32FOR THE FIRE YOU WILL BECOME <INTO> FUEL BLOOD YOUR IT WILL BE IN [THE] MIDST OF THE LAND NOT YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR I YAHWEH I HAVE SPOKEN 32You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
1AND IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING The Sins of Jerusalem 1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2AND YOU O SON OF HUMANKIND ¿ WILL YOU JUDGE ¿ WILL YOU JUDGE <OBJ.> [THE] CITY OF <THE> BLOOD<S> AND YOU WILL MAKE KNOWN TO IT <OBJ.> ALL ABOMINATIONS ITS 2“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations
3AND YOU WILL SAY THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH O CITY [WHICH] SHEDS BLOOD IN [THE] MIDST OF IT TO COME TIME ITS AND IT HAS MADE IDOLS ON ITSELF TO BECOME UNCLEAN 3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
4BY BLOOD YOUR WHICH YOU HAVE SHED YOU HAVE BECOME GUILTY AND BY IDOLS YOUR WHICH YOU HAVE MADE YOU HAVE BECOME UNCLEAN AND YOU HAVE BROUGHT NEAR DAYS YOUR AND YOU [MASC] HAVE COME TO YEARS YOUR THERE- -FORE I HAVE MADE YOU A REPROACH TO THE NATIONS AND DERISION TO ALL THE LANDS 4you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
5THE [NATIONS] NEARBY AND THE [NATIONS] FAR OFF FROM YOU THEY WILL DERIDE <IN> YOU O UNCLEAN OF <THE> NAME O GREAT [ONE] OF <THE> TURMOIL 5Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.
6HERE! [THE] PRINCES OF ISRAEL EACH TO STRENGTH HIS THEY HAVE BEEN IN YOU SO AS TO SHED BLOOD 6See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.
7FATHER AND MOTHER THEY HAVE TREATED WITH CONTEMPT IN YOU TO THE SOJOURNER THEY HAVE ACTED WITH <THE> OPPRESSION IN [THE] MIDST OF YOU FATHERLESS ONE AND WIDOW THEY HAVE MALTREATED IN YOU 7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited the fatherless and the widow are oppressed
8HOLY THINGS MY YOU HAVE DESPISED AND <OBJ.> SABBATHS MY YOU HAVE PROFANED 8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
9PEOPLE OF SLANDER THEY HAVE BEEN IN YOU SO AS TO SHED BLOOD AND TO THE MOUNTAINS THEY HAVE EATEN IN YOU LICENTIOUSNESS THEY HAVE DONE IN [THE] MIDST OF YOU 9Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
10[THE] NAKEDNESS OF A FATHER SOMEONE HAS UNCOVERED IN YOU [THE] [WOMAN] UNCLEAN OF THE MENSTRUATION THEY HAVE HUMILIATED IN YOU 10In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
11AND A MAN WITH [THE] WIFE OF NEIGHBOR HIS HE HAS DONE ABOMINATION AND A MAN <OBJ.> DAUGHTER-IN-LAW HIS HE HAS DEFILED IN WICKEDNESS AND A MAN <OBJ.> SISTER HIS [THE] DAUGHTER OF FATHER HIS HE HAS HUMILIATED IN YOU 11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
12A BRIBE THEY HAVE TAKEN IN YOU SO AS TO SHED BLOOD INTEREST AND INTEREST YOU HAVE TAKEN AND YOU HAVE MADE UNJUST GAIN NEIGHBOR YOUR BY <THE> OPPRESSION AND <OBJ.> ME YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
13AND HERE! I WILL STRIKE PALM MY CONCERNING UNJUST GAIN YOUR WHICH YOU HAVE MADE AND ON BLOOD YOUR WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN IN [THE] MIDST OF YOU 13Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
14¿ WILL IT ENDURE HEART YOUR OR? WILL THEY BE STRONG HANDS YOUR TO THE DAYS WHEN I [AM] ABOUT TO DEAL WITH WITH YOU I YAHWEH I HAVE SPOKEN AND I WILL ACT 14Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.
15AND I WILL SCATTER <OBJ.> YOU AMONG THE NATIONS AND I WILL DISPERSE YOU AMONG THE LANDS AND I WILL MAKE AN END OF UNCLEANNESS YOUR FROM YOU 15I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
16AND YOU WILL BE PROFANED BY YOURSELF TO [THE] EYES OF NATIONS AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH 16And when you have defiled yourself*NoteCloseOr And when I have allotted you your inheritance in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
17AND IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING The Refining Furnace 17Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18O SON OF HUMANKIND THEY HAVE BECOME TO ME [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL <INTO> DROSS ALL OF THEM [ARE] COPPER AND TIN AND IRON AND LEAD IN [THE] MIDST OF A FURNACE DROSS<ES> SILVER THEY HAVE BECOME 18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
19<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH BECAUSE HAVE BECOME ALL OF YOU <INTO> DROSS<ES> <TO> THEREFORE HERE I [AM] ABOUT TO GATHER <OBJ.> YOU INTO [THE] MIDDLE OF JERUSALEM 19Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
20[THE] GATHERING OF SILVER AND COPPER AND IRON AND LEAD AND TIN INTO [THE] MIDDLE OF A FURNACE TO BLOW ON IT FIRE TO MELT [IT] SO I WILL GATHER IN ANGER MY AND IN RAGE MY AND I WILL SET DOWN AND I WILL MELT <OBJ.> YOU 20Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
21AND I WILL GATHER <OBJ.> YOU AND I WILL BLOW ON YOU WITH [THE] FIRE OF WRATH MY AND YOU WILL BE MELTED IN [THE] MIDST OF IT 21Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city.
22LIKE [THE] MELTING OF SILVER IN [THE] MIDST OF A FURNACE SO YOU WILL BE MELTED IN [THE] MIDST OF IT AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I YAHWEH I HAVE POURED OUT RAGE MY ON YOU 22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted within the city. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.’”
23AND IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING Israel’s Wicked Leaders 23And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24O SON OF HUMANKIND SAY TO IT YOU [ARE] A LAND [WHICH] NOT [IS] CLEANSED IT NOT RAIN ITS IN A DAY OF INDIGNATION 24“Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’
25A CONSPIRACY OF PROPHETS ITS [IS] IN [THE] MIDST OF IT LIKE A LION ROARING TEARING PREY PERSON[S] THEY HAVE DEVOURED TREASURE AND PRECIOUS THING[S] THEY HAVE BEEN TAKING WIDOWS ITS THEY HAVE MULTIPLIED IN [THE] MIDST OF IT 25The conspiracy of the princes*NoteCloseLXX; Hebrew prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
26PRIESTS ITS THEY HAVE DONE VIOLENCE TO LAW MY AND THEY HAVE PROFANED HOLY THINGS MY BETWEEN A HOLY THING AND A PROFANE THING NOT THEY HAVE MADE A DISTINCTION AND BETWEEN <THE> UNCLEAN [THING] AND A CLEAN [THING] NOT THEY HAVE MADE KNOWN AND FROM SABBATHS MY THEY HAVE HIDDEN EYES THEIR AND I HAVE BEEN PROFANED IN MIDST OF THEM 26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27PRINCES ITS IN MIDST ITS [ARE] LIKE WOLVES TEARING <OF> PREY TO SHED BLOOD TO DESTROY LIVES SO AS TO MAKE UNJUST GAIN UNJUST GAIN 27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
28AND PROPHETS ITS THEY HAVE PLASTERED FOR THEM WHITEWASH [THEY ARE] SEEING FALSEHOOD AND [THEY ARE] DIVINING FOR THEM FALSEHOOD [THEY ARE] SAYING THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH AND YAHWEH NOT HE HAD SPOKEN 28Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
29[THE] PEOPLE OF THE LAND THEY HAVE OPPRESSED OPPRESSION AND THEY HAVE ROBBED ROBBERY AND [THE] POOR AND [THE] NEEDY THEY HAVE MALTREATED AND <OBJ.> THE SOJOURNER THEY HAVE OPPRESSED WITH NOT JUSTICE 29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
30AND I SOUGHT FROM THEM A PERSON [WHO WILL] BUILD A WALL AND [WHO WILL] STAND IN THE BREACH <TO> BEFORE ME FOR THE LAND TO NOT TO DESTROY IT AND NOT I FOUND [ANYONE] 30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
31AND I HAVE POURED OUT ON THEM INDIGNATION MY WITH [THE] FIRE OF WRATH MY I HAVE MADE AN END OF THEM CONDUCT THEIR ON OWN HEAD THEIR I HAVE REQUITED [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”