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"Next, you are to lie on your left side, and have it bear the guilt of the house of Isra'el — for as many days as you lie on your side, you will bear their guilt.

For I am assigning you one day for each year of their guilt; thus you are to bear the guilt of the house of Isra'el for 390 days.

Then, when you have finished that, you are to lie on your right side and bear the guilt of the house of Y'hudah for forty days, each day corresponding to a year; this is what I am assigning you.

"Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and buckwheat; put them together in one bowl; and make bread from it. For as long as you lie on your side, 390 days, this is what you are to eat.

For, as I live,' says Adonai Elohim , ‘because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and disgusting practices, therefore I swear that I will cut you off — my eye will not spare, I will have no pity.

I will send upon them the deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will send to destroy you. I will make the famine worse for you by cutting off your food supply.

Your altars will be wrecked and your pillars for sun-worship broken, and I will throw down your slain ones in front of your idols.

Everywhere you live, the cities will be destroyed and the high places wrecked; so that your altars can be destroyed and wrecked, your idols broken and abolished, your pillars for sun-worship cut down and the things you have made wiped out.

Those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they have been exiled. How broken I have been over their whoring hearts that left me, and over their eyes that went whoring after their idols! They are going to loathe themselves for all the evils they committed in their disgusting practices.

Then they will know that I am Adonai ; it isn't for nothing that I said I would bring this calamity upon them."'

"Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and bemoan all the terrible disgusting practices of the house of Isra'el. For they will fall by sword, famine and plague.

"As for you, human being, here is what Adonai Elohim says about the land of Isra'el: ‘The end! The end is coming to the four corners of the land!

Doom has come to you, you who live in the land! The time has come, the day is near, for tumult, not joyful shouts on the mountains.

The time has come, the day has arrived; let neither buyer rejoice nor seller regret; for wrath is coming to all her many people.

For the seller will not return to what he sold, even if he is still alive; for though the vision was brought to all her many people, nobody repented. Each kept living his own wicked life; they weren't strong enough [to repent].

The shofar has sounded, everything is ready, but no one goes out to the battle, for my wrath is coming to all her many people.

"‘Outside is the sword, inside plague and famine. Those in the country will die by the sword. And as for those in the city, plague and famine will eat them up.

But if any of them manage to escape, they will head for the mountains like doves from the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his sin.

From their beautiful jewellery, in which they took such pride, they made their abominable idols and their other detestable things; therefore, for them I have caused it to be like something unclean.

"‘Forge a chain, for the land is full of capital crimes and the city full of violence.