ارمیا 34
| 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. | 1 |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and his entire army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under the authority of his hand, and all the people were making war against Jerusalem and against all of its cities, saying:
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“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to Zedekiah, the king of Judah. And you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will deliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.
| 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. | 3 |
And you will not escape from his hand. Instead, you will be overtaken and captured, and you will be delivered into his hand. And your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth will speak with your mouth, and you will enter into Babylon.
| حال ای صدقیا، پادشاه یهودا، به آنچه خداوند می‌گوید گوش فرا ده: تو در جنگ کشته نخواهی شد، | 4 |
Even so, listen to the word of the Lord, Zedekiah, king of Judah: Thus says the Lord to you: You will not die by the sword.
| 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.» | 5 |
Instead, you will die in peace. And, in accord with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so will they burn you. And they will mourn you, saying: ‘Alas, lord!’ For I have spoken the word, says the Lord.”
| من پیغام خدا را در اورشلیم به صدقیا پادشاه یهودا دادم. | 6 |
And Jeremiah, the prophet, spoke all these words to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in Jerusalem.
| 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. | 7 |
And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that remained, against Lachish and against Azekah. For only these remained out of the cities of Judah that were fortified cities.
| بعد از آنکه صدقیا، پادشاه یهودا، تمام برده‌های اورشلیم را آزاد کرد، پیغامی از طرف خداوند به من رسید. | 8 |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after king Zedekiah had struck a pact with all the people in Jerusalem, proclaiming
| (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. | 9 |
that each one should release his man servant, and each one his woman servant, as a free Hebrew man and a free Hebrew woman, and that they should never be rulers over them, that is, over the Jews, their own brothers.
| بزرگان قوم و مردم نیز همه دستور پادشاه را اطاعت کرده، برده‌های خود را آزاد نمودند. | 10 |
Then all the leaders and all the people who entered into the pact, heard that each one should release his man servant, and each one his woman servant, to be free, and that they should no longer rule over them. Therefore, they listened, and they released them.
| اما اقدام ایشان موقتی بود، چون پس از مدتی تصمیمشان را عوض کردند و دوباره آنها را برده خود ساختند! | 11 |
But later on, they turned back. And they took back again their man servants and their woman servants, whom they had released to be free. And they subjugated them as male and female servants.
| برای همین خداوند این پیغام را برای اهالی اورشلیم به من داد.) | 12 |
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
| 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 | 13 |
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I struck a pact with your fathers in the day when I led them away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude, saying:
| هر بردهٔ عبرانی که شش سال خدمت کند، در سال هفتم باید آزاد گردد. اما ایشان دستور مرا اطاعت نکردند. | 14 |
‘When seven years have been completed, let each one release his brother, a Hebrew, who had been sold to him. And so he will serve you for six years, and then you shall release him to be free from you.’ But your fathers did not listen to me, nor did they incline their ear.
| 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. | 15 |
And today you converted, and you did what is right in my eyes, so that you proclaimed liberty, each one to his friend. And you entered into a pact in my sight, in the house in which and over which my name is invoked.
| 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. | 16 |
But now you have turned back, and you have stained my name. For you have led back again, each one his man servant, and each one his woman servant, whom you had released so that they would be free and under their own authority. And you have subjugated them, so that they would be your servants and handmaids.”
| 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. | 17 |
Because of this, thus says the Lord: “You have not heeded me, though you proclaimed liberty, each one to his brother and each one to his friend. Behold, I am proclaiming a liberty for you, says the Lord, to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine. And I will cause you to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth.
| 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. | 18 |
And I will give over the men who have betrayed my covenant, and who have not observed the words of the covenant, to which they assented in my sight when they cut the calf into two parts and passed between its parts:
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the leaders of Judah, and the leaders of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests, and all the people of the land, who have passed between the parts of the calf.
| 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. | 20 |
And I will give them into the hands of their enemies and into the hands of those who are seeking their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
| 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. | 21 |
And Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his leaders, I will give over to the hands of their enemies, and to the hands of those who are seeking their lives, and to the hands of the armies of the king of Babylon, which had withdrawn from you.
| 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.» | 22 |
Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and I will lead them back to this city, and they will fight against it, and seize it, and set it on fire. And I will make the cities of Judah into a desolation, for there shall be no inhabitant.”
