Jeremiah 22
1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,
Så siger Herren: Gå ned til Judas konges palads og tal dette Ord
2 And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.
og sig: Hør HERRENs Ord, Judas Konge, som sidder på Davids Trone, du, dine Tjenere og dit Folk, som går ind ad disse Porte!
3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
Så siger HERREN: Øv Ret og Retfærd, fri den, som er plyndret, af Voldsmandens Hånd, undertryk ikke den fremmede, den faderløse og Enken, øv ikke Vold og udgyd ikke uskyldigt Blod på dette Sted.
4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people
Thi dersom I efterkommer dette Krav, skal konger, der sidder på Davids Trone, drage ind ad Portene til dette Hus med Vogne og Heste, de, deres Tjenere og Folk:
5 But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.
Men hører I ikke disse Ord, så sværger jeg ved mig selv, lyder det fra HERREN, at dette Hus skal lægges øde.
6 For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.
Thi så siger HERREN om Judas konges Palads: Et Gilead var du for mig, en Libanons Tinde; visselig, jeg gør dig til Ørk, til folketomme Byer;
7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.
Hærværksmænd helliger jeg mod dig, hver med sit Værktøj, de skal fælde dine udvalgte Cedre og kaste dem i Ilden.
8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?
Mange Folkeslag skal drage forbi denne By og spørge hverandre: "Hvorfor handlede HERREN således med denne store By?"
9 And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.
Og man skal svare: "Fordi de forlod HERREN deres Guds Pagt og tilbad og dyrkede andre Guder."
10 Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.
Græd ej over den døde, beklag ham ikke! Græd over ham, der drog bort, thi han vender ej hjem, sit Fødeland genser han ikke.
11 For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again:
Thi så siger HERREN om Josiass Søn, Kong Sjallum af Juda, der blev Konge i sin Fader Josiass Sted: Han, som gik bort fra dette Sted, skal ikke vende hjem igen:
12 But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again.
men på det Sted, til hvilket de førte ham i Landflygtighed, skal han dø, og han skal ikke gense dette Land.
13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
Ve ham, der bygger Hus uden Retfærd, Sale uden Ret, lader Landsmand trælle for intet, ej giver ham Løn,
14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
som siger: "Jeg bygger mig et rummeligt Hus med luftige Sale," som hugger sig Vinduer ud, klæder Væg med Cedertræ og maler det rødt.
15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
Er du Konge, fordi du brammer med Cedertræ? Din Fader, mon ikke han spiste og drak og øvede Ret og Retfærd? Da gik det ham vel;
16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
han hjalp arm og fattig til sin Ret; da gik det ham vel. Er dette ikke at kende mig? lyder det fra HERREN.
17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Men dit Øje og Hjerte higer kun efter Vinding, efter at udgyde skyldfries Blod, øve Undertrykkelse og Vold.
18 So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Derfor, så siger HERREN om Josiass Søn, kong Jojakim af Juda: Over ham skal ej klages: "Ve min Broder, ve min Søster!" eller grædes: "Ve min Herre, ve hans Herlighed!"
19 They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.
Et Æsels Jordefærd får han, slæbes ud, slænges hen uden for Jerusalems Porte.
20 Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction
Stig op på Libanon og skrig, løft Røsten i Basan, skrig fra Abarim, thi knuste er alle dine kære.
21 My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.
Jeg taled dig til i din Tryghed, du nægted at høre; at overhøre min Røst var din Skik fra din Ungdom.
22 All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.
For alle dine Hyrder skal Storm være Hyrde, i Fangenskab går dine kære; da får du Skam og Skændsel for al din Ondskab.
23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
Du, som bor på Libanon og bygger i Cedrene, hvor stønner du, når Smerter kommer over dig, Veer som en fødendes!
24 By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;
Så sandt jeg lever, lyder det fra HERREN: Om også Konja, Kong Jojakim af Judas Søn, var en Seglring på min højre Hånd, jeg rev ham bort.
25 And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
Jeg giver dig i deres Hånd, som står dig efter Livet, i deres Hånd, for hvem du ræddes, og i Kong Nebukadrezar af Babels og Kaldæernes Hånd.
26 I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.
Jeg slynger dig og din Moder, som fødte dig, bort til et andet Land, hvor I ikke fødtes, og der skal I dø;
27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.
men til det Land, deres Sjæle længes tilbage til, skal de ikke vende hjem.
28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?
Er denne Konja da et usselt, sønderslået Kar, et Redskab, ingen bryder sig om? Hvorfor skal han og hans Afkom slynges og kastes til et Land, de ikke kender?
29 O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!
Land, Land, Land, hør HERRENs Ord:
30 The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.
Så siger HERREN: Optegn denne Mand som barnløs, som en Mand, der ingen Lykke har i sit Liv; thi det skal ikke lykkes nogen af hans Afkom at sætte sig på Davids Trone og atter herske over Juda.
