Bible Verses About Prophets

Bring out your belongings during the day while they watch, as supplies for exile; and you yourself, while they watch, are to leave as people do who are going into exile.

Dig a hole through the wall while they watch, and carry [your belongings] out through it.

While they watch, you are to shoulder your pack and carry it out into the dark, with your face covered, so that you can't see the ground; for I am making you a sign for the house of Isra'el."

So I did as I had been ordered - I brought out my belongings during the day as supplies for exile, and in the evening I dug a hole through the wall with my hand; then I carried my pack out on my shoulder in the dark as they watched.

"Human being, propound this riddle, tell the house of Isra'el this allegory,

say that Adonai ELOHIM says this: 'A big eagle having great wings and long pinions full of varicolored feathers came to the L'vanon and took over the top of the cedar.

He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, carried them to a land of traders and set them down in a city of merchants.

He also took some of the seed in the land and planted it in fertile soil, placing it where there was abundant water, as one would a willow.

It grew to become a fruitful vine sprawling over the ground; its branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him - thus it became a vine, sprouting branches and putting forth shoots.

"'There was another big eagle with great wings and many feathers; and the vine bent its roots toward him and put forth its branches toward him, so that he might water it more than in the bed where it was planted.

It had been planted in good soil, near plenty of water, so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a noble vine.'

"Say that Adonai ELOHIM asks: 'Will it succeed? Won't he pull it up by the roots and cut off its fruit; so that it dries up; and all its sprouting leaves wither? There will be no great power and few people there when it is plucked up by the roots.

Will it thrive just because it was planted? Won't it wither altogether when the east wind strikes it? Yes, it will wither right there in the beds where it was growing.'"

"Therefore, human being, groan! Groan bitterly, as if your heart would break, as they watch.

Then, when they ask you, 'Why are you groaning?' you will answer, 'Because of the news, because it's coming. All hearts will melt, all hands hang limp, all spirits faint and all knees turn to water; here, it's coming, it will happen,' says Adonai ELOHIM."

The word of ADONAI came to me on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year:

"Human being, write down today's date; because on this very day the king of Bavel has begun his attack on Yerushalayim.

And tell this allegory to these rebels; say that Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Put a pot on the fire; put it there, pour water in it;

Put in it pieces of meat, all the best parts - the thigh, the shoulder; fill it with the choicest cuts,

taken from the pick of the flock, and pile the bones underneath. Bring it to a rolling boil, till it's all cooked, even the bones.'

"Therefore Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Woe to the city drenched with blood, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not been removed. Empty it piece by piece, without troubling to draw lots.

For her blood is still in her; she poured it on bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

So in order to rouse my fury and excite my vengeance, I have fixed her blood there on the bare rock, where it will not be covered.'

"Therefore Adonai ELOHIM says this: 'Woe to the city drenched with blood! I myself will make a huge bonfire,

heap on the wood, light it, cook the meat and add the spices - the bones can just be burned.