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.

¹A ty, synu človeka, vezmi si ostrý meč; vezmeš si ho namiesto britvy holičov a prejdeš ním po svojej hlave a po svojej brade. Potom si vezmeš vážky a rozdelíš to.

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.

²Tretinu spáliš ohňom prostred mesta, keď sa vyplnia dni obliehania; potom vezmeš druhú tretinu a budeš rúbať mečom okolo nej dookola, a ostatnú tretinu rozmeceš do vetra, a ja vytasím meč za nimi.

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

³Ale vezmeš odtiaľ niečo málo vlasov čo do počtu a zaviažeš ich do svojich krýdel svojho rúcha.

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.

⁴Ale ešte aj z tých vezmeš a hodíš ich doprostred ohňa a spáliš ich ohňom; z toho vyjde oheň na celý dom Izraelov.

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

⁵Takto hovorí Pán Hospodin: Tento Jeruzalem, postavil som ho vprostred národov a vôkol neho som rozložil krajiny.

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.

⁶Ale on sa sprotivil mojim súdom páchajúc bezbožnosť, väčšiu ako pohania, a mojim ustanoveniam dopúšťajúc sa väčších hriechov než krajiny, ktoré sú vôkol neho; lebo zavrhli moje súdy a čo do mojich ustanovení, nechodili v nich.

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;

⁷Preto takto hovorí Pán Hospodin: Preto, že ste zúrili viac ako pohania, ktorí sú vôkol vás, v mojich ustanoveniach ste nechodili a mojich súdov ste nečinili, ba ani len podľa súdov pohanov, ktorí sú vôkol vás, ste nečinili,

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.

⁸preto takto hovorí Pán Hospodin: Hľa, i ja prijdem na teba a vykonám v tvojom strede súdy pred očami pohanov.

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.

⁹A vykonám na tebe to, čoho som ešte nevykonal, a čomu podobného ani viac nevykonám, pre všetky tvoje ohavnosti.

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.

¹⁰Preto otcovia budú jesť synov v tvojom strede, a synovia budú jesť svojich otcov, a vykonám na tebe súdy a rozptýlim všetok tvoj ostatok vo všetky vetry.

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.

¹¹Preto, jako že ja žijem, hovorí Pán Hospodin, preto, že si poškvrnil moju svätyňu všelijakými svojimi mrzkosťami a všelijakými svojimi ohavnosťami, preto i ja, cele iste, ujmem z teba, a nezľutuje sa moje oko, a nebudem šetriť ani ja.

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.

¹²Tretina ťa pomrie morom a pohynie hladom v tvojom strede, a tretina padne mečom vôkol teba, a tretinu rozptýlim vo všetky vetry a budem ich stíhať vytaseným mečom.

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.

¹³A tak sa dokoná môj hnev, a ukojím svoju prchlivosť na nich a poteším sa. A zvedia, že ja Hospodin som hovoril vo svojej horlivosti, keď dokonám svoju prchlivosť na nich.

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.

¹⁴A učiním ťa púšťou a potupou medzi národami, ktoré sú vôkol teba, pred očami každého, kto pojde tade.

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;)

¹⁵A budeš potupou a posmechom, výstražným príkladom a zdesením národom, ktoré sú vôkol teba, keď vykonám na tebe súdy v hneve a v prchlivosti a v káraní prchlivosti, ja Hospodin som hovoril,

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;

¹⁶keď pošlem na nich preveľmi zlé strely hladu, ktoré budú na zkazu, ktoré pošlem nato, aby som vás zkazil, a navalím na vás hlad a polámem vám palicu chleba.

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.

¹⁷A pošlem na vás hlad a ľútu zver, a osirotia ťa, a mor a krv prejde tebou, a uvediem na teba meč. Ja Hospodin som hovoril.