1 Die woord wat van die HERE tot Jeremia gekom het.
2 So spreek die HERE, die God van Israel: Skryf vir jou in 'n boek al die woorde wat Ek met jou gespreek het;
3 want kyk, daar kom dae, spreek die HERE, dat Ek die lot van my volk Israel en Juda sal verander, sê die HERE; en Ek sal hulle terugbring in die land wat Ek aan hulle vaders gegee het, en hulle sal dit in besit neem.
4 En dit is die woorde wat die HERE gespreek het oor Israel en Juda:
5 Want so sê die HERE: Ons het 'n stem van verskrikking gehoor; daar is vrees en geen vrede nie!
6 Vra tog, en kyk of 'n manspersoon baar? Waarom sien ek elke man met sy hande op sy heupe soos een wat baar, en is alle aangesigte in bleekheid verander?
7 Wee, want die dag is groot, sonder weerga! En dit is 'n tyd van benoudheid vir Jakob; maar hy sal daaruit verlos word.
8 En op die dag, spreek die HERE van die leërskare, sal Ek sy juk verbreek van jou nek af en jou stroppe stukkend ruk; en vreemdes sal hom nie meer diensbaar maak nie.
9 Maar hulle sal die HERE hulle God dien en hulle koning Dawid wat Ek vir hulle sal verwek.
10 Jy dan, wees nie bevrees nie, o my kneg Jakob, spreek die HERE; en wees nie verskrik nie, o Israel! Want kyk, Ek verlos jou uit ver plekke en jou nageslag uit die land van hulle gevangenskap; en Jakob sal terugkom en stil en gerus wees sonder dat iemand hom skrikmaak.
11 Want Ek is met jou, spreek die HERE, om jou te verlos. Want Ek sal 'n einde maak aan al die nasies waarheen Ek jou verstrooi het; maar aan jou sal Ek geen einde maak nie, maar Ek sal jou tugtig met mate, al sal Ek jou sekerlik nie ongestraf laat bly nie.
12 Want so sê die HERE: Jou verbreking is ongeneeslik, jou wond is smartlik.
13 Niemand verskaf reg aan jou nie; daar is geen medisyne vir die sweer, geen genesing vir jou nie.
14 Al jou minnaars het jou vergeet, hulle vra nie na jou nie; want Ek het jou geslaan soos 'n vyand slaan, met 'n wrede tugtiging, omdat jou ongeregtigheid groot is, geweldig jou sondes.
15 Wat skreeu jy vanweë jou verbreking, jou smart wat ongeneeslik is? Omdat jou ongeregtigheid groot is, geweldig jou sondes, het Ek jou hierdie dinge aangedoen.
16 Daarom, almal wat jou opeet, sal opgeëet word; en al jou teëstanders sal almal saam in gevangenskap gaan; en hulle wat jou plunder, sal geplunder word, en Ek sal almal wat jou buitmaak, oorgee as 'n buit.
17 Want Ek sal genesing vir jou tot stand laat kom en jou van jou wonde gesond maak, spreek die HERE; omdat hulle jou noem: die verjaagde. Dit is Sion, sê hulle, niemand vra na haar nie.
18 So sê die HERE: Kyk, Ek verander die lot van die tente van Jakob en sal My oor sy wonings ontferm; en die stad sal op sy puinhoop herbou word, en die paleis sal op sy regte plek staan.
19 En uit hulle sal danksegging uitgaan en 'n stem van spelers; en Ek sal hulle vermenigvuldig, en hulle sal nie verminder nie; en Ek sal hulle verheerlik, en hulle sal nie gering word nie.
20 En sy seuns sal wees soos in die voortyd, en sy vergadering sal voor my aangesig bestendig wees; en Ek sal besoeking doen oor al sy verdrukkers.
21 En sy maghebber sal uit hom afkomstig wees, en sy heerser uit sy midde voortkom; en Ek sal hom laat aankom, en hy sal nader kom na My toe. Want wie is hy tog wat sy lewe daaraan waag om nader te kom na My toe? spreek die HERE.
22 En julle sal vir My 'n volk wees, en Ek sal vir julle 'n God wees.
23 Kyk, 'n storm van die HERE, grimmigheid het uitgegaan, 'n dwarrelstorm! Op die hoof van die goddelose mense breek dit los.
24 Die toorngloed van die HERE sal nie afgewend word nie, totdat Hy uitgevoer en tot stand gebring het die raadslae van sy hart; aan die einde van die dae sal julle dit verstaan.
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.
3 For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.
4 And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.
5 This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
6 Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?
7 Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.
8 For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:
9 But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.
10 So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.
11 For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
12 For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.
13 There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.
14 Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;
15 Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.
17 For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.
18 The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.
19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
20 And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.
21 And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.
22 And you will be my people, and I will be your God.
23 See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.
24 The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.