1 Die woord wat van die HERE tot Jeremia gekom het in die dae van Jojakim, die seun van Jos¡a, die koning van Juda:

2 Gaan na die huis van die Regabiete en spreek met hulle en bring hulle in die huis van die HERE, in een van die kamers en gee hulle wyn om te drink.

3 Toe het ek Jaäs nja, die seun van Jeremia, die seun van Habass¡nja, geneem en sy broers en al sy seuns en die hele huis van die Regabiete;

4 en ek het hulle gebring in die huis van die HERE, in die kamer van die seuns van Hanan, die seun van Jigd lja, die man van God, wat langs die kamer van die vorste is, bo die kamer van Ma„s,ja, die seun van Sallum, die drumpelwagter.

5 En ek het voor die kinders van die huis van die Regabiete kanne vol wyn en bekers neergesit en aan hulle gesê: Drink wyn.

6 Maar hulle het geantwoord: Ons sal geen wyn drink nie, want Jonadab, die seun van Regab, ons vader, het ons beveel en gesê: Julle mag geen wyn drink, julle en julle kinders, tot in ewigheid nie.

7 Ook mag julle geen huis bou of saad saai of wingerd plant of dit besit nie; maar julle moet in tente woon al julle dae, sodat julle baie dae mag lewe in die land waar julle as vreemdelinge vertoef.

8 En ons het geluister na die stem van ons vader Jonadab, die seun van Regab, in alles wat hy ons beveel het, om geen wyn te drink al ons dae nie, ons, ons vroue, ons seuns en ons dogters;

9 en geen huise te bou om in te woon nie, en geen wingerd of landerye of saad te besit nie;

10 en ons het in tente gewoon en geluister en gedoen net soos ons vader Jonadab ons beveel het.

11 Maar toe Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, na die land opgetrek het, het ons gesê: Kom, laat ons na Jerusalem gaan vanweë die leër van die Chaldeërs en die leër van die Arameërs. So het ons dan in Jerusalem gebly.

12 Toe kom die woord van die HERE tot Jeremia en sê:

13 So spreek die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel: Gaan sê aan die manne van Juda en die inwoners van Jerusalem: Wil julle hieruit geen lering trek om na my woorde te luister nie? spreek die HERE.

14 Die woorde van Jonadab, die seun van Regab, wat hy sy kinders beveel het om geen wyn te drink nie, het hulle gehou; want hulle het geen wyn gedrink tot vandag toe nie, maar het geluister na die gebod van hulle vader. En k het met julle gespreek, vroeg en laat, maar julle het na My nie geluister nie.

15 En Ek het na julle gestuur al my knegte, die profete, vroeg en laat, om te sê: Bekeer julle tog elkeen van sy verkeerde weg en maak julle handelinge goed en loop nie agter ander gode aan om hulle te dien nie; dan sal julle bly in die land wat Ek aan julle en julle vaders gegee het. Maar julle het geen gehoor gegee en na My nie geluister nie.

16 Ja, die kinders van Jonadab, die seun van Regab, het die gebod van hulle vader gehou wat hy hulle beveel het; maar hierdie volk luister nie na My nie.

17 Daarom, so sê die HERE, die God van die leërskare, die God van Israel: Kyk, Ek bring oor Juda en oor al die inwoners van Jerusalem al die onheil wat Ek teen hulle gespreek het; omdat Ek met hulle gespreek, maar hulle nie geluister en Ek hulle geroep, maar hulle nie geantwoord het nie.

18 En aan die huis van die Regabiete het Jeremia gesê: So spreek die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel: Omdat julle geluister het na die gebod van julle vader Jonadab en al sy gebooie gehou en gedoen het net soos hy julle beveel het,

19 daarom, so spreek die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel: Daar sal vir Jonadab, die seun van Regab, nooit 'n man ontbreek wat altyd voor my aangesig sal staan nie.

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

2 Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.

3 Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and all the Rechabites;

4 And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;

5 And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.

6 But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

8 And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;

9 Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

10 But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.

11 But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.

12 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

13 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.

14 The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.

15 And I have sent you all my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them, saying, Come back, now, every man from his evil way, and do better, and go not after other gods to become their servants, and you will go on living in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but your ears have not been open, and you have not given attention to me.

16 Though the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have done the orders of their father which he gave them, this people has not given ear to me:

17 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.

18 But to the Rechabites Jeremiah said, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have done the orders of Jonadab your father, and have kept his rules, and done everything as he gave you orders to do it;

19 For this reason the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, will never be without a man to take his place before me.