1 Die sonde van Juda is geskrywe met 'n ystergriffel, met 'n diamantpunt; dit is gegrif op die tafel van hulle hart en op die horings van julle altare --
2 telkens as hulle kinders aan hulle altare dink en aan hulle heilige boomstamme by die groen bome, op die hoë heuwels.
3 My berg in die veld, jou rykdom, al jou skatte sal Ek as buit gee saam met jou hoogtes, weens die sonde in jou hele grondgebied.
4 En jy sal uitval -- en dit deur jouself -- uit jou erfenis wat Ek jou gegee het, en Ek sal jou jou vyande laat dien in 'n land wat jy nie ken nie; want julle het 'n vuur aangesteek in my toorn, tot in ewigheid sal dit brand.
5 So sê die HERE: Vervloek is die man wat op die mens vertrou en vlees sy arm maak, terwyl sy hart van die HERE afwyk.
6 En hy sal wees soos 'n kaal bos in die wildernis, en hy sal nie sien as die goeie kom nie, maar dor plekke in die woestyn bewoon, 'n brakkerige en onbewoonde land.
7 Geseënd is die man wat op die HERE vertrou, en wie se vertroue die HERE is.
8 Want hy sal wees soos 'n boom wat by die water geplant is en sy wortels uitskiet by die stroom en nie vrees as daar hitte kom nie, maar sy blad bly groen; en in 'n jaar van droogte is hy nie besorg nie en hou nie op om vrugte te dra nie.
9 Bedrieglik is die hart bo alle dinge, ja, verdorwe is dit; wie kan dit ken?
10 Ek, die HERE, deursoek die hart, toets die niere, om aan elkeen te gee na sy weë, volgens die vrug van sy handelinge.
11 'n Voël wat eiers uitbroei sonder dat hy dit gelê het, is hy wat rykdom verwerf maar nie eerlik nie; in die helfte van sy dae moet hy dit laat agterbly, en in sy einde sal hy 'n dwaas wees.
12 'n Troon van heerlikheid, verhewe van die begin af, is die plek van ons heiligdom.
13 o HERE, Verwagting van Israel! almal wat U verlaat, sal beskaamd staan; wie van My afwyk, sal op die aarde geskryf word; want hulle het die HERE, die fontein van lewende water, verlaat.
14 Maak my gesond, HERE, dan sal ek gesond word; verlos my, dan sal ek verlos word; want U is my lof.
15 Daar sê hulle vir my: Waar is die woord van die HERE? Laat dit tog kom!
16 Wat my aangaan, ek het my nie onttrek om U as herder te volg nie, en die ongelukkige dag het ek nie begeer nie. U weet dit. Wat uit my lippe uitgegaan het, was voor u aangesig.
17 Wees my nie tot 'n verskrikking nie; U is my toevlug in die dag van onheil.
18 Laat my vervolgers beskaamd staan, maar laat my nie beskaamd staan nie; laat hulle verskrik wees, maar laat my nie verskrik wees nie. Bring oor hulle die dag van onheil, en verbreek hulle met 'n dubbele verbreking.
19 So het die HERE vir my gesê: Gaan staan in die poort van die kinders van die volk, waardeur die konings van Juda ingaan en waardeur hulle uitgaan, ja, al die poorte van Jerusalem;
20 en sê vir hulle: Hoor die woord van die HERE, konings van Juda en die hele Juda en al die inwoners van Jerusalem wat deur hierdie poorte ingaan:
21 So spreek die HERE: Neem julle in ag om julle siele ontwil, dat julle geen las dra op die sabbatdag en dit inbring deur die poorte van Jerusalem nie.
22 Ook mag julle geen las uit julle huise op die sabbatdag uitdra of enige werk doen nie; maar julle moet die sabbatdag heilig soos Ek julle vaders beveel het.
23 Maar hulle het nie geluister en geen gehoor gegee nie, maar hul nek verhard om nie te luister nie en geen tugtiging aan te neem nie.
24 As julle dan aandagtig na My luister, spreek die HERE, om geen las deur die poorte van hierdie stad op die sabbatdag in te bring nie en om die sabbatdag te heilig deur daarop g,,n werk te doen nie,
25 dan sal deur die poorte van hierdie stad konings en vorste ingaan wat op die troon van Dawid sit, wat op strydwaens en op perde ry, hulle en hulle vorste, die manne van Juda en die inwoners van Jerusalem; en hierdie stad sal vir ewig bewoon word.
26 En hulle sal kom uit die stede van Juda en uit die omstreke van Jerusalem en uit die land Benjamin en uit die Laeveld en uit die Gebergte en uit die Suidland, hulle wat brandoffer en slagoffer en spysoffer en wierook aanbring, en lofoffer aanbring in die huis van die HERE.
27 Maar as julle na My nie luister om die sabbatdag te heilig nie en om geen las te dra of deur die poorte van Jerusalem op die sabbatdag in te gaan nie, sal Ek 'n vuur in sy poorte aansteek, wat die paleise van Jerusalem sal verteer en nie uitgeblus sal word nie.
1 The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
4 And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.
5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
7 A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.
9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
12 A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.
13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
14 Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.
15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.
17 Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.
18 Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.
19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;
20 And say to them, Give ear to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who come in by these doors:
21 This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem;
22 And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;
23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.
24 And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;
25 Then through the doors of this town there will come kings and princes, seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, they and their princes, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem: and this town will keep its place for ever.
26 And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands, and from the mountains, and from the South, with burned offerings and offerings of beasts and meal offerings and perfume and offerings of praise, to the house of the Lord.
27 But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.