Jeremias 27
1 I den fyrste tidi som Sidkia Josiason, Juda-kongen, styrde, kom dette ordet til Jeremia frå Herren; han sagde:
THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
2 So sagde Herren med meg: Gjer deg band og ok, og hav det um halsen din!
Proclaim ye among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say ye, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
3 Send dei so til kongen i Edom og til kongen i Moab og til kongen yver Ammons-sønerne og til kongen i Tyrus og til kongen i Sidon med dei sendemennerne som kjem til Jerusalem til Sidkia, Juda-kongen.
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 Og bed deim segja med herrarne sine: So segjer Herren, allhers drott, Israels Gud: So skal de segja med herrarne dykkar:
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 Eg hev gjort jordi, menneskja og dyri på jordi med mi store magt og min strake arm, og eg gjev dette til den eg tykkjer er den rette.
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 Og no hev eg gjeve alle desse landi i henderne på Nebukadnessar, Babel-kongen, tenaren min; jamvel dyri på marki hev eg gjeve honom, so dei kann tena honom.
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 Og alle folki skal tena honom og sonen hans og sonesonen hans, til dess tidi for hans land og er komi; då skal velduge folk og store kongar gjera honom til træl.
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 Og det folket og det riket som ikkje vil tena honom, Nebukadnessar, Babel-kongen, og som ikkje vil bøygja halsen sin under Babel-kongens ok, det folket vil eg heimsøkja med sverd og svolt og sott, segjer Herren, til eg hev gjort ende på deim ved hans hand.
Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
9 Og de no - lyd ikkje på profetarne dykkar og spåmennerne dykkar og på draumarne dykkar og på runekallarne og tauvrekallarne dykkar, som segjer med dykk: «De kjem ikkje til å tena Babel-kongen!»
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 For lygn er det dei spår åt dykk, for at eg skal føra dykk langt burt frå landet dykkar og driva dykk burt, so de vert tynte.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11 Men det folket som bøygjer halsen sin under Babel-kongens ok og tener honom, det vil eg lata vera i fred i landet sitt, segjer Herren, so dei kann dyrka det og bu i det.
Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
12 Og til Sidkia, Juda-kongen, tala eg alle desse ordi og sagde: Bøyg halsen dykkar under Babel-kongens ok, og ten honom og folket hans! då skal de få liva.
Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
13 Kvi vil de døy, du og folket ditt, for sverd, av svolt og i sott, so som Herren hev tala um det folket som ikkje vil tena Babel-kongen?
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 Lyd ikkje på ordi åt dei profetarne som segjer med dykk: «De kjem ikkje til å tena Babel-kongen!» For lygn er det dei spår åt dykk.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
15 For eg hev ikkje sendt deim, segjer Herren, men dei spår lygn i mitt namn, for at eg skal driva dykk burt, so de vert tynte, de og dei profetarne som spår åt dykk.
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 Og til prestarne og heile dette folket tala eg og sagde: So segjer Herren: Lyd ikkje på ordi åt profetarne dykkar når dei spår åt dykk og segjer: «Sjå, kjeraldi or Herrens hus vert no snart flutte heim att frå Babel!» for lygn er det dei spår åt dykk.
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 Lyd ikkje på deim, men ten Babel-kongen! So skal de få liva. Kvi skal denne byen verta til ei audn?
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 Men um dei er profetar og hev Herrens ord, so kann dei beda Herren, allhers drott, at ikkje dei kjeraldi som er att i Herrens hus og i Juda-kongens hus og i Jerusalem, vert førde til Babel.
Therefore thus saith 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 For so segjer Herren, allhers drott, um sulorne og um havet og understelli og alle hine ting som endå er att i denne byen,
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 som Nebukadnessar, Babel-kongen, ikkje tok då han førde Jekonja Jojakimsson, Juda-kongen, i utlægd frå Jerusalem til Babel i lag med alt storfolket i Juda og Jerusalem -
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 ja, so segjer Herren, allhers drott, Israels Gud, um dei kjeraldi som er att i Herrens hus og i Juda-kongens hus og i Jerusalem:
on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.
22 Til Babel skal dei verta flutte, og der skal dei vera alt til den dagen eg ser etter deim, segjer Herren, og fører deim upp og attende til denne staden.
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 among the nations!
They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou didst 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 ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
Dry ye 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, saith the Lord.
Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the Lord: for thy day is come, and the time of thy retribution.
And thy 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 saith 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 judgment 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, saith 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 thee, 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 ye 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 among the nations.
