Yeremiya 24
1 Nebukadinezara, mfumu ya ku Babuloni anatenga ukapolo Yekoniya mwana wa Yehoyakimu mfumu ya ku Yuda pamodzi ndi nduna zake, anthu aluso ndi akatswiri a ku Yuda ndi kupita nawo ku Babuloni. Pambuyo pake Yehova anandionetsa madengu awiri a nkhuyu atayikidwa pa khomo pa Nyumba ya Yehova.
[The army of] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all his skilled workers [DOU] and took them to Babylon. After that happened, Yahweh gave me a vision. [In the vision] I saw two baskets of figs that had been placed in front of the temple.
2 Mʼdengu limodzi munali nkhuyu zabwino kwambiri, ngati nkhuyu zoyambirira kucha. Mʼdengu linalo munali nkhuyu zoyipa kwambiri zosati nʼkudya.
One basket was full of good figs, like the kind that ripen first. The other basket was filled with figs that were bad/rotten, with the result that they could not be eaten.
3 Yehova anandifunsa kuti, “Yeremiya, kodi ukuona chiyani?” Ndinayankha kuti, “Ndikuona nkhuyu zabwino kwambiri ndi nkhuyu zoyipa zosati nʼkudya.”
Then Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I replied, “[I see some] figs. Some are very good ones, but some are very bad, with the result that no one would eat them.”
4 Tsono Yehova anandiwuza kuti,
Then Yahweh gave me this message:
5 “Ine Yehova, Mulungu wa Israeli ndikuti, ‘Anthu a ku Yuda amene ndinawachotsa ku malo ano nʼkupita nawo ku ukapolo ku dziko la Ababuloni ndikuwafanizira ndi nkhuyu zabwinozi.
“This is what [I], Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli people [say that they worship], say: ‘The good figs represent [SIM] the people of Judah whom I exiled to Babylonia.
6 Ndidzaonetsesa kuti ndiwachitire zabwino ndipo ndidzabwera nawonso ku dziko lino. Ndidzawamanga osati kuwapasula; ndidzawadzala osati kuwazula.
I [SYN] will (watch over/take care of) them well, and [some day] I will bring them back here [to Judah]. I will establish them and cause them to be strong. I will cause them to be prosperous [MET], and I will not exile them [again].
7 Ndidzawapatsa mtima woti andidziwe kuti ndine Yehova. Adzakhala anthu anga ndipo Ine ndidzakhala Mulungu wawo, chifukwa adzabwerera kwa Ine ndi mtima wawo wonse.
I will enable them to desire to know [IDM] that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me sincerely.’
8 “‘Koma monga nkhuyu zoyipa zija, zomwe ndi zoyipa kwambiri zosati nʼkudya,’ Yehova akuti, ‘ndi mmene ndidzalangire Zedekiya mfumu ya ku Yuda, nduna zake pamodzi ndi otsala a mu Yerusalemu, kaya adzakhala ali mʼdziko muno kapena mʼdziko la Igupto.
But [I], Yahweh, [also] say, ‘The bad figs represent [SIM] Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all the [other] people who remain in Jerusalem, and those who have gone to Egypt. I will do to them like people do to rotten figs.
9 Ndidzawasandutsa chinthu chonyansa kwa maufumu onse a dziko lapansi, chinthu chonyozeka ndi chopandapake, chinthu chochitidwa chipongwe ndi chotembereredwa kulikonse kumene ndidzawabalalitsira.
I will [get rid of them], with the result that people in every nation on the earth will be horrified, and will hate them because they are evil people. Wherever I scatter them, people will make fun of them, and say that they are disgraced, and ridicule them, and curse them.
10 Ndidzawatumizira nkhondo, njala ndi mliri mpaka atawonongedwa mʼdziko limene ndinawapatsa iwo ndi makolo awo.’”
And I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases, until they have disappeared from this land which I gave to them and to their ancestors.’”
