¹ And the word of Jehovah was unto^▵ me, saying,

² Thou shalt not take to thee a wife, neither shalt thou have^◦ sons or^◦ daughters in this place.

³ For thus says Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave·​·birth to them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land;

⁴ from the deaths of sicknesses they shall·​·die; they shall not be bewailed, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for manure on the face of the ground; and they shall all·​·be·​·consumed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be for food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

⁵ For thus says Jehovah, Come· not ·into the house of the wake, and go not to wail, and be· not ·sorry for them; for I have gathered My peace from this people, says^◦ Jehovah, even the mercy and the compassions.

⁶ And the great and the small shall·​·die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men wail for them^◦, nor gash themselves, nor make· themselves ·bald for them^◦:

⁷ neither shall they divide^◦ bread for them upon mourning, to comfort him for^▵ the dead; neither shall men give· them the cup of comforting ·to·​·drink^◦ over his father or over his mother.^*

⁸ And thou shalt not go·​·into the house of feasts, to sit with^◦ them to eat and to drink.

⁹ For thus says Jehovah of Armies, 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 shall be, when^◦ thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say unto^▵ thee, Why has Jehovah spoken all this great evil against us, or^◦ what is our iniquity, or^◦ what is our sin that we have sinned against^▵ Jehovah our God?

¹¹ And thou shalt say unto^▵ them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says^◦ Jehovah, and have walked^◦ after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law;

¹² and you^◦ have done more evil than your fathers; for, behold, you walk each·​·man^◦ after the stubbornness of his evil heart, to hearken not^▵ unto^▵ Me;

¹³ and I will throw you from off this land onto^◦ a land which you^◦ and your fathers know not; and there shall you serve other gods by·​·day and by night, where^▵ I will not give you grace.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, the days come, says^◦ Jehovah, that it shall no^◦ more^◦ be said, Jehovah lives, who brought·​·up the sons of Israel out·​·of the land of Egypt;

¹⁵ but^◦, Jehovah lives, who brought·​·up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had compelled them; and I will return them onto^◦ their ground that I gave unto their fathers.

¹⁶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, says^◦ Jehovah, and they shall fish them; and after thus^◦ I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from on every mountain, and from on every hill, and from the crevices of the rocks^◦.

¹⁷ For My eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, neither is their iniquity kept·​·secret from in·​·front·​·of My eyes.

¹⁸ And first I will repay their iniquity and their sin double^◦; on·​·account·​·of their profaning My land; they have·​·filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my place·​·to·​·flee in the day of adversity, the nations shall come to^▵ Thee from the ends^◦ of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsity, vanity^◦ and there is no profit in them.

²⁰ Shall man make gods unto himself, and they^◦ are no^◦ gods?

²¹ Therefore, behold, I will this time^◦ make· them ·to·​·know, I will make· them ·to·​·know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is Jehovah.