< Jeremiah 20 >

1 Pashhur, the son of Immer, was a priest who supervised the temple guards. He heard those things that I had prophesied.
Ο δε Πασχώρ, ο υιός του Ιμμήρ ο ιερεύς, ο και προϊστάμενος εν τω οίκω του Κυρίου, ήκουσε τον Ιερεμίαν προφητεύοντα τους λόγους τούτους.
2 [So he arrested me]. Then he [commanded guards to] whip me and fasten my feet in (stocks/a wooden frame) at the Benjamin Gate of Yahweh’s temple.
Και επάταξεν ο Πασχώρ Ιερεμίαν τον προφήτην και έβαλεν αυτόν εις το δεσμωτήριον το εν τη άνω πύλη του Βενιαμίν, το εν τω οίκω του Κυρίου.
3 The next day, when Pashhur released me, I said to him, “Pashhur, Yahweh is giving you a new name. From now on, your name will be ‘Surrounded by Terror’,
Και την επαύριον εξήγαγεν ο Πασχώρ τον Ιερεμίαν εκ του δεσμωτηρίου. Και ο Ιερεμίας είπε προς αυτόν, Ο Κύριος δεν εκάλεσε το όνομά σου Πασχώρ, αλλά Μαγόρ-μισσαβίβ.
4 because Yahweh says this [to you]: ‘I will cause you and your friends to be terrified. You will watch them being killed by your enemies’ swords. I will enable the [army of the] king of Babylon to capture the people of Judah. Those soldiers will take some of the people to Babylon, and they will kill others with their swords.
Διότι ούτω λέγει Κύριος· Ιδού, θέλω σε κάμει τρόμον εις σεαυτόν και εις πάντας τους φίλους σου· και θέλουσι πέσει διά της μαχαίρας των εχθρών αυτών και οι οφθαλμοί σου θέλουσιν ιδεί τούτο· και θέλω δώσει πάντα τον Ιούδαν εις την χείρα του βασιλέως της Βαβυλώνος, και θέλει φέρει αυτούς αιχμαλώτους εις την Βαβυλώνα και θέλει πατάξει αυτούς εν μαχαίρα.
5 And I will enable their soldiers to take away [other things in] Jerusalem. They will take to Babylon all the very valuable things that belonged to your kings.
Και θέλω δώσει πάσαν την δύναμιν της πόλεως ταύτης και πάντας τους κόπους αυτής και πάντα τα πολύτιμα αυτής και πάντας τους θησαυρούς των βασιλέων Ιούδα θέλω δώσει εις την χείρα των εχθρών αυτών, και θέλουσι λεηλατήσει αυτούς και λάβει αυτούς και φέρει αυτούς εις την Βαβυλώνα.
6 And [as for] you, Pashhur, they will take you and all your family to Babylon. You and your family and all your friends who have prophesied things that are lies will die there and be buried there.’”
Και συ, Πασχώρ, και πάντες οι κατοικούντες εν τω οίκω σου, θέλετε υπάγει εις αιχμαλωσίαν· και θέλεις ελθεί εις την Βαβυλώνα, και εκεί θέλεις αποθάνει και εκεί θέλεις ταφή, συ και πάντες οι φίλοι σου, εις τους οποίους προεφήτευσας ψευδώς.
7 [One day I said this to Yahweh]: “Yahweh, [when you chose me to be a prophet, ] deceived me, and I allowed you to deceive me. You insisted that I [become a prophet] and you are stronger than I am. And now everyone [HYP] ridicules me. They make fun of me all the day.
Κύριε, με εδελέασας και εδελεάσθην· υπερίσχυσας κατ' εμού και κατίσχυσας· έγεινα χλευασμός όλην την ημέραν· πάντες με εμπαίζουσι.
8 When I tell [people your messages], I shout saying, ‘[Yahweh is going to cause you to experience] violence and destruction!’ So because I tell them those messages from you, they insult me and scoff at me all day long.
Διότι αφού ήνοιξα στόμα, βοώ, φωνάζω βίαν και αρπαγήν· όθεν ο λόγος του Κυρίου έγεινεν εις εμέ προς ονειδισμόν και προς χλευασμόν όλην την ημέραν.
9 But if I would say, ‘I will never mention Yahweh or say anything about him, [MTY]’ [it would be as though] your message would burn in my inner being like [SIM] a fire; it would be like a fire in my bones. Sometimes I try to remain silent and not proclaim your messages, but I am not able to do that.
Και είπα, Δεν θέλω αναφέρει περί αυτού ουδέ θέλω λαλήσει πλέον εν τω ονόματι αυτού· όμως ο λόγος αυτού ήτο εν τη καρδία μου ως καιόμενον πυρ περικεκλεισμένον εν τοις οστέοις μου, και απέκαμον χαλινόνων εμαυτόν και δεν ηδυνάμην πλέον.
10 I hear many people whispering [about me], saying ‘[He is the man who proclaims that there will be things that cause us to] be terrified everywhere. We must tell [the authorities what he is saying]! We must denounce him!’ [Even] my best friends are waiting for me to say something that is wrong. [They are saying], ‘Perhaps we can cause him to say something wrong, and if he does, we will be able to discredit him.’
Διότι ήκουσα ύβριν παρά πολλών· τρόμος πανταχόθεν· Κατηγορήσατε, λέγουσι, και θέλομεν κατηγορήσει αυτόν. Πάντες οι ειρηνεύοντες μετ' εμού παρεφύλαττον το πρόσκομμά μου, λέγοντες, Ίσως δελεασθή, και θέλομεν υπερισχύσει εναντίον αυτού και εκδικηθή κατ' αυτού.
11 But [you], Yahweh, are helping me like [SIM] a strong warrior, so [it is as though] you will cause those who persecute me to stumble, and they will not defeat me. They will be completely disgraced because of being unable to defeat me; and other people will never forget that they were disgraced.
Αλλ' ο Κύριος είναι μετ' εμού ως ισχυρός πολεμιστής· διά τούτο οι διώκταί μου θέλουσι προσκόψει και δεν θέλουσιν υπερισχύσει· θέλουσι καταισχυνθή σφόδρα· διότι δεν ενόησαν· η αιώνιος αισχύνη αυτών δεν θέλει λησμονηθή.
12 Commander of the armies of angels, you examine [all] those who are righteous; you know [all that is in] their inner beings and what they think. Allow me to see you getting revenge on those [who want to harm me], because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”
Αλλά, Κύριε των δυνάμεων, ο δοκιμάζων τον δίκαιον, ο βλέπων τους νεφρούς και την καρδίαν, ας ίδω την εκδίκησίν σου επ' αυτούς· διότι εις σε εφανέρωσα την κρίσιν μου.
13 Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! He rescues [poor and] needy people, from those [SYN] who are wicked.
Ψάλλετε εις τον Κύριον, αινείτε τον Κύριον· διότι ηλευθέρωσε την ψυχήν του πτωχού εκ χειρός πονηρευομένων.
14 But I hope/desire that the day that I was born will be cursed. I do not want [anyone to] celebrate that day.
Επικατάρατος η ημέρα, καθ' ην εγεννήθην· η ημέρα καθ' ην η μήτηρ μου με εγέννησεν, ας μη ήναι ευλογημένη.
15 And [as for] that man who brought to my father the news, and caused him to be very happy, by saying “[You wife] has given birth to a son for you”, I hope/desire that he [also] will be cursed.
Επικατάρατος ο άνθρωπος, όστις ευηγγελίσατο προς τον πατέρα μου, λέγων, Εγεννήθη εις σε παιδίον άρσεν, ευφραίνων αυτόν σφόδρα.
16 Allow him to be destroyed like the cities that Yahweh destroyed [long ago], without acting mercifully [toward them]. Cause that man to hear the people wailing in the morning, and [to hear the enemy soldiers shout their] battle cries at noon.
Και ας ήναι ο άνθρωπος εκείνος ως αι πόλεις, τας οποίας ο Κύριος κατέστρεψε και δεν μετεμελήθη· και ας ακούση κραυγήν το πρωΐ και αλαλαγμόν εν μεσημβρία.
17 [I want that to happen to him] because he did not kill me before I was born. I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb, and that my mother’s body would have been [like] [MET] my grave.
Διά τι δεν εθανατώθην εκ μήτρας; ή η μήτηρ μου δεν έγεινε τάφος εις εμέ και η μήτρα αυτής δεν με εβάστασεν εις αιώνιον σύλληψιν;
18 I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow, and I am disgraced now when I am about to die; why was it necessary [RHQ] for me to me born?
διά τι εξήλθον εκ της μήτρας, διά να βλέπω μόχθον και λύπην και να τελειώσωσιν αι ημέραι μου εν αισχύνη;

< Jeremiah 20 >