Jeremia 23
1 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Mano kaka unune malit un jokwath maketho kendo keyo romba kar kwadhgi!”
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
2 Emomiyo ma e gima Jehova Nyasaye, Nyasach Israel, wachone jokwath makwayo joga: “Nikech usekeyo romba kendo uriembogi kendo ok useritogi, anakumu kuom timbe mamono musetimo,” Jehova Nyasaye owacho.
Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; All of you have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “An awuon anachok romba modongʼ e pinje duto kuonde maseriembogie anadwog-gi legegi kama gibiro nyaa kendo kwan-gi nomedre.
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 Anamigi jokwath manoritgi, kendo ok ginibed maluor kata ok ginibwogi, bende onge manolal,” Jehova Nyasaye owacho.
And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
5 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Kinde biro ma anami Daudi Bad Yath makare, Ruoth manobed gi loch mar rieko kendo tim gima kare kendo ratiro e piny.
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 E ndalone Juda noresi kendo Israel nodag gi kwe. Ma e nying ma ibiro luongego: Jehova Nyasaye mamiyo wabedo jo-ratiro.”
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Ndalo biro ma ji ok nowach kendo ni, ‘Akwongʼora gi nying Jehova Nyasaye mangima, manogolo jo-Israel Misri,’
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 to giniwachi, ‘Akwongʼora gi nying Jehova Nyasaye mangima, mane ogolo nyithind Israel e piny ma yo nyandwat kendo e pinje duto mane oseriembogie.’ Bangʼe gibiro dak e pinygi giwegi.”
But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
9 Kuom jonabi: Chunya maiye ool; chokega duto tetni. Achalo ngʼama omer, mana ka ngʼama divai osemero, nikech Jehova Nyasaye kod wechene maler.
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
10 Piny opongʼ gi joma terore; nikech kwongʼ, piny obaro okak kendo kuonde kwath otimo ongoro. Jonabi luwo bangʼ timbe mamono kendo gitiyo gi teko mag-gi e yo ma ok nikare.
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Jonabi kod jodolo ok oluoro Nyasaye; kata mana ei hekalu mara ayudoe timbegi maricho.”
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
12 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Emomiyo yoregi nobed mapoth poth; notergi e mudho kendo kanyo ginipodhie piny. Anakel masira kuomgi e higa mokumgie.
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
13 “Kuom jonabi mag Samaria ne aneno gino mawangʼo ich: Ne gikoro e nying Baal kendo ma gimiyo joga Israel obayo yo.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to go astray.
14 Kendo e kind jonabi mag Jerusalem aseneno gimoro malich mokadho: Giterore kendo gidak e ngima mar miriambo. Gijiwo joma timbegi mono, mondo omi kik ngʼato olokre owe timbene maricho. Giduto gichalo Sodom ne an; jo-Jerusalem chalo gi Gomora.”
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Emomiyo, ma e gima Jehova Nyasaye Maratego wacho kuom jonabi: “Anami gicham chiemo makech kendo modh pi motimo sum, nikech koa kuom jonabi mag Jerusalem kia Nyasaye oselandore e piny ngima.”
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
16 Ma e gima Jehova Nyasaye Maratego wacho: “Kik uchik itu ne gigo ma jonabi koronu; gipongʼo itu gi geno mag miriambo. Giwachonu fweny moa e pachgi giwegi, ok moa e dho Jehova Nyasaye.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 Gisiko giwachone jogo ma jara ni, ‘Jehova Nyasaye wacho: Unubed gi kwe.’ Kendo ne jogo maluwo timbe achach mag chunjegi wacho ni, ‘Onge gima biro hinyowa.’
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, All of you shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 To en ngʼa kuomgi mosechungoe kar ngʼado bura mar Jehova Nyasaye, mondo one kata owinji wachne?
For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Neuru, apaka mar Jehova Nyasaye nomwomre gi mirima, ka kalausi mafuyo e wiye joma timbegi richo.
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 Mirimb Jehova Nyasaye ok nodog chien nyaka one ni ochopo thoro mar chunye. E ndalo mabiro iniwinj tiende malongʼo.
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days all of you shall consider it perfectly.
21 Ne ok aoro jonabigi, kata kamano giseringo gi wechegi; ne ok awuoyo kodgi, to kata kamano gisekoro wach.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 To kane ginyalo chungoe kara mar ngʼado bura, dine gilando wechena ne joga kendo gilokore gia e yoregi mamono, kod timbegi mamono.”
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Ok an Nyasaye mantie machiegni kende, to an Nyasaye man mabor bende.”
Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God far off?
24 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Bende ngʼato nyalo pondo kuonde mopandore mondo omi kik anene? Donge apongʼo polo gi piny?”
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Asewinjo gima jonabi makoro e nyinga gi miriambo wacho. Giwacho ni, ‘Ne aleko! Ne aleko!’
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 Nyaka karangʼo ma gigi nosik e chunje jonabi mariambogi, makoro gigo moa e pachgi giwegi?
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Giparo ni lek ma ginyisore giwegi nomi ji wigi nowil gi nyinga, mana kaka wuonegi wigi nowil koda kaluwore gilamo mane gilamogo Baal.”
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “We janabi man-gi lek owach lekne, to we ngʼat man giwachna owache gadiera. Nimar en angʼo ma miudhwe nyalo timo gi cham?”
The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
29 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Donge wachna chalo gi mach kendo ka nyundo matoyo kidi matindo tindo?”
Is not my word like a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Emomiyo amon gi jonabi makwalo weche ma giwacho ni oa kuoma e kindgi giwegi.”
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Ee, ok ahero jonabi ma milo lewgi giwegi kagiwacho ni, ‘Jehova Nyasaye owacho.’”
Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.
32 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Adiera, ok ahero jogo makoro lek mag miriambo. Ginyisogi kendo giwito joga gi miriambo mag-gi maonge korgi gi atachgi, to ne ok aorogi kata yierogi. Ok gimi jogi ohala kata matin,” Jehova Nyasaye owacho.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to go astray by their lies, and by their levity; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
33 “Ka jogi, kata janabi kata jadolo, openji ni, ‘Wach mar Jehova Nyasaye en mane?’ To penjgi ni, ‘Wach mane? Anajwangʼu, Jehova Nyasaye owacho.’
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? you shall then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
34 Ka janabi kata jadolo kata ngʼato angʼata owacho ni, ‘Ma en wach mar Jehova Nyasaye,’ to anakum ngʼatno kod joode duto.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
35 Ma e gima ngʼato ka ngʼato kuomu siko wachone osiepne kata watne: ‘Dwoko Jehova Nyasaye en angʼo?’ kata, ‘En angʼo ma Jehova Nyasaye wacho?’
Thus shall all of you say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
36 To kik ichak iwach kendo ni, ‘wach mar Jehova Nyasaye,’ nikech wach ngʼato ka ngʼato owuon ema bedone wach maber bangʼe ijaro weche Nyasaye mangima, Jehova Nyasaye Maratego ma Nyasachwa.
And the burden of the LORD shall all of you mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for all of you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37 Ma e gima usebedo ka unyiso janabi: ‘Jehova Nyasaye miyi dwoko mane?’ kata, ‘Jehova Nyasaye osewacho angʼo?’
Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?
38 Kata obedo ni iwacho ni, ‘Ma e wach mar Jehova Nyasaye,’ to ma e gima Jehova Nyasaye wacho: Ne itiyo gi weche ka iwacho ni, ‘Ma e wach mar Jehova Nyasaye,’ kata obedoni ne awachonu ni kik uwach ni, ‘Ma e wach mar Jehova Nyasaye.’
But since all of you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the LORD; Because all of you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, All of you shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39 Emomiyo, adiera wiya nowil kodu kendo ma agolu oko e nyim wangʼa kaachiel gi dala maduongʼ mane amiyou kod wuoneu.
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
40 Anakelnu wichkuot manyaka chiengʼ ma en wichkuot ma wich ok nowilgo.”
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
