Jeremiah 51
1 The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;
Seyè a di konsa: -Mwen pral fè yon gwo van soufle sou lavil Babilòn pou detwi l' ansanm ak tout moun li yo.
2 And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.
Wi, m'ap voye etranje nan peyi a. Y'ap gaye l' tankou van k'ap bwote pay chèch, y'ap ravaje peyi a. Lè jou malè sa a va rive, y'ap soti toupatou vin tonbe sou li.
3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.
Pa bay sòlda yo chans pou yo tire banza yo, ni pou yo mete rad batay yo sou yo. Pa kite jenn gason yo chape. Touye tout lame a pou Bondye.
4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
Nan tout peyi Babilòn lan moun ap tonbe mouri. Nan tout lari flèch ap pèse yo pak an pak.
5 For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Paske mwen menm, Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a, Bondye moun peyi Izrayèl ak moun peyi Jida yo, mwen pa lage yo, atout yo koupab devan Bondye pèp Izrayèl la ki yon Bondye apa.
6 Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.
Kouri kite lavil Babilòn! Kouri chape kò nou. Pa kite yo touye nou pou mechanste moun pa li yo. Lè a rive pou m' tire revanj mwen. M'ap pini l' pou sa li fè m' lan.
7 Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.
Babilòn te tankou yon gode fèt an lò nan men mwen. Li t'ap fè tout nasyon sou latè sou. Yo bwè nan diven l' lan, y'ap depale.
8 Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.
Men Babilòn rete konsa li tonbe, li kraze. Plenn sò li! Chache renmèd pou doulè l' yo. Nou pa janm konnen, li ka geri.
9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.
Etranje k'ap viv nan peyi a di konsa: Nou fè sa nou kapab pou n' geri Babilòn. Pa gen gerizon pou li. Annou kite peyi a. Ann ale, chak moun nan peyi pa yo, paske peche l' yo fè pil rive jouk nan syèl, yo pi wo pase nwaj yo.
10 The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.
Pèp Izrayèl la di: Seyè a fè wè kòz nou an bon, li ban nou jistis. Ann al rakonte moun lavil Jerizalèm yo sa Seyè a, Bondye nou an, fè.
11 Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.
Bondye moute tèt tout wa peyi Medi yo, li fè yon plan pou l' detwi Babilòn. Se konsa l'ap tire revanj li pou detwi yo menm jan yo te detwi tanp li an. Fè pwent flèch yo byen pwenti! Plen sak yo flèch!
12 Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.
Leve drapo a! Bay siyal pou yo atake miray Babilòn yo! Double faksyonnè yo! Mete sòlda ap veye. Pare anbiskad pou yo. Seyè a fè plan li, li fè sa li te di l'ap fè moun Babilòn yo.
13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
Nou menm ki rete nan peyi ki gen anpil rivyè a, nou menm ki gen anpil richès, men nou rive mezi bout nou! Nou fè kont nou koulye a.
14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.
Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a fè sèman sou tèt li: li pral mennen anpil moun vin atake Babilòn, y'ap tankou yon bann krikèt. Yo pral rele, yo pral chante dèske yo kraze ou.
15 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:
Seyè a te fè latè ak fòs pouvwa li. Li kreye dènye bagay ak bon konprann li. Avèk entèlijans li, li louvri syèl la anwo latè.
16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the 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.
Li pase lòd, epi dlo ki anwo syèl la pran gwonde. Li fè gwo nwaj yo moute soti toupatou. Li fè zèklè yo klere pou fè lapli vini. Li fè van yo soti kote li te sere yo.
17 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.
Lè konsa tout moun rete egare, yo pa konprann anyen. Moun k'ap fè zidòl yo wont sa yo fè a, paske bondye yo fè yo se fo bondye, yo pa gen lavi nan yo.
18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Yo pa vo anyen. Yo bon pou pase nan betiz. Y'ap disparèt lè Seyè a ap vin regle ak yo.
19 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
Men, Bondye Jakòb la pa tankou yo. Se li menm ki fè tout bagay. Li chwazi pèp Izrayèl la pou rele l' pa l'. Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a, se konsa yo rele l'.
20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Seyè a di ankò: -Babilòn, ou te yon gwo mato nan men mwen, yon zam pou m' fè lagè. Se avè ou mwen te kraze nasyon yo. Se avè ou mwen te kraze peyi wa yo.
21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;
Se avè ou mwen te kraze chwal yo ak tout kavalye yo. Se avè ou mwen te kraze cha lagè yo ak tout moun ki t'ap mennen yo.
22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;
Se avè ou mwen te kraze fanm kou gason, granmoun kou timoun, jenn gason kou jenn fi.
23 With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.
Se avè ou mwen te touye bann mouton yo ak tout gadò yo. Se avè ou mwen te kraze kiltivatè yo ansanm ak tout chwal pou raboure latè. Se avè ou mwen te kraze tout chèf yo ak tout majistra yo.
24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
Seyè a di ankò: -Devan je nou tout, m'ap fè lavil Babilòn ansanm ak tout pèp li a peye tout mechanste li te fè lavil Jerizalèm yo.
25 See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.
Babilòn, ou tankou yon gwo mòn kote moun k'ap ravaje tout latè a soti. Koulye a, mwen pral regle avè ou. Mwen pral mete men sou ou. M'ap fè ou degrengole desann soti nan tèt wòch yo. M'ap fè mòn lan tounen yon gwo boukan dife.
26 And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.
Yo p'ap pran yon wòch nan ou ni pou fè fondasyon, ni pou fè kwen kay. Ou pral tounen yon dezè pou tout tan. Se mwen menm Seyè a ki di sa.
27 Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.
Bay siyal nan tout peyi a pou yo atake. Kònen twonpèt nan tout nasyon yo. Pare tout nasyon yo pou y' al fè lagè ak Babilòn. Voye rele wa peyi Arara a, wa peyi Mini an, wa peyi Achkenaz la pou y' al atake l'. Chwazi chèf pou mennen batay la. Fè yo mennen anpil chwal ban nou pou yo menm kantite ak yon bann krikèt.
28 Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.
Pare tout nasyon yo pou y' al fè lagè ak Babilòn. Voye chache wa yo k'ap gouvènen nan peyi Medi a, ansanm ak tout prefè yo, tout majistra yo, tout lame nan peyi ki sou kontwol yo.
29 And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.
Tout latè ap tranble, l'ap souke, paske lè plan travay Seyè a rive pou l' fèt. Li pral fè Babilòn tounen yon dezè kote p'ap gen pesonn ankò.
30 Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.
Sòlda lavil Babilòn yo derefize goumen. Yo rete kache nan fò yo. Yo pèdi tout kouraj yo, yo tankou fanm. Lènmi defonse pòtay lavil yo, yo mete dife nan kay yo.
31 One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:
Mesaje sou mesaje ap kouri brid sou kou al di wa Babilòn lan lènmi anvayi lavil li a nèt.
32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.
Yo bloke tout chemen yo, yo mete dife nan tout avanpòs yo, sòlda yo gaye.
33 For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.
Wi, men mesaj Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a, Bondye pèp Izrayèl la, bay: Lavil Babilòn tankou yon glasi y'ap pare. Talè konsa yo pral kouche sòlda yo tankou grenn danre sou glasi.
34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
Nèbikadneza, wa peyi Babilòn lan, te devore lavil Jerizalèm, li manje l' nèt ale. Li kite peyi a vid tankou yon plat yo niche. Tankou yon gwo bèt lanmè, li vale m'. Li souse tout mwèl mwen. Lèfini, li voye rès la jete.
35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.
Moun ki rete sou mòn Siyon yo di: Se pou lavil Babilòn peye tout lapenn ak mechanste li fè nou. Moun lavil Jerizalèm yo te mèt di: Se pou moun peyi Kalde yo peye pou tout san nou yo fè koule a.
36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
Se konsa Seyè a pale ak moun Jerizalèm yo, li di yo: Se mwen menm k'ap pran kòz nou nan men. Mwen pran sou kont mwen pou m' fè yo peye sa yo fè nou. M'ap fè sous dlo lavil Babilòn yo cheche. P'ap gen yon tak dlo nan rivyè l' yo.
37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
Lavil Babilòn ap tounen yon pil mazi kote bèt nan bwa rete, yon dezè kote pesonn pa rete. Tout moun k'ap wè sa pral sezi, y'a mete men nan tèt.
38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
Moun Babilòn yo ap gwonde tankou lyon, y'ap griyen dan yo tankou jenn lyon.
39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
Lè y'a fin chofe kont yo, mwen menm m'ap pare yon fèt pou yo. M'ap fè yo sou, m'ap fè kè yo kontan. Lèfini, yo pral dòmi yon dòmi ki p'ap janm fini, yo p'ap janm leve ankò.
40 I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
M'ap fè mennen yo labatwa tankou yo mennen mouton, belye mouton ak bouk kabrit yo. Se mwen menm Seyè a ki di sa.
41 How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
Seyè a di konsa: -Gade! Yo pran lavil Babilòn. Yo mete men sou li, lavil ki te yon lwanj nan bouch tout moun lan. Yo fè l' tounen yon dezè nan mitan nasyon yo.
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
Lanmè moute anvayi lavil Babilòn. Lanm lanmè yo move, yo kouvri lavil la.
43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
Tout ti bouk li yo tounen yon dezè tou, san pa gen yon gout dlo ladan yo. Se raje toupatou. Pa gen pesonn ladan yo ankò. Pesonn pa pase la non plis.
44 And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.
M'ap regle Bèl, bondye Babilòn lan, m'ap fè l' rann tou sa li te vale a. Nasyon yo p'ap kouri vin nan pye l' ankò. Miray lavil Babilòn yo tonbe.
45 My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
Nou menm moun pèp Izrayèl yo, kouri wete kò nou la! Chape kò nou pou nou pa pase tou, paske Seyè a move anpil sou lavil Babilòn.
46 So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
Pa dekouraje. Pa kite bri k'ap kouri nan peyi a fè nou pè. Chak lanne yo fè kouri yon kalite bri. Yon lè yo di se mechanste k'ap fèt nan peyi a, yon lòt lè yo di se chèf k'ap goumen ak chèf pou pran pouvwa a.
47 For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.
Men jou yo rive pou m' regle ak vye zidòl Babilòn yo. Tout peyi a pral wont. Yo pral touye dènye moun ladan l'.
48 And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
Tout bagay nan syèl la ak sou latè a pral kontan, yo pral rele lè moun k'ap soti bò nan nò yo va vin ravaje lavil Babilòn. Se Seyè a menm ki di sa.
49 As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.
Babilòn te lakòz anpil moun mouri toupatou sou latè. Koulye a se Babilòn ki pral tonbe, paske li te touye anpil moun nan pèp Izrayèl la.
50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
Seyè a pale ak moun pèp Izrayèl yo ki lavil Babilòn. Li di yo konsa: -Nou menm ki te chape anba lanmò, ale, pa rete! Nou te mèt byen lwen lakay nou, mete lide nou sou mwen, chonje lavil Jerizalèm!
51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.
Nou di: nou te wont lè nou tande jan yo t'ap joure nou. Lawont fè nou bouche figi nou, paske moun lòt nasyon yo te mete pye yo nan kote ki apa nèt pou Seyè a nan tanp lan.
52 For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.
Enben, men sa Seyè a di ankò: Lè a rive, mwen pral regle avèk zidòl lavil Babilòn yo. Nan tout peyi a moun blese yo pral plenn.
53 Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.
Menm si Babilòn ta rive moute nan syèl pou l' ta bati yon gwo fò moun pa ka rive pran, moun m'ap voye dèyè l' yo ap jwenn li, y'ap kraze l'. Se mwen menm Seyè a ki di sa.
54 There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:
Seyè a di ankò: -Yon sèl rèl pete lavil Babilòn. Bri kouri yon gwo malè tonbe sou tout peyi a.
55 For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:
Se mwen menm Seyè a k'ap detwi lavil Babilòn. Mwen fè l' pe bouch li. Menm si lavil Babilòn t'ap fè bri tankou lanmè lè li move, m'ap fè l' sispann rele.
56 For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
Wi, lènmi ap vin detwi lavil Babilòn. Y'ap mete men sou sòlda li yo. L'ap kraze tout banza yo. Mwen menm, Seyè a, mwen se yon Bondye k'ap pini moun ki fè sa ki mal. M'ap fè yo peye pou sa yo fè.
57 And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
M'ap soule chèf li yo, moun save ak majistra li yo, chèf lame ak sòlda li yo. Yo pral dòmi nèt ale, yo p'ap janm leve. Se mwen menm wa a ki pale, mwen menm yo rele Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a.
58 The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.
Men sa Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a di ankò: -Yo kraze gwo miray lavil Babilòn lan ratè. Yo boule gwo pòtay byen wo li yo. Pèp yo te travay pou gremesi. Tou sa yo te bat kò yo fè a tounen sann dife.
59 The order which Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his rule. Now Seraiah was the chief controller of the house.
Sedesyas, wa peyi Jida a, te gen yon chèf yo te rele Seraja ki te reskonsab kay wa a. Se te pitit Nerija, pitit pitit Maseja. Wa a te gen katran depi li t'ap gouvènen peyi a lè li pati pou Babilòn ansanm ak Seraja. Men lòd pwofèt Jeremi te bay Seraja.
60 And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.
Jeremi te ekri nan yon liv tout malè ki gen pou tonbe sou lavil Babilòn ansanm ak tout lòt bagay li te di sou lavil la.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;
Jeremi di Seraja konsa: -Lè w'a rive lavil Babilòn, pa bliye se pou ou li tou sa ki ekri nan liv la.
62 And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.
Apre sa w'a di: Seyè! Ou te di ou gen pou detwi peyi sa a pou pa gen yon sèl moun ni yon sèl bèt rete ladan l' ankò. Ou te di peyi a gen pou tounen yon dezè pou tout tan!
63 And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:
Lè w'a fin li liv sa a, w'a mare l' sou yon wòch, w'a voye l' jete nan mitan larivyè Lefrat.
64 And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.
Apre sa, w'a di: Se konsa lavil Babilòn lan pral koule, li p'ap janm ka leve ankò apre malè mwen menm Seyè a, mwen pral voye sou li a. Se isit la pawòl pwofèt Jeremi yo fini.
