Jeremiah 7

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

١ هَذِهِ هِيَ النُّبُوءَةُ الَّتِي أَوْحَى بِها الرَّبُّ لإِرْمِيَا:

2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

٢ «قِفْ فِي بَابِ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ وَأَعْلِنْ هُنَاكَ هَذَا الْكَلامَ: اسْمَعُوا كَلامَ الرَّبِّ يَا جَمِيعَ رِجَالِ يَهُوذَا الْمُجْتَازِينَ هَذِهِ الأَبْوَابَ لِيَسْجُدُوا لِلرَّبِّ:

3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

٣ هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ القَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: قَوِّمُوا طُرُقَكُمْ وَأَعْمَالَكُمْ فَأُسْكِنَكُمْ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ.

4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.

٤ لَا تَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى أَقْوَالِ الْكَذِبِ قَائِلِينَ: هَذَا هَيْكَلُ الرَّبِّ: هَذَا هَيْكَلُ الرَّبِّ

5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

٥ لَكِنْ إِنْ قَوَّمْتُمْ حَقّاً طُرُقَكُمْ وَأَعْمَالَكُمْ، وَأَجْرَيْتُمْ قَضَاءً عَادِلاً فِيمَا بَيْنَكُمْ،

6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

٦ إِنْ لَمْ تَجُورُوا عَلَى الْغَرِيبِ وَالْيَتِيمِ وَالأَرْمَلَةِ، وَلَمْ تَسْفِكُوا دَماً بَرِيئاً فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ، وَإِنْ لَمْ تَضِلُّوا وَرَاءَ الأَوْثَانِ مُسِيئِينَ بِذَلِكَ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ،

7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

٧ عِنْدَئِذٍ أُسْكِنُكُمْ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ فِي الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لِآبَائِكُمْ إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

٨ هَا أَنْتُمْ قَدِ اتَّكَلْتُمْ عَلَى أَقْوَالِ الْكَذِبِ، وَلَكِنْ مِنْ غَيْرِ جَدْوَى.

9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

٩ أَتَسْرِقُونَ وَتَقْتُلُونَ وَتَزْنُونَ وَتَحْلِفُونَ زُوراً وَتُبَخِّرُونَ لِلْبَعْلِ، وَتَضِلُّونَ وَرَاءَ الأَوْثَانِ الَّتِي لَمْ تَعْرِفُوهَا،

10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

١٠ ثُمَّ تَمْثُلُونَ فِي حَضْرَتِي فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي قَائِلِينَ:’قَدْ نَجَوْنَا‘؛ ثُمَّ تَرْتَكِبُونَ جَمِيعَ هَذِهِ الرَّجَاسَاتِ؟

11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.

١١ هَلْ أَصْبَحَ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلُ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي، مَغَارَةَ لُصُوصٍ فِي أَعْيُنِكُمْ؟ هَا أَنَا قَدْ رَأَيْتُ كُلَّ هَذَا الشَّرِّ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

12 But go ye now to my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

١٢ «لَكِنِ امْضُوا إِلَى مَوْضِعِي فِي شِيلُوهَ، حَيْثُ جَعَلْتُ فِيهِ مَقَرّاً لاِسْمِي أَوَّلاً، وَشَاهِدُوا مَا فَعَلْتُ بِهِ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ شَرِّ شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

١٣ وَالآنَ لأَنَّكُمُ ارْتَكَبْتُمْ هَذِهِ الشُّرُورَ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ تَحْذِيرَاتِي الْمُبَكِّرَةِ الَّتِي أَبَيْتُمْ الاسْتِمَاعَ لَهَا، وَرَفَضْتُمُ الاسْتِجَابَةَ لِدَعْوَتِي،

14 Therefore will I do to [this] house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

١٤ فَإِنَّ مَا أَنْزَلْتُهُ بِشِيلُوهَ سَأُنْزِلُهُ بِالْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي وَالَّذِي عَلَيْهِ تَتَّكِلُونَ، وَبِالْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي وَهَبْتُهُ لَكُمْ وَلِآبَائِكُمْ،

15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

١٥ وَأَطْرَحُكُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِي كَمَا طَرَحْتُ جَمِيعَ أَقْرِبَائِكُمْ، جَمِيعَ ذُرِّيَّةِ أَفْرَايِمَ.

16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

١٦ أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَلا تُصَلِّ مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ وَلا تَرْفَعْ لأجْلِهِمْ دُعَاءً وَلا ابْتِهَالاً، وَلا تَتَشَفَّعْ لَهُمْ لأَنِّي لَنْ أَسْتَجِيبَ لَكَ.

17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

١٧ أَلا تَشْهَدُ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا وَفِي شَوَارِعِ أُورُشَلِيمَ؟

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead 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.

١٨ الأَبْنَاءُ يَلْتَقِطُونَ الْحَطَبَ وَالآبَاءُ يُشْعِلُونَ النَّارَ، وَالنِّسَاءُ يَعْجِنَّ الدَّقِيقَ لِيَصْنَعْنَ أَقْرَاصاً مِنْهَا لِعَشْتَارُوثَ إِلَهَةِ السَّمَاءِ، وَيَسْكُبُوا سَكَائِبَ لِآلِهَةِ الأَوْثَانِ لِيُغِيظُونِي.

19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

١٩ هَلْ أَنَا حَقّاً الَّذِي يُغِيظُونَهُ؟ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ. أَلا يُسِيئُونَ بِذَلِكَ إِلَى ذَوَاتِهِمْ عَامِلِينَ عَلَى خِزْيِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ؟

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

٢٠ لِذَلِكَ يُعْلِنُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: هَا غَضَبِي وَسَخَطِي يَنْصَبَّانِ عَلَى هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ، وَعَلَى الْبَشَرِ وَالْبَهَائِمِ وَالأَشْجَارِ وَالْحُقُولِ وَأَثْمَارِ الأَرْضِ، فَيَتَّقِدَانِ وَلا يَخْمُدَانِ».

21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

٢١ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «أَضِيفُوا مُحْرَقَاتِكُمْ إِلَى ذَبَائِحِكُمْ وَكُلُوا لَحْمَهَا.

22 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

٢٢ فَإِنِّي لَمْ أُكَلِّمْ آبَاءَكُمْ وَلَمْ آمُرْهُمْ يَوْمَ أَخْرَجْتُهُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِشَأْنِ مُحْرَقَةٍ أَوْ ذَبِيحَةٍ

23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well to you.

٢٣ إِنَّمَا أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ أَنْ يُطِيعُوا صَوْتِي فَأَكُونُ لَهُمْ إِلَهاً، وَيَكُونُونَ لِي شَعْباً وَأَنْ يَسْلُكُوا فِي كُلِّ الطَّرِيقِ الَّذِي أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِهِ، فَيَنَالُوا خَيْراً.

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

٢٤ إِلّا أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا وَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا، بَلْ سَلَكُوا بِمُقْتَضَى مَشُورَاتِ قُلُوبِهِمِ الشِّرِّيرَةِ وَعِنَادِهِمْ، وَأَدَارُوا لِي ظُهُورَهُمْ بَدَلَ وُجُوهِهِمْ.

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending [them]:

٢٥ فَمُنْذُ أَنْ خَرَجَ آبَاؤُكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، ثَابَرْتُ عَلَى إِرْسَالِ جَمِيعِ عَبِيدِي الأَنْبِيَاءِ لِيُنْذِرُوهُمْ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.

26 Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

٢٦ وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ لَمْ يُطِيعُونِي أَوْ يَسْمَعُونِي، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ قَسَّوْا قُلُوبَهُمْ، فَكَانُوا فِي تَصَرُّفِهِمْ أَشَرَّ مِنْ آبَائِهِمْ.

27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them; but they will not answer thee.

٢٧ وَلَكِنْ عِنْدَمَا تُكَلِّمُهُمْ بِهَذِهِ الْعِبَارَاتِ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَسْمَعُوا، وَتَدْعُوهُمْ فَلا يُجِيبُونَكَ.

28 But thou shalt say to them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth hath perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

٢٨ فَتَقُولُ لَهُمْ: هَذِهِ هِيَ الأُمَّةُ الَّتِي تَعْصَى صَوْتَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِهَا، وَلا تَقْبَلُ التَّأْدِيبَ. لَقَدْ تَلاشَى الْحَقُّ وَانْقَطَعَ عَنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ.

29 Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

٢٩ جُزِّي شَعْرَكِ وَاطْرَحِيهِ يَا أُورُشَلِيمُ، وَانْصُبِي مَرْثَاةً عَلَى الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ الْجَرْدَاءِ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ رَفَضَ هَذَا الْجِيلَ الرَّازِحَ تَحْتَ سَخَطِهِ».

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

٣٠ «لأَنَّ ذُرِّيَّةَ يَهُوذَا قَدِ ارْتَكَبَتِ الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيَّ، وَأَقَامَتْ أَوْثَانَهَا الرِّجْسَةَ فِي الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي دُعِيَ بِاسْمِي، لِتُدَنِّسَهُ.

31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.

٣١ وَشَيَّدَ الشَّعْبُ مَعَابِدَ مُرْتَفَعَاتِ تُوفَةَ الْقَائِمَةَ فِي وَادِي ابْنِ هِنُّومَ، لِيَحْرِقُوا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَبَنَاتِهِمْ بِالنَّارِ، مِمَّا لَمْ آمُرْ بِهِ وَلَمْ يَخْطُرْ لِي عَلَى بَالٍ.

32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there shall be no place.

٣٢ لِذَلِكَ هَا أَيَّامٌ مُقْبِلَةٌ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، «يُمْحَى فِيهَا اسْمُ تُوفَةَ، وَيَتَلاشَى اسْمُ وَادِي ابْنِ هِنُّومَ، وَيُدْعَى’وَادِي الْقَتْلِ‘لأَنَّهُمْ سَيَدْفِنُونَ الْمَوْتَى فِي تُوفَةَ حَتَّى لَا يَبْقَى فِيهَا مُتَّسَعٌ بَعْدُ،

33 And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten [them] away.

٣٣ وَتُصْبِحُ جُثَثُ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ طَعَاماً لِجَوَارِحِ السَّمَاءِ وَلِوُحُوشِ الأَرْضِ وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يَزْجُرُهَا.

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 be desolate.

٣٤ وَأُلاشِي مِنْ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا وَمِنْ شَوَارِعِ أُورُشَلِيمَ أَهَازِيجَ الطَّرَبِ وَأَصْدَاءَ الْفَرَحِ، وَأَصْوَاتَ بَهْجَةِ الْعَرِيِسِ وَالْعَرُوسِ، لأَنَّ الأَرْضَ يَعُمُّهَا الْخَرَابُ».