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For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.

For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and behold, thus they did within My house.

"Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came—for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourselves with ornaments;

"For thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Bring up an assembly against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

For her blood is in her midst;She placed it on the bare rock;She did not pour it on the groundTo cover it with dust.

Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your headdress and put your shoes on your feet and do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men."

The people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?"

‘Now as for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their strong defense, the joy of their beauty, the desire of their eyes, and what lifts up their soul, their sons and their daughters,

that on that day he who escapes will come to you with a report for your ears?

therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession, and they will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh."

For thus says Lord Yahweh, "Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and were glad with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel,

therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you, and I will give you for plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh."

and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.

She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' declares Lord Yahweh, ‘and she will become plunder for the nations.

For thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, and an assembly, a great number of people.

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more, for I Yahweh have spoken," declares Lord Yahweh.

For thus says Lord Yahweh, "When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

"Now as for you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre

They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.