¹ Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

² 'Ütle Iisraeli lastele, et nad pöörduksid tagasi ja lööksid leeri üles Pii-Hahiroti kohale, Migdoli ja mere vahele, Baal-Sefoni ette, sellega vastakuti; lööge leer üles mere äärde!

³ Sest vaarao mõtleb, et Iisraeli lapsed ekslevad mööda maad, kõrb peab nad kinni.

⁴ Mina teen kõvaks vaarao südame ja ta ajab neid taga. Aga mina ilmutan oma au vaarao ja kogu tema sõjaväe arvel, et egiptlased tunneksid, et mina olen Issand.' Ja nad tegid nõnda.

⁵ Kui Egiptuse kuningale anti teada, et rahvas oli põgenenud, siis vaarao ja ta sulaste süda pöördus rahva vastu, ja nad ütlesid: 'Miks tegime nõnda, et lasksime Iisraeli meid orjamast!'

⁶ Ja ta laskis rakendada hobused sõjavankrite ette ning võttis oma rahva enesega kaasa.

⁷ Ta võttis kuussada valitud sõjavankrit ja kõik muud Egiptuse sõjavankrid, ja võitlejaid nende kõigi jaoks.

⁸ Ja Issand tegi kõvaks vaarao, Egiptuse kuninga südame, ning too ajas taga Iisraeli lapsi; Iisraeli lapsed aga olid välja läinud ülestõstetud käe kaitsel.

⁹ Ja egiptlased, kõik vaarao hobused, sõjavankrid ja tema ratsanikud ning sõjavägi, ajasid neid taga ning jõudsid neile järele, kui nad olid leeris mere ääres Pii-Hahirotis, Baal-Sefoni kohal.

¹⁰ Kui vaarao oli ligidal, siis Iisraeli lapsed tõstsid oma silmad üles, ja vaata, egiptlased olid tulemas neile järele. Siis Iisraeli lapsed kartsid väga ja kisendasid Issanda poole.

¹¹ Ja nad ütlesid Moosesele: 'Kas ei olnud siis Egiptuses haudu, et tõid meid kõrbe surema? Miks tegid meile seda, tuues meid Egiptusest välja?

¹² Eks see just olegi, mis me rääkisime sulle Egiptuses, öeldes: Jäta meid rahule, et võiksime teenida egiptlasi! Sest meil on parem egiptlasi teenida kui kõrbes surra.'

¹³ Aga Mooses vastas rahvale: 'Ärge kartke, püsige paigal, siis te näete Issanda päästet, mille ta täna teile valmistab! Sest egiptlasi, keda te näete täna, ei näe te edaspidi enam iialgi.

¹⁴ Issand sõdib teie eest, aga teie vaikige!'

¹⁵ Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Miks sa minu poole kisendad? Ütle Iisraeli lastele, et nad läheksid edasi!

¹⁶ Sina aga tõsta oma kepp üles, siruta käsi mere kohale ja lõhesta see, et Iisraeli lapsed saaksid minna kuiva mööda läbi mere!

¹⁷ Ja mina, vaata, teen siis kõvaks egiptlaste südamed ja nad tulevad teile järele. Aga mina ilmutan oma au vaarao ja kogu ta sõjaväe, ta sõjavankrite ja ratsanike arvel,

¹⁸ et egiptlased tunneksid, et mina olen Issand, kui ma ilmutan oma au vaarao, tema sõjavankrite ja ratsanike arvel.'

¹⁹ Siis Jumala ingel, kes oli käinud Iisraeli leeri ees, siirdus ning läks nende taha; ja pilvesammas siirdus nende eest ning seisis nende taga,

²⁰ tulles egiptlaste leeri ja Iisraeli leeri vahele; siis oli pilv ühele pime, aga teisele valgustas ööd, ja üks ei pääsenud teisele ligi kogu öö.

²¹ Siis Mooses sirutas oma käe mere kohale ja Issand laskis mere taanduda tugevast idatuulest kogu öö ning tegi mere kuivaks - vesi lõhenes.

²² Ja Iisraeli lapsed läksid läbi mere kuiva mööda ja vesi oli neil müürina paremal ja vasakul pool.

²³ Ja egiptlased ajasid neid taga ning tulid neile järele, kõik vaarao hobused, tema sõjavankrid ja ratsanikud, keset merd.

²⁴ Kui saabus hommikune vahikord, siis Issand vaatas egiptlaste leeri peale tule- ja pilvesambast, ja viis egiptlaste leeri segadusse.

²⁵ Ja ta kiilus kinni nende sõjavankrite rattad ning takistas nende sõitu. Siis ütlesid egiptlased: 'Põgenegem Iisraeli eest, sest Issand sõdib nende poolt egiptlaste vastu!'

²⁶ Aga Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Siruta oma käsi välja mere kohale, et vesi tuleks tagasi egiptlaste, nende sõjavankrite ja ratsanike peale!'

²⁷ Ja Mooses sirutas oma käe välja mere kohale ning koiduajal meri pöördus tagasi oma paika, egiptlased aga põgenesid sellele vastu; ja Issand paiskas egiptlased keset merd.

²⁸ Ja vesi tuli tagasi ning kattis sõjavankrid ja ratsanikud, kogu vaarao sõjaväe, kes oli tulnud neile merre järele; ei jäänud neist üle ühtainsatki.

²⁹ Iisraeli lapsed aga läksid kuiva mööda läbi mere, ja vesi oli neil müürina paremal ja vasakul pool.

³⁰ Nõnda päästis Issand sel päeval Iisraeli egiptlaste käest ja Iisrael nägi egiptlasi surnuina mere rannal.

³¹ Ja Iisrael nägi seda suurt kätt, mida Issand näitas egiptlastele, ja rahvas kartis Issandat ning nad uskusid Issandat ja Moosest, tema sulast.

¹ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.

² Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.

³ I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

⁴ I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

⁷ Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

⁸ but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.

⁹ Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

¹¹ for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.

¹² Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

¹³ I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

¹⁵ Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

¹⁶ Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.

¹⁸ For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?

¹⁹ Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

²⁰ The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

²¹ I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.

²² But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

²³ Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?

²⁴ Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

²⁷ who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.

²⁹ Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

³⁰ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.

³² Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.

³³ When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.

³⁴ As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.

³⁵ You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

³⁶ You shall mention the burden of Yahweh no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God.

³⁷ You shall say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

³⁸ But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;

³⁹ therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

⁴⁰ and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.