Then the Lord said to me,
Then the Lord spoke to me again and said,
So I went to Perath and dug up the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found that they were ruined; they were good for nothing.
“I, the Lord, say: ‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.
As I watched, I saw on the platform above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.