Jeremi 7
1 Seyè a pale ak Jeremi, li di l' konsa:
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
2 -Al kanpe devan gwo pòtay kay Bondye a. Pale byen fò, epi di: Nou tout moun peyi Jida k'ap vini pase nan pòtay sa a pou n' al fè sèvis pou Seyè a, koute sa Seyè a voye di nou.
Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.
3 Men sa Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a, Bondye pèp Izrayèl la, di: Se pou nou chanje jan n'ap viv la! Manyè sispann fè sa n'ap fè a pou m' ka kite nou viv isit la.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.
4 Nou pa bezwen kwè pawòl manti y'ap plede repete yo: Sa se gwo kay Seyè a! Sa se gwo kay Seyè a! Sa se gwo kay Seyè a! Anyen p'ap rive nou la.
Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.
5 Se pou nou chanje jan n'ap viv la. Sispann fè sa n'ap fè a! Rann tout moun jistis san patipri.
For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgement between a man and his neighbor,
6 Pa pwofite sou moun lòt nasyon yo, sou timoun ki san papa yo, sou fanm ki pèdi mari yo. Sispann fè san moun inonsan koule nan peyi a. Pa kouri dèyè lòt bondye yo. Se va pou malè nou.
If you opress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,
7 Lè sa a, m'a kite nou viv isit la, nan peyi mwen te bay zansèt nou yo pou tout tan tout tan.
I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.
8 Men, nou chita ap kwè yon bann pawòl manti ki p'ap sèvi nou anyen.
Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:
9 Kouman nou ta vle sa? N'ap vòlò, n'ap touye moun, n'ap fè adiltè, n'ap fè sèman pou bay manti, n'ap fè ofrann pou yo boule pou Baal, n'ap kouri fè sèvis pou yon bann lòt bondye nou pa t' janm konnen anvan.
To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.
10 Lèfini, n'ap vin kanpe devan m' nan kay yo mete apa pou mwen an, n'ap plede di: Nou sove! Epi nou donnen pi rèd nan fè bagay mwen pa vle wè?
And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations.
11 Sanble nou pran kay yo mete apa pou mwen an fè yon kachèt pou vòlò? Se sa mwen wè n'ap fè. Se mwen menm Seyè a ki di sa.
Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.
12 Moute Silo, ale wè kote yo te mete apa pou mwen an, premye kote mwen te chwazi pou m' te rete nan mitan nou an. Ale wè sa m' te fè l' poutèt mechanste pèp Izrayèl mwen sa a.
Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:
13 Koulye a menm, gade tou sa nou fè. Se Seyè a menm ki di sa. Se pa ti kras pale mwen pale nou, nou derefize koute m'. Se pa ti kras rele mwen rele nou, nou pa reponn.
And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:
14 Enben! Sa m' te fè Silo a, se sa mwen pral fè kay yo mete apa pou mwen an, kay nou kwè ki ka sove nou an, ak peyi mwen te bay zansèt nou yo ansanm ak nou an.
I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the places which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.
15 M'ap wete nou devan je m', menm jan mwen te voye tout frè nou yo, tout moun branch fanmi Efrayim yo, jete byen lwen.
And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Seyè a di ankò: -Jeremi monchè, ou pa bezwen lapriyè nan pye m' pou pèp sa a. Ou pa bezwen rele, ni ou pa bezwen lapriyè pou yo. Pa vin plede kòz yo bò kote m'. Paske mwen p'ap koute ou.
Therefore, do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.
17 Ou pa wè sa y'ap fè nan lavil peyi Jida yo, ak nan lari lavil Jerizalèm?
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 Timoun yo ap ranmase bwa. Mesye yo ap limen dife. Medam yo ap bat farin pou fè gato pou Larenn syèl la. Y'ap ofri diven vide atè pou lòt bondye. Y'ap fè tou sa pou yo fè m' lapenn.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.
19 Men, se pa mwen y'ap fè mal. Se Seyè a menm ki di sa. Se pwòp tèt yo menm y'ap fè mal, se tèt yo y'ap fè wont.
Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their contenance?
20 Se poutèt sa, men sa mwen menm, Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a, mwen di: Mwen pral pase gwo kòlè m' ni sou Tanp lan, ni sou moun, ni sou bèt, ni sou pyebwa, ni sou rekòt yo. Kòlè mwen pral tankou yon dife pesonn p'ap ka tenyen.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my indignation was enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Men sa Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a, Bondye pèp Izrayèl la, di ankò: -Pran tout vyann nou te konn ofri pou boule nan dife, mete yo sou vyann bèt nou touye yo. Lèfini, manje tout.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.
22 Lè mwen t'ap fè zansèt nou yo soti peyi Lejip, mwen pa t' ba yo ankenn lòd sou bèt pou yo te boule nan dife pou mwen, ni sou bèt pou yo te touye pou mwen.
For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices.
23 Sèl bagay mwen te mande yo, se pou yo te koute m' lè m'ap pale ak yo. Konsa m'a toujou Bondye yo. Yo menm y'a pèp mwen. Mwen te di pou yo te swiv chemen mwen t'ap mete devan yo, pou tout bagay te ka mache byen pou yo.
But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.
24 Men, yo pa t' vle koute m', yo te bouche zòrèy yo. Yo fè sa ki nan lide yo, yo fè tèt di. Pase yo vin pi bon, yo vin pi mal.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,
25 Depi jou zansèt nou yo te soti kite peyi Lejip rive jòdi a, mwen toujou voye sèvitè m' yo, pwofèt yo, pou pale ak nou.
From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets from day to day, rising up early and sending.
26 Men, pesonn pa koute yo, tout moun bouche zòrèy yo. Nou fè tèt di, nou fè pi mal pase zansèt nou yo.
And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.
27 Se poutèt sa, Jeremi, ou pral di yo tou sa, men yo p'ap koute ou. W'ap rele yo, men yo p'ap reponn.
And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not hearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer thee.
28 W'a di yo: se yon nasyon ki pa koute sa Seyè a ap di yo yo ye. Malgre Bondye pini yo, yo pa chanje. Pesonn pa kenbe pawòl yo ak li. Yo pa pale sou sa menm ankò.
And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: Faith is lost, and is carried away out of their mouth.
29 Nou menm moun lavil Jerizalèm, koupe tout cheve nan tèt nou voye jete. Moute sou tèt mòn yo, pou nou chante plenn sò nou, paske Seyè a pa vle wè moun ki fè l' fache. Li vire do ba yo, li voye yo jete.
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath,
30 Moun peyi Jida yo fè sa ki mal devan je m'. Se Seyè a menm ki di sa: Yo pran zidòl yo, yo enstale yo nan kay yo te mete apa pou mwen an. Konsa, li pa nan kondisyon pou sèvi m' ankò.
Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is called upon, to pollute it;
31 Nan Fon Benninon an, yo bati yon lotèl yo rele Tofèt pou yo ka boule pitit gason ak pitit fi yo nan dife sou li. Sa se bagay mwen p'ap mande yo fè, bagay ki pa janm vin nan lide m' pou m' mande yo fè.
And they have built the high places of Topeth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.
32 Se poutèt sa, men sa mwen menm Seyè a, mwen di: Yon lè yo p'ap rele kote sa a Tofèt, osinon Fon Benninon, men Fon Masak: Se la y'a antere moun, paske p'ap gen plas lòt kote ankò pou antere yo.
Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall no more be called Topeth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter, and they shall bury in Topeth, because there is no place.
33 Kadav moun yo va sèvi manje pou zwazo nan syèl ak bèt nan bwa. P'ap gen pesonn pou pouse bèt yo ale.
And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be non to drive them away.
34 Peyi a pral tounen yon dezè. Nan lavil peyi Jida yo ak nan lari lavil Jerizalèm, ou p'ap tande yon moun ap pran plezi l', ou p'ap tande yon moun ap ri. p'ap menm gen fèt pou moun marye yo. Se mwen menm k'ap fè tou sa rive.
And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
