failed to keep the terms of the agreement. Accordingly, in his vision of the new day, Ezekiel offers hope by systematically reconstructing the pillars on which the nation’s security had been based in the first place (see table 1). In both, the judgment and the restoration, the word of Yahweh is affirmed: not only the immediate word, whose fulfillment confirms Ezekiel’s status as a true prophet; but especially the ancient word, declared in the act of redemption from Egypt, and at Mount Sinai in the