| 1 | Kuulkaa, mitä Herra sanoo! Tämän hän sanoo sinulle, Juudan kuningas, joka istut Daavidin valtaistuimella, sinun palvelijoillesi ja kansallesi -- teille kaikille, jotka kuljette näistä porteista: | This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word, |
| 2 | Tehkää, mitä oikeus ja vanhurskaus vaativat! Pelastakaa riistetty riistäjän käsistä. Älkää sortako muukalaisia, orpoja ja leskiä, älkää tehkö vääryyttä kenellekään. Älkää vuodattako tässä maassa viattomien ihmisten verta. | And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors. |
| 3 | Jos te tottelette minua, niin vastaisuudessakin tämän palatsin porteista kulkee Daavidin valtaistuimella istuvia kuninkaita. He tulevat hoviväkensä kanssa, vaunuilla ja hevosilla ajaen, ja myös heidän kansansa tulee tänne. | This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place. |
| 4 | Mutta jos te ette kuuntele, mitä minä teille sanon, tästä palatsista tulee rauniokasa -- sen minä vannon oman nimeni kautta, sanoo Herra! | For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people |
| 5 | -- Näin sanoo Herra Juudan kuningashuoneelle: Sinä olet ollut uljas kuin Gilead, kuin Libanonin vuorten huiput. Mutta totisesti minä teen sinut autiomaaksi, asumattomien kaupunkien kaltaiseksi. | But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste. |
| 6 mapa | Minä määrään tuhoojat sinun kimppuusi. He tulevat kirveineen, kaatavat komeat setrisi ja heittävät ne tuleen. | For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled. |
| 7 | Heille vastataan: 'Sen asukkaat hylkäsivät Herran, Jumalansa, liiton. He rukoilivat ja palvelivat muita jumalia.' | And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire. |
| 8 | -- Voi sinua, joka rakennat talosi vääryydellä, yläsalisi ilman oikeutta, joka panet miehet työhön mutta et maksa heille palkkaa! | And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town? |
| 9 | Siinäkö sinä näytät kuninkuutesi, että sinulla on komeat setrilaudat? Kyllähän isäsikin söi ja joi kyllikseen, mutta silti hän huolehti siitä, että maassa vallitsi oikeus ja vanhurskaus. Siksi hänen kävi hyvin. | And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods. |
| 10 | Hän puolusti kurjan ja köyhän oikeutta, ja siksi kaikki oli silloin hyvin. Joka näin tekee, hän tuntee minut, sanoo Herra. | Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth. |
| 11 | Mutta sinun silmäsi ja sydämesi eivät tavoittele muuta kuin omaa voittoasi, viattomien veren vuodatusta, sortoa ja väkivaltaa! | For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again: |
| 12 | Hänet kuopataan kuin aasi, hänen ruumiinsa raahataan pois ja paiskataan Jerusalemin porteista ulos. | But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again. |
| 13 | -- Nouse, Jerusalem, Libanonin vuorille, huuda ja valita! Anna äänesi kaikua Basanissa, huuda Abarimin vuorilta, sillä kaikki sinun rakastajasi on murskattu! | A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; |
| 14 | Myrsky nousee ja vie paimenesi, rakastajasi kulkevat vankeuteen. Sinä saat häpeän ja pilkan palkaksi pahuudestasi. | Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. |
| 15 | Sinun asuinpaikkasi on nyt kuin Libanon, olet rakentanut pesäsi setripuihin. Mutta kuinka voihkitkaan, kun sinulle tulevat kivut kuin synnyttäjälle tuskat! | Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? |
| 16 | Minä annan sinut niiden käsiin, jotka tavoittelevat henkeäsi ja joita sinä pelkäät: Babylonian kuninkaan Nebukadnessarin ja kaldealaisten käsiin. | He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord. |
| 17 | Vieraaseen maahan minä heitän sinut ja äitisi, joka sinut synnytti. Siellä te ette ole syntyneet, mutta sinne te kuolette. | But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts. |
| 18 | Onko tämä mies, Konja, todellakin kelvoton, rikkinäinen saviruukku, astia, joka ei kenellekään kelpaa? Miksi hänet ja hänen jälkeläisensä heitetään pois, viskataan maahan, jota he eivät tunne? | So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! |
| 19 mapa | -- Maa, maa, maa! Kuule, mitä Herra sanoo! | They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem. |
| 20 mapa | Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction | |
| 21 | My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice. | |
| 22 | All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing. | |
| 23 mapa | O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth! | |
| 24 | By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off; | |
| 25 mapa | And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans. | |
| 26 | I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you. | |
| 27 | But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back. | |
| 28 | Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them? | |
| 29 | O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord! | |
| 30 | The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah. |