1 (H21:6)Minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:
3 (H21:8)Sano Israelin maalle: Näin sanoo Herra: Minä käyn sinun kimppuusi, minä vedän miekkani tupesta ja hävitän kaikki asukkaasi, sekä vanhurskaat että jumalattomat.
4 (H21:9)Minä olen päättänyt hävittää sekä vanhurskaat että jumalattomat asukkaasi, siksi lähtee miekkani tupestaan ja kaataa kaikki etelästä pohjoiseen.
5 (H21:10)Kaikki tulevat silloin tietämään, että minä, Herra, vedin miekkani tupesta enkä sitä takaisin pane.
8 (H21:13)Minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:
10 (H21:15)teroitettu teurastusta varten, kiillotettu ja hiottu kipunoimaan, salamoimaan!
11 (H21:16)Se miekka annettiin sepälle, jotta hän hioisi hyvän aseen, ja siitä tuli terävä, kiiltävä miekka, sopiva pyövelin käteen.
12 (H21:17)Huuda ja valita, ihminen! Se miekka iskee minun kansaani, iskee Israelin johtajia, kurittaa ruhtinaita ja kansaa. Valita siis, lyö rintaasi!
14 (H21:19)Ennusta, ihminen, iske kätesi yhteen ja ennusta: -- Kahdesti, kolmesti miekka iskee, ja ihmisiä kaatuu, ihmisjoukkoja kaatuu, kun se riehuu heidän keskellään.
15 (H21:20)Kaikki ovat kauhun vallassa, vapisevat ja kompastelevat. Kaupungin jokaiselle portille olen pannut pyövelin miekan. Voi, siihen on hiottu salaman välke, sen terä on taottu juomaan verta!
16 (H21:21)Iske oikeaan, viillä vasempaan, minne vain teräsi ohjaan!
18 (H21:23)Minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:
20 (H21:25)tien alkuun, toinen osoittamaan miekalle tietä ammonilaisten Rabbaan, toinen Juudaan, linnoitettuun Jerusalemiin.
22 (H21:27)Hänen oikeaan käteensä osuu Jerusalemin arpa: sinne hänen on vietävä muurinmurtajat, siellä hänen on kohotettava sotahuuto, pantava muurinmurtajat porteille, luotava valtausluiska ja rakennettava piiritysvalli.
23 (H21:28)Jerusalemin asukkaiden silmissä se ennustus on väärä, he luottavat vannottuun valaan. Mutta hän tulee, hän paljastaa heidän syntinsä ja ottaa heidät vangiksi.
25 (H21:30)Sinä iljettävä, jumalaton Israelin ruhtinas! Hetkesi on koittanut, tilinteon hetki.
26 (H21:31)Näin sanoo Herra Jumala: Riisu päähineesi, nosta kruunusi pois, aika on muuttunut. Alhainen korotetaan, ylhäinen alennetaan.
27 (H21:32)Kaikki tuhotaan, kaikki hävitetään, koko maa raastetaan raunioiksi. Näin tapahtuu silloin, kun saapuu se, jolle tuomiovalta kuuluu. Hänen käsiinsä minä annan sen vallan.
29 (H21:34)Kun te vielä näette tyhjiä näkyjä ja kuulette vääriä ennustuksia, pannaan miekka jumalattomien kurkulle, heille koittaa tilinteon hetki.
30 (H21:35)Pane miekkasi takaisin tuppeen. Siellä, missä sinut on luotu, maassa, josta olet kotoisin, minä tuomitsen sinut.
31 (H21:36)Minä syöksen sinuun kaiken vihani, lietson sinua vastaan suuttumukseni tulen, minä annan sinut raakojen ihmisten käsiin, julmien tappajien armoille.
1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: "Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. 5 All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more."’
6 "Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness. 7 It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’"
8 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 9 "Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says:
"A sword! A sword!
It is sharpened,
and also polished.
10 It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.
It is polished that it may be as lightning.
Should we then make mirth?
The rod of my son condemns every tree.
11 It is given to be polished,
that it may be handled.
The sword is sharpened.
Yes, it is polished
to give it into the hand of the killer."’
12 Cry and wail, son of man;
for it is on my people.
It is on all the princes of Israel.
They are delivered over to the sword with my people.
Therefore beat your thigh.
13 "For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?" says the Lord Yahweh.
14 "You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
and strike your hands together.
Let the sword be doubled the third time,
the sword of the fatally wounded.
It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded,
which enters into their rooms.
15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
that their heart may melt,
and their stumblings be multiplied.
Ah! It is made as lightning.
It is pointed for slaughter.
16 Gather yourselves together.
Go to the right.
Set yourselves in array.
Go to the left,
wherever your face is set.
17 I will also strike my hands together,
and I will cause my wrath to rest.
I, Yahweh, have spoken it."
18 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying, 19 "Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city. 20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver. 22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts. 23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
24 "Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.
25 "‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, 26 the Lord Yahweh says: "Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it."’
28 "You, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach:
"A sword! A sword is drawn!
It is polished for the slaughter,
to cause it to devour,
that it may be as lightning;
29 while they see for you false visions,
while they divine lies to you,
to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
30 Cause it to return into its sheath.
In the place where you were created,
in the land of your birth, I will judge you.
31 I will pour out my indignation on you.
I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath.
I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men,
skillful to destroy.
32 You will be for fuel to the fire.
Your blood will be in the middle of the land.
You will be remembered no more;
for I, Yahweh, have spoken it."’"