Jeremiah 29

1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

١ هَذَا هُوَ نَصُّ الرِّسَالَةِ الَّتِي بَعَثَ بِها إِرْمِيَا النَّبِيُّ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَقِيَّةِ شُيُوخِ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ، وَإِلَى الْكَهَنَةِ، وَالْمُتَنَبِّئِينَ الْكَذَبَةِ، وَسَائِرِ الشَّعْبِ، مِمَّنْ سَبَاهُمْ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرُ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَابِلَ،

2 (after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, had departed from Jerusalem),

٢ وَذَلِكَ بَعْدَ خُرُوجِ يَكُنْيَا الْمَلِكِ وَالْمَلِكَةِ وَالْخِصْيَانِ وَرُؤَسَاءِ يَهُوذَا وَالنَّجَّارِينَ وَالْحَدَّادِينَ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ.

3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,

٣ وَحَمَلَ هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةَ أَلْعَاسَةُ بْنُ شَافَانَ وَجَمَرْيَا بْنُ حَلْقِيَا اللَّذَانِ أَرْسَلَهُمَا صِدْقِيَّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذَا إِلَى نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرَ مَلِكِ بَابِلَ، وَقَدْ وَرَدَ فِيهَا:

4 "Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:

٤ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِكُلِّ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ أَجْلَيْتُهُمْ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَابِلَ.

5 'Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.

٥ ابْنُوا بُيُوتاً وَأَقِيمُوا فِيهَا. اغْرِسُوا بَسَاتِينَ وَكُلُوا مِنْ نِتَاجِهَا.

6 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and do not be diminished.

٦ تَزَوَّجُوا وَأَنْجِبُوا بَنِينَ وَبَنَاتٍ، وَاتَّخِذُوا نِسَاءً لأَبْنَائِكُمْ وَزَوِّجُوا بَنَاتِكُمْ، وَلْيَلِدْنَ أَبْنَاءَ وَبَنَاتٍ. وَتَكَاثَرُوا هُنَاكَ، وَلا تَتَنَاقَصُوا،

7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to YHWH for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.'

٧ وَالْتَمِسُوا سَلامَ الْمَدِينَةِ الَّتِي سَبَيْتُكُمْ إِلَيْهَا، وَصَلُّوا مِنْ أَجْلِهَا إِلَى الرَّبِّ لأَنَّ سَلامَكُمْ يَتَوَقَّفُ عَلَى سَلامِهَا.

8 For thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Do not let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

٨ لأَنَّ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «لَا يَخْدَعَنَّكُمْ أَنْبِيَاؤُكُمُ الْكَذَبَةُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي وَسَطِكُمْ، وَالْعَرَّافُونَ. لَا تَسْتَمِعُوا إِلَى أَحْلامِهِمِ الَّتِي تُوْهِمُكُمْ بِالأَمَلِ،

9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them,' says YHWH.

٩ لأَنَّهُمْ يَتَنَبَّأُونَ لَكُمْ بِاسْمِي كَذِباً، وَأَنَا لَمْ أَبْعَثْهُمْ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

10 "For thus says YHWH, 'After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

١٠ وَلَكِنْ بَعْدَ انْقِضَاءِ سَبْعِينَ سَنَةً عَلَيْكُمْ فِي بَابِلَ، أَلْتَفِتُ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَفِي لَكُمْ بِوُعُودِي الصَّالِحَةِ بِرَدِّكُمْ إِلَى هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ.

11 For I know the plans that I have for you,' says YHWH, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future.

١١ لأَنِّي عَرَفْتُ مَا رَسَمْتُهُ لَكُمْ. إِنَّهَا خُطَطُ سَلامٍ لَا شَرٍّ لأَمْنَحَكُمْ مُسْتَقْبَلاً وَرَجَاءً.

12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

١٢ فَتَدْعُونَنِي وَتُقْبِلُونَ، وَتُصَلُّونَ إِلَيَّ فَأَسْتَجِيبُ لَكُمْ،

13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

١٣ وَتَلْتَمِسُونَنِي فَتَجِدُونَنِي إِذْ تَطْلُبُونَنِي بِكُلِّ قُلُوبِكُمْ.

14 I will be found by you,' says YHWH, 'and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you,' says YHWH; 'and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.'

١٤ وَحِينَ تَجِدُونَنِي أَرُدُّ سَبْيَكُمْ، وَأَجْمَعُكُمْ مِنْ بَيْنِ جَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ وَمِنْ جَمِيعِ الأَمَاكِنِ الَّتِي شَتَّتُّكُمْ إِلَيْهَا.

15 "Because you have said, 'YHWH has raised us up prophets in Babylon';

١٥ وَلأَنَّكُمْ قُلْتُمْ: «قَدْ بَعَثَ الرَّبُّ فِينَا أَنْبِيَاءَ فِي بَابِلَ».

16 thus says YHWH concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity;

١٦ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ عَنِ الْمَلِكِ الْجَالِسِ عَلَى عَرْشِ دَاوُدَ، وَعَنْ سَائِرِ الشَّعْبِ الْمُقِيمِ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ مِنْ أَقْرِبَائِكُمُ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يَذْهَبُوا إِلَى السَّبْيِ:

17 thus says YHWH of hosts; 'Look, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.

١٧ «هَا أَنَا أَقْضِي عَلَيْهِمْ بِالسَّيْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَالْوَبَاءِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ كَتِينٍ رَدِيءٍ تَعَافُ النَّفْسُ أَكْلَهُ لِفَرْطِ رَدَاءَتِهِ.

18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;

١٨ وَأَتَعَقَّبُهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَالْوَبَاءِ، وَأُعَرِّضُهُمْ لِلرُّعْبِ فِي كُلِّ مَمَالِكِ الأَرْضِ، فَيُصْبِحُونَ لَعْنَةً وَمَثَارَ دَهْشَةٍ وَصَفِيرٍ وَعَارٍ فِي جَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي شَتَّتُّهُمْ إِلَيْهَا،

19 because they have not listened to my words,' says YHWH, 'with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,' says YHWH.

١٩ لأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا كَلامِي الَّذِي أَنْذَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ مُنْذُ الْبَدْءِ عَلَى لِسَانِ عَبِيدِي الأَنْبِيَاءِ وَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا».

20 'Hear therefore the word of YHWH, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.'

٢٠ أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَاسْمَعُوا كَلِمَةَ الرَّبِّ يَا جَمِيعَ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ أَجْلَيْتُهُمْ عَنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَابِلَ.

21 "Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahiab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: 'Look, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;

٢١ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ آخْابَ بْنِ قُولايَا وَعَنْ صِدْقِيَّا بْنِ مَعْسِيَّا اللَّذَيْنِ يَتَنَبَّآنِ لَكُمْ بِاسْمِي زُوراً: «هَا أَنَا أُسَلِّمُهُمَا لِيَدِ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرَ مَلِكِ بَابِلَ فَيَقْتُلُهُمَا عَلَى مَرْأَى مِنْكُمْ،

22 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "YHWH make you like Zedekiah and like Ahiab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire";

٢٢ فَيُصْبِحَانِ مَثَلَ لَعْنَةٍ بَيْنَ جَمِيعِ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ مِنْ يَهُوذَا فِي بَابِلَ، فَيُقَالُ: لِيَجْعَلْكَ اللهُ نَظِيرَ صِدْقِيَّا وَأَخَآبَ اللَّذَيْنِ قَلاهُمَا مَلِكُ بَابِلَ بِالنَّارِ،

23 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness,' says YHWH."

٢٣ لأَنَّهُمَا ارْتَكَبَا الْفَوَاحِشَ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَزَنَيَا مَعَ نِسَاءِ أَصْحَابِهِمَا وَتَنَبَّآ بِاسْمِي نُبُوءَاتٍ كَاذِبَةً لَمْ آمُرْهُمَا بِها. فَأَنَا الْعَارِفُ وَالشَّاهِدُ» يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

24 "Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,

٢٤ وَأَيْضاً قُلْ لِشِمْعِيَا النِّحْلامِيِّ:

25 'Thus speaks YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, "Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

٢٥ «هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: لَقَدْ بَعَثْتَ بِرَسَائِلَ بِاسْمِكَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الشَّعْبِ الْمُقِيمِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَإِلَى صَفَنْيَا بْنِ مَعْسِيَّا الْكَاهِنِ وَإِلَى سَائِرِ الْكَهَنَةِ قَائِلاً:

26 'YHWH has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of YHWH, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

٢٦ إِنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ أَقَامَكَ كَاهِناً عِوَضَ يَهُويَادَاعَ الْكَاهِنِ لِتَكُونُوا جَمِيعاً وُلاةً فِي هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ، فَتَضَعُوا حَدّاً لِكُلِّ رَجُلٍ مَجْنُونٍ وَمُتَنَبِّئٍ فَتَزُجُّ بِهِ فِي الْمِقْطَرَةِ وَالْقُيُودِ.

27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,

٢٧ فَمَا بَالُكُمْ لَا تَزْجُرُونَ إِرْمِيَا الْعَنَاثُوثِيَّ الَّذِي تَنَبَّأَ لَكُمْ؟

28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "The captivity is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit?"'"'

٢٨ إِنَّهُ قَدْ بَعَثَ إِلَيْنَا فِي بَابِلَ قَائِلاً: إِنَّ حِقْبَةَ السَّبْيِ طَوِيلَةٌ، فَابْنُوا لأَنْفُسِكُمْ بُيُوتاً وَأَقِيمُوا فِيهَا، وَاغْرِسُوا بَسَاتِينَ وَكُلُوا مِنْ ثِمَارِهَا».

29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

٢٩ فَقَرَأَ صَفَنْيَا الْكَاهِنُ هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةَ عَلَى مَسْمَعِ إِرْمِيَا النَّبِيِّ.

30 Then came the word of YHWH to Jeremiah, saying,

٣٠ فَأَوْحَى الرَّبُّ إِلَى إِرْمِيَا بِهَذِهِ الْكَلِمَةِ:

31 "Send to all them of the captivity, saying, 'Thus says YHWH concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;

٣١ «ابْعَثْ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ قَائِلاً: هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ عَنْ شِمْعِيَا النِّحْلامِيِّ: بِمَا أَنَّ شِمْعِيَا قَدْ تَنَبَّأَ لَكُمْ مَعَ أَنِّي لَمْ أُرْسِلْهُ وَجَعَلَكُمْ تُصَدِّقُونَ الْكَذِبَ،

32 therefore," thus says YHWH, "Look, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his offspring; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says YHWH, because he has spoken rebellion against YHWH."'"

٣٢ فَلِذَلِكَ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: هَا أَنَا أُعَاقِبُ شِمْعِيَا وَذُرِّيَّتَهُ فَلا يَمْتَدُّ الْعُمْرُ بِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ بَيْنَ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ لِيَشْهَدَ الْخَيْرَ الَّذِي سَأُجْرِيهِ عَلَى شَعْبِي، لأَنَّهُ نَطَقَ بِالتَّمُرُّدِ عَلَيَّ».