Jeremias 34
1 Det Ord, som kom til Jeremias fra Herren, der Nebukadnezar, Kongen af Babel, og al hans Hær og alle Jordens Riger, som vare under hans Haands Herredømme, og alle Folkene strede imod Jerusalem og imod alle dens Stæder; det lød:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,
2 Saa siger Herren, Israels Gud: Gak og sig til Zedekias, Judas Konge, ja, sig til ham: Saa siger Herren: Se, jeg giver denne Stad i Kongen af Babels Haand, og han skal opbrænde den med Ild.
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:
3 Og du skal ikke undkomme fra hans Haand, men du skal visselig gribes og gives i hans Haand, og dine Øjne skulle se Kongen af Babels Øjne, og hans Mund skal tale til din Mund, og du skal komme til Babel.
And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.
4 Men hør kun Herrens Ord, Zedekias, Judas Konge! saa siger Herren om dig: Du skal ikke dø for Sværdet.
But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:
5 Du skal dø i Fred, og som man har brændt Baal over dine Fædre, de første Konger, som have været før dig, saa skulle de brænde Baal for dig og sørge over dig med et: „Ak Herre!‟ thi jeg har talt Ordet, siger Herren.
You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.
6 Og Profeten Jeremias talte til Zedekias, Judas Konge, alle disse Ord i Jerusalem.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
7 Og Kongen af Babels Hær stred imod Jerusalem og imod alle Judas Stæder, som vare blevne tilovers, imod Lakis og imod Aseka; thi disse vare blevne tilovers iblandt Judas Stæder som faste Stæder.
When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.
8 Det Ord, som kom til Jeremias fra Herren, efter at Kong Zedekias havde sluttet en Overenskomst med alt Folket, som var i Jerusalem, om at udraabe Frihed iblandt dem:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;
9 At enhver skulde lade sin Tjener og enhver sin Tjenestepige, naar det var en Hebræer eller en Hebræerinde, gaa ud som fri; at ingen skulde bruge sin Broder, naar det var en Jøde, til at trælle.
That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
10 Og deri adløde alle Fyrsterne og alt Folket, som havde indgaaet denne Overenskomst, at enhver skulde lade sin Tjener og enhver sin Tjenestepige gaa ud som fri, saa at de ikke mere vilde bruge dem til at trælle, ja, de adløde og lode dem fare;
And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
11 men derefter gjorde de det om og toge de Tjenere og de Tjenestepiger, som de havde givet fri, tilbage, og de tvang dem til at være Tjenere og Tjenestepiger.
But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.
12 Og Herrens Ord kom til Jeremias, fra Herren, saaledes:
For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
13 Saa siger Herren, Israels Gud: Jeg sluttede en Pagt med eders Fædre den Dag, jeg udførte dem af Ægyptens Land, af Trælles Hus, og sagde:
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,
14 Naar syv Aar ere til Ende, skulle I frigive hver sin Broder, naar det er en Hebræer, som sælger sig til dig og skal tjene dig i seks Aar, for at du da skal lade ham drage fra dig som fri; men eders Fædre hørte mig ikke og bøjede ikke deres Øre dertil.
At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.
15 Men I omvendte eder i Dag og gjorde det, som var ret for mine Øjne, ved at udraabe Frihed hver for sin Næste; og I gjorde en Pagt for mig i det Hus, som er kaldet efter mit Navn.
And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:
16 Dog gjorde I det om og vanhelligede mit Navn og tilbagetoge hver sin Tjener og hver sin Tjenestepige, hvilke I havde givet fri til at gøre, hvad de vilde, og I tvang dem til at være eders Tjenere og Tjenestepiger.
But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.
17 Derfor siger Herren saaledes: I hørte mig ikke om at udraabe Frihed, hver for sin Broder og hver for sin Næste: Se, jeg udraaber Frihed for eder, siger Herren, til Sværdet, til Pesten og til Hungeren, og jeg vil gøre eder til en Gru for alle Riger paa Jorden.
And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 Og jeg vil give de Mænd, som overtraadte min Pagt og ikke holdt Pagtens Ord, som de sluttede for mit Ansigt, Pagten ved Kalven, hvilken de huggede i to Stykker og gik imellem dens Stykker,
And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,
19 nemlig Judas Fyrster, Jerusalems Fyrster, Hofmændene og Præsterne og det ganske Folk i Landet, som gik imellem Kalvens Stykker:
The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,
20 Dem vil jeg give i deres Fjenders Haand og i deres Haand, som søge efter deres Liv; og deres døde Kroppe skulle være til Føde for Fuglene under Himmelen og for Dyrene paa Jorden.
Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
21 Og Zedekias, Judas Konge, og hans Fyrster vil jeg give i deres Fjenders Haand og i deres Haand, som søge efter deres Liv, og i Haanden paa Kongen af Babels Hær, som er draget op fra eder.
And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.
22 Se, jeg befaler det, siger Herren, og jeg vil føre dem til denne Stad igen, og de skulle stride imod den og indtage den og opbrænde den med Ild; og jeg vil gøre Judas Stæder til en Ødelæggelse, saa at ingen bor der.
See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.
