Yeremia 19
1 Bwana akasema hivi, “Nenda ukanunue chupa ya udongo wakati ukiwa na wazee wa watu na makuhani.
This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
2 Kisha uende mpaka bonde la Ben Hinomu wakati wa kuingia kwenye mlango uliovunjika wa mfinyanzi, na huko utangaza maneno nitakayokuambia.
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
3 Ukisema, 'Sikilizeni neno la Bwana, wafalme wa Yuda na wenyeji wa Yerusalemu! Bwana wa majeshi, Mungu wa Israeli, asema hivi, “Tazameni, na nitaletea msiba juu ya mahali hapa, na masikio ya kila mtu anayesikia yatawaka.
saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
4 Nitafanya hivyo kwa sababu wameniacha na kudharau mahali hapa. Katika mahali hapa wanatoa sadaka kwa miungu mingine ambayo hawakuijua. Wao, baba zao, na wafalme wa Yuda pia wamejaza mahali damu isiyo na hatia.
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
5 Walimjengea Baali mahali pa juu na kuwachoma watoto wao kwa moto kama sadaka za kuteketezwa kwake-kitu ambacho sijawaamuru au kutaja, wala hakuingia ndani ya akili yangu.
They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
6 Kwa hiyo, tazama, siku zinakuja-hili ndilo tamko la Bwana-ambapo mahali hapa hapataitwa tena Tofethi, bonde la Ben Hinomu, kwa kuwa litakuwa bonde la machinjo.
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
7 Katika mahali hapa nitatamgua mipango ya Yuda na Yerusalemu. Nitawafanya wapate kuuawa kwa upanga mbele ya adui zao na kwa mkono wa wale wanaotafuta maisha yao. Ndipo nitawapa miili yao kuwa chakula cha ndege wa angani na wanyama wa dunia.
And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
8 Ndipo nitaifanya mji huu kuwa uharibifu na kitu cha kuzomewa, kila mtu anayepita atashangaa na kuzomea kwa sababu mateso yake yote.
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
9 Nitawafanya wale nyama ya wana wao na binti zao; kila mtu atakula mwili wa jirani yake katika dhiki na katika uchungu ambao umeletwa kwao na maadui zao na wale wanaotaka maisha yao.'”
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
10 Kisha utavunja chupa ya udongo mbele ya watu ambao walikwenda pamoja nawe.
Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
11 Uwaambie,'Bwana wa majeshi asema hivi: nitafanya jambo hili kwa watu hawa na mji huu- hii ndiyo ahadi ya Bwana, kama vile Yeremia alivyovunja chupa ya udongo ili isiweze kutengenezwa tena. Watu watazika wafu huko Tofethi hata hapatabaki mahali pa kuzika.
and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
12 Hivyo ndivyo nitakavyopafanya mahali hapa na wenyeji wake nitakapofanya jiji hili kama Tofethi, hili ndio tamko la Bwana;
This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
13 kwa hiyo nyumba za Yerusalemu na wafalme wa Yuda watakuwa kama Tofethi, nyumba zote zilizo juu ya watu waovu wanaoabudu nyota zote za mbinguni na kumwaga sadaka za kinywaji kwa miungu mingine.'”
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
14 Ndipo Yeremia akatoka Tofethi, ambako Bwana amemtuma ahubiri. Akasimama katika ua wa nyumba ya Bwana, akawaambia watu wote,
Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
15 “Bwana wa majeshi, Mungu wa Israeli, asema hivi, Tazameni, nitawaletea mji huu na miji yake yote maafa yote niliyonena dhidi yake, kwa kuwa walifanya shingo zao kuwa ngumu na kukataa kusikiliza maneno yangu.'”
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
