"Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:"

"Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate."

"Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned."

"So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it."

"Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"

"Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby."

"He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations."

"But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:"

"Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?"

"But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them."