God’s Razor of Judgment
1“Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair. 2When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword. 3But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment. 4Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.
5“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.
7“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even5:7 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac You have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.
8“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations. 9Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. 10Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds. 11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you. 12A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.
13“Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.
14“I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the Lord have spoken. 16When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food. 17I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.”
Upanga Dhidi Ya Yerusalemu
15:1 Law 21:5; Isa 7:20; Eze 44:20; Hes 6:5; 2Sam 10:14“Mwanadamu, sasa chukua upanga mkali na uutumie kama wembe wa kinyozi ili kunyolea nywele za kichwa chako na ndevu zako. Kisha uchukue mizani ya kupimia ukazigawanye nywele hizo. 25:2 Law 26:33; Yer 39:1-2; Zek 13:8; Yer 21:10; Eze 15:7; Yer 13:24; 9:16Wakati siku zako za kuzingirwa zitakapokwisha, choma theluthi moja ya hizo nywele zako kwa moto ndani ya mji. Chukua theluthi nyingine ya hizo nywele uzipige kwa upanga kuuzunguka mji wote na theluthi nyingine ya mwisho utaitawanya kwa upepo. Kwa kuwa nitawafuatia kwa upanga uliofutwa. 35:3 Yer 40:6; 39:10; 2Fal 25:12; Za 74:11Lakini chukua nywele chache uzifungie ndani ya pindo la vazi lako. 45:4 Eze 10:7; 15:7Tena chukua nywele nyingine chache uzitupe motoni uziteketeze. Moto utaenea kutoka humo na kufika katika nyumba yote ya Israeli.
55:5 Kum 4:6; Mao 1:1; Eze 16:14“Hili ndilo Bwana Mwenyezi asemalo: Huu ndio Yerusalemu ambao nimeuweka katikati ya mataifa ukiwa umezungukwa na nchi pande zote. 65:6 Neh 9:17; Zek 7:11; Rum 1:25; Eze 16:16; 2Fal 17:15; Yer 11:10Lakini katika uovu wake umeasi sheria na amri zangu kuliko mataifa na nchi zinazouzunguka. Umeasi sheria zangu wala haukufuata amri zangu.
75:7 2Fal 21:9; 2Nya 33:9; Yer 2:10-11“Kwa hiyo hili ndilo Bwana Mwenyezi asemalo: Ninyi mmekuwa wakaidi kuliko mataifa yanayowazunguka na hamkufuata amri zangu wala kuzishika sheria zangu. Wala hamkuweza hata kuzifuata kawaida za mataifa yanayowazunguka.
85:8 Yer 21:5; Zek 14:2; Yer 24:9; Eze 11:9; 15:7“Kwa hiyo, hili ndilo Bwana Mwenyezi asemalo, Mimi mwenyewe, niko kinyume nanyi Yerusalemu, nitawapiga kwa adhabu yangu mbele ya mataifa. 95:9 Dan 9:12; Amo 3:2; Mt 24:21Kwa ajili ya sanamu zenu zote za machukizo, nitawafanyia kile ambacho kamwe sijawafanyia kabla wala kamwe sitawafanyia tena. 105:10 Law 26:29; Mao 2:20; Yer 13:14; Zek 2:6; Za 44:11; Eze 12:14Kwa hiyo katikati yenu baba watakula watoto wao na watoto watakula baba zao. Nitawapiga kwa adhabu, nami nitawatawanya watu wenu walionusurika pande zote za dunia. 115:11 Eze 7:20; 8:6; 2Nya 36:14; Eze 11:18-21; Yer 16:18; Ay 27:22; Hes 14:21; Law 15:2; 15:31; Mao 2:17Kwa hiyo hakika kama niishivyo, asema Bwana Mwenyezi, kwa kuwa mmenajisi mahali pangu patakatifu kwa sanamu zenu mbaya sana na desturi zenu za machukizo, mimi mwenyewe nitaondoa fadhili zangu kwenu. 125:12 Ufu 6:8; Za 107:39; Eze 12:14; Zek 13:8; Eze 6:11-12; Yer 21:9; 13:24Theluthi ya watu wako watakufa kwa tauni au kwa njaa humu ndani yako, theluthi nyingine itaanguka kwa upanga nje ya kuta zako, nayo theluthi nyingine nitaitawanya kwenye pande nne kuwafuatia kwa upanga uliofutwa.
135:13 2Nya 12:7; Ay 20:23; Isa 1:24; Mao 4:11; Eze 21:17; 24:13; Hos 10:10“Ndipo hasira yangu itakapokoma na ghadhabu yangu dhidi yao itatulia, nami nitakuwa nimelipiza kisasi. Baada ya kuimaliza ghadhabu yangu juu yao, watajua kuwa mimi Bwana nimenena katika wivu wangu.
145:14 Mik 3:12; Isa 64:11; Neh 2:17; Za 74:3-10; Eze 22:4; Dan 9:16“Nitakuangamiza na kukufanya kitu cha kudharauliwa miongoni mwa mataifa yanayokuzunguka, machoni pa watu wote wapitao karibu nawe. 155:15 Kum 28:20; 1Fal 9:7; Yer 23:40; Eze 25:17; Mao 2:15; Isa 43:28; Yer 22:8-9Utakuwa kitu cha kudharauliwa na cha aibu, cha dhihaka, ovyo na kitu cha kutisha kwa mataifa yanayokuzunguka, nitakapokupiga kwa adhabu yangu katika hasira na ghadhabu yangu kwa kukukemea kwa ukali. Mimi Bwana nimesema. 165:16 Law 26:26; Kum 32:24; Eze 14:21Nitakapokupiga kwa mishale yangu ya kufisha na yenye kuharibu ya njaa, nitaipiga ili kukuangamiza. Nitaleta njaa zaidi na zaidi juu yako na kukomesha upatikanaji wa chakula kwako. 175:17 Eze 38:23; Law 26:25; Eze 28:22Nitapeleka njaa na wanyama wa mwituni dhidi yenu, navyo vitawaacha bila watoto. Tauni na umwagaji wa damu utapita katikati yenu, nami nitaleta upanga juu yenu. Mimi Bwana nimenena haya.”
