Jeremias 3
1 Man siger: Dersom en Mand lader sin Hustru fare, og hun gaar fra ham og bliver en anden Mands, mon han da maa vende tilbage til hende igen? mon ikke dette Land vilde blive besmittet derved? Men du har bedrevet Hor med mange Bolere, og du skulde komme til mig igen? siger Herren.
“[Moses wrote that] if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again [to be his wife], because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more [idols than] prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, [why should I accept you if] you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.
2 Opløft dine Øjne til de nøgne Høje, og se, hvor er du ikke skændet? du sad ved Vejene for dem, som en Araber i Ørken, og du besmittede Landet med dine Horerier og med din Ondskab.
“Look up at the barren hilltops. On every hilltop there are [RHQ] [idols that you have worshiped]. [It is as though] they are all lovers with whom you have had sex. [It is as though] you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting [to attack and steal things from] those who pass by. Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done, you have caused the [entire] land to become unacceptable to me.
3 Derfor ere Regndraaberne tilbageholdte, og sildig Regn kom ikke; men du har en Horkvindes Pande, du vil ikke skamme dig.
That is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it. But you are like prostitutes [MET] who are not at all ashamed [for what they have done].
4 Har du ikke fra nu af raabt til mig: Min Fader! min Ungdoms Leder er du.
Now each of you says to me, ‘You are my father! You have loved me ever since I was young!
5 Mon han vil beholde Vrede evindelig? eller bevare den til evig Tid? se, du har talt, men du gjorde disse onde Ting og satte dem igennem.
So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
6 Og Herren sagde til mig i Kong Josias's Dage: Har du set, hvad det frafaldne Israel har gjort? Hun gik paa alle høje Bjerge og hen under alle grønne Træer og bedrev der Hor.
[One day] when Josiah was the king of Judah, Yahweh said to me, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have turned away from me, like a woman who has abandoned her husband and sleeps with other men. They have gone up on every hilltop and under every big tree and worshiped idols there [MET].
7 Og jeg sagde: Efter at hun havde gjort alt dette, vil hun omvende sig til mig; men hun omvendte sig ikke. Og hendes troløse Søster Juda saa det.
I thought that they would return to me, so I said to them, ‘Come back to me!’ But they refused. So I sent them away [to other countries, like a man] writes a note saying that he is divorcing his wife and then sends his wife away because she has committed adultery [MET].
8 Og jeg saa, da jeg formedelst alt det, at det frafaldne Israel havde bedrevet Hor, lod hende fare og gav hende hendes Skilsmissebrev, at dog det troløse Juda, hendes Søster, ikke frygtede, men gik bort og bedrev ogsaa Hor.
The people of Judah saw what I did to them. But they are just like the people of Israel. They are not afraid [of what I will do to them]. They also [have turned away from me and are worshiping idols like] women who abandon their husbands and go to other men [MET].
9 Og det skete for hendes Horeris Letfærdighed, at hun besmittede Landet; thi hun bolede med Sten og med Træ.
They thought that worshiping idols did not matter to me, so they have made the [entire] land unacceptable to me by worshiping idols of wood and stone.
10 Og med alt dette omvendte hendes troløse Søster Juda sig ikke til mig af sit ganske Hjerte, men paa Skrømt, siger Herren.
The people of Judah have pretended to return to me, but they have not really done that. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
11 Og Herren sagde til mig: Det frafaldne Israel har vist sig retfærdigt fremfor det troløse Juda.
Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
12 Gak, og raab disse Ord imod Norden, og sig: Omvend dig, du frafaldne Israel! siger Herren, jeg vil ikke lade mit vrede Ansigt falde paa eder; thi jeg er miskundelig, siger Herren, jeg vil ikke beholde Vrede evindelig.
So go and tell this to the people of Israel: ‘Yahweh says this to you Israeli people who have turned away from him: I am merciful. I will not continue to be angry with you forever. So return to me.
13 Kend ikkun din Misgerning; thi du har gjort Overtrædelse imod Herren din Gud, og du er løben hid og did paa dine Veje til fremmede Guder under hvert grønt Træ, men paa min Røst have I ikke hørt, siger Herren.
But you must admit/say that you are guilty, and that you have rebelled against me, Yahweh, your God, that you have worshiped idols under big trees everywhere, and you have not obeyed me. You have turned away from me.
14 Omvender eder, I frafaldne Børn! siger Herren; thi jeg er eders Husbonde, og jeg vil tage eder, een af en Stad og to af en Slægt og føre eder til Zion.
But you belong to me. So I will take you, one from [each] city and two from [each] clan, and bring you [back] to Jerusalem [from the countries to which you were exiled].
15 Og jeg vil give eder Hyrder efter mit Hjerte; og de skulle føde eder med Kundskab og Forstand.
[If you do that], I will appoint for you leaders with whom I am pleased, leaders who will guide you [well] because they will know and understand [what pleases me].
16 Og det skal ske, naar I ere blevne mange og ere blevne frugtbare i Landet i de Dage, siger Herren, da skulle de ikke mere tale om Herrens Pagts Ark, og den skal ikke mere komme nogen i Tanke, og de skulle ikke komme den i Hu og ikke savne den, og den skal ikke forfærdiges mere.
And when you become very numerous [DOU] in your land, you will not need to talk about the Sacred Chest that contained the Ten Commandments. You will not think about it, and you will not want to make a new one.
17 Paa den Tid skulle de kalde Jerusalem Herrens Trone, og alle Hedningerne skulle forsamles til den for Herrens Navns Skyld, i Jerusalem; og de skulle ikke ydermere vandre efter deres onde Hjertes Stivhed.
At that time people will say, “Jerusalem is [the place where] Yahweh’s throne is.” [People from] all nations will come there to worship me. And they will no longer stubbornly do the evil things that they desire.
18 I de Dage skal Judas Hus gaa til Israels Hus, og de skulle komme med hinanden fra et Land af Norden, til Landet, som jeg har givet eders Fædre til Arv.
At that time you people [MTY] of Israel and the people of Judah will return from [being (exiled/forced to live) in] lands to the northeast. You will return to the land that I gave to your ancestors to belong to them [forever].
19 Og jeg havde sagt: Vil jeg ej sætte dig iblandt Børnene og give dig et kosteligt Land, Folkenes alleryndigste Arv? Og jeg sagde: Min Fader vil du kalde mig og ikke vende dig fra mig.
You people of Israel, I wanted to accept you to be my children. I wanted to give you [this] delightful land. It is a land more desirable/pleasant than the land of any other nation! I wanted you to call me ‘father’, and I wanted you to never turn away from me.
20 Men ligesom en Kvinde bliver troløs imod sin Boler, saaledes ere I af Israels Hus blevne troløse imod mig, siger Herren.
But you have abandoned me like wives who have abandoned their husbands.’” [That is what] Yahweh said, and [I told it] to the people of Israel.
21 Der er hørt en Røst paa de nøgne Høje, Israels Børns ydmyge Begæringers Graad; thi de have forvendt deres Vej, de have forglemt Herren deres Gud.
People will hear a noise on the barren hilltops. It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading [for God to be merciful to them]. They will be admitting/saying that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to.
22 Saa vender om, I frafaldne Børn! jeg vil læge eders Afvigelser. „Se, her ere vi, vi komme til dig; thi du er Herren vor Gud.
Yahweh will say to them, “You Israeli people, come back to me! [If you do that], I will cause you to never turn away from me again.” [The people will reply], “We are returning to you, because you are Yahweh, our God.
23 Sandelig, det er idel Bedrageri med Tummelen paa Bjergene; sandelig, Israels Frelse er i Herren vor Gud.
We did not get any help from [the idols that we worshiped on] the hilltops; we did not get any help from making all that noise up there.
24 Og Skændsel har fortæret vore Fædres Arbejde, fra vor Ungdom af, deres smaa Kvæg og deres store Kvæg, deres Sønner og deres Døtre.
From the time when we were young, the shameful [god Baal] has taken away [from us] everything that our ancestors worked hard to acquire. He has taken away their flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle], their sons and their daughters.
25 Vi maa ligge i vor Skændsel og vor Skam skjule os; thi vi have syndet imod Herren vor Gud, vi og vore Fædre, fra vor Ungdom af og indtil denne Dag; og vi vare ikke Herren vor Guds Røst lydige‟.
So, now we should lie down feeling very ashamed [DOU], because we and our ancestors have sinned against Yahweh our God, and we have never obeyed him.”
