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who reproves them, for they are a rebellious house.

Now as for you, get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and establish your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

Now behold, I will set ropes upon you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

So as I live,' declares Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity, and I will not spare.

So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a chastisement, and a desecration to the nations who are all around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and wrathful reproofs. I, Yahweh, have spoken.

So your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.

So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and desecrated than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am Yahweh."'"

Then He said to me, "Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north." So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this figure of jealousy at the entrance.

And He said to me, "Son of man, are you seeing what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel is doing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations."

He said to me, "Son of man, now dig through the wall." So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance.

So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

Kill to utter destruction old men, chosen men, virgins, little ones, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary." So they started with the elders who were before the house.

These are the living creatures that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.

Then the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and He said to me, "Say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "So you say, house of Israel, for I know what comes up in your spirit.

You have feared a sword; so a sword I will bring upon you," Lord Yahweh declares.

You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; so you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Now the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen went up and away from me.

In their sight, carry the baggage on your shoulder and bring it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a wondrous sign to the house of Israel."

I did so, as I had been commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.

Say, ‘I am a wondrous sign to you. As I have done, so it will be done to them; they will go into exile, into captivity.'