16. No longer shall they be securityfor the house of Israel,But a reminder of its iniquityin turning away to follow them.Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.
17. In the twenty-seventh year on the first day of the first month, the word of the Lord came to me:
18. Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has made his army wage a hard campaign against Tyre; their heads grew bald, their shoulders rubbed raw, yet neither he nor his army received compensation from Tyre for all the effort they expended against it.