1 Verder het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:
2 En jy, mensekind, wil jy oordeel, wil jy oordeel die bloedstad? Maak hom dan al sy gruwels bekend
3 en sê: So spreek die Here HERE: Stad wat daarbinne bloed vergiet, dat sy tyd kan kom, en drekgode teen homself maak, om hom te verontreinig!
4 Deur die bloed wat jy vergiet het, het jy skuldig geword; en deur jou drekgode wat jy gemaak het, is jy verontreinig; en jy het jou dae verhaas en tot by jou jare gekom. Daarom maak Ek jou tot 'n smaad vir die nasies en 'n spot vir al die lande.
5 Die wat naby en die wat ver van jou af is, sal jou bespot, o onreine van naam, vol van rumoer!
6 Kyk, die vorste van Israel was in jou, elkeen na sy krag, om bloed te vergiet.
7 Hulle het vader en moeder in jou verag, die vreemdeling in jou met geweld behandel, wees en weduwee in jou verdruk.
8 My heilige dinge het jy geminag en my sabbatte ontheilig.
9 Kwaadsprekers was daar in jou om bloed te vergiet, en by jou het hulle op die berge geëet en skandelikheid in jou gedoen.
10 Hulle het die skaamte van die vader in jou ontbloot; haar wat onrein was deur maandelikse onreinheid, het hulle in jou onteer.
11 Die een het 'n gruwelike ding gedoen met die vrou van sy naaste, en die ander het sy skoondogter verontreinig deur 'n skandelike daad, en 'n derde het in jou sy suster, sy vader se dogter, onteer.
12 Hulle het omkoopgeskenke in jou aangeneem om bloed te vergiet; rente en woeker het jy geneem en jou naaste te veel laat betaal deur verdrukking, maar My het jy vergeet, spreek die Here HERE.
13 Kyk, so slaan Ek dan in my hand oor jou onregverdige wins wat jy gemaak het, en oor jou bloedskuld wat in jou is.
14 Sal jou hart standhou of jou hande sterk wees in die dae as Ek met jou handel? Ek, die HERE, het dit gespreek en sal dit doen.
15 En Ek sal jou verstrooi onder die nasies en jou versprei in die lande, en Ek sal jou onreinheid uit jou wegruim.
16 En jy sal deur jouself ontheilig wees voor die oë van die nasies; en jy sal weet dat Ek die HERE is.
17 Verder het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:
18 Mensekind, die huis van Israel het vir My skuim geword; hulle is almal koper en tin en yster en lood binne die smeltoond; silwerskuim het hulle geword.
19 Daarom, so sê die Here HERE: Omdat julle almal skuim geword het, kyk, daarom sal Ek julle binne-in Jerusalem bymekaarmaak.
20 Soos silwer en koper en yster en lood en tin binne-in 'n smeltoond bymekaargemaak word om daarteen 'n vuur aan te blaas en dit te smelt, so sal Ek julle bymekaarmaak in my toorn en in my grimmigheid en julle ingooi en smelt.
21 Ja, Ek sal julle versamel en met die vuur van my grimmigheid teen julle blaas, dat julle d rin gesmelt kan word.
22 Soos silwer in die smeltoond gesmelt word, so sal julle d rin gesmelt word; en julle sal weet dat Ek, die HERE, my grimmigheid oor julle uitgegiet het.
23 Verder het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:
24 Mensekind, sê vir hom: Jy is 'n land wat nie gereinig is nie, wat nie reën gekry het in die dag van grimmigheid nie.
25 'n Sameswering van sy profete is in hom, soos 'n leeu wat brul, wat prooi verskeur; hulle eet die siele op; skatte en kosbare dinge neem hulle weg; die weduwees vermeerder hulle daarin.
26 Sy priesters verkrag my wet en ontheilig my heilige dinge; tussen heilig en onheilig maak hulle geen onderskeid nie, en die verskil tussen onrein en rein gee hulle nie te kenne nie; daarby maak hulle hul oë toe vir my sabbatte; ja, Ek word onder hulle ontheilig.
27 Sy vorste is in hom soos wolwe wat prooi verskeur, om bloed te vergiet en siele om te bring, dat hulle onregverdige wins kan maak.
28 En sy profete pleister vir hulle met los kalk deur bedrieglike gesigte te sien en vir hulle leuens te voorspel met die woorde: So sê die Here HERE -- terwyl die HERE nie gespreek het nie.
29 Die mense van die land pleeg geweld en eien hulle geroofde goed toe; ook verdruk hulle die ellendige en behoeftige, en teenoor die vreemdeling pleeg hulle geweld sonder reg.
30 En Ek het onder hulle 'n man gesoek wat 'n muur kan bou en voor my aangesig in die bres kan staan vir die land, sodat Ek dit nie sou verwoes nie; maar Ek het niemand gevind nie.
31 Daarom het Ek my toorn oor hulle uitgegiet; deur die vuur van my grimmigheid het Ek hulle verteer; hulle wandel het Ek op hulle hoof laat neerkom, spreek die Here HERE.
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.
3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!
4 You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.
5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.
6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
8 You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
9 In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.
10 In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.
11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
14 Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.
15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.
16 And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
19 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.
20 As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.
21 Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.
22 As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.
25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.