"Fix your eyes on the siege of Jerusalem. Shake your fist at the city and prophesy against it.

"Mortal man," he said, "look toward the mountains of Israel and give them my message.

"Mortal man," he said, "denounce Jerusalem. Denounce the places where people worship. Warn the land of Israel

My teaching will fall like drops of rain and form on the earth like dew. My words will fall like showers on young plants, like gentle rain on tender grass.

they had nothing to add when I had finished. My words sank in like drops of rain;

So now listen to what the LORD says. You tell me to stop prophesying, to stop raving against the people of Israel.

The people preach at me and say, "Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us.

The towns of southern Judah are under siege; no one can get through to them. All the people of Judah have been taken away into exile."

I am sending men to destroy it. They will all bring their axes, cut down its beautiful cedar pillars, and throw them into the fire.

Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire can burn down your cedar trees!

Weep and wail, cypress trees--- the cedars have fallen; those glorious trees have been destroyed! Weep and wail, oaks of Bashan--- the dense forest has been cut down!