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၁ထာဝရဘုရားသည်မြေအိုးတစ်လုံးကိုသွား ရောက်ဝယ်ယူရန် ငါ့အားစေခိုင်းတော်မူ၏။ ကိုယ် တော်ကငါနှင့်အတူအသက်ကြီးသူပြည်သူ့ ခေါင်းဆောင်အချို့နှင့် ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်အချို့ တို့ကိုလည်းခေါ်ဆောင်ကာ၊-
2 ౨ నువ్వు వెళ్లి కుమ్మరి చేసిన మట్టికుండ కొను. ప్రజల పెద్దల్లో కొంతమందినీ యాజకుల్లో పెద్దవారినీ వెంటబెట్టుకుని హర్సీతు ద్వారానికి ఎదురుగా ఉన్న బెన్ హిన్నోము లోయలోకి వెళ్ళి, నేను నీతో చెప్పే ఈ మాటలు అక్కడ ప్రకటించు.
၂အိုးကွဲမြို့တံခါးကိုဖြတ်၍ပင်ဟိန္နုံချိုင့်ဝှမ်း သို့သွားရောက်ရန်မှာကြားတော်မူ၏။ ထိုအရပ် တွင် ငါသည်ထာဝရဘုရားပေးတော်မူသော ဗျာဒိတ်တော်ကိုဆင့်ဆိုရန်ဖြစ်၏။-
3 ౩ “యూదా రాజులారా! యెరూషలేము నివాసులారా! యెహోవా మాట వినండి. సేనల అధిపతి యెహోవా, ఇశ్రాయేలు దేవుడు చెప్పేది వినండి. నేను ఈ స్థలం మీదికి విపత్తు రప్పిస్తున్నాను. దాని గురించి వినేవారందరి చెవులు గింగురుమనేటంత భయంకరంగా ఉంటుంది.
၃ထာဝရဘုရားက``ယုဒဘုရင်များနှင့် ယေရုရှလင်မြို့သားတို့၊ ဣသရေလအမျိုး သားတို့၏ဘုရားသခင်အနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်၊ ငါ ထာဝရဘုရားမိန့်တော်မူသည်ကိုနားထောင် ကြလော့။ ငါသည်ကြားသိရသူတို့ထိတ်လန့် သည်တိုင်အောင်ဆိုးရွားသည့်ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကိုဤအရပ်သို့သက်ရောက်စေတော်မူမည်။-
4 ౪ ఎందుకంటే వాళ్ళు నన్ను విడిచిపెట్టి ఈ స్థలాన్ని పాడు చేశారు. వాళ్ళకు తెలియని ఇతర దేవుళ్ళ ఎదుట ధూపం వేశారు. వాళ్ళూ వాళ్ళ పూర్వీకులూ యూదా రాజులు కూడా నిరపరాధుల రక్తంతో ఈ స్థలాన్ని నింపారు.
၄အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်လူတို့သည်ငါ့ကိုစွန့် ပစ်ကာ မိမိတို့ကိုယ်တိုင်မိမိတို့ဘိုးဘေးများ နှင့်ယုဒဘုရင်များမသိဘူးသည့်အခြား ဘုရားများကိုယဇ်ပူဇော်ခြင်းဖြင့် ဤဌာန တော်ကိုညစ်ညမ်းစေကြသောကြောင့်ဖြစ်၏။ သူတို့သည်ဤဌာနကိုအပြစ်မဲ့သူတို့၏ အသွေးဖြင့်ပြည့်စေလျက်၊-
5 ౫ వాళ్ళు తమ కొడుకులను దహనబలులుగా కాల్చడానికి బయలుకు బలిపీఠాలు కట్టించారు. అలా చేయమని నేను వాళ్లకు చెప్పలేదు, అది నా మనస్సుకు ఎన్నడూ తోచలేదు.”
၅မိမိတို့သားသမီးများအားမီးရှို့ရာယဇ် အဖြစ်ပူဇော်ရန် ဗာလဘုရားအတွက်မြင့် သောအရပ်၌ယဇ်ပလ္လင်များကိုတည်ဆောက် ကြလေပြီ။ သူတို့သားသမီးများကိုဤ သို့ဗာလဘုရားအားမီးရှို့ပူဇော်စေရန် ငါသည်အဘယ်အခါ၌မျှအမိန့်မပေး ခဲ့၊ မပြောကြားခဲ့၊ စိတ်မကူးခဲ့။-
6 ౬ కాబట్టి యెహోవా చెప్పేదేమిటంటే “రాబోయే రోజుల్లో ఈ స్థలాన్ని ‘వధ లోయ’ అంటారు. తోఫెతు అని గానీ బెన్ హిన్నోము లోయ అని గానీ అనరు.
၆သို့ဖြစ်၍ဤအရပ်သည်တောဖက်ဟူ၍မခေါ်၊ ဟိန္နုံချိုင့်ဝှမ်းဟူ၍မခေါ်၊ ကွပ်မျက်ရာချိုင့်ဟူ ၍ခေါ်ရမည့်အချိန်ကျရောက်လာလိမ့်မည် ကို သတိပြုကြလော့ဟုထာဝရဘုရား မိန့်တော်မူ၏။-
7 ౭ ఈ స్థలం లోనే యూదావారి ఆలోచనను యెరూషలేమువారి ఆలోచనను నేను వ్యర్ధం చేస్తాను. తమ శత్రువుల ఎదుట కత్తిపాలయ్యేలా చేస్తాను. తమ ప్రాణాలను తీయాలని చూసే వాళ్ళ చేతికి అప్పగిస్తాను. వాళ్ళ శవాలను రాబందులకూ అడవి జంతువులకూ ఆహారంగా ఇస్తాను.
၇ငါသည်ဤအရပ်တွင်ယုဒပြည်သားများ နှင့် ယေရုရှလင်မြို့သားများ၏အကြံအစည် မှန်သမျှကိုပျက်ပြားစေတော်မူမည်။ သူတို့ ကိုအသက်ရန်ရှာသူတို့လက်သို့အပ်၍စစ်ပွဲ တွင်ကျဆုံးစေတော်မူမည်။ သူတို့၏အလောင်း များသည်ငှက်များနှင့်တောသားရဲတို့၏ အစာဖြစ်ရလိမ့်မည်။-
8 ౮ ఈ పట్టణాన్ని పాడు చేసి ఎగతాళికి గురి చేస్తాను. ఆ దారిలో వెళ్ళే ప్రతివాడూ దాని కడగండ్లన్నీ చూసి నిర్ఘాంతపోయి హేళన చేస్తారు.
၈ငါသည်ဤမြို့အပေါ်သို့အလွန်ဆိုးရွားသည့် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကိုသက်ရောက်စေမည်ဖြစ်၍ အနီး မှဖြတ်သန်းသွားလာသူတို့သည် ထိုမြို့၏ဖြစ် အင်ကိုမြင်၍ကဲ့ရဲ့ကြလိမ့်မည်။ စိတ်ထိခိုက် လျက်အံ့သြတွေဝေသွားကြလိမ့်မည်။-
9 ౯ వాళ్ళు తమ కొడుకుల, కూతుళ్ళ శరీరాలను తినేలా చేస్తాను. తమ ప్రాణం తీయాలని చూసే శత్రువులు ముట్టడి వేసి బాధించే కాలంలో వాళ్ళు ఒకరి శరీరాన్ని ఒకరు తింటారు.
၉ရန်သူတို့သည်မြို့ကိုဝိုင်းရံတိုက်ခိုက်ကာ သူ တို့အားသတ်ဖြတ်ရန်ကြိုးစားကြလိမ့်မည်။ သူတို့သည်အချင်းချင်းတစ်ယောက်ကိုတစ် ယောက်စားကြလိမ့်မည်။ မိမိတို့သားသမီး များကိုပင်စားကြလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုဆင့်ဆို ပြောကြားရန်ငါ့အားမိန့်တော်မူ၏။
10 ౧౦ ఈ మాటలు చెప్పిన తరువాత నీతో వచ్చిన మనుష్యులు చూస్తుండగా నువ్వు ఆ కుండ పగలగొట్టి వాళ్ళతో ఇలా చెప్పాలి.”
၁၀ထိုနောက်ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ငါ့ကိုမိမိ နှင့်အတူလိုက်ပါလာသူတို့၏ရှေ့တွင်အိုး ကိုခွဲစေတော်မူပြီးလျှင်၊-
11 ౧౧ “సేనల ప్రభువు యెహోవా ఇలా చెబుతున్నాడు, మళ్ళీ బాగుచేయడానికి వీలు లేకుండా కుమ్మరివాని కుండను ఒకడు పగలగొట్టినట్టు నేను ఈ ప్రజలనూ ఈ పట్టణాన్నీ పగలగొట్టబోతున్నాను. తోఫెతులో పాతిపెట్టే చోటు దొరకనంతగా వాళ్ళను అక్కడే పాతిపెడతారు.”
၁၁သူတို့အားအနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရ ဘုရားက``ဤအိုးကိုပြန်၍ဆက်စပ်မရ နိုင်အောင်ခွဲလိုက်သကဲ့သို့ ငါသည်ဤလူ များနှင့်ဤမြို့ကိုငါခွဲတော်မူမည်။ တော ဖက်မြို့တွင်မြေမြှုပ်စရာနေရာမရှိသည့် တိုင်အောင်လူတို့သည်ထိုသူတို့၏အလောင်း များကိုသင်္ဂြိုဟ်ရကြလိမ့်မည်။-
12 ౧౨ యెహోవా వాక్కు ఇదే. “ఈ పట్టణాన్ని తోఫెతులాంటి స్థలంగా నేను చేస్తాను. ఈ స్థలానికీ అక్కడి నివాసులకూ నేనలా చేస్తాను.
၁၂ဤမြို့နှင့်ဤမြို့တွင်နေထိုင်သူတို့ကို တောဖက်မြို့ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်စေမည်'' ဟုထာဝရ ဘုရားမိန့်တော်မူ၏။-
13 ౧౩ యెరూషలేము ఇళ్ళు, యూదా రాజుల రాజ భవనాలూ ఆ తోఫెతు స్థలం లాగే అపవిత్రమవుతాయి. ఏ ఇళ్ళ మీద ప్రజలు ఆకాశ నక్షత్ర సమూహానికి మొక్కి ఇతర దేవుళ్ళకు పానార్పణలు చేశారో ఆ ఇళ్ళన్నిటికీ ఆలాగే జరుగుతుంది.”
၁၃``ယေရုရှလင်မြို့ရှိအိမ်များနှင့်ယုဒဘုရင် တို့၏နန်းတော်များ မိမိတို့အမိုးပေါ်တွင် ကြယ်နက္ခတ်များအားနံ့သာပေါင်းဖြင့်မီးရှို့ ပူဇော်ရာအိမ်များနှင့်အခြားဘုရားများ အား စပျစ်ရည်ပူဇော်သကာသွန်းလောင်း ကြသည့်အိမ်မှန်သမျှတို့သည်တောဖက်မြို့ ကဲ့သို့ မသန့်စင်သည့်အရပ်များဖြစ်ရကြ လိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။
14 ౧౪ యిర్మీయా ఆ ప్రవచనం చెప్పడానికి యెహోవా తనను పంపిన తోఫెతులో నుంచి వచ్చి యెహోవా మందిరపు ఆవరణంలో నిలబడి ప్రజలందరితో ఇలా చెప్పాడు,
၁၄ထိုနောက်ငါသည်ဗျာဒိတ်တော်ကိုပြန်ကြား ရန် ထာဝရဘုရားစေလွှတ်တော်မူရာတောဖက် အရပ်မှထွက်ခွာ၍ ဗိမာန်တော်တံတိုင်းအတွင်း ရပ်ပြီးလျှင်လူအပေါင်းတို့အား၊-
15 ౧౫ “సేనల ప్రభువు యెహోవా, ఇశ్రాయేలు దేవుడు ఈ మాట చెబుతున్నాడు. ఈ ప్రజలు నా మాటలు వినకుండా మొండికెత్తారు. కాబట్టి ఈ పట్టణం గురించి నేను చెప్పిన విపత్తునంతా దాని మీదికీ దానికి సంబంధించిన పట్టణాలన్నిటి మీదికీ రప్పిస్తున్నాను.”
၁၅ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့၏ဘုရားသခင် အနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရဘုရားက``သင်တို့ သည်ခေါင်းမာ၍ငါပြောသည့်စကားကိုနား မထောင်ကြ။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ဤမြို့နှင့်အနီးအနား ရှိမြို့အပေါင်းတို့အား ယခင်ငါဖော်ပြခဲ့ သည့်အတိုင်းပြစ်ဒဏ်စီရင်တော်မူမည်'' ဟု မိန့်တော်မူကြောင်းသူတို့အားဆင့်ဆို၏။