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You will drink it, you will drain it, and then you will gnaw it to shreds and tear out your own breasts! For I have spoken it' says Adonai Elohim .

For they committed adultery, and their hands are dripping with blood. They committed adultery with their idols; and they offered their sons, whom they bore to me, for these idols to eat.

For after killing their children for their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; this they did in my house.

"Worse still, you sent a messenger summoning men to come from a distance; and they came. For them you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decked yourself with your finery,

For every one went in to her; just as men go in to a prostitute, so they went in to Oholah and Oholivah, those debauched women.

For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Summon an assembly to punish them; give them over to terror and plunder.

You will receive the punishment your lewdness deserves, and you will pay the penalty for your idolatries. Then you will know that I am Adonai Elohim .'"

For her blood is still in her; she poured it on bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

Sigh silently, don't observe mourning for the dead, bind your turban on your head, put your sandals on your feet, don't cover your upper lip, and don't eat the food people prepare for mourners."

The people asked me, "Won't you tell us what these actions of yours mean for us?"

But you are to do as I have done — not cover your upper lips, not eat the food people prepare for mourners,

Thus Yechezk'el will be a sign for you; you will do just what he has done; and when this happens, you will know that I am Adonai Elohim .'

"As for you, human being, on the day when I take away from them their stronghold, their crowning joy, the delight of their eyes, their heart's desire, their sons and daughters —

and on that day your mouth will be opened for you to speak to the survivor and no longer be silent. In this way you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am Adonai ."

For here is what Adonai Elohim says: "Because you clapped your hands and stamped your feet, full of malicious joy over the land of Isra'el;

With the sea all around her, she will be a place for drying fish nets and a plunder for the nations. I have spoken,' says Adonai Elohim .

"For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will bring upon Tzor, from the north, N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.

I will reduce you to bare rock, you will be a place for drying fish nets, you will never be built again, for I, Adonai , have spoken,' says Adonai Elohim ."

Then they will raise this lament for you: "‘How you have been destroyed, you who were peopled from the seas, city so renowned, once so strong at sea, you and your inhabitants, who used to spread terror over all [the mainland's] inhabitants!

"For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘When I make you a ruined city, like other uninhabited cities; when I bring the deep sea over you, and its mighty waters cover you;