Ezekieli 4

1 “Lakini wewe, mwana wa adamu, chukua tofali wewe mwenyewe na uliweke mbele yako. Kisha chonga mji wa Yerusalemu juu yake.

You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city, even Jerusalem:

2 Kisha laza kuizunguka, ngome juu yake. Anza kushambulia juu yake na weka makambi kuizunguka. Weka shambulio la ghasia kuizunguka.

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

3 Kisha chukua kwa ajili yako mwenyewe sufuria ya chuma na itumie kama ukuta wa chuma kati yako mwenyewe na mji na weka uso wako dhidi yake. Kwa kuwa utazingirwa, na utaweka ukombozi juu yake. Hii itakuwa alama kwa nyumba ya Israeli.

Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Kisha, lala juu upande wako wa kushoto na weka dhambi ya nyumba ya Israeli juu yake; utazibeba dhambi zao kwa hesabu za siku ambazo ulizolala juu ya nyumba ya Israeli.

Lie you also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it you shall bear their iniquity.

5 Mimi mwenyewe nakuagiza kwako siku moja kuwakilisha kila mwaka wa adhabu yao: siku 390! Katika njia hii, utachukua dhambi ya nyumba ya Israeli.

For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 Wakati utakapomaliza hizi siku, kisha lala chini kwa mara ya pili kwa upande wako wa kulia, kwa kuwa utabeba dhambi ya nyumba ya Yuda kwa siku arobaini. Nakuteua wewe siku moja kwa kila mwaka.

And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.

7 Weka uso wako chini kuelekea Yerusalemu ambayo ni chini ya ngome, na kwa mkono wako funua unabii dhidi

Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.

8 yake. Tazama! naweka vifungo juu yako hivyo hutarudi kutoka upande mmoja kwenda upande mwingine hadi utakapoliza siku zako za kuzingirwa kwako.

And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till you have ended the days of your siege.

9 Chukua ngano kwa ajili yako, shayiri, dengu, mtama, kusemethi; viweke kwenye chombo kimoja na tengeneza mkate kwa ajili yako kulingana na hesabu ya siku ambazo utakazo lala katika ya upande wako. Kwa siku 390 utaula.

Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days shall you eat thereof.

10 Chakula utakachokula kitapimwa, shekeli ishirini kwa siku, na utakila kwa mda uliopangwa kila siku.

And your meat which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.

11 Kisha utakunywa maji, kwa kuyapima sehemu ya sita ya hini, na utayanywa kwa mda uliopangwa.

You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shall you drink.

12 Utakila kama keki za shayiri, lakini utaioka kwenye kinyesi kikavu cha mwanadamu mbele ya macho yao!”

And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.

13 Kwa kuwa Yahwe asema, “Hii inamaana kwamba ule mkate ambao watu wa Israeli watakula kitakuwa kinajisi, huko miongoni mwa mataifa ambapo nitakaowafukuza.”

And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

14 Lakini nikasema, “Ee, Bwana Yahwe! Sijawahi kuwa najisi! sijawahi kula kitu chochote ambacho kimekufa au kitu chochote kilichouawa na wanyama, kutoka mdomoni mwangu hadi sasa, wala nyama ya kunuka haijawahi kuingia kinywani mwangu!”

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15 Ndivyo alivvyo niambia, “Tazama! Nimekupa mbolea ya ng'ombe badala ya kinyesi cha mwanadamu ili uweze kuandaa mkate wako juu ya hayo.”

Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith.

16 Pia akanambia, “Mwana wa adamu! Tazama! Nalivunja gongo la mkate katika Yerusalemu, na watakula mkate ukiwa umepimwa katika wasiwasi na kunywa maji kwa kuyapima katika hofu.

Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

17 Kwa sabau watapungukiwa na mkate na maji, kila mtu atafadhaishwa na ndugu yake na kumpoteza kwa sababu ya udhalimu wao.”

That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.