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, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the LORD’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from 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.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

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

Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten.”

٤ 4 فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِي:

The LORD’s word 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.

“The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Kasdim, as good.

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

For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. 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.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole 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.

“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the LORD says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

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

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.

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

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”