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When you finish that, turn over on your right side and suffer for the guilt of Judah for forty days—one day for each year of their punishment.

And he added, "Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.

"Mortal man," he said, "this is what I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying to the land of Israel: This is the end for the whole land!

"Israel, the end has come. You will feel my anger, because I am judging you for what you have done. I will pay you back for all your disgusting conduct.

I will not spare you or show you any mercy. I am going to punish you for the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know that I am the Lord ."

The end is coming for you people who live in the land. The time is near when there will be no more celebrations at the mountain shrines, only confusion.

"Very soon now you will feel all the force of my anger. I am judging you for what you have done, and I will pay you back for all your disgusting conduct.

I will not spare you or show you any mercy. I am going to punish you for the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know that I am the Lord and that I am the one who punishes you."

The trumpet blows, and everyone gets ready. But no one goes off to war, for God's anger will fall on everyone alike.

Despair is coming. You will look for peace and never find it.

The king will mourn, the prince will give up hope, and the people will shake with fear. I will punish you for all you have done, and will judge you in the same way as you have judged others. This will show you that I am the Lord ."

"Now tell your fellow exiles what I am saying. I am the one who sent them to live in far-off nations and scattered them in other countries. Yet, for the time being I will be present with them in the lands where they have gone.

But I will punish the people who love to worship filthy, disgusting idols. I will punish them for what they have done." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.

While it is still daylight, pack your bundle for exile, so that they can see you, and then let them watch you leave in the evening as if you were going into exile.

tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying to them. This message is for the prince ruling in Jerusalem and for all the people who live there.

The prince who is ruling them will shoulder his pack in the dark and escape through a hole that they dig for him in the wall. He will cover his eyes and not see where he is going.

I will scatter in every direction all the members of his court and his advisers and bodyguards, and people will search for them to kill them.

and tell them what the Sovereign Lord is saying to them: "You women are doomed! You sew magic wristbands for everyone and make magic scarves for everyone to wear on their heads, so that they can have power over other people's lives. You want to possess the power of life and death over my people and to use it for your own benefit.

I will rip off your scarves and let my people escape from your power once and for all. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

then you will know that there was good reason for everything I did." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.