¹⁸ And I for my part have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.^(A)

² You, mortal, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to it all its abominable deeds.^(A)

⁴ Will you judge them, mortal; will you judge them? Then let them know the abominations of their ancestors^(A)

⁸ See, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their foreheads. ⁹ Like the hardest stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not fear them or be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”^{(A) 10} He said to me, “Mortal, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart and hear with your ears;