Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

You shall be for food to the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be remembered no more; for I Jehovah have spoken.

You are guilty in your blood that you have shed; and you have defiled yourself in your idols you have made. And your days are brought near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all lands.

Those who are near and those far from you shall mock against you, O defiled of name, abounding in tumult.

In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.

In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.

Can your heart stand, or can your hands be strong, in the day that I shall deal with you? I Jehovah have spoken, and I will act.

And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you in the lands, and will destroy your uncleanness out of you.

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Son of man, say to her: You are a land not being cleansed, nor rained on in the day of disgust.

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

And they fornicated in Egypt; they whored in their youth, their breasts were handled, and there their virgin nipples were worked.

And their names were Oholah, the oldest, and Oholibah, her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

And her sister Oholibah saw, she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom.

So you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the Egyptians worked your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your youth.

So, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will raise up against you your lovers, from whom your soul is alienated; and I will bring them against you from all around;

And I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by the fire.

They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

So I will make your wickedness to cease from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt. And you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor shall you remember Egypt any more.

For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of whom your soul was alienated from them.

And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications shall be uncovered, both your wickedness and your fornications.

These things will be done to you because you have whored after the nations, and because you are defiled with their idols.

You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.

So says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much.

with drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, the cup of horror and ruin, the cup of your sister Samaria.

You shall even drink it and empty it. And you shall break its pieces, and tear off your own breasts. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear also your wickedness and your adulteries.

And they have even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And lo, they came. You washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments,

And the sound of a crowd was at ease with her; and drunkards from the wilderness were brought with the men of the host of mankind; and they put bracelets on their hands, and crowns of beauty on their heads.

And I said about the one worn in adulteries, Will they now whore with her, and she with them?

And as righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

So I will cause wickedness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught, even not to go after your wickedness.

And they shall put your wickedness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

In your defilement is wickedness. Because I have purged you and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your defilement any more, until I have caused My fury to cease on you.

I Jehovah have spoken. It shall come, and I will do it. I will not let go, nor will I spare, nor will I repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they shall judge you, says the Lord Jehovah.

Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.

Groan but be silent; make no mourning for the dead; tie your turban on you, and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

Speak to the house of Israel. So says the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will defile My sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.

And you shall do as I have done. You shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men.

And your turbans shall be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities and mourn to one another.

that he who escapes in that day shall come to you to cause you to hear it with your ears?

In that day your mouth shall be open to him who has escaped, and you shall speak and be no more dumb. And you shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

therefore, behold, I will give you to the sons of the east for a possession. And they shall set their camp sites among you, and put among you their dwellings. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped the foot, and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel;

And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

And her daughters who are in the field shall be killed by the sword; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

He shall kill your daughters with the sword in the field. And he shall make siege walls against you, and pour out a siege mound against you, and lift up the shield against you.

And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

Because of his many horses, their dust shall cover you. Your walls shall shake at the sound of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter a city that is breached.

With the hoofs of his horses he shall trample all your streets. He shall kill your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.

And they shall plunder your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. And they shall break down your walls and destroy your desirable houses. And they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

So says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the slain groan, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

And they shall take up a mourning for you, and say to you, How you who lived by the sea are destroyed, the famous city which was strong in the sea, she and her people who caused their terror to be on all who lived in it!

And the coastlands shall tremble in the day of your fall; yea, the coastlands by the sea shall be troubled at your going.

I will give you terrors, and you will not be. Though you are sought, yet you shall never be found forever says the Lord Jehovah.

And say to Tyre, O you who are placed at the entrance of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many coastlands, so says the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

They have made the oaks of Bashan your oars; the daughter of Assyria has made your deck of ivory from the coasts of Kittim.

Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, an ensign for you; violet and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your covering.

The residents of Sidon and Arvad were your seamen. Your wise ones, O Tyre, were in you, they were your sailors.

The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you, reinforcing your seams. All the ships of the sea with their seamen were with you, to exchange your merchandise.

Persia and Lud and Lydia were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they set your splendor.

The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls all around, and warriors were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they have made your beauty perfect.

Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of your wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They traded the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.

From the house of Togarmah they gave horses and war-horses and mules for your wares.

The sons of Dedan were your merchants; many coastlands were the traffic of your hand. They brought as your gift tusks of ivory and ebony.

Syria was your merchant because of the multitude of your works; with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they gave for your wares.

Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants with wheat from Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm, they gave for your goods.

Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Dan and Javan also, going about, gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.

Dedan was your merchant in loose cloths for riding.

Arabia, and all the rulers of Kedar were traders of your hand, in lambs, and rams, and goats; in them was your trade.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants, with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone, and gold they gave for your wares.

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, Chilmad were your merchants.

They were your merchants in perfect things, in violet cloth, and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors, with tightly bound cords, and cedars among your merchandise.

The ships of Tarshish were the travelers of your goods. And you were filled and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

Your rowers have made you come into great waters; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

Your riches, and your wares, your goods, your seamen, and your sailors reinforcing your seams, and the traders of your goods, and all your men of war, who are in you, and all your company which is in your midst, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

At the sound of the cry of your sailors the open lands will shake.

And all who handle the oar, the mariners, all the sailors of the sea, shall come down from their ships. They shall stand on the land,

When your goods went out from the seas, you filled many people. With the plenty of your riches and your goods you enriched the kings of the earth.

At this time you are broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your goods and all your company in your midst have fallen.

All the residents of the coastlands are appalled at you, and their kings are horribly terrified; their faces tremble.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; all secret things are not hidden from you!

With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.

By your great wisdom and by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have set your heart as the heart of gods,

behold, therefore I will bring awesome strangers of the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am of the gods? But you are a man, and not God, in the hand of him who kills you.

You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.

You were the anointed cherub that covers, and I had put you in the holy height of God where you were; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.