1 The word of יהוה came also unto me, saying,
2 “You shalt not take a wife, neither shalt you have sons or daughters in this place.”
3 For thus saith יהוה concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land.
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of sky, and for the beasts of the earth.”
5 For thus saith יהוה: “Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them, for I have taken away My peace from this people,” saith יהוה, “even loving-kindness and mercies.”
6 “Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
7 Nor shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 You shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.”
9 For thus saith יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot), the God of Israel (Elohei Yisrael): “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when you shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto you, ‘Wherefore hath יהוה pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against יהוה our God (Elohim)?’
11 Then shalt you say unto them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ saith יהוה; ‘and have walked after other gods (elohim), and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My Torah.
12 And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto Me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that you know not, neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods (elohim) day and night; where I will not shew you favor.’
14 Therefore, behold, the days come,” saith יהוה, “that it shall no more be said, ‘יהוה liveth, who brought up the children of Yisrael out of the land of Egypt (Mitsrayim),’
15 But, ‘יהוה liveth, that brought up the children of Yisrael from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them.’ And I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” saith יהוה, “and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 “For Mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from My face, neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled My land, they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable idols.”
19 O יהוה, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”
20 Shall a man make 4gods (elohim) unto himself, and they are not God (Elohim)?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know Mine hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is יהוה.