Raudas par Jeruzālemi
1 Ja man dotu tuksnesī ceļinieku būdu,
tad es pamestu savu tautu
un no tiem aizietu,
jo tie visi ir
laulības pārkāpēji
un krāpnieku pulks!
2 “Tie trin savas mēles
kā loka dzīslu,
runā melus, ne patiesību,
šai zemē tie vareni,
jo no ļauna uz ļaunu tie iet
un mani tie nepazīst,”
saka Kungs.
3 “Ik vīrs lai sargās no kaimiņa
un neuzticas pat brālim,
jo brālis krāpj brāli
un kaimiņš baumodams staigā.
4 Ik vīrs savu tuvāko viļ,
neviens nerunā patiesību,
savai mēlei tie iemācījuši runāt melus,
bez mitas tie nopūlas grēkos.
5 Jūs tupat māņos
un liedzaties mani pazīt!”
saka Kungs.
6 Tādēļ tā saka Pulku Kungs:
“Redzi, es kausēdams viņus pārbaudīšu!
Ko citu lai manai tautmeitai daru?
7 Kā izasināta bulta
viņu mēle melš māņus,
ar muti tie runā uz tuvāko mieru,
bet sirdī tam lamatas taisa.
8 Vai tādēļ lai tos atstāju mierā? –
saka Kungs,
vai tādai tautai
lai es neatriebju pats?”
9 Pār kalniem es celšu
raudas un žēlabu dziesmu
un pār tuksneša ganībām – vaimanas,
jo tās tā pārpelnotas,
ka ne cauri iziet,
nedzird pat lopus maujam,
debesu putni un zvēri –
visi pamukuši!
10 “Es pataisīšu Jeruzālemi
par drupām un šakāļu midzeni,
Jūdas pilsētas pārvērtīšu par izpostījumu,
kur neviens nemīt.”
11 Kurš ir tik gudrs, ka var to saprast? Uz ko lai runā Kunga mute? Kam viņš lai stāsta par to –
kādēļ nopostīta zeme
un pārpelnota kā tuksnesis,
ka ne cauri iziet?
12 Kungs teica: “Tādēļ ka tie atmetuši manu bauslību, ko es tiem devu, un manai balsij nav klausījuši, ko es teicu, nav darījuši, 13 bet no savas sirds stūrgalvības skrējuši pakaļ baāliem, kā viņu tēvi tiem mācījuši, 14 redzi, tādēļ es, saka Pulku Kungs, Israēla Dievs, barošu šo tautu ar vērmelēm un ar indes ūdeni dzirdīšu! 15 Es viņus izkaisīšu starp tautām, kuras nepazīst ne viņi, ne viņu tēvi, un es trenkšu tiem pakaļ zobenu, līdz tos piebeigšu!”
16 Tā saka Pulku Kungs:
“Jēdzieties, sauciet pēc gaudotājām,
sūtiet pēc gudrām sievām,
17 lai tās steidz šurp
un sāk par mums žēlu dziesmu,
lai mūsu acis pierit asarām,
lai mūsu plaksti ūdeni pārplūst!
18 Jo no Ciānas dzird
žēlu dziesmu:
kā mēs izpostīti, kā apkaunoti –
jo pametām zemi,
jo mūs iztrieca no mūsu mājokļiem!”
19 Klausieties, sievas, Kunga vārdus,
ņemieties ausīm viņa mutes vārdus
un māciet savām meitām žēlu dziesmu
un vaimanas viena otrai!
20 “Nāve pa logu iekāpusi,
mūsu pilīs ienākusi,
bērnus no ielām nopļāvusi
un no laukumiem – jaunekļus.”
21 Runā: “Tā saka Kungs:
ļaužu līķi kritīs kā mēsli pār lauku,
kā salmi pēc ražas vācēja –
tos vairs nesavāks!
22 Tā saka Kungs:
lai gudrais nelīksmo savā gudrībā,
lai varonis nelīksmo savā varonībā,
lai bagātais nelīksmo savā bagātībā!
23 Kas grib līksmot,
lai līksmo par to,
ka protas un pazīst mani,
jo es esmu Kungs,
es dodu zemei
žēlastību, tiesu un taisnību,
jo tas viss man tīk,
saka Kungs.
24 Redzi, nāk dienas, saka Kungs, kad es pārmācīšu visus, kas apgraizīti, bet neapgraizīti! 25 Ēģipti, Jūdu un Edomu un Amona dēlus un Moābu, un tos, kam matiem apgriezta mala, kuri tuksnesī mīt, – jo visas tautas ir neapgraizītas un viss Israēls neapgraizītu sirdi!”
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 ¶ Shall I not visit them for these things ? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12 ¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women , that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them .
23 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
