Jeremiah 7
1 The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
Verbum, quod factum est ad Ieremiam a Domino, dicens:
2 “Stand in the gate of the house of YHWH, and you have proclaimed this word there, and have said, Hear a word of YHWH, all you of Judah, who are coming in at these gates, to bow before YHWH.”
Sta in porta domus Domini, et prædica ibi verbum istud, et dic: Audite verbum Domini omnis Iuda, qui ingredimini per portas has, ut adoretis Dominum.
3 Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Amend your ways, and your doings, And I cause you to dwell in this place.
Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Bonas facite vias vestras, et studia vestra: et habitabo vobiscum in loco isto.
4 Do not trust for yourselves To the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of YHWH! The temple of YHWH! These [are] the temple of YHWH!
Nolite confidere in verbis mendacii, dicentes: Templum Domini, templum Domini, templum Domini est.
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If you thoroughly do judgment Between a man and his neighbor,
Quoniam si bene direxeritis vias vestras, et studia vestra: si feceritis iudicium inter virum et proximum eius,
6 You do not oppress sojourner, fatherless, and widow, And innocent blood is not shed in this place, And [you] do not walk after other gods, for evil to yourselves,
advenæ, et pupillo, et viduæ non feceritis calumniam, nec sanguinem innocentem effuderitis in loco hoc, et post deos alienos non ambulaveritis in malum vobismetipsis:
7 Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even to age.
habitabo vobiscum in loco isto: in terra, quam dedi patribus vestris a sæculo et usque in sæculum.
8 Behold, you are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.
Ecce vos confiditis vobis in sermonibus mendacii, qui non proderunt vobis:
9 Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving incense to Ba‘al, And going after other gods whom you did not know.
furari, occidere, adulterari, iurare mendaciter, libare Baalim, et ire post deos alienos, quos ignoratis.
10 And you have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My Name is called, And have said, We have been delivered, In order to do all these abominations.
Et venistis, et stetistis coram me in domo hac, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, et dixistis: Liberati sumus eo quod fecerimus omnes abominationes istas.
11 Has this house, On which My Name is called, Been a den of burglars in your eyes? Even I, behold, have seen,” A declaration of YHWH.
Numquid ergo spelunca latronum facta est domus ista, in qua invocatum est nomen meum in oculis vestris? ego, ego sum: ego vidi, dicit Dominus.
12 “But go now to My place that [is] in Shiloh, Where I caused My Name to dwell at first, And see that which I have done to it, For the wickedess of My people Israel.
Ite ad locum meum in Silo, ubi habitavit nomen meum a principio: et videte quæ fecerim ei propter malitiam populi mei Israel:
13 And now, because of your doing all these works,” A declaration of YHWH, “And I speak to you, rising early and speaking, And you have not listened, And I call you, and you have not answered,
et nunc, quia fecistis omnia opera hæc, dicit Dominus: et locutus sum ad vos mane consurgens, et loquens, et non audistis: et vocavi vos, et non respondistis:
14 I also have done to the house on which My Name is called, In which you are trusting, And to the place that I gave to you, and to your fathers, As I have done to Shiloh.
Faciam domui huic, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, et in qua vos habetis fiduciam: et loco, quem dedi vobis et patribus vestris, sicut feci Silo.
15 And I have cast you from before My face, As I have cast out all your brothers, The whole seed of Ephraim.
Et proiiciam vos a facie mea, sicut proieci omnes fratres vestros, universum semen Ephraim.
16 And you do not pray for this people, Nor lift up crying and prayer for them, Nor intercede with Me, for I do not hear you.
Tu ergo noli orare pro populo hoc, nec assumas pro eis laudem et orationem, et non obsistas mihi: quia non exaudiam te.
17 Are you not seeing what they are doing In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem?
Nonne vides quid isti faciunt in civitatibus Iuda, et in plateis Ierusalem?
18 The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.
Filii colligunt ligna, et patres succendunt ignem, et mulieres conspergunt adipem, ut faciant placentas reginæ cæli, et libent diis alienis, et me ad iracundiam provocent.
19 Are they provoking Me to anger?” A declaration of YHWH, “Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?”
Numquid me ad iracundiam provocant, dicit Dominus? nonne semetipsos in confusionem vultus sui?
20 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “Behold, My anger and My fury is poured out on this place, On man, and beast, and on tree of the field, And on fruit of the ground, And it has burned, and it is not quenched.”
Ideo hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce furor meus, et indignatio mea conflatur super locum istum, super viros, et super iumenta, et super lignum regionis, et super fruges terræ, et succendetur, et non extinguetur.
21 Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.
Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Holocautomata vestra addite victimis vestris, et comedite carnes.
22 For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice,
Quia non sum locutus cum patribus vestris, et non præcepi eis in die, qua eduxi eos de Terra Ægypti, de verbo holocautomatum, et victimarum.
23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And you are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.
Sed hoc verbum præcepi eis, dicens: Audite vocem meam, et ero vobis Deus, et vos eritis mihi populus: et ambulate in omni via, quam mandavi vobis, ut bene sit vobis.
24 And they have not listened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, [And] in the stubbornness, of their evil hearts, And are backward and not forward.
Et non audierunt, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam: sed abierunt in voluntatibus, et in pravitate cordis sui mali: factique sunt retrorsum, et non in ante,
25 Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt until this day, I send all My servants the prophets to you, Daily rising early and sending,
a die qua egressi sunt patres eorum de terra Ægypti, usque ad diem hanc. Et misi ad vos omnes servos meos prophetas per diem, consurgens diluculo, et mittens.
26 And they have not listened to Me, Nor inclined their ear—and they harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.
Et non audierunt me, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam: sed induraverunt cervicem suam: et peius operati sunt, quam patres eorum.
27 And you have spoken all these words to them, And they do not listen to you, And you have called to them, And they do not answer you.
Et loqueris ad eos omnia verba hæc, et non audient te: et vocabis eos, et non respondebunt tibi.
28 And you have said to them: This [is] the nation that has not listened, To the voice of its God YHWH, Nor have they accepted instruction, Steadfastness has perished, Indeed, it has been cut off from their mouth.
Et dices ad eos: Hæc est gens, quæ non audivit vocem Domini Dei sui, nec recepit disciplinam: periit fides, et ablata est de ore eorum.
29 Cut off your crown, and cast [it] away, And lift up lamentation on high places, For YHWH has rejected, And He leaves the generation of His wrath.
Tonde capillum tuum, et proiice, et sume in directum planctum: quia proiecit Dominus, et reliquit generationem furoris sui,
30 For the sons of Judah Have done evil in My eyes,” A declaration of YHWH, “They have set their abominations in the house On which My Name is called—to defile it,
quia fecerunt filii Iuda malum in oculis meis, dicit Dominus. Posuerunt offendicula sua in domo, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, ut polluerent eam:
31 And have built the high places of Tophet, That [are] in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, To burn their sons and their daughters with fire, Which I did not command, Nor did it come up on My heart.
et ædificaverunt excelsa Topheth, quæ est in valle filii Ennom: ut incenderent filios suos, et filias suas igni: quæ non præcepi, nec cogitavi in corde meo.
32 Therefore, behold, days are coming,” A declaration of YHWH, “And it is no longer said, The Tophet, And, Valley of the Son of Hinnom, But, Valley of the Slaughter, And they have buried in Tophet—without place.
Ideo ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus, et non dicetur amplius, Topheth, et Vallis filii Ennom: sed Vallis interfectionis: et sepelient in Topheth, eo quod non sit locus.
33 And the carcass of this people has been for food To a bird of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.
Et erit morticinum populi huius in cibos volucribus cæli, et bestiis terræ, et non erit qui abigat.
34 And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, And from streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, For the land becomes a desolation!”
Et quiescere faciam de urbibus Iuda, et de plateis Ierusalem vocem gaudii, et vocem lætitiæ, vocem sponsi, et vocem sponsæ: in desolationem enim erit terra.
