Jeremiæ 29
1 Et haec sunt verba libri, quae misit Ieremias propheta de Ierusalem ad reliquias seniorum transmigrationis, et ad sacerdotes, et ad prophetas, et ad omnem populum, quem traduxerat Nabuchodonosor de Ierusalem in Babylonem:
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
2 postquam egressus est Iechonias rex, et domina, et eunuchi, et principes Iuda, et Ierusalem, et faber, et inclusor de Ierusalem:
(after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem),
3 in manu Elasa filii Saphan, et Gamariae filii Helchiae, quos misit Sedechias rex Iuda ad Nabuchodonosor regem Babylonis in Babylonem, dicens:
by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:
4 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel omni transmigrationi, quam transtuli de Ierusalem in Babylonem:
The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Aedificate domos, et habitate: et plantate hortos, et comedite fructum eorum.
“Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Accipite uxores, et generate filios et filias: et date filiis vestris uxores, et filias vestras date viris, et pariant filios et filias: et multiplicamini ibi, et nolite esse pauci numero.
Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
7 Et quaerite pacem civitatis, ad quam transmigrare vos feci: et orate pro ea ad Dominum: quia in pace illius erit pax vobis.
Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”
8 Haec enim dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Non vos seducant prophetae vestri, qui sunt in medio vestrum, et divini vestri: et ne attendatis ad somnia vestra, quae vos somniatis:
For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are amongst you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamt.
9 quia falso ipsi prophetant vobis in nomine meo: et non misi eos, dicit Dominus.
For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says the LORD.
10 Quia haec dicit Dominus: Cum coeperint impleri in Babylone septuaginta anni, visitabo vos: et suscitabo super vos verbum meum bonum, ut reducam vos ad locum istum.
For the LORD says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 Ego enim scio cogitationes, quas ego cogito super vos, ait Dominus, cogitationes pacis, et non afflictionis, ut dem vobis finem et patientiam.
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
12 Et invocabitis me, et ibitis: et orabitis me, et ego exaudiam vos.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 Quaeretis me, et invenietis: cum quaesieritis me in toto corde vestro.
You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
14 Et inveniar a vobis, ait Dominus: et reducam captivitatem vestram, et congregabo vos de universis gentibus, et de cunctis locis, ad quae expuli vos, dicit Dominus: et reverti vos faciam de loco, ad quem transmigrare vos feci.
I will be found by you,” says the LORD, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
15 Quia dixistis: Suscitabit nobis Dominus Prophetas in Babylone:
Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”
16 Quia haec dicit Dominus ad regem, qui sedet super solium David, et ad omnem populum habitatorem urbis huius, ad fratres vestros, qui non sunt egressi vobiscum in transmigrationem.
the LORD says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity,
17 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum: Ecce mittam in eos gladium, et famem, et pestem: et ponam eos quasi ficus malas, quae comedi non possunt, eo quod pessimae sint.
the LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.
18 Et persequar eos in gladio, et in fame, et in pestilentia: et dabo eos in vexationem universis regnis terrae: in maledictionem, et in stuporem, et in sibilum, et in opprobrium cunctis Gentibus, ad quas ego eieci eos:
I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach amongst all the nations where I have driven them,
19 eo quod non audierint verba mea, dicit Dominus: quae misit ad eos per servos meos prophetas de nocte consurgens, et mittens: et non audistis, dicit Dominus.
because they have not listened to my words,” says the LORD, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says the LORD.
20 Vos ergo audite verbum Domini omnis transmigratio, quam emisi de Ierusalem in Babylonem.
Hear therefore the LORD’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel ad Achab filium Coliae, et ad Sedechiam filium Maasiae, qui prophetant vobis in nomine meo mendaciter: Ecce ego tradam eos in manus Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis: et percutiet eos in oculis vestris.
The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes.
22 Et assumetur ex eis maledictio omni transmigrationi Iuda, quae est in Babylone, dicentium: Ponat te Dominus sicut Sedechiam, et sicut Achab, quos frixit rex Babylonis in igne:
A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
23 pro eo quod fecerint stultitiam in Israel, et moechati sunt in uxores amicorum suorum, et locuti sunt verbum in nomine meo mendaciter, quod non mandavi eis: ego sum iudex et testis, dicit Dominus.
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says the LORD.
24 Et ad Semeiam Nehelamiten dices:
Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
25 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israel: Pro eo quod misisti in nomine tuo libros ad omnem populum, qui est in Ierusalem, et ad Sophoniam filium Maasiae sacerdotem, et ad universos sacerdotes, dicens:
“The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26 Dominus dedit te sacerdotem pro Ioiade sacerdote, ut sis dux in domo Domini super omnem virum arreptitium et prophetantem, ut mittas eum in nervum et in carcerem.
“The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the LORD’s house, for every man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
27 Et nunc quare non increpasti Ieremiam Anathothiten, qui prophetat vobis?
Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
28 Quia super hoc misit in Babylonem ad nos, dicens: Longum est: aedificate domos, et habitate: et plantate hortos, et comedite fructus eorum.
because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”
29 Legit ergo Sophonias sacerdos librum istum in auribus Ieremiae prophetae.
Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
30 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Ieremiam, dicens:
Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
31 Mitte ad omnem transmigrationem, dicens: Haec dicit Dominus ad Semeiam Nehelamiten: Pro eo quod prophetavit vobis Semeias, et ego non misi eum: et fecit vos confidere in mendacio:
“Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘The LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie,”
32 idcirco haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego visitabo super Semeiam Nehelamiten, et super semen eius: non erit ei vir sedens in medio populi huius, et non videbit bonum, quod ego faciam populo meo, ait Dominus: quia praevaricationem locutus est adversus Dominum.
therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell amongst this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says the LORD, “because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.”’”
