¹Ti pa, sin človečji, vzemi si oster meč, da ti rabi kakor britev, in obrij si glavo in brado; potem si vzemi tehtnico ter razdeli lase.

¹You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber’s razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

²Tretjino jih sežgi z ognjem sredi mesta, ko bodo dopolnjeni dnevi obleganja; tretjino jih pa vzemi in razmahaj z mečem okoli mesta; in tretjino jih raztresi po vetru, in jaz izderem meč za njimi.

²A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

³In prav malo jih vzemi ter jih zaveži v rob svojega plašča.

³You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

⁴Pa teh vzemi še nekaj in jih vrzi v ogenj in jih sežgi v ognju: odtod plane ogenj proti vsej Izraelovi hiši.

⁴Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

⁵Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: To je Jeruzalem; postavil sem ga sredi med poganske narode in dežele okoli njega.

⁵Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.

⁶A uprl se je mojim sodbam, ravnajoč brezbožno bolj nego pogani, in mojim postavam bolj nego dežele, ki so okoli njega; kajti sodbe moje so zavrgli in po postavah mojih niso živeli.

⁶She 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.

⁷Zatorej pravi tako Gospod Jehova: Ker ste divjali bolj nego poganski narodi okoli vas in niste živeli po zapovedih mojih in niste izpolnjevali sodb mojih, pa še po pravicah narodov, ki so okoli vas, niste delali –

⁷Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you;

⁸zato pravi Gospod Jehova takole: Glej, jaz, tudi jaz bodem zoper tebe in izvršim sodbe sredi tebe pred očmi tistih narodov.

⁸therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

⁹In hočem v tebi storiti, česar še nisem storil in nikdar več ne bom storil, zavoljo vseh gnusob tvojih.

⁹I 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.

¹⁰Zato bodo sredi tebe očetje jedli otroke in otroci bodo jedli očete, in izvršim sodbo v tebi in ves tvoj ostanek raztresem na vse vetrove.

¹⁰Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.

¹¹Zategadelj, kakor res živim, govori Gospod Jehova, ker si oskrunil svetinjo mojo z vsemi ostudami svojimi in z vsemi gnusobami svojimi, zato te tudi jaz obrijem, in oko moje ne zanese; tudi jaz se ne usmilim.

¹¹Therefore 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 will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

¹²Tretji del tebe umrje za kugo in z lakoto bo pokončan sredi tebe; in tretji del pade pod mečem povsod okoli tebe, in tretji del raztresem na vse vetrove in izderem meč za njimi.

¹²A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

¹³Tako se dopolni jeza moja, in pomirim togoto svojo nad njimi in se potolažim; in spoznajo, da sem jaz, GOSPOD govoril v gorečnosti svoji.

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

¹⁴In storim te v pustinjo in v zasmeh med narodi, ki so okoli tebe, pred očmi vseh, ki gredo mimo.

¹⁴Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

¹⁵In bodeš v zasmeh in zasramovanje, v svarilo in strmenje narodom, ki so okoli tebe, ko bom nad teboj vršil sodbe v srdu in togoti in v jeznem svarjenju. Jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.

¹⁵So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)

¹⁶Kadar bom vanje streljal hude pšice lakote, ki bodo v pogubo, ki jih pošljem pogubit vas, tedaj pomnožim lakoto nad vami in starem vašo podporo kruha.In pošljem nad vas lakoto in najhujše zveri, da vam ugonobe otroke; tudi kuga in kri pojdeta skozi tebe, in meč prinesem nadte. Jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.

¹⁶when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

¹⁷In pošljem nad vas lakoto in najhujše zveri, da vam ugonobe otroke; tudi kuga in kri pojdeta skozi tebe, in meč prinesem nadte. Jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.

¹⁷and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.