Jeremiah 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
Verbum, quod factum est ad Ieremiam a Domino, dicens:
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.
Sta in porta domus Domini, et praedica ibi verbum istud, et dic: Audite verbum Domini omnis Iuda, qui ingredimini per portas has, ut adoretis Dominum.
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.
Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Bonas facite vias vestras, et studia vestra: et habitabo vobiscum in loco isto.
4 Do not trust in lying words, saying, "YHWH's temple, YHWH's temple, YHWH's temple, are these."
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 execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Quoniam si bene direxeritis vias vestras, et studia vestra: si feceritis iudicium inter virum et proximum eius,
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:
advenae, et pupillo, et viduae non feceritis calumniam, nec sanguinem innocentem effuderitis in loco hoc, et post deos alienos non ambulaveritis in malum vobismetipsis:
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.
habitabo vobiscum in loco isto: in terra, quam dedi patribus vestris a saeculo et usque in saeculum.
8 Look, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
Ecce vos confiditis vobis in sermonibus mendacii, qui non proderunt vobis:
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,
furari, occidere, adulterari, iurare mendaciter, libare Baalim, et ire post deos alienos, quos ignoratis.
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?
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 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.
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 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.
Ite ad locum meum in Silo, ubi habitavit nomen meum a principio: et videte quae fecerim ei propter malitiam populi mei Israel:
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:
et nunc, quia fecistis omnia opera haec, dicit Dominus: et locutus sum ad vos mane consurgens, et loquens, et non audistis: et vocavi vos, et non respondistis:
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.
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 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
Et proiiciam vos a facie mea, sicut proieci omnes fratres vestros, universum semen Ephraim.
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.
Tu ergo noli orare pro populo hoc, nec assumas pro eis laudem et orationem, et non obsistas mihi: quia non exaudiam te.
17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Nonne vides quid isti faciunt in civitatibus Iuda, et in plateis Ierusalem?
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.
Filii colligunt ligna, et patres succendunt ignem, et mulieres conspergunt adipem, ut faciant placentas reginae caeli, et libent diis alienis, et me ad iracundiam provocent.
19 Do they provoke me to anger?" says YHWH. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"
Numquid me ad iracundiam provocant, dicit Dominus? nonne semetipsos in confusionem vultus sui?
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."
Ideo haec 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 terrae, et succendetur, et non extinguetur.
21 Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Holocaustomata vestra addite victimis vestris, et comedite carnes.
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:
Quia non sum locutus cum patribus vestris, et non praecepi eis in die, qua eduxi eos de Terra Aegypti, de verbo holocaustomatum, et victimarum.
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.'
Sed hoc verbum praecepi ei, 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 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.
Et non audierunt, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam: sed abierunt in voluptatibus, et in pravitate cordis sui mali: factique sunt retrorsum, et non in ante,
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:
a die qua egressi sunt patres eorum de terra Aegypti, usque ad diem hanc. Et misi ad vos omnes servos meos prophetas per diem, consurgens diluculo, et mittens.
26 yet they did not listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers."
Et non audierunt me, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam: sed induraverunt cervicem suam: et peius operati sunt, quam patres eorum.
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.
Et loqueris ad eos omnia verba haec, et non audient te: et vocabis eos, et non respondebunt tibi.
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.
Et dices ad eos: Haec est gens, quae non audivit vocem Domini Dei sui, nec recepit disciplinam: periit fides, et ablata est de ore eorum.
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.'"
Tonde capillum tuum, et proiice, et sume in directum planctum: quia proiecit Dominus, et reliquit generationem furoris sui,
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.
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 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.
et aedificaverunt excelsa Topheth, quae est in valle filii Ennom: ut incenderent filios suos, et filias suas igni: quae non praecepi, nec cogitavi in corde meo.
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.
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 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.
Et erit morticinum populi huius in cibos volucribus caeli, et bestiis terrae, et non erit qui abigat.
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."
Et quiescere faciam de urbibus Iuda, et de plateis Ierusalem vocem gaudii, et vocem laetitiae, vocem sponsi, et vocem sponsae: in desolatione enim erit terra.
