Yeremia 36
1 Ilikuja tokea katika mwaka wa nne wa Yehoyakimu mwana wa Yosiah mfalme wa Yuda, kwamba neno hili lilikuja kwa Yeremiah kutoka kwa Yahwe, na alisema,
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 “Chukua kitabu kwa ajili yako na uandike juu yake maneno yote ambayo nimekwisha kukuambia kuhusiana na Israel na Yuda, na kila taifa. Fanya hivi kwa kila kitu nilichokuambia tokea siku za Yosia mpaka siku ile.
“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.
3 Huenda watu wa Yuda watasikiliza majanga yote ambayo ninakusudia kuleta juu yao. Huenda kila mmoja ataacha njia zake mbaya, ili kwamba niweze kuwasamehe maovu yao na dhambi zao.”
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
4 Kisha Yeremia alimwita Baruku mwana wa Neria, na Baruku aliandika kwenye kitabu, kwa imla ya Yeremia, maneno yote ya Yahwe yalizunguzwa kwake.
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the LORD’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
5 Kisha Yeremia alitoa amri kwa Baruku. Alisema, “Niko gerezani na siwezi kwenda kwenye nyumba ya Yahwe.
Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I cannot go into the LORD’s house.
6 Kwa hiyo unapaswa uende na kusoma kutoka kwenye kitabu ulichoandika kwa imla yangu. Kwa siku ya kufunga, unapaswa usome maneno ya Yahwe kwenye masikio ya watu katika nyumba yake, na pia kwenye masikio ya Yuda yote waliokuja kutoka katika miji yao. Tangaza maneno haya kwao.
Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the LORD’s words, in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
7 Huenda maombi yao ya rehema yatakuja mbele ya Yahwe. Huenda kila mtu ataacha njia mbaya, kwani gathabu na hasira ya Yahwe imetangazwa dhidi ya watu kwa ukali.”
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will each return from his evil way; for the LORD has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”
8 Kwa hiyo Baruku mwana wa Neria alifanya kila kitu ambacho Yeremia nabii alimwamuru yeye kufanya. Alisoma kwa sauti maneno ya Yahwe ndani mwa nyumba ya Yahwe.
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the LORD’s words in the LORD’s house.
9 Ilikuja tokea katika mwaka wa tano na mwezi wa tisa kwa Yehoyakimu mwana wa Yosia, mfalme wa Yuda, kwamba watu wote Yerusalemu na watu waliotoka Yerusalemu toka miji ya Yuda walitangaza kufunga kwa kumheshimu Yahwe.
Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the LORD.
10 Baruku alisoma kwa sauti maneno ya Yeremia katika nyumba ya Yahwe, kutoka kwenye chumba cha Gamaria mwana wa Shafani mwandishi, katika ua wa juu, kwa mlango wa kuingilia wa nyumba ya Yahwe. Alifanya hivi kwa masikio ya watu wote.
Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the LORD’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people.
11 Basi Mikaya mwana wa Gemaria alisikia maneno yote ya Yahwe kwenye kitabu.
When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the LORD’s words,
12 Alienda chini kwenye nyumba ya mfalme, kwenye chumba cha katibu. Tazama, maafisa wote walikuwa wamekaa hapo: Elishama mwandishi, Delaiah mwana wa Shemaiah, Elnathan mwana wa Achbor, Gemaria mwana wa Shefani, na Sedekia mwana wa Hananiah, na maafisa wote.
he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
13 Kisha Mikaya alitoa taarifa ya maneno yote kwao ambayo alikuwa amesikia ambayo Baruku alisoma kwa sauti kwenye masikio ya watu.
Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14 Kwa hiyo maafisa wote walimtuma Jehudi mwana wa Nethania mwana wa Shelemiah mwana wa Kushi, kwa Baruku. Jehudi alisema kwa Baruku, “Chukua kitabu katika mkono wako, kitabu ambacho ulikuwa unakisoma kwa masikio ya watu and kuja.” Kwa hiyo Baruku mwana wa Neria alichukua kitabu katika mkono wake na alienda kwa maafisa.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
15 Kisha walisema naye,”Kaa chini na usome haya katika masikio yetu.” Kwa hiyo Baruku akasoma kitabu.
They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
16 Ilitokea wakati waliposikia haya maneno yote, kila mtu alipatwa na hofu kwa mtu aliye karibu naye na kusema kwa Baruku, “Kwa hakika tunapaswa kutoa taarifa ya maneno haya yote kwa mfalme.”
Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
17 Kisha walimuuliza Baruku, “Tuambie, ulipataje kuandika maneno yote haya kwa imla ya Yeremia?”
They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”
18 Baruku aliwaambia, “Alitoa imla ya maneno haya yote kwangu, na nikayaandika kwa wino kwenye kitabu hiki.”
Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
19 Kisha maafisa walisema kwa Baruku, “Nenda, jifiche mwenyewe, na Yeremiah, pia. Usipatikane mtu yeyote kujua uko wapi.”
Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Do not let anyone know where you are.”
20 Kisha walienda kwa uwanja wa mfalme na wakatoa taarifa ya maneno haya kwake. Lakini kwanza walikihifadhi kitabu kwenye chumba cha katibu Elishama.
They went in to the king into the court, but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
21 Basi mfalme alimtuma Yehudi kuchukua kitabu. Yehudi alikichukua toka chumba cha Elishama katibu. Kisha alikisoma kwa sauti kwa mfalme na wote maafisa walikuwa wamesimama karibu naye.
So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.
22 Sasa mfalme alikuwa amesimama kwenye nyumba ya majira ya baridi katika mwezi wa tisa, na mkaa ulikuwa unawaka mbele yake.
Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
23 Ilitokea wakati Yehudi aliposoma kurusa tatu au nne, mfalme angeweza kuikata kwa kisu na kuitupa kwenye moto katika mkaa mpaka kitabu chote kiliteketea.
When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
24 Lakini wala mfalme wala yeyote wa mjakazi wake aliyesikia haya maneno yote aliogopa, wala hawakuchana nguo zao.
The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and did not tear their garments.
25 Elnathani, Delaya, na Gemaria walikuwa wamemuomba mfalme asikichome kitabu, lakini hakuwasikiliza.
Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.
26 Basi mfalme alimwamuru Yerameeli, ndugu, Seraya mwana wa Azrieli, na Shelemia mwana wa Abdeeli kumfunga Baruku mwandishi na Yeremia nabii, lakini Yahwe alikuwa amewaficha.
The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.
27 Kisha neno la Yahwe lilikuja kwa Yeremia baada ya mfalme kuwa amechoma kitabu na maneno ya Baruku yaliyokuwa yameandikwa kwa imla ya Yeremia, na alisema,
Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 “Rudi, chukua kitabu kingine kwa ajili yako, na uandike maneno haya yote ambayo yalikuwa kwenye kitabu cha kwanza, ambacho Yehoyakimu mfalme wa Yuda alikichoma.
“Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 Kisha unapaswa kusema hivi kwa mfalme Yehoyakimu mfalme wa Yuda: 'Ulichoma hicho kitabu! Na ulisema: Kwanini umeandika juu yake, “Mfalme wa Babeli hakika atakuja na kuharibu nchi hii, kwa kuwa atawaangamiza wanaume wote na wanyama ndani yake?”
Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘The LORD says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written therein, saying, “The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal”?’”
30 Kwa hiyo Yahwe anasema hivi kuhusu wewe, Yehoyakimu mfalme wa Yuda: “Hakuna mzao wako atawahi kukaa kwenye kiti cha Daudi. Kama wewe, maiti yako itatupwa kwenye siku ya joto na usiku wa baridi.
Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 Kwa kuwa nitakuadhibu, wazao wako, na wajakazi wako kwa maovu yenu yote. Nitaleta kwenu, kwa wakazi wote wa Yerusalemu, na kwa kila mtu Yuda majanga ambayo nimewatishia ninyi, lakini kwa hamkuwa makini.”
I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they did not listen.”’”
32 Kwa hiyo Yeremia alichukua kitabu kingine na akampa Baruku mwana wa Neria mwandishi. Baruku aliandika juu yake kwa imla ya Yeremia maneno yote ambayo yalikuwa katika kitabu kilichochomwa moto na mfalme Yehoyakimu mfalme wa Yuda. Zaidi, maneno mengi ya kufanana yaliongezwa kwenye kitabu hiki.
Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
