Ezekiel 12
10 Ref say unto them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: `The prince `is' this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who are in their midst.
11 Ref Say: I `am' your type; as I have done so it is done to them, into a removal, into a captivity, they do go.
12 Ref As to the prince who `is' in their midst, on the shoulder he beareth in the darkness, and he goeth forth, through the wall they dig to bring forth by it, his face he covereth, that he may not look on the very surface of the land.
13 Ref And I have spread My net for him, and he hath been caught in My snare, and I have brought him in to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, and it he doth not see -- and there doth he die.
14 Ref `And all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands, I do scatter to every wind, and a sword I draw out after them.
15 Ref And they have known that I `am' Jehovah, in My scattering them among nations, and I have spread them through lands;
16 Ref and I have left of them, a few in number, from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the nations whither they have come, and they have known that I `am' Jehovah.'
17 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
18 Ref `Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;
19 Ref and thou hast said unto the people of the land, Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the land of Israel: Their bread with fear they do eat, and their water with astonishment drink, because its land is desolate, because of its fulness, because of the violence of all who are dwelling in it.
20 Ref And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.'
21 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
22 Ref `Son of man, what `is' this simile to you, concerning the land of Israel, saying, Prolonged are the days, and perished hath every vision?
