¹⁶ I will ^[a]pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have ^(A)forsaken Me and have ^[b](B)offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the ^(C)works of their own hands. ¹⁷ Now, ^(D)gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. ^(E)Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them. ¹⁸ Now behold, I have made you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land.