The hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”

“Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.