Jeremiah 7
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Det Ord som kom til Jeremias fra Herren
2 Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.
Stå hen i Porten til HERRENs Hus og udråb dette Ord: Hør HERRENs Ord, hele Juda, I, som går ind gennem disse Porte for at tilbede HERREN!
3 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.
Så siger Hærskarers HERRE, Israels Gud: Bedrer eders Veje og eders Gerninger, så vil jeg lade eder bo på dette Sted.
4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Stol ikke på den Løgnetale: Her er HERRENs Tempel, HERRENs Tempel, HERRENs Tempel!
5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
Men bedrer eders Veje og eders Gerninger! Dersom I virkelig øver Ret Mand og Mand imellem,
6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
ikke undertrykker den fremmede, den faderløse og Enken, ej heller udgyder uskyldigt Blod på dette Sted, ej heller til egen Skade holder eder til fremmede Guder,
7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
så vil jeg til evige Tider lade eder bo på dette Sted i det Land, jeg gav eders Fædre.
8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Se, I stoler på Løgnetale, som intet båder.
9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Stjæle, slå ihjel, hore, sværge falsk, tænde Offerild for Ba'al, holde eder til fremmede Guder, som I ikke kender til
10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
og så kommer I og står for mit Åsyn i dette Hus, som mit Navn nævnes over, og siger: "Vi er frelst!" for at gøre alle disse Vederstyggeligheder.
11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Holder I dette Hus, som mit Navn nævnes over, for en Røverkule? Men se, også jeg har Øjne, lyder det fra HERREN.
12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
Gå dog hen til mit hellige Sted i Silo, hvor jeg først stadfæstede mit Navn, og se, hvad jeg gjorde ved det for mit Folk Israels Ondskabs Skyld.
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:
Og nu, fordi I øver alle disse Gerninger, lyder det fra HERREN, og fordi I ikke vilde høre, når jeg årle og silde talede til eder, eller svare, når jeg kaldte på eder,
14 For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
derfor vil jeg gøre med Huset, som mit Navn nævnes over, og som I stoler på, og med Stedet, jeg gav eder og eders Fædre, ligesom jeg gjorde med Silo;
15 And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.
og jeg vil støde eder bort fra mit Åsyn, som jeg stødte alle eders Brødre bort, al Efraims Æt.
16 And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.
Men du må ikke gå i Forbøn for dette Folk eller frembære klage og Bøn eller trænge ind på mig for dem, thi jeg hører dig ikke.
17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Ser du ikke, hvad de har for i Judas Byer og på Jerusalems Gader?,
18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
Børnene sanker Brænde, Fædrene tænder Ild, og Kvinderne ælter Dejg for at bage Offerkager til Himmelens Dronning og udgyde Drikofre for fremmede Guder og og krænke mig.
19 Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?
Mon det er mig, de krænker, lyder det fra HERREN, mon ikke sig selv til deres Ansigters Skam?
20 So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.
Derfor, så siger den Herre HERREN: Se, min Vrede og Harme udgyder sig over dette Sted, over Folk og Fæ, over Markens Træer og Jordens Frugt, og den skal brænde uden at slukkes.
21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.
Så siger Hærskarers HERRE, Israels Gud: Læg eders Brændofre til eders Slagtofre og æd Kød!
22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:
Thi dengang jeg førte eders Fædre ud af Ægypten, talede jeg ikke til dem eller bød dem noget om Brændoffer og Slagtoffer;
23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
men dette bød jeg dem: "I skal høre min Røst, så vil jeg være eders Gud, og I skal være mit Folk; og I skal gå på alle de Veje, jeg byder eder, at det må gå eder vel."
24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
Men de hørte ikke og lånte ikke Øre; de fulgte deres onde Hjertes Stivsind og gik tilbage, ikke fremad.
25 From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:
Fra den Dag eders Fædre drog ud af Ægypten, og til i Dag har jeg Dag efter Dag, årle og silde sendt eder alle mine Tjenere Profeterne;
26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
men de hørte ikke og lånte ikke Øre; de gjorde Nakken stiv og øvede mere ondt end deres Fædre.
27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.
Når du siger dem alle disse Ord, hører de dig ikke, og kalder du på dem, svarer de dig ikke.
28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.
Sig så til dem: Det er det Folk, som ej hørte HERREN deres Guds Røst, det, som ej tog ved Lære; Sandhed er svundet, udryddet af deres Mund.
29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
Afklip dit Hår, kast det bort og klag på de nøgne Høje! Thi HERREN har forkastet og bortstødt den Slægt, han var vred på.
30 For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.
Thi Judas Sønner har gjort, hvad der er ondt i mine Øjne, lyder det fra HERREN; de har opstillet deres væmmelige Guder i Huset, som mit Navn nævnes over, for at gøre det urent;
31 And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
de har bygget Tofets Offerhøje i Hinnoms Søns Dal for at brænde deres Sønner og Døtre i Ilden, hvad jeg ikke har påbudt, og hvad aldrig var i min Tanke.
32 For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death: for they will put the dead into the earth in Topheth till there is no more room.
Se, derfor skal Dage komme, lyder det fra HERREN, da man ikke mere skal sige Tofet og Hinnoms Søns Dal, men Morddalen, og man skal jorde de døde i Tofet, fordi Pladsen ikke slår til.
33 And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.
Og dette Folks Lig skal blive Himmelens Fugle og Jordens Dyr til Æde, og ingen skal skræmme dem bort.
34 And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
Og i Judas Byer og på Jerusalems Gader gør jeg Ende på Fryderåb og Glædesråb, Brudgoms Røst og Bruds Røst, thi Landet skal lægges øde.
