1The word of Yehovah came also to me, saying, 2You shall not take a wife for yourself, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place. 3For thus says Yehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: 4They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. 5For thus says Yehovah, Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, nor bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies. 6Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; 7neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 8And you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 9For thus says Yehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. 10And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has Yehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yehovah our God? 11then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have bowed down to them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 12and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you do not hearken to me: 13therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor. 14Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says Yehovah, when it shall no more be said, As Yehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15but, As Yehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers. 16Behold, I will send for many fishers, says Yehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 17For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations. 19O Yehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit. 20Shall a man make gods for himself, which yet are no gods? 21Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Yehovah.