“Now you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you. Engrave on it a city, Jerusalem.
“Indeed this city has caused My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it up to this day, so that I will remove it from before My face,
For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Chop down her trees! Raise a siege ramp at Jerusalem. This city must be punished— in her midst is only oppression.
You, son of man, prophesy. Strike your hands together. The sword will strike twice, even three times, a sword for the slain, a sword for a great slaughter—it surrounds them!
“Yet I have been Adonai your God, since the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the moed.
“Only you have I known from among all the families of the earth. Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.