Jeremiah 31

1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

١ وَيَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: «فِي ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ أَكُونُ إِلَهاً لِجَمِيعِ عَشَائِرِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَهُمْ يَكُونُونَ لِي شَعْباً.

2 Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

٢ قَدْ نَالَ النَّاجُونَ مِنَ السَّيْفِ نِعْمَةً فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ (أَيْ فِي أَثْنَاءِ السَّبْيِ) عِنْدَمَا ذَهَبْتُ لأُرْيِحَ إِسْرَائِيلَ».

3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

٣ ظَهَرَ لِيَ الرَّبُّ قَائِلاً: «أَحْبَبْتُكُمْ حُبّاً أَبَدِيًّا، لِذَلِكَ اجْتَذَبْتُكُمْ إِلَيَّ بِرَحْمَةٍ.

4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

٤ لِهَذَا أَبْنِيكِ يَا عَذْرَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ (أَيْ أُورُشَلِيمُ) فَتُبْنَيْنَ، وَتَتَزَيَّنِينَ ثَانِيَةً بِدُفُوفِكِ، وَتَبْرُزِينَ فِي مَرَاقِصِ الطَّرِبِينَ.

5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things.

٥ تَغْرِسِيِنَ كُرُوماً ثَانِيَةً فَوْقَ جِبَالِ السَّامِرَةِ. يَغْرِسُ الْفَلّاحُونَ وَيَجْنُونَ الثِّمَارَ.

6 For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.

٦ لأَنَّهُ سَيَأْتِي يَوْمٌ يُنَادِي فِيهِ الْمُرَاقِبُونَ فِي جَبَلِ أَفْرَايِمَ قَائِلِينَ: هَلُمُّوا فَنَصْعَدُ إِلَى صِهْيَوْنَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا».

7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

٧ فَإِنَّ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: «رَنِّمُوا بِهُتَافٍ لِيَعْقُوبَ، اهْتِفُوا لِرَأْسِ الأُمَمِ، أَعْلِنُوا وَسَبِّحُوا وَقُولُوا:’أَنْقِذْ يَا رَبُّ شَعْبَكَ، بَقِيَّةَ إِسْرَائِيلَ‘.

8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

٨ هَا أَنَا آتِي بِهِمْ مِنْ بِلادِ الشِّمَالِ، وَأَجْمَعُهُمْ مِنْ أَقْصَى أَطْرَافِ الأَرْضِ، وَفِيهِمِ الأَعْمَى وَالأَعْرَجُ، الْحُبْلَى وَالْمَاخِضُ، فَيَرْجِعُ حَشْدٌ عَظِيمٌ إِلَى هُنَا.

9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn.

٩ سَيَرْجِعُونَ بِنَوْحٍ، وَبِتَضَرُّعَاتٍ أَهْدِيهِمْ. إِلَى جُوارِ جَدَاوِلِ الْمِيَاهِ أُسَيِّرُهُمْ فَيْمْشُونَ فِي طَرِيقٍ مُسْتَقِيمَةٍ لَا يَعْثُرُونُ فِيهَا، لأَنِّي أَبٌ لإِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَفْرَايِمُ بِكْرِي».

10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.

١٠ «فَاسْمَعُوا كَلامَ الرَّبِّ أَيُّهَا الأُمَمُ، وَأَذِيعُوا فِي الْجَزَائِرِ الْبَعِيدَةِ، وَقُولُوا:’الَّذِي بَدَّدَ شَعْبَ إِسْرَائِيلَ هُوَ الَّذِي يَجْمَعُهُ وَيُحَافِظُ عَلَيْهِ كَمَا يُحَافِظُ الرَّاعِي عَلَى قَطِيعِهِ.‘

11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.

١١ لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ افْتَدَى إِسْرَائِيلَ وَفَكَّهُ مِنْ يَدِ مَنْ هُوَ أَقْوَى مِنْهُ.

12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

١٢ فَيُقْبِلُونَ مُرَنِّمِينَ بِهُتَافٍ عَلَى مُرْتَفَعَاتِ صِهْيَوْنَ، وَيَبْتَهِجُونَ بِخَيْرَاتِ الرَّبِّ مِنْ حِنْطَةٍ وَخَمْرٍ جَدِيدٍ وَزَيْتٍ وَحُمْلانٍ وَعُجُولٍ، وَتَكُونُ نُفُوسُهُمْ كَجَنَّةٍ مَرْوِيَّةٍ، وَلا يَعْتَرِيهِمْ حُزْنٌ بَعْدُ.

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

١٣ حِينَئِذٍ تَبْتَهِجُ الْعَذَارَى بِالرَّقْصِ، وَيَطْرَبُ الشُّيُوخُ وَالشُّبَّانُ عَلَى حَدٍّ سَوَاءٍ. أُحَوِّلُ نَوْحَهُمْ إِلَى سُرُورٍ وَأَسْتَبْدِلُ حُزْنَهُمْ بِالْفَرَحِ وَالطُّمَأْنِينَةِ.

14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

١٤ وَأُشْبِعُ نُفُوسَ الْكَهَنَةِ مِنَ الْخَيْرَاتِ، وَيَمْتَلِئُ شَعْبِي مِنْ نِعْمَتِي».

15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not.

١٥ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: «قَدْ تَرَدَّدَ فِي الرَّامَةِ صَوْتُ نَدْبٍ وَبُكَاءٍ مُرٍّ. رَاحِيلُ تَنُوحُ عَلَى أَبْنَائِهَا وَتَأْبَى أَنْ تَتَعَزَّى عَنْهُمْ لأَنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَوَجُودِينَ».

16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

١٦ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: «كُفِّي صَوْتَكِ عَنِ الْبُكَاءِ وَعَيْنَيْكِ عَنِ الدُّمُوعِ لأَنَّ لِعَمَلِكِ ثَوَاباً»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، «إِذْ لابُدَّ أَنْ يَرْجِعَ أَوْلادُكِ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْعَدُوِّ.

17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

١٧ فَلِغَدِكِ رَجَاءٌ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، «إِذْ سَيَرْجِعُ أَوْلادُكِ إِلَى مَوْطِنِهِمْ.

18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus; ] Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke: ] turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

١٨ قَدْ سَمِعْتُ أَفْرَايِمَ يَنْتَحِبُ قَائِلاً: أَدَّبْتَنِي فَتَأَدَّبْتُ كَعِجْلٍ غَيْرِ مُرَوَّضٍ. أَرْجِعْنِي فَأَرْجِعَ لأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهِي.

19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

١٩ فَقَدْ تُبْتُ بَعْدَ أَنْ غَوِيتُ، وَبَعْدَ أَنْ تَعَلَّمْتُ صَفَقْتُ عَلَى فَخْذِي نَدَماً. خَجِلْتُ وَخَزِيتُ لأَنِّي حَمَلْتُ عَارَ حَدَاثَتِي.

20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

٢٠ هَلْ أَفْرَايِمُ ابْنٌ أَثِيرٌ لَدَيَّ؟ أَلَيْسَ هُوَ ابْناً مُسِرّاً؟ لأَنِّي مَعَ كَثْرَةِ تَنْدِيدِي بِهِ فَإِنِّي مَازِلْتُ أَذْكُرُهُ، لِذَلِكَ يَشْتَاقُ قَلْبِي إِلَيْهِ، وَأَكِنُّ لَهُ الرَّحْمَةَ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

٢١ «انْصِبِي لِنَفْسِكِ مَعَالِمَ. أَقِيمِي لِنَفْسِكِ أَنْصَاباً. تَأَمَّلِي فِي الطَّرِيقِ الرَّئِيسِيَّةِ، فِي السَّبِيلِ الَّذِي سَلَكْتِهِ. ارْجِعِي يَا عَذْرَاءَ صِهْيَوْنَ. ارْجِعِي إِلَى مُدُنِكِ هَذِهِ.

22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

٢٢ إِلَى مَتَى تَظَلِّينَ هَائِمَةً عَلَى وَجْهِكِ أَيَّتُهَا الابْنَةُ الْغَادِرَةُ؟ قَدْ خَلَقَ الرَّبُّ شَيْئاً جَدِيداً فِي الأَرْضِ: أُنْثَى تَحْمِي رَجُلاً».

23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of holiness.

٢٣ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «سَيُرَدِّدُونَ هَذِهِ الْعِبَارَةَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى فِي أَرْضِ يَهُوذَا وَفِي أَرْجَاءِ مُدُنِهَا، عِنْدَمَا أَرُدُّهُمْ مِنْ سَبْيِهِمْ: لِيُبَارِكْكَ الرَّبُّ يَا مَسْكَنَ الْبِرِّ، يَا أَيُّهَا الْجَبَلُ الْمُقَدَّسُ.

24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks.

٢٤ فَيُقِيمَ هُنَاكَ يَهُوذَا وَكُلُّ أَهْلِ مُدُنِهِ وَالْفَلّاحُونَ وَالسَّارِحُونَ بِقُطْعَانِهِمْ.

25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

٢٥ لأَنِّي سَأُنْعِشُ النَّفْسَ الْمُعْيِيَةَ، وَأُشْبِعُ النُّفُوسَ الْوَاهِنَةَ».

26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

٢٦ وَآنَئِذٍ اسْتَيْقَظْتُ وَتَأَمَّلْتُ، وَطَابَ لِي نَوْمِي.

27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

٢٧ «هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، «أُكَثِّرُ فِيهَا ذُرِّيَّةَ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيَهُوذَا، وَأُضَاعِفُ نِتَاجَ بَهَائِمِهِمْ أَضْعَافاً.

28 And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

٢٨ وَكَمَا تَرَبَّصْتُ بِهِمْ لأَسْتَأْصِلَ وَأَهْدِمَ وَأَنْقُضَ وَأُهْلِكَ وَأُسِيءَ، كَذَلِكَ أَسْهَرُ عَلَيْكُمْ لأَبْنِيَكُمْ وَأَغْرِسَكُمْ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

٢٩ «وَفِي تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ لَنْ يَقُولَ أَحَدٌ: قَدْ أَكَلَ الْآبَاءُ الْحِصْرِمَ فَضَرَسَتْ أَسْنَانُ الأَبْنَاءِ».

30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

٣٠ بَلْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ يَمُوتُ بِإِثْمِهِ، وَمَنْ يَأْكُلُ حِصْرِماً تَضْرَسُ أَسْنَانُهُ.

31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

٣١ «هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ «أَقْطَعُ فِيهَا عَهْداً جَدِيداً مَعَ ذُرِّيَّةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيَهُوذَا،

32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

٣٢ لَا كَالْعَهْدِ الَّذِي أَبْرَمْتُهُ مَعَ آبَائِهِمْ، يَوْمَ أَخَذْتُهُمْ بِيَدِهِمْ لأُخْرِجَهُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ، فَنَقَضُوا عَهْدِي، لِذَلِكَ أَهْمَلْتُهُمْ.

33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

٣٣ وَلَكِنْ هَذَا هُوَ الْعَهْدُ الَّذِي أُبْرِمُهُ مَعَ ذُرِّيَّةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ بَعْدَ تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: «سَأَجْعَلُ شَرِيعَتِي فِي دَوَاخِلِهِمْ، وَأُدَوِّنُهَا عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ وَأَكُونُ لَهُمْ إِلَهاً وَهُمْ يَكُونُونَ لِي شَعْباً.

34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

٣٤ وَلا يَحُضُّ فِي مَا بَعْدُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ قَرِيبَهُ قَائِلاً: اعْرِفِ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكَ لأَنَّهُمْ جَمِيعاً سَيَعْرِفُونَنِي، مِنْ صَغِيرِهِمْ إِلَى كَبِيرِهِمْ، لأَنِّي سَأَصْفَحُ عَنْ إِثْمِهِمْ وَلَنْ أَذْكُرَ خَطَايَاهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدُ».

35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:

٣٥ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الَّذِي جَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ لِلإِضَاءَةِ فِي النَّهَارِ، وَحَكَمَ عَلَى الْقَمَرِ وَالْكَوَاكِبِ لِلإِنَارَةِ لَيْلاً، الَّذِي يُثِيرُ الْبَحْرَ فَتَصْخَبُ أَمْوَاجُهُ، وَاسْمُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ.

36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

٣٦ «إِنْ كَانَتْ هَذِهِ الأَحْكَامُ تَزُولُ مِنْ أَمَامِي فَإِنَّ ذُرِّيَّةَ إِسْرَائِيلَ تَكُفُّ عَنْ أَنْ تَكُونَ لِي أُمَّةً».

37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

٣٧ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ: «إِنْ أَمْكَنَ قِيَاسُ السَّمَاوَاتِ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَالتَّنْقِيبُ عَنْ أُسُسِ الأَرْضِ مِنْ تَحْتُ، عِنْدَئِذٍ أَنْبِذُ ذُرِّيَّةَ إِسْرَائِيلَ بِسَبَبِ كُلِّ مَا ارْتَكَبُوهُ».

38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

٣٨ «هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ يُعَادُ فِيهَا بِنَاءُ هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةُ لِلرَّبِّ مِنْ بُرْجِ حَنَنْئِيلَ إِلَى بَابِ الزَّاوِيَةِ.

39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

٣٩ وَيَمْتَدُّ خَطُّ الْقِيَاسِ مِنْ هُنَاكَ إِلَى أَكَمَةِ جَارِبَ وَيَلْتَفُّ إِلَى جَوْعَةَ.

40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

٤٠ وَيُصْبِحُ كُلُّ وَادِي الْجُثَثِ وَالرَّمَادِ، وَسَائِرُ الْحُقُولِ إِلَى وَادِي قَدْرُونَ حَتَّى زَاوِيَةِ بَابِ الْخَيْلِ شَرْقاً قُدْساً لِلرَّبِّ، وَلَنْ تُسْتَأْصَلَ أَوْ تُهْدَمَ إِلَى الأَبَدِ».