MLV(i)
1 The word of Jehovah came also to me, saying,
2 You will not take a wife, nor will you have sons or daughters, in this place.
3 For Jehovah says thus concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place and concerning their mothers who bore them and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, nor will they be buried; they will be as manure upon the face of the ground. And they will be consumed by the sword and by famine. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For Jehovah says thus, Do not enter into the house of banqueting for the dead, nor go to lament, nor sympathize with them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Jehovah, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, nor will men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them, 7 nor will men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor will men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 And you will not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 9 For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your* eyes and in your* days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 And it will happen, when you will show this people all these words and they will say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?
11 Then you will say to them, Because your* fathers have forsaken me, says Jehovah and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law.
12 And you* have done evil more than your* fathers, for, behold, you* walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you* listen not to me. 13 Therefore I will cast you* forth out of this land into the land that you* have not known, neither you* nor your* fathers and there you* will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you* no favor.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that it will no more be said, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, 15 but, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Jehovah and they will fish them up. And afterward I will send for many hunters and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
19 O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and will say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods? 21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might and they will know that my name is Jehovah.
3 For Jehovah says thus concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place and concerning their mothers who bore them and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, nor will they be buried; they will be as manure upon the face of the ground. And they will be consumed by the sword and by famine. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For Jehovah says thus, Do not enter into the house of banqueting for the dead, nor go to lament, nor sympathize with them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Jehovah, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, nor will men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them, 7 nor will men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor will men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 And you will not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 9 For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your* eyes and in your* days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 And it will happen, when you will show this people all these words and they will say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?
11 Then you will say to them, Because your* fathers have forsaken me, says Jehovah and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law.
12 And you* have done evil more than your* fathers, for, behold, you* walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you* listen not to me. 13 Therefore I will cast you* forth out of this land into the land that you* have not known, neither you* nor your* fathers and there you* will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you* no favor.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that it will no more be said, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, 15 but, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Jehovah and they will fish them up. And afterward I will send for many hunters and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
19 O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and will say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods? 21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might and they will know that my name is Jehovah.