Jeremiæ 7
1 Verbum, quod factum est ad Ieremiam a Domino, dicens:
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Sta in porta domus Domini, et praedica ibi verbum istud, et dic: Audite verbum Domini omnis Iuda, qui ingredimini per portas has, ut adoretis Dominum.
“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Bonas facite vias vestras, et studia vestra: et habitabo vobiscum in loco isto.
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
4 Nolite confidere in verbis mendacii, dicentes: Templum Domini, templum Domini, templum Domini est.
Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
5 Quoniam si bene direxeritis vias vestras, et studia vestra: si feceritis iudicium inter virum et proximum eius,
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
6 advenae, et pupillo, et viduae non feceritis calumniam, nec sanguinem innocentem effuderitis in loco hoc, et post deos alienos non ambulaveritis in malum vobismetipsis:
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
7 habitabo vobiscum in loco isto: in terra, quam dedi patribus vestris a saeculo et usque in saeculum.
then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
8 Ecce vos confiditis vobis in sermonibus mendacii, qui non proderunt vobis:
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
9 furari, occidere, adulterari, iurare mendaciter, libare Baalim, et ire post deos alienos, quos ignoratis.
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
10 Et venistis, et stetistis coram me in domo hac, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, et dixistis: Liberati sumus eo quod fecerimus omnes abominationes istas.
and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
11 Numquid ergo spelunca latronum facta est domus ista, in qua invocatum est nomen meum in oculis vestris? ego, ego sum: ego vidi, dicit Dominus.
Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
12 Ite ad locum meum in Silo, ubi habitavit nomen meum a principio: et videte quae fecerim ei propter malitiam populi mei Israel:
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
13 et nunc, quia fecistis omnia opera haec, dicit Dominus: et locutus sum ad vos mane consurgens, et loquens, et non audistis: et vocavi vos, et non respondistis:
And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
14 Faciam domui huic, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, et in qua vos habetis fiduciam: et loco, quem dedi vobis et patribus vestris, sicut feci Silo.
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
15 Et proiiciam vos a facie mea, sicut proieci omnes fratres vestros, universum semen Ephraim.
And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16 Tu ergo noli orare pro populo hoc, nec assumas pro eis laudem et orationem, et non obsistas mihi: quia non exaudiam te.
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
17 Nonne vides quid isti faciunt in civitatibus Iuda, et in plateis Ierusalem?
Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 Filii colligunt ligna, et patres succendunt ignem, et mulieres conspergunt adipem, ut faciant placentas reginae caeli, et libent diis alienis, et me ad iracundiam provocent.
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
19 Numquid me ad iracundiam provocant, dicit Dominus? nonne semetipsos in confusionem vultus sui?
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
20 Ideo haec dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce furor meus, et indignatio mea conflatur super locum istum, super viros, et super iumenta, et super lignum regionis, et super fruges terrae, et succendetur, et non extinguetur.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
21 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Holocaustomata vestra addite victimis vestris, et comedite carnes.
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
22 Quia non sum locutus cum patribus vestris, et non praecepi eis in die, qua eduxi eos de Terra Aegypti, de verbo holocaustomatum, et victimarum.
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
23 Sed hoc verbum praecepi ei, dicens: Audite vocem meam, et ero vobis Deus, et vos eritis mihi populus: et ambulate in omni via, quam mandavi vobis, ut bene sit vobis.
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
24 Et non audierunt, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam: sed abierunt in voluptatibus, et in pravitate cordis sui mali: factique sunt retrorsum, et non in ante,
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
25 a die qua egressi sunt patres eorum de terra Aegypti, usque ad diem hanc. Et misi ad vos omnes servos meos prophetas per diem, consurgens diluculo, et mittens.
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
26 Et non audierunt me, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam: sed induraverunt cervicem suam: et peius operati sunt, quam patres eorum.
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
27 Et loqueris ad eos omnia verba haec, et non audient te: et vocabis eos, et non respondebunt tibi.
When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
28 Et dices ad eos: Haec est gens, quae non audivit vocem Domini Dei sui, nec recepit disciplinam: periit fides, et ablata est de ore eorum.
Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
29 Tonde capillum tuum, et proiice, et sume in directum planctum: quia proiecit Dominus, et reliquit generationem furoris sui,
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
30 quia fecerunt filii Iuda malum in oculis meis, dicit Dominus. Posuerunt offendicula sua in domo, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, ut polluerent eam:
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
31 et aedificaverunt excelsa Topheth, quae est in valle filii Ennom: ut incenderent filios suos, et filias suas igni: quae non praecepi, nec cogitavi in corde meo.
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
32 Ideo ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus, et non dicetur amplius, Topheth, et Vallis filii Ennom: sed Vallis interfectionis: et sepelient in Topheth, eo quod non sit locus.
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
33 Et erit morticinum populi huius in cibos volucribus caeli, et bestiis terrae, et non erit qui abigat.
The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
34 Et quiescere faciam de urbibus Iuda, et de plateis Ierusalem vocem gaudii, et vocem laetitiae, vocem sponsi, et vocem sponsae: in desolatione enim erit terra.
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
