12. She has grown weary with lies,And her great scum has not gone from her.Let her scum be in the fire!
13. In your filthiness is lewdness.Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed,You will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore,Till I have caused My fury to rest upon you.
14. I, the Lord, have spoken it;It shall come to pass, and I will do it;I will not hold back,Nor will I spare,Nor will I relent;According to your waysAnd according to your deedsThey will judge you,”Says the Lord God.’ ”
15. Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
16. “Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.
17. Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips, and do not eat man’s bread of sorrow.”
18. So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.
19. And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things signify to us, that you behave so?”