¹ Höret dieses Wort, ihr Kühe Basans, die ihr auf dem Berge Samarias seid, die ihr die Armen bedrücket, die Dürftigen mißhandelt, und zu euren Herren sprechet: Bringe her, daß wir trinken!

² Geschworen hat der Herr, Jehova, bei seiner Heiligkeit: Siehe, Tage werden über euch kommen, da man euch an Haken wegschleppen wird, und euren Rest an Fischerangeln.

³ Und ihr werdet durch die Mauerrisse hinausgehen, eine jede vor sich hin, und ihr werdet nach Harmon hingeworfen werden, spricht Jehova.

⁴ Gehet nach Bethel und übertretet! Nach Gilgal und mehret die Übertretung! Und bringet jeden Morgen eure Schlachtopfer, alle drei Tage eure Zehnten;

⁵ und räuchert von dem Gesäuerten Dankopfer, und rufet aus, verkündet freiwillige Gaben! Denn also liebet ihr's, ihr Kinder Israel, spricht der Herr, Jehova.

⁶ Und so habe auch ich euch reine Zähne gegeben in allen euren Städten und Mangel an Brot in allen euren Orten; und doch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

⁷ Und auch ich habe euch den Regen entzogen, als noch drei Monate bis zur Ernte waren; und ich habe auf die eine Stadt regnen lassen, während ich auf die andere Stadt nicht regnen ließ; der eine Acker wurde beregnet, und der Acker, auf welchen es nicht regnete, verdorrte;

⁸ und zwei, drei Städte wankten zu einer Stadt hin, um Wasser zu trinken, und wurden nicht satt. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

⁹ Ich habe euch mit Kornbrand und mit Vergilben geschlagen; eine große Zahl eurer Gärten und eurer Weinberge und eurer Feigen-und eurer Olivenbäume fraß die Heuschrecke. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

¹⁰ Ich habe die Pest unter euch gesandt in der Weise Ägyptens; ich habe eure Jünglinge mit dem Schwerte getötet, indem zugleich eure Rosse gefangen weggeführt wurden, und ich ließ den Gestank eurer Heerlager aufsteigen, und zwar in eure Nase. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

¹¹ Ich habe eine Umkehrung unter euch angerichtet wie die Umkehrung von Sodom und Gomorra durch Gott; und ihr waret wie ein Brandscheit, das aus dem Feuer gerettet ist. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova. -

¹² Darum werde ich dir also tun, Israel. Weil ich dir dieses tun will, so schicke dich an, Israel, deinem Gott zu begegnen!

¹³ Denn siehe, der die Berge bildet und den Wind schafft, und dem Menschen kundtut, was sein Gedanke ist; der die Morgenröte und die Finsternis macht, und einherschreitet auf den Höhen der Erde: Jehova, Gott der Heerscharen, ist sein Name.

¹ Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

² Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

³ Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

⁴ For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

⁵ But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.

⁶ For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.

⁷ I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

⁸ Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

⁹ Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

¹⁰ Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

¹¹ For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.

¹² But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.

¹³ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

¹⁴ who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

¹⁵ Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰ Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.

²² The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

²³ Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

²⁴ As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;

²⁵ and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

²⁶ I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

²⁷ But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.

³⁰ Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.