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Digniintii Sidqiyaah

34 Kanu waa eraygii Yeremyaah xagga Rabbiga uga yimid waagii Nebukadnesar oo ahaa boqorkii Baabuloon, iyo ciidankiisii oo dhan, iyo boqortooyooyinkii dunida oo taliskiisa ku jiray oo dhan, iyo dadkii oo dhammuba ay la dirirayeen Yeruusaalem iyo magaalooyinkeedii oo dhan, oo wuxuu ku yidhi, Rabbiga ah Ilaaha reer binu Israa'iil wuxuu leeyahay, Tag oo Sidqiyaah oo ah boqorka dalka Yahuudah la hadal, oo waxaad ku tidhaahdaa, Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Bal ogow, magaaladan waxaan ku ridi doonaa gacanta boqorka Baabuloon, oo isna dab buu ku gubi doonaa. Oo adiguna gacantiisa kama aad baxsan doontid, laakiinse hubaal waa lagu qabsan doonaa, oo gacantiisaa lagugu ridi doonaa, oo indhahaaguna waxay fiirin doonaan indhaha boqorka Baabuloon, oo isna afkiisuu kula hadli doonaa, oo Baabuloon baad tegi doontaa. Sidqiyaah boqorka dalka Yahuudahow, Weliba bal maqal erayga Rabbiga. Rabbigu wuxuu kaa leeyahay, Seef kuma dhiman doontid, nabad baadse ku dhiman doontaa, oo wax baa laguu shidi doonaa sidii wax loogu shidi jiray awowayaashaa oo ahaa boqorradii kaa sii horreeyey, wayna kuu barooran doonaan, iyagoo leh, Hoogaye, sayidkaygiiyow, waayo, Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Eraygaas anigaa ku hadlay. Markaas Nebi Yeremyaah wuxuu erayadaas oo dhan Yeruusaalem kagala hadlay Sidqiyaah oo ahaa boqorkii dalka Yahuudah, markii boqorkii Baabuloon ciidankiisii uu la dirirayay Yeruusaalem, iyo magaalooyinkii dalka Yahuudah oo hadhay oo dhan, iyo xataa Laakiish iyo Caseeqaah, waayo, magaalooyinkaas deyrka lahaa ayaa ka hadhay magaalooyinkii dalka Yahuudah oo dhan.

Xorayntii Addoommada

Kanu waa eraygii Yeremyaah xagga Rabbiga uga yimid markii Boqor Sidqiyaah uu dadkii Yeruusaalem degganaa oo dhan axdi la dhigtay dabadeed. Axdigaasuna waa in xorriyad loogu dhawaaqo, in nin kastaaba xoreeyo addoonkiisii Cibraaniga ah ama addoontiisii Cibraaniyadda ah, iyo inuusan ninna addoonsan walaalkiisa Yuhuudi ah. 10 Haddaba amiirradii iyo dadkii axdiga galay oo dhammu markay maqleen inay nin kasta waajib ku tahay inuu xoreeyo addoonkiisa iyo addoontiisaba, iyo inaan ninna iyaga mar dambe addoonsan ayay amarkaas addeeceen oo way sii wada daayeen iyagii. 11 Laakiinse markaas dabadeed ayay ku noqdeen, oo waxay soo ceshadeen addoommadii ay mar hore sii daayeen, oo iyagay u gumaysteen inay addoommo u sii ahaadaan. 12 Sidaas daraaddeed eraygii Rabbigu wuxuu xagga Rabbiga uga yimid Yeremyaah isagoo leh, 13 Rabbiga ah Ilaaha reer binu Israa'iil wuxuu leeyahay, Anigu axdi baan awowayaashiin la dhigtay maalintii aan iyaga dalkii Masar iyo gurigii addoonsiga ka soo bixiyey, oo waxaan ku idhi, 14 Markay toddoba sannadood dhammaystaan midkiin kastaaba ha sii daayo walaalkiisa Cibraaniga ah oo is-iibiyey, oo markuu kuu adeego lix sannadood waa inaad isaga sii daysaa isagoo xor kaa ah. Laakiinse awowayaashiin ima ay maqlin, oo dhegna iima ay dhigin. 15 Idinkuse haatan waad soo noqoteen, oo wax qumman ayaad hortayda ku samayseen markii ninkiin kastaaba uu deriskiisa xorriyad ugu dhawaaqay, oo axdi baad hortayda ku gasheen idinkoo gurigii laygu magacaabay jooga. 16 Laakiinse intaad iga noqoteen ayaad magacaygii nijaasayseen, oo ninkiin kastaaba wuxuu soo ceshaday addoonkiisii iyo addoontiisii uu ikhtiyaarkooda ku xoreeyey, oo waxaad ku soo celiseen gumaysi inay addoommo idiin sii ahaadaan. 17 Sidaas daraaddeed Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Idinku ima aydaan maqlin, in nin kastaa xorriyad ugu dhawaaqo walaalkiis iyo deriskiisa. Bal ogaada, Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Waxaan idinku dhawaaqayaa xorriyad, taasoo ah in seef, iyo belaayo, iyo abaaru ay idin baabbi'iyaan, oo waxaan idinka dhigi doonaa inaad boqortooyooyinkii dunida oo dhan hore iyo dib ku dhex rogrogmataan. 18 Oo nimankii axdigayga ku xadgudbay, oo aan oofin erayadii axdiga ee ay hortayda ku galeen markay weysha laba u kala gooyeen oo ay qaybaheedii kala dhex mareen, 19 kuwaasoo ah amiirradii dalka Yahuudah, iyo amiirradii Yeruusaalem, iyo bohommadii, iyo wadaaddadii, iyo dadkii dalka oo qaybihii weysha kala dhex maray oo dhan, 20 waxaan kulligood ku wada ridi doonaa gacanta cadaawayaashooda, iyo gacanta kuwa naftooda doondoonaya, oo meydkooduna wuxuu cunto u noqon doonaa haadka samada iyo dugaagga dhulka. 21 Oo Sidqiyaah oo ah boqorka dalka Yahuudah, iyo amiirradiisaba waxaan ku ridi doonaa gacanta cadaawayaashooda, iyo gacanta kuwa naftooda doondoonaya, iyo gacanta ciidanka boqorka Baabuloon oo haatan idinka noqday. 22 Rabbigu wuxuu leeyahay, Bal ogaada, anigu waan amri doonaa oo waxaan ka yeeli doonaa inay magaaladan ku soo noqdaan, wayna la diriri doonaan, oo qabsan doonaan, oo dab bay ku gubi doonaan, oo waxaan magaalooyinka dalka Yahuudah ka dhigi doonaa cidla' aan ciduna degganayn.

Warning to Zedekiah

34 While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples(A) in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem(B) and all its surrounding towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah(C) king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.(D) You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands.(E) You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.

“‘Yet hear the Lord’s promise to you, Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the Lord says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;(F) you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire(G) in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas,(H) master!” I myself make this promise, declares the Lord.’”

Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem, while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out—Lachish(I) and Azekah.(J) These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.

Freedom for Slaves

The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people(K) in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom(L) for the slaves. Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.(M) 10 So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free. 11 But afterward they changed their minds(N) and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.

12 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 13 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors(O) when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.(P) I said, 14 ‘Every seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you six years, you must let them go free.’[a](Q) Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay attention(R) to me. 15 Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people.(S) You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.(T) 16 But now you have turned around(U) and profaned(V) my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you,(W) declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague(X) and famine.(Y) I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.(Z) 18 Those who have violated my covenant(AA) and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.(AB) 19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials,(AC) the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf, 20 I will deliver(AD) into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them.(AE) Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.(AF)

21 “I will deliver Zedekiah(AG) king of Judah and his officials(AH) into the hands of their enemies(AI) who want to kill them, to the army of the king of Babylon,(AJ) which has withdrawn(AK) from you. 22 I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take(AL) it and burn(AM) it down. And I will lay waste(AN) the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 34:14 Deut. 15:12

34 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord.

Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

12 Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

13 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

22 Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.