Jeremiah 52

1 One and twenty years was Zedekiah old when he became king, and eleven years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Chamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

صدقیا بیست و یک ساله بود که پادشاه شد و یازده سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. اسم مادرش حمیطل (دختر ارمیای لبنه‌ای) بود.

2 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that Jehoyakim had done.

صدقیا مثل یهویاقیم، آنچه در نظر خداوند نادرست بود، به عمل آورد،

3 For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass against Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out of his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

و خداوند بر اورشلیم و یهودا خشمگین شده، ایشان را از حضور خود به دور افکند و به تبعید فرستاد. و اما صدقیا علیه پادشاه بابِل شورش کرد.

4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they encamped against it, and built against it works of attack round about.

پس در روز دهم ماه دهم از سال نهم سلطنت صدقیا، نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل، با تمام سپاهیان خود به اورشلیم لشکرکشی کرد و در اطراف آن سنگر ساخت.

5 So the city was placed in a state of siege until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

شهر، دو سال در محاصره بود.

6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, when the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land:

سرانجام در روز نهم ماه چهارم که قحطی در شهر بیداد می‌کرد و آخرین ذخیرهٔ نان هم تمام شده بود،

7 The city was broken in, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was near the king's garden; [while the Chaldeans were round about the city; ] and they went by the way of the plain.

مردم اورشلیم، شکافی در دیوار شهر ایجاد کردند. سربازان وقتی این را دیدند، علیرغم محاصرهٔ شهر، شبانه از دروازه‌هایی که بین دو دیوار نزدیک باغهای پادشاه بود، بیرون رفتند و به طرف درهٔ اردن گریختند.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was scattered from him.

ولی سربازان بابِلی، ایشان را تعقیب کردند و در بیابانهای اطراف اریحا، صدقیای پادشاه را گرفتند، ولی محافظین او فرار کردند.

9 And they caught the king, and they brought him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Chamath: and he called him to account.

سپس او را به حضور پادشاه بابِل که در شهر ربله در سرزمین حمات مستقر شده بود، آوردند و پادشاه بابِل در آنجا حکم محکومیت او را صادر کرد،

10 And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: and also all the princes of Judah did he slaughter in Riblah.

و در برابر چشمان صدقیا تمام پسرانش و بزرگان یهودا را کشت.

11 And the eyes of Zedekiah did he blind; and the king of Babylon bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in the ward-house till the day of his death.

سپس چشمان او را از حدقه درآورد و او را با زنجیرها بسته، به بابِل برد و تا آخر عمر در زندان نگه داشت.

12 And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, [who] served the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.

در روز دهم ماه پنجم از سال نوزدهم سلطنت نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل، نبوزرادان فرماندۀ سپاه بابِل و مشاور پادشاه، وارد اورشلیم شد

13 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house: and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, did he burn with fire:

و خانۀ خداوند، کاخ سلطنتی و تمام خانه‌های بزرگ شهر را به آتش کشید،

14 And all the walls of Jerusalem round about did all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, pull down.

و سربازانش دیوار شهر را خراب کردند.

15 And certain of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people that had been left in the city, and the deserters, that had run away to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away into exile.

آنگاه عده‌ای از فقرای یهودا را با آنانی که در اورشلیم زنده مانده بودند و کسانی که صدقیا را ترک کرده، به بابِلی‌ها پیوسته بودند، و صنعتگران باقی مانده در شهر را به بابِل تبعید کرد.

16 But certain of the poorest of the land did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard leave for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

تنها عده‌ای فقیر را برای کار کشاورزی و باغبانی در آنجا باقی گذاشت.

17 Also the pillars of copper that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the copper sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldeans break, and they carried off all their copper to Babylon.

بابِلی‌ها ستونهای مفرغین خانهٔ خداوند و حوض مفرغین و میزهای متحرکی را که در آنجا بود، شکستند و تمام مفرغ آنها را به بابِل بردند.

18 And the pots, and the shovels, and the knives, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they used to perform the service, did they take away.

نبوزرادان تمام دیگهای بزرگ و کوچک مفرغین و خاک‌اندازها را که برای مذبح به کار می‌رفت و انبرها، قاشقها، کاسه‌ها و تمام ظروف دیگر مفرغین خانهٔ خدا را با خود برد. او همچنین انبرها، چراغدانها، پیاله‌ها و کاسه‌های طلا و نقره را به همراه برد.

19 And the basins, and the censers, and the bowls, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the purifying-tubes: of what was of gold the gold, and of what was of silver the silver, did the captain of the guard take away.

20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve copper oxen that served instead of the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the copper of all these vessels could not be weighed.

دو ستون و حوضچه و دوازده گاو مفرغین که زیر حوضچه قرار داشت به قدری سنگین بودند که وزن کردن آنها امکان‌پذیر نبود. تمام اینها در زمان سلیمان پادشاه ساخته شده بود.

21 And as regardeth the pillars, eighteen cubits was the height of each one pillar; and a thread of twelve cubits would compass it; and its thickness was four fingers: it was hollow.

بلندی هر ستون در حدود هشت متر و محیط آن در حدود پنج متر و نیم و ضخامت دیوارهایش چهار انگشت بود و میان‌تهی بود،

22 And a capital was upon it of copper; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of copper. And the like was the case with the second pillar and the pomegranates.

و هر یک از آنها نیز سر ستونی مفرغین به بلندی دو متر و نیم داشت و گرداگرد هر سر ستون، انارهای مفرغین، کنده‌کاری شده بود؛

23 And the pomegranates were ninety and six on every side: all the pomegranates upon the network were one hundred round about.

روی هر سر ستون، یکصد انار وجود داشت، ولی از پایین فقط نود و شش انار را می‌شد دید.

24 And the captain of the guard took Serayah the chief priest, and Zephanyah the priest second in rank, and the three door-keepers;

در ضمن نبوزرادان، فرماندهٔ سپاه بابِل این افراد را نیز در مخفیگاههایشان در شهر پیدا کرد: سرایا، کاهن اعظم و معاون او صفنیا، سه نفر از نگهبانان خانهٔ خدا، یکی از فرماندهان لشکر با هفت نفر از مشاوران مخصوص پادشاه، کاتب فرماندهٔ سپاه یهودا (که مسئول ثبت تعداد سربازان بود) و شصت نفر از اشخاص مهم دیگر.

25 And out of the city he took a certain court-officer, who had the supervision of the men of war: and seven men of those that had free access to the kings presence, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the chief of the army, who ordered to the army the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city;

26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and led them away unto the king of Babylon to Riblah.

نبوزرادان ایشان را به ربله نزد پادشاه بابِل برد،

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Chamath. Thus Judah was carried away into exile out of his own country.

و پادشاه در آنجا همه را کشت. به این ترتیب اهالی یهودا به بابِل تبعید شدند.

28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty and three Jews;

تعداد اسیرانی که در سال هفتم سلطنت نِبوکَدنِصَّر به بابِل برده شدند، ۳٬۰۲۳ نفر بود.

29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar from Jerusalem, eight hundred thirty and two persons;

یازده سال بعد، او ۸۳۲ نفر دیگر را هم از اورشلیم اسیر کرد و به بابِل برد.

30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away into exile of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons; all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

پنج سال بعد از آن، نبوزرادان فرماندهٔ سپاه بابِل، ۷۴۵ نفر دیگر را تبعید کرد. بنابراین، در مجموع، ۴٬۶۰۰ نفر تبعید شدند.

31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the exile of Jehoyachin the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the five and twentieth day of the month that Evil-merodach the king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoyachin the king of Judah, and brought him forth out of the prison-house;

در روز بیست و پنجم ماه دوازدهم از سی و هفتمین سال اسیری یهویاکین، پادشاه یهودا، اویل مرودک به پادشاهی بابِل رسید و یهویاکین را مورد لطف خود قرار داد و او را از زندان بیرون آورد.

32 And he spoke kindly with him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

او با یهویاکین رفتاری مهرآمیز در پیش گرفت و او را بر تمام پادشاهان تبعیدی در بابِل برتری داد،

33 And he changed his prison-garments: and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

لباس نو به او پوشاند و از آن پس، او همیشه با پادشاه بابِل سر سفره می‌نشست.

34 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, the necessary ration for the day on its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

اویل مرودک تا روزی که یهویاکین زنده بود، برای رفع احتیاجاتش به او مقرری می‌پرداخت.