Yeremia 24

1 Esi Nebukadnezar, Babilonia fia kplɔ Yehoyakim vi Yehoyatsin, Yuda fia, eƒe dumegãwo, aɖaŋudɔwɔlawo kple asinudɔwɔlawo yi ɖe aboyo mee le Babilonia megbe la, Yehowa ɖe gbotsetse kusi eve siwo woda ɖe Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ mɔnu la fiam.

The Lord shewed me, and beholde, two baskets of figges were set before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away captiue Ieconiah ye sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah with the workemen, and cunning men of Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babel.

2 Gbotsetse nyuiwo le kusi ɖeka me, eye woɖi nyuie abe esiwo ɖina kaba la ene. Ke gbotsetse siwo le kusi evelia me la menyo kura o, wogblẽ ale gbegbe be womenyo woaɖu o.

One basket had verie good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had verie naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, they were so euill.

3 Tete Yehowa biam be, “Nu ka kpɔm nèle, Yeremia?” Meɖo eŋu be, “Gbotsetsewoe. Nyuitɔwo le nyuie ŋutɔ, ke manyomanyoawo gblẽ ale gbegbe be womate ŋu aɖu wo o.”

Then saide the Lord vnto mee, What seest thou, Ieremiah? And I said, Figges: ye good figges verie good, and the naughtie verie naughtie, which cannot be eaten, they are so euill.

4 Tete Yehowa ƒe nya va nam be,

Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

5 “Ale Yehowa, Israel ƒe Mawu la gblɔe nye esi, ‘Mebu aboyome siwo tso Yuda la abe gbotsetse nyui siawo ene, ame siwo meɖo ɖe Babiloniatɔwo ƒe anyigba dzi tso teƒe sia.

Thus sayeth the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figges, so will I knowe them that are caryed away captiue of Iudah to bee good, whome I haue sent out of this place, into the land of the Caldeans.

6 Nye ŋkuwo anɔ wo ŋu hena woawo ŋutɔ ƒe nyonyo eye magakplɔ wo agbɔe va anyigba sia dzi. Matu wo eye nyemagbã wo aƒu anyi o. Mado wo eye nyemaho wo aƒu gbe o.

For I wil set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this lande, and I will build them, and not destroy them, and I will plant them, and not roote them out,

7 Mana dzi wo, ne woadze sim be nyee nye Yehowa. Woanye nye dukɔ eye manye woƒe Mawu elabena woatrɔ agbɔ, ava gbɔnye kple woƒe dzi blibo.’

And I will giue them an heart to knowe me, that I am the Lord, and they shalbe my people, and I wil be their God: for they shall returne vnto mee with their whole heart.

8 “Yehowa be, ‘Gake abe gbotsetse siwo gblẽ ale gbegbe be womate ŋu aɖu wo o ene la, nenemae mawɔ Yuda fia Zedekia, eƒe dumegãwo kple ame siwo susɔ ɖe Yerusalem, woatsi anyigba sia dzi loo, alo woanɔ Egipte.

And as the naughtie figges which can not bee eaten, they are so euill (surely thus saith the Lord) so wil I giue Zedekiah the King of Iudah, and his princes, and the residue of Ierusalem, that remaine in this lande, and them that dwell in the lande of Egypt:

9 Mawɔ wo woanye bibi kple ŋunyɔnu na anyigbadzifiaɖuƒewo katã, woanye alɔmeɖenu, lodonu, nu ɖikokoe kple fiƒodenu le afi sia afi si menya wo ɖo ɖo.

I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

10 Madɔ yi, dɔwuame kple dɔvɔ̃ ɖe wo dome va se ɖe esime woatsrɔ̃, avɔ le anyigba si metsɔ na wo kple wo fofowo la dzi.’”

And I will sende the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they bee consumed out of the land, that I gaue vnto them and to their fathers.