on all their heads.
007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall
not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh:
they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels;
because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty;
but they made the images of their abominations [and] their
detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them
as an unclean thing.
007:021 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
shall profane it.
007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane
my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it,
and profane it.
007:023 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes,
and the city is full of violence.
007:024 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong
to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
007:025 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there
shall be none.
007:026 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor;
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:
I will do to them after their way, and according to their
own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
008:001 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth
[day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders
of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell
there on me.
008:002 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from
his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness,
as it were glowing metal.
008:003 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;
and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky,
and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward
the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provokes to jealousy.
008:004 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain.
008:005 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward
the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this
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