Yeremia 52
1 Sedekia alikuwa na umri wa miaka ishirini na mmoja alipoanza kutawala; akatawala miaka kumi na mmoja huko Yerusalemu. Jina la mamaye lilikuwa Hamutali; alikuwa binti Yeremia wa Libna.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Akafanya maovu machoni pa Yahwe; akafanya kila alichokifanya Yehoyakimu.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 Kwa hasira ya Yahwe, matukio haya yote yalitukia Yerusalemu na Yuda, hata alipowatoa mbele yake mwenyewe. Kisha Sedekia akaasi dhidi ya mfalme wa Babeli.
For through the anger of the LORD did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence: and Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 Ikawa katika mwaka wa tisa wa utawala wa mfalme Sedeki, katika mwezi wa kumi, na siku ya kumi ya mwezi huo, Nebukadneza, mfalme wa Babeli, alikuja na jeshi lake lote dhidi ya Yerusalem. Wakapiga kambi kuukabili, nao wakajenga ukuta wa kuusuria kuuzunguka.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
5 Hivyo mji ukausuriwa mpaka mwaka wa kumi na moja wa utawala wa mfalme Sedekia.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 Katika mwezi wa nne, siku ya tisa ya mwaka huo, njaa ikawa kali sana mjini hata hakukuwa na chakula kwa watu wa nchi.
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 Kisha mji ukatobolewa, na wapiganaji wote wakakimbia nje ya mji wakati wa usiku kwa njia ya lango lililokuwa kati ya kuta mbili, kwa bustani ya mfalme, japokuwa Wakaldayo walikuwa wameuzunguka mji. Hivyo wakaenda kwa njia ya Araba.
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about: ) and they went by the way of the Arabah.
8 Lakini jeshi la Wakaldayo likamfuatia mfalme na kumpata Sedekia katika tambarare za bonde la Mto Yordani karibu na Yeriko. Jeshi lote lilikuwa limetawanyika mbali naye.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9 Wakamkamata mfalme na kumleta hadi kwa mfalme wa Babeli huko Ribla katika nchi ya Hamathi, alipotoa hukumu juu yake.
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
10 Mfalme wa Babeli akawachinja wana wa Sedekia mbele ya macho yake, na huko Ribla akawachinja viongozi wote wa Yuda.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 Kisha akayaondoa macho ya Sedekia, akamfunga katika vifungo vya shaba, na kumleta Babeli. Mfalme wa Babeli akamweka kifungoni hata siku ya kufa kwake.
And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12 Basi mwezi wa tano, siku ya kumi ya mwezi, ambao ulikuwa mwaka wa kumi na tisa wa utawala wa mfalme Nebukadneza, mfalme wa Babeli, Nebuzaradani akaja Yerusalemu. Alikuwa jemedari wa walinzi wa mfalme na mtumishi wa mfalme wa Babeli.
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, which stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
13 Akaiteketeza nyumba ya Yahwe, kasiri, na nyumba zote za Yerusalemu; pia kila jengo mhimu mjini alilichoma.
and he burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
14 Kama kwa kuta za kuuzunguka Yerusalemu, jeshi lote la Wababeli lililokuwa pamoja na jemedari wa mlinzi wakaviaribu.
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15 Kama kwa watu maskini sana, watu waliosalia walioachwa katika mji, waliokuwa wamemwendea mfalme wa Babeli, na baadhi ya watu wenye ujuzi - Nebuzaradan, jemedari wa askari walinzi, akawachukua baadhi yao uhamishoni.
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest sort of the people, and the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
16 Lakini Nebuzaradani, jemedari wa mlinzi, akawaacha baadhi ya maskini sana wa nchi kuitunza mizabibu na mashamba.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
17 Lakini kwa nguzo za shaba lilizokuwa katika nyumba ya Yahwe, mishikio na bahari ya shaba iliyokuwa katika nyumba ya Yahwe, Wakaldayo wakaivunja vipande wakaondoka navyo kurudi Babeli.
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases and the brasen sea that were in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18 Vyungu, makoleo, kinara cha taa, mabakuri, na vitu vyote vya shaba ambavyo makuhani walikuwa wakivitumia hekaluni - Wakaldayo wakavichukua vyote.
The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
19 Makalai na chetezo cha uvumba, mabakuri, vyungu, kinara cha taa, vikaango, makalai zilizotengenezwa kwa dhahabu, na zilizotengenezwa kwa dhahabu - kapteni wa mlinzi wa mfalme akazichukua pia.
And the cups, and the firepans, and the basons, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
20 Nguzo mbili, bahari, na ng'ombe kumi na wawili wa shaba waliokuwa chini yake, vitu Selemani alivyokuwa amevifanya kwa ajili ya nyumba ya Yahwe, vikiwa na shaba nyingi sana isiyoweza kupimwa.
The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21 Nguzo zilikuwa na urefu wa dhiraha kumi na nane kila moja, na mstari kuzunguka kila moja wenye urefu wa dhiraha kumi na mbili. Kila moja ilikuwa na unene wa vidole vinne na tundu.
And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
22 Kichwa cha shaba kilikuwa juu yake. Kichwa kilikuwa dhiraha tano urefu wake, kazi ya waya zinazokingamana na makomamanga kukizunguka. Chote kilitengenezwa kwa shaba. Na nguzo nyingine ilikuwa na makomamanga yake vilikuwa kama ya kwanza.
And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like unto these, and pomegranates.
23 Hivyo kulikuwa na makomamanga tisini na sita ubavuni mwa kila kichwa, na makomamanga mia moja juu ya nyaya zilizokingamana kukizunguka.
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were an hundred upon the network round about.
24 Jemedari wa mlinzi akamchukua Seraya mfungwa, kuhani mkuu, pamoja na Sefania, kuhani wa pili, na wale mabawaba watatu.
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25 Kutoka mjini akamchukua mfungwa afsa aliyekuwa juu ya askari, na watu saba wa wale waliomshauri mfalme, waliokuwa wamesalia mjini. Akamchukua mfungwa afsa wa jeshi la mfalme aliyekuwa na wajibu wa kuwaingiza watu katika jeshi, pamoja na watu mashuhuri sitini kutoka katika nchi waliokuwamo mjini.
and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king’s face, which were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
26 Kisha Nebuzaradani, jemedari wa mlinzi, akawachukuwa na kuwaleta kwa mfalme wa Babeli huko Ribla.
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 Mfalme wa Babeli akawaua huko Ribla katika nchi ya Hamathi. Kwa njia hii, Yuda akaondoka katika nchi yake na kwenda uhamishoni.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
28 Hawa walikuwa watu Nebukadneza aliwaamisha: katika mwaka wa saba, Wayudea 3, 023.
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29 Katika mwaka wa kumi na nane wa Nebukadneza alichukuwa 832 kutoka Yerusalemu.
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
30 Katika mwaka wa ishirini na tatu wa Nebukadneza, Nebuzaradani, jemedari wa walinzi wa mfalme, aliwahamisha Wayudea 745. Jumla ya watu walioamishwa walikuwa 4, 600.
in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
31 Ikawa baadaye katika mwaka wa thelathini na saba wa kufungwa kwake Yohoyakini, mfalme wa Yuda, katika mwezi wa kumi na mbili, siku ya ishirini na tano ya mwezi, Evili Merodaki, mfalme wa Babeli akamfungua Yehoyakini mfalme wa Yuda kutoka kifungoni. Ilikuwa mwaka ambao Evili Merodaki alianza kutawala.
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
32 Akaongea naye kwa upole na akampa kiti cha heshima kuliko cha wafalme wengine aliokuwa pamoja nao huko Babeli.
and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
33 Evili Merodaki akaondoa mavazi ya gerezani ya Yehoyakini, na Yehoyakini akala chakula cha daima katika meza ya mfalme siku zote zilizosalia za maisha yake.
and he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life.
34 Na alipewa posho ya chakula cha kila siku kwa maisha yake yote yaliyosalia mpaka siku ya kufa kwake.
and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
