ارمیا 34

1 زمانی که نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل، با همهٔ سپاهیان خود که از مردم تمام سرزمینهای تحت سلطهٔ او تشکیل می‌شد، به اورشلیم و سایر شهرهای یهودا حمله کرد، خداوند به من فرمود که این پیغام را به صدقیا، پادشاه یهودا، اعلام نمایم: «یهوه خدای اسرائیل چنین می‌گوید: من این شهر را به دست پادشاه بابِل تسلیم خواهم کرد تا آن را به آتش بکشد.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,

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The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:

3 تو نیز راه فرار نخواهی داشت بلکه گرفتار خواهی شد و تو را به حضور پادشاه بابِل خواهند برد؛ او تو را محکوم خواهد ساخت و به بابِل تبعید خواهد نمود.

And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.

4 حال ای صدقیا، پادشاه یهودا، به آنچه خداوند می‌گوید گوش فرا ده: تو در جنگ کشته نخواهی شد،

But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:

5 بلکه در آرامش خواهی مرد. مردم همان‌گونه که برای اجدادت که پیش از تو پادشاه بودند، بخور سوزاندند، به یادبود تو نیز بخور خواهند سوزاند. آنها در سوگ تو ماتم کرده، خواهند گفت:”افسوس که پادشاهمان درگذشت!“این، آن چیزی است که اراده نموده‌ام.»

You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.

6 من پیغام خدا را در اورشلیم به صدقیا پادشاه یهودا دادم.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

7 در این وقت، سپاه بابِل، شهرهای اورشلیم و لاکیش و عزیقه را محاصره کرده بود، یعنی تنها شهرهای حصاردار باقیماندهٔ یهودا که هنوز مقاومت می‌کردند.

When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.

8 بعد از آنکه صدقیا، پادشاه یهودا، تمام برده‌های اورشلیم را آزاد کرد، پیغامی از طرف خداوند به من رسید.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;

9 (صدقیای پادشاه، طی یک عهد مذهبی، دستور داده بود هر کس که غلام یا کنیزی عبرانی دارد، او را آزاد کند و گفته بود که هیچ‌کس حق ندارد از یهودیان کسی را غلام خود سازد، چون همه با هم برادرند.

That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

10 بزرگان قوم و مردم نیز همه دستور پادشاه را اطاعت کرده، برده‌های خود را آزاد نمودند.

And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

11 اما اقدام ایشان موقتی بود، چون پس از مدتی تصمیمشان را عوض کردند و دوباره آنها را برده خود ساختند!

But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

12 برای همین خداوند این پیغام را برای اهالی اورشلیم به من داد.)

For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

13 پیام خداوند، خدای اسرائیل این بود: «سالها پیش وقتی اجداد شما را در مصر از بردگی رهایی دادم، با ایشان عهدی بستم و گفتم که

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

14 هر بردهٔ عبرانی که شش سال خدمت کند، در سال هفتم باید آزاد گردد. اما ایشان دستور مرا اطاعت نکردند.

At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

15 چندی پیش، شما راه خود را تغییر دادید و آنچه را که مورد پسند من بود، انجام دادید و برده‌های خود را آزاد کردید، و در این مورد در خانهٔ من عهد بستید.

And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:

16 اما حال، عهد خود را زیر پا گذاشته‌اید و به نام من بی‌احترامی کرده‌اید و ایشان را به زور بردهٔ خود ساخته‌اید و آزادی‌ای را که آرزویشان بود، از ایشان گرفته‌اید.

But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.

17 پس چون مرا اطاعت نمی‌نمایید و ایشان را رها نمی‌کنید، من هم به‌وسیلۀ جنگ و قحطی و بیماری، شما را در چنگال مرگ رها خواهم کرد، و در سراسر دنیا تبعید و آواره خواهم نمود.

And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 شما به هنگام بستن این عهد، گوساله‌ای را دو پاره کردید و از میان پاره‌هایش گذشتید، اما عهدتان را شکستید؛ بنابراین من نیز شما را پاره‌پاره خواهم کرد. بله، خواه از بزرگان مملکت باشید، خواه درباری، خواه کاهن باشید خواه فرد معمولی، با همهٔ شما چنین رفتار خواهم کرد.

And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

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The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,

20 شما را در چنگ دشمنانتان که تشنهٔ خونتان هستند، رها خواهم کرد تا کشته شوید، و اجسادتان را خوراک لاشخورها و جانوران وحشی خواهم نمود.

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

21 هر چند پادشاه بابِل، برای مدت کوتاهی دست از محاصرهٔ این شهر کشیده است، ولی من صدقیا (پادشاه یهودا) و درباریان او را تسلیم سپاه بابِل خواهم کرد.

And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.

22 من امر خواهم نمود که سپاهیان بابِل بازگردند و به این شهر حمله کنند و آن را بگیرند و به آتش بکشند؛ کاری خواهم کرد که شهرهای یهودا همگی ویران شوند و موجود زنده‌ای در آنها باقی نماند.»

See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.