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以西结书 5
Chinese New Version (Traditional)

以色列亡國的象徵

5 “人子啊！你要拿一把利劍，當作理髮匠的剃刀，剃你的頭和刮你的鬍子，把鬚髮放在天平上稱，然後把它們分成幾分。 2 圍困這城的日子滿了，你要拿鬚髮的三分之一在城中用火燒掉，又拿三分之一在城的周圍用刀剁碎，三分之一撒在風中，我還要拔刀追趕它們。 3 你要在這些鬚髮中取幾根，用你的衣角把它們包起來。 4 再從這幾根鬚髮中取一部分投在火裡焚燒；火必從那裡蔓延到以色列全家。” 5 主耶和華這樣說：“這就是耶路撒冷！我曾把她安置在列國中間，萬邦環繞著她。 6 但她違背我的典章，行惡勝過列國；觸犯我的律例，比環繞著她的萬邦更壞。她棄絕我的典章，不遵行我的律例。” 7 主耶和華這樣說：“你們比你們四圍的列國更叛逆，不遵行我的律例，不遵守我的典章，連你們四圍列國的法規你們也不遵守（有些抄本沒有“也不”）。” 8 所以，主耶和華這樣說：“看哪！我要敵對你。我要在你中間，在列國的眼前，施行審判。 9 我要因你一切可憎的事在你中間施行我未曾行過，以後也不會這樣施行的審判。 10 因此，在你中間，父親要吃兒子，兒子要吃父親。我要向你施行審判，把你餘剩的眾人分散到四方去。

瘟疫、饑荒與刀劍的災禍

11 “我指著我的永生起誓（這是主耶和華的宣告），你既然用你一切可憎的偶像和一切可厭的事來玷污我的聖所，我必收回對你的恩寵，我的眼必不顧惜你，我也不憐恤你。 12 你的人民三分之一必在你中間因瘟疫死亡，因饑荒消滅；三分之一必在你周圍因刀劍倒斃；三分之一，我要分散到四方去，我還要拔刀追趕他們。

13 “這樣我的怒氣才可以發盡，我向他們所發的烈怒才可以平息，自己才得到舒暢。我向他們所發的烈怒完全發盡的時候，他們就知道我耶和華說過的話是出於嫉恨的心。 14 我要使你變成荒地，使你在你四圍的列國中和在所有路過的人眼前，成為羞辱的對象。 15 我以怒氣、烈怒和忿怒的責備向你施行審判的時候，你就必在你四圍的列國中成為羞辱、譏諷和令人驚駭的對象，也成了他們的警戒。這是我耶和華說的。 16 我射出饑荒和毀滅的毒箭的時候，是為了毀滅你們。我要使你們的饑荒加劇，斷絕你們糧食的供應。 17 我要差遣饑荒和惡獸到你們那裡去，使你喪掉兒女；在你中間必到處發生瘟疫和流血的事；我也必使刀劍臨到你。這是我耶和華說的。”

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以西结书 5
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

5 “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。”

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Ezekiel 5
New English Translation

5 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor.[a] Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard.[b] Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off. 2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them. 3 But take a few strands of hair[c] from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.[d] 4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire,[e] and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

5 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her. 6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations[f] and the countries around her.[g] Indeed, they[h] have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

7 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant[i] than the nations around you,[j] you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even[k] carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

8 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I—even I—am against you,[l] and I will execute judgment[m] among you while the nations watch.[n] 9 I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.[o] 10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem,[p] and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors[q] to the winds.[r]

11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare[s] you. 12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.[t] A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,[u] and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them. 13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased.[v] Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy[w] when I have fully vented my rage against them.

14 “I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by. 15 You will be[x] an object of scorn and taunting,[y] a prime example of destruction[z] among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury.[aa] I, the Lord, have spoken! 16 I will shoot against them deadly,[ab] destructive[ac] arrows of famine,[ad] which I will shoot to destroy you.[ae] I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.[af] 17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will take your children from you.[ag] Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you,[ah] and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:1 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
  2. Ezekiel 5:1 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
  3. Ezekiel 5:3 tn Heb “from there a few in number.” The word “strands” has been supplied in the translation for clarification.
  4. Ezekiel 5:3 sn Objects could be carried in the end of a garment (Hag 2:12).
  5. Ezekiel 5:4 tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.
  6. Ezekiel 5:6 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3 and Jonah 1:2.
  7. Ezekiel 5:6 tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”
  8. Ezekiel 5:6 sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.
  9. Ezekiel 5:7 tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.
  10. Ezekiel 5:7 sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.
  11. Ezekiel 5:7 tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.
  12. Ezekiel 5:8 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘hinnenî ’êlékâ’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8. The Hebrew text switches to a second feminine singular form here, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed (see vv. 5-6a). The address to Jerusalem continues through v. 15. In vv. 16-17 the second masculine plural is used, as the people are addressed.
  13. Ezekiel 5:8 tn The Hebrew text uses wordplay here to bring out the appropriate nature of God’s judgment. “Execute” translates the same Hebrew verb translated “carried out” (literally meaning “do”) in v. 7, while “judgment” in v. 8 and “regulations” in v. 7 translate the same Hebrew noun (meaning “regulations” or in some cases “judgments” executed on those who break laws). The point seems to be this: God would “carry out judgments” against those who refused to “carry out” his “laws.”
  14. Ezekiel 5:8 tn Heb “in the sight of the nations.”sn This is one of the ironies of the passage. The Lord set Israel among the nations for honor and praise as they would be holy and obey God’s law, as told in Ezek 5:5 and Deut 26:16-19. The practice of these laws and statutes would make the peoples consider Israel wise. (See Deut 4:5-8, where the words for laws and statutes are the same as those used here). Since Israel did not obey, they are made a different kind of object lesson to the nations, not by their obedience but in their punishment, as told in Ezek 5:8 and Deut 29:24-29. Yet Deut 30 goes on to say that when they remember the cursings and blessings of the covenant and repent, God will restore them from the nations to which they have been scattered.
  15. Ezekiel 5:9 tn Or “abominable idols.”
  16. Ezekiel 5:10 tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”sn This cannibalism would occur as a result of starvation due to the city being besieged. It is one of the judgments threatened for a covenant law violation (Lev 26:29; see also Deut 28:53; Jer 19:9; Lam 2:20; Zech 11:9).
  17. Ezekiel 5:10 tn Heb “all of your survivors.”
  18. Ezekiel 5:10 tn Heb “to every wind.”
  19. Ezekiel 5:11 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
  20. Ezekiel 5:12 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.
  21. Ezekiel 5:12 sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.
  22. Ezekiel 5:13 tn Or “calm myself.”
  23. Ezekiel 5:13 tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage, this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.
  24. Ezekiel 5:15 tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read:“it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.
  25. Ezekiel 5:15 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).
  26. Ezekiel 5:15 tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).
  27. Ezekiel 5:15 tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.
  28. Ezekiel 5:16 tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious” but has the nuance “deadly” when used of weapons (see Ps 144:10).
  29. Ezekiel 5:16 tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”
  30. Ezekiel 5:16 tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.
  31. Ezekiel 5:16 tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).
  32. Ezekiel 5:16 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.
  33. Ezekiel 5:17 tn Heb “will bereave you.”
  34. Ezekiel 5:17 tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.
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