This paragraph is, in the Hebrew text, Septuagint, and Vulgate, the beginning of Ezekiel 21:0, to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy deliv…

Son of man, set your force toward the south
The land of Judea, which lay south of Babylon, where the prophet now was…

Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, like a forest of trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who do not produce the…