1„Du menneske,” fortsatte Herren. „Når belejringstiden er omme, skal du tage et skarpt sværd og bruge det som barberkniv til at rage alt dit hår og skæg af. Tag så en vægt og vej det i tre lige store portioner.2En portion skal du brænde inden for bymuren på din tegning. En anden portion skal du hugge i småstykker med sværdet rundt om byen. Den sidste portion skal du sprede for vinden, for jeg vil jage de overlevende af mit folk bort med magt.3Tag lidt af det hår, der blev spredt for vinden, og bind det som kvaster på din kappe.4Tag så deraf nogle få hår og kast dem i ilden, så de brændes op. Derefter vil den rensende ild brede sig til hele Israels folk.”5Hør, hvad Gud Herren siger: „Det er, hvad der skal ske med Jerusalems befolkning. Jeg udvalgte byen til at være som et centrum for alle andre lande.6Men folket gjorde oprør imod mine love og forordninger, og de blev endnu værre end nabolandenes folk.”7Derfor siger Gud Herren: „I har nægtet at adlyde mine love og forskrifter og er blevet endnu mere ugudelige og oprørske end jeres nabofolk. I overholder ikke engang de almindelige samfundslove, som jeres nabofolk overholder.8Derfor vil jeg dømme jer og straffe jer for øjnene af alle de andre nationer.9På grund af de modbydelige synder, I har begået, vil jeg straffe jer værre, end jeg nogen sinde tidligere har gjort, og som jeg aldrig vil gøre igen.10Forældre vil spise deres egne børn, og børnene vil spise deres egne forældre, og den rest af befolkningen, som overlever, spreder jeg for alle vinde.”11„Så sandt jeg lever,” siger Gud Herren, „skal I komme til at bøde, fordi I har forurenet mit tempel med jeres afguder og afskyelige ofre. Jeg vil bruge sværdet som barberkniv og meje jer ned. Jeg vil ikke lægge fingrene imellem eller vise medlidenhed.12En tredjedel af jer vil dø af sult og epidemier inde i byen, en tredjedel af jer bliver dræbt i kampen mod fjenderne, og en tredjedel af jer bliver spredt for alle vinde, for jeg vil selv jage jer væk med magt.13Når dommen er udført, og jeg er færdig med at udøse min straf over dem, vil de overlevende indse, at jeg er en nidkær Gud, som er nødt til at straffe mit folks synder.14Jeg gør jeres land øde til skræk og advarsel for jeres nabolande. Enhver, som kommer forbi og ser ødelæggelsen, vil udtale nedladende ord imod jer. I bliver et skræmmende eksempel på hvilke voldsomme konsekvenser det får, når Herren udøser sin straf over en nation.16Jeg sender hungersnødens grusomme pile ind over jer. Sulten vil tage til, indtil den sidste bid brød er borte, og alt er forbi.17I bliver angrebet af vilde dyr, som vil tage jeres børn. Sygdom og krig hærger i landet, for jeg vil kæmpe imod jer. Jeg, Herren, har talt.”
English Standard Version
Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed
1“And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.2A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.3And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe.4And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.5“Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.6And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.7Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not* even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,8therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments* in your midst in the sight of the nations.9And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.10Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.11Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.* My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.12A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.13“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them.14Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.15You shall be* a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken—16when I send against you* the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply* of bread.17I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”
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