¹ 十二年十二月初一日，耶和華的話臨到我說：

² 人子啊，你要為埃及王法老作哀歌，說：從前你在列國中，如同少壯獅子；現在你卻像海中的大魚。你衝出江河，用爪攪動諸水，使江河渾濁。

³ 主耶和華如此說：我必用多國的人民，將我的網撒在你身上，把你拉上來。

⁴ 我必將你丟在地上，拋在田野，使空中的飛鳥都落在你身上，使遍地的野獸吃你得飽。

⁵ 我必將你的肉丟在山間，用你高大的屍首填滿山谷。

⁶ 我又必用你的血澆灌你所游泳之地，漫過山頂；河道都必充滿。

⁷ 我將你撲滅的時候，要把天遮蔽，使眾星昏暗，以密雲遮掩太陽，月亮也不放光。

⁸ 我必使天上的亮光都在你以上變為昏暗，使你的地上黑暗。這是主耶和華說的。

⁹ 我使你敗亡的風聲傳到你所不認識的各國。那時，我必使多民的心因你愁煩。

¹⁰ 我在許多國民和君王面前向你掄我的刀，國民就必因你驚奇，君王也必因你極其恐慌。在你仆倒的日子，他們各人為自己的性命時刻戰兢。

¹¹ 主耶和華如此說：巴比倫王的刀必臨到你。

¹² 我必藉勇士的刀使你的眾民仆倒；這勇士都是列國中強暴的。他們必使埃及的驕傲歸於無有；埃及的眾民必被滅絕。

¹³ 我必從埃及多水旁除滅所有的走獸；人腳獸蹄必不再攪渾這水。

¹⁴ 那時，我必使埃及河澄清，江河像油緩流。這是主耶和華說的。

¹⁵ 我使埃及地變為荒廢淒涼；這地缺少從前所充滿的，又擊殺其中一切的居民。那時，他們就知道我是耶和華。

¹⁶ 人必用這哀歌去哀哭，列國的女子為埃及和他的群眾也必以此悲哀。這是主耶和華說的。

¹⁷ 十二年十二月十五日，耶和華的話臨到我說：

¹⁸ 人子啊，你要為埃及群眾哀號，又要將埃及和有名之國的女子，並下坑的人，一同扔到陰府去。

¹⁹ 你埃及的美麗勝過誰呢？你下去與未受割禮的人一同躺臥罷！

²⁰ 他們必在被殺的人中仆到。他被交給刀劍，要把他和他的群眾拉去。

²¹ 強盛的勇士要在陰間對埃及王和幫助他的說話；他們是未受割禮被殺的人，已經下去，躺臥不動。

²² 亞述和他的眾民都在那裡，他民的墳墓在他四圍；他們都是被殺倒在刀下的。

²³ 他們的墳墓在坑中極深之處。他的眾民在他墳墓的四圍，都是被殺倒在刀下的；他們曾在活人之地使人驚恐。

²⁴ 以攔也在那裡，他的群眾在他墳墓的四圍，都是被殺倒在刀下、未受割禮而下陰府的；他們曾在活人之地使人驚恐，並且與下坑的人一同擔當羞辱。

²⁵ 人給他和他的群眾在被殺的人中設立床榻。他民的墳墓在他四圍，他們都是未受割禮被刀殺的；他們曾在活人之地使人驚恐，並且與下坑的人一同擔當羞辱。以攔已經放在被殺的人中。

²⁶ 米設、土巴，和他們的群眾都在那裡。他民的墳墓在他四圍，他們都是未受割禮被刀殺的；他們曾在活人之地使人驚恐。

²⁷ 他們不得與那未受割禮仆倒的勇士一同躺臥；這些勇士帶著兵器下陰間，頭枕刀劍，骨頭上有本身的罪孽；他們曾在活人之地使勇士驚恐。

²⁸ 法老啊，你必在未受割禮的人中敗壞，與那些被殺的人一同躺臥。

²⁹ 以東也在那裡。他君王和一切首領雖然仗著勢力，還是放在被殺的人中；他們必與未受割禮的和下坑的人一同躺臥。

³⁰ 在那裡有北方的眾王子和一切西頓人，都與被殺的人下去。他們雖然仗著勢力使人驚恐，還是蒙羞。他們未受割禮，和被刀殺的一同躺臥，與下坑的人一同擔當羞辱。

³¹ 法老看見他們，便為他被殺的軍隊受安慰。這是主耶和華說的。

³² 我任憑法老在活人之地使人驚恐，法老和他的群眾必放在未受割禮和被殺的人中。這是主耶和華說的。

¹ At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

² Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won't be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.

³ Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child."

⁴ Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

⁵ Yahweh said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman."

⁶ It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, "Come in, you wife of Jeroboam! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

⁷ Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

⁸ and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

⁹ but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

¹⁰ therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

¹¹ He who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it."'

¹² Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

¹³ All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

¹⁴ Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is day! What? Even now.

¹⁵ For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

¹⁶ He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin."

¹⁷ Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

¹⁸ All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

¹⁹ The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁰ The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

²¹ Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

²² Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

²³ For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

²⁴ and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

²⁵ It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

²⁶ and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

²⁷ King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

²⁸ It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

²⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

³⁰ There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

³¹ Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.