Jeremia 27
1 Im Anfang der Regierung Jehojakims, des Sohnes Joschijahus, König von Jehudah, geschah dies Wort an Jirmejahu von Jehovah, sprechend:
THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
2 So spricht Jehovah zu mir: Mache dir Bande und Jochhölzer und gib sie auf deinen Hals.
Proclaim you amongst the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
3 Und sende sie an den König Edoms und an den König Moabs und an den König der Söhne Ammons und an den König Zors und an den König Zidons durch die Hand der Boten, die gen Jerusalem zu Zidkijahu, Jehudahs König, kamen.
For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
4 Und gebiete ihnen an ihre Herren, zu sagen: So spricht Jehovah der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels: So sollt ihr euren Herren sagen:
In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
5 Ich habe gemacht die Erde und den Menschen und das Vieh, die auf den Angesichten der Erde sind, durch Meine große Kraft und Meinen ausgestreckten Arm, und gebe sie, wem es recht in Meinen Augen ist.
They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
6 Und nun habe Ich alle diese Länder in die Hand Nebuchadnezzars, des Königs von Babel, Meines Knechtes, gegeben; und auch das wilde Tier des Feldes habe Ich ihm gegeben, daß sie ihm dienen.
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
7 Und alle Völkerschaften sollen dienen ihm und seinem Sohn, und seines Sohnes Sohn, bis auch seines Landes Zeit kommt, und viele Völkerschaften und große Könige es dienstbar machen.
All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
8 Und soll geschehen, daß die Völkerschaft und das Königreich, das ihm, Nebuchadnezzar, Babels König, nicht dienen und seinen Hals nicht in das Joch des Königs von Babel geben will, Ich solche Völkerschaft mit Schwert und mit Hunger und mit Pest heimsuche, spricht Jehovah, bis daß Ich es durch seine Hand umkommen lasse.
Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
9 Und ihr sollt nicht hören auf eure Propheten und auf eure Wahrsager und auf eure Träume und auf eure Wolkendeuter und auf eure Zauberer, die zu euch sprechen und sagen: Ihr sollt Babels König nicht dienen!
For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
10 Denn Lüge weissagen sie euch, von eurem Boden euch zu entfernen, und daß Ich euch verstoße und ihr vergeht.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11 Aber die Völkerschaft, die ihren Hals hineingibt in das Joch von Babels König und ihm dient, das lasse Ich auf seinem Boden, spricht Jehovah, daß es ihn baue und darauf wohne.
Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
12 Und zu Zidkijah, Jehudahs König, habe ich geredet, nach allen diesen Worten und gesagt: Bringt euren Hals hinein in das Joch von Babels König, und dient ihm und seinem Volk, auf daß ihr lebt!
Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
13 Warum doch wollt ihr sterben, du und dein Volk durch das Schwert, durch Hunger und durch Pest, wie Jehovah geredet hat über die Völkerschaft, die Babels König nicht dienen will.
by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
14 Und hört nicht auf die Worte der Propheten, die zu euch sprechen und sagen: Dient Babels König nicht; denn Lüge weissagen sie euch.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
15 Denn Ich habe sie nicht gesendet, spricht Jehovah, und Lügen weissagen sie in Meinem Namen; auf daß Ich euch verstoße und ihr vergeht, ihr und die Propheten, die euch weissagten.
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
16 Und zu den Priestern und zu all diesem Volk redete ich und sprach: So spricht Jehovah, hört nicht auf die Worte eurer Propheten, die euch weissagen und sprechen: Siehe, die Gefäße von Jehovahs Haus werden jetzt in Eile von Babel zurückgebracht; denn Lüge weissagen sie euch.
Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
17 Hört nicht auf sie, dient dem König Babels, auf daß ihr lebet. Warum soll diese Stadt zur Öde werden?
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
18 Und wenn sie Propheten sind und Jehovahs Wort bei ihnen ist, so laßt sie doch bei Jehovah der Heerscharen vermitteln, daß die Gefäße, die noch übrig sind im Haus Jehovahs und im Haus des Königs von Jehudah und in Jerusalem, nicht auch nach Babel kommen!
Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
19 Denn also spricht Jehovah der Heerscharen von den Säulen und von dem Meer und von den Gestellen und von den übrigen Gefäßen, die noch übriggeblieben sind in dieser Stadt,
And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
20 Die Nebuchadnezzar, Babels König, nicht von Jerusalem nach Babel genommen hat, da er Jechonjah, Jehojakims Sohn, Jehudahs König mit allen Vornehmen Jehudahs und Jerusalems nach Babel wegführte.
In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
21 Denn so spricht Jehovah der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels, über die Gefäße, die im Haus Jehovahs und im Haus des Königs von Jehudah und in Jerusalem übriggeblieben sind:
on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
22 Nach Babel sollen sie gebracht werden und allda sein bis zu dem Tag, da Ich sie heimsuche, spricht Jehovah, und Ich sie heraufbringe und an diesen Ort zurückbringe.
A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation amongst the nations!
They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.
And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgement with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
[the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard amongst the nations.
