¹ وكان في السنة الثانية عشرة في الشهر الثاني عشر في اول الشهر ان كلام الرب صار اليّ قائلا

² يا ابن آدم ارفع مرثاة على فرعون ملك مصر وقل له. اشبهت شبل الامم وانت نظير تمساح في البحار. اندفقت بانهارك وكدرت الماء برجليك وعكّرت انهارهم.

³ هكذا قال السيد الرب. اني ابسط عليك شبكتي مع جماعة شعوب كثيرة وهم يصعدونك في مجزفتي

⁴ واتركك على الارض واطرحك على وجه الحقل وأقرّ عليك كل طيور السماء واشبع منك وحوش الارض كلها.

⁵ والقي لحمك على الجبال واملأ الاودية من جيفك.

⁶ واسقي ارض فيضانك من دمك الى الجبال وتمتلئ منك الآفاق.

⁷ وعند اطفائي اياك احجب السموات واظلم نجومها واغشي الشمس بسحاب والقمر لا يضيء ضؤه.

⁸ واظلم فوقك كل انوار السماء المنيرة واجعل الظلمة على ارضك يقول السيد الرب.

⁹ واغم قلوب شعوب كثيرين عند اتياني بكسرك بين الامم في اراض لم تعرفها.

¹⁰ واحيّر منك شعوبا كثيرين ملوكهم يقشعرّون عليك اقشعرارا عندما اخطر بسيفي قدام وجوههم فيرجفون كل لحظة كل واحد على نفسه في يوم سقوطك

¹¹ لانه هكذا قال السيد الرب. سيف ملك بابل ياتي عليك.

¹² بسيوف الجبابرة أسقط جمهورك. كلهم عتاة الامم فيسلبون كبرياء مصر ويهلك كل جمهورها.

¹³ وابيد جميع بهائمها عن المياه الكثيرة فلا تكدرها من بعد رجل انسان ولا تعكرها اضلاف بهيمة.

¹⁴ حينئذ انضب مياههم واجري انهارهم كالزيت يقول السيد الرب.

¹⁵ حين اجعل ارض مصر خرابا وتخلو الارض من ملئها عند ضربي جميع سكانها يعلمون اني انا الرب.

¹⁶ هذه مرثاة يرثون بها. بنات الامم ترثو بها. على مصر وعلى كل جمهورها ترثو بها يقول السيد الرب

¹⁷ وكان في السنة الثانية عشرة في الخامس عشر من الشهر ان كلام الرب كان اليّ قائلا

¹⁸ يا ابن آدم ولول على جمهور مصر واحدره هو وبنات الامم العظيمة الى الارض السفلى مع الهابطين في الجب.

¹⁹ ممن نعمت اكثر. انزل واضطجع مع الغلف.

²⁰ يسقطون في وسط القتلى بالسيف. قد أسلم السيف. امسكوها مع كل جمهورها.

²¹ يكلمه اقوياء الجبابرة من وسط الهاوية مع اعوانه. قد نزلوا اضطجعوا غلفا قتلى بالسيف.

²² هناك اشور وكل جماعتها. قبوره من حوله. كلهم قتلى ساقطون بالسيف.

²³ الذين جعلت قبورهم في اسافل الجب وجماعتها حول قبرها كلهم قتلى ساقطون بالسيف الذين جعلوا رعبا في ارض الاحياء.

²⁴ هناك عيلام وكل جمهورها حول قبرها كلهم قتلى ساقطون بالسيف الذين هبطوا غلفا الى الارض السفلى الذين جعلوا رعبهم في ارض الاحياء. فحملوا خزيهم مع الهابطين في الجب.

²⁵ قد جعلوا لها مضجعا بين القتلى مع كل جمهورها. حوله قبورهم كلهم غلف قتلى بالسيف مع انه قد جعل رعبهم في ارض الاحياء قد حملوا خزيهم مع الهابطين في الجب. قد جعل في وسط القتلى.

²⁶ هناك ماشك وتوبال وكل جمهورها حوله قبورها. كلهم غلف قتلى بالسيف مع انهم جعلوا رعبهم في ارض الاحياء.

²⁷ ولا يضطجعون مع الجبابرة الساقطين من الغلف النازلين الى الهاوية بادواة حربهم وقد وضعت سيوفهم تحت رؤوسهم فتكون آثامهم على عظامهم مع انهم رعب الجبابرة في ارض الاحياء.

²⁸ اما انت ففي وسط الغلف تنكسر وتضطجع مع القتلى بالسيف.

²⁹ هناك ادوم وملوكها وكل رؤسائها الذين مع جبروتهم قد ألقوا مع القتلى بالسيف فيضطجعون مع الغلف ومع الهابطين في الجب.

³⁰ هناك امراء الشمال كلهم وجميع الصيدونيين الهابطين مع القتلى برعبهم خزوا من جبروتهم واضطجعوا غلفا مع قتلى السيف وحملوا خزيهم مع الهابطين الى الجب.

³¹ يراهم فرعون ويتعزى عن كل جمهوره. قتلى بالسيف فرعون وكل جمهوره يقول السيد الرب.

³² لاني جعلت رعبه في ارض الاحياء فيضجع بين الغلف مع قتلى السيف فرعون وكل جمهوره يقول السيد الرب

¹ You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.

² Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

³ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

⁴ therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;

⁵ therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.

⁶ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:

⁷ therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.

⁸ But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

⁹ For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

¹⁰ and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built;

¹¹ and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹² Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.

¹³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;

¹⁴ therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;

¹⁵ neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

¹⁸ Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;

¹⁹ and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

²⁰ When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.

²¹ But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.

²² Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

²³ I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

²⁴ For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

²⁶ I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

²⁸ You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

²⁹ I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

³⁰ I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

³¹ Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

³² Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

³³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.

³⁴ The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

³⁵ They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

³⁶ Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.

³⁷ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

³⁸ As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.