Ezekiel 7
1 ಇದಾದ ಮೇಲೆ ಕರ್ತನ ವಾಕ್ಯವು ನನ್ನ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಬಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೆಂದರೆ--
2 ಮನುಷ್ಯಪುತ್ರನೇ, ದೇವರಾದ ಕರ್ತನು ಇಸ್ರಾ ಯೇಲ್ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಹೀಗೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾನೆ--ಅಂತ್ಯವು ಬಂದಿದೆ; ಈ ದೇಶದ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಮೂಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ಅಂತ್ಯವು ಬಂದಿದೆ.
3 ಈಗ ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೂ ಅಂತ್ಯವು ಬಂದಿದೆ ಮತ್ತು ನನ್ನ ಕೋಪವನ್ನು ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಳುಹಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ; ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನಿನಗೆ ನ್ಯಾಯತೀರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ. ನಿನ್ನ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಮುಯ್ಯಿ ತೀರಿಸುವೆನು.
4 ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಕಟಾಕ್ಷಿಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಕನಿಕರಿಸು ವದೂ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಆದರೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಮುಯ್ಯಿ ತೀರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ, ನಿನ್ನ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳು ನಿನ್ನ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಇರುವವು, ನಾನೇ ಕರ್ತನೆಂದು ನಿನಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯುವದು.
5 ದೇವರಾದ ಕರ್ತನು ಹೀಗೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾನೆ--ಕೇಡು ಒಂದೇ ಒಂದು ಕೇಡು, ಇಗೋ, ಬಂತು.
6 ಅಂತ್ಯವು ಬಂತು. ಅಂತ್ಯವು ಬಂದು ಅದು ನಿನಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಕಾಯುತ್ತಾ ಇದೆ. ಇಗೋ, ಅದು ಬಂತು.
7 ಓ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವವನೇ, ನಿನಗಾಗಿ ಮುಂಜಾನೆ ಬಂತು, ಕಾಲವು ಬಂತು, ತೊಂದರೆಯ ದಿನವು ಹತ್ತಿರವಾಯಿತು ಮತ್ತು ಪರ್ವತಗಳ ಆರ್ಭಟದ ಧ್ವನಿ ಇಲ್ಲ.
8 ಈಗ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಹೊತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಉಗ್ರವನ್ನು ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಸುರಿಯುವೆನು; ನನ್ನ ಕೋಪವನ್ನು ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ತೀರಿಸಿಬಿಡುವೆನು; ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಮುಯ್ಯಿ ತೀರಿಸುವೆನು; ನಿನ್ನ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಮುಯ್ಯಿ ತೀರಿಸುವೆನು.
9 ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣು ಕಟಾಕ್ಷಿಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಕನಿಕರಿಸುವದೂ ಇಲ್ಲ, ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳಿಗೂ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳಿಗೂ ತಕ್ಕದ್ದನ್ನು ನಿನಗೆ ಮುಯ್ಯಿ ತೀರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಆಗ ಕರ್ತನಾದ ನಾನೇ ಹೊಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವನೆಂದು ನಿನಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯುವದು.
10 ಇಗೋ, ಆ ದಿನವು ಬಂತು, ಮುಂಜಾನೆ ಹೊರಟುಹೋಯಿತು. ಕೋಲು ಚಿಗು ರಿತು, ಗರ್ವ ಅರಳಿತು.
11 ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರವು ದುಷ್ಟತ್ವದ ಕೋಲಾಗಿ ಎದ್ದಿತು; ಅವರಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಅವರ ಜನ ಸಮೂಹದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಅವರ ಸಂಪತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಏನೂ ಉಳಿಯುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ಅವರಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಗೋಳಾಟವೂ ಇರುವದಿಲ್ಲ.
12 ಕಾಲವು ಬಂತು, ದಿನವು ಸವಿಾಪ ವಾಯಿತು; ಕೊಂಡುಕೊಳ್ಳುವವನಿಗೆ ಸಂತೋಷವಿಲ್ಲ ದಿರಲಿ, ಮಾರುವವನು ದುಃಖಿಸದಿರಲಿ; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಜನಸಮೂಹದ ಮೇಲೆ ರೌದ್ರವಿದೆ.
13 ಮಾರಿ ದವನು ಇನ್ನೂ ಬದುಕಿದ್ದರೂ ಮಾರಿದ್ದರ ಬಳಿಗೆ ಹಿಂತಿರುಗುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ದರ್ಶನವು ತಿರುಗದ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಜನಸಮೂಹದ ವಿಷಯವಾಗಿದೆ. ಒಬ್ಬರೂ ತಮ್ಮ ಜೀವದ ಅಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಲಗೊಳ್ಳುವದಿಲ್ಲ.
14 ಅವರು ಕಹಳೆಯನ್ನೂದಿ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ಸಿದ್ಧಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ಆದರೆ ಯಾರೂ ಯುದ್ಧಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಜನ ಸಮೂಹದ ಮೇಲೆ ನನ್ನ ಕೋಪವಿದೆ.
15 ಹೊರಗೆ ಕತ್ತಿಯೂ ಒಳಗೆ ವ್ಯಾಧಿಯೂ ಕ್ಷಾಮವೂ ಉಂಟು. ಹೊಲದಲ್ಲಿರುವವನನ್ನು ಕತ್ತಿಯು ಸಾಯಿಸುವದು; ಪಟ್ಟಣದಲ್ಲಿರುವವನನ್ನು ವ್ಯಾಧಿಯೂ ಬರವೂ ತಿಂದು ಬಿಡುವದು.
16 ಆದರೆ ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವವರು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು; ಪ್ರತಿಯೊ ಬ್ಬರೂ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಅಕ್ರಮಗಳ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ಗೋಳಾಡಿ ಕಣಿವೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಪಾರಿವಾಳದ ಹಾಗೆ ಪರ್ವತಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಇರುವರು.
17 ಕೈಗಳೆಲ್ಲಾ ಜೋತಾಡುವವು; ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮೊಣಕಾಲುಗಳು ನೀರಿನ ಹಾಗೆ ನಿತ್ರಾಣವಾಗು ವವು.
18 ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಗೋಣಿತಟ್ಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು ಮತ್ತು ಭಯವು ಅವರನ್ನು ಮುಚ್ಚಿಬಿಡು ವದು; ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮುಖಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ನಾಚಿಕೆಯೂ ಅವರ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ತಲೆಗಳು ಬೋಳಾಗಿಯೂ ಇರುವವು.
19 ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿಯನ್ನು ಬೀದಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಸಾಡುವರು; ಅವರ ಬಂಗಾರವು ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕಲ್ಪಡುವದು, ಅವರ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿ ಬಂಗಾರಗಳು ಕರ್ತನ ಕೋಪದ ದಿವಸದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಲಾರವು ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಪ್ರಾಣಗಳನ್ನು ತೃಪ್ತಿಪಡಿ ಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ. ಅವರ ಕರುಳುಗಳನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ. ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಅದು ಅವರ ಅಕ್ರಮಗಳ ಎಡತಡೆಯ ಭಾಗವಾಗಿದೆ.
20 ಅವನ ಆಭರಣದ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವಾ ದರೋ ಅವನು ಅದನ್ನು ಘನತೆಗಾಗಿ ಇಟ್ಟನು. ಆದರೆ ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಅಸಹ್ಯಗಳ ವಿಗ್ರಹಗಳನ್ನೂ ಹೇಸಿಗೆ ಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಅದನ್ನು ನಾನು ಅವರಿಂದ ದೂರಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
21 ನಾನು ಅದನ್ನು ಅಪರಿಚಿತರ ಕೈಗೆ ಕೊಳ್ಳೆಯಾಗಿಯೂ ಭೂಮಿಯ ದುಷ್ಟರಿಗೆ ಸೂರೆಯಾಗಿಯೂ ಒಪ್ಪಿಸುವೆನು ಮತ್ತು ಅವರು ಅದನ್ನು ಅಪವಿತ್ರಪಡಿಸುವರು.
22 ನನ್ನ ಮುಖವನ್ನು ನಾನು ಅವರ ಕಡೆಯಿಂದ ತಿರುಗಿಸುವೆನು; ನನ್ನ ರಹಸ್ಯ ಸ್ಥಳವನ್ನು ಅಪವಿತ್ರಪಡಿಸುವರು. ದರೋಡೆ ಕೋರರು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಅಪವಿತ್ರ ಪಡಿಸುವರು.
23 ಒಂದು ಸರಪಳಿಯನ್ನು ಮಾಡು; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ದೇಶವು ರಕ್ತಾಪರಾಧದಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಗರವು ಹಿಂಸೆಯಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದೆ.
24 ಆದ ಕಾರಣ ನಾನು ಅನ್ಯಜನಾಂಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಟ್ಟವರನ್ನು ತರುತ್ತೇನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರು ಅವರ ಮನೆಗಳನ್ನು ವಶ ಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು; ನಾನು ಬಲಿಷ್ಠರ ಅಟ್ಟಹಾಸವನ್ನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಪರಿಶುದ್ಧ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳು ಅಪವಿತ್ರವಾಗುವವು.
25 ನಾಶವು ಬರುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರು ಸಮಾಧಾನವನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಾರೆ; ಆದರೆ ಅದು ಇರುವದಿಲ್ಲ.
26 ಕೇಡಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೇಡು ಬರು ವದು; ಸುದ್ದಿಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಬರುವದು. ಆಗ ಅವರು ಪ್ರವಾದಿಯ ದರ್ಶನವನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುವರು. ಆದರೆ ನ್ಯಾಯಪ್ರಮಾಣವು ಯಾಜಕರನ್ನೂ ಆಲೋ ಚನೆಯು ಪೂರ್ವಿಕರನ್ನೂ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ನಾಶವಾಗುವದು.
27 ಅರಸನು ದುಃಖಿಸುವನು, ಪ್ರಧಾನನು ನಿರ್ಗತಿಕನಾ ಗುವನು; ದೇಶದ ಜನರ ಕೈಗಳು ತೊಂದರೆಗೊಳ್ಳು ವವು; ಅವರ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಅವರ ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಮಾಡುವೆನು; ಅವರ ನ್ಯಾಯಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಅವರಿಗೆ ನ್ಯಾಯತೀರಿಸುವೆನು. ನಾನೇ ಕರ್ತನೆಂದು ಅವರಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯುವದು.
1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; 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.