ارمیا 52

1 صدقیا بیست و یک ساله بود که پادشاه شد و یازده سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. اسم مادرش حمیطل (دختر ارمیای لبنه‌ای) بود.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became the King [of Judah]. He ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of [a man named] Jeremiah from Libnah [town].

2 صدقیا مثل یهویاقیم، آنچه در نظر خداوند نادرست بود، به عمل آورد،

Zedekiah did [many] things that Yahweh says are evil, like [his father] Jehoiakim had done.

3 و خداوند بر اورشلیم و یهودا خشمگین شده، ایشان را از حضور خود به دور افکند و به تبعید فرستاد. و اما صدقیا علیه پادشاه بابِل شورش کرد.

[The events that are summarized here happened] because Yahweh was angry with [the people of] Jerusalem and [of other places in] Judah, and finally he (exiled them/forced them to go to other countries) [and said that he did not want to have anything to do with] them any more. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 پس در روز دهم ماه دهم از سال نهم سلطنت صدقیا، نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل، با تمام سپاهیان خود به اورشلیم لشکرکشی کرد و در اطراف آن سنگر ساخت.

[So, ] on January 15, when Zedekiah had been ruling for almost nine years, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army to attack Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built dirt ramps up to the top of the city walls [to enable them to attack the city].

5 شهر، دو سال در محاصره بود.

They continued to surround Jerusalem until Zedekiah had been ruling for almost eleven years.

6 سرانجام در روز نهم ماه چهارم که قحطی در شهر بیداد می‌کرد و آخرین ذخیرهٔ نان هم تمام شده بود،

When Zedekiah had been ruling for almost eleven years, by July 18 of that year, the (famine/lack of food) in the city had become very severe, and there was no [more] food for the people [to eat].

7 مردم اورشلیم، شکافی در دیوار شهر ایجاد کردند. سربازان وقتی این را دیدند، علیرغم محاصرهٔ شهر، شبانه از دروازه‌هایی که بین دو دیوار نزدیک باغهای پادشاه بود، بیرون رفتند و به طرف درهٔ اردن گریختند.

Then [the soldiers of Babylonia] broke through [a section of] the city wall, and all the [Israeli] soldiers fled. But because the city was surrounded by soldiers from Babylonia, [Zedekiah and the Israeli] soldiers [waited until] it became dark. Then they left the city through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden. Then they ran towards the Jordan River Valley.

8 ولی سربازان بابِلی، ایشان را تعقیب کردند و در بیابانهای اطراف اریحا، صدقیای پادشاه را گرفتند، ولی محافظین او فرار کردند.

But the soldiers of Babylonia pursued King Zedekiah, and they caught up with him on the plains near Jericho. [He was alone because] all his men had deserted him and had scattered.

9 سپس او را به حضور پادشاه بابِل که در شهر ربله در سرزمین حمات مستقر شده بود، آوردند و پادشاه بابِل در آنجا حکم محکومیت او را صادر کرد،

The soldiers of Babylonia took him to the king of Babylon, who was at Riblah in the Hamath [region]. There the king of Babylon told [his soldiers what] they should do to punish Zedekiah.

10 و در برابر چشمان صدقیا تمام پسرانش و بزرگان یهودا را کشت.

They forced Zedekiah to watch while they killed his sons and all the officials from Judah.

11 سپس چشمان او را از حدقه درآورد و او را با زنجیرها بسته، به بابِل برد و تا آخر عمر در زندان نگه داشت.

[Then] they gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes. They fastened him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon. They put him in a prison, and he remained there until the day that he died.

12 در روز دهم ماه پنجم از سال نوزدهم سلطنت نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل، نبوزرادان فرماندۀ سپاه بابِل و مشاور پادشاه، وارد اورشلیم شد

On August 17 of that year, which was when King Nebuchadnezzar had been ruling for almost 19 years, Nebuzaradan, who was the captain of the king’s bodyguards and one of the king’s officials, arrived in Jerusalem.

13 و خانۀ خداوند، کاخ سلطنتی و تمام خانه‌های بزرگ شهر را به آتش کشید،

He [commanded his soldiers to] burn down the temple of Yahweh, the king’s palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. They [also] destroyed all the important buildings [in the city].

14 و سربازانش دیوار شهر را خراب کردند.

Then he supervised the soldiers from Babylonia while they tore down the walls on all sides of Jerusalem.

15 آنگاه عده‌ای از فقرای یهودا را با آنانی که در اورشلیم زنده مانده بودند و کسانی که صدقیا را ترک کرده، به بابِلی‌ها پیوسته بودند، و صنعتگران باقی مانده در شهر را به بابِل تبعید کرد.

Then Nebuzaradan (forced to go/exiled) [to Babylon] some of the poorest people, those Israelis who had said they would support the king of Babylon, the rest of the craftsmen, and other people who had remained in Jerusalem.

16 تنها عده‌ای فقیر را برای کار کشاورزی و باغبانی در آنجا باقی گذاشت.

But Nebuzaradan allowed some of the very poor people to remain [in Judah] to take care of the vineyards and fields.

17 بابِلی‌ها ستونهای مفرغین خانهٔ خداوند و حوض مفرغین و میزهای متحرکی را که در آنجا بود، شکستند و تمام مفرغ آنها را به بابِل بردند.

The soldiers from Babylonia broke [into pieces] the [huge] bronze pillars that were in front of the temple, and the [large] bronze water tank, and the [ten bronze water] carts, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.

18 نبوزرادان تمام دیگهای بزرگ و کوچک مفرغین و خاک‌اندازها را که برای مذبح به کار می‌رفت و انبرها، قاشقها، کاسه‌ها و تمام ظروف دیگر مفرغین خانهٔ خدا را با خود برد. او همچنین انبرها، چراغدانها، پیاله‌ها و کاسه‌های طلا و نقره را به همراه برد.

They also took away the basins [for holding the ashes from the burned sacrifices], the shovels [for cleaning out the ashes], the tools for snuffing out the wicks of the lamps, the basins [for holding the blood of the sacrificed animals], the dishes [for incense], and all the [other] bronze items that were used when sacrifices were made at the temple.

19

Nebuzaradan also [told his soldiers to] take away the small bowls, the dishes for burning incense, the basins, pots, lampstands, bowls [for incense], and the bowls used for pouring out the wine offerings. They took all the other items that were made of pure gold or silver.

20 دو ستون و حوضچه و دوازده گاو مفرغین که زیر حوضچه قرار داشت به قدری سنگین بودند که وزن کردن آنها امکان‌پذیر نبود. تمام اینها در زمان سلیمان پادشاه ساخته شده بود.

The bronze from the two pillars, the [large water] tank and the twelve statues of oxen that were beneath it, and the water carts, was more/heavier than they could weigh. Those things had been made for the temple during the time that Solomon was the king.

21 بلندی هر ستون در حدود هشت متر و محیط آن در حدود پنج متر و نیم و ضخامت دیوارهایش چهار انگشت بود و میان‌تهی بود،

Each of the pillars was (27 feet/8 meters) tall and (18 feet/5.5 meters) around. They were hollow, and each had sides/walls that were (3 in./8 cm.) thick.

22 و هر یک از آنها نیز سر ستونی مفرغین به بلندی دو متر و نیم داشت و گرداگرد هر سر ستون، انارهای مفرغین، کنده‌کاری شده بود؛

The bronze head on the top of each pillar was (7-1/2 feet/over 2 meters) high and was decorated all around with a bronze [network of figures that represented] pomegranates.

23 روی هر سر ستون، یکصد انار وجود داشت، ولی از پایین فقط نود و شش انار را می‌شد دید.

There was a total of 100 figures of pomegranates on the network at the top, 96 of which could be seen from the ground.

24 در ضمن نبوزرادان، فرماندهٔ سپاه بابِل این افراد را نیز در مخفیگاههایشان در شهر پیدا کرد: سرایا، کاهن اعظم و معاون او صفنیا، سه نفر از نگهبانان خانهٔ خدا، یکی از فرماندهان لشکر با هفت نفر از مشاوران مخصوص پادشاه، کاتب فرماندهٔ سپاه یهودا (که مسئول ثبت تعداد سربازان بود) و شصت نفر از اشخاص مهم دیگر.

When Nebuzaradan [returned to Babylon], he took [with him as prisoners] Seraiah the Supreme Priest, Zephaniah who was Seraiah’s deputy, and the three men who guarded the entrances [to the temple].

25

He found [some other] people who were [hiding] in the city. [So] from them he took a commander of the army [of Judah], seven of the king’s advisors, the army commander’s chief secretary who was in charge of recruiting [soldiers for the army], and 60 [other] soldiers.

26 نبوزرادان ایشان را به ربله نزد پادشاه بابِل برد،

Nebuzaradan took them all to the king of Babylon, [who was still] at Riblah.

27 و پادشاه در آنجا همه را کشت. به این ترتیب اهالی یهودا به بابِل تبعید شدند.

There at Riblah in the Hamath region, the king of Babylon commanded that they [all] be executed. [Many of the people of] Judah were (forced to leave/exiled from) their own land.

28 تعداد اسیرانی که در سال هفتم سلطنت نِبوکَدنِصَّر به بابِل برده شدند، ۳٬۰۲۳ نفر بود.

The number of people who were captured and sent to Babylon at that time, when Nebuchadnezzar had been ruling for almost seven years, was 3,023.

29 یازده سال بعد، او ۸۳۲ نفر دیگر را هم از اورشلیم اسیر کرد و به بابِل برد.

Then, when he had been ruling for almost 18 years, his [soldiers] took 832 [more Israeli people to Babylonia].

30 پنج سال بعد از آن، نبوزرادان فرماندهٔ سپاه بابِل، ۷۴۵ نفر دیگر را تبعید کرد. بنابراین، در مجموع، ۴٬۶۰۰ نفر تبعید شدند.

When he had been ruling almost 23 years, he sent Nebuzaradan [to Jerusalem again], and he brought back 745 [more Israelis to Babylonia]. That was a total of 4,600 Israelis [who were taken to Babylonia].

31 در روز بیست و پنجم ماه دوازدهم از سی و هفتمین سال اسیری یهویاکین، پادشاه یهودا، اویل مرودک به پادشاهی بابِل رسید و یهویاکین را مورد لطف خود قرار داد و او را از زندان بیرون آورد.

After King Jehoiachin of Judah had been in prison [in Babylon] for almost thirty-seven years, Evil-Merodach became the king of Babylon. He was kind to Jehoiachin and ordered that he be released from prison. That was on March 31 of the year that Evil-Merodach became king.

32 او با یهویاکین رفتاری مهرآمیز در پیش گرفت و او را بر تمام پادشاهان تبعیدی در بابِل برتری داد،

He [always] spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a position in which he was honored more than [all] the other kings [who had been exiled/taken to Babylon].

33 لباس نو به او پوشاند و از آن پس، او همیشه با پادشاه بابِل سر سفره می‌نشست.

He [supplied new clothes] for Jehoiachin, to replace the clothes that he had been wearing in prison. [He also allowed] Jehoiachin to eat with him every day, all during the rest of his life.

34 اویل مرودک تا روزی که یهویاکین زنده بود، برای رفع احتیاجاتش به او مقرری می‌پرداخت.

Every day, the King [of Babylon] gave him some money [to buy the things that he needed. That continued] until the day that Jehoiachin died.