2 Kolmannes polta keskellä kaupunkia, kun piiritys on lopuillaan, kolmannes katko miekalla muurien edessä, kolmannes hajota tuulen vietäväksi, ja minä panen miekan ajamaan sitä takaa.

3 Ota vielä pieni määrä hiuksia ja solmi ne viittasi helmaan.

4 Ota niistä vielä muutamia, viskaa tuleen ja polta ne. Niin tuli leviää koko Israelin kansaan.

6 mutta se nousi minun tahtoani vastaan. Enemmän se rikkoi kuin muut kansat, pahemmin polki lakiani kuin ympäröivät maat. Minun käskyistäni se ei piitannut, se ei elänyt minun säädösteni mukaan.

8 Tämän vuoksi sanoo Herra Jumala: Jerusalem, nyt minä käyn sinua vastaan! Minä panen sinut tuomiolle omien muuriesi sisällä ja kaikkien kansojen nähden.

9 Minä rankaisen sinua iljettävien tekojesi takia ja teen sen niin, etten niin ole koskaan tehnyt enkä koskaan enää ole tekevä.

10 Isät syövät vielä lapsiaan muuriesi sisällä, ja lapset joutuvat syömään isänsä. Minä panen tuomioni täytäntöön, ja mitä sinusta jää, sen minä hajotan maailman tuuliin.

12 Kolmannes väestäsi kuolee kaduillasi ruttoon ja nääntyy nälkään, kolmannes kaatuu miekkaan muuriesi edessä, ja kolmanneksen minä hajotan maailman tuuliin, ja minä panen miekan ajamaan sitä takaa.

13 Minä tyhjennän vihani sinuun, minä puran sinuun raivoni, minä otan sinulta hyvityksen. Minä tyhjennän vihani sinun väkeesi, ja silloin se tietää, että minä, Herra, olen puhunut.

15 Naapurisi häpäisevät ja pilkkaavat sinua mutta kavahtavat kohtaloasi, kun minä panen tuomioni täytäntöön ja kuritan sinua, isken sinuun vihani vimman. Minä, Herra, olen puhunut.

1 "You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair. 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe. 4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

5 "The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her. 6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’

7 "Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you; 8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds. 11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity. 12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

13 "‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

14 "‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it— 16 when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread. 17 I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’"