Jeremiah 29
1 Nga simusla leta se nu sin mwet tol, mwet palu, mwet kol lun mwet uh, ac mwet nukewa ma Nebuchadnezzar el usla liki acn Jerusalem nu ke sruoh in acn Babylonia.
These are the words in the scroll that Jeremiah the prophet sent out from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the captives and to the priests, prophets, and all the people that Nebuchadnezzar exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Nga simusla tukun pacl se Tokosra Jehoiachin, wi nina kial, mwet leum inkul fulat, mwet kol lun Judah ac Jerusalem, mwet usrnguk in sroasr, ac mwet pah in orekma ke osra elos utukla nu in sruoh.
This was after Jehoiachin the king, the queen mother, and the high officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen had been sent away from Jerusalem.
3 Nga sang leta sac nu sel Elasah wen natul Shaphan, ac Gemariah wen natul Hilkiah, su Tokosra Zedekiah lun Judah el ac supwala nu yorol Tokosra Nebuchadnezzar lun Babylonia. Pa inge kas ke leta sac:
He sent this scroll by the hand of Elasah son of Shapan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, had sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
4 “LEUM GOD Kulana, God lun Israel, El fahk nu sin mwet nukewa ma El lela Nebuchadnezzar elan usla liki Jerusalem nu ke sruoh in Babylonia:
The scroll said, “Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this to all the captives whom I caused to be exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon,
5 ‘Kowos in musaela lohm suwos ac okaki we. Yukwiya ima ac mongo ke fokin ima inge.
'Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Payukyak ac oswela tulik. Na sang tulik nutuwos an in payukyak, tuh in oasr pac tulik natulos. Enenu kowos in puseni ac tia pueni.
Take wives and give birth to sons and daughters. Then take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands. Let them give birth to sons and daughters and increase there so you do not become too few.
7 Kowos orekma in akwoye siti ma nga supwekowosla in mwet sruoh we. Pre kaclos nu sik, mweyen elos fin kapkapak, na kowos ac kapkapak pac.
Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be exiled, and intercede with me on its behalf since there will be peace for you if it is at peace.'
8 Nga, LEUM GOD lun Israel, akasmakye kowos in tiana lela mwet palu su muta inmasrlowos, ku kutepacna mwet su fahk mu ku in palye pacl fahsru, in kiapwekowos. Nimet kowos lohang nu ke mweme lalos.
For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that you yourselves are having.
9 Elos fahk kas na kikiap Inek. Nga tiana supwalos. Nga, LEUM GOD Kulana, pa fahk ma inge.’
For they are prophesying deceitfully to you in my name. I did not send them—this is Yahweh's declaration.'
10 “LEUM GOD El fahk, ‘Ke yac itngoul lun Babylonia inge ac safla uh, nga fah akkalemye pakomuta luk nu suwos, ac akpwayei wulela luk in folokinkowosme nu yen suwos.
For Yahweh says this, 'When Babylon has ruled you for seventy years, I will help you and carry out my good word for you to bring you back to this place.
11 Nga mukena pa etu ma nga akoo nu suwos — akoo luk uh pa in oru tuh kowos in kapkapak, ac tia in kunauskowosla; ac in sot pacl wo ma kowos finsrak kac.
For I myself know the plans that I have for you—this is Yahweh's declaration—plans for peace and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
12 In pacl sacn kowos ac fah pang nu sik. Kowos ac tuku pre nu sik, ac nga fah topuk kowos.
Then you will call to me, and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 Kowos ac sukyu ac fah koneyuyak, mweyen kowos ac sukyu ke insiowos na pwaye.
For you will seek me and find me, since you will seek me with all your heart.
14 Aok, nga fahk mu kowos ac koneyuyak, ac nga fah folokinkowosla nu yen suwos. Nga fah uskowoseni liki mutunfacl nukewa ac liki acn nukewa ma nga akfahsryekowoselik nu we, ac nga fah folokinkowosme nu in facl se nga supwekowosla liki nu ke sruoh. Nga, LEUM GOD, pa fahk ma inge.’
Then I will be found by you—this is Yahweh's declaration—and I will bring back your fortunes; I will gather you from all the nations and places where I scattered you—this is Yahweh's declaration—for I will bring you back to the place from where I caused you to be exiled.'
15 “Kowos fahk mu oasr mwet palu LEUM GOD El tuh sot nu suwos in Babylonia.
Since you said that Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,
16 Porongo ma LEUM GOD El fahk ke tokosra su kol tokosrai ma David el tuh leumi, ac ke mwet in siti se inge — aok, mwet in sou lowos su tia wi kowos utukla nu in sruoh.
Yahweh says this to the king who sits on the throne of David and to all the people who are staying in that city, your brothers who have not gone out with you into captivity—
17 LEUM GOD Kulana El fahk, ‘Nga ac use mweun, sracl, ac mas upa nu faclos, ac nga fah oru elos in oana fig ma arulana kolukla, tia ku in mongo.
Yahweh of hosts says this, 'See, I am about to send sword, famine, and disease on them. For I will make them like rotten figs that are too bad to be eaten.
18 Nga fah oru tuh mweun, sracl, ac mas upa, in ukwalos na, ac mutunfacl nukewa faclu ac fah sangengla ke elos ac liye uh. Yen nukewa nga akfahsryeloselik nu we, mwet uh ac fah lut ac arulana sangeng ke ma sikyak nu selos. Mwet uh ac fah isrunulos, ac orekmakin inelos in mwe selnga lalos.
Then I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague and make them a horrible sight to all the kingdoms on earth—a horror, an object of curses and hissing, and a shameful thing among all the nations where I scattered her.
19 Ma inge ac sikyak nu selos mweyen elos tia akos kas su nga supuna nu yorolos sin mwet kulansap luk mwet palu. Elos tiana lungse lohng.
This is because they did not listen to my word—this is Yahweh's declaration—that I sent out to them through my servants the prophets. I repeatedly sent them, but you would not listen—this is Yahweh's declaration.'
20 Kowos nukewa su nga supwala nu ke sruoh Babylonia, porongo ma nga, LEUM GOD, fahk nu suwos.’
So you yourselves listen to the word of Yahweh, all you exiles whom he has sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon,
21 “LEUM GOD Kulana, God lun Israel, El kaskas kacl Ahab wen natul Kolaiah, ac kacl Zedekiah wen natul Maaseiah, su fahkot kas kikiap nu suwos Inen LEUM GOD. El fahk mu El ac eisalosyang nu in paol Tokosra Nebuchadnezzar lun Babylonia, su ac fah onelosi ye motowos.
'Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who prophesy falsely to you in my name: See, I am about to put them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will kill them before your eyes.
22 Ke mwet sruoh ma utukla liki acn Jerusalem nu Babylonia elos ac selngawi sie mwet, elos ac fahk, ‘Lela LEUM GOD Elan oru nu sum oana El oru nu sel Zedekiah ac Ahab, su tokosra lun Babylonia el munanla ke eltal moulna!’
Then a curse will be spoken about these persons by all the captives of Judah in Babylon. The curse will say: May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in fire.
23 Pa inge ma ac sikyak nu selos ke sripen ma koluk na yohk elos oru — elos orek kosro yurin mutan kien mwet tulan lalos, ac fahkak kas na kikiap Inen LEUM GOD. Ma inge lain ma lungse lun LEUM GOD. El etu ma elos oru, ac El orek loh lainulos. LEUM GOD pa fahk ma inge.”
This will happen because of the shameful things they did in Israel when they committed adultery with their neighbor's wives and declared false words in my name, things that I never commanded them to say. For I am the one who knows; I am the witness—this is Yahweh's declaration.'”
24 Nu sel Shemaiah, mwet Nehelam, kom fah fahk,
“About Shemaiah the Nehelamite, say this:
25 “Ouinge LEUM GOD Kulana, God lun Israel, El fahk: Kom tuh supwala leta se inem sifacna nu sin mwet nukewa su muta Jerusalem, ac nu sel Zephaniah, mwet tol wen natul Maaseiah, ac nu sin mwet tol nukewa, ac fahk,
'Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: Because you sent out letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, and said,
26 ‘LEUM GOD El oru kom in sie mwet tol in aolul Jehoiada, ac inge kom pa kol mwet karingin Tempul uh. Ma kunom in liye lah kutena mwet wel ma oru mu el sie mwet palu, in fah kapiri el in sein, wi sie kala osra rauneak inkwawal.
“Yahweh has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for you to be in charge of Yahweh's house. You are in control of all the people who rave and make themselves into prophets. You should put them in stocks and chains.
27 Efu ku kom tia oru ouinge nu sel Jeremiah mwet Anathoth, su kaskas oana sie mwet palu nu sin mwet uh?
So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself into a prophet against you?
28 Enenu in tulokinyuki el mweyen el fahk nu sin mwet ma muta Babylonia mu elos ac fah mwet sruoh ke pacl na loeloes, ac elos in musa lohm, oakwuki we, yukwiya ima lalos, ac kang fahko kac’”
For he has sent to us in Babylon and said, 'It will be a long time. Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.”'”
29 Zephaniah el riti leta sac nu sik,
Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
30 na LEUM GOD El fahk nu sik
Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
31 in sapwala kas inge nu sin mwet sruoh nukewa, ac fahk: “Pa inge ma LEUM GOD El fahk kacl Shemaiah mwet Nehelam: Mweyen Shemaiah el fahk kas in palu nu suwos ke nga tia supwal, ac oru kowos lulalfongi kas kikiap lal,
“Send word to all the exiles and say, 'Yahweh says this about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you when I myself did not send him, and he has led you to believe lies,
32 nga fah kael Shemaiah ac fwilin tulik natul. Wangin sie mwet lal ac fah moul in liye ma wo ma nga ac oru nu sin mwet luk, mweyen el tuh sapkin mwet uh in lainyu. Nga, LEUM GOD, pa fahk ma inge.”
therefore Yahweh says this: Look, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be a man for him to stay among this people. He will not see the good that I will do for my people—this is Yahweh's declaration—for he has proclaimed rebellion against Yahweh.'”
