1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of Man, you dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.

3You, therefore, OH Son of Man, prepare you all necessaries for removing, and remove by day in their sight: and you shall remove out of your place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for they are a provoking house.

4And you shall bring forth your furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and you shall go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goes forth that removeth his dwelling.

5Dig you a way through the wall before their eyes: and you shall go forth through it.

6In their sight you shall be carried out upon men's shoulders, you shall be carried out in the dark: you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground: for I have set you for a sign of things to come to the people of Israel.

7I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my goods by day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in the evening I digged through the wall with my hand: and I went forth in the dark, and was carried on men's shoulders in their sight.

8And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying:

9Son of Man, has not the people of Israel, the provoking house, said to you: What art you doing?

10Say to them: Thus says the Lord God: This burden concerneth my leader that is in Jerusalem, and all the people of Israel, that are among them.

11Say: I am a sign of things to come to you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them: they shall be removed from their dwellings, and go into captivity.

12And the leader that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.

56Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his teachings.

57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

58They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

59God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

61And he rescued their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

62And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his gift.