<p class="bodytext">He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house. I noticed<n id="1" /> women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> commanded the man dressed in linen, &#8220;Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,&#8221; the man<n id="2" /> went in and stood by one of the wheels.<n id="3" />

He took one from the royal family,<n id="1" /> made a treaty with him, and put him under oath.<n id="2" /> He then took the leaders of the land

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the inner court of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house. Right there<n id="1" /> at the entrance to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, between the porch and the altar,<n id="2" /> were about twenty-five<n id="3" /> men with their backs to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple,<n id="4" /> facing east &#8211; they were worshiping the sun<n id="5" /> toward the east!p>

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said to the man dressed in linen, &#8220;Go between the wheelwork<n id="2" /> underneath the cherubim.<n id="3" /> Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.&#8221; He went as I watched.p>

&#8220;Say to the rebellious house of Israel:<n id="1" /> &#8216;Don&#8217;t you know what these things mean?&#8217;<n id="2" /> Say: &#8216;See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem<n id="3" /> and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city<n id="1" /> was struck down, on this very day,<n id="2" /> the hand<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> was on me, and he brought me there.<n id="4" />