¹ 때에 주의 신이 나를 들어 데리고 여호와의 전 동문 곧 동향한 문에 이르시기로 본즉 그 문에 이십 오인이 있는데 내가 그 중에서 앗술의 아들 야아사냐와 브나야의 아들 블라댜를 보았으니 그들은 백성의 방백이라

² 그가 내게 이르시되 인자야 ! 이 사람들은 불의를 품고 이 성중에서 악한 꾀를 베푸는 자니라

³ 그들의 말이 집 건축할 때가 가깝지 아니한즉 이 성읍은 가마가 되고 우리는 고기가 된다 하나니

⁴ 그러므로 인자야 너는 그들을 쳐서 예언하고 예언할지니라

⁵ 여호와의 신이 내게 임하여 가라사대 너는 말하기를 여호와의 말씀에 이스라엘 족속아 너희가 이렇게 말하였도다 너희 마음에서 일어나는 것을 내가 다 아노라

⁶ 너희가 이 성읍에서 많이 살륙하여 그 시체로 거리에 채웠도다

⁷ 그러므로 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 이 성읍 중에서 너희가 살륙한 시체는 그 고기요 이 성읍은 그 가마려니와 너희는 그 가운데서 끌려 나오리라

⁸ 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 너희가 칼을 두려워하니 내가 칼로 너희에게 임하게 하고

⁹ 너희를 그 성읍 가운데서 끌어내어 타국인의 손에 붙여 너희에게 벌을 내리리니

¹⁰ 너희가 칼에 엎드러질 것이라 내가 이스라엘 변경에서 너희를 국문하리니 너희가 나를 여호와인 줄 알리라

¹¹ 이 성읍은 너희 가마가 되지 아니하고 너희는 그 가운데 고기가 되지 아니할지라 내가 너희를 이스라엘 변경에서 국문하리니

¹² 너희가 나를 여호와인 줄 알리라 너희가 내 율례를 행치 아니하며 규례를 지키지 아니하고 너희 사면에 있는 이방인의 규례대로 행하였느니라 하셨다 하라

¹³ 이에 내가 예언할 때에 브나야의 아들 블라댜가 죽기로 내가 엎드리어 큰 소리로 부르짖어 가로되 오호라 ! 주 여호와여 ! 이스라엘의 남은 자를 다 멸절하고자 하시나이까 ? 하니라

¹⁴ 여호와의 말씀이 내게 임하여 가라사대

¹⁵ 인자야 ! 예루살렘 거민이 너의 형제 곧 너의 형제와 친속과 이스라엘 온 족속을 향하여 이르기를 너희는 여호와에게서 멀리 떠나라 이 땅은 우리에게 주어 기업이 되게 하신 것이라 하였나니

¹⁶ 그런즉 너는 말하기를 주 여호와의 말씀에 내가 비록 그들을 멀리 이방인 가운데로 쫓고 열방에 흩었으나 그들이 이른 열방에서 내가 잠간 그들에게 성소가 되리라 하셨다 하고

¹⁷ 너는 또 말하기를 주 여호와의 말씀에 내가 너희를 만민 가운데 모으며 너희를 흩은 열방 가운데서 모아 내고 이스라엘 땅으로 너희에게 주리라 하셨다 하라

¹⁸ 그들이 그리로 가서 그 가운데 모든 미운 물건과 가증한 것을 제하여 버릴지라

¹⁹ 내가 그들에게 일치한 마음을 주고 그 속에 새 신을 주며 그 몸에서 굳은 마음을 제하고 부드러운 마음을 주어서

²⁰ 내 율례를 좇으며 내 규례를 지켜 행하게 하리니 그들은 내 백성이 되고 나는 그들의 하나님이 되리라

²¹ 그러나 미운 것과 가증한 것을 마음으로 좇는 자는 내가 그 행위대로 그 머리에 갚으리라 나 주 여호와의 말이니라

²² 때에 그룹들이 날개를 드는데 바퀴도 그 곁에 있고 이스라엘 하나님의 영광도 그 위에 덮였더니

²³ 여호와의 영광이 성읍 중에서부터 올라가서 성읍 동편 산에 머물고

²⁴ 주의 신이 나를 들어 하나님의 신의 이상 중에 데리고 갈대아에 있는 사로잡힌 자중에 이르시더니 내가 보는 이상이 나를 떠난지라

²⁵ 내가 사로잡힌 자들에게 여호와께서 내게 보이신 모든 일로 고하니라

¹ At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

² Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

³ Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

⁴ Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.

⁵ Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit].

⁶ For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.

⁷ For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish, praise, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.

⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.

⁹ They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

¹⁰ Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.

¹¹ For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

¹² They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

¹³ Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

¹⁴ I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.

¹⁵ Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

¹⁶ Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

¹⁷ There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.

²¹ Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.

²² How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

²³ Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.

²⁴ Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.

²⁵ For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

²⁶ On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

²⁷ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.

²⁸ It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

³⁰ But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

³¹ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

³⁴ and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all Know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

³⁵ Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

³⁶ If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

³⁷ Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.

³⁸ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

³⁹ The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.

⁴⁰ The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.