Jeremias 19
1 Saa sagde Herren: Gak hen og køb en Pottemagerkrukke, og tag med dig nogle af de Ældste for Folket og af de Ældste for Præsterne,
This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go and buy a clay jar from a man who makes them. Then take with you some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests.
2 og gak ud til Ben-Hinnoms Dal, som er uden for Solporten, og udraab der de Ord, som jeg vil tale til dig.
Go out [of the city] past the Gate of Broken Pots, to the place [overlooking the dump for broken pottery in] the Ben-Hinnom Valley. Then give them a message.
3 Og du skal sige: Hører Herrens Ord, Judas Konger, og Jerusalems Indbyggere! saa siger den Herre Zebaoth, Israels Gud: Se, jeg lader komme Ulykke over dette Sted, saa at det skal runge for hvers Øren, som hører det,
Say to them, ‘[This message is for] you kings of Judah and [other] people of Jerusalem. Listen to what Yahweh is saying! The Commander of the armies of angels says that he will cause there to be a terrible disaster in [Jerusalem]. Those who hear about it will be stunned/shocked [IDM].
4 fordi de forlode mig og gjorde dette Sted fremmed og gjorde Røgelse der for andre Guder, hvilke de og deres Fædre og Judas Konger ikke havde kendt, og fordi de have fyldt dette Sted med de uskyldiges Blod
[That will happen] because [you Israeli] people have stopped worshiping me, and have caused this place to be a place where [you worship] foreign gods. You burn sacrifices to gods that neither you nor your ancestors nor [even] the kings of Judah ever heard about. And you have filled this place with the blood of innocent people [whom you have killed].
5 og have bygget Baals Høje for at opbrænde deres Sønner med Ild, til Brændofre for Baal; hvilket jeg ikke havde budt og ikke talt om, og som ikke var kommet mig i Tanke.
You have built shrines to honor [your god] Baal, and at those shrines you have [killed] your own children and offered them to be sacrifices to Baal. I never commanded you to do that, I never spoke about doing that, I never even thought about anyone doing that.
6 Derfor se, de Dage komme, siger Herren, da man ikke mere skal kalde dette Sted Tofeth, eller Ben-Hinnoms Dal, men Morderdal.
So, beware, [because I, ] Yahweh, say that there will be a time when this garbage dump will no longer be called Topheth or Ben-Hinnom Valley; it will be called Slaughter Valley.
7 Og jeg vil udtømme Judas og Jerusalems Raad paa dette Sted og lade dem falde ved Sværdet for deres Fjenders Ansigt og i deres Haand, som søge efter deres Liv; og jeg vil give Himmelens Fugle og Dyrene paa Jorden deres døde Kroppe til Føde.
In this place I will ruin the plans of [you people who live in] Jerusalem and in [other places in] Judah. I will allow your enemies who want to kill you to kill [many of] you with their swords. [Then] I will allow your corpses to remain on the ground to be food for vultures and wild animals.
8 Og jeg vil gøre denne Stad til Gru og til Spot; hver som gaar forbi den, skal grue og spotte over alle dens Plager.
I will [completely destroy] Jerusalem and cause it to become a heap of ruins that people will despise. All the people who pass by will be appalled, and they will be shocked when they see that the city has been destroyed.
9 Og jeg vil lade dem æde deres Sønners Kød og deres Døtres Kød, og de skulle æde hver sin Næstes Kød, i den Belejring og Trængsel, med hvilken deres Fjender og de, som søge efter deres Liv, skulle trænge dem.
I will enable your enemies who want to kill you to surround the city for a long time. [Then the food will be all gone, and you people will be extremely hungry, with the result that] you people in the city will eat the flesh of your own children and your neighbors’ children.’
10 Og du skal sønderslaa Krukken for de Mænds Øjne, som gik med dig.
[Jeremiah, after you tell that to them], while the people who are with you are watching, smash the jar [that you brought].
11 Og du skal sige til dem: Saa siger den Herre Zebaoth: Saaledes vil jeg sønderslaa dette Folk og denne Stad, som man sønderslaar et Pottemagerkar, som ikke kan heles mere; og de skulle begrave i Tofeth af Mangel paa Plads til at begrave.
Then say to them, ‘This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Just like this jar has been smashed and cannot be repaired, I will smash this city of Jerusalem and other places in Judah. You will bury some of your corpses here in this dump, until there is no more space to bury any more corpses.
12 Saaledes vil jeg handle med dette Sted, siger Herren, og med dets Indbyggere; og det for at gøre denne Stad som Tofeth.
That is what I will do to this city and to you people who live here. I will cause this city to be desecrated, like [King Josiah caused Topheth to be] a place that was unfit for people to worship me there.
13 Og Jerusalems Huse og Judas Kongers Huse skulle vorde som det Sted Tofeth, da de ere urene; ja alle de Huse, hvor de gjorde Røgelse paa Tagene til al Himmelens Hær og udøste Drikofre for andre Guder.
The houses in Jerusalem and the palaces of the kings of Judah will be desecrated like this place will be. All the houses where you burned incense on the rooftops to honor the stars [that you worshiped], and where you poured out wine [to be an offering] to your gods, will become (desecrated/unacceptable places for people to worship me).”’”
14 Og Jeremias kom fra Tofeth, hvor Herren havde sendt ham hen for at spaa; og han stillede sig i Herrens Hus's Forgaard og sagde til alt Folket:
Then I returned from the garbage dump where Yahweh had sent me to tell them that message. Then I stood in the courtyard of Yahweh’s temple and said this to all the people [who were there]:
15 Saa siger den Herre Zebaoth, Israels Gud: Se, jeg lader komme over denne Stad og over alle Stæder, som høre til den, alt det onde, som jeg har talt imod den; thi de have forhærdet deres Nakke for ikke at høre mine Ord.
“This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: ‘I will cause there to be a disaster in this city and in the villages around it like I promised, because you people have stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said to you.’”
