Yeremia 19
1 Ale Yehowa gblɔe nye esi: “Yi ɖaƒle ze le zemela si; kplɔ dumegã kple nunɔla tsitsi aɖewo ɖe asi,
Thus said YHWH: “Go, and you have acquired a potter’s earthen vessel, and from [the] elderly of the people, and from [the] elderly of the priests,
2 ne miayi ɖe Ben Hinom ƒe Balime si te ɖe agbo si woyɔna be Zemegbo la ŋu. Le afi ma la, ɖe gbeƒã nya siwo magblɔ na wò.
and you have gone forth to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that [is] at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and have proclaimed there the words that I speak to you,
3 Gblɔ be, ‘Mise Yehowa ƒe nya. O mi Yuda fiawo kple Yerusalem nɔlawo, ale Aƒetɔ Yehowa, Dziƒoʋakɔwo ƒe Aƒetɔ, Israel ƒe Mawu la gblɔe nye esi: Miɖo to afii! Mele gbegblẽ he ge ava teƒe sia eye ame sia ame si ase nya sia la ƒe towo me aɖi yeeŋ.
and have said, Hear a word of YHWH, you kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem!” Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am bringing in evil on this place, at which the ears of everyone who is hearing it tingles,
4 Elabena wogblẽm ɖi hetsɔ teƒe sia wɔ dzromawuwo ƒe nɔƒee. Wodo dzudzɔ ʋeʋĩ na mawu siwo woawo ŋutɔ, wo fofowo alo Yuda fiawo gɔ̃ hã menya o. Ale teƒe sia yɔ fũu kple ʋu maɖifɔwo.
because that they have forsaken Me, and make known this place, and make incense in it to other gods, that they did not know, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place [with] innocent blood,
5 Wotu nuxeƒewo na Baal be woatɔ dzo woƒe ŋutsuviwo le afi ma abe vɔsa na Baal ene, nu si nyemeɖo na wo alo gblɔ na wo kaka wòayi nye ta me va ge o.
and have built the high places of Ba‘al to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Ba‘al, that I did not command, nor spoke of, nor did it come up on My heart.
6 Eya ta Yehowa be mikpɔ nyuie elabena ŋkekewo li gbɔna, esi amewo magayɔ teƒe sia be Tofet alo Ben Hinom ƒe Balime o, ke boŋ woayɔe be Kubalime.
Therefore, behold, days are coming,” a declaration of YHWH, “and this place is no longer called The Tophet and Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but Valley of the Slaughter.
7 “‘Magblẽ Yuda kple Yerusalem ƒe ɖoɖowo me le teƒe sia. Mana woadze anyi le woƒe futɔwo ŋgɔ, ahatsi woƒe yi nu. Ɛ̃, woatsi ame siwo le woƒe agbe yome tim la ƒe asi me, eye matsɔ woƒe ŋutilã kukuawo awɔ nuɖuɖu na dziƒoxeviwo kple lã wɔadãwo.
And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcass for food to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,
8 Magbã du sia gudugudu eye mana wòazu alɔmeɖenu. Ame siwo katã ato afi ma ayi la ƒe mo awɔ yaa eye woaɖu fewu le eŋu le ale si wogbãe la ta.
and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, everyone passing by it is astonished, and hisses for all its plagues.
9 Mana woalé wo viŋutsuwo kple wo vinyɔnuwo aɖa aɖu. Woalé wo nɔewo aɖu le xaxa gã si ava wo dzi ne woƒe futɔ siwo le woƒe agbe yome tim la ɖe to ɖe wo?’
And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and they each eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the constriction with which their enemies constrict them, and those seeking their life.”
10 “Emegbe, gbã ze la le ame siwo nèkplɔ ɖe asi la ŋkume,
“And you have broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with you,
11 eye nàgblɔ na wo be, ‘Ale Aƒetɔ Yehowa gblɔe nye esi: Magbã dukɔ sia kple du sia gudugudu abe ale si zemela ƒe ze sia gbãe eye womagate ŋu atree o la ene. Woaɖi woƒe ame kukuwo ɖe Tofet va se ɖe esime teƒe maganɔ anyi o.
and have said to them, Thus said YHWH of Hosts: Thus I break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter’s vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury—without place to bury;
12 Yehowa be, aleae mawɔ teƒe sia kple emenɔlawo katãe. Mawɔ du sia abe Tofet ene.
so I do to this place—a declaration of YHWH—and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;
13 Aƒe siwo le Yerusalem kple Yuda fiawo ƒe aƒewo la, woagblẽ kɔ ɖo na wo abe Tofet ƒe nɔƒe ene ɖe aƒe siwo katã ƒe tame wodo dzudzɔ ʋeʋĩ le na dziƒoŋunuwo le eye woƒo aha ɖi na mawu bubuwo la ta.’”
and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been as the place of Tophet—defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made incense to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other gods.”
14 Tete Yeremia trɔ tso Tofet, afi si Yehowa dɔe ɖo be wòagblɔ nya ɖi heva tsi tsitre ɖe Yehowa ƒe aƒe la ƒe xɔxɔnu eye wògblɔ na ameha la bena,
And Jeremiah comes in from Tophet, to where YHWH had sent him to prophesy, and he stands in the court of the house of YHWH, and he says to all the people:
15 “Ale Yehowa, Dziƒoʋakɔwo ƒe Aƒetɔ kple Israel ƒe Mawu la gblɔe nye esi: ‘Kpɔ ɖa, mahe gbegblẽ siwo megblɔ ɖi ɖe du sia kple du bubu siwo ƒo xlãe ŋuti la ava wo dzi elabena wonye kɔlialiatɔwo eye wogbe be yewomaɖo to nye nyawo o.’”
“Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing to this city, and on all its cities, all the calamity that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck to not hear My words!”
