Jeremiah 29
1 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.
| هَذَا هُوَ نَصُّ الرِّسَالَةِ الَّتِي بَعَثَ بِها إِرْمِيَا النَّبِيُّ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَقِيَّةِ شُيُوخِ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ، وَإِلَى الْكَهَنَةِ، وَالْمُتَنَبِّئِينَ الْكَذَبَةِ، وَسَائِرِ الشَّعْبِ، مِمَّنْ سَبَاهُمْ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرُ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَابِلَ، | ١ |
| وَذَلِكَ بَعْدَ خُرُوجِ يَكُنْيَا الْمَلِكِ وَالْمَلِكَةِ وَالْخِصْيَانِ وَرُؤَسَاءِ يَهُوذَا وَالنَّجَّارِينَ وَالْحَدَّادِينَ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ. | ٢ |
3 [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:
| وَحَمَلَ هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةَ أَلْعَاسَةُ بْنُ شَافَانَ وَجَمَرْيَا بْنُ حَلْقِيَا اللَّذَانِ أَرْسَلَهُمَا صِدْقِيَّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذَا إِلَى نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرَ مَلِكِ بَابِلَ، وَقَدْ وَرَدَ فِيهَا: | ٣ |
4 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:
| هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِكُلِّ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ أَجْلَيْتُهُمْ مِنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَابِلَ. | ٤ |
5 “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.
| ابْنُوا بُيُوتاً وَأَقِيمُوا فِيهَا. اغْرِسُوا بَسَاتِينَ وَكُلُوا مِنْ نِتَاجِهَا. | ٥ |
6 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.
| تَزَوَّجُوا وَأَنْجِبُوا بَنِينَ وَبَنَاتٍ، وَاتَّخِذُوا نِسَاءً لأَبْنَائِكُمْ وَزَوِّجُوا بَنَاتِكُمْ، وَلْيَلِدْنَ أَبْنَاءَ وَبَنَاتٍ. وَتَكَاثَرُوا هُنَاكَ، وَلا تَتَنَاقَصُوا، | ٦ |
7 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].”
| وَالْتَمِسُوا سَلامَ الْمَدِينَةِ الَّتِي سَبَيْتُكُمْ إِلَيْهَا، وَصَلُّوا مِنْ أَجْلِهَا إِلَى الرَّبِّ لأَنَّ سَلامَكُمْ يَتَوَقَّفُ عَلَى سَلامِهَا. | ٧ |
8 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,
| لأَنَّ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «لَا يَخْدَعَنَّكُمْ أَنْبِيَاؤُكُمُ الْكَذَبَةُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي وَسَطِكُمْ، وَالْعَرَّافُونَ. لَا تَسْتَمِعُوا إِلَى أَحْلامِهِمِ الَّتِي تُوْهِمُكُمْ بِالأَمَلِ، | ٨ |
9 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.”
| لأَنَّهُمْ يَتَنَبَّأُونَ لَكُمْ بِاسْمِي كَذِباً، وَأَنَا لَمْ أَبْعَثْهُمْ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ. | ٩ |
10 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].
| وَلَكِنْ بَعْدَ انْقِضَاءِ سَبْعِينَ سَنَةً عَلَيْكُمْ فِي بَابِلَ، أَلْتَفِتُ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَفِي لَكُمْ بِوُعُودِي الصَّالِحَةِ بِرَدِّكُمْ إِلَى هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ. | ١٠ |
11 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.
| لأَنِّي عَرَفْتُ مَا رَسَمْتُهُ لَكُمْ. إِنَّهَا خُطَطُ سَلامٍ لَا شَرٍّ لأَمْنَحَكُمْ مُسْتَقْبَلاً وَرَجَاءً. | ١١ |
12 At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.
| فَتَدْعُونَنِي وَتُقْبِلُونَ، وَتُصَلُّونَ إِلَيَّ فَأَسْتَجِيبُ لَكُمْ، | ١٢ |
13 If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].
| وَتَلْتَمِسُونَنِي فَتَجِدُونَنِي إِذْ تَطْلُبُونَنِي بِكُلِّ قُلُوبِكُمْ. | ١٣ |
14 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.”
| وَحِينَ تَجِدُونَنِي أَرُدُّ سَبْيَكُمْ، وَأَجْمَعُكُمْ مِنْ بَيْنِ جَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ وَمِنْ جَمِيعِ الأَمَاكِنِ الَّتِي شَتَّتُّكُمْ إِلَيْهَا. | ١٤ |
15 [Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.
| وَلأَنَّكُمْ قُلْتُمْ: «قَدْ بَعَثَ الرَّبُّ فِينَا أَنْبِيَاءَ فِي بَابِلَ». | ١٥ |
16 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.
| يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ عَنِ الْمَلِكِ الْجَالِسِ عَلَى عَرْشِ دَاوُدَ، وَعَنْ سَائِرِ الشَّعْبِ الْمُقِيمِ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ مِنْ أَقْرِبَائِكُمُ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يَذْهَبُوا إِلَى السَّبْيِ: | ١٦ |
17 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.
| «هَا أَنَا أَقْضِي عَلَيْهِمْ بِالسَّيْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَالْوَبَاءِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ كَتِينٍ رَدِيءٍ تَعَافُ النَّفْسُ أَكْلَهُ لِفَرْطِ رَدَاءَتِهِ. | ١٧ |
18 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].
| وَأَتَعَقَّبُهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَالْوَبَاءِ، وَأُعَرِّضُهُمْ لِلرُّعْبِ فِي كُلِّ مَمَالِكِ الأَرْضِ، فَيُصْبِحُونَ لَعْنَةً وَمَثَارَ دَهْشَةٍ وَصَفِيرٍ وَعَارٍ فِي جَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي شَتَّتُّهُمْ إِلَيْهَا، | ١٨ |
19 [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.
| لأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا كَلامِي الَّذِي أَنْذَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ مُنْذُ الْبَدْءِ عَلَى لِسَانِ عَبِيدِي الأَنْبِيَاءِ وَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا». | ١٩ |
20 [Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.
| أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَاسْمَعُوا كَلِمَةَ الرَّبِّ يَا جَمِيعَ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ أَجْلَيْتُهُمْ عَنْ أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى بَابِلَ. | ٢٠ |
21 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.
| يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ آخْابَ بْنِ قُولايَا وَعَنْ صِدْقِيَّا بْنِ مَعْسِيَّا اللَّذَيْنِ يَتَنَبَّآنِ لَكُمْ بِاسْمِي زُوراً: «هَا أَنَا أُسَلِّمُهُمَا لِيَدِ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرَ مَلِكِ بَابِلَ فَيَقْتُلُهُمَا عَلَى مَرْأَى مِنْكُمْ، | ٢١ |
22 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.’
| فَيُصْبِحَانِ مَثَلَ لَعْنَةٍ بَيْنَ جَمِيعِ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ مِنْ يَهُوذَا فِي بَابِلَ، فَيُقَالُ: لِيَجْعَلْكَ اللهُ نَظِيرَ صِدْقِيَّا وَأَخَآبَ اللَّذَيْنِ قَلاهُمَا مَلِكُ بَابِلَ بِالنَّارِ، | ٢٢ |
23 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].”
| لأَنَّهُمَا ارْتَكَبَا الْفَوَاحِشَ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَزَنَيَا مَعَ نِسَاءِ أَصْحَابِهِمَا وَتَنَبَّآ بِاسْمِي نُبُوءَاتٍ كَاذِبَةً لَمْ آمُرْهُمَا بِها. فَأَنَا الْعَارِفُ وَالشَّاهِدُ» يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ. | ٢٣ |
24 [Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:
| وَأَيْضاً قُلْ لِشِمْعِيَا النِّحْلامِيِّ: | ٢٤ |
25 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:
| «هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: لَقَدْ بَعَثْتَ بِرَسَائِلَ بِاسْمِكَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الشَّعْبِ الْمُقِيمِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَإِلَى صَفَنْيَا بْنِ مَعْسِيَّا الْكَاهِنِ وَإِلَى سَائِرِ الْكَهَنَةِ قَائِلاً: | ٢٥ |
26 [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)].
| إِنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ أَقَامَكَ كَاهِناً عِوَضَ يَهُويَادَاعَ الْكَاهِنِ لِتَكُونُوا جَمِيعاً وُلاةً فِي هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ، فَتَضَعُوا حَدّاً لِكُلِّ رَجُلٍ مَجْنُونٍ وَمُتَنَبِّئٍ فَتَزُجُّ بِهِ فِي الْمِقْطَرَةِ وَالْقُيُودِ. | ٢٦ |
27 So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?
| فَمَا بَالُكُمْ لَا تَزْجُرُونَ إِرْمِيَا الْعَنَاثُوثِيَّ الَّذِي تَنَبَّأَ لَكُمْ؟ | ٢٧ |
28 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.”
| إِنَّهُ قَدْ بَعَثَ إِلَيْنَا فِي بَابِلَ قَائِلاً: إِنَّ حِقْبَةَ السَّبْيِ طَوِيلَةٌ، فَابْنُوا لأَنْفُسِكُمْ بُيُوتاً وَأَقِيمُوا فِيهَا، وَاغْرِسُوا بَسَاتِينَ وَكُلُوا مِنْ ثِمَارِهَا». | ٢٨ |
29 [But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.
| فَقَرَأَ صَفَنْيَا الْكَاهِنُ هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةَ عَلَى مَسْمَعِ إِرْمِيَا النَّبِيِّ. | ٢٩ |
30 Then Yahweh gave me this message:
| فَأَوْحَى الرَّبُّ إِلَى إِرْمِيَا بِهَذِهِ الْكَلِمَةِ: | ٣٠ |
31 “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.
| «ابْعَثْ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْمَسْبِيِّينَ قَائِلاً: هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ عَنْ شِمْعِيَا النِّحْلامِيِّ: بِمَا أَنَّ شِمْعِيَا قَدْ تَنَبَّأَ لَكُمْ مَعَ أَنِّي لَمْ أُرْسِلْهُ وَجَعَلَكُمْ تُصَدِّقُونَ الْكَذِبَ، | ٣١ |
32 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!’”
| فَلِذَلِكَ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: هَا أَنَا أُعَاقِبُ شِمْعِيَا وَذُرِّيَّتَهُ فَلا يَمْتَدُّ الْعُمْرُ بِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ بَيْنَ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ لِيَشْهَدَ الْخَيْرَ الَّذِي سَأُجْرِيهِ عَلَى شَعْبِي، لأَنَّهُ نَطَقَ بِالتَّمُرُّدِ عَلَيَّ». | ٣٢ |
