Jeremiah 24
1 Yahweh shewed me, and lo! two baskets of figs, which had been set before the temple of Yahweh, —after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive, Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah and the carpenters and the smiths out of Jerusalem, and had brought them into Babylon: —
Esi Nebukadnezar, Babilonia fia kplɔ Yehoyakim vi Yehoyatsin, Yuda fia, eƒe dumegãwo, aɖaŋudɔwɔlawo kple asinudɔwɔlawo yi ɖe aboyo mee le Babilonia megbe la, Yehowa ɖe gbotsetse kusi eve siwo woda ɖe Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ mɔnu la fiam.
2 the one basket, was of very good figs, like the first-ripe figs; and, the other basket, was of very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.
Gbotsetse nyuiwo le kusi ɖeka me, eye woɖi nyuie abe esiwo ɖina kaba la ene. Ke gbotsetse siwo le kusi evelia me la menyo kura o, wogblẽ ale gbegbe be womenyo woaɖu o.
3 Then said Yahweh unto me, —What canst thou see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for badness.
Tete Yehowa biam be, “Nu ka kpɔm nèle, Yeremia?” Meɖo eŋu be, “Gbotsetsewoe. Nyuitɔwo le nyuie ŋutɔ, ke manyomanyoawo gblẽ ale gbegbe be womate ŋu aɖu wo o.”
4 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Tete Yehowa ƒe nya va nam be,
5 Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Like these good figs, so, will I regard them of Judah who are carried into captivity, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
“Ale Yehowa, Israel ƒe Mawu la gblɔe nye esi, ‘Mebu aboyome siwo tso Yuda la abe gbotsetse nyui siawo ene, ame siwo meɖo ɖe Babiloniatɔwo ƒe anyigba dzi tso teƒe sia.
6 Therefore will I set mine eye upon them for good, and will bring them back upon this land, —and will build them up, and not pull them down, and will plant them and not root them up;
Nye ŋkuwo anɔ wo ŋu hena woawo ŋutɔ ƒe nyonyo eye magakplɔ wo agbɔe va anyigba sia dzi. Matu wo eye nyemagbã wo aƒu anyi o. Mado wo eye nyemaho wo aƒu gbe o.
7 and will give them a heart to know, me, that, I, am Yahweh, So shall they become my people, And, I, will become their God; for they will return unto me with all their heart.
Mana dzi wo, ne woadze sim be nyee nye Yehowa. Woanye nye dukɔ eye manye woƒe Mawu elabena woatrɔ agbɔ, ava gbɔnye kple woƒe dzi blibo.’
8 And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, Surely thus, saith Yahweh—so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt;
“Yehowa be, ‘Gake abe gbotsetse siwo gblẽ ale gbegbe be womate ŋu aɖu wo o ene la, nenemae mawɔ Yuda fia Zedekia, eƒe dumegãwo kple ame siwo susɔ ɖe Yerusalem, woatsi anyigba sia dzi loo, alo woanɔ Egipte.
9 yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth, —as a reproach and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;
Mawɔ wo woanye bibi kple ŋunyɔnu na anyigbadzifiaɖuƒewo katã, woanye alɔmeɖenu, lodonu, nu ɖikokoe kple fiƒodenu le afi sia afi si menya wo ɖo ɖo.
10 and I will send among them, sword famine and pestilence, —until they are consumed from off the soil which I gave to them and to their fathers.
Madɔ yi, dɔwuame kple dɔvɔ̃ ɖe wo dome va se ɖe esime woatsrɔ̃, avɔ le anyigba si metsɔ na wo kple wo fofowo la dzi.’”
