Yeremyaah 29
1 Haddaba kuwanu waa erayadii warqaddii uu Nebi Yeremyaah Yeruusaalem uga diray kuwii hadhay ee waayeelladii maxaabiisnimadii iyo wadaaddadii, iyo nebiyadii, iyo dadkii uu Nebukadnesar Yeruusaalem maxaabiis ahaanta uga kaxaystay oo uu Baabuloon la tegey oo dhan.
After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.
2 (Taasu waxay ahayd markii Boqor Yekonyaah, iyo boqoraddii hooyadiis ahayd, iyo bohommadii, iyo amiirradii dadka Yahuudah iyo Yeruusaalem, iyo saanacyadii, iyo birtumayaashiiba ay Yeruusaalem ka tageen dabadeed.)
3 Oo wuxuu ugu sii dhiibay gacantii Elcaasaah ina Shaafaan, iyo Gemaryaah ina Xilqiyaah (oo uu boqorkii dalka Yahuudah oo Sidqiyaah ahaa uu u diray Baabuloon iyo ilaa Nebukadnesar oo ahaa boqorkii Baabuloon, ) isagoo leh,
[I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:
4 Rabbiga ciidammada oo ah Ilaaha reer binu Israa'iil wuxuu leeyahay, kuwii maxaabiis ahaanta loo kaxaystay oo dhan, oo aan ka yeelay in Yeruusaalem laga kaxaysto oo Baabuloon lala tago, waxaan idinku leeyahay,
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:
5 Guryo dhista, oo ku hoyda, oo beero beerta, oo midhahoodana cuna.
“Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.
6 Naago guursada, oo wiilal iyo gabdho dhala, oo wiilashiinnana naago u guuriya, oo gabdhihiinnana niman siiya, si ay iyaguna wiilal iyo gabdho u dhalaan, oo halkaasna ku tarma oo ha yaraanina.
Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.
7 Oo waxaad nabad u doondoontaan magaaladii aan idinka yeelay in laydiin kaxaysto idinkoo maxaabiis ah, oo iyada Rabbiga u barya, waayo, idinku nabaddeeda ayaad nabad ku heli doontaan.
Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”
8 Waayo, Rabbiga ciidammada oo ah Ilaaha reer binu Israa'iil wuxuu leeyahay, Nebiyadiinna iyo waxsheegyadiinna idin dhex joogaa yaanay idin khiyaanayn, oo idinku innaba ha dhegaysanina riyooyinkiinna aad ku riyootaan.
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,
9 Waayo, magacaygay wax been ah idiinku sii sheegaan, laakiinse Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Anigu iyaga sooma aan dirin.
because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”
10 Waayo, Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Markii toddobaatan sannadood Baabuloon loo dhammeeyo dabadeed ayaan idin soo booqon doonaa, oo waxaan idiin oofin doonaa eraygaygii wanaagsanaa, oo halkan dib baan idiinku soo celin doonaa.
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].
11 Waayo, Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Anigu waan garanayaa fikirrada aan idiinku fikiro, waana fikirro nabadeed, oo ma aha kuwa masiibeed, si aan ugudambaystiinna rajo idiin siiyo.
I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.
12 Oo markaasaad ii yeedhan doontaan, waanad i soo baryi doontaan, oo aniguna waan idin maqli doonaa.
At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.
13 Oo waad i doondooni doontaan, waanad i heli doontaan markaad qalbigiinna oo dhan igu doondoontaan.
If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].
14 Oo Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Waad i heli doontaan, oo maxaabiisahaantiinnana waan idinka celin doonaa, oo waxaan idinka soo wada ururin doonaa quruumaha oo dhan iyo meelihii aan idin kexeeyey oo dhan ayaa Rabbigu leeyahay, oo waxaan idinku soo celin doonaa meeshii aan ka dhigay in maxaabiis ahaan laydinkaga kaxaysto.
I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”
15 Maxaa yeelay, idinku waxaad tidhaahdeen, Rabbiga ayaa Baabuloon nebiyo nooga dhex kiciyey.
[Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.
16 Rabbigu wuxuu ka leeyahay boqorka carshigii Daa'uud ku fadhiya iyo dadka magaaladan deggan oo dhan, Walaalihiinnii aan maxaabiis ahaan laydiinla kaxaysan,
But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.
17 Rabbiga ciidammadu wuxuu ka leeyahay, Bal ogaada, waxaan korkooda ku soo dayn doonaa seef, iyo abaar, iyo belaayo, oo waxaan iyaga ka dhigi doonaa sida midho berde oo qudhmay oo xumaantooda aawadeed aan innaba la cuni karin.
The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.
18 Oo waxaan iyaga ku eryan doonaa seef iyo abaar iyo belaayo, oo waxaan ka dhigi doonaa inay boqortooyooyinka dunida oo dhan ku dhex rogrogmadaan hor iyo dib, oo ay inkaar iyo wax laga yaabo oo lagu foodhyo, iyo cay ku dhex noqdaan quruumaha aan u kexeeyey oo dhan,
I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].
19 maxaa yeelay, iyagu ma ay dhegaysan erayadaydii aan iyaga ugu soo dhiibay nebiyadii addoommadayda ahaa, anigoo goor wanaagsan soo diraya, laakiinse waad maqli weydeen, ayaa Rabbigu leeyahay.
[That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.
20 Haddaba maxaabiistii aan Yeruusaalem ka diray oo aan Baabuloon u kexeeyey, bal erayga Rabbiga maqla.
[Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.
21 Rabbiga ciidammada oo ah Ilaaha reer binu Israa'iil wuxuu leeyahay, Axaab ina Qoolaayaah iyo Sidqiyaah ina Macaseeyaah oo magacayga been idiinku sii sheega, bal ogaada iyaga waxaan gelin doonaa gacanta Nebukadresar oo ah boqorka Baabuloon, oo isna indhihiinna hortooda ayuu iyaga ku dili doonaa.
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.
22 Oo maxaabiista dadka Yahuudah oo Baabuloon joogta oo dhammu way habaartami doonaan iyagoo leh, Rabbigu ha kaa dhigo sidii Sidqiyaah iyo sidii Axaab ee uu boqorka Baabuloon dabka ku dubay oo kale,
Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’
23 maxaa yeelay, nacasnimo ayay dalka Israa'iil ku dhex sameeyeen, oo weliba naagihii derisyadooda ayay ka sinaysteen, oo erayo been ah oo aanan iyaga ku soo amrin ayay magacayga ku hadleen. Anigu kan og baan ahay, oo markhaati baan ka ahay, ayaa Rabbigu leeyahay.
They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”
24 Oo weliba Shemacyaah oo ah reer Nexlaamiina waxaad ku tidhaahdaa,
[Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:
25 Rabbiga ciidammada oo ah Ilaaha reer binu Israa'iil wuxuu leeyahay, Adigu waxaad warqado magacaaga ugu soo dirtay dadka Yeruusaalem jooga oo dhan, iyo Sefanyaah ina Macaseeyaah oo wadaadka ah, iyo wadaaddada oo dhanba,
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:
26 oo waxaad tidhi, Rabbigu wadaad buu kaaga dhigay meeshii wadaadkii Yehooyaadaac inaad saraakiil u noqotaan guriga Rabbiga iyo inaad xabsi ku riddid oo aad silsilado ku xidhid nin kasta oo waalan oo nebi iska dhigaba.
[Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].
27 Haddaba bal maxaad u canaanan weyday Yeremyaah oo ah reer Canaatood oo nebi isaga kaa dhigaya?
So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?
28 Waayo, isagu cid buu noogu soo diray Baabuloon, oo wuxuu yidhi, Maxaabiisnimadiinnu waa muddo dheer, haddaba guryo dhista, oo ku hoyda, oo beero beerta, oo midhahoodana cuna.
He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”
29 Oo wadaadkii Sefanyaah ahaa ayaa warqaddaas ku akhriyey Nebi Yeremyaah hortiisa.
[But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.
30 Markaasaa eraygii Rabbigu ku soo degay Yeremyaah, isagoo leh,
Then Yahweh gave me this message:
31 Kuwa maxaabiista ah oo dhan u cid dir oo waxaad ku tidhaahdaa, Rabbigu wuxuu Shemacyaah oo ah reer Nexlaamii ka leeyahay, Shemacyaah wax buu idiin sii sheegay, aniguse sooma aan dirin, oo wuxuu idinka dhigay inaad been isku hallaysaan,
“Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.
32 sidaas daraaddeed Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Bal ogaada, Shemacyaah oo ah reer Nexlaamii iyo farcankiisaba waan ciqaabi doonaa. Isagu ma uu yeelan doono nin qudha oo dadkan dhex deggan, oo wanaagga aan dadkayga u samayn doonona isagu ma uu arki doono, maxaa yeelay, wuxuu ku hadlay caasinimo Rabbiga ka gees ah, ayaa Rabbigu leeyahay.
So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”
