Ezekiel 9

1 ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ಆತನು ಮಹಾಶಬ್ದದಿಂದ ನನ್ನ ಕಿವಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಗಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನಂದರೆ-- ಪಟ್ಟಣದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಚಾರಣೆ ಹೊಂದಿದ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರೂ ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಾಶಮಾಡುವ ಆಯುಧಗಳನ್ನು ಹಿಡಿದು ಕೊಂಡು ಸವಿಾಪಕ್ಕೆ ಬನ್ನಿರಿ ಅಂದಾಗ

2 ಇಗೋ, ಆರು ಮಂದಿ ಮನುಷ್ಯರು ಉತ್ತರ ದಿಕ್ಕಿನ ಮೇಲ್ಭಾಗದ ಆ ಮಾರ್ಗದಿಂದ ಬಂದರು ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರತಿ ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಲ್ಲುವ ಆಯುಧವು ಇತ್ತು; ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬನು ನಾರುಮಡಿಯನ್ನು ಧರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ತನ್ನ ಪಕ್ಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಲೇಖಕನ ದೌತಿಯನ್ನು ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿ ದ್ದನು. ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಕಂಚಿನ ಯಜ್ಞವೇದಿಯ ಬಳಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂತರು.

3 ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲಿನ ದೇವರ ಮಹಿ ಮೆಯು ಯಾವದರ ಮೇಲಿತ್ತೋ ಆ ಕೆರೂಬಿಯನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಮನೆಯ ಹೊಸ್ತಿಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಯಿತು; ತನ್ನ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಲೇಖಕನ ದೌತಿ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಆ ನಾರುಮಡಿಯನ್ನು ಧರಿಸಿದ್ದ ಆ ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಕೂಗಿ

4 ಕರ್ತನು ಅವನಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನಂದರೆ--ಯೆರೂ ಸಲೇಮಿನ ಪಟ್ಟಣದ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಹಾದುಹೋಗಿ ಅವರ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ನಡೆಯುವ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಅಸಹ್ಯವಾದವುಗಳ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ನಿಟ್ಟುಸಿರು ಬಿಡುತ್ತಾ ಅಳುತ್ತಿರುವವರೆಲ್ಲರ ಹಣೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಗುರುತು ಹಾಕು ಅಂದನು.

5 ಅದನ್ನು ನಾನು ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗ ಇತರರಿಗೆ ಅವನು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನಂದರೆ --ನೀವೂ ಅವನ ಹಿಂದೆ ಪಟ್ಟಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾದು ಹೋಗಿ ಹೊಡೆಯಿರಿ; ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳು ಕನಿಕರಿಸದೆ ಇರಲಿ, ಕಟಾಕ್ಷಿಸದೆಯೂ ಇರಲಿ.

6 ವೃದ್ಧ ಯುವಕ ಯುವತಿ ಯರನ್ನು ಎಳೆಕೂಸುಗಳನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ಹೆಂಗಸರನ್ನು ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಕೊಂದುಹಾಕಿರಿ. ಆದರೆ ಗುರುತು ಯಾವನ ಮೇಲೆ ಇದೆಯೋ ಅವನ ಹತ್ತಿರ ಹೋಗ ಬೇಡಿರಿ; ನನ್ನ ಪರಿಶುದ್ಧ ಸ್ಥಳದಿಂದಲೇ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿರಿ ಅಂದಾಗ, ಅವರು ಆಲಯದ ಮುಂದಿದ್ದ ಹಿರಿಯರಿಂದ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು.

7 ಆತನು ಅವರಿಗೆ--ಆಲಯವನ್ನು ಅಶುದ್ಧ ಮಾಡಿರಿ, ಹತರಾದವರಿಂದ ಅಂಗಳಗಳನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿಸಿ, ಹೊರಡಿರಿ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದನು. ಅವರು ಹೊರಟು ನಗರದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದವರನ್ನು ಹತಮಾಡಿದರು.

8 ಅವರು ಹತಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗ ನಾನು ಬಿಡಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟೆನು. ಆಗ ನಾನು ಮೋರೆ ಕೆಳಗಾಗಿ ಬಿದ್ದು ಕೂಗಿ--ಹಾ, ದೇವರಾದ ಕರ್ತನೇ, ನೀನು ಯೆರೂಸಲೇಮಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಕೋಪಾಗ್ನಿಯನ್ನು ಸುರಿಯುವದರಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಇಸ್ರಾ ಯೇಲ್ಯರಲ್ಲಿ ಉಳಿದವರನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ನಾಶಮಾಡುವಿಯಾ ಎಂದೆನು.

9 ಆಗ ಆತನು ನನಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನಂದರೆಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲಿನ ಮತ್ತು ಯೆಹೂದ ಮನೆತನದವರ ಅಕ್ರಮವು ಅತಿ ದೊಡ್ಡದಾಗಿದೆ; ದೇಶವು ರಕ್ತದಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದೆ; ಪಟ್ಟಣವು ವಕ್ರತ್ವದಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದೆ; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಕರ್ತನು ಭೂಮಿಯನ್ನು ತೊರೆದುಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾನೆ; ಕರ್ತನು ನೋಡುವದಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಅವರು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.

10 ಆದದರಿಂದ ನಾನಂತೂ ಕನಿಕರಿಸುವದೂ ಇಲ್ಲ ಕಟಾಕ್ಷಿಸುವದೂ ಇಲ್ಲ ಆದರೆ ಅವರ ಮಾರ್ಗದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಅವರ ತಲೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಮುಯ್ಯಿತೀರಿಸುವೆನು ಅಂದನು.

11 ಇಗೋ, ನಾರುಮಡಿಯನ್ನು ತನ್ನ ಪಕ್ಕೆ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಧರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಂಥ ಆ ಮನುಷ್ಯನು ವರ್ತಮಾನ ವನ್ನು ತಂದು ನೀನು ಆಜ್ಞಾಪಿಸಿದ ಹಾಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಅಂದನು.

1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;

4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

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.