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When I shall send upon you my grievous arrows of famine, which shall be for your destruction and which I will send to destroy you: I will increase the famine upon you, and will break the staff of your grain.

And those who escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they are carried captives; when I have destroyed their corrupt hearts, for they have departed from me, and with their eyes have gone astray after their idols; and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Thus says the LORD God, Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

Thus says the LORD God: Behold, an evil is coming for every evil which you have committed.

Now I will shortly pour out my wrath upon you, and I will pour out my anger upon you; and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.

The time is come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller regret; for wrath is upon all their substance.

For the buyer shall not return to the seller, for they will not be living; for catastrophe shall not spare any of their possessions; neither shall a man spare his life by means of his corruptness.

They have blown the trumpet, and made all ready; but there is none that goes to battle; for my wrath is upon all their substance.

And the beauty of their ornaments, which they made with excellency for the images and altars of their abominations, I have made, therefore, to be despised;

And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

And they shall attack it with bricks; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of iniquity.

And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, even the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, for they have gone far off from my sanctuary? But turn round again, and you shall see greater abominations which they are doing.

Then he said to me, Son of man, do you see the thing which the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his secret chamber? For they say, The LORD does not see us; because the LORD has forsaken the earth.

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORDS house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Then he said to me, Do you see this, O Son of man? Is it a little thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with iniquity, and have returned to provoke me to anger; and they sneer at me.

Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, the land is full of blood and the city full of treachery; for they said, The LORD has forsaken the earth and the LORD does not see us.

And as for me, I will have no mercy upon them, nor will I have pity; but I will recompense their evil ways upon their head.

And as for their appearance and the form, the four of them were alike, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.

And as for the wheels, he called them Rolling Wheels, in my presence.

When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up also; when the cherubim lifted their wings, the wheels also lifted up with them; for the spirit of life was in them.