¹ Og Herrens ord kom til mig, og det lød så:

² Og du menneskesønn! Stem i en klagesang over Tyrus!

³ Si til Tyrus, som bor ved havets innløp, som handler med folkene på mange kyster: Så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Tyrus! du sier: Jeg er fullkommen i skjønnhet.

⁴ Midt i havet er dine landemerker; dine bygningsmenn gjorde din skjønnhet fullkommen.

⁵ Av cypresser fra Senir bygget de begge dine plankesider; sedrer fra Libanon hentet de for å gjøre mast på dig.

⁶ Av eker fra Basan gjorde de dine årer; dine rorbenker gjorde de av elfenben innlagt i buksbom fra Kittims øer.

⁷ Fint utsydd lin fra Egypten var det du foldet ut som ditt flagg; blått og purpurrødt tøi fra Elisa-øene var ditt soltelt.

⁸ Folk fra Sidon og Arvad var dine rorskarer; de kloke menn som fantes hos dig, Tyrus, var dine styrmenn.

⁹ Gebals eldste og dets kloke menn var hos dig og bøtte dine brøst; alle havets skib og sjøfolk var hos dig og handlet med dig.

¹⁰ Menn fra Persia og Lud og Put gjorde krigstjeneste i din hær; skjold og hjelm hengte de op i dig, de gav dig glans.

¹¹ Arvads sønner stod med din egen hær på dine murer rundt omkring og djerve menn på dine tårn; sine skjold hengte de op på dine murer rundt omkring; de gjorde din skjønnhet fullkommen.

¹² Tarsis handlet med dig fordi du var rik på alle slags gods; med sølv, jern, tinn og bly betalte de dine varer.

¹³ Javan, Tubal og Mesek var dine kremmere; med mennesker* og kobberkar betalte de dine varer. / {* d.e. træler.}

¹⁴ Togarma-folket betalte dine varer med vognhester og ridehester og mulesler.

¹⁵ Dedans sønner var dine kremmere; mange kystland mottok varer av din hånd, elfenben og ibenholt gav de dig til betaling.

¹⁶ Syria handlet med dig fordi du var rik på alle slags kunstarbeider; med karfunkler, purpur og utsydd tøi og fint lin og koraller og rubiner betalte de dine varer.

¹⁷ Juda og Israels land var dine kremmere; med hvete fra Minnit og søte kaker og honning og olje og balsam betalte de dine varer.

¹⁸ Damaskus handlet med dig fordi du var rik på alle slags kunstarbeider, på allslags gods; de kom med vin fra Helbon og hvit ull.

¹⁹ Vedan og Javan fra Usal betalte dine varer, så skinnende jern, kassia og kalmus kom i din handel.

²⁰ Dedan handlet med dig med dekkener til å ride på.

²¹ Arabia og alle Kedars fyrster mottok varer av din hånd; med lam og værer og bukker handlet de med dig.

²² Sjebas og amas kremmere var dine kremmere; med beste slag av allehånde velluktende urter og med allehånde kostbare stener og gull betalte de dine varer.

²³ Karan og Kanne og Eden, Sjebas kremmere, Assur og Kilmad handlet med dig;

²⁴ de handlet med dig med prektige klær, med kapper av purpurfarvede og utsydde tøier og med hele skatter av tvunnet, mangefarvet garn, med tvunne og sterke snorer på ditt marked.

²⁵ Tarsis-skib var dine karavaner, de drev din handel, og du blev fylt og overmåte rik, der du lå midt ute i havet.

²⁶ På store vann førte dine rorskarer dig ut - østenvinden knuser dig midt i havet.

²⁷ Ditt gods og dine varer, din handel, dine sjøfolk og dine styrmenn, de som bøter dine brøst, og de som driver din handel, alle de krigsmenn du har hos dig, og hele det mannskap du har ombord, skal falle midt ute i havet på den dag du faller.

²⁸ Ved lyden av dine styrmenns skrik skal dine marker beve.

²⁹ Og de skal stige ut av sine skib, alle de som sitter ved årene, sjøfolkene og alle styrmenn på havet; de skal gå i land.

³⁰ De skal bryte ut i jammerrop over dig, og de skal kaste støv på sine hoder og velte sig i asken.

³¹ De skal rake sig skallet for din skyld og binde sekk om sig, og de skal gråte over dig i bitter sorg, med bitter veklage.

³² I sin jammer skal de stemme i en klagesang over dig og si: Hvem er lik Tyrus, den stad som nu er blitt taus, der den ligger midt ute i havet?

³³ Da dine varer kom inn fra havene, mettet du mange folkeslag; med alt ditt gods og alle dine varer gjorde du jordens konger rike.

³⁴ Nu, da du er knust og er sunket i havets dyp, er dine varer og hele ditt mannskap gått til grunne med dig.

³⁵ Alle de som bor i kystlandene, skal forferdes over dig, og deres konger skal gyse med redsel i sine ansikter.

³⁶ Kjøbmennene rundt om blandt folkene skal spotte over dig: En redsel er du blitt, og du er blitt borte - for evig tid.

¹ When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

² saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.

³ If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them."

⁴ All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

⁵ "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

⁶ The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,

⁷ and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

⁸ A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.

⁹ The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

¹⁰ When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

¹¹ The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee."

¹² Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

¹³ He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,

¹⁶ and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"

¹⁷ He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

¹⁸ Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

¹⁹ Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

²⁰ When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

²¹ Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.

²² All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

²³ When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"

²⁴ Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

²⁵ The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

²⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."

²⁷ They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

²⁸ But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

²⁹ He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

³⁰ He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

³³ "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

³⁴ When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

³⁵ The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

³⁷ But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

³⁸ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'

³⁹ So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

⁴⁰ When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

⁴¹ They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."

⁴² Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'

⁴³ "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.

⁴⁴ He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

⁴⁵ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

⁴⁶ When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.