17AND I WILL SEND ON YOU FAMINE AND ANIMAL[S] WILD AND THEY WILL MAKE CHILDLESS YOU AND PESTILENCE AND BLOOD IT WILL PASS IN YOU AND SWORD I WILL BRING ON YOU I YAHWEH I HAVE SPOKEN 17I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
1AND IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING Judgment against Idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:15–31; Deuteronomy 12:29–32) 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2O SON OF HUMANKIND SET FACE YOUR AGAINST [THE] MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL AND PROPHESY AGAINST THEM 2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
3AND YOU WILL SAY O MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL HEAR [THE] WORD OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH TO THE MOUNTAINS AND TO THE HILLS TO THE RAVINES AND TO THE VALLEYS HERE I I [AM] ABOUT TO BRING ON YOU A SWORD AND I WILL DESTROY HIGH PLACES YOUR 3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
4AND THEY WILL BE MADE DESOLATE ALTARS YOUR AND THEY WILL BE SHATTERED INCENSE ALTARS YOUR AND I WILL MAKE FALL SLAIN [ONES] YOUR <TO> BEFORE IDOLS YOUR 4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
5AND I WILL PUT <OBJ.> [THE] CORPSES OF [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL <TO> BEFORE IDOLS THEIR AND I WILL DISPERSE <OBJ.> BONES YOUR AROUND ALTARS YOUR 5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
6IN ALL DWELLING PLACES YOUR THE CITIES THEY WILL BE WASTE AND THE HIGH PLACES THEY WILL BE DESOLATE SO THAT THEY MAY BE WASTE AND THEY MAY BE HELD GUILTY ALTARS YOUR AND THEY WILL BE SHATTERED AND THEY WILL CEASE IDOLS YOUR AND THEY WILL BE CUT DOWN INCENSE ALTARS YOUR AND THEY WILL BE WIPED OUT PRODUCTS YOUR 6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
7AND HE WILL FALL [THE] SLAIN IN MIDST OF YOU AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH 7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
8AND I WILL LEAVE OVER WHEN BELONG TO YOU ESCAPEES OF [THE] SWORD AMONG THE NATIONS WHEN ARE DISPERSED YOU AMONG THE LANDS A Remnant to Be Blessed 8Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
9AND THEY WILL REMEMBER ESCAPEES YOUR <OBJ.> ME AMONG THE NATIONS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN CAPTIVE THERE WHERE I WAS CRUSHED <OBJ.> HEART THEIR [WHICH] PLAYS THE PROSTITUTE WHICH IT HAS TURNED ASIDE FROM WITH <THE> ME AND <OBJ.> EYES THEIR [WHICH] PLAY THE PROSTITUTE AFTER IDOLS THEIR AND THEY WILL LOATHE <IN> FACES THEIR BECAUSE OF THE WICKED THINGS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE TO ALL ABOMINATIONS THEIR 9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me— how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
10AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH NOT TO IN VAIN I SPOKE TO DO TO THEM THE CALAMITY <THE> THIS 10And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
11THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH STRIKE WITH HAND YOUR AND STAMP WITH FOOT YOUR AND SAY ALAS! BECAUSE OF ALL [THE] ABOMINATIONS OF [THE] WICKED DEEDS OF [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL WHO BY THE SWORD BY <THE> FAMINE AND BY <THE> PESTILENCE THEY WILL FALL 11This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
12THE DISTANT [PERSON] BY THE PESTILENCE HE WILL DIE AND THE NEAR [PERSON] BY THE SWORD HE WILL FALL AND THE [ONE WHO] IS LEFT ALIVE AND THE [ONE WHO] IS PRESERVED BY <THE> FAMINE HE WILL DIE AND I WILL COMPLETE RAGE MY ON THEM 12He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
13AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH WHEN ARE SLAIN [ONES] THEIR IN AMONG IDOLS THEIR AROUND ALTARS THEIR TO EVERY HILL HIGH ON ALL [THE] TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS AND UNDER EVERY TREE LUXURIANT AND UNDER EVERY TEREBINTH LEAFY [THE] PLACE <OF> WHERE THEY GAVE THERE AN ODOR OF SOOTHING TO ALL IDOLS THEIR 13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak— the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
14AND I WILL STRETCH OUT <OBJ.> HAND MY ON THEM AND I WILL MAKE <OBJ.> THE LAND A DESOLATION AND A WASTE MORE THAN [THE] WILDERNESS OF DIBLAH <TOWARDS> IN ALL DWELLING PLACES THEIR AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH 14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah.*NoteCloseMost Hebrew manuscripts; Vulgate and a few Hebrew manuscripts Riblah Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”