18. Because of the enormity of your guilt,and the perversity of your trade,you defiled your sanctuary.I brought fire out of you;it devoured you;I made you ashes on the groundin the eyes of all who see you.
19. All the nations who knew youare appalled on account of you;You have become a horror,never to be again.
20. The word of the Lord came to me:
21. Son of man, turn your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it.
22. Thus says the Lord God:Watch out! I am against you, Sidon;I will win glory for myself in your midst.They shall know that I am the Lord,when I deliver judgment upon itand manifest my holiness in it.
23. I will send disease into it;blood will fill its streets,Within it shall fallthose slain by the swordraised against it on every side.Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
24. No longer will there be a thorn that tearsor a brier that scratches for the house of IsraelFrom the surrounding neighborswho despise them;thus they shall know that I am the Lord.
25. Thus says the Lord God: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and I manifest my holiness through them in the sight of the nations, then they shall live on the land I gave my servant Jacob.