MLV(i)
1 And you, son of man, take a sharp sword. As a barber's razor you will take it to you and will cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
2 A third part you will burn in the fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and you will take a third part and kill* with the sword all around it and a third part you will scatter to the wind. And I will draw out a sword after them. 3 And you will take from it a few in number and bind them in your skirts. 4 And of these again you will take 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 The lord Jehovah says thus: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries are all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations and against my statutes more than the countries that are all around her, for they have rejected my ordinances and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* are more disorderly than the nations that are all around you* and have not walked in my statutes, nor have kept my ordinances, no, you* have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you*, 8 therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in you what I have not done and of which I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in the midst of you and the sons will eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of you.
11 Therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I also will diminish you, nor will my eye spare. And I also will have no pity.
12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence and they will be consumed with famine in the midst of you and a third part will fall by the sword all around you and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus my anger will be accomplished and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, a lesson and an astonishment, to the nations that are all around you, when I will execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath and in wrathful rebukes–I, Jehovah, have spoken it– 16 when I will send upon them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you*. And I will increase the famine upon you* and will break your* staff of bread. 17 And I will send upon you* famine and evil beasts and they will bereave you. And pestilence and blood will pass through you. And I will bring the sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
2 A third part you will burn in the fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and you will take a third part and kill* with the sword all around it and a third part you will scatter to the wind. And I will draw out a sword after them. 3 And you will take from it a few in number and bind them in your skirts. 4 And of these again you will take 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 The lord Jehovah says thus: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries are all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations and against my statutes more than the countries that are all around her, for they have rejected my ordinances and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* are more disorderly than the nations that are all around you* and have not walked in my statutes, nor have kept my ordinances, no, you* have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you*, 8 therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. 9 And I will do in you what I have not done and of which I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in the midst of you and the sons will eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of you.
11 Therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I also will diminish you, nor will my eye spare. And I also will have no pity.
12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence and they will be consumed with famine in the midst of you and a third part will fall by the sword all around you and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus my anger will be accomplished and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, a lesson and an astonishment, to the nations that are all around you, when I will execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath and in wrathful rebukes–I, Jehovah, have spoken it– 16 when I will send upon them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you*. And I will increase the famine upon you* and will break your* staff of bread. 17 And I will send upon you* famine and evil beasts and they will bereave you. And pestilence and blood will pass through you. And I will bring the sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.