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when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Thus says the Lord GOD: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Yisra'el; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

They have blown the shofar, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it.

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.

I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the eretz for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the Zakenim of the house of Yisra'el do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, the LORD doesn't see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Yehudah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Yisra'el and Yehudah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, the LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn't see.

As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.

As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.

As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Kevar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.

The Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says the LORD: Thus have you said, house of Yisra'el; for I know the things that come into your mind.

and you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.