إِرْمِيَا 3

١ 1 «قَائِلًا: إِذَا طَلَّقَ رَجُلٌ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ فَٱنْطَلَقَتْ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَصَارَتْ لِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ، فَهَلْ يَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهَا بَعْدُ؟ أَلَا تَتَنَجَّسُ تِلْكَ ٱلْأَرْضُ نَجَاسَةً؟ أَمَّا أَنْتِ فَقَدْ زَنَيْتِ بِأَصْحَابٍ كَثِيرِينَ! لَكِنِ ٱرْجِعِي إِلَيَّ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ.

If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? you you have gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and have returned to me, says the Lord.

٢ 2 اِرْفَعِي عَيْنَيْكِ إِلَى ٱلْهِضَابِ وَٱنْظُرِي، أَيْنَ لَمْ تُضَاجَعِي؟ فِي ٱلطُّرُقَاتِ جَلَسْتِ لَهُمْ كَأَعْرَابِيٍّ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَنَجَّسْتِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِزِنَاكِ وَبِشَرِّكِ.

Lift up your eyes [to look] straight forward, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.

٣ 3 فَٱمْتَنَعَ ٱلْغَيْثُ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ مَطَرٌ مُتَأَخِّرٌ. وَجَبْهَةُ ٱمْرَأَةٍ زَانِيَةٍ كَانَتْ لَكِ. أَبَيْتِ أَنْ تَخْجَلِي.

And you did retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself: you had a whore's face, you did become shameless toward all.

٤ 4 أَلَسْتِ مِنَ ٱلْآنَ تَدْعِينَنِي: يَا أَبِي، أَلِيفُ صِبَايَ أَنْتَ؟

Hast you not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your virgin-time?

٥ 5 هَلْ يَحْقِدُ إِلَى ٱلدَّهْرِ، أَوْ يَحْفَظُ غَضَبَهُ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ؟ هَا قَدْ تَكَلَّمْتِ وَعَمِلْتِ شُرُورًا، وَٱسْتَطَعْتِ!».

Will [God's anger] continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, and had power [to do them].

٦ 6 وَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِي فِي أَيَّامِ يُوشِيَّا ٱلْمَلِكِ: «هَلْ رَأَيْتَ مَا فَعَلَتِ ٱلْعَاصِيَةُ إِسْرَائِيلُ؟ اِنْطَلَقَتْ إِلَى كُلِّ جَبَلٍ عَالٍ، وَإِلَى كُلِّ شَجَرَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ وَزَنَتْ هُنَاكَ.

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast you seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.

٧ 7 فَقُلْتُ بَعْدَ مَا فَعَلَتْ كُلَّ هَذِهِ: ٱرْجِعِي إِلَيَّ. فَلَمْ تَرْجِعْ. فَرَأَتْ أُخْتُهَا ٱلْخَائِنَةُ يَهُوذَا.

And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Juda saw her faithlessness.

٨ 8 فَرَأَيْتُ أَنَّهُ لِأَجْلِ كُلِّ ٱلْأَسْبَابِ إِذْ زَنَتِ ٱلْعَاصِيَةُ إِسْرَائِيلُ فَطَلَّقْتُهَا وَأَعْطَيْتُهَا كِتَابَ طَلَاقِهَا، لَمْ تَخَفِ ٱلْخَائِنَةُ يَهُوذَا أُخْتُهَا، بَلْ مَضَتْ وَزَنَتْ هِيَ أَيْضًا.

And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement, ) yet faithless Juda feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.

٩ 9 وَكَانَ مِنْ هَوَانِ زِنَاهَا أَنَّهَا نَجَّسَتِ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَزَنَتْ مَعَ ٱلْحَجَرِ وَمَعَ ٱلشَّجَرِ.

And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.

١٠ 10 وَفِي كُلِّ هَذَا أَيْضًا لَمْ تَرْجِعْ إِلَيَّ أُخْتُهَا ٱلْخَائِنَةُ يَهُوذَا بِكُلِّ قَلْبِهَا، بَلْ بِٱلْكَذِبِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ».

And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.

١١ 11 فَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِي: «قَدْ بَرَّرَتْ نَفْسَهَا ٱلْعَاصِيَةُ إِسْرَائِيلُ أَكْثَرَ مِنَ ٱلْخَائِنَةِ يَهُوذَا.

And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Juda.

١٢ 12 «اِذْهَبْ وَنَادِ بِهَذِهِ ٱلْكَلِمَاتِ نَحْوَ ٱلشِّمَالِ، وَقُلِ: ٱرْجِعِي أَيَّتُهَا ٱلْعَاصِيَةُ إِسْرَائِيلُ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ. لَا أُوقِعُ غَضَبِي بِكُمْ لِأَنِّي رَؤُوفٌ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ. لَا أَحْقِدُ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ.

Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever.

١٣ 13 اِعْرِفِي فَقَطْ إِثْمَكِ أَنَّكِ إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكِ أَذْنَبْتِ، وَفَرَّقْتِ طُرُقَكِ لِلْغُرَبَاءِ تَحْتَ كُلِّ شَجَرَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ، وَلِصَوْتِي لَمْ تَسْمَعُوا، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ.

Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord.

١٤ 14 اِرْجِعُوا أَيُّهَا ٱلْبَنُونَ ٱلْعُصَاةُ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، لِأَنِّي سُدْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ فَآخُذَكُمْ وَاحِدًا مِنَ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ، وَٱثْنَيْنِ مِنَ ٱلْعَشِيرَةِ، وَآتِي بِكُمْ إِلَى صِهْيَوْنَ،

Turn, you children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:

١٥ 15 وَأُعْطِيكُمْ رُعَاةً حَسَبَ قَلْبِي، فَيَرْعُونَكُمْ بِٱلْمَعْرِفَةِ وَٱلْفَهْمِ.

and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.

١٦ 16 وَيَكُونُ إِذْ تَكْثُرُونَ وَتُثْمِرُونَ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ فِي تِلْكَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَقُولُونَ بَعْدُ: تَابُوتَ عَهْدِ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَلَا يَخْطُرُ عَلَى بَالٍ، وَلَا يَذْكُرُونَهُ وَلَا يَتَعَهَّدُونَهُ وَلَا يُصْنَعُ بَعْدُ.

And it shall come to pass that when you are multiplied and increased upon the land, says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Holy One of Israel: it shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall [this] be done any more.

١٧ 17 فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلزَّمَانِ يُسَمُّونَ أُورُشَلِيمَ كُرْسِيَّ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَيَجْتَمِعُ إِلَيْهَا كُلُّ ٱلْأُمَمِ، إِلَى ٱسْمِ ٱلرَّبِّ، إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَلَا يَذْهَبُونَ بَعْدُ وَرَاءَ عِنَادِ قَلْبِهِمِ ٱلشِّرِّيرِ.

In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.

١٨ 18 فِي تِلْكَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ يَذْهَبُ بَيْتُ يَهُوذَا مَعَ بَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَيَأْتِيَانِ مَعًا مِنْ أَرْضِ ٱلشِّمَالِ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي مَلَّكْتُ آبَاءَكُمْ إِيَّاهَا.

In those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.

١٩ 19 وَأَنَا قُلْتُ: كَيْفَ أَضَعُكِ بَيْنَ ٱلْبَنِينَ، وَأُعْطِيكِ أَرْضًا شَهِيَّةً، مِيرَاثَ مَجْدِ أَمْجَادِ ٱلْأُمَمِ؟ وَقُلْتُ: تَدْعِينَنِي يَا أَبِي، وَمِنْ وَرَائِي لَا تَرْجِعِينَ.

And I said, So be it, Lord, for [you said] I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, You shall call me Father; and you shall not turn away from me.

٢٠ 20 «حَقًّا إِنَّهُ كَمَا تَخُونُ ٱلْمَرْأَةُ قَرِينَهَا، هَكَذَا خُنْتُمُونِي يَا بَيْتَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ».

But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord.

٢١ 21 سُمِعَ صَوْتٌ عَلَى ٱلْهِضَابِ، بُكَاءُ تَضَرُّعَاتِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. لِأَنَّهُمْ عَوَّجُوا طَرِيقَهُمْ. نَسُوا ٱلرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمْ.

A voice from the lips was heard, [even] of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel: for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One.

٢٢ 22 «اِرْجِعُوا أَيُّهَا ٱلْبَنُونَ ٱلْعُصَاةُ فَأَشْفِيَ عِصْيَانَكُمْ». «هَا قَدْ أَتَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ، لِأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُنَا.

Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be your servants; for you are the Lord our God.

٢٣ 23 حَقًّا بَاطِلَةٌ هِيَ ٱلْآكَامُ ثَرْوَةُ ٱلْجِبَالِ. حَقًّا بِٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا خَلَاصُ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

٢٤ 24 وَقَدْ أَكَلَ ٱلْخِزْيُ تَعَبَ آبَائِنَا مُنْذُ صِبَانَا، غَنَمَهُمْ وَبَقَرَهُمْ بَنِيهِمْ وَبَنَاتِهِمْ.

But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.

٢٥ 25 نَضْطَجِعُ فِي خِزْيِنَا وَيُغَطِّينَا خَجَلُنَا، لِأَنَّنَا إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا أَخْطَأْنَا، نَحْنُ وَآبَاؤُنَا مُنْذُ صِبَانَا إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ، وَلَمْ نَسْمَعْ لِصَوْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا».

We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.