¹ Profeta vorto de la Eternulo pri Izrael. Diro de la Eternulo, kiu etendis la cxielon, fondis la teron, kaj kreis la spiriton de la homo interne de li:

² Jen Mi faros Jerusalemon freneziga kaliko por cxiuj popoloj cxirkauxe, kaj ecx por Judujo, kiam Jerusalem estos siegxata.

³ En tiu tempo Mi faros Jerusalemon peza sxtono por cxiuj popoloj:cxiuj, kiuj gxin levos, faros al si vundojn; kaj kolektigxos kontraux gxi cxiuj nacioj de la tero.

⁴ En tiu tempo, diras la Eternulo, Mi frapos cxiun cxevalon per rabio kaj gxian rajdanton per frenezeco; kaj sur la domon de Jehuda Mi malfermos Miajn okulojn; cxiujn cxevalojn de la popoloj Mi frapos per blindeco.

⁵ Kaj la estroj de Judujo diros en sia koro:Mia forto estas la logxantoj de Jerusalem, dank� al la Eternulo Cebaot, ilia Dio.

⁶ En tiu tempo Mi faros la estrojn de Judujo kiel pato kun fajro inter ligno kaj kiel brulanta torcxo inter garboj, kaj ili formangxos dekstre kaj maldekstre cxiujn popolojn cxirkauxe; kaj Jerusalem estos denove prilogxata sur sia loko, en Jerusalem.

⁷ Kaj antauxe la Eternulo savos la tendojn de Judujo, por ke la gloro de la domo de David kaj la gloro de la logxantoj de Jerusalem ne estu tro alta super Judujo.

⁸ En tiu tempo la Eternulo defendos la logxantojn de Jerusalem, kaj la plej malforta el ili estos en tiu tempo kiel David, kaj la domo de David estos kiel Dio, kiel angxelo de la Eternulo antaux ili.

⁹ En tiu tempo Mi decidos ekstermi cxiujn naciojn, kiuj atakas Jerusalemon.

¹⁰ Sed sur la domon de David kaj sur la logxantojn de Jerusalem Mi versxos spiriton de amo kaj de pregxoj; kaj ili rigardos tiun, kiun ili trapikis, kaj ili ploros pri li, kiel oni ploras pri solfilo, kaj ili malgxojos pri li, kiel oni malgxojas pri unuenaskito.

¹¹ En tiu tempo estos granda plorado en Jerusalem, kiel la plorado en Hadadrimon en la valo de Megidon.

¹² Ploros la lando, cxiu familio aparte:la familio de la domo de David aparte, kaj iliaj edzinoj aparte; la familio de la domo de Natan aparte, kaj iliaj edzinoj aparte;

¹³ la familio de la domo de Levi aparte, kaj iliaj edzinoj aparte; la familio de la SXimeiidoj aparte, kaj iliaj edzinoj aparte;

¹⁴ cxiuj ceteraj familioj cxiu familio aparte, kaj iliaj edzinoj aparte.

¹ "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

² If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

³ Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

⁴ You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

⁵ "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

⁸ But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

⁹ "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

¹⁰ Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

¹¹ Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

¹² Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.

¹³ This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

¹⁴ Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

¹⁵ Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

¹⁶ For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

¹⁷ You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'