18. By the multitude of your iniquities,in the unrighteousness of your commerce,you have profaned your sanctuaries.Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you.It has devoured you.I have turned you to ashes on the earthin the sight of all those who see you.
19. All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you.You have become a terror,and you will exist no more.”’”
20. the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
21. “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
22. and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:“Behold, I am against you, Sidon.I will be glorified among you.Then they will know that I am the Lord,when I have executed judgments in her,and am sanctified in her.
23. For I will send pestilence into her,and blood into her streets.The wounded will fall within her,with the sword on her on every side.Then they will know that I am the Lord.
24. “‘“There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
25. “‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.