إرْمِيا 6

١ 1 «لُوذُوا بِالْنَّجَاةِ يَا ذُرِّيَّةَ بِنْيَامِينَ، وَاهْرُبُوا مِنْ وَسَطِ أُورُشَلِيمَ. انْفُخُوا بِالْبُوقِ فِي تَقُوعَ، وَأَشْعِلُوا عَلَمَ نَارٍ عَلَى بَيْتِ هَكَّارِيمَ، لأَنَّ الشَّرَّ قَدْ أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الشِّمَالِ لِيَعِيثَ فِي الأَرْضِ خَرَاباً.

Take your goods into safety, ye sons of Benjamin out of the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa, blow ye a horn, And on Beth-haccherem, raise a fire-signal, —For calamity, hath looked out from the North, Even a great destruction.

٢ 2 هَا أَنَا أُهْلِكُ أُورُشَلِيمَ الْجَمِيلَةَ الْمُتْرَفَةَ ابْنَةَ صِهْيَوْنَ،

To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:

٣ 3 فَيَحُلُّ بِها الرُّعَاةُ مَعَ قُطْعَانِهِمْ، وَيَضْرِبُونَ حَوْلَهَا خِيَامَهُمْ، وَيَرْعَى كُلٌّ مِنْهُمْ حَيْثُ نَزَلَ.

Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.

٤ 4 أَعِدُّوا عَلَيْهَا حَرْباً. قُومُوا نُهَاجِمُهَا عِنْدَ الظَّهِيرَةِ. وَيْلٌ لَنَا فَقَدْ مَالَ النَّهَارُ وَانْتَشَرَتْ ظِلالُ الْمَسَاءِ.

Hallow ye against her a war, Arise! and let us go up in broad noon. Woe to us, for the day, hath turned, for the shadows of evening, stretch along.

٥ 5 هُبُّوا لِنَهْجُمَ فِي اللَّيْلِ وَنَهْدِمَ قُصُورَهَا».

Arise! and let us go up in the night, And let us destroy her palaces.

٦ 6 لأَنَّ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ: «اقْطَعُوا الشَّجَرَ، وَأَقِيمُوا مِتْرَسَةً حَوْلَ أُورُشَلِيمَ، إِذْ يَجِبُ أَنْ تُعَاقَبَ هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةُ، لأَنَّ دَاخِلَهَا مُفْعَمٌ بِالظُّلْمِ.

For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Cut ye down timber, And cast up, against Jerusalem a mound, —That, is the city to be punished! There is, nothing, but oppression in her midst;

٧ 7 وَكَمَا تُنْبِعُ الْعَيْنُ مِيَاهَهَا كَذَلِكَ هِيَ تُنْبِعُ شَرَّهَا. يَتَرَدَّدُ فِي أَرْجَائِهَا الظُّلْمُ وَيَعُمُّهَا السَّلْبُ، وَأَمَامِي دَائِماً مَرَضٌ وَبَلايَا.

Like the casting forth by a well of its waters, So, hath she cast forth her wickedness, —Violence and destruction, are heard in her, Before my face, continually, are suffering and smiting.

٨ 8 فَاحْذَرِي يَا أُورُشَلِيمُ لِئَلَّا أَجْفُوَكِ وَأَجْعَلَكِ مُوْحِشَةً وَأَرْضاً مَهْجُورَةً».

Receive thou correction O Jerusalem, Lest my soul be torn from thee, —Lest I make thee A desolation, A land not habitable.

٩ 9 وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ: «لِيَجْمَعُوا بِدِقَّةٍ لِقَاطَ بَقِيَّةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ كَمَا يَجْمَعُونَ لِقَاطَ كَرْمَةٍ. رُدَّ يَدَكَ إِلَى الأَغْصَانِ ثَانِيَةً كَلاقِطِ الْعِنَبِ».

Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel—Turn back thy hand, as a grape gatherer over the tendrils.

١٠ 10 لِمَنْ أَتَحَدَّثُ وَأُنْذِرُ حَتَّى يَسْمَعُوا؟ انْظُرْ! إِنَّ آذَانَهُمْ صَمَّاءُ فَلا يَسْمَعُونَ، وَكَلِمَةَ الرَّبِّ مَثَارُ خِزْيٍ لَهُمْ فَلا يُسَرُّونَ بِها.

Unto whom, can I speak—and bear witness, that they may hear? Lo! uncircumcised, is their ear, that they cannot attend, —Lo! the word of Yahweh, hath become to them a reproach, they take no delight therein.

١١ 11 لِذَلِكَ امْتَلَأْتُ مِنْ سَخَطِ الرَّبِّ وَأَعْيَانِي كَبْتُهُ. «أَسْكُبُهُ عَلَى الأَوْلادِ فِي الطَّرِيقِ وَعَلَى الشُّبَّانِ الْمُجْتَمِعِينَ فِي مَجَالِسِهِمْ، فَيُصِيبُ الرَّجُلَ وَزَوْجَتَهُ وَالشَّيْخَ وَالطَّاعِنَ فِي السِّنِّ.

So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and upon the circle of young men, together, —For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days;

١٢ 12 وَتَتَحَوَّلُ بُيُوتُهُمْ وَحقُولُهُمْ لآخَرِينَ، وَكَذَلِكَ نِسَاؤُهُمْ، لأَنِّي أَبْسُطُ يَدِي ضِدَّ سُكَّانِ الأَرْضِ» يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ

And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together, —For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, Declareth Yahweh.

١٣ 13 «لأَنَّهُمْ جَمِيعاً، صِغَارَهُمْ وَكِبَارَهُمْ، مُوْلَعُونَ بالرِّبْحِ الْحَرَامِ. حَتَّى النَّبِيُّ وَالْكَاهِنُ يَرْتَكِبَانِ الزُّورَ فِي أَعْمَالِهِمَا.

For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed, —And from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely;

١٤ 14 يُعَالِجُونَ جِرَاحَ شَعْبِي بِاسْتِخْفَافٍ قَائِلِينَ:’سَلامٌ، سَلامٌ.‘فِي حِينِ لَا يُوْجَدُ سَلامٌ.

And so they have healed the grievous wound of my people, slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, when there was no peace,

١٥ 15 هَلْ خَجِلُوا لأَنَّهُمُ اقْتَرَفُوا الرِّجْسَ؟ كَلا! لَمْ يَخْزَوْا قَطُّ وَلَمْ يَعْرِفُوا الْخَجَلَ، لِذَلِكَ سَيَسْقُطُونَ بَيْنَ السَّاقِطِينَ، وَحِينَ أُعَاقِبُهُمْ يُطَوَّحُ بِهِمْ».

Were they led to turn pale because an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.

١٦ 16 وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: «قِفُوا فِي الطُّرُقَاتِ وَانْظُرُوا، وَاسْأَلُوا عَنِ الْمَسَالِكِ الصَّالِحَةِ الْقَدِيمَةِ وَاطْرُقُوهَا، فَتَجِدُوا رَاحَةً لِنُفُوسِكُمْ. وَلَكِنَّكُمْ قُلْتُمْ:’لَنْ نَسِيرَ فِيهَا.‘

Thus saith Yahweh—Stand ye at the ways—and see, And ask for the paths of age-past times, Where is the good way? And walk therein, And ye shall find rest to your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein]!

١٧ 17 فَأَقَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ رُقَبَاءَ قَائِلاً: اسْمَعُوا دَوِيَّ الْبُوقِ. وَلَكِنَّكُمْ قُلْتُمْ:’لَنْ نَسْمَعَ!‘

Therefore will I raise up over you, watchmen, Give ye heed to the sound of a horn, —But they said, We will not give heed!

١٨ 18 لِذَلِكَ اسْمَعُوا أَيُّهَا الأُمَمُ، وَاعْلَمِي أَيَّتُهَا الْجَمَاعَةُ مَاذَا يَحُلُّ بِهِمْ.

Therefore, hear O ye nations, —And take knowledge O assembly, Of that which befalleth them:

١٩ 19 اسْمَعِي أَيَّتُهَا الأَرْضُ وَانْظُرِي، لأَنِّي جَالِبٌ شَرّاً عَلَى هَذَا الشَّعْبِ عِقَاباً لَهُمْ عَلَى أَفْكَارِهِمِ الأَثِيمَةِ، لأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا كَلِمَاتِي وَتَنَكَّرُوا لِشَرِيعَتِي.

Hear thou—O earth, Lo! I, am bringing in Calamity against this people the fruit of their own devices, —For unto my words, have they not given heed, And as for my law, they have rejected it.

٢٠ 20 لأَيِّ غَرَضٍ يَصْعَدُ إِلَيَّ الْبَخُورُ مِنْ شَبَا، وَقَصَبُ الطِّيبِ مِنْ أَرْضٍ نَائِيَةٍ؟ مُحْرَقَاتُكُمْ مَرْفُوضَةٌ، وَتَقْدِمَاتُكُمْ لَا تَسُرُّنِي».

What then is it to me that—Frankincense from Shebah come in, or Sweet cane from a land afar off? Your own ascending-offerings, are not acceptable, Nor are, your sacrifices, pleasing to me.

٢١ 21 لِذَلِكَ يُعْلِنُ الرَّبُّ: «هَا أَنَا أُقِيمُ لِهَذَا الشَّعْبِ مَعَاثِرَ يَتَعَثَّرُ بِها الآبَاءُ وَالأَبْنَاءُ مَعاً، وَيَهْلِكُ بِها الْجَارُ وَصَدِيقُهُ».

Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! laying before this people, stumblingblocks, —And fathers and sons together, shall stumble against them, The neighbour and his friend, shall perish.

٢٢ 22 «انْظُرُوا، هَا شَعْبٌ زَاحِفٌ مِنَ الشِّمَالِ، وَأُمَّةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ تَهُبُّ مِنْ أَقَاصِي الأَرْضِ،

Thus, saith Yahweh, Lo! a people coming in from the land of the North, —Yea a great nation, shall be stirred up out of the remote parts of the earth:

٢٣ 23 تَسَلَّحَتْ بِالْقَوْسِ وَالرُّمْحِ، وَهِيَ قَاسِيَةٌ لَا تَرْحَمُ. جَلَبَتُهَا كَهَدِيرِ الْبَحْرِ وَهِيَ مُقْبِلَةٌ عَلَى صَهَوَاتِ الْخَيْلِ. قَدِ اصْطَفَّتْ كَإِنْسَانٍ وَاحِدٍ لِمُحَارَبَتِكِ يَا أُورُشَلِيمُ».

Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, is he! So they will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And on horses, will they ride, —Arrayed each one, like a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Zion!

٢٤ 24 سَمِعْنَا أَخْبَارَهُمُ الْمُرْعِبَةَ فَدَبَّ الضَّعْفُ فِي أَيْدِينَا، وَتَوَلّانَا كَرْبٌ وَأَلَمٌ كَأَلَمِ امْرَأَةٍ تُعَانِي مِنَ الْمَخَاضِ.

We have heard the report thereof, Relaxed are our hands, —Anguish, hath taken hold on us, Pangs, as on her that is giving birth.

٢٥ 25 لَا تَخْرُجُوا إِلَى الْحَقْلِ وَلا تَمْشُوا فِي الطَّرِيقِ، فَلِلْعَدُوِّ سَيْفٌ، وَالْهَوْلُ مُحْدِقٌ مِنْ كُلِّ جِهَةٍ.

Do not go out into the field, And in the road, do not walk, -Because a sword, hath the foe, —Terror round about!

٢٦ 26 فَيَا أُورُشَلِيمُ ارْتَدِي الْمُسُوحَ وَتَمَرَّغِي فِي الرَّمَادِ، وَنُوحِي كَمَنْ يَنُوحُ عَلَى وَحِيدِهِ، وَانْتَحِبِي نَحِيباً مُرّاً، لأَنَّ الْمُدَمِّرَ يَنْقَضُّ عَلَيْنَا فَجْأَةً.

O daughter of my people Gird thee with sackcloth and roll thyself in ashes, —The mourning for an only son, make thou for thyself, Most bitter lamentation! For suddenly, shall the destroyer come upon us.

٢٧ 27 «إِنِّي أَقَمْتُكَ مُمْتَحِناً لِلْمَعْدِنِ، وَجَعَلْتُ شَعْبِي مَادَّةَ خَامٍ لِكَيْ تَعْرِفَ طُرُقَهُمْ وَتَفْحَصَهَا.

An assayer, have I set thee amongst my people, of gold-ore, —That thou mayest note and try their way:

٢٨ 28 فَكُلُّهُمْ عُصَاةٌ مُتَمَرِّدُونَ سَاعُونَ فِي النَّمِيمَةِ. هُمْ نُحَاسٌ وَحَدِيدٌ وَكُلُّهُمْ فَاسِدُونَ.

They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander-walkers [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!

٢٩ 29 لَشَدَّ مَا تُضْرِمُ رِيحُ المِنْفَاخِ الشَّدِيدَةُ النَّارَ فَتَلْتَهِمُ الرَّصَاصَ وَلَكِنْ كَمَا يَتَعَذَّرُ تَنْقِيَتُهُ مِنَ الزَّغَلِ كَذَلِكَ يَتَعَذَّرُ فَصْلُ الأَشْرَارِ.

Scorched are the bellows, By fire, is lead wont to be, consumed, —In vain, hath he gone on refining, For the wicked, have not been drawn out:

٣٠ 30 وَهُمْ يُدْعَوْنَ حُثَالَةَ الْفِضَّةِ الْمَرْذُولَةِ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ رَفَضَهُمْ».

Rejected silver, are they called, For, Yahweh, hath rejected them.