Jeremias 3
1 Dei segjer: Når ein mann sender frå seg kona si, og ho fer frå honom og gifter seg med ein annan mann, kann han då atter koma tilbake til henne? Vilde ikkje det landet verta vanhelga? Med du hev drive hor med mange vener - og so skulde du koma tilbake til meg! segjer Herren.
“[Moses wrote that] if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again [to be his wife], because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more [idols than] prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, [why should I accept you if] you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.
2 Lyft upp augo dine til snaudfjellkollarne og sjå: kvar var det du ikkje vart skjemd? Frammed vegarne sat du og stunda etter deim likeins som ein arab i øydemark, og du vanhelga landet med din horelivnad og vondskap.
“Look up at the barren hilltops. On every hilltop there are [RHQ] [idols that you have worshiped]. [It is as though] they are all lovers with whom you have had sex. [It is as though] you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting [to attack and steal things from] those who pass by. Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done, you have caused the [entire] land to become unacceptable to me.
3 So vart då regnskurerne haldne att; og vårregn kom det ikkje. Men di panna var som på ei horkona: det beid ikkje skam i deg.
That is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it. But you are like prostitutes [MET] who are not at all ashamed [for what they have done].
4 Hev du ikkje nett no kalla på meg og sagt: «Min fader!» «Min ungdomsven er du?»
Now each of you says to me, ‘You are my father! You have loved me ever since I was young!
5 «Kann han vilja gøyma på vreide æveleg og harmast for ævelengdi?» Sjå, det tala du, men gjorde det vonde og kunde det med.
So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
6 Og Herren sagde med meg i kong Josias dagar: Hev du set kva ho hev gjort, den utrue kvinna Israel? Ho gjekk upp på kvart eit høgt fjell og inn under kvart eit grønt tre og dreiv hor der.
[One day] when Josiah was the king of Judah, Yahweh said to me, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have turned away from me, like a woman who has abandoned her husband and sleeps with other men. They have gone up on every hilltop and under every big tree and worshiped idols there [MET].
7 Og eg sagde: Etter ho hev gjort alt dette, vil ho snu attende til meg, men ho snudde ikkje. Og det såg den utrue kvinna, hennar syster Juda.
I thought that they would return to me, so I said to them, ‘Come back to me!’ But they refused. So I sent them away [to other countries, like a man] writes a note saying that he is divorcing his wife and then sends his wife away because she has committed adultery [MET].
8 Og eg såg at endå eg hadde sendt frå meg Israel, den fråfalne, og gjeve henne hennar skilsmålsbrev av di ho hadde drive hor, so ottast ikkje hennar utrue syster Juda like vel, men gjekk av stad og dreiv hor ho med.
The people of Judah saw what I did to them. But they are just like the people of Israel. They are not afraid [of what I will do to them]. They also [have turned away from me and are worshiping idols like] women who abandon their husbands and go to other men [MET].
9 Og med sin ubljuge lauslivnad vanhelga ho landet, og ho dreiv hor med stein og med tre.
They thought that worshiping idols did not matter to me, so they have made the [entire] land unacceptable to me by worshiping idols of wood and stone.
10 Og med alt dette hev hennar utrue syster Juda ikkje snutt um til meg av alt sitt hjarta, men berre læst gjera det, segjer Herren.
The people of Judah have pretended to return to me, but they have not really done that. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
11 Og Herren sagde med meg: Den fråfalne, Israel, tedde seg rettferdigare enn den utrue, Juda.
Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
12 Gakk av stad og ropa ut desse ordi mot nord og seg: Snu då um, du frå falne, Israel, segjer Herren. Eg vil ikkje møta deg med harmfullt andlit, for eg er miskunnsam, segjer Herren, og gøymer ikkje æveleg på vreide.
So go and tell this to the people of Israel: ‘Yahweh says this to you Israeli people who have turned away from him: I am merciful. I will not continue to be angry with you forever. So return to me.
13 Berre kannast ved di misgjerning, at du fall ifrå Herren, din Gud, og på ymse leider for etter framande gudar inn under kvart eit grønt tre, men på mi røyst hev de ikkje lydt, segjer Herren.
But you must admit/say that you are guilty, and that you have rebelled against me, Yahweh, your God, that you have worshiped idols under big trees everywhere, and you have not obeyed me. You have turned away from me.
14 Snu um, de fråfalne born, segjer Herren, for eg er herren dykkar. Og eg vil taka dykk, ein or ein by og tvo av ei ætt, og lata dykk koma til Sion.
But you belong to me. So I will take you, one from [each] city and two from [each] clan, and bring you [back] to Jerusalem [from the countries to which you were exiled].
15 Og eg vil gjeva dykk hyrdingar etter mitt hjarta, og dei skal gjæta dykk med vit og skynsemd.
[If you do that], I will appoint for you leaders with whom I am pleased, leaders who will guide you [well] because they will know and understand [what pleases me].
16 Og når de aukar og veks i landet i dei dagarne, segjer Herren, då skal dei aldri meir tala um Herrens sambandskista, ja, ikkje koma henne i hug di heller og ikkje minnast henne og ikkje sakna henne, og dei skal ikkje heller meir gjera seg ei slik.
And when you become very numerous [DOU] in your land, you will not need to talk about the Sacred Chest that contained the Ten Commandments. You will not think about it, and you will not want to make a new one.
17 I den tidi skal dei kalla Jerusalem Herrens kongsstol, og alle folk skal samlast dit til Herrens namn, til Jerusalem. Og aldri meir skal dei ferdast etter sitt vonde, harde hjarta.
At that time people will say, “Jerusalem is [the place where] Yahweh’s throne is.” [People from] all nations will come there to worship me. And they will no longer stubbornly do the evil things that they desire.
18 I dei dagarne skal Juda-huset ganga til Israelshuset, og dei skal koma saman frå Norderlandet til det landet som eg gav federne dykkar til odel.
At that time you people [MTY] of Israel and the people of Judah will return from [being (exiled/forced to live) in] lands to the northeast. You will return to the land that I gave to your ancestors to belong to them [forever].
19 Eg sagde då: «Å, kor høgt eg vilde sessa deg millom borni og gjeva deg eit hugnadlegt land, den herlegaste odel millom folki.» Og eg sagde: «De vil ropa til meg: «Min fader!» og ikkje meir skilja lag med meg.»
You people of Israel, I wanted to accept you to be my children. I wanted to give you [this] delightful land. It is a land more desirable/pleasant than the land of any other nation! I wanted you to call me ‘father’, and I wanted you to never turn away from me.
20 Men liksom ei kvinna er utru mot venen sin, soleis hev de vore utrue mot meg, du Israels hus, segjer Herren.
But you have abandoned me like wives who have abandoned their husbands.’” [That is what] Yahweh said, and [I told it] to the people of Israel.
21 Ei røyst høyrest på dei snaudfjelli, gråt og bøner frå Israels-borni; for dei hev gjenge på range vegar, dei hev gløymt Herren, sin Gud.
People will hear a noise on the barren hilltops. It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading [for God to be merciful to them]. They will be admitting/saying that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to.
22 Snu um, de fråfalne born, so skal eg lækja dykk etter dykkar fråfall. Sjå her, me kjem til deg, for du er Herren, vår Gud.
Yahweh will say to them, “You Israeli people, come back to me! [If you do that], I will cause you to never turn away from me again.” [The people will reply], “We are returning to you, because you are Yahweh, our God.
23 Sanneleg, til fåfengs var voni til haugarne, ståket på heidarne. Sanneleg, i Herren, vår Gud, er Israels frelsa.
We did not get any help from [the idols that we worshiped on] the hilltops; we did not get any help from making all that noise up there.
24 Og skjemdar-tinget hev ete upp det federne våre stræva i hop alt frå vår ungdom, deira sauer og kyr, deira søner og døtter.
From the time when we were young, the shameful [god Baal] has taken away [from us] everything that our ancestors worked hard to acquire. He has taken away their flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle], their sons and their daughters.
25 Lat oss då liggja i vår skjemd, og lat skammi vår breida seg yver oss! For mot Herren, vår Gud, hev me synda, me og federne våre, alt frå ungdom og til denne dag, og me hev ikkje lydt Herren, vår Guds, røyst.
So, now we should lie down feeling very ashamed [DOU], because we and our ancestors have sinned against Yahweh our God, and we have never obeyed him.”
