יחזקאל 16
| ויהי דבר יהוה אלי לאמר׃ | 1 |
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
| בן אדם הודע את ירושלם את תועבתיה׃ | 2 |
Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,
| ואמרת כה אמר אדני יהוה לירושלם מכרתיך ומלדתיך מארץ הכנעני אביך האמרי ואמך חתית׃ | 3 |
And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.
| ומולדותיך ביום הולדת אתך לא כרת שרך ובמים לא רחצת למשעי והמלח לא המלחת והחתל לא חתלת׃ | 4 |
As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.
| לא חסה עליך עין לעשות לך אחת מאלה לחמלה עליך ותשלכי אל פני השדה בגעל נפשך ביום הלדת אתך׃ | 5 |
No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.
| ואעבר עליך ואראך מתבוססת בדמיך ואמר לך בדמיך חיי ואמר לך בדמיך חיי׃ | 6 |
And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;
| רבבה כצמח השדה נתתיך ותרבי ותגדלי ותבאי בעדי עדיים שדים נכנו ושערך צמח ואת ערם ועריה׃ | 7 |
And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.
| ואעבר עליך ואראך והנה עתך עת דדים ואפרש כנפי עליך ואכסה ערותך ואשבע לך ואבוא בברית אתך נאם אדני יהוה ותהיי לי׃ | 8 |
Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
| וארחצך במים ואשטף דמיך מעליך ואסכך בשמן׃ | 9 |
Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.
| ואלבישך רקמה ואנעלך תחש ואחבשך בשש ואכסך משי׃ | 10 |
And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.
| ואעדך עדי ואתנה צמידים על ידיך ורביד על גרונך׃ | 11 |
And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.
| ואתן נזם על אפך ועגילים על אזניך ועטרת תפארת בראשך׃ | 12 |
And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
| ותעדי זהב וכסף ומלבושך ששי ומשי ורקמה סלת ודבש ושמן אכלתי ותיפי במאד מאד ותצלחי למלוכה׃ | 13 |
So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.
| ויצא לך שם בגוים ביפיך כי כליל הוא בהדרי אשר שמתי עליך נאם אדני יהוה׃ | 14 |
You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.
| ותבטחי ביפיך ותזני על שמך ותשפכי את תזנותיך על כל עובר לו יהי׃ | 15 |
But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.
| ותקחי מבגדיך ותעשי לך במות טלאות ותזני עליהם לא באות ולא יהיה׃ | 16 |
And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.
| ותקחי כלי תפארתך מזהבי ומכספי אשר נתתי לך ותעשי לך צלמי זכר ותזני בם׃ | 17 |
And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;
| ותקחי את בגדי רקמתך ותכסים ושמני וקטרתי נתתי לפניהם׃ | 18 |
And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.
| ולחמי אשר נתתי לך סלת ושמן ודבש האכלתיך ונתתיהו לפניהם לריח ניחח ויהי נאם אדני יהוה׃ | 19 |
And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.
| ותקחי את בניך ואת בנותיך אשר ילדת לי ותזבחים להם לאכול המעט מתזנתך׃ | 20 |
And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,
| ותשחטי את בני ותתנים בהעביר אותם להם׃ | 21 |
That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?
| ואת כל תועבתיך ותזנתיך לא זכרתי את ימי נעוריך בהיותך ערם ועריה מתבוססת בדמך היית׃ | 22 |
And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.
| ויהי אחרי כל רעתך אוי אוי לך נאם אדני יהוה׃ | 23 |
And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,
| ותבני לך גב ותעשי לך רמה בכל רחוב׃ | 24 |
That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.
| אל כל ראש דרך בנית רמתך ותתעבי את יפיך ותפשקי את רגליך לכל עובר ותרבי את תזנתך׃ | 25 |
You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
| ותזני אל בני מצרים שכניך גדלי בשר ותרבי את תזנתך להכעיסני׃ | 26 |
And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.
| והנה נטיתי ידי עליך ואגרע חקך ואתנך בנפש שנאותיך בנות פלשתים הנכלמות מדרכך זמה׃ | 27 |
Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.
| ותזני אל בני אשור מבלתי שבעתך ותזנים וגם לא שבעת׃ | 28 |
And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.
| ותרבי את תזנותך אל ארץ כנען כשדימה וגם בזאת לא שבעת׃ | 29 |
And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.
| מה אמלה לבתך נאם אדני יהוה בעשותך את כל אלה מעשה אשה זונה שלטת׃ | 30 |
How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;
| בבנותיך גבך בראש כל דרך ורמתך עשיתי בכל רחוב ולא הייתי כזונה לקלס אתנן׃ | 31 |
For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.
| האשה המנאפת תחת אישה תקח את זרים׃ | 32 |
The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
| לכל זנות יתנו נדה ואת נתת את נדניך לכל מאהביך ותשחדי אותם לבוא אליך מסביב בתזנותיך׃ | 33 |
They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.
| ויהי בך הפך מן הנשים בתזנותיך ואחריך לא זונה ובתתך אתנן ואתנן לא נתן לך ותהי להפך׃ | 34 |
And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.
| לכן זונה שמעי דבר יהוה׃ | 35 |
For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:
| כה אמר אדני יהוה יען השפך נחשתך ותגלה ערותך בתזנותיך על מאהביך ועל כל גלולי תועבותיך וכדמי בניך אשר נתת להם׃ | 36 |
This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;
| לכן הנני מקבץ את כל מאהביך אשר ערבת עליהם ואת כל אשר אהבת על כל אשר שנאת וקבצתי אתם עליך מסביב וגליתי ערותך אלהם וראו את כל ערותך׃ | 37 |
For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame.
| ושפטתיך משפטי נאפות ושפכת דם ונתתיך דם חמה וקנאה׃ | 38 |
And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.
| ונתתי אותך בידם והרסו גבך ונתצו רמתיך והפשיטו אותך בגדיך ולקחו כלי תפארתך והניחוך עירם ועריה׃ | 39 |
I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.
| והעלו עליך קהל ורגמו אותך באבן ובתקוך בחרבותם׃ | 40 |
And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.
| ושרפו בתיך באש ועשו בך שפטים לעיני נשים רבות והשבתיך מזונה וגם אתנן לא תתני עוד׃ | 41 |
And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.
| והנחתי חמתי בך וסרה קנאתי ממך ושקטתי ולא אכעס עוד׃ | 42 |
And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.
| יען אשר לא זכרתי את ימי נעוריך ותרגזי לי בכל אלה וגם אני הא דרכך בראש נתתי נאם אדני יהוה ולא עשיתי את הזמה על כל תועבתיך׃ | 43 |
Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.
| הנה כל המשל עליך ימשל לאמר כאמה בתה׃ | 44 |
See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.
| בת אמך את געלת אישה ובניה ואחות אחותך את אשר געלו אנשיהן ובניהן אמכן חתית ואביכן אמרי׃ | 45 |
You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
| ואחותך הגדולה שמרון היא ובנותיה היושבת על שמאולך ואחותך הקטנה ממך היושבת מימינך סדם ובנותיה׃ | 46 |
Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
| ולא בדרכיהן הלכת ובתועבותיהן עשיתי כמעט קט ותשחתי מהן בכל דרכיך׃ | 47 |
Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.
| חי אני נאם אדני יהוה אם עשתה סדם אחותך היא ובנותיה כאשר עשית את ובנותיך׃ | 48 |
By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.
| הנה זה היה עון סדם אחותך גאון שבעת לחם ושלות השקט היה לה ולבנותיה ויד עני ואביון לא החזיקה׃ | 49 |
Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.
| ותגבהינה ותעשינה תועבה לפני ואסיר אתהן כאשר ראיתי׃ | 50 |
They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.
| ושמרון כחצי חטאתיך לא חטאה ותרבי את תועבותיך מהנה ותצדקי את אחותך בכל תועבתיך אשר עשיתי׃ | 51 |
And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.
| גם את שאי כלמתך אשר פללת לאחותך בחטאתיך אשר התעבת מהן תצדקנה ממך וגם את בושי ושאי כלמתך בצדקתך אחיותך׃ | 52 |
And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through your sins, which are more disgusting than theirs, they are more upright than you: truly, you will be shamed and made low, for you have made your sisters seem upright.
| ושבתי את שבותהן את שבית סדם ובנותיה ואת שבית שמרון ובנותיה ושבית שביתיך בתוכהנה׃ | 53 |
And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria and her daughters, and your fate with theirs.
| למען תשאי כלמתך ונכלמת מכל אשר עשית בנחמך אתן׃ | 54 |
So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.
| ואחותיך סדם ובנותיה תשבן לקדמתן ושמרון ובנותיה תשבן לקדמתן ואת ובנותיך תשבינה לקדמתכן׃ | 55 |
And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go back to their first condition, and Samaria and her daughters will go back to their first condition, and you and your daughters will go back to your first condition.
| ולוא היתה סדם אחותך לשמועה בפיך ביום גאוניך׃ | 56 |
Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride,
| בטרם תגלה רעתך כמו עת חרפת בנות ארם וכל סביבותיה בנות פלשתים השאטות אותך מסביב׃ | 57 |
Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.
| את זמתך ואת תועבותיך את נשאתים נאם יהוה׃ | 58 |
The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.
| כי כה אמר אדני יהוה ועשית אותך כאשר עשית אשר בזית אלה להפר ברית׃ | 59 |
For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.
| וזכרתי אני את בריתי אותך בימי נעוריך והקמותי לך ברית עולם׃ | 60 |
But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.
| וזכרת את דרכיך ונכלמת בקחתך את אחותיך הגדלות ממך אל הקטנות ממך ונתתי אתהן לך לבנות ולא מבריתך׃ | 61 |
Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement.
| והקימותי אני את בריתי אתך וידעת כי אני יהוה׃ | 62 |
And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:
| למען תזכרי ובשת ולא יהיה לך עוד פתחון פה מפני כלמתך בכפרי לך לכל אשר עשית נאם אדני יהוה׃ | 63 |
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
