Yeremia 27
1 Le Yuda fia Zedekia, Yosia ƒe vi ƒe fiaɖuɖu ƒe gɔmedzedzea me la, Yehowa ƒe nya sia va na Yeremia be:
THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
2 Ale Yehowa gblɔ nam nye esi: “Gbi ka, nàtsɔ ati sesẽ eve awɔ kɔkuti eye nàtsɔ kɔkuti la ku wò kɔ.
Proclaim you amongst the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
3 Ekema nàɖo du ɖe Edom, Moab, Amon, Tiro kple Sidon fiawo to woƒe ame dɔdɔ siwo va Yuda fia, Zedekia, gbɔ le Yerusalem la dzi.
For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
4 Ɖo gbedeasi ɖe woƒe amegãwo, eye nàgblɔ be, ‘Ale Yehowa, Dziƒoʋakɔwo ƒe Aƒetɔ, Israel ƒe Mawu la gblɔe nye esi: “Migblɔ na miaƒe amegãwo be,
In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
5 Nye ŋusẽ triakɔ kple nye abɔ si le dzi lae metsɔ wɔ anyigba, edzinɔlawo kple lã vovovo siwo le edzi eye metsɔnɛ naa ame sia ame si melɔ̃.
They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
6 Azɔ la, matsɔ miaƒe dukɔwo katã ade asi na nye dɔla, Babilonia fia, Nebukadnezar. Mawɔe be lã wɔadãwo gɔ̃ hã anɔ eƒe kpɔkplɔ te.
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
7 Dukɔwo katã asubɔe, asubɔ via kple eƒe tɔgbuiyɔvi gɔ̃ hã va se ɖe esime eƒe anyigba ƒe ɣeyiɣi nade. Ekema dukɔ geɖewo kple fia xɔŋkɔwo aɖu edzi.
All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
8 “‘“Ke ne dukɔ alo fiaɖuƒe aɖe gbe be yemasubɔ Babilonia fia Nebukadnezar, alo abɔbɔ ɖe eƒe kɔkuti te o la, mahe to na dukɔ ma kple yi, dɔwuame kple dɔvɔ̃ va se ɖe esime matsrɔ̃e kple Nebukadnezar ƒe asi.”’ Yehowae gblɔe.
Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
9 Eya ta migaɖo to miaƒe nyagblɔɖilawo, bokɔnɔwo, drɔ̃egɔmeɖelawo, ŋɔliyɔlawo kple nukala siwo gblɔna na mi be, ‘Migasubɔ Babilonia fia o’ la o.
For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
10 Wogblɔa aʋatsonyagblɔɖiwo na mi, siwo ana be woaɖe mi ɖa le miaƒe anyigbawo dzi aɖo ɖe didiƒewo. Manya mi eye miatsrɔ̃.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11 Gake ne dukɔ aɖe bɔbɔ ɖe Babilonia fia ƒe kɔkuti te hesubɔe la, mana be dukɔ ma nanɔ eya ŋutɔ ƒe anyigba dzi eye wòanɔ edzi. Yehowae gblɔe.”
Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
12 Metsɔ gbedeasi sia ke na Yuda fia Zedekia. Megblɔ nɛ be, “Tsɔ wò kɔ de Babilonia fia, Nebukadnezar, ƒe kɔkuti te; subɔ eya kple eƒe dukɔmetɔwo eye nànɔ agbe.
Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
13 Nu ka ŋuti wò kple wò amewo miaku ɖe yi, dɔwuame kple dɔvɔ̃ si ƒe ŋugbe Yehowa do na dukɔ si masubɔ Babilonia fia o la ƒe asi me?
by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
14 Mègaɖo to nyagblɔɖilawo ƒe nya si gblɔm wole na wò be, ‘Mígasubɔ Babilonia fia o’ la o; elabena aʋatsonyawo gblɔm wole na wò.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
15 Yehowa be, ‘Nyemedɔ wo o. Aʋatsonya gblɔm wole ɖi le nye ŋkɔ me. Eya ta manya wò ɖa le teƒe sia eye wò kple Nyagblɔɖila siwo gblɔ nya ɖi na wò la siaa miatsrɔ̃.’”
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
16 Tete megblɔ na nunɔlawo kple ame siawo katã be, “Ale Yehowa gblɔe nye esi: Migaɖo to nyagblɔɖila siwo gblɔna na mi be, ‘Esusɔ vie woatrɔ nu siwo wolɔ le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me yi Babilonia la gbɔe’ o. Aʋatsonya gblɔm wole ɖi na mi.
Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
17 Migaɖo to wo o. Misubɔ Babilonia fia, ekema mianɔ agbe. Nu ka ŋuti du sia azu aƒedo?
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
18 Nenye nyagblɔɖilawoe wonye vavã eye Yehowa ƒe nya le wo me la, ekema woneɖe kuku na Yehowa, Dziƒoʋakɔwo ƒe Aƒetɔ la, be nu siwo susɔ ɖe Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me kple Yuda fia ƒe aƒe me le Yerusalem la, womagalɔ wo ayi Babilonia o.
Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
19 Elabena, ale Yehowa, Dziƒoʋakɔwo ƒe Aƒetɔ la gblɔ tso sɔtiawo, akɔblizɔ kple nu siwo dzi woda wo ɖo kple nu bubu siwo susɔ ɖe du sia me la ŋuti.
And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
20 Nu siwo Babilonia fia, Nebukadnezar metsɔ dzoe o esi wòva lé Yuda fia Yehoyatsin, Yehoyakim ƒe vi, yi ɖe aboyome le Babilonia kpe ɖe Yuda kple Yerusalem ƒe ame ŋkutawo ŋuti.
In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
21 Ɛ̃, ale Yehowa, Dziƒoʋakɔwo ƒe Aƒetɔ la, Israel ƒe Mawu la gblɔ tso nu siwo susɔ ɖe Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ kple Yuda fia ƒe fiasã me le Yerusalem la ŋutie nye esi:
on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
22 ‘Woalɔ wo ayi ɖe Babilonia, afi ma woanɔ va se ɖe gbe si gbe mava alɔ wo ekema matrɔ wo agbɔe va teƒe sia.’” Yehowae gblɔe.
A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation amongst the nations!
They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.
And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgement with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
[the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard amongst the nations.
