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Ang Silot para sa Katawhan sang Juda

15 Nagsiling ang Ginoo sa akon, “Bisan si Moises kag si Samuel pa ang magpakitluoy sa akon para sa sini nga mga tawo, indi ko gid sila pagkaluoyan. Gani ipalayo sila sa akon presensya. Pahalina sila! Kon magpamangkot sila kon sa diin sila pakadto, silinga sila nga amo ini ang akon ginasiling: Ang natalana nga mapatay, mapatay gid. Ang iban natalana nga mapatay sa inaway, kag ang iban sa gutom. Ang iban natalana nga bihagon. Ako, ang Ginoo, nagasiling nga padal-an ko sila sang apat ka klase sang manuglaglag: Pamatyon sila sa inaway, tabanon sang mga ido ang ila mga bangkay, kag ubuson sila kaon sang mga pispis, kag sang talunon nga mga sapat. Himuon ko sila nga makangilil-ad sa tanan nga ginharian sa kalibutan tungod sa ginhimo ni Manase (nga anak ni Hezekia) sa Jerusalem, sang siya ang hari sa Juda.

Kamo nga katawhan sang Jerusalem, sin-o ayhan ang maluoy sa inyo? Sin-o ayhan ang magpangasubo para sa inyo? Kag sin-o ayhan ang magpamangkot kon ano na ang inyo kahimtangan? Ginsikway ninyo ako; permi kamo nagatalikod sa akon. Gani ako, ang Ginoo, nagasiling nga iuntay ko ang akon mga kamot sa paglaglag sa inyo. Natak-an na ako sa pagkaluoy sa inyo. Silutan ko kamo nga daw sa mga upa nga ginpahanginan sa mga puwertahan sang siyudad. Laglagon ko kamo kag ang inyo mga kabataan, tungod kay wala kamo magbiya sa inyo malaot nga pagginawi. Padamuon ko ang inyo mga balo nga babayi, nga daw mas madamo pa sang sa balas sa baybayon. Sa udtong-adlaw padal-an ko sang manuglaglag ang mga iloy sang inyo mga kabataan nga lalaki. Sa hinali magaabot sa ila ang kasubo kag kahadlok. Malipong kag haluson na makaginhawa ang iloy nga mapatyan sang pito ka anak nga lalaki. Ang iya mga anak pareho sang adlaw nga nagsalop sang temprano pa. Mahuy-an gid siya kay mawad-an siya sang mga anak. Kag ang mabilin nga buhi ipapatay ko pa sa ila mga kaaway. Ako, ang Ginoo, ang nagasiling sini.”

Nagreklamo si Jeremias

10 Kaluluoy gid sa akon! Kuntani wala na lang ako gintawo sang akon iloy. Ginakontra ako bisan diin sa bug-os nga Juda. Wala ako sing may gin-utangan ukon ginpautang, pero ginapakamalaot ako sang tanan. 11 Nagsiling ang Ginoo sa akon, “Sa pagkamatuod, mangin maayo ang tanan para sa imo. Magapangabay ang imo mga kaaway nga pangamuyuan mo sila sa tion sang kalisdanan kag kalalat-an.

12 Subong nga wala sing may makabali sang kabilya nga salsalon ukon saway, wala man sing may makapierdi sang mga kaaway nga halin sa aminhan. 13 Ipaagaw ko sa mga kaaway ang inyo mga manggad kag mga pagkabutang tungod sa tanan ninyo nga sala nga nahimo sa bug-os nga nasyon. 14 Ipaulipon ko kamo sa inyo mga kaaway sa lugar nga wala ninyo mahibalui, kag ipaagom ko sa inyo ang akon kaakig nga pareho sang nagadabadaba nga kalayo.”

15 Nagsiling si Jeremias, “O Ginoo, nahibaluan mo ang tanan! Dumduma kag buligi ako. Timalusi ang mga nagahingabot sa akon. Nakahibalo ako nga indi ka dali maakig, gani indi pagkuhaa ang akon kabuhi. Dumduma kon paano ako nag-antos sa kahuy-anan tungod sa imo. 16 Sang naghambal ka sa akon, ginpamatian ko ikaw. Ang imo mga pulong amo ang akon kalipay, kay imo ako, O Ginoong Dios nga Makagagahom. 17 Wala ako mag-upod sa iban sa pagpangalipay kag pagkinasadya. Nag-isahanon lang ako tungod nga nagpakighambal ka sa akon, kag ginsugiran mo ako sang imo kaakig. 18 Ngaa bala nga wala sing katapusan ang akon kasakit? Ngaa bala nga indi na mag-ayo ang akon pilas? Indi na bala ini mabulong? Paslawon mo bala ako pareho sang sapa nga nagamala kon tingadlaw?”

19 Gani nagsiling ang Ginoo sa akon, “Kon maghinulsol ka, pabalikon ko ikaw sa akon agod padayon ka nga makaalagad sa akon. Kon maghambal ka sang mapuslanon nga mga butang kag indi mga butang nga wala sing pulos, mangin manughambal ko ikaw. Kinahanglan nga sila ang magdangop sa imo, kag indi ikaw ang magdangop sa ila. 20 Himuon ko ikaw nga pareho sang mapag-on nga pader nga saway sa sini nga mga tawo. Magapakig-away sila sa imo, pero indi sila makadaog sa imo, kay kaupod mo ako, kag protektaran kag luwason ko ikaw. 21 Luwason ko gid ikaw sa mga kamot sang malaot kag mapintas nga mga tawo.”

15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses(A) and Samuel(B) were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people.(C) Send them away from my presence!(D) Let them go! And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘Those destined for death, to death;
those for the sword, to the sword;(E)
those for starvation, to starvation;(F)
those for captivity, to captivity.’(G)

“I will send four kinds of destroyers(H) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword(I) to kill and the dogs(J) to drag away and the birds(K) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.(L) I will make them abhorrent(M) to all the kingdoms of the earth(N) because of what Manasseh(O) son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

“Who will have pity(P) on you, Jerusalem?
    Who will mourn for you?
    Who will stop to ask how you are?
You have rejected(Q) me,” declares the Lord.
    “You keep on backsliding.
So I will reach out(R) and destroy you;
    I am tired of holding back.(S)
I will winnow(T) them with a winnowing fork
    at the city gates of the land.
I will bring bereavement(U) and destruction on my people,(V)
    for they have not changed their ways.(W)
I will make their widows(X) more numerous
    than the sand of the sea.
At midday I will bring a destroyer(Y)
    against the mothers of their young men;
suddenly I will bring down on them
    anguish and terror.(Z)
The mother of seven will grow faint(AA)
    and breathe her last.(AB)
Her sun will set while it is still day;
    she will be disgraced(AC) and humiliated.
I will put the survivors to the sword(AD)
    before their enemies,”(AE)
declares the Lord.

10 Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,(AF)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!(AG)
I have neither lent(AH) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses(AI) me.

11 The Lord said,

“Surely I will deliver you(AJ) for a good purpose;
    surely I will make your enemies plead(AK) with you
    in times of disaster and times of distress.

12 “Can a man break iron—
    iron from the north(AL)—or bronze?

13 “Your wealth(AM) and your treasures
    I will give as plunder,(AN) without charge,(AO)
because of all your sins
    throughout your country.(AP)
14 I will enslave you to your enemies
    in[a] a land you do not know,(AQ)
for my anger will kindle a fire(AR)
    that will burn against you.”

15 Lord, you understand;
    remember me and care for me.
    Avenge me on my persecutors.(AS)
You are long-suffering(AT)—do not take me away;
    think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.(AU)
16 When your words came, I ate(AV) them;
    they were my joy and my heart’s delight,(AW)
for I bear your name,(AX)
    Lord God Almighty.
17 I never sat(AY) in the company of revelers,
    never made merry with them;
I sat alone because your hand(AZ) was on me
    and you had filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?(BA)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.(BB)

19 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“If you repent, I will restore you
    that you may serve(BC) me;
if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,
    you will be my spokesman.(BD)
Let this people turn to you,
    but you must not turn to them.
20 I will make you a wall(BE) to this people,
    a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you
    but will not overcome(BF) you,
for I am with you
    to rescue and save you,”(BG)
declares the Lord.
21 “I will save(BH) you from the hands of the wicked(BI)
    and deliver(BJ) you from the grasp of the cruel.”(BK)

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts I will cause your enemies to bring you / into

15 Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.

10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

15 O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.