1 وانت يا ابن آدم فخذ لنفسك سكينا حادا موسى الحلاق تأخذ لنفسك وامررها على راسك وعلى لحيتك. وخذ لنفسك ميزانا للوزن واقسمه2 واحرق بالنار ثلثه في وسط المدينة اذا تمت ايام الحصار وخذ ثلثا واضربه بالسيف حواليه وذر ثلثا الى الريح. وانا استل سيفا وراءهم.3 وخذ منه قليلا بالعدد وصرّه في اذيالك.4 وخذ منه ايضا والقه في وسط النار واحرقه بالنار. منه تخرج نار على كل بيت اسرائيل5 هكذا قال السيد الرب. هذه اورشليم في وسط الشعوب قد اقمتها وحواليها الاراضي.6 فخالفت احكامي باشرّ من الامم وفرائضي باشرّ من الاراضي التي حواليها لان احكامي رفضوها وفرائضي لم يسلكوا فيها.7 لاجل ذلك هكذا قال السيد الرب. من اجل انكم ضججتم اكثر من الامم التي حواليكم ولم تسلكوا في فرائضي ولم تعملوا حسب احكامي ولا عملتم حسب احكام الامم التي حواليكم8 لذلك هكذا قال السيد الرب. ها اني انا ايضا عليك وسأجري في وسطك احكاما امام عيون الامم9 وافعل بك ما لم افعل وما لن افعل مثله بعد بسبب كل ارجاسك.10 لاجل ذلك تاكل الآباء الابناء في وسطك والابناء يأكلون آباءهم واجري فيك احكاما واذري بقيتك كلها في كل ريح.11 من اجل ذلك حيّ انا يقول السيد الرب من اجل انك قد نجست مقدسي بكل مكرهاتك وبكل ارجاسك فانا ايضا اجزّ ولا تشفق عيني وانا ايضا لا اعفو.12 ثلثك يموت بالوبإ وبالجوع يفنون في وسطك وثلث يسقط بالسيف من حولك وثلث اذريه في كل ريح واستل سيفا ورائهم.13 واذا تم غضبي واحللت سخطي عليهم وتشفيت يعلمون اني انا الرب تكلمت في غيرتي اذا اتممت سخطي فيهم.14 واجعلك خرابا وعارا بين الامم التي حواليك امام عيني كل عابر15 فتكونين عارا ولعنة وتأديبا ودهشا للامم التي حواليك اذا اجريت فيك احكاما بغضب وبسخط وبتوبيخات حامية. انا الرب تكلمت.16 اذا ارسلت عليهم سهام الجوع الشريرة التي تكون للخراب التي ارسلها لخرابكم وازيد الجوع عليكم واكسر لكم قوام الخبز17 واذا ارسلت عليكم الجوع والوحوش الرديئة فتثكلك ويعبر فيك الوبأ والدم واجلب عليك سيفا. انا الرب تكلمت

1 And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber' razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and divide the hair.2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.3 You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.5 Thus said the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the middle of the nations and countries that are round about her.6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.7 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;8 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in the middle of you in the sight of the nations.9 And I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the middle of you: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest on them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.14 Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.16 When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread:17 So will I send on you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you: and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you. I the LORD have spoken it.