Ezekiel 5 – NIRV & CCB

New International Reader’s Version

Ezekiel 5:1-17

God’s Judgment Will Be Like a Barber’s Razor

1“Son of man, get a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor. Shave your head and beard with it. Then get a set of scales and weigh the hair. Separate it into three piles. 2Burn up a third of the hair inside the city. Do this when you stop attacking the model of Jerusalem. Next, get another third of the hair. Strike it with a sword all around the city. Then scatter the last third to the winds. That is because I will chase the people with a sword that is ready to strike them down. 3But save a few hairs. Tuck them away in the clothes you are wearing. 4Next, get a few more hairs. Throw them into the fire. Burn them up. The fire will spread to all the people of Israel.”

5The Lord and King says, “What you do with the hair stands for what I will do with Jerusalem’s people. I have placed that city in the center of the nations. Countries are all around it. 6But its people are sinful. They have refused to obey my laws and rules. They have turned their backs on my laws. They have not followed my rules. These people are worse than the nations and countries around them.”

7The Lord and King continues, “You people have been worse than the nations around you. You have not lived by my rules or kept my laws. You have not even lived up to the standards of the nations around you.”

8The Lord and King continues, “Jerusalem, I myself am against you. I will punish you in the sight of the nations. 9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. That is because you worship statues of gods. I hate them. 10So parents will eat their own children inside the city. And children will eat their parents. I will punish you. And I will scatter to the winds anyone who is left alive. 11You have made my temple ‘unclean.’ You have set up statues of all your evil gods. You have done other things I hate. So I will cut you off just like Ezekiel cut off his hair. I will not spare you or feel sorry for you. And that is just as sure as I am alive,” announces the Lord and King. 12A third of your people will die of the plague inside your walls. Or they will die of hunger there. Another third will be killed by swords outside your walls. And I will scatter the last third of your people to the winds. I will chase them with a sword that is ready to strike them down.

13“Then I will not be angry anymore. My great anger against them will die down. And I will be satisfied. Then they will know that I have spoken with strong feelings. And my great anger toward them will come to an end. I am the Lord.

14“I will destroy you. I will bring shame on you in the sight of the nations around you. All those who pass by will see it. 15You will be put to shame. The nations will make fun of you. You will serve as a warning to others. They will be shocked when they see you. So I will punish you because I am very angry with you. You will feel the sting of my warning. I have spoken. I am the Lord. 16I will shoot at you with my deadly, destroying arrows of hunger. I will shoot to kill. I will bring more and more hunger on you. I will cut off your food supply. 17I will send hunger and wild animals against you. They will destroy all your children. Plague and murder will sweep over you. And I will send swords to kill you. I have spoken. I am the Lord.”

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

以西结书 5:1-17

1“人子啊,去拿一把快刀当作剃头刀,剃掉你的头发和胡须,然后用天平把须发平均分成三份。 2围城期满后,你要把三分之一的须发焚烧在城中,三分之一在城的四周用刀砍断,三分之一要扬在风中吹散,因为我要拔刀追杀他们。 3你要从须发中取出几缕用衣服包上, 4再从中取出几根丢在火里焚烧,必有火从这里燃起,蔓延到整个以色列。”

5主耶和华说:“这就是耶路撒冷!我把她安置在万邦的中央,使列国环绕着她。 6但她违背我的典章,作恶甚于列邦,触犯我的律例甚于她周围的列国。他们拒绝我的典章,不遵守我的律例。” 7所以主耶和华说:“你们比周围的国家更混乱不堪,你们没有遵行我的律例,不谨守我的典章,连周围的国家都不如。” 8因此主耶和华这样说:“看啊,我要对付你们,我必在列国面前审判你们。 9因为你们一切的恶行,我必向你们施行空前绝后的惩罚。 10在你们中间,父亲要吃自己的儿子,儿子要吃自己的父亲。我必惩罚你们,把你们余下的人分散到各地各方。” 11主耶和华说:“因为你们用一切可憎的偶像和恶行玷污我的圣所,我凭我的永恒起誓,我必毫不留情地铲除你们。 12你们三分之一的人要死于饥荒瘟疫,三分之一的人要死于刀下,我必把其余的三分之一分散到各地各方,并拔刀追杀他们。 13这样,我对你们的怒气才会发完,我才会息怒。我把烈怒倾倒在你们身上的时候,你们就会知道我耶和华的话是出于痛恨不贞。 14我必使你们的家园在周围的列国中,在路人眼前成为荒凉之地,使你们饱受羞辱。 15当我在气愤和烈怒中严厉地审判你们时,你们在各国必受羞辱和嘲讽,成为警戒,下场可怕。这是我耶和华说的。 16我要向你们射出饥荒的毒箭,破坏和毁灭你们,并且使饥荒越来越严重,断绝你们的粮源。 17我必让饥荒和猛兽来侵害你们,夺走你们的儿女,使你们饱受瘟疫、暴行和刀剑之灾,这是我耶和华说的。”