إِرْمِيَا 19

١ 1 هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ: «ٱذْهَبْ وَٱشْتَرِ إِبْرِيقَ فَخَّارِيٍّ مِنْ خَزَفٍ، وَخُذْ مِنْ شُيُوخِ ٱلشَّعْبِ وَمِنْ شُيُوخِ ٱلْكَهَنَةِ،

Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;

٢ 2 وَٱخْرُجْ إِلَى وَادِي ٱبْنِ هِنُّومَ ٱلَّذِي عِنْدَ مَدْخَلِ بَابِ ٱلْفَخَّارِ، وَنَادِ هُنَاكَ بِٱلْكَلِمَاتِ ٱلَّتِي أُكَلِّمُكَ بِهَا.

and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.

٣ 3 وَقُلِ: ٱسْمَعُوا كَلِمَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ يَا مُلُوكَ يَهُوذَا وَسُكَّانَ أُورُشَلِيمَ. هَكَذَا قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: هَأَنَذَا جَالِبٌ عَلَى هَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعِ شَرًّا، كُلُّ مَنْ سَمِعَ بِهِ تَطِنُّ أُذْنَاهُ.

Say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.

٤ 4 مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُونِي، وَأَنْكَرُوا هَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعَ وَبَخَّرُوا فِيهِ لِآلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهَا هُمْ وَلَا آبَاؤُهُمْ وَلَا مُلُوكُ يَهُوذَا، وَمَلَأُوا هَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعَ مِنْ دَمِ ٱلْأَزْكِيَاءِ،

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

٥ 5 وَبَنَوْا مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ لِلْبَعْلِ لِيُحْرِقُوا أَوْلَادَهُمْ بِٱلنَّارِ مُحْرَقَاتٍ لِلْبَعْلِ، ٱلَّذِي لَمْ أُوْصِ وَلَا تَكَلَّمْتُ بِهِ وَلَا صَعِدَ عَلَى قَلْبِي.

and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.

٦ 6 لِذَلِكَ هَا أَيَّامٌ تَأْتِي، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، وَلَا يُدْعَى بَعْدُ هَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعُ تُوفَةَ وَلَا وَادِي ٱبْنِ هِنُّومَ، بَلْ وَادِي ٱلْقَتْلِ.

Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.

٧ 7 وَأَنْقُضُ مَشُورَةَ يَهُوذَا وَأُورُشَلِيمَ فِي هَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ يَسْقُطُونَ بِٱلسَّيْفِ أَمَامَ أَعْدَائِهِمْ وَبِيَدِ طَالِبِي نُفُوسِهِمْ، وَأَجْعَلُ جُثَثَهُمْ أُكْلًا لِطُيُورِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَلِوُحُوشِ ٱلْأَرْضِ.

“‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

٨ 8 وَأَجْعَلُ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ لِلدَّهَشِ وَٱلصَّفِيرِ. كُلُّ عَابِرٍ بِهَا يَدْهَشُ وَيَصْفِرُ مِنْ أَجْلِ كُلِّ ضَرَبَاتِهَا.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

٩ 9 وَأُطْعِمُهُمْ لَحْمَ بَنِيهِمْ وَلَحْمَ بَنَاتِهِمْ، فَيَأْكُلُونَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ لَحْمَ صَاحِبِهِ فِي ٱلْحِصَارِ وَٱلضِّيقِ ٱلَّذِي يُضَايِقُهُمْ بِهِ أَعْدَاؤُهُمْ وَطَالِبُو نُفُوسِهِمْ.

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’

١٠ 10 ثُمَّ تَكْسِرُ ٱلْإِبْرِيقَ أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسِيرُونَ مَعَكَ

“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,

١١ 11 وَتَقُولُ لَهُمْ: هَكَذَا قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ: هَكَذَا أَكْسِرُ هَذَا ٱلشَّعْبَ وَهَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ كَمَا يُكْسَرُ وِعَاءُ ٱلْفَخَّارِيِّ بِحَيْثُ لَا يُمْكِنُ جَبْرُهُ بَعْدُ، وَفِي تُوفَةَ يُدْفَنُونَ حَتَّى لَا يَكُونَ مَوْضِعٌ لِلدَّفْنِ.

and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Hosts says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.

١٢ 12 هَكَذَا أَصْنَعُ لِهَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، وَلِسُكَّانِهِ. وَأَجْعَلُ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ مِثْلَ تُوفَةَ.

This is what I will do to this place,” says the LORD, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.

١٣ 13 وَتَكُونُ بُيُوتُ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَبُيُوتُ مُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا كَمَوْضِعِ تُوفَةَ، نَجِسَةً كُلُّ ٱلْبُيُوتِ ٱلَّتِي بَخَّرُوا عَلَى سُطُوحِهَا لِكُلِّ جُنْدِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَسَكَبُوا سَكَائِبَ لِآلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى».

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

١٤ 14 ثُمَّ جَاءَ إِرْمِيَا مِنْ تُوفَةَ ٱلَّتِي أَرْسَلَهُ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَيْهَا لِيَتَنَبَّأَ، وَوَقَفَ فِي دَارِ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَقَالَ لِكُلِّ ٱلشَّعْبِ:

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house, and said to all the people:

١٥ 15 «هَكَذَا قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: هَأَنَذَا جَالِبٌ عَلَى هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ وَعَلَى كُلِّ قُرَاهَا كُلَّ ٱلشَّرِّ ٱلَّذِي تَكَلَّمْتُ بِهِ عَلَيْهَا، لِأَنَّهُمْ صَلَّبُوا رِقَابَهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا لِكَلَامِي».

“The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”