إرْمِيا 24

١ 1 وَبَعْدَمَا سَبَى نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرُ، مَلِكُ بَابِلَ، يَكُنْيَا بْنَ يَهُويَاقِيمَ مَلِكَ يَهُوذَا مَعَ سَائِرِ رُؤَسَاءِ يَهُوذَا، وَالنَّجَّارِينَ وَالْحَدَّادِينَ، مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَأَتَى بِهِمْ إِلَى بَابِلَ، أَرَانِي الرَّبُّ فِي رُؤْيَا سَلَّتَيْ تِينٍ مَوْضُوعَتَيْنِ أَمَامَ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ.

The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes, and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

٢ 2 وَكَانَ فِي إِحْدَى السَّلَّتَيْنِ تِينٌ جَيِّدٌ كَالتِّينِ الْبَاكُورِيِّ، وَفِي الأُخْرَى تِينٌ رَدِيءٌ تَعَافُ النَّفْسُ أَكْلَهُ مِنْ فَرْطِ رَدَاءَتِهِ.

The one basket was [full] of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was [full] of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness.

٣ 3 فَقَالَ لِيَ الرَّبُّ: «مَاذَا تَرَى يَا إِرْمِيَا؟» فَأَجَبْتُ: «تِيناً: الْجَيِّدُ مِنْهُ يَمْتَازُ بِجَوْدَتِهِ، وَالرَّدِيءُ مِنْهُ تَعَافُهُ النَّفْسُ لِفَرْطِ رَدَاءَتِهِ».

And the Lord said to me, What see you, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which can’t be eaten, for their badness.

٤ 4 فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِي:

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

٥ 5 «هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: سَأَعْتَنِي بِالْمَسْبِيِّينَ مِنْ يَهُوذَا الَّذِينَ أَجْلَيْتُهُمْ لِخَيْرِهِمْ عَنْ هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ إِلَى أَرْضِ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ، كَمِثْلِ هَذَا التِّينِ الْجَيِّدِ.

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.

٦ 6 وَسَأَرْعَاهُمْ بِعَيْنَيَّ لِخَيْرِهِمْ، وَأَرُدُّهُمْ إِلَى هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ، وَأَبْنِيهِمْ وَلا أَهْدِمُهُمْ، وَأَغْرِسُهُمْ وَلا أَسْتَأْصِلُهُمْ.

And I will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land for good: and I will build them up, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

٧ 7 وَأَهَبُهُمْ قَلْباً لِيَعْرِفُوا أَنِّي أَنَا الرَّبُّ، فَيَكُونُوا لِي شَعْباً وَأَكُونَ لَهُمْ إِلَهاً، لأَنَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ كُلِّ قُلُوبِهِمْ.

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.

٨ 8 أَمَّا صِدْقِيَّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذَا وَعُظَمَاؤُهُ وَسَائِرُ أَهْلِ أُورُشَلِيمَ الَّذِينَ مَكَثُوا فِي هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَالَّذِينَ نَزَحُوا إِلَى دِيَارِ مِصْرَ، فَإِنِّي أَجْعَلُهُمْ مِثْلَ هَذَا التِّينِ الرَّدِيءِ الَّذِي تَعَافُ النَّفْسُ أَكْلَهُ لِفَرْطِ رَدَاءَتِهِ.

And as the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, for their badness; thus says the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.

٩ 9 وَأُوْقِعُهُمْ فِي الضِّيقِ وَالشَّرِّ فِي جَمِيعِ مَمَالِكِ الأَرْضِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ عَاراً وَعِبْرَةً وَأُحْدُوثَةً وَلَعْنَةً فِي جَمِيعِ الأَمَاكِنِ الَّتِي أُجْلِيهِمْ إِلَيْهَا.

And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of] hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.

١٠ 10 وَأُعَرِّضُهُمْ لِلسَّيْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَالْوَبَاءِ حَتَّى يَفْنَوْا فِي الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لَهُمْ وَلِآبَائِهِمْ».

And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.