Study Desk

After you attack the brick that stands for Jerusalem, burn one pile of your hair on the brick. Chop up the second pile and let the small pieces of hair fall around the brick. Throw the third pile into the wind, and I will strike it with my own sword.

for your sins. Your punishment will be more horrible than anything I've ever done or will ever do again.

Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

where they will be prisoners. And when they think of me, they will realize that they disgraced me by rebelling and by worshiping idols. They will hate themselves for the evil things they did,

as punishment for your disgusting sins. I, the Lord , am so angry

that I will show no pity. I will punish you for the evil you've done, and you will know that I am the Lord .

I will let loose my anger and punish you for the evil things you've done. You'll get what you deserve.

and people who sell property will never get it back, because all of you must be punished for your sins. And I won't change my mind!

A signal has been blown on the trumpet, and weapons are prepared for battle. But no one goes to war, because in my anger I will strike down everyone in Israel.

You will be terrified and will desperately look for peace—but there will be no peace.

Even your king and his officials will lose hope and cry in despair. Your hands will tremble with fear. I will punish you for your sins and treat you the same way you have treated others. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

He took me to the north gate of the temple, where I saw women mourning for the god Tammuz.

And so I will not have pity on them or forgive them. They will be punished for what they have done."

I knew for sure that these were the same creatures I had seen beneath the Lord 's glory near the Chebar River.

But here is what I want you to tell the Israelites in Babylonia: It's true that I, the Lord God, have forced you out of your own country and made you live among foreign nations. But for now, I will be with you wherever you are, so that you can worship me.

Lift the bag to your shoulders, and with your face covered, take it into the darkness, so that you cannot see the land you are leaving. All of this will be a warning for the people of Israel.

So he sent me back to tell them: The Lord God has a message for the leader of Jerusalem and everyone living there!

I will give them my message, and what I say will certainly happen. Warn those rebels that the time has come for them to be punished. I, the Lord , make this promise.

Israel's prophets are no better than jackals that hunt for food among the ruins of a city.

Those prophets lie by claiming they speak for me, but I have not even chosen them to be my prophets. And they still think their words will come true.