1 "Now you son of man, get R96 yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem. 2 "Then lay R97 siege against it, build a siege wall, raise F45 up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. 3 "Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it R98 is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign R99 to the house of Israel. 4 "As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear R100 their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. 5 "For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you R101 shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 "When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each R102 year. 7 "Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy R103 against it. 8 "Now behold, I will put R104 ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.
9 "But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, R105 put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. 10 "Your food which you eat shall be twenty R106 shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11 "The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. 12 "You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung." R10713 Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean R108 among the nations where I will banish them." 14 But I said, "Ah, R109 Lord GOD! Behold, I have never R110 been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died R111 of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean R112 meat ever entered my mouth." 15 Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread." 16 Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break R113 the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight R114 and with anxiety, and drink water by measure R115 and in horror, 17 because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste R116 away in their iniquity.
1 "As for you, son of man, take a sharp R117 sword; take and use F47 it as a barber's razor on your head and beard. Then take scales R118 for weighing and divide the F48 hair. 2 "One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days R119 of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the F49 city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe R120 a sword behind them. 3 "Take also a few in number from them F50 and bind them in the edges of your robes. 4 "Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread F51 to all the house of Israel.
5 "Thus says the Lord GOD, `This is Jerusalem; R121 I have set her at the center R122 of the nations, with lands around her. 6 `But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more R123 than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected R124 My ordinances and have not walked in F53 My statutes.' 7 "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, `Because you have more R125 turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,' 8 therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, `Behold, I, even I, am against R126 you, and I will execute R127 judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9 `And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not R128 done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 `Therefore, fathers R129 will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter R130 all your remnant to every wind. 11 `So as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, `surely, because you have defiled R131 My sanctuary with all your detestable R132 idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare. 12 `One third of you will die by plague R133 or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will scatter R134 to every wind, and I will unsheathe R135 a sword behind them. 13 `Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy F54 My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; R136F55 then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken R137 in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14 `Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach R138 among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15 `So it F56 will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning R139 and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute R140 judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16 `When I send against them the deadly F57 arrows of famine which were F58 for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread. 17 `Moreover, I R141 will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague R142 and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.' "
1 And the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains R143 of Israel, and prophesy against them 3 and say, `Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I R144 will destroy your high places. 4 "So your altars R145 will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols. 5 "I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones R146 around your altars. 6 "In all your dwellings, cities R147 will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, F60 your idols R148 may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out. 7 "The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
8 "However, I will leave a remnant, R149 for you will have those who escaped R150 the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries. 9 "Then those of you who escape will remember R151 Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been R152F61 hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe R153 themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. 10 "Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that F62 I would inflict this disaster on them."'
11 "Thus says the Lord GOD, `Clap your hand, stamp R154 your foot and say, "Alas, R155 because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, R156 famine and plague! 12 "He who is far R157 off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend R158 My wrath on them. 13 "Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain R159 are among their idols around their altars, on every R160 high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak--the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols. 14 "So throughout all their habitations I will stretch R161 out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the LORD.""'
1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, `An end! R162 The end is coming on the four corners of the land. 3 `Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you. 4 `For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring R163 your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know R164 that I am the LORD!' 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD, `A disaster, R165 unique disaster, behold it is coming! 6 `An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened R166 against you; behold, it has come! 7 `Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time R167 has come, the day R168 is near--tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 `Now I will shortly pour R169 out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge R170 you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations. 9 `My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay F66 you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting. 10 `Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod R171 has budded, arrogance has blossomed. 11 `Violence has F67 grown into a rod of wickedness. R172 None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, R173 nor anything eminent among them. 12 `The time R174 has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer R175 rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath R176 is against all their multitude. 13 `Indeed, the seller will not regain R177F68 what F69 he sold as long as they F70 both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not be F71 averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity. 14 `They have blown R178 the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their F72 multitude. 15 `The sword R179 is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.
16 `Even when their survivors escape, R180 they will be on the mountains like doves R181 of the valleys, all of them mourning, R182F73 each over his own iniquity. 17 `All hands R183 will hang limp and all knees will become F74 like water. 18 `They will gird R184 themselves with sackcloth and shuddering R185 will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness R186 on all their heads. 19 `They will fling R187 their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver R188 and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite F75 nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling. 20 `They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they R189 made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them. 21 `I will give it into the hands of the foreigners R190 as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it. 22 `I will also turn My face R191 from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.
23 `Make R192 the chain, for the land is full of bloody R193F76 crimes and the city is full R194 of violence. 24 `Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, R195 and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride R196 of the strong ones cease, and their holy R197 places will be profaned. 25 `When anguish comes, they will seek peace, R198 but there will be none. 26 `Disaster R199 will come upon disaster and rumor R200 will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision R201 from a prophet, but the law R202 will be lost from the priest and counsel R203 from the elders. 27 `The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed R204 with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. F77 According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the LORD.' "
FOOTNOTES: F45 Lit cast F46 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD F47 Lit make it pass over your head F48 Lit them F49 Lit it F50 Lit there F51 Lit go out F52 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch F53 Lit in them, My statutes F54 Lit cause to rest F55 Lit comforted F56 Ancient versions read you F57 Lit evil F58 Or are for destruction, which I will send F59 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD F60 So some ancient versions; Heb bear their guilt F61 Lit been broken, or, broken for Myself their F62 Lit to do this evil to F63 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD F64 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD F65 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD F66 Lit give F67 Lit has risen F68 Lit return to F69 Lit thing sold, i.e. his inherited land F70 Lit their life among the living ones F71 Lit return F72 Lit her F73 Lit moaning F74 Lit run with water F75 Lit soul F76 Lit judgment of blood F77 Lit be terrified
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