You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together, and let the sword strike twice, even the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their private chambers.

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time for the nations.

And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.

You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.

Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I swore unto you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.

Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity came to an end: