²⁸ I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains^(A) of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.^{(B) 29} Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolate^(C) waste because of all the detestable things they have done.’^(D)

³⁰ “As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the Lord.’