1 Die woord wat tot Jeremia gekom het aangaande die hele volk van Juda, in die vierde jaar van Jojakim, die seun van Jos¡a, die koning van Juda -- dit was die eerste jaar van Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel --
2 waarmee die profeet Jeremia die hele volk van Juda en al die inwoners van Jerusalem toegespreek en gesê het:
3 Vanaf die dertiende jaar van Jos¡a, die seun van Amon, die koning van Juda, tot op hierdie dag -- nou drie en twintig jaar lank -- het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom; en ek het julle toegespreek, vroeg en laat, maar julle het nie geluister nie.
4 Ook het die HERE al sy knegte, die profete, na julle gestuur, vroeg en laat -- maar julle het nie geluister of julle oor geneig om te hoor nie --
5 met die woorde: Bekeer julle tog elkeen van sy verkeerde weg en van die boosheid van julle handelinge, en woon in die land wat die HERE aan julle en julle vaders gegee het, van eeu tot eeu;
6 en loop nie agter ander gode aan om hulle te dien en julle voor hulle neer te buig nie, en terg My nie met die werk van julle hande nie, dat Ek julle geen kwaad aandoen nie.
7 Maar julle het na My nie geluister nie, spreek die HERE -- om My te terg met die werk van julle hande, julle tot skade.
8 Daarom, so sê die HERE van die leërskare: Omdat julle na my woorde nie geluister het nie,
9 laat Ek al die geslagte van die Noorde haal, spreek die HERE, en Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, my dienaar; en Ek sal hulle bring oor hierdie land en sy inwoners en oor al hierdie nasies rondom, en Ek sal hulle met die banvloek tref en hulle maak 'n voorwerp van verbasing en van bespotting en ewige puinhope.
10 En Ek sal uit hulle laat verdwyn die stem van vreugde en die stem van vrolikheid, die stem van die bruidegom en die stem van die bruid, die geluid van die handmeul en die lig van die lamp.
11 En hierdie hele land sal 'n puinhoop, 'n woesteny word; en hierdie nasies sal die koning van Babel sewentig jaar lank dien.
12 En as sewentig jaar vol is, sal Ek oor die koning van Babel en oor die nasie, spreek die HERE, hulle ongeregtigheid besoek, en oor die land van die Chaldeërs, en sal dit ewige wildernisse maak.
13 En Ek sal oor die land bring al my woorde wat Ek daaroor gespreek het -- alles wat geskrywe is in hierdie boek, wat Jeremia geprofeteer het oor al die nasies.
14 Want hulle sal ook diensbaar gemaak word deur magtige nasies en groot konings, en Ek sal hulle vergelde ooreenkomstig hul dade en die werk van hul hande.
15 Want so het die HERE, die God van Israel, vir my gesê: Neem hierdie beker van die wyn van grimmigheid uit my hand en gee dit om te drink aan al die nasies na wie Ek jou stuur,
16 dat hulle kan drink en waggel en rasend word weens die swaard wat Ek onder hulle stuur.
17 En ek het die beker uit die hand van die HERE geneem en al die volke laat drink na wie die HERE my gestuur het;
18 naamlik Jerusalem en die stede van Juda en sy konings en sy vorste, om hulle te maak 'n puinhoop, 'n voorwerp van verbasing, van bespotting en van vervloeking soos dit vandag is;
19 Farao, die koning van Egipte, en sy dienaars en sy vorste en sy hele volk;
20 en die hele gemengde bevolking en al die konings van die land Us; en al die konings van die land van die Filistyne, en Askelon en Gasa en Ekron en die oorblyfsel van Asdod;
21 Edom en Moab en die kinders van Ammon;
22 en al die konings van Tirus en al die konings van Sidon en al die konings van die kusland wat oorkant die see is;
23 Dedan en Tema en Bus en almal wat die rand van hulle hare wegskeer;
24 en al die konings van Arabië en al die konings van die gemengde bevolking wat in die woestyn woon;
25 en al die konings van Simri en al die konings van Elam en al die konings van M,dië;
26 en al die konings van die Noorde wat naby en ver is, die een n die ander; ja, al die koninkryke van die aarde wat op die aardbodem is. En die koning van Sesag sal n hulle drink.
27 En jy moet vir hulle sê: So spreek die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel: Drink en word dronk en spuug en val neer en staan nie weer op nie weens die swaard wat Ek onder julle stuur.
28 En as hulle weier om die beker uit jou hand te neem om te drink, moet jy vir hulle sê: So spreek die HERE van die leërskare: Drink s l julle!
29 Want kyk, in die stad waaroor my Naam uitgeroep is, begin Ek met onheile -- en sal julle heeltemal ongestraf bly? Julle sal nie ongestraf bly nie, want Ek roep die swaard op teen al die inwoners van die aarde, spreek die HERE van die leërskare.
30 Jy moet dan al hierdie woorde vir hulle profeteer en aan hulle sê: Die HERE sal brul uit die hoogte en sy stem verhef uit sy heilige woning! Geweldig sal Hy brul oor sy woonplek; soos druiwetrappers sal Hy 'n vreugdegeroep aanhef teen al die inwoners van die aarde.
31 Oorlogsrumoer het gekom tot by die einde van die aarde, want die HERE het 'n twis met die nasies, Hy hou gerig oor alle vlees. Die goddelose -- aan die swaard het Hy hulle oorgegee, spreek die HERE.
32 So sê die HERE van die leërskare: Kyk, onheil gaan uit van volk tot volk, en 'n groot storm word opgewek uit die agterhoeke van die aarde.
33 En die wat deur die HERE verslaan is, sal die dag lê van die een einde van die aarde tot die ander einde van die aarde; hulle sal nie beklaag of versamel of begrawe word nie; hulle sal mis op die aarde wees.
34 Huil, o herders, en skreeu, en wentel julle in die as, julle maghebbers van die kudde; want vol is julle dae om geslag te word, en Ek sal julle verbrysel, en julle sal val soos 'n kosbare voorwerp.
35 Dan sal daar geen toevlug wees vir die herders en geen ontkoming vir die maghebbers van die kudde nie.
36 Hoor! Geskreeu van die herders en gehuil van die maghebbers van die kudde, omdat die HERE hulle kudde verwoes.
37 En die weivelde van vrede word verwoes weens die toorngloed van die HERE.
38 Hy het soos 'n jong leeu sy lêplek verlaat; want hulle land het 'n woesteny geword weens die gewelddadige swaard, ja, weens sy toorngloed.
1 The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
2 This word Jeremiah gave out to all the people of Judah and to those living in Jerusalem, saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear.
4 And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;
5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:
6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
7 But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
8 So this is what the Lord of armies has said: Because you have not given ear to my words,
9 See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.
10 And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
11 All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
12 And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.
13 And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.
14 For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
15 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.
16 And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.
17 Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;
18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;
19 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;
20 And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;
21 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;
23 Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut;
24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land;
25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
27 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.
29 For see, I am starting to send evil on the town which is named by my name, and are you to be without any punishment? You will not be without punishment: for I will send a sword on all people living on the earth, says the Lord of armies.
30 So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.
31 A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.
32 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, evil is going out from nation to nation, and a great storm will come up from the inmost parts of the earth.
33 And at that day, the bodies of those whom the Lord has put to death will be seen from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: there will be no weeping for them, their bodies will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; they will be like waste on the face of the land.
34 Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.
35 There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.
36 A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.
37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.