Jeremiah 7

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,

١ هَذِهِ هِيَ النُّبُوءَةُ الَّتِي أَوْحَى بِها الرَّبُّ لإِرْمِيَا:

2 "Stand in the gate of YHWH's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of YHWH, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship YHWH.

٢ «قِفْ فِي بَابِ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ وَأَعْلِنْ هُنَاكَ هَذَا الْكَلامَ: اسْمَعُوا كَلامَ الرَّبِّ يَا جَمِيعَ رِجَالِ يَهُوذَا الْمُجْتَازِينَ هَذِهِ الأَبْوَابَ لِيَسْجُدُوا لِلرَّبِّ:

3 Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

٣ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ القَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: قَوِّمُوا طُرُقَكُمْ وَأَعْمَالَكُمْ فَأُسْكِنَكُمْ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ.

4 Do not trust in lying words, saying, "YHWH's temple, YHWH's temple, YHWH's temple, are these."

٤ لَا تَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى أَقْوَالِ الْكَذِبِ قَائِلِينَ: هَذَا هَيْكَلُ الرَّبِّ: هَذَا هَيْكَلُ الرَّبِّ

5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

٥ لَكِنْ إِنْ قَوَّمْتُمْ حَقّاً طُرُقَكُمْ وَأَعْمَالَكُمْ، وَأَجْرَيْتُمْ قَضَاءً عَادِلاً فِيمَا بَيْنَكُمْ،

6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

٦ إِنْ لَمْ تَجُورُوا عَلَى الْغَرِيبِ وَالْيَتِيمِ وَالأَرْمَلَةِ، وَلَمْ تَسْفِكُوا دَماً بَرِيئاً فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ، وَإِنْ لَمْ تَضِلُّوا وَرَاءَ الأَوْثَانِ مُسِيئِينَ بِذَلِكَ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ،

7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

٧ عِنْدَئِذٍ أُسْكِنُكُمْ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ فِي الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لِآبَائِكُمْ إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

8 Look, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

٨ هَا أَنْتُمْ قَدِ اتَّكَلْتُمْ عَلَى أَقْوَالِ الْكَذِبِ، وَلَكِنْ مِنْ غَيْرِ جَدْوَى.

9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

٩ أَتَسْرِقُونَ وَتَقْتُلُونَ وَتَزْنُونَ وَتَحْلِفُونَ زُوراً وَتُبَخِّرُونَ لِلْبَعْلِ، وَتَضِلُّونَ وَرَاءَ الأَوْثَانِ الَّتِي لَمْ تَعْرِفُوهَا،

10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, "We are delivered"; that you may do all these abominations?

١٠ ثُمَّ تَمْثُلُونَ فِي حَضْرَتِي فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي قَائِلِينَ:’قَدْ نَجَوْنَا‘؛ ثُمَّ تَرْتَكِبُونَ جَمِيعَ هَذِهِ الرَّجَاسَاتِ؟

11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it, says YHWH.

١١ هَلْ أَصْبَحَ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلُ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي، مَغَارَةَ لُصُوصٍ فِي أَعْيُنِكُمْ؟ هَا أَنَا قَدْ رَأَيْتُ كُلَّ هَذَا الشَّرِّ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

١٢ «لَكِنِ امْضُوا إِلَى مَوْضِعِي فِي شِيلُوهَ، حَيْثُ جَعَلْتُ فِيهِ مَقَرّاً لاِسْمِي أَوَّلاً، وَشَاهِدُوا مَا فَعَلْتُ بِهِ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ شَرِّ شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

13 Now, because you have done all these works, says YHWH, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear; and I called you, but you did not answer:

١٣ وَالآنَ لأَنَّكُمُ ارْتَكَبْتُمْ هَذِهِ الشُّرُورَ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ تَحْذِيرَاتِي الْمُبَكِّرَةِ الَّتِي أَبَيْتُمْ الاسْتِمَاعَ لَهَا، وَرَفَضْتُمُ الاسْتِجَابَةَ لِدَعْوَتِي،

14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

١٤ فَإِنَّ مَا أَنْزَلْتُهُ بِشِيلُوهَ سَأُنْزِلُهُ بِالْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي وَالَّذِي عَلَيْهِ تَتَّكِلُونَ، وَبِالْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي وَهَبْتُهُ لَكُمْ وَلِآبَائِكُمْ،

15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

١٥ وَأَطْرَحُكُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِي كَمَا طَرَحْتُ جَمِيعَ أَقْرِبَائِكُمْ، جَمِيعَ ذُرِّيَّةِ أَفْرَايِمَ.

16 Therefore do not pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

١٦ أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَلا تُصَلِّ مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ وَلا تَرْفَعْ لأجْلِهِمْ دُعَاءً وَلا ابْتِهَالاً، وَلا تَتَشَفَّعْ لَهُمْ لأَنِّي لَنْ أَسْتَجِيبَ لَكَ.

17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

١٧ أَلا تَشْهَدُ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا وَفِي شَوَارِعِ أُورُشَلِيمَ؟

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

١٨ الأَبْنَاءُ يَلْتَقِطُونَ الْحَطَبَ وَالآبَاءُ يُشْعِلُونَ النَّارَ، وَالنِّسَاءُ يَعْجِنَّ الدَّقِيقَ لِيَصْنَعْنَ أَقْرَاصاً مِنْهَا لِعَشْتَارُوثَ إِلَهَةِ السَّمَاءِ، وَيَسْكُبُوا سَكَائِبَ لِآلِهَةِ الأَوْثَانِ لِيُغِيظُونِي.

19 Do they provoke me to anger?" says YHWH. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"

١٩ هَلْ أَنَا حَقّاً الَّذِي يُغِيظُونَهُ؟ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ. أَلا يُسِيئُونَ بِذَلِكَ إِلَى ذَوَاتِهِمْ عَامِلِينَ عَلَى خِزْيِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ؟

20 Therefore thus says YHWH: "Look, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched."

٢٠ لِذَلِكَ يُعْلِنُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: هَا غَضَبِي وَسَخَطِي يَنْصَبَّانِ عَلَى هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ، وَعَلَى الْبَشَرِ وَالْبَهَائِمِ وَالأَشْجَارِ وَالْحُقُولِ وَأَثْمَارِ الأَرْضِ، فَيَتَّقِدَانِ وَلا يَخْمُدَانِ».

21 Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

٢١ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «أَضِيفُوا مُحْرَقَاتِكُمْ إِلَى ذَبَائِحِكُمْ وَكُلُوا لَحْمَهَا.

22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

٢٢ فَإِنِّي لَمْ أُكَلِّمْ آبَاءَكُمْ وَلَمْ آمُرْهُمْ يَوْمَ أَخْرَجْتُهُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِشَأْنِ مُحْرَقَةٍ أَوْ ذَبِيحَةٍ

23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, 'Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

٢٣ إِنَّمَا أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ أَنْ يُطِيعُوا صَوْتِي فَأَكُونُ لَهُمْ إِلَهاً، وَيَكُونُونَ لِي شَعْباً وَأَنْ يَسْلُكُوا فِي كُلِّ الطَّرِيقِ الَّذِي أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِهِ، فَيَنَالُوا خَيْراً.

24 But they did not listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

٢٤ إِلّا أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا وَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا، بَلْ سَلَكُوا بِمُقْتَضَى مَشُورَاتِ قُلُوبِهِمِ الشِّرِّيرَةِ وَعِنَادِهِمْ، وَأَدَارُوا لِي ظُهُورَهُمْ بَدَلَ وُجُوهِهِمْ.

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

٢٥ فَمُنْذُ أَنْ خَرَجَ آبَاؤُكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، ثَابَرْتُ عَلَى إِرْسَالِ جَمِيعِ عَبِيدِي الأَنْبِيَاءِ لِيُنْذِرُوهُمْ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.

26 yet they did not listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers."

٢٦ وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ لَمْ يُطِيعُونِي أَوْ يَسْمَعُونِي، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ قَسَّوْا قُلُوبَهُمْ، فَكَانُوا فِي تَصَرُّفِهِمْ أَشَرَّ مِنْ آبَائِهِمْ.

27 "You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

٢٧ وَلَكِنْ عِنْدَمَا تُكَلِّمُهُمْ بِهَذِهِ الْعِبَارَاتِ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَسْمَعُوا، وَتَدْعُوهُمْ فَلا يُجِيبُونَكَ.

28 You shall tell them, 'This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of YHWH their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

٢٨ فَتَقُولُ لَهُمْ: هَذِهِ هِيَ الأُمَّةُ الَّتِي تَعْصَى صَوْتَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِهَا، وَلا تَقْبَلُ التَّأْدِيبَ. لَقَدْ تَلاشَى الْحَقُّ وَانْقَطَعَ عَنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ.

29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'"

٢٩ جُزِّي شَعْرَكِ وَاطْرَحِيهِ يَا أُورُشَلِيمُ، وَانْصُبِي مَرْثَاةً عَلَى الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ الْجَرْدَاءِ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ رَفَضَ هَذَا الْجِيلَ الرَّازِحَ تَحْتَ سَخَطِهِ».

30 "For the people of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says YHWH: "they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

٣٠ «لأَنَّ ذُرِّيَّةَ يَهُوذَا قَدِ ارْتَكَبَتِ الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيَّ، وَأَقَامَتْ أَوْثَانَهَا الرِّجْسَةَ فِي الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي، لِتُدَنِّسَهُ.

31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

٣١ وَشَيَّدَ الشَّعْبُ مَعَابِدَ مُرْتَفَعَاتِ تُوفَةَ الْقَائِمَةَ فِي وَادِي ابْنِ هِنُّومَ، لِيَحْرِقُوا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَبَنَاتِهِمْ بِالنَّارِ، مِمَّا لَمْ آمُرْ بِهِ وَلَمْ يَخْطُرْ لِي عَلَى بَالٍ.

32 Therefore look, the days come," says YHWH, "that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The Valley of Ben Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

٣٢ لِذَلِكَ هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، «يُمْحَى فِيهَا اسْمُ تُوفَةَ، وَيَتَلاشَى اسْمُ وَادِي ابْنِ هِنُّومَ، وَيُدْعَى’وَادِي الْقَتْلِ‘لأَنَّهُمْ سَيَدْفِنُونَ الْمَوْتَى فِي تُوفَةَ حَتَّى لَا يَبْقَى فِيهَا مُتَّسَعٌ بَعْدُ،

33 The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

٣٣ وَتُصْبِحُ جُثَثُ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ طَعَاماً لِجَوَارِحِ السَّمَاءِ وَلِوُحُوشِ الأَرْضِ وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يَزْجُرُهَا.

34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste."

٣٤ وَأُلاشِي مِنْ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا وَمِنْ شَوَارِعِ أُورُشَلِيمَ أَهَازِيجَ الطَّرَبِ وَأَصْدَاءَ الْفَرَحِ، وَأَصْوَاتَ بَهْجَةِ الْعَرِيِسِ وَالْعَرُوسِ، لأَنَّ الأَرْضَ يَعُمُّهَا الْخَرَابُ».