Ezekiel 6
1 ಕರ್ತನ ವಾಕ್ಯವು ನನಗೆ ಉಂಟಾಯಿತು. ಏನಂದರೆ--
2 ಮನುಷ್ಯಪುತ್ರನೇ, ನೀನು ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲಿನ ಪರ್ವತಗಳಿಗೆ ಅಭಿಮುಖನಾಗಿ ನಿಂತು ಅವುಗಳಿಗೆ ವಿರೋಧವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರವಾದಿಸಿ
3 ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇ ಲಿನ ಪರ್ವತಗಳೇ, ದೇವರಾದ ಕರ್ತನ ವಾಕ್ಯವನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿರಿ; ದೇವರಾದ ಕರ್ತನು ಪರ್ವತಗಳಿಗೂ ಗುಡ್ಡ ಗಳಿಗೂ ನದಿಗಳಿಗೂ ಕಣಿವೆಗಳಿಗೂ ಹೀಗೆ ಹೇಳು ತ್ತಾನೆ--ಇಗೋ, ನಾನು, ನಾನೇ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮೇಲೆ ಕತ್ತಿ ಯನ್ನು ತಂದು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಎತ್ತರ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳನ್ನು (ಮೇಡುಗ ಳನ್ನು) ನಾಶಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ.
4 ನಿಮ್ಮ ಯಜ್ಞವೇದಿಗಳು ಹಾಳಾಗುವವು; ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರತಿಮೆಗಳು ಮುರಿಯಲ್ಪಡು ವವು; ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಹತರಾದ ಮನುಷ್ಯರನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ವಿಗ್ರ ಹಗಳ ಮುಂದೆ ನಾನು ಬಿಸಾಡುವೆನು.
5 ಇಸ್ರಾ ಯೇಲನ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹೆಣಗಳನ್ನು ದೇವತಾ ವಿಗ್ರಹಗಳ ಮುಂದೆ ಹಾಕುವೆನು. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಯಜ್ಞವೇದಿಗಳ ಸುತ್ತಲೂ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಎಲುಬುಗಳನ್ನು ಎರಚಿಬಿಡುವೆನು.
6 ನಿಮ್ಮ ನಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಮಾಡುವ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳು ಹಾಳುಮಾಡಲ್ಪಡುವವು; ಎತ್ತರವಾದ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳೂ ನಾಶ ಮಾಡಲ್ಪಡುವವು; ಹೀಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಯಜ್ಞವೇದಿಗಳು ನಾಶವಾಗಿಯೂ ಹಾಳಾಗಿಯೂ ಹೋಗುವವು. ನಿಮ್ಮ ವಿಗ್ರಹಗಳು ಒಡೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟು ಇಲ್ಲದಂತಾಗುವವು. ನೀವು ರೂಪಿಸಿದ ಪ್ರತಿಮೆಗಳು ಕಡಿದುಹಾಕಲ್ಪಟ್ಟು ಅಳಿಸ ಲ್ಪಡುವವು.
7 ಹತವಾದವರು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೀಳು ವರು, ಆಗ ನೀವು ನಾನೇ ಕರ್ತನೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಯುವಿರಿ.
8 ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ ನೀವು ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಚದರಿಹೋಗುವಾಗ ಜನಾಂಗಗಳೊಳಗೆ ಕತ್ತಿ ಬೀಸಿದಾಗ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು ವವರು ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹಾಗೆ ಕೆಲವರನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
9 ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವರು ತಾವು ಸೆರೆಗೆ ಒಯ್ಯಲ್ಪ ಡುವ ಜನಾಂಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಜ್ಞಾಪಕಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳು ವರು, ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟುಬಿಡುವ ಅವರ ಜಾರಹೃದಯದಿಂದಲೂ ಅವರ ದೇವರ ವಿಗ್ರಹಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಜಾರತ್ವ ಮಾಡುವವರ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳಿಂದಲೂ ಮುರಿದುಹೋದೆನು; ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಕೇಡುಗಳ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ತಮಗೆ ತಾವೇ ಹೇಸಿ ಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು.
10 ನಾನೇ ಕರ್ತನೆಂದೂ ನಾನು ಈ ಕೇಡನ್ನು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವೆನೆಂದೂ ನಾನು ವ್ಯರ್ಥವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳುವದಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದೂ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು.
11 ದೇವರಾದ ಕರ್ತನು ಹೇಳುವದೇನಂದರೆ; ನಿನ್ನ ಕೈಯಿಂದ ಬಡಿದು ನಿನ್ನ ಪಾದದಿಂದ ತುಳಿದು ಹೇಳ ಬೇಕಾದದ್ದೇನಂದರೆ--ಮನೆಯವರ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳೇ ಅಯ್ಯೋ, ಅವರು ಕತ್ತಿಯಿಂದಲೂ ಬರ ದಿಂದಲೂ ಮತ್ತು ವ್ಯಾಧಿಗಳಿಂದಲೂ ಬೀಳುವರು.
12 ದೂರದಲ್ಲಿರುವವನು ವ್ಯಾಧಿಯಿಂದ ಸಾಯುವನು; ಹತ್ತಿರದಲ್ಲಿರುವವನು ಕತ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಬೀಳುವನು; ಉಳಿದು ಮುತ್ತಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವವನು ಬರದಿಂದ ಸಾಯುವನು; ಹೀಗೆ ನಾನು ಅವರ ಮೇಲೆ ನನ್ನ ಉಗ್ರತೆಯನ್ನು ತೀರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವೆನು.
13 ಆಮೇಲೆ ನೀವು ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಹತವಾದ ಮನುಷ್ಯರು ಅವರಲ್ಲಿರುವಾಗ ಅವರ ವಿಗ್ರಹಗಳ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರ ಯಜ್ಞವೇದಿಗಳ ಸುತ್ತ ಲಾಗಿಯೂ ಎತ್ತರವಾದ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಗುಡ್ಡದ ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಪರ್ವತಗಳ ತುದಿಯಲ್ಲಿಯ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಹಸುರಾದ ಮರದ ಕೆಳಗೂ ಪ್ರತಿ ಯೊಂದು ದಪ್ಪವಾದ ಓಕ್‌ ಮರದ ಕೆಳಗಡೆಯೂ ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ವಿಗ್ರಹಗಳಿಗೆಲ್ಲಾ ಸುವಾಸನೆಯನ್ನು ಅರ್ಪಿಸುವದರಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ನಾನೇ ಕರ್ತನೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಯು ವಿರಿ
14 ಹೀಗೆ ನಾನು ನನ್ನ ಕೈಯನ್ನು ಅವರ ಮೇಲೆ ಚಾಚಿ ಅವರ ದೇಶವನ್ನು ನಾಶಮಾಡುವೆನು. ಹೌದು, ಅವರ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ನಿವಾಸಸ್ಥಳಗಳನ್ನು ದಿಬ್ಲದ ಅರಣ್ಯ ಕ್ಕಿಂತಲೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಹಾಳುಮಾಡುವೆನು; ನಾನೇ ಕರ್ತನೆಂದು ಅವರು ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು.
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
11 Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
13 Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
2 And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.
12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21 And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
23 So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.
36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.