Jeremias 16
1 Og Herrens Ord kom til mig, og han sagde:
Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 Du skal ikke tage dig en Hustru, og du skal ikke have Sønner eller Døtre paa dette Sted.
You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
3 Thi saa siger Herren om de Sønner og om de Døtre, som fødes paa dette Sted, og om deres Mødre, som føde dem, og om deres Fædre, som avle dem i dette Land:
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
4 De skulle dø en Død af svare Sygdomme, de skulle ikke begrædes og ej begraves, de skulle vorde til Møg oven paa Marken; og de skulle udryddes ved Sværdet og ved Hungeren, og deres døde Kroppe skulle blive Himmelens Fugle og Dyrene paa Jorden til Føde.
Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
5 Thi saa siger Herren: Du maa ikke gaa ind i Sørgehus og ikke gaa hen for at holde Klagemaal og ej vise Medynk over dem; thi jeg har borttaget min Fred fra dette Folk, siger Herren, ja, Miskundheden og Barmhjertigheden.
For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.
6 Og de skulle dø, store og smaa i dette Land, de skulle ikke begraves, og man skal ikke holde Klagemaal over dem, og man skal ikke saare sig og ej afrage sit Haar for deres Skyld.
Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:
7 Og man skal ikke bryde Sorgens Brød til dem, for at trøste nogen over en død, og ikke give dem at drikke af Trøstens Bæger, over nogens Fader og over nogens Moder.
No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
8 Og du skal ikke gaa ind i Gæstebuds Hus til at sidde hos dem for at æde og for at drikke.
And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.
9 Thi saa siger den Herre Zebaoth, Israels Gud: Se, jeg lader ophøre fra dette Sted for eders Øjne og i eders Dage Fryds Røst og Glædes Røst, Brudgoms Røst og Bruds Røst.
For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
10 Og det skal ske, naar du forkynder dette Folk alle disse Ord, og de sige til dig: Hvorfor udtaler Herren al denne store Ulykke over os? og hvilken er vor Misgerning, og hvad er vor Synd, som vi have syndet med for Herren vor Gud?
And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
11 da skal du sige til dem: Det er, fordi eders Fædre forlode mig, siger Herren, og gik efter andre Guder og tjente dem og tilbade dem, men mig forlode de, og min Lov holdt de ikke.
Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;
12 Og I have gjort det værre end eders Fædre, og se, I vandre hver efter sit onde Hjertes Stivhed for ikke at ville høre mig.
And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
13 Men jeg vil kaste eder ud af dette Land til et Land, som I ikke kende, hverken I eller eders Fædre; og der skulle I tjene andre Guder Dag og Nat, thi jeg vil ikke give eder Naade.
For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.
14 Derfor se, de Dage komme, siger Herren, at der ikke ydermere skal siges: Saa sandt Herren lever, han, som opførte Israels Børn af Ægyptens Land!
For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.
15 men derimod: Saa sandt Herren lever, han, som førte Israels Børn op af Nordenland og fra alle Landene, hvorhen han havde fordrevet dem! Og jeg vil føre dem tilbage til deres Land, som jeg gav deres Fædre.
But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.
16 Se, jeg sender Bud til mange Fiskere, siger Herren, og de skulle fiske dem; og derefter vil jeg sende Bud til mange Jægere, og de skulle jage dem paa alle Bjerge og paa alle Høje og i Klipperevnerne.
See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 Thi mine Øjne ere over alle deres Veje, de ere ikke skjulte for mit Ansigt, og deres Misgerning er ikke tildækket for mine Øjne.
For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
18 Men jeg vil først betale dem deres Misgerning og deres Synd dobbelt, fordi de vanhelligede mit Land med deres Vederstyggeligheders døde Kroppe og fyldte min Arv med deres Afskyeligheder.
And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
19 Herre, min Styrke og min Befæstning og min Tilflugt paa Nøds Dag! til dig skulle Hedningerne komme fra Jordens Ender og sige: Vore Fædre arvede kun Løgn, Forfængelighed, hvori der intet var, som kunde gavne dem.
O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
20 Mon et Menneske kan gøre sig Guder? de ere dog ikke Guder.
Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?
21 Derfor se, jeg lader dem kende denne Gang, ja, jeg lader dem kende min Haand og min Styrke; og de skulle kende, at mit Navn er Herren.
For this reason, truly, I will make them see, this once I will give them knowledge of my hand and my power; and they will be certain that my name is the Lord.
