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,
Seyè a pale ak Jeremi, li di l': -Desann ale kay wa peyi Jida a,
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.
pou ba l' mesaj sa a: Ou menm wa peyi Jida, ki chita sou fotèy David la, nou menm chèf yo ansanm ak tout pèp k'ap antre soti nan pòtay lavil la, koute sa Seyè a di nou:
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.
Mwen menm Seyè a, m'ap mande nou pou nou fè sa ki dwat, pou nou rann jistis san patipri. Se pou nou wete moun y'ap peze yo anba men moun k'ap peze yo a. Pa malmennen moun lòt nasyon ki lakay nou yo, timoun ki san papa yo ak vèv yo. Pa pwofite sou yo. Pa touye moun inonsan isit la.
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
Si tout bon vre nou fè jan m' mande nou fè la a, n'a toujou gen yonn nan moun fanmi David yo pou wa. Li menm ansanm ak chèf li yo ak tout pèp la va toujou antre soti nan pòtay palè a sou cha ak sou chwal yo.
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, si nou pa koute m', m'ap fè nou sèman: palè sa a gen pou kraze. Se mwen menm Seyè a ki di sa.
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.
Men sa Seyè a di sou kay wa peyi Jida a: -Pou mwen, palè a bèl tankou peyi Galarad, tankou tèt mòn peyi Liban yo. Men, mwen p'ap pè fè l' tounen yon dezè, yon lavil kote moun pa rete.
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.
M'ap chwazi moun ak rach pou m' voye detwi nou. Yo pral koupe tout bèl bwa sèd nou yo, y'ap voye yo jete nan dife.
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?
Apre sa, anpil moun lòt nasyon va pase bò lavil la. Yonn va mande lòt: Poukisa Seyè a fè gwo lavil sa a sa?
9 And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.
Lèfini y'a reponn: Se paske yo pa t' kenbe kontra Seyè Bondye yo a te siyen ak yo a. Y' al adore lòt bondye yo, yo fè sèvis pou yo.
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.
Nou menm moun Jida, nou pa bezwen kriye pou wa Jozyas ki mouri a. Nou pa bezwen pran lapenn pou li. Kriye pito pou Chaloum, sa yo depòte a. Li menm, li p'ap janm tounen lakay li, li p'ap janm wè peyi kote l' te fèt la ankò.
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:
Paske men mesaj Seyè a bay sou Chaloum, pitit Jozyas, ki te vin wa peyi Jida nan plas papa l': Li pati kite isit la, li p'ap janm tounen.
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.
Paske kote yo depòte l' la, se la li pral mouri. Li p'ap janm wè peyi a ankò.
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;
Madichon pou moun k'ap bati gwo kay avèk lajan lenjistis, k'ap mete chanmòt sou kay yo ak lajan yo fè nan move kondisyon. Y'ap fè jwif parèy yo travay gratis pou yo, yo pa peye yo lajan yo.
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.
Madichon pou moun k'ap plede di: mwen pral bati yon gwo kay ak chanm byen laj nan chanmòt yo. Yo mete fennèt nan kay yo, yo palisade yo ak bwa sèd, yo pentire yo tou wouj.
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?
Eske w'ap yon pi bon wa paske ou bati kay ou ak bwa sèd pou li pi bèl pase pa lòt moun? Papa ou te manje, li te bwè tankou tout moun. Men, li te fè sa ki dwat, li pa t' fè lenjistis. Tout zafè l' te mache byen.
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.
Li te defann kòz pòv malere yo. Tout bagay te mache byen pou li. Se sa ki rele konnen Seyè a.
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 ou menm, yon sèl bagay ou wè, yon sèl bagay ou konnen, se enterè pa ou ase. Se konsa w'ap touye inonsan. W'ap maltrete pèp la, w'ap maspinen l'. Se Seyè a menm ki di sa.
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!
Se konsa, men mesaj Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a bay sou Jojakim, pitit Jozyas, wa peyi Jida a: -Lè l'a mouri, p'ap gen pesonn pou kenbe rèl la ak moun pa l' yo. P'ap gen pesonn pou kriye pou mèt yo, wa yo.
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.
Y'ap antere l' tankou chen. Y'ap trennen kadav li, y'ap voye l' jete byen lwen lòt bò pòtay lavil Jerizalèm.
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
Nou menm moun lavil Jerizalèm, ale nan peyi Liban, rele byen fò! Ale nan peyi Bazan, rele! Rete sou mòn Moab yo, rele! Paske yo kraze tout asosye nou yo.
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.
Mwen menm, Seyè a, mwen te pale nou lè zafè nou t'ap mache byen. Men, nou te derefize koute m'. Se sa n'ap fè depi tout tan. Nou pa janm vle koute sa m'ap di nou.
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.
Van pral bwote tout chèf nou yo ale. Y'ap depòte tout moun lòt nasyon ki asosye nou yo. Lè sa a, nou pral bese tèt nou, nou pral wont pou tout mechanste nou te konn fè yo.
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!
Nou menm ki rete nan gwo kay nou bati ak sèd ki soti peyi Liban, ala plenn nou pral plenn lè malè va tonbe sou nou! Nou pral plenn tankou fanm ki gen tranche.
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;
Men sa Seyè a voye di Jekonya, pitit Jojakim, wa peyi Jida a: -Mwen fè sèman sou vi mwen, menm si ou te bag letanp ki nan men dwat mwen an, m'ap rache ou nan dwèt mwen.
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.
M'ap lage ou nan men moun ki soti pou touye ou yo, nan men moun ou pè yo. M'ap lage ou nan men Nèbikadneza, wa Babilòn lan, nan men moun Kalde yo.
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.
Mwen pral voye ni ou menm, ni manman ou ki fè ou la, nan peyi etranje. Nou pral nan yon peyi kote nou pa t' fèt. Se la ni ou menm ni li menm pral mouri.
27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.
N'ap anvi tounen vin wè peyi sa a. Men, nou p'ap janm ka tounen.
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?
Moun yo rele Jekonya a, èske li tounen yon kannari kraze y'ap voye jete, yon kannari pesonn pa bezwen? Poukisa yo depòte ni li ni pitit li yo nan peyi yo pa t' janm konnen?
29 O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!
O latè, latè, latè! Koute sa Seyè a di:
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.
Nonm sa a kondannen pou l' pèdi tout pitit li yo, pou l' pa janm wè zafè l' mache. P'ap janm gen yonn nan pitit li yo ki pou rive chita sou fotèy wa David la, ki pou rive chèf nan peyi Jida a ankò.
