Ezequiel 21

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*21:6 literally, the breaking of your thighs 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.*21:21 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property. 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."’"

Te Hoari Māunu a Ihowā

1 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 2 "E te tama a te tangata, anga atu tōu mata ki Hiruhārama, kia māturuturu iho tāu kupu ki ngā wāhi tapu, poropititia he hē mō te whenua o Īharaira; 3 mea atu hoki ki te whenua o Īharaira: ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: Nanā, hei hoariri ahau mōu, ka maunu anō i ahau tāku hoari i roto i tōna takotoranga, ka hātepea atu e ahau te tangata tika rāua ko te tangata hē i roto i a koe. 4 Nā, ka hātepea atu nei e ahau i roto i a koe te tangata tika rāua ko te tangata hē, ka maunu anō tāku hoari i roto i tōna takotoranga ki ngā kikokiko katoa i te tonga tae noa ki te raki. 5 Ā, ka mōhio ngā kikokiko katoa, nāku, nā Ihowā, i unu tāku hoari i roto i tōna takotoranga; e kore anō e hoki ā muri iho.’

6 "Nā reira, auē, e te tama a te tangata. Auē ki tō rātou aroaro, me te whati tōu hope, me te tangi tīwerawera. 7 Ā, ki te mea rātou ki a koe, ‘He aha koe i auē ai?’ kātahi koe ka mea, ‘Mō te rongo; kei te haere mai hoki; ā, ngohe iho ngā ngākau katoa, ngoikore katoa ngā ringa, ka hē anō ngā wairua katoa, ko ngā turi katoa kei te wai te rite.’ Nanā, te haere mai nei, ka oti anō hoki, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā."

8 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 9 "E te tama a te tangata, poropiti atu, kī atu: Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā; kī atu:

‘He hoari, he hoari,

whakakoi rawa, oro rawa –

10 I whakakoia ai kia nui ai te parekura;

i orohia ai kia uira ai!

" ‘Kia koa koia tātou? Ko te tokotoko ia o tāku tama e whakahāwea ana ki ngā rākau katoa.

11 I hoatu anō e ia kia orohia,

hei mea e maua e te ringa.

Ko te hoari, āe, kua oti te whakakoi, kua oti te oro,

kia hoatu ai ki te ringa o te kaipatu.

12 E tangi, auē, e te tama a te tangata;

nō te mea kei runga i tāku iwi,

kei runga i ngā rangatira katoa o Īharaira;

kua tukua atu rātou ki te hoari

me tāku iwi.

Mō reira papaki ki tōu hūhā.

13 " ‘He whakamātautau hoki ia; ā, ka pēhea rā mehemea ka kore te tokotoko whakahāwea, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā.’

14 Ko koe nā, e te tama a te tangata, poropiti atu;

pakipaki i ōu ringa.

Tukua kia tuatoru whakakoromeketanga o te hoari,

o te hoari nāna ngā tūpāpaku.

Ko te hoari ia nāna te tangata rahi –

tērā e tūpāpaku nei i ōna patunga,

tae tonu atu ki ō rātou rūma o roto rawa.

15 Kua oti te mata o te hoari te whakatika atu e ahau

ki ō rātou kūwaha katoa,

kia ngohengohe ai ō rātou ngākau,

kia maha ai ō rātou tūtukitanga.

Ananā! Kua oti te whakakanapa,

koi tonu, hei mea mō te patu.

16 Huihui i a koe, ka anga ki matau,

tātai i a koe, ka anga ki mauī,

ki te wāhi e ū atu ai tōu mata.

17 Ka papaki anō ahau i ōku ringa,

ka whakarite i tōku weriweri.

Nāku, nā Ihowā, te kupu."

18 I puta mai anō hoki te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 19 "Ko koe hoki, e te tama a te tangata, whakaritea ētahi ara mōu kia rua, hei haerenga mai mō te hoari a te kīngi o Papurōna. Ka puta mai rāua e rua i te whenua kotahi; waitohungia hoki tētahi wāhi, waitohungia i te ahunga mai o te ara ki te pā. 20 Whakaritea he ara e haere mai ai te hoari ki Rapa o ngā tama a Āmona, ki a Hūrā, ki ērā i Hiruhārama, i te pā taiepa. 21 I tū hoki te kīngi o Papurōna ki te pekanga o te ara, ki te ahunga mai o ngā ara e rua, ki te ui ki ngā tūāhu. I rurutia hoki e ia āna pere, i uia he tikanga ki ngā whakapakoko, i titiro ki te ate. 22 I tōna ringa matau ko te tūāhu mō Hiruhārama, hei whakarite i ngā mea wāwāhi, hei mea e hāmama ai te māngai i te parekura, e ara ai te reo i te hāmamatanga, hei whakarite i ngā mea wāwāhi mō ngā kūwaha, kia haupūria ake anō he pukepuke, kia hangā he taumaihi. 23 Ā, ki tā rātou, hei tūāhu teka tēnā ki tā rātou titiro, ki tā te hunga rā i oati i ngā oati; otiia ka maharatia e ia te kino, kia mau ai rātou.

24 "Nā reira ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: ‘Nā, kua meinga nā e koutou tō koutou kino kia maharatia, i tō koutou hē ka hurahia, i ō koutou hara ka kitea i roto i ā koutou mahi katoa – nā, ka maharatia nā koutou, ka mau koutou i te ringa.

25 " ‘Nā, ko koe, e te mea kino kua tūpāpaku nā, e te rangatira o Īharaira, nōu nei te rā kua tae mai, i te wā o te hē i te mutunga; 26 ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā. Whakarērea atu te pōtae, waiho atu te karauna; e kore tēnei e pēnei tonu ā muri ake. Ko te iti whakanuia ake, ko te nui whakaititia iho. 27 Ka porohurihia e ahau, ka porohurihia, ka porohurihia. (E kore noa iho anō tēnei.) Kia tae mai rā anō te tangata māna; ā, māku e hoatu ki a ia.’

28 "Ko koe hoki, e te tama a te tangata, poropiti atu, mea atu: Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā mō ngā tama a Āmona, mō tā rātou tāwai; mea atu anō:

‘Ko te hoari, ko te hoari, kua oti te unu;

oro rawa mō te patu, kia kai ai, koia i uira ai.

29 Me te teka mai a aua matakite ki a koe,

me te hōmai teka a te tūāhu ki a koe,

kia hoatu ai koe ki runga ki ngā kakī o te hunga i patua,

o te hunga kino kua tae mai nei tō rātou rā,

i te wā o te hē i te mutunga.

30 Meinga kia hoki atu ia ki tōna takotoranga.

Hei te wāhi i hangā ai koe,

hei te whenua i whānau ai koe,

hei reira ahau whakawā ai i a koe.

31 Ka ringihia anō e ahau tōku riri ki runga ki a koe;

ka pupuhi anō ahau ki runga ki a koe

ki te ahi o tōku riri;

ka hoatu anō koe e ahau ki te ringa o ngā tāngata pōauau,

e mōhio ana ki te whakangaro.

32 Ka waiho koe hei wahie mō te ahi;

ka heke ōu toto ki waenganui o te whenua.

Heoi anō maharatanga ki a koe;

nāku hoki, nā Ihowā te kupu.’ "