Jeremiah 29

1 and these word [the] scroll: document which to send: depart Jeremiah [the] prophet from Jerusalem to(wards) remainder old: elder [the] captivity and to(wards) [the] priest and to(wards) [the] prophet and to(wards) all [the] people which to reveal: remove Nebuchadnezzar from Jerusalem Babylon [to]

After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.

2 after to come out: come Jeconiah [the] king and [the] queen and [the] eunuch ruler Judah and Jerusalem and [the] artificer and [the] locksmith from Jerusalem

3 in/on/with hand Elasah son: child Shaphan and Gemariah son: child Hilkiah which to send: depart Zedekiah king Judah to(wards) Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon Babylon [to] to/for to say

[I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:

4 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel to/for all [the] captivity which to reveal: remove from Jerusalem Babylon [to]

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:

5 to build house: home and to dwell and to plant garden and to eat [obj] fruit their

“Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.

6 to take: take woman: wife and to beget son: child and daughter and to take: take to/for son: child your woman: wife and [obj] daughter your to give: give(marriage) to/for human and to beget son: child and daughter and to multiply there and not to diminish

Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.

7 and to seek [obj] peace: well-being [the] city which to reveal: remove [obj] you there [to] and to pray about/through/for her to(wards) LORD for in/on/with peace: well-being her to be to/for you peace: well-being

Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”

8 for thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel not to deceive to/for you prophet your which in/on/with entrails: among your and to divine your and not to hear: hear to(wards) dream your which you(m. p.) to dream

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,

9 for in/on/with deception they(masc.) to prophesy to/for you in/on/with name my not to send: depart them utterance LORD

because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”

10 for thus to say LORD for to/for lip to fill to/for Babylon seventy year to reckon: visit [obj] you and to arise: establish upon you [obj] word: promised my [the] pleasant to/for to return: return [obj] you to(wards) [the] place [the] this

This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].

11 for I to know [obj] [the] plot which I to devise: devise upon you utterance LORD plot peace: well-being and not to/for distress: evil to/for to give: give to/for you end and hope

I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.

12 and to call: call to [obj] me and to go: come and to pray to(wards) me and to hear: hear to(wards) you

At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.

13 and to seek [obj] me and to find for to seek me in/on/with all heart your

If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].

14 and to find to/for you utterance LORD and to return: rescue [obj] (captivity your *Q(k)*) and to gather [obj] you from all [the] nation and from all [the] place which to banish [obj] you there utterance LORD and to return: return [obj] you to(wards) [the] place which to reveal: remove [obj] you from there

I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”

15 for to say to arise: rise to/for us LORD prophet Babylon [to]

[Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.

16 for thus to say LORD to(wards) [the] king [the] to dwell to(wards) throne David and to(wards) all [the] people [the] to dwell in/on/with city [the] this brother: male-relative your which not to come out: come with you in/on/with captivity

But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.

17 thus to say LORD Hosts look! I to send: depart in/on/with them [obj] [the] sword [obj] [the] famine and [obj] [the] pestilence and to give: make [obj] them like/as fig [the] disgusting which not to eat from evil

The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.

18 and to pursue after them in/on/with sword in/on/with famine and in/on/with pestilence and to give: make them (to/for horror *Q(K)*) to/for all kingdom [the] land: country/planet to/for oath and to/for horror: appalled and to/for hissing and to/for reproach in/on/with all [the] nation which to banish them there

I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].

19 underneath: because of which not to hear: hear to(wards) word my utterance LORD which to send: depart to(wards) them [obj] servant/slave my [the] prophet to rise and to send: depart and not to hear: hear utterance LORD

[That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.

20 and you(m. p.) to hear: hear word LORD all [the] captivity which to send: depart from Jerusalem Babylon [to]

[Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.

21 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel to(wards) Ahab son: child Kolaiah and to(wards) Zedekiah son: child Maaseiah [the] to prophesy to/for you in/on/with name my deception look! I to give: give [obj] them in/on/with hand: power Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon and to smite them to/for eye your

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.

22 and to take: bring from them curse to/for all captivity Judah which in/on/with Babylon to/for to say to set: make you LORD like/as Zedekiah and like/as Ahab which to roast them king Babylon in/on/with fire

Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’

23 because which to make folly in/on/with Israel and to commit adultery [obj] woman: wife neighbor their and to speak: speak word in/on/with name my deception which not to command them and I ([the] to know *Q(K)*) and witness utterance LORD

They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”

24 and to(wards) Shemaiah [the] Nehelam to say to/for to say

[Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:

25 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel to/for to say because which you(m. s.) to send: depart in/on/with name your scroll: document to(wards) all [the] people which in/on/with Jerusalem and to(wards) Zephaniah son: child Maaseiah [the] priest and to(wards) all [the] priest to/for to say

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:

26 LORD to give: make you priest underneath: instead Jehoiada [the] priest to/for to be overseer house: temple LORD to/for all man be mad and to prophesy and to give: put [obj] him to(wards) [the] stocks and to(wards) [the] stocks

[Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].

27 and now to/for what? not to rebuke in/on/with Jeremiah [the] Anathoth [the] to prophesy to/for you

So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?

28 for as that: since as as to send: depart to(wards) us Babylon to/for to say long he/she/it to build house: home and to dwell and to plant garden and to eat [obj] fruit their

He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”

29 and to call: read out Zephaniah [the] priest [obj] [the] scroll: document [the] this in/on/with ear: hearing Jeremiah [the] prophet

[But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.

30 and to be word LORD to(wards) Jeremiah to/for to say

Then Yahweh gave me this message:

31 to send: depart upon all [the] captivity to/for to say thus to say LORD to(wards) Shemaiah [the] Nehelam because which to prophesy to/for you Shemaiah and I not to send: depart him and to trust [obj] you upon deception

“Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.

32 to/for so thus to say LORD look! I to reckon: punish upon Shemaiah [the] Nehelam and upon seed: children his not to be to/for him man: anyone to dwell in/on/with midst [the] people [the] this and not to see: see in/on/with good which I to make: do to/for people my utterance LORD for revolt to speak: speak upon LORD

So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”