Giê-rê-mi-a 39
1 Tháng mười năm thứ chín đời Vua Sê-đê-kia cai trị, Vua Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa dốc toàn lực tấn công và bao vây Giê-ru-sa-lem.
The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.
2 Hai năm rưỡi sau, vào ngày chín tháng tư, năm thứ mười một triều Sê-đê-kia, quân Ba-by-lôn công phá tường thành, và thành thất thủ.
And the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremias was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king's house;
3 Tất cả tướng lãnh Ba-by-lôn đều kéo vào và ngồi tại Cửa Giữa: Nẹt-gan Sa-rết-sê, người Sam-ga, Nê-bô Sa-sê-kim, quan chỉ huy trưởng, Nẹt-gan Sa-rết-sê, quân sư của vua, và các quan lớn khác.
in which king Sedekias [had] shut him up, saying, Therefore do you prophesy, saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 Khi Vua Sê-đê-kia và toàn quân thấy quân Ba-by-lôn đã công phá vào thành, nên họ bỏ chạy. Họ đợi đến trời tối rồi trốn qua một chiếc cổng kín giữa hai bức tường thành phía sau vườn ngự uyển và hướng về Thung Lũng A-ra-ba.
and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;
5 Nhưng quân Canh-đê đuổi theo vua và bắt vua trong đồng bằng Giê-ri-cô. Họ đem vua về cho Vua Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa, nước Ba-by-lôn, tại Ríp-la, trong xứ Ha-mát. Vua Ba-by-lôn lập tòa án xét xử và tuyên án Sê-đê-kia tại đó.
and Sedekias shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?
6 Ông bắt Sê-đê-kia chứng kiến cuộc hành hình các hoàng tử và tất cả hàng quý tộc Giu-đa.
AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS, SAYING,
7 Họ móc cả hai mắt Sê-đê-kia, xiềng lại bằng các xích đồng, rồi giải về Ba-by-lôn.
Behold, Anameel the son of Salom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth: for you [have] the right to take [it] as a purchase.
8 Quân Ba-by-lôn đốt rụi Giê-ru-sa-lem, kể cả hoàng cung, và phá đổ các tường lũy bọc quanh thành.
So Anameel the son of Salom my father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy you my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for you [have] a right to buy it, and you are the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.
9 Nê-bu-xa-ra-đan, quan chỉ huy thị vệ, đưa đi lưu đày qua Ba-by-lôn tất cả số dân sống sót sau cuộc chiến tranh, kể cả những người đã đào ngũ theo ông ấy.
And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.
10 Nhưng Nê-bu-xa-ra-đan cho những người nghèo khổ nhất được ở lại trong Giu-đa, đồng thời cấp phát ruộng đất và vườn nho cho họ coi sóc.
And I wrote [it] in a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.
11 Vua Nê-bu-cát-nết-sa ra lệnh cho Nê-bu-xa-ra-đan, quan chỉ huy thị vệ, đi tìm Giê-rê-mi. Vua nói:
And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;
12 “Đưa người về và chăm sóc thật tốt, nhưng không được hãm hại, và cung cấp cho người bất cứ điều gì người muốn.”
and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.
13 Vậy, Nê-bu-xa-ra-đan, quan chỉ huy thị vệ; Nê-bu-sa-ban, quan chỉ huy trưởng; Nẹt-gan Sa-rết-sê, quân sư của vua, và các quan tướng khác của vua Ba-by-lôn
And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty;
14 sai người đem Giê-rê-mi ra khỏi ngục. Họ giao cho Ghê-đa-lia, con A-hi-cam, cháu Sa-phan, săn sóc và đem người về nhà. Vậy, Giê-rê-mi ở lại trong Giu-đa sống chung với dân của mình.
Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and you shall put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.
15 Chúa Hằng Hữu ban một sứ điệp nữa cho Giê-rê-mi trong thời gian ông bị giam cầm:
For thus says the Lord; There shall yet be bought fields and houses and vineyards in this land.
16 “Hãy nói với Ê-bết Mê-lết người Ê-thi-ô-pi rằng: ‘Đây là điều Chúa Hằng Hữu Vạn Quân, Đức Chúa Trời của Ít-ra-ên, phán: Ta sẽ làm cho thành này mọi điều mà Ta đã ngăm đe. Ta sẽ giáng họa, chứ không ban phước. Ngươi sẽ thấy nó bị hủy diệt,
And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,
17 nhưng Ta sẽ giải cứu ngươi từ tay những người mà ngươi rất sợ.
O [ever] living Lord! you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power, and with your high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from you.
18 Vì ngươi đã tin cậy Ta, Ta sẽ giải cứu ngươi và bảo tồn mạng sống ngươi. Đó là phần thưởng Ta dành cho ngươi. Ta, Chúa Hằng Hữu, phán vậy!’”
Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;
the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: your eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to his way:
who have wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and amongst the inhabitants of the earth; and you did make for yourself a name, as at this day;
and you did bring out your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights;
and you gave them this land, which you did swear [to give] to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;
and they went in, and took it; but they listened not to your voice, and walked not in your ordinances; they did none of the things which you did command them, and they caused all these calamities to happen to them.
Behold, a multitude is come against the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine: as you have spoken, so has it happened.
And you say to me, Buy you the field for money; and I wrote a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: shall anything be hidden from me!
Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burnt incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me.
For the children of Israel and the children of Juda alone did evil in my sight from their youth.
For this city was [obnoxious] to my anger and my wrath, from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from my presence,
because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.
And they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they listened no more to receive instructions.
And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.
And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.
And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which you say, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment.
Behold, I [will] gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:
and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a god.
And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear me continually, and [that] for good to them and their children after them.
And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put my fear into their heart, that they may not depart from me.
And I will visit [them] to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and with all [my] soul.
For thus says the Lord; As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.
And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which you say, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.
And they shall buy fields for money, and you shall write a book, and seal [it], and shall take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.
