إرْمِيا 3

١ 1 قِيلَ: إِنْ طَلَّقَ رَجُلٌ زَوْجَتَهُ فَانْصَرَفَتْ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ، وَتَزَوَّجَتْ بِآخَرَ، فَهَلْ يَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهَا زَوْجُهَا الأَوَّلُ؟ أَلا تَتَدَنَّسُ تِلْكَ الزَّوْجَةُ أَشَدَّ تَدَنُّسٍ؟ أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا شَعْبَ اللهِ فَقَدْ زَنَيْتَ مَعَ عُشَّاقٍ كَثِيرِينَ، فَهَلَّا تَرْجِعُ إِلَيَّ؟ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?”

٢ 2 ارْفَعِي عَيْنَيْكِ إِلَى الْهِضَابِ وَتَأَمَّلِي، أَهُنَاكَ مَكَانٌ لَمْ تُضَاجِعِي (أَيْ لَمْ تَعْبُدِي فِيهِ الأَوْثَانَ)؟ قَدْ جَلَسْتِ لَهُمْ عَلَى قَارِعَةِ الطَّرِيقِ كَالأَعْرَابِيِّ فِي الْبَادِيَةِ وَدَنَّسْتِ الأَرْضَ بِزِنَاكِ وَعَهَارَتِكِ.

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

٣ 3 لِذَلِكَ امْتَنَعَ عَنْكِ الْغَيْثُ، وَلَمْ تَهْطِلْ أَمْطَارُ الرَّبِيعِ، وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ صَارَتْ لَكِ جَبْهَةُ زَانِيَةٍ تَأْبَى أَنْ تَخْجَلَ.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

٤ 4 أَلَمْ تَدْعِينِي الآنَ قَائِلَةً: يَا أَبِي، أَنْتَ رَفِيقُ صِبَايَ؟

Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

٥ 5 أَيَظَلُّ غَاضِباً دَائِماً؟ أَيَبْقَى سَاخِطاً إِلَى الأَبَدِ؟ انْظُرِي، هَذَا مَا نَطَقْتِ بِهِ، وَلَكِنَّكِ ارْتَكَبْتِ كُلَّ مَا اسْتَطَعْتِ مِنْ شَرٍّ».

Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

٦ 6 وَقَالَ لِيَ الرَّبُّ فِي أَيَّامِ حُكْمِ الْمَلِكِ يُوشِيَّا: «هَلْ شَاهَدْتَ مَا فَعَلَتِ الْخَائِنَةُ إِسْرَائِيلُ؟ كَيْفَ صَعِدَتْ إِلَى كُلِّ أَكَمَةٍ عَالِيَةٍ، وَتَحْتَ كُلِّ شَجَرَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ وَزَنَتْ هُنَاكَ (أَيْ عَبَدَتِ الأَوْثَانَ)؟

Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

٧ 7 وَقُلْتُ بَعْدَ أَنِ ارْتَكَبَتْ كُلَّ هَذِهِ الْمُوبِقَاتِ، إِنَّهَا سَتَرْجِعُ إِلَيَّ، وَلَكِنَّهَا لَمْ تَرْجِعْ. وَشَهِدَتْ هَذَا أُخْتُهَا الْغَادِرَةُ يَهُوذَا،

I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

٨ 8 وَرَأَتْ أَنِّي أَرْسَلْتُ كِتَابَ طَلاقٍ إِلَى الْغَادِرَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِعَهْرِهَا فَلَمْ تَفْزَعْ أُخْتُهَا الْخَائِنَةُ يَهُوذَا بَلْ مَضَتْ هِيَ أَيْضاً وَزَنَتْ (أَيْ عَبَدَتِ الأَوْثَانَ).

She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

٩ 9 وَلأَنَّهَا اسْتَهَانَتْ بِالزِّنَى، فَقَدْ نَجَّسَتِ الأَرْضَ وَارْتَكَبَتِ الْفُجُورَ (أَيْ عَبَدَتِ الأَوْثَانَ) مَعَ الْحَجَرِ وَمَعَ الشَّجَرِ.

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

١٠ 10 وَمَعَ هَذَا كُلِّهِ لَمْ تَرْجِعْ إِلَيَّ أُخْتُهَا الْخَائِنَةُ يَهُوذَا مِنْ كُلِّ قَلْبِهَا، إِنَّمَا تَظَاهَرَتْ بِذَلِكَ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

١١ 11 وَقَالَ لِيَ الرَّبُّ: «إِنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ الْخَائِنَةَ قَدْ بَرَّرَتْ نَفْسَهَا أَكْثَرَ مِنَ الْخَائِنَةِ يَهُوذَا.

And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

١٢ 12 فَاذْهَبْ وَأَعْلِنْ هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتِ نَحْوَ الشِّمَالِ وَقُلْ: ارْجِعِي أَيَّتُهَا الْخَائِنَةُ إِسْرَائِيلُ، فَأَكُفَّ غَضَبِي عَنْكُمْ لأَنِّي رَحِيمٌ، وَلَنْ أَسْخَطَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.

١٣ 13 إِنَّمَا اعْتَرِفِي بِإِثْمِكِ وَأَقِرِّي أَنَّكِ قَدْ تَمَرَّدْتِ عَلَى الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكِ، وَأَغْدَقْتِ غَرَامَكِ عَلَى الْغُرَبَاءِ تَحْتَ كُلِّ شَجَرَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ، وَأَنَّكِ أَبَيْتِ طَاعَةَ صَوْتِي.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’”

١٤ 14 فَارْجِعُوا أَيُّهَا الأَبْنَاءُ الْغَادِرُونَ، لأَنِّي أَنَا سَيِّدُكُمْ، فَآخُذَكُمْ وَاحِداً مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَاثْنَيْنِ مِنَ الْعَشِيرَةِ وَآتِيَ بِكُمْ إِلَى صِهْيَوْنَ،

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

١٥ 15 وَأُقِيمَ عَلَيْكُمْ رُعَاةً يَحْظَوْنَ بِرِضَى قَلْبِي، فَيَرْعَوْنَكُمْ بِالْمَعْرِفَةِ وَالْفِطْنَةِ.

Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

١٦ 16 وَحِينَ تَكْثُرُونَ وَتَمْلأُونَ الأَرْضَ، فَإِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَسْأَلُوا بَعْدُ عَنْ تَابُوتِ عَهْدِ الرَّبِّ وَلَنْ يَخْطُرَ بِبَالِكُمْ وَلَنْ تَذْكُرُوهُ، وَلَنْ تَفْتَقِدُوهُ أَوْ تَسْعَوْا لِصُنْعِهِ ثَانِيَةً.

“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

١٧ 17 وَيَدْعُونَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْحِينِ مَدِينَةَ أُورُشَلِيمَ كُرْسِيَّ الرَّبِّ، وَتَجْتَمِعُ إِلَيْهَا كُلُّ الأُمَمِ لِلْمُثُولِ فِي حَضْرَةِ الرَّبِّ، وَلَنْ يَضِلُّوا وَرَاءَ عِنَادِ قُلُوبِهِمِ الشِّرِّيرَةِ.

At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

١٨ 18 وَتَنْضَمُّ فِي تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ ذُرِّيَّةُ يَهُوذَا إِلَى ذُرِّيَّةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيَأْتُونَ مَعاً مِنْ أَرْضِ الشِّمَالِ إِلَى الدِّيَارِ الَّتِي أَوْرَثْتُهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ.

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

١٩ 19 وَلَكِنِّي قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: لَشَدَّ مَا يُسْعِدُنِي أَنْ أُقِيمَكِ بَيْنَ الأَبْنَاءِ وَأُوَرِّثَكِ أَرْضاً شَهِيَّةً هِيَ أَجْمَلُ مِيرَاثٍ بَيْنَ الأُمَمِ. وَفَكَّرْتُ أَنَّكِ تَدْعِينَنِي يَا أَبِي، وَلَنْ تَرْتَدِّي عَنِ اتِّبَاعِي.

Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

٢٠ 20 حَقّاً يَا ذُرِّيَّةَ يَعْقُوبَ، قَدْ كُنْتُمْ غَيْرَ أُمَنَاءَ لِي، مِثْلَ زَوْجَةٍ غَادِرَةٍ تَخَلَّتْ عَنْ زَوْجِهَا».

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,”

٢١ 21 تَرَدَّدَ صَوْتٌ فِي الْمَسَامِعِ مِنْ عَلَى الْهِضَابِ الْمُرْتَفِعَةِ، هُوَ بُكَاءُ وَابْتِهَالُ أَبْنَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ لأَنَّهُمْ حَرَّفُوا طَرِيقَهُمْ، وَنَسُوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمْ.

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

٢٢ 22 «فَارْجِعُوا أَيُّهَا الأَبْنَاءُ الْمُرْتَدُّونَ فَأَشْفِيَ ارْتِدَادَكُمْ». وَيَقُولُونَ: «هَا نَحْنُ نُقْبِلُ إِلَيْكَ لأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُنَا.

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

٢٣ 23 حَقّاً إِنَّ عِبَادَةَ الأَصْنَامِ عَلَى التِّلالِ وَمُمَارَسَةَ الطُّقُوسِ الْوَثَنِيَّةِ عَلَى الْجِبَالِ لَا جَدْوَى مِنْهَا. إِنَّمَا بِالرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا خَلاصُ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

٢٤ 24 لَقَدِ الْتَهَمَ خِزْيُ الأَوْثَانِ تَعَبَ آبَائِنَا مُنْذُ صِبَانَا، وَافْتَرَسَ غَنَمَهُمْ وَبَقَرَهُمْ وَأَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَبَنَاتِهِمْ.

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

٢٥ 25 فَلْنَنْطَرِحْ فِي خِزْيِنَا، وَلْيَغْمُرْنَا عَارُنَا لأَنَّنَا أَخْطَأْنَا فِي حَقِّ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا، نَحْنُ وَآبَاؤُنَا مُنْذُ صِبَانَا حَتَّى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، وَلَمْ نُطِعْ صَوْتَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا».

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”