ezekiel in the valley: day 03

"You come to eat the flesh of the people's inheritance, and you will
stand through the long months that waste them. One day even you shall know

your error. There shall come a time when your companions return to
their chambers, weary and hopeful of rest, and shall find that themselves

are the oblation. I will drink blood. Seven days I shall fall upon
them, barring their path; then shalt thou raise an altar for the sins

of all thy company, and thou, even thou, shalt be cast out
of the chambers of the gate. And I will drink the offerings of many

nations and be consumed with blood." So he brought me and spoke
to the enemies of my people in the place of the burnt cubit. I have linen

bonnets with his face embroidered upon them. They shall be as a roof
for the latter days. Release the lamb of my sanctuary, that and the one

reed. And open the doors of the north gate, and toward the bank
of the mountains look every morning. Therefore prophesy against

the bows and breathe upon them: that gate they shall not have, nor
that ground, nor the mountains, nor the winding of their paths and secret

ways. This shall be his inheritance, to enter by the way of the
priests. I am the breath and the breadth of the brink of the river,

and I shall look upon the offering of all who dwell in the south, but
I shall not rest until you offer up your shields to the river.