Study Desk

When you have completed these, you must lie down a second time, but on your right side. And you must be under the weight of the sin of the people of Judah. I have set a time of forty days for you to do this, one day for each year.

"Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt and put them in one pot, and make them into bread for yourself. Eat it during the 390 days that you lie on your side.

"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it to cut the hair from your head and face. Then weigh and divide the hair.

A third part you must burn in the fire in the center of the city, when the days of the battle are completed. Then take a third part and cut it up with your sword as you move around the city. And a third part you must throw to the wind. For I will pull out a sword behind them.

You have made My holy place unclean with all your hated objects of worship and sinful ways. So as I live,' says the Lord, ‘for sure I will turn away from you. My eye will have no pity and I will punish all of you.

So your altars will be laid waste. Your altars for special perfume will be broken. And I will kill your people in front of your false gods.

In every place you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places will be destroyed. Your altars will be laid waste and destroyed. Your false gods will be broken and destroyed. Your altars for special perfume will come to an end.

"But I will leave some of you alive. For some of you will get away from the sword when you are spread among the lands and nations.

Then those who get away will remember Me in the nations where they have been taken. They will remember how I have been hurt by their sinful hearts which turned away from Me, and by their sinful eyes which followed after their false gods. And they will hate themselves in their own eyes for the sins they have done, for all their sinful ways.

Now the end is upon you. I will send My anger against you and punish you because of your ways. I will make you pay for all your sinful actions.

My eye will have no pity on you. And I will not let you go without punishment. I will punish you for your ways, and for the hated sins that are among you. Then you will know that I am the Lord!'

Now I will soon pour out My anger upon you. I will send My anger against you. I will punish you for your ways and for the hated sins that are among you.

My eye will show no pity, and I will not let you go without punishment. I will make you pay for your ways, and for the hated sins that are among you. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, Who punishes you.

‘See, the day! See, it is coming! The time for your punishment has come. The power against you has started to grow. Pride has begun to grow.

The time has come. The day has come. Let not the one who buys have joy, or the one who sells have sorrow. For anger is against all their people.

For the one who sells will not get back what he has sold as long as both of them live. For the punishment of all their people will not be turned back. Because of their sins, not one of them will keep his life.

‘They have sounded the horn and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle. For My anger is against all their people.

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to help them in the day of the Lord's anger. They cannot stop their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For riches have been the cause of their falling into sin.

‘Make chains, for the land is guilty of blood and the city is full of angry actions.

So I will bring the worst of the nations to take their houses for their own. I will put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will become unclean.