Study Desk

I have given you the same number of days as the years of the people's sin. So you will have the guilt of Israel's sin on you for three hundred ninety days.

"After you have finished these three hundred ninety days, lie down a second time, on your right side. You will then have the guilt of Judah on you. I will give it to you for forty days, a day for each year of their sin.

"Take wheat, barley, beans, small peas, and millet seeds, and put them in one bowl, and make them into bread for yourself. You will eat it the three hundred ninety days you lie on your side.

"Very well," he said. "Then I will give you cow's dung instead of human dung to use for your fire to bake your bread."

Then they will know that I am the Lord . I did not bring this terrible thing on them for no reason.

Now the end has come for you, and I will send my anger against you. I will judge you for the way you have lived, and I will make you pay for all your actions that I hate.

I will have no pity on you; I will not hold back punishment from you. Instead, I will make you pay for the way you have lived and for your actions that I hate. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

Disaster has come for you who live in the land! The time has come; the day of confusion is near. There will be no happy shouting on the mountains.

Soon I will pour out my anger against you; I will carry out my anger against you. I will judge you for the way you have lived and will make you pay for everything you have done that I hate.

I will show no pity, and I will not hold back punishment. I will pay you back for the way you have lived and the things you have done that I hate. Then you will know that I am the Lord who punishes.

Violence has grown into a weapon for punishing wickedness. None of the people will be left—none of that crowd, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

"Make chains for captives, because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

When the people are suffering greatly, they will look for peace, but there will be none.

The king will cry greatly, the prince will give up hope, and the hands of the people who own land will shake with fear. I will punish them for the way they have lived. The way they have judged others is the way I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord ."

Standing in front of these carvings and idols were seventy of the elders of Israel and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan. Each man had his pan for burning incense in his hand, and a sweet-smelling cloud of incense was rising.

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Temple of the Lord , where I saw women sitting and crying for Tammuz.

They say, ‘It is almost time for us to build houses. This city is like a cooking pot, and we are like the best meat.'

"So say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I sent the people far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries. But for a little while I have become a Temple to them in the countries where they have gone.'

But those who want to serve their evil statues and hateful idols, I will pay back for their evil ways, says the Lord God ."

"Human, the people of Israel are saying, ‘The vision that Ezekiel sees is for a time many years from now. He is prophesying about times far away.'