Jeremiah 10

1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

١ اِسْمَعُوا ٱلْكَلِمَةَ ٱلَّتِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهَا ٱلرَّبُّ عَلَيْكُمْ يَا بَيْتَ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

2 This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.

٢ هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ: «لَا تَتَعَلَّمُوا طَرِيقَ ٱلْأُمَمِ، وَمِنْ آيَاتِ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ لَا تَرْتَعِبُوا، لِأَنَّ ٱلْأُمَمَ تَرْتَعِبُ مِنْهَا.

3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

٣ لِأَنَّ فَرَائِضَ ٱلْأُمَمِ بَاطِلَةٌ. لِأَنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ يَقْطَعُونَهَا مِنَ ٱلْوَعْرِ. صَنْعَةُ يَدَيْ نَجَّارٍ بِٱلْقَدُومِ.

4 They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

٤ بِٱلْفِضَّةِ وَٱلذَّهَبِ يُزَيِّنُونَهَا، وَبِٱلْمَسَامِيرِ وَٱلْمَطَارِقِ يُشَدِّدُونَهَا فَلَا تَتَحَرَّكُ.

5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.

٥ هِيَ كَٱللَّعِينِ فِي مَقْثَأَةٍ فَلَا تَتَكَلَّمُ! تُحْمَلُ حَمْلًا لِأَنَّهَا لَا تَمْشِي! لَا تَخَافُوهَا لِأَنَّهَا لَا تَضُرُّ، وَلَا فِيهَا أَنْ تَصْنَعَ خَيْرًا».

6 There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.

٦ لَا مِثْلَ لَكَ يَارَبُّ! عَظِيمٌ أَنْتَ، وَعَظِيمٌ ٱسْمُكَ فِي ٱلْجَبَرُوتِ.

7 Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

٧ مَنْ لَا يَخَافُكَ يَا مَلِكَ ٱلشُّعُوبِ؟ لِأَنَّهُ بِكَ يَلِيقُ. لِأَنَّهُ فِي جَمِيعِ حُكَمَاءِ ٱلشُّعُوبِ وَفِي كُلِّ مَمَالِكِهِمْ لَيْسَ مِثْلَكَ.

8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

٨ بَلُدُوا وَحَمِقُوا مَعًا. أَدَبُ أَبَاطِيلَ هُوَ ٱلْخَشَبُ.

9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

٩ فِضَّةٌ مُطَرَّقَةٌ تُجْلَبُ مِنْ تَرْشِيشَ، وَذَهَبٌ مِنْ أُوفَازَ، صَنْعَةُ صَانِعٍ وَيَدَيْ صَائِغٍ. أَسْمَانْجُونِيٌّ وَأُرْجُوَانٌ لِبَاسُهَا. كُلُّهَا صَنْعَةُ حُكَمَاءَ.

10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

١٠ أَمَّا ٱلرَّبُّ ٱلْإِلَهُ فَحَقٌّ. هُوَ إِلَهٌ حَيٌّ وَمَلِكٌ أَبَدِيٌّ. مِنْ سُخْطِهِ تَرْتَعِدُ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَلَا تَطِيقُ ٱلْأُمَمُ غَضَبَهُ.

11 This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

١١ هَكَذَا تَقُولُونَ لَهُمْ: «ٱلْآلِهَةُ ٱلَّتِي لَمْ تَصْنَعِ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ تَبِيدُ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمِنْ تَحْتِ هَذِهِ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ»

12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

١٢ صَانِعُ ٱلْأَرْضِ بِقُوَّتِهِ، مُؤَسِّسُ ٱلْمَسْكُونَةِ بِحِكْمَتِهِ، وَبِفَهْمِهِ بَسَطَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ.

13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

١٣ إِذَا أَعْطَى قَوْلًا تَكُونُ كَثْرَةُ مِيَاهٍ فِي ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ، وَيُصْعِدُ ٱلسَّحَابَ مِنْ أَقَاصِي ٱلْأَرْضِ. صَنَعَ بُرُوقًا لِلْمَطَرِ، وَأَخْرَجَ ٱلرِّيحَ مِنْ خَزَائِنِهِ.

14 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

١٤ بَلُدَ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مِنْ مَعْرِفَتِهِ. خَزِيَ كُلُّ صَائِغٍ مِنَ ٱلتِّمْثَالِ، لِأَنَّ مَسْبُوكَهُ كَذِبٌ وَلَا رُوحَ فِيهِ.

15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

١٥ هِيَ بَاطِلَةٌ صَنْعَةُ ٱلْأَضَالِيلِ. فِي وَقْتِ عِقَابِهَا تَبِيدُ.

16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

١٦ لَيْسَ كَهَذِهِ نَصِيبُ يَعْقُوبَ، لِأَنَّهُ مُصَوِّرُ ٱلْجَمِيعِ، وَإِسْرَائِيلُ قَضِيبُ مِيرَاثِهِ. رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ ٱسْمُهُ.

17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

١٧ اِجْمَعِي مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ حُزَمَكِ أَيَّتُهَا ٱلسَّاكِنَةُ فِي ٱلْحِصَارِ.

18 For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.

١٨ لِأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ: «هَأَنَذَا رَامٍ مِنْ مِقْلَاعٍ سُكَّانَ ٱلْأَرْضِ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَرَّةَ، وَأُضَيِّقُ عَلَيْهِمْ لِكَيْ يَشْعُرُوا».

19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

١٩ وَيْلٌ لِي مِنْ أَجْلِ سَحْقِي! ضَرْبَتِي عَدِيمَةُ ٱلشِّفَاءِ! فَقُلْتُ: «إِنَّمَا هَذِهِ مُصِيبَةٌ فَأَحْتَمِلُهَا».

20 My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

٢٠ خَيْمَتِي خَرِبَتْ، وَكُلُّ أَطْنَابِي قُطِعَتْ. بَنِيَّ خَرَجُوا عَنِّي وَلَيْسُوا. لَيْسَ مَنْ يَبْسُطُ بَعْدُ خَيْمَتِي وَيُقِيمُ شُقَقِي.

21 For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

٢١ لِأَنَّ ٱلرُّعَاةَ بَلُدُوا وَٱلرَّبَّ لَمْ يَطْلُبُوا. مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ لَمْ يَنْجَحُوا، وَكُلُّ رَعِيَّتِهِمْ تَبَدَّدَتْ.

22 News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.

٢٢ هُوَذَا صَوْتُ خَبَرٍ جَاءَ، وَٱضْطِرَابٌ عَظِيمٌ مِنْ أَرْضِ ٱلشِّمَالِ لِجَعْلِ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا خَرَابًا، مَأْوَى بَنَاتِ آوَى.

23 O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

٢٣ عَرَفْتُ يَارَبُّ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ طَرِيقُهُ. لَيْسَ لِإِنْسَانٍ يَمْشِي أَنْ يَهْدِيَ خَطَوَاتِهِ.

24 O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

٢٤ أَدِّبْنِي يَارَبُّ وَلَكِنْ بِٱلْحَقِّ، لَا بِغَضَبِكَ لِئَلَّا تُفْنِيَنِي.

25 Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

٢٥ اُسْكُبْ غَضَبَكَ عَلَى ٱلْأُمَمِ ٱلَّتِي لَمْ تَعْرِفْكَ، وَعَلَى ٱلْعَشَائِرِ ٱلَّتِي لَمْ تَدْعُ بِٱسْمِكَ. لِأَنَّهُمْ أَكَلُوا يَعْقُوبَ. أَكَلُوهُ وَأَفْنَوْهُ وَأَخْرَبُوا مَسْكَنَهُ.