إِرْمِيَا 17
| «خَطِيَّةُ يَهُوذَا مَكْتُوبَةٌ بِقَلَمٍ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ، بِرَأْسٍ مِنَ ٱلْمَاسِ مَنْقُوشَةٌ عَلَى لَوْحِ قَلْبِهِمْ وَعَلَى قُرُونِ مَذَابِحِكُمْ. | ١ 1 |
[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
| كَذِكْرِ بَنِيهِمْ مَذَابِحَهُمْ، وَسَوَارِيَهُمْ عِنْدَ أَشْجَارٍ خُضْرٍ عَلَى آكَامٍ مُرْتَفِعَةٍ. | ٢ 2 |
[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
| يَا جَبَلِي فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ، أَجْعَلُ ثَرْوَتَكَ، كُلَّ خَزَائِنِكَ لِلنَّهْبِ، وَمُرْتَفَعَاتِكَ لِلْخَطِيَّةِ فِي كُلِّ تُخُومِكَ. | ٣ 3 |
So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
| وَتَتَبَرَّأُ وَبِنَفْسِكَ عَنْ مِيرَاثِكَ ٱلَّذِي أَعْطَيْتُكَ إِيَّاهُ، وَأَجْعَلُكَ تَخْدِمُ أَعْدَاءَكَ فِي أَرْضٍ لَمْ تَعْرِفْهَا، لِأَنَّكُمْ قَدْ أَضْرَمْتُمْ نَارًا بِغَضَبِي تَتَّقِدُ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ؟. | ٤ 4 |
The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
| «هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ: مَلْعُونٌ ٱلرَّجُلُ ٱلَّذِي يَتَّكِلُ عَلَى ٱلْإِنْسَانِ، وَيَجْعَلُ ٱلْبَشَرَ ذِرَاعَهُ، وَعَنِ ٱلرَّبِّ يَحِيدُ قَلْبُهُ. | ٥ 5 |
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
| وَيَكُونُ مِثْلَ ٱلْعَرْعَرِ فِي ٱلْبَادِيَةِ، وَلَا يَرَى إِذَا جَاءَ ٱلْخَيْرُ، بَلْ يَسْكُنُ ٱلْحَرَّةَ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، أَرْضًا سَبِخَةً وَغَيْرَ مَسْكُونَةٍ. | ٦ 6 |
They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
| مُبَارَكٌ ٱلرَّجُلُ ٱلَّذِي يَتَّكِلُ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ، وَكَانَ ٱلرَّبُّ مُتَّكَلَهُ، | ٧ 7 |
But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
| فَإِنَّهُ يَكُونُ كَشَجَرَةٍ مَغْرُوسَةٍ عَلَى مِيَاهٍ، وَعَلَى نَهْرٍ تَمُدُّ أُصُولَهَا، وَلَا تَرَى إِذَا جَاءَ ٱلْحَرُّ، وَيَكُونُ وَرَقُهَا أَخْضَرَ، وَفِي سَنَةِ ٱلْقَحْطِ لَا تَخَافُ، وَلَا تَكُفُّ عَنِ ٱلْإِثْمَارِ. | ٨ 8 |
Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
| «اَلْقَلْبُ أَخْدَعُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَهُوَ نَجِيسٌ، مَنْ يَعْرِفُهُ؟ | ٩ 9 |
Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
| أَنَا ٱلرَّبُّ فَاحِصُ ٱلْقَلْبِ مُخْتَبِرُ ٱلْكُلَى لِأُعْطِيَ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ حَسَبَ طُرُقِهِ، حَسَبَ ثَمَرِ أَعْمَالِهِ. | ١٠ 10 |
But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
| حَجَلَةٌ تَحْضُنُ مَا لَمْ تَبِضْ مُحَصِّلُ ٱلْغِنَى بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ. فِي نِصْفِ أَيَّامِهِ يَتْرُكُهُ وَفِي آخِرَتِهِ يَكُونُ أَحْمَقَ!». | ١١ 11 |
[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
| كُرْسِيُّ مَجْدٍ مُرْتَفِعٌ مِنَ ٱلِٱبْتِدَاءِ هُوَ مَوْضِعُ مَقْدِسِنَا. | ١٢ 12 |
Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
| أَيُّهَا ٱلرَّبُّ رَجَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ، كُلُّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتْرُكُونَكَ يَخْزَوْنَ. «ٱلْحَائِدُونَ عَنِّي فِي ٱلتُّرَابِ يُكْتَبُونَ، لِأَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا ٱلرَّبَّ يَنْبُوعَ ٱلْمِيَاهِ ٱلْحَيَّةِ». | ١٣ 13 |
You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
| اِشْفِنِي يَارَبُّ فَأُشْفَى. خَلِّصْنِي فَأُخَلَّصَ، لِأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ تَسْبِيحَتِي. | ١٤ 14 |
Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
| هَا هُمْ يَقُولُونَ لِي: «أَيْنَ هِيَ كَلِمَةُ ٱلرَّبِّ؟ لِتَأْتِ!» | ١٥ 15 |
People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
| أَمَّا أَنَا فَلَمْ أَعْتَزِلْ عَنْ أَنْ أَكُونَ رَاعِيًا وَرَاءَكَ، وَلَا ٱشْتَهَيْتُ يَوْمَ ٱلْبَلِيَّةِ. أَنْتَ عَرَفْتَ. مَا خَرَجَ مِنْ شَفَتَيَّ كَانَ مُقَابِلَ وَجْهِكَ. | ١٦ 16 |
Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
| لَا تَكُنْ لِي رُعْبًا. أَنْتَ مَلْجَإِي فِي يَوْمِ ٱلشَّرِّ. | ١٧ 17 |
Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
| لِيَخْزَ طَارِدِيَّ وَلَا أَخْزَ أَنَا. لِيَرْتَعِبُوا هُمْ وَلَا أَرْتَعِبْ أَنَا. اِجْلِبْ عَلَيْهِمْ يَوْمَ ٱلشَّرِّ وَٱسْحَقْهُمْ سَحْقًا مُضَاعَفًا. | ١٨ 18 |
[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
| هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِي: «ٱذْهَبْ وَقِفْ فِي بَابِ بَنِي ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلَّذِي يَدْخُلُ مِنْهُ مُلُوكُ يَهُوذَا وَيَخْرُجُونَ مِنْهُ، وَفِي كُلِّ أَبْوَابِ أُورُشَلِيمَ، | ١٩ 19 |
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
| وَقُلْ لَهُمُ: ٱسْمَعُوا كَلِمَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ يَا مُلُوكَ يَهُوذَا، وَكُلَّ يَهُوذَا، وَكُلَّ سُكَّانِ أُورُشَلِيمَ ٱلدَّاخِلِينَ مِنْ هَذِهِ ٱلْأَبْوَابِ. | ٢٠ 20 |
Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
| هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ: تَحَفَّظُوا بِأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَلَا تَحْمِلُوا حِمْلًا يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ وَلَا تُدْخِلُوهُ فِي أَبْوَابِ أُورُشَلِيمَ، | ٢١ 21 |
He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
| وَلَا تُخْرِجُوا حِمْلًا مِنْ بُيُوتِكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ، وَلَا تَعْمَلُوا شُغْلًا مَّا، بَلْ قَدِّسُوا يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ كَمَا أَمَرْتُ آبَاءَكُمْ. | ٢٢ 22 |
Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
| فَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا وَلَمْ يُمِيلُوا أُذُنَهُمْ، بَلْ قَسَّوْا أَعْنَاقَهُمْ لِئَلَّا يَسْمَعُوا وَلِئَلَّا يَقْبَلُوا تَأْدِيبًا. | ٢٣ 23 |
but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
| وَيَكُونُ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ لِي سَمْعًا، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، وَلَمْ تُدْخِلُوا حِمْلًا فِي أَبْوَابِ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ، بَلْ قَدَّسْتُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ وَلَمْ تَعْمَلُوا فِيهِ شُغْلًا مَّا، | ٢٤ 24 |
But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
| أَنَّهُ يَدْخُلُ فِي أَبْوَابِ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ مُلُوكٌ وَرُؤَسَاءُ جَالِسُونَ عَلَى كُرْسِيِّ دَاوُدَ، رَاكِبُونَ فِي مَرْكَبَاتٍ وَعَلَى خَيْلٍ، هُمْ وَرُؤَسَاؤُهُمْ رِجَالُ يَهُوذَا وَسُكَّانُ أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَتُسْكَنُ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةُ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. | ٢٥ 25 |
kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
| وَيَأْتُونَ مِنْ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا، وَمِنْ حَوَالَيْ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَمِنْ أَرْضِ بِنْيَامِينَ وَمِنَ ٱلسَّهْلِ وَمِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ وَمِنَ ٱلْجَنُوبِ، يَأْتُونَ بِمُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ وَتَقْدِمَاتٍ وَلُبَانٍ، وَيَدْخُلُونَ بِذَبَائِحِ شُكْرٍ إِلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. | ٢٦ 26 |
And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
| وَلَكِنْ إِنْ لَمْ تَسْمَعُوا لِي لِتُقَدِّسُوا يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ لِكَيْلَا تَحْمِلُوا حِمْلًا وَلَا تُدْخِلُوهُ فِي أَبْوَابِ أُورُشَلِيمَ يَوْمَ ٱلسَّبْتِ، فَإِنِّي أُشْعِلُ نَارًا فِي أَبْوَابِهَا فَتَأْكُلُ قُصُورَ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَلَا تَنْطَفِئُ». | ٢٧ 27 |
But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
