1 Die woord wat van die HERE tot Jeremia gekom het:
2 Hoor julle die woorde van hierdie verbond, en spreek met die manne van Juda en met die inwoners van Jerusalem
3 en sê vir hulle: So spreek die HERE, die God van Israel: Vervloek is die man wat nie luister na die woorde van hierdie verbond
4 wat Ek julle vaders beveel het op die dag toe Ek hulle uit Egipteland, uit die yster-smeltoond, uitgelei het met die woorde: Luister na my stem en doen die woorde net soos Ek julle beveel; dan sal julle vir My 'n volk wees, en Ek sal vir julle 'n God wees --
5 om te bevestig die eed wat Ek vir julle vaders gesweer het om aan hulle te gee 'n land wat oorloop van melk en heuning soos dit vandag is. Toe het ek geantwoord en gesê: Amen, o HERE!
6 En die HERE het vir my gesê: Roep al hierdie woorde uit in die stede van Juda en op die strate van Jerusalem: Hoor die woorde van hierdie verbond en doen dit.
7 Want Ek het julle vaders nadruklik gewaarsku op die dag toe Ek hulle uit Egipteland laat optrek het tot vandag toe, vroeg en laat, en gesê: Luister na my stem!
8 Nogtans het hulle nie geluister en geen gehoor gegee nie, maar hulle het gewandel elkeen in die verharding van sy bose hart. Daarom het Ek oor hulle gebring al die woorde van hierdie verbond wat Ek beveel het om te doen, maar wat hulle nie gedoen het nie.
9 Verder het die HERE vir my gesê: Daar is 'n sameswering ontdek onder die manne van Juda en onder die inwoners van Jerusalem:
10 hulle het teruggekeer na die ongeregtighede van hulle voorvaders wat geweier het om na my woorde te luister, en agter ander gode aan geloop om die te dien. Die huis van Israel en die huis van Juda het my verbond verbreek wat Ek met hulle vaders gesluit het.
11 Daarom, so sê die HERE: Kyk, Ek bring 'n onheil oor hulle, waaruit hulle nie sal kan uitkom nie; dan sal hulle na My roep, maar Ek sal na hulle nie luister nie.
12 Dan sal die stede van Juda en die inwoners van Jerusalem gaan en roep na die gode vir wie hulle rook laat opgaan het; maar die sal hulle geensins verlos in die tyd van hulle onheil nie.
13 Want volgens die getal van jou stede is jou gode, o Juda! En volgens die getal van die strate in Jerusalem het julle altare opgerig vir die skandegod, altare om vir Ba„l rook te laat opgaan.
14 En jy, bid nie vir hierdie volk nie en hef vir hulle geen smeking of gebed op nie, want Ek hoor nie in die tyd as hulle My aanroep vanweë hulle onheil nie.
15 Wat het my beminde in my huis te doen, dat sy daar haar listige plan uitvoer? Sal baie dinge en heilige vleis jou onheil van jou af wegneem? Dan kan jy jubel.
16 Die HERE het jou die naam gegee: groen olyfboom, skoon deur mooi gevormde vrugte; maar by die geluid van 'n groot gedruis het Hy 'n vuur daarteen aangesteek, en sy takke het gebreek.
17 Want die HERE van die leërskare wat jou geplant het, het onheil teen jou gespreek weens die boosheid van die huis van Israel en die huis van Juda, wat hulle graag gedoen het, om My te terg deur rook te laat opgaan vir Ba„l.
18 En die HERE het my dit te kenne gegee, sodat ek dit weet. Toe het U my hulle handelinge laat sien.
19 Maar ek was soos 'n mak lam wat hulle lei om te slag; en ek het nie geweet dat hulle planne teen my beraam het nie: Laat ons die boom met sy vrugte verwoes, en laat ons hom uitroei uit die land van die lewendes, sodat aan sy naam nie meer gedink word nie!
20 Maar, o HERE van die leërskare, regverdige Regter, wat niere en hart toets, laat my u wraak op hulle sien, want aan U het ek my regsaak toevertrou.
21 Daarom, so spreek die HERE aangaande die manne van Anatot wat jou lewe soek en sê: Jy mag nie profeteer in die Naam van die HERE nie, anders sal jy sterwe deur ons hand --
22 daarom, so spreek die HERE van die leërskare: Kyk, Ek doen besoeking oor hulle; die jongmanne sal sterwe deur die swaard, hulle seuns en hulle dogters sal sterwe deur hongersnood,
23 en hulle sal geen oorblyfsel hê nie; want Ek sal onheil bring oor die manne van Anatot in die jaar van hulle besoeking.
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2 Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,
3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,
4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
5 So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.
7 For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.
8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.
9 And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.
11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.
12 Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.
13 For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.
14 And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.
15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.
17 For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.
18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.
19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
21 So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:
22 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:
23 Not one of them will keep his life, for I will send evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.