Ezekiel 12:10-22

NSB(i) 10 »Tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘This is the divine revelation about the prince from Jerusalem and about all the people of Israel who live there.’« 11 »Tell them: ‘I am your warning sign. What I have done will happen to you. You will go into exile and into captivity. 12 ‘»The prince who is among you will put his bags on his shoulders in the dark and leave. People will dig holes in the wall to go through. The prince will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.’« 13 »I will also spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he will not see it, though he will die there. 14 »I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops. I will draw out a sword after them. 15 »So they will know that I am Jehovah when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries. 16 »I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am Jehovah.« 17 Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me, He said: 18 »Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. 19 »Then say to the people of the land: ‘The Lord Jehovah says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it. 20 ‘»The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Jehovah.«’ 21 Then the word of Jehovah came to me: 22 »Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel. You say: ‘The days are long and every vision fails?’