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" Adonai is in the right, for I rebelled against his word. Listen, please, all you peoples; and see how I am in pain! My young women and my young men have gone into captivity.

"See, Adonai , how distressed I am! Everything in me is churning! My heart turns over inside me, because I have been so rebellious. Outside, the sword brings bereavement; inside, it is like death.

"Let all their wickedness come before you. Then do to them as you have done to me because of all my offenses. For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart."

My eyes are worn out from weeping, everything in me is churning; I am empty of emotion because of the wounds to my people, because children and infants are fainting away in the streets of the city.

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his fury,

They are always on my mind; this is why I am so depressed.

Water rose above my head; I thought, "I am finished!"

See how, whether they sit or stand, I am the butt of their taunts.

He said, "Human being! I am sending you to the people of Isra'el, that nation of rebels who have rebelled against me — they and their ancestors have been transgressing against me to this very day.

Because they are defiant, hardhearted children, I am sending you; and you are to tell them, ‘Here is what Adonai Elohim says.'

But you, human being, hear what I am telling you: don't you be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat what I am about to give you."

as he said, "Human being, eat this scroll I am giving you; fill your insides with it." When I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey.

However, I am making you as defiant and obstinate as they are.

Yes, I am making your resoluteness harder than flint, as hard as a diamond. So don't be afraid of them or depressed by how they look at you, because they are a rebellious house."

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.

I am tying you down with ropes, and you are not to turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

Adonai said, "This is how the people of Isra'el will eat their food — unclean — in the nations where I am driving them."

He then said to me, "Human being, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Yerushalayim, so that they will anxiously weigh out bread to eat, and, horrified, ration water to drink.

therefore here is what Adonai Elohim , says: ‘I too am against you, yes, I; and I will execute judgments among you while all the nations look on.