He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar will be torn apart, and the ashes that are upon it will be poured out.’ ”
“This will be the sign to you: This year you will eat what grows itself, and in the second year the same. Then in the third year sow, reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
“When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, ‘Show a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and throw it before Pharaoh,’ and it shall become a serpent.”
“This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year what grows of itself, and the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
“This will be a sign to you, says the Lord, that I will punish you in this place so that you may know that My words shall surely stand against you for disaster.