Jeremiah 29
1 Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias, the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried into captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Èyí ni ọ̀rọ̀ inú lẹ́tà tí wòlíì Jeremiah rán láti Jerusalẹmu sí ìyókù nínú àwọn àgbàgbà tí ó wà ní ìgbèkùn àti sí àwọn àlùfáà, àwọn wòlíì àti gbogbo àwọn ènìyàn tí Nebukadnessari tí kó ní ìgbèkùn láti Jerusalẹmu lọ sí Babeli.
2 After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsman, and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem:
Lẹ́yìn ìgbà tí Jekoniah, ọba, àti ayaba, àti àwọn ìwẹ̀fà, àti àwọn ìjòyè Juda àti Jerusalẹmu, àwọn gbẹ́nàgbẹ́nà àti àwọn olùyàwòrán tí wọ́n lọ ṣe àtìpó láti Jerusalẹmu.
3 By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the son of Helcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, saying:
Ó fi lẹ́tà náà rán Eleasa ọmọ Ṣafani àti Gemariah ọmọ Hilkiah, ẹni tí Sedekiah ọba Juda rán sí Nebukadnessari ọba Babeli. Wí pé.
4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Èyí ni ọ̀rọ̀ tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run Alágbára Israẹli sọ fún gbogbo àwọn ènìyàn tí mo kó lọ ṣe àtìpó láti Jerusalẹmu ní Babeli:
5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.
“Ẹ kọ́ ilé kí ẹ sì máa gbé ibẹ̀, ẹ dá oko, kí ẹ sì máa jẹ èso ohun ọ̀gbìn oko yín.
6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.
Ẹ ṣe ìgbéyàwó, kí ẹ sì bí ọmọkùnrin àti ọmọbìnrin, ẹ gbé ìyàwó fún àwọn ọmọkùnrin yín, kí ẹ sì fi àwọn ọmọbìnrin yín fún ọkọ. Kí àwọn náà lè ní ọmọkùnrin àti ọmọbìnrin. Ẹ máa pọ̀ sí i ní iye, ẹ kò gbọdọ̀ dínkù ní iye níbẹ̀ rárá.
7 And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.
Bákan náà, ẹ máa wá àlàáfíà àti ìre ìlú, èyí tí mo kó yín lọ láti ṣe àtìpó. Ẹ gbàdúrà sí Olúwa fún ìre ilẹ̀ náà; nítorí pé bí ó bá dára fún ilẹ̀ náà, yóò dára fún ẹ̀yin pẹ̀lú.”
8 For thus saith the Lord of hoses the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream:
Èyí ni ohun tí Olúwa àwọn ọmọ-ogun Ọlọ́run Israẹli wí: “Ẹ má ṣe gbà kí àwọn wòlíì èké àti àwọn aláfọ̀ṣẹ àárín yín tàn yín jẹ. Ẹ má ṣe fetísílẹ̀ sí àlá, èyí tí ẹ gbà wọ́n níyànjú láti lá.
9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent them, saith the Lord.
Wọ́n ń sọ àsọtẹ́lẹ̀ èké fún yín lórúkọ mi, Èmi kò rán wọn níṣẹ́,” ni Olúwa wí.
10 For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you again to this place.
Báyìí ni Olúwa wí: “Nígbà tí ẹ bá lo àádọ́rin ọdún pé ní Babeli, èmi yóò tọ̀ yín wá láti ṣe àmúṣẹ ìlérí ńlá mi fún un yín, àní láti kó o yín padà sí Jerusalẹmu.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.
Nítorí mo mọ èrò tí mo rò sí yín,” ni Olúwa wí, “àní èrò àlàáfíà, kì í sì ṣe fún ibi, èrò láti fún un yín ní ìgbà ìkẹyìn àti ìrètí ọjọ́ iwájú.
12 And you shall call upon me, and you shall go: and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.
Nígbà náà ni ẹ̀yin yóò ké pè mí, tí ẹ̀yin yóò sì gbàdúrà sí mi, tí èmi yóò sì gbọ́ àdúrà yín.
13 You shall seek me, and shall And me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.
Ẹ̀yin yóò wá mi, bí ẹ̀yin bá sì fi gbogbo ọkàn yín wá mi: ẹ̀yin yóò rí mi ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run wí.
14 And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.
Èmi yóò di rí rí fún yín ni Olúwa wí, Èmi yóò sì mú yín padà kúrò ní ìgbèkùn. Èmi yóò ṣà yín jọ láti gbogbo orílẹ̀-èdè àti ibi gbogbo tí Èmi ti lé yín jáde, ni Olúwa wí. Èmi yóò sì kó yín padà sí ibi tí mo ti mú kí a kó yín ní ìgbèkùn lọ.”
15 Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:
Ẹ̀yin lè wí pé, “Olúwa ti gbé àwọn wòlíì dìde fún wa ní Babeli.”
16 For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity.
Ṣùgbọ́n èyí ni ọ̀rọ̀ Olúwa ní ti ọba tí ó jókòó lórí ìtẹ́ Dafidi àti ní ti gbogbo ènìyàn tó ṣẹ́kù ní ìlú yìí; àní ní ti àwọn ènìyàn yín tí kò bá yín lọ sí ìgbèkùn,
17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like bad figs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.
bẹ́ẹ̀ ni, báyìí ni Olúwa àwọn ọmọ-ogun wí pé, “Èmi yóò rán idà, ìyàn àti àjàkálẹ̀-ààrùn sí àárín wọn; Èmi yóò ṣe wọ́n bí èso ọ̀pọ̀tọ́ búburú tí kò ṣe é jẹ.
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and pith the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them out:
Èmi yóò fi idà, ìyàn àti àjàkálẹ̀-ààrùn lépa wọn, Èmi yóò sì sọ wọ́n di ìríra lójú gbogbo ìjọba ayé, fún ègún, àti ìyanu, àti ẹ̀sín, àti ẹ̀gàn láàrín gbogbo orílẹ̀-èdè ayé, ní ibi tí Èmi yóò lé wọn sí.
19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord: which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and sending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord.
Nítorí wọ́n kọ̀ láti gbọ́ ọ̀rọ̀ mi,” ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run wí. Ọ̀rọ̀ tí mo tún ti ẹnu àwọn ìránṣẹ́ mi wòlíì sọ ní ẹ̀yin tí ń ṣe àtìpó kò gbọ́ ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run wí.
20 Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Nítorí náà, gbogbo ẹ̀yin ìgbèkùn, ẹ gbọ́ ọ̀rọ̀ Olúwa, ẹ̀yin tí mo rán lọ kúrò ní Jerusalẹmu lọ sí Babeli.
21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your eyes.
Èyí ni ohun tí Olúwa àwọn ọmọ-ogun, Ọlọ́run Israẹli sọ nípa Ahabu ọmọ Kolaiah àti nípa Sedekiah ọmọ Maaseiah tí wọ́n ń sọ àsọtẹ́lẹ̀ èké fún un yín lórúkọ mi: “Èmi yóò fi wọ́n lé Nebukadnessari ọba Babeli lọ́wọ́. Òun yóò sì gba ẹ̀mí wọn ní ìṣẹ́jú yìí gan an.
22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire:
Nítorí tiwọn, ègún yìí yóò ran gbogbo àwọn àtìpó tó wà ní ilẹ̀ Babeli láti Juda: ‘Olúwa yóò ṣe yín bí i Sedekiah àti Ahabu tí ọba Babeli dáná sun.’
23 Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.
Nítorí wọ́n ti ṣe ibi ní ilé Israẹli, wọ́n ti ṣe àgbèrè pẹ̀lú àwọn ìyàwó aládùúgbò wọn, àti ní orúkọ mi ni wọ́n ti ṣe èké, èyí tí Èmi kò rán wọn láti ṣe. Ṣùgbọ́n, Èmi mọ àwọn nǹkan wọ̀nyí, mo sì jẹ́ ẹlẹ́rìí sí i,” ni Olúwa wí.
24 And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:
Wí fún Ṣemaiah tí í ṣe Nehalami pé,
25 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because thou hast sent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to all the priests, saying:
“Èyí ni ohun tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run Alágbára Israẹli wí: Ìwọ fi lẹ́tà ránṣẹ́ sí gbogbo àwọn ènìyàn ní Jerusalẹmu sí Sefaniah ọmọ Maaseiah tí í ṣe àlùfáà ní orúkọ mi; ó sì sọ fún Sefaniah wí pé,
26 The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.
‘Olúwa ti yàn ọ́ gẹ́gẹ́ bí àlùfáà rọ́pò Jehoiada láti máa jẹ́ alákòóso ilé Olúwa, kí o máa fi èyíkéyìí nínú àwọn aṣiwèrè tó bá ṣe bí i wòlíì si inú àgò irin.
27 And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who prophesieth to you?
Nítorí náà, èéṣe tí o kò fi bá Jeremiah ará Anatoti wí. Ẹni tí ó ń dúró bí i wòlíì láàrín yín?
28 For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them.
Ó ti rán iṣẹ́ yìí sí wa ni Babeli wí pé, àtìpó náà yóò pẹ́ kí ó tó parí, nítorí náà, ẹ kọ́ ilé kí ẹ sì máa gbé ibẹ̀, ẹ dá oko, kí ẹ sì máa jẹ èso ohun ọ̀gbìn oko yín.’”
29 So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing of Jeremias the prophet.
Sefaniah àlùfáà ka lẹ́tà náà sí etí ìgbọ́ Jeremiah tí í ṣe wòlíì.
30 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
Nígbà náà ni ọ̀rọ̀ Olúwa tọ Jeremiah wá wí pé,
31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and I sent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a lie:
“Rán iṣẹ́ yìí sí gbogbo àwọn ìgbèkùn wí pé: ‘Èyí ni ohun tí Olúwa wí ní ti Ṣemaiah, ará Nehalami: Nítorí pé Ṣemaiah ti sọtẹ́lẹ̀ fún un yín, ṣùgbọ́n èmi kò ran an, tí òun sì ń mú u yín gbẹ́kẹ̀lé èké.
32 Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the midst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord.
Nítorí náà báyìí ni Olúwa wí: Wò ó, èmi yóò bẹ Ṣemaiah, ará Nehalami wò, àti irú-ọmọ rẹ̀; òun kì yóò ní ọkùnrin kan láti máa gbé àárín ènìyàn yìí, bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kì yóò rí rere náà tí èmi yóò ṣe fún àwọn ènìyàn mi ni Olúwa wí, nítorí ó ti ti kéde ìṣọ̀tẹ̀ sí mi.’”
