1 En toe Jeremia geëindig het om die hele volk toe te spreek met al die woorde van die HERE hulle God, waarmee die HERE hulle God hom na hulle gestuur het, naamlik al hierdie woorde,

2 het As rja, die seun van Hos ja, en Johanan, die seun van Kar,ag, en al die vermetele manne gespreek en aan Jeremia gesê: U spreek onwaarheid; die HERE onse God het u nie gestuur om te sê: Julle mag nie na Egipte trek om daar as vreemdelinge te vertoef nie.

3 Maar Barug, die seun van Ner¡a, hits u teen ons op om ons oor te gee in die hand van die Chaldeërs, dat hulle ons kan doodmaak en ons in ballingskap na Babel kan wegvoer.

4 So het Johanan, die seun van Kar,ag, en al die owerstes van die leërs en die hele volk dan nie geluister na die stem van die HERE om in die land Juda te bly nie.

5 Maar Johanan, die seun van Kar,ag, en al die owerstes van die leërs het die hele oorblyfsel van Juda geneem wat uit al die nasies waarheen hulle verdryf was, teruggekom het om in die land Juda te woon,

6 die manne en die vroue en die kinders en die dogters van die koning en al die mense wat Nebusar dan, die owerste van die lyfwag, by Ged lja, die seun van Ah¡kam, die seun van Safan, laat staan het -- ook die profeet Jeremia en Barug, die seun van Ner¡a --

7 en hulle het na Egipteland getrek; want hulle het nie geluister na die stem van die HERE nie. En hulle het tot by Tagp nhes gekom.

8 Toe het die woord van die HERE tot Jeremia gekom in Tagp nhes en gesê:

9 Neem groot klippe in jou hand en begrawe hulle in klei in die vierkant wat by die ingang van Farao se paleis in Tagp nhes is, voor die oë van die Joodse manne;

10 en sê vir hulle: So spreek die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel: Kyk, Ek stuur en laat my kneg Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, haal, en Ek sal sy troon neersit bo-op hierdie klippe wat Ek begrawe het; en hy sal sy pragtapyt daaroor uitspan.

11 En hy sal kom en Egipteland verower: wie vir die pes bestem is, vir die pes; en wie vir die gevangenskap, vir die gevangenskap; en wie vir die swaard, vir die swaard!

12 En Ek sal 'n vuur aansteek in die huise van die gode van Egipte; en hy sal hulle verbrand en hulle as gevangenes wegvoer; en hy sal hom wikkel in die land van Egipte soos 'n herder hom wikkel in sy kleed, en hy sal daarvandaan in vrede wegtrek.

13 En hy sal die klippilare van Bet-Semes wat in Egipteland is, verbreek en die huise van die gode van Egipte met vuur verbrand.

1 And it came about that when Jeremiah had come to the end of giving all the people the words of the Lord their God, which the Lord their God had sent him to say to them, even all these words,

2 Then Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men of pride, said to Jeremiah, You have said what is false: the Lord our God has not sent you to say, You are not to go into the land of Egypt and make your living-place there:

3 But Baruch, the son of Neriah, is moving you against us, to give us up into the hands of the Chaldaeans so that they may put us to death, and take us away prisoners into Babylon.

4 So Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, did not give ear to the order of the Lord that they were to go on living in the land of Judah.

5 But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces took all the rest of Judah who had come back into the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been forced to go;

6 The men and the women and the children and the king's daughters, and every person whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had put under the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch, the son of Neriah;

7 And they came into the land of Egypt; for they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: and they came to Tahpanhes.

8 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

9 Take in your hand some great stones, and put them in a safe place in the paste in the brickwork which is at the way into Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of the men of Judah;

10 And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will put the seat of his kingdom on these stones which have been put in a safe place here by you; and his tent will be stretched over them.

11 And he will come and overcome the land of Egypt; those who are for death will be put to death, those who are to be prisoners will be made prisoners, and those who are for the sword will be given to the sword.

12 And he will put a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and they will be burned by him: and he will make Egypt clean as a keeper of sheep makes clean his clothing; and he will go out from there in peace.

13 And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.