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1 ၁ ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူသည်ကား ၊
౧“యెహోవా ఇలా అంటున్నాడు, ఈ పట్టణంలో నిలిచి ఉన్న వాళ్ళు ఖడ్గంతో, కరువుతో, తెగులుతో చస్తారు. కాని కల్దీయుల దగ్గరికి బయలుదేరి వెళ్ళేవాళ్ళు బతుకుతారు. అతడు తన జీవాన్ని ఒకడు కొల్లసొమ్ము దక్కించుకున్నట్టు దక్కించుకుంటాడు. ఎందుకంటే, అతడు బతుకుతాడు.”
2 ၂ ဤ မြို့ ထဲမှာ နေ သောသူသည် ထား ဘေး၊ မွတ်သိပ် ခြင်းဘေး၊ ကာလနာ ဘေးတို့နှင့်သေ လိမ့်မည်။ခါလဒဲ လူတို့ဘက်သို့ ထွက်သွား သောသူသည် အသက် ချမ်းသာ၍ ၊ လက်ရဥစ္စာ ကဲ့သို့ ကိုယ် အသက် ကိုရ လိမ့်မည်ဟူ၍၎င်း၊ ဤ မြို့ ကို ဗာဗုလုန် ရှင်ဘုရင် ၏ဗိုလ်ခြေ လက် သို့ ဆက်ဆက်အပ် ၍၊ သူသည်သိမ်းယူ လိမ့်မည်ဟူ၍၎င်း၊ ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏ဟု၊
౨యెహోవా ఇలా అంటున్నాడు. “ఈ పట్టణం కచ్చితంగా బబులోను రాజు సైన్యం చేతికి అప్పగించడం జరుగుతుంది. అతడు దాన్ని చెరపట్టుకుంటాడు,” అని యిర్మీయా ప్రజలందరికీ ప్రకటించినప్పుడు,
3 ၃ ယေရမိ သည် လူ အပေါင်း တို့အား ဟောပြော တတ်သော စကား များကို မဿန် သား ရှေဖတိ ၊ ပါရှုရ သား ဂေဒလိ ၊ ရှေလမိ သား ယေဟုကလ ၊ မာလခိ သား ပါရှုရ တို့သည်ကြား သောအခါ၊
౩మత్తాను కొడుకు షెఫట్య, పషూరు కొడుకు గెదల్యా, షెలెమ్యా కొడుకు యూకలు, మల్కీయా కొడుకు పషూరు విన్నారు గనుక ఆ నాయకులు రాజుతో “ఈ మనిషి ఈ ప్రజల నాశనం కోరేవాడేగాని, క్షేమం కోరేవాడు కాదు.
4 ၄ ထိုမှူး မတ်တို့သည် ရှင်ဘုရင် ထံသို့ ဝင်၍၊ ဤ သူ သည် ဤ သို့သော စကား ကို ပြော သဖြင့် ၊ မြို့ ထဲမှာ ကျန် ကြွင်းသေးသောစစ်သူရဲ အစ ရှိသော လူ အပေါင်း တို့၏ လက် ကိုအားလျော့ စေတတ်ပါ၏။ သူ သည် ဤ လူမျိုး ၏ အကျိုး ကို မ ပြုစု တတ်၊ ဖျက်ဆီး တတ်ပါ၏။ ထိုကြောင့် ၊ သူ့ကိုကွပ်မျက် ပါမည်အကြောင်းအခွင့်တောင်းပန်ပါ၏ ဟု လျှောက် လျှင်၊
౪ఇతను ఇలాంటి సమాచారం వాళ్లకు ప్రకటన చెయ్యడం వల్ల ఈ పట్టణంలో నిలిచి ఉన్న యోధుల చేతులను, ప్రజలందరి చేతులను బలహీనం చేస్తున్నాడు. ఇతనికి మరణశిక్ష విధించాలి” అన్నారు.
5 ၅ ဇေဒကိ မင်းကြီး က၊ သူ သည် သင် တို့လက် ၌ ရှိ၏။ ရှင် ဘုရင်သည် သင်တို့အလို ကို မ ဆီးတား နိုင်ဟု မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౫అందుకు రాజైన సిద్కియా “అతడు మీ చేతిలో ఉన్నాడు. రాజు మీకు అడ్డం రాగలడా,” అన్నాడు.
6 ၆ ထိုအခါ ယေရမိ ကို ယူ ၍၊ ထောင် ဝင်း ထဲမှာ ရှိသော သား တော် မာလခိ ၏မြေတွင်း ၌ ကြိုး နှင့် လျှော့ချ ကြ၏။ ထိုမြေတွင်း ၌ ရေ မရှိ ၊ ရွှံ့ သာ ရှိ၍ ၊ ယေရမိ သည်ရွှံ့ ၌ ကျွံ လျက်နေ၏။
౬వాళ్ళు యిర్మీయాను పట్టుకుని చెరసాల ప్రాంగణంలో ఉన్న రాజకుమారుడు మల్కీయా గోతిలోకి దింపారు. అందులోకి యిర్మీయాను తాళ్ళతో దింపినప్పుడు ఆ గోతిలో నీళ్లు లేవు, బురద మాత్రమే ఉంది. ఆ బురదలో యిర్మీయా కూరుకుపోయాడు.
7 ၇ ထိုသို့ယေရမိ ကို မြေတွင်း ၌ ချ ထားကြောင်း ကို နန်းတော် အရာရှိ ဖြစ်သောသူ၊ ကုရှ အမျိုးသားဧဗဒမေလက် သည် ကြား သိသောအခါ၊ ရှင်ဘုရင် သည် ဗင်္ယာမိန် တံခါးဝ ၌ ထိုင် နေတော်မူစဉ်တွင်၊
౭అప్పుడు, రాజగృహంలో, కూషీయుడైన ఎబెద్మెలెకు నపుంసకుల్లో ఒకడు. యిర్మీయాను గోతిలో పెట్టారని అతడు విన్నాడు. ఆ సమయంలో రాజు బెన్యామీను ద్వారం దగ్గర కూర్చుని ఉన్నాడు.
8 ၈ ထိုသူ သည် နန်းတော် ထဲက ထွက် ၍ အထံ တော်သို့ သွားပြီးလျှင်၊
౮కాబట్టి ఎబెద్మెలెకు రాజ గృహంలోనుంచి వెళ్లి రాజుతో ఇలా అన్నాడు,
9 ၉ အကျွန်ုပ် သခင် အရှင်မင်းကြီး ၊ ထို သူ တို့သည် ပရောဖက် ယေရမိ ကို ပြု လေသမျှ တို့၌ မှား ကြပါပြီ။ မြေတွင်း ၌ ချ ထားကြပါပြီ။ မြို့ ၌ မုန့် ကုန် သောကြောင့် ၊ ထိုတွင်း ၌ ငတ်မွတ် ၍ သေ ပါလိမ့်မည်ဟုလျှောက် သော်၊
౯“రాజా, నా ప్రభూ, ఆ గోతిలో వేసిన యిర్మీయా అనే ప్రవక్త పట్ల ఈ మనుషులు చేసిందంతా దుర్మార్గమే. అతడు ఆకలితో చావాలని అతన్ని గోతిలో పడేశారు. ఎందుకంటే పట్టణంలో ఆహారం ఇంక లేదు.”
10 ၁၀ ရှင် ဘုရင်က၊ ပရောဖက် ယေရမိ မ သေ မှီ ဤ အရပ်မှ လူ သုံးဆယ် ကို ခေါ် သွား၍၊ မြေတွင်း ထဲက နှုတ်ယူ လော့ဟု၊ ကုရှ အမျိုးသားဧဗဒမေလက် ကို အမိန့် တော်ရှိ၏။
౧౦అప్పుడు రాజు కూషీయుడైన ఎబెద్మెలెకుకు ఆజ్ఞ ఇచ్చి “నువ్వు ఇక్కడనుంచి 30 మంది మనుషులను వెంటబెట్టుకుని వెళ్లి, ప్రవక్త అయిన యిర్మీయా చావకముందు ఆ గోతిలోనుంచి అతన్ని తీయించు,” అన్నాడు.
11 ၁၁ ဧဗဒမေလက် သည်လည်း လူ တို့ကို ခေါ် ၍ နန်းတော် အတွင်း ဘဏ္ဍာတိုက် အောက် သို့ ဝင် ပြီးလျှင် ၊ ဟောင်းနွမ်း သော အဝတ် စုတ်များကို ယူ ပြီးမှ၊ ယေရမိ ရှိရာ မြေတွင်း ၌ ကြိုး နှင့် လျှော့ချ လေ၏။
౧౧కాబట్టి ఎబెద్మెలెకు ఆ మనుషులను వెంటబెట్టుకుని రాజమందిరంలో ఖజానా కింద గదిలోకి వచ్చాడు.
12 ၁၂ ထိုအခါ ကုရှ အမျိုးသားဧဗဒမေလက် က၊ ဟောင်းနွမ်း သော ဤအဝတ် စုတ်တို့နှင့်သင် ၏ လက် က တီးကြား၌ကြိုး ကိုခုခံပါလော့ဟုဆိုသည်အတိုင်း ယေရမိ ပြု လေ၏။
౧౨అక్కడ నుంచి పాతబడి చీకిపోయి, చినిగిపోయిన బట్టలు తీసుకువెళ్లి, ఆ గోతిలో ఉన్న యిర్మీయా పట్టుకునేలా తాళ్ళతో వాటిని దింపి “పాతవై చిరిగి చీకిపోయిన ఈ బట్టలతో పేనిన తాళ్ళను నీ చంకల కింద పెట్టుకో,” అని అతనితో చెప్పాడు.
13 ၁၃ ထိုသို့ ယေရမိ ကိုမြေတွင်း ထဲက ကြိုး နှင့် ဆွဲတင် ကြ၏။ ထို နောက်ယေရမိ သည် ထောင် ဝင်း ထဲမှာ နေ လေ ၏။
౧౩యిర్మీయా అలాగే చేశాడు. అప్పుడు వాళ్ళు యిర్మీయాను తాళ్ళతో లాగారు. ఈ విధంగా వాళ్ళు అతన్ని ఆ గోతిలోనుంచి పైకి లాగారు. ఆ తరువాత యిర్మీయా ఆ చెరసాల ప్రాంగణంలో ఉంటూ ఉన్నాడు.
14 ၁၄ တဖန် ဇေဒကိ မင်းကြီး သည် လူကို စေလွှတ် ၍ ၊ ဗိမာန် တော်၌ တတိယ အတွင်း ခန်းထဲသို့ ယေရမိ ကို ခေါ် ပြီးလျှင်၊ သင် ၌ တစုံတခု ကို ငါ မေးမြန်း မည်။ အဘယ် အရာကိုမျှ မ ထိမ် မဝှက်နှင့်ဟုဆို သော်၊
౧౪తరువాత రాజైన సిద్కియా యెహోవా మందిరంలో ఉన్న మూడో ద్వారంలోకి ప్రవక్త అయిన యిర్మీయాను పిలిపించి, అతనితో “నేను నిన్ను ఒకటి అడగాలనుకుంటున్నాను. నా నుంచి ఏదీ దాచకుండా చెప్పు,” అన్నాడు.
15 ၁၅ ယေရမိ က၊ အကျွန်ုပ်လျှောက် လျှင် ၊ အကျွန်ုပ် ကို မ သတ် ဘဲအမှန်နေတော်မူမည်လော။ အကျွန်ုပ်သည် အကြံ ပေးလျှင် ၊ အကျွန်ုပ် စကားကို နားထောင် တော်မူမည် လောဟု ဇေဒကိ ကို မေး လျှောက်လေ၏။
౧౫యిర్మీయా సిద్కియాతో “నేను నీకు జవాబు చెప్తే, కచ్చితంగా నువ్వు నాకు మరణ శిక్ష వేస్తావు. నేను నీకు సలహా ఇచ్చినా, నువ్వు నా మాట వినవు,” అన్నాడు.
16 ၁၆ ဇေဒကိ မင်းကြီး ကလည်း၊ ငါ တို့ကို အသက် ရှင်သော သတ္တဝါဖြစ်စေခြင်းငှါ ဖန်ဆင်း သော ထာဝရဘုရား အသက် ရှင်တော်မူသည်အတိုင်း၊ သင့် ကိုငါမ သတ် ။ သင့် အသက် ကိုရှာ သော ထို လူ တို့လက် သို့ သင့် ကိုငါ မ အပ် ဟု ယေရမိ အား တိတ်ဆိတ် စွာ ကျိန်ဆို လေ၏။
౧౬కాని రాజైన సిద్కియా ఏకాంతంగా యిర్మీయాతో ప్రమాణం చేసి “మనలను సృష్టించిన యెహోవా తోడు, నేను నిన్ను చంపను, నిన్ను చంపాలని చూసేవాళ్ల చేతికి నిన్ను అప్పగించను,” అన్నాడు.
17 ၁၇ ယေရမိ ကလည်း ၊ ဣသရေလ အမျိုး၏ ဘုရား သခင် ၊ ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင်ဘုရား သခင်ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူသည်ကား ၊ ကိုယ်တော်သည်ဗာဗုလုန် ရှင်ဘုရင် ၏မှူးမတ် တို့ထံ သို့အမှန်ထွက်သွား လျှင် အသက် ချမ်းသာ ရတော်မူမည်။ ဤ မြို့ သည်လည်း မီးရှို့ ခြင်းနှင့်လွတ် လိမ့်မည်။ ကိုယ်တော် နှင့်တကွဆွေ တော် မျိုးတော်တို့သည် အသက် ချမ်းသာရကြလိမ့်မည်။
౧౭కాబట్టి యిర్మీయా సిద్కియాతో ఇలా అన్నాడు. “ఇశ్రాయేలు దేవుడు, సైన్యాలకు అధిపతి అయిన దేవుడు, యెహోవా ఇలా అంటున్నాడు, నువ్వు బబులోను రాజు అధిపతుల దగ్గరికి వెళ్తే బతుకుతావు. ఈ నగరాన్ని తగలబెట్టరు. నువ్వూ, నీ ఇంటి వాళ్ళు బతుకుతారు.
18 ၁၈ သို့မဟုတ် ၊ ကိုယ်တော်သည် ဗာဗုလုန် ရှင်ဘုရင် ၏ မှူးမတ် တို့ထံသို့ မ ထွက် မသွားလျှင် ၊ ဤ မြို့ ကို ခါလဒဲ လူတို့လက် သို့ အပ် ၍ ၊ သူတို့သည် မီးရှို့ ကြလိမ့်မည်။ ကိုယ်တော် သည်လည်း ၊ သူ တို့လက် နှင့် မ လွတ် ရဟု ဇေဒကိ ကို လျှောက်ဆို ၏။
౧౮కాని నువ్వు బబులోను అధిపతుల దగ్గరికి వెళ్లకపోతే, ఈ నగరాన్ని కల్దీయుల చేతికి అప్పగించడం జరుగుతుంది. వాళ్ళు అగ్నితో దాన్ని కాల్చేస్తారు. నువ్వు వాళ్ళ చేతిలోనుంచి తప్పించుకోలేవు.”
19 ၁၉ ဇေဒကိ မင်းကြီး ကလည်း ၊ ခါလဒဲ လူတို့ဘက်သို့ ကူး သွားသော ယုဒ လူတို့ကို ငါ ကြောက် ၏။ ငါ့ ကိုသူ တို့ လက် သို့ အပ် ၍ ၊ ငါ သည် ကဲ့ရဲ့ ခြင်း ကိုခံရမည်စိုးရိမ်သည် ဟုဆို လျှင် ၊
౧౯అందుకు రాజైన సిద్కియా యిర్మీయాతో “కల్దీయుల పక్షంగా ఉన్న యూదులకు భయపడుతున్నాను. ఒకవేళ కల్దీయులు నన్ను వాళ్ళ చేతికి అప్పగిస్తే, వాళ్ళు నాపట్ల చెడ్డగా ప్రవర్తిస్తారు,” అన్నాడు.
20 ၂၀ ယေရမိ က၊ ကိုယ်တော်ကိုမအပ်ရ။ အကျွန်ုပ် ဆင့်ဆို သော ထာဝရဘုရား ၏အမိန့် တော်ကို နားထောင် တော်မူပါ။ ထိုသို့ပြုလျှင် ချမ်းသာ ရ၍ အသက် ရှင်တော်မူ မည်။
౨౦అందుకు యిర్మీయా “నిన్ను వాళ్ళ చేతికి అప్పగించరు. నీకు అన్నీ సవ్యంగా జరిగేలా, నువ్వు బతికేలా నేను నీతో చెప్పిన యెహోవా సందేశానికి లోబడు.
21 ၂၁ သို့မဟုတ် ၊ ကိုယ်တော် က၊ ငါမထွက်မသွားဟု ငြင်း လျှင် ၊ အကျွန်ုပ် အား ထာဝရဘုရား ပြ တော်မူသော အရာ ဟူမူကား၊
౨౧కాని, నువ్వు ఒకవేళ బయలుదేరి వెళ్లకపోతే, యెహోవా నాకు చూపించిన సంగతి ఇదే.
22 ၂၂ နန်းတော် ၌ ကျန် ကြွင်းသမျှ သော မိန်းမ တို့ကို ဗာဗုလုန် ရှင်ဘုရင် ၏မှူးမတ် တို့ထံသို့ ထုတ် ဆောင်ကြ လိမ့်မည်။ ထိုမိန်းမ တို့ကလည်း ၊ ကိုယ်တော် ၏အဆွေ ခင်ပွန်းတို့သည် သွေးဆောင် ၍ နိုင် ကြပြီ။ ခြေ တော်သည် ရွှံ့ ၌ ကျွံ ၍၊ သူတို့သည် ဆုတ် သွားကြပြီဟု ကိုယ်တော်အား ဆို ကြလိမ့်မည်။
౨౨యూదా రాజమందిరంలో మిగిలి ఉన్న స్త్రీలందరినీ బబులోను అధిపతుల దగ్గరికి తీసుకెళ్ళడం జరుగుతుంది. అప్పుడు, చూడు! ఆ స్త్రీలు నిన్ను చూసి ఇలా అంటారు, ‘నీ స్నేహితులు నిన్ను మోసం చేసి నిన్ను నాశనం చేశారు. నీ పాదాలు బురదలో కూరుకుపోయి ఉన్నాయి. వాళ్ళు నిన్ను విడిచి పెట్టి పారిపోతారు.
23 ၂၃ ထိုသို့ ကိုယ်တော် ၏ မယား နှင့် သားသမီး ရှိသမျှ တို့ ကို ခါလဒဲ လူတို့ထံသို့ ထုတ် ဆောင်ကြလိမ့်မည်။ ကိုယ်တော် လည်း သူ တို့လက် နှင့် မ လွတ် ဘဲ၊ ဗာဗုလုန် ရှင်ဘုရင် လက် သို့ရောက် ၍ ၊ ဤ မြို့ ကို မီးရှို့ စေတော်မူမည်ဟု လျှောက် ၏။
౨౩నీ భార్యలందరినీ, నీ పిల్లలనూ కల్దీయుల దగ్గరికి తీసుకెళ్ళడం జరుగుతుంది. నువ్వు కూడా వాళ్ళ చేతిలోనుంచి తప్పించుకోలేవు. బబులోను రాజుకు దొరికిపోతావు గనుక ఈ పట్టణాన్ని అగ్నితో కాల్చడానికి నువ్వే కారణం అవుతావు.’”
24 ၂၄ ဇေဒကိ ကလည်း ၊ ဤ စကား ကို အဘယ်သူ မျှမ ကြား မသိစေနှင့်။ သို့ပြုလျှင် ၊ သင်သည်မ သေ ရ။
౨౪అప్పుడు సిద్కియా యిర్మీయాతో “నువ్వు చావకుండా ఉండాలంటే ఈ సంగతులు ఎవరికీ చెప్పొద్దు.
25 ၂၅ ငါသည် သင် နှင့် စကား ပြောကြောင်း ကို မှူးမတ် တို့သည် ကြား ၍ သင် ရှိရာသို့ လာ လျက် ၊ သင်သည် ရှင်ဘုရင် အား အဘယ်သို့ လျှောက် သည်ကို၎င်း ၊ ရှင်ဘုရင် သည် သင့် အား အဘယ် သို့မိန့် တော်မူသည်ကို၎င်း ၊ ငါ တို့အား ကြား ပြောပါလော့။ မ ထိမ် မဝှက်ပါနှင့် ဟုဆို လျှင် ၊
౨౫నేను నీతో మాట్లాడిన సంగతి అధిపతులకు తెలిస్తే, వాళ్ళు నీ దగ్గరికి వచ్చి, ‘రాజుతో ఏం మాట్లాడావో చెప్పు. మానుంచి దాచకు, లేకపోతే చంపేస్తాం. ఇంకా, రాజు నీతో చెప్పిన సంగతులు మాకు చెప్పు,’ అంటారు.
26 ၂၆ သင်ကလည်း ၊ ငါ့ကိုသေ စေခြင်းငှါ ၊ ယောနသန် အိမ် သို့ ပြန် စေတော် မ မူမည်အကြောင်း၊ ရှင်ဘုရင် ထံ၌ ငါ အသနား တော်ခံပြီဟု သူ တို့အား ပြန်ပြော လော့ဟု၊ ယေရမိ အား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౨౬అప్పుడు నువ్వు వాళ్ళతో, ‘యోనాతాను ఇంటికి మళ్ళీ నన్ను పంపొద్దని, పంపితే నేను అక్కడ చనిపోతానని రాజుతో విన్నవించుకున్నాను,’ అని చెప్పాలి,” అన్నాడు.
27 ၂၇ ထိုအခါ မှူး မတ်အပေါင်း တို့သည် ယေရမိ ရှိရာသို့ လာ ၍ မေး စစ်ကြ၏။ သူသည်လည်း၊ ရှင်ဘုရင် မှာ ထား သမျှ အတိုင်း ပြန်ပြော ပြီးမှ ၊ သူတို့သည် မ မေးမစစ်ဘဲ နေကြ၏။ ထို အမှု ကိုအဘယ်သူမျှ မ ရိပ်မိ ကြ။
౨౭అప్పుడు అధిపతులందరూ యిర్మీయా దగ్గరికి వచ్చి అడిగినప్పుడు అతడు రాజు చెప్పిన మాటల ప్రకారం వాళ్లకు జవాబిచ్చి ఆ విషయం వాళ్లకు తెలియజేయని కారణంగా వాళ్ళు అతనితో మాట్లాడడం ఆపారు. ఎందుకంటే యిర్మీయాతో రాజు చేసిన సంభాషణ వాళ్ళు వినలేదు.
28 ၂၈ ယေရုရှလင် မြို့ကို တိုက် ၍ရသော နေ့ တိုင်အောင် ၊ ယေရမိ သည်ထောင် ဝင်း ထဲမှာ နေ ရ၏။ ယေရုရှလင် မြို့သည် ရန်သူလက်သို့ ရောက် သောအခါ၊ ထောင်ဝင်းထဲမှာရှိ သေး၏။
౨౮యెరూషలేము స్వాధీనం అయ్యే రోజు వరకూ యిర్మీయా ఆ చెరసాల ప్రాంగణంలోనే ఉన్నాడు.