Jeremia 28
1 In jenem Jahre aber - im Anfange der Regierung Zedekias, des Königs von Juda, im vierten Jahre, im fünften Monate, - sprach zu mir der Prophet Hananja, der Sohn Azurs aus Gibeon, im Tempel Jahwes in Gegenwart der Priester und des ganzen Volks also:
Thus says the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.
2 So spricht Jahwe der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels: Ich zerbreche das Joch des Königs von Babel!
And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about [her] in the day of her affliction.
3 In noch zwei Jahren werde ich alle Geräte des Tempels Jahwes, die Nebukadnezar, der König von Babel, von diesem Orte weggenommen und nach Babel gebracht hat, an diesen Ort zurückbringen.
Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare you not her young men, but destroy you all her host.
4 Auch Jechonja, den Sohn Jojakims, den König von Juda, und alle Gefangenen Judas, die nach Babel gekommen sind, werde ich an diesen Ort zurückbringen - ist der Spruch Jahwes -, denn ich will das Joch des Königs von Babel zerbrechen!
And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.
5 Da sprach der Prophet Jeremia zu dem Propheten Hananja in Gegenwart der Priester und in Gegenwart alles Volks, das im Tempel Jahwes stand,
For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.
6 und es sprach der Prophet Jeremia: So sei es! Jahwe thue also! Jahwe lasse deine Worte, die du geweissagt hast, in Erfüllung gehen, indem er die Geräte des Tempels Jahwes und die sämtlichen Gefangenen aus Babel an diesen Ort zurückbringt.
Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every one his soul: and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord; he is rendering to her a recompence.
7 Jedoch höre noch dieses Wort, das ich vor dir und allem Volke laut ausspreche:
Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth to be drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.
8 Die Propheten, die vor mir und vor dir von uralters her aufgetreten sind, die weissagten über mächtige Länder und über gewaltige Königreiche von Krieg und von Unheil und von Pest;
And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.
9 der Prophet jedoch, der von Heil weissagt, - durch das Eintreffen des Wortes des Propheten weist sich der Prophet aus, den Jahwe wirklich gesandt hat!
We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgement has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.
10 Da nahm der Prophet Hananja das Jochholz vom Halse des Propheten Jeremia und zerbrach es;
The Lord has brought forth his judgement: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.
11 dann sprach Hananja in Gegenwart des ganzen Volkes also: So spricht Jahwe: Ebenso will ich in noch zwei Jahren das Joch Nebukadnezars, des Königs von Babel, auf dem Hals aller Völker zerbrechen! Der Prophet Jeremia aber ging seines Wegs.
Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes: for his wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance of his people.
12 Es erging aber das Wort Jahwes an Jeremia, nachdem der Prophet Hananja das Jochholz auf dem Halse des Propheten Jeremia zerbrochen hatte, folgendermaßen:
Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons: for the Lord has taken [the work] in hand, and will execute what he has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,
13 Gehe hin und sprich zu Hananja also: So spricht Jahwe: Ein Joch von Holz hast du zerbrochen, aber ich will an seiner Stelle ein Joch von Eisen machen!
dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; your end is come verily into your bowels.
14 Denn so spricht Jahwe der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels: Ein Joch von Eisen lege ich auf den Hals aller dieser Völker, daß sie Nebukadnezar, dem Könige von Babel, dienstbar werden und ihm dienen, ja sogar die Tiere des Feldes übergebe ich ihm.
For the Lord has sworn by his arm, [saying, ]I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against you.
15 Da sprach der Prophet Jeremia zum Propheten Hananja: Höre einmal, Hananja! Jahwe hat dich nicht gesandt, und doch hast du dieses Volk verleitet, sich auf Lügen zu verlassen!
The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
16 Darum spricht Jahwe also: Fürwahr, ich will dich vom Erdboden hinwegschaffen; dieses Jahr noch sollst du sterben, denn du hast Auflehnung wider Jahwe gepredigt!
At [his] voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.
17 Und der Prophet Hananja starb in selbigem Jahre im siebenten Monate.
Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven [images]: for they have cast false [gods], there is no breath in them.
They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Not such is Jacob's portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
You scatter for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.
And by you I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by you I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.
And by you I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by you I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by you I will scatter leaders and the captains.
And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there] all their mischiefs that they have done to Sion before your eyes, says the Lord.
Behold, I am against you, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon you, and will roll you down upon the rocks, and will make you as a burnt mountain.
And they shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for you shall be a desolation for ever, says the Lord.
Lift up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet amongst the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me, and [that] for the people of Achanaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.
Bring up nations against her, [even] the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.
The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.
The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
One shall rush, running to meet [another] runner, and one [shall go] with tidings to meet [another] with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.
At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
For thus says the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.
He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood [shall be] upon the Chaldeans dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.
Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will judge your adversary, and I will execute vengeance for you; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
In their heat I will give them a draught, and make them drunk, that they may be stupified, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.
And bring you them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation amongst the nations!
The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered.
Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one [man] shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.
And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:
and in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall.
Go forth of the land, you that escape, and stay not; you that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, [even] into the house of the Lord.
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven [images]: and slain men shall fall in all her land.
For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall come they that shall destroy her, says the Lord.
A sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans:
for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to destruction.
For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.
The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, says the King, the Lord Almighty is his name.
Thus says the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; and the peoples shall not labour in vain, nor the nations fail in [their] rule.
THE WORD WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THE PROPHET JEREMIAS to say to Saraeas son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, when he went from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Saraeas was over the bounties.
And Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.
And Jeremias said to Saraeas, When you are come to Babylon, and shall see and read all these words;
then you shall say, O Lord God, you have spoken against this place, to destroy it, and that there should be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation for ever.
And it shall come to pass, when you shall cease from reading this book, that you shall bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;
and shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils which I bring upon it.
