Jeremias 29

1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, 2 (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem), 3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:

4 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 "Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished. 7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace." 8 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them," says Yahweh. 10 For Yahweh says, "After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you," says Yahweh, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. 12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," says Yahweh, "and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you," says Yahweh. "I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive."

15 Because you have said, "Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon," 16 Yahweh says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity, 17 Yahweh of Armies says: "Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad. 18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, 19 because they have not listened to my words," says Yahweh, "with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear," says Yahweh.

20 Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: "Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes. 22 A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’ 23 because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness," says Yahweh.

24 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, 25 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 26 "Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. 27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you, 28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?"’"

29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. 30 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying, 31 "Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie," 32 therefore Yahweh says, "Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people," says Yahweh, "because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh."’"

Tā Heremaia Pukapuka ki ngā Hūrai kei Papurōna

1 Ko ngā kupu ēnei o te pukapuka i tukua e Heremaia poropiti i Hiruhārama ki ngā mōrehu o ngā kaumātua i whakaraua atu nei, ki ngā tohunga, ki ngā poropiti, ki te iwi katoa i whakaraua atu e Nepukaneha i Hiruhārama ki Papurōna; 2 i muri tēnei i te haerenga atu o Kīngi Hekonia, i Hiruhārama, rātou ko te kuīni, ko ngā unaka, ko ngā rangatira o Hūrā, o Hiruhārama, me ngā kāmura rātou ko ngā parakimete. 3 He mea kawe nā Eraha tama a Hapana, rāua ko Kemaria tama a Hirikia; he mea unga anō ēnei nā Terekia kīngi o Hūrā ki Papurōna, ki a Nepukaneha kīngi o Papurōna; i mea ia:

4 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira, ki ngā whakarau katoa, i meinga nei e ahau kia whakaraua atu i Hiruhārama ki Papurōna: 5 "Hangā he whare mō koutou, ka noho i roto; whakatōkia he kāri, ka kai i ō rātou hua. 6 Mārenatia he wahine, kia whānau he tama, he tamāhine mā koutou; meatia he wahine mā ā koutou tama, tukua hoki ā koutou tamāhine ki te tāne, kia whānau ai he tama, he tamāhine mā rātou; ā, kia tini koutou ki reira, kaua hei torutoru. 7 Rapua hoki te rongo mau mō te pā kua meinga nā koutou e ahau kia whakaraua ki reira, īnoi hoki ki a Ihowā mō reira; mā te mau hoki o tōna rongo ka whiwhi ai koutou ki te rangimārie." 8 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: "Kei tinihangatia koutou e ā koutou poropiti, e ā koutou tohunga tūāhu e noho nā i roto i a koutou, kaua hoki e rongo ki ā koutou moe e meinga nā e koutou kia moea. 9 Nō te mea e poropiti teka ana rātou ki a koutou i runga i tōku ingoa. Ehara rātou i te mea nāku i unga," e ai tā Ihowā.

10 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā: "Kia rite ngā tau e whitu tekau ki Papurōna, ka tirohia koutou e ahau; ā, ka whakatutukitia e ahau tāku kupu pai ki a koutou, mō koutou kia whakahokia mai ki tēnei wāhi. 11 Kei te mōhio hoki ahau ki ngā whakaaro e whakaaro nei ahau ki a koutou," e ai tā Ihowā, "he whakaaro mō te rongo mau, ehara mō te kino, kia hoatu he tūmanako ki a koutou i ō koutou rā whakamutunga. 12 Ā tērā koutou e karanga ki ahau, ā, ka haere koutou ka īnoi ki ahau, ā, ka rongo ahau ki a koutou. 13 Ka rapua anō ahau e koutou, ā, ka kitea e koutou, ina whakapaua ō koutou ngākau ki te rapu i ahau. 14 Ā, ka kitea ahau e koutou," e ai tā Ihowā, "ā, whakahokia hoki e ahau tō koutou whakaraunga, ā, ka kohikohia koutou e ahau i roto i ngā iwi katoa, i ngā wāhi katoa i peia atu ai koutou e ahau, e ai tā Ihowā; ā, ka whakahokia mai koutou e ahau ki te wāhi i whakaraua atu ai koutou e ahau."

15 Kua kī hoki koutou, "Kua ara i a Ihowā ētahi poropiti mō tātou i Papurōna." 16 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā mō te kīngi e noho ana i runga i te torōna o Rāwiri, mō te iwi katoa hoki e noho ana i tēnei pā, mō ō koutou tēina kīhai nei i haere tahi koutou i te whakaraunga: 17 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano: "Nanā, ka ungā atu e ahau ki runga ki a rātou te hoari, te hemokai, te mate urutā, ā, ka meinga rātou e ahau kia rite ki ngā piki kikino, e kore nei e taea te kai i te kino rawa. 18 Ā, ka whāia rātou e ahau ki te hoari, ki te hemokai, ki te mate urutā, ka tukua hoki rātou kia poipoia i waenganui i ngā kīngitanga katoa o te whenua, hei kanga, hei mīharotanga, hei whakahīanga atu, ā, hei hahani, i roto i ngā iwi katoa e peia atu ai rātou e ahau. 19 Nō te mea kīhai rātou i rongo ki āku kupu," e ai tā Ihowā, "ki āku kupu i ungā rā e ahau kia kawea ki a rātou e āku pononga, e ngā poropiti, moata ai i te ata ki te unga i a rātou; heoi kīhai koutou i rongo," e ai tā Ihowā.

20 Mō reira whakarongo mai ki te kupu a Ihowā, koutou katoa o te whakaraunga, kua ungā atu nei e ahau i Hiruhārama ki Papurōna: 21 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira, mō Āhapa tama a Koraia, mō Terekia tama a Maaheia, e poropiti teka nā ki a koutou i runga i tōku ingoa: "Nanā, ka hoatu rāua e ahau ki te ringa o Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna; ā, māna rāua e whakamate i ō koutou aroaro. 22 Ā, ka ai rāua hei kanga mā ngā whakarau katoa o Hūrā i Papurōna, ka kōrerotia: ‘Kia meinga koe e Ihowā kia rite ki a Terekia rāua ko Āhapa, i tunua nei e te kīngi o Papurōna ki te ahi.’ 23 Kua mahi pōauau hoki rāua i roto i a Īharaira, kua pūremu ki ngā wāhine a ō rāua hoa, kua kōrero hoki i ngā kupu teka i runga i tōku ingoa, he mea kīhai i whakahaua atu e ahau ki a rāua; ko ahau tēnei e mōhio ana, ko ahau te kaiwhakaatu," e ai tā Ihowā.

Te Pukapuka a Hemaia

24 Nā, mō Hemaia Neherami me kōrero koe, me kī atu: 25 "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira, e mea ana ia: I te mea kua tukua e koe ētahi pukapuka i runga i tōu ake ingoa ki te iwi katoa i Hiruhārama, ki te tohunga, ki a Tepania tama a Maaheia, rātou ko ngā tohunga katoa, kua mea atu: 26 ‘Kua oti koe te mea e Ihowā hei tohunga i muri i a Iehoiara tohunga, kia waiho ai ko koutou hei kaitirotiro i roto i te whare o Ihowā mō te tāngata katoa e haurangi ana, e whakaporopiti ana i a ia, kia makā e koe ki ngā here waewae, ki ngā here ringa. 27 Nā, he aha rā tē rīria ai e koe a Heremaia Anatoti, e whakaporopiti nā i a ia ki a koutou? 28 Kua tukua mai nei hoki e ia he kupu ki a mātou ki Papurōna, e mea ana: Ka roa te whakaraunga. Hangā he whare mō koutou, ka noho i roto; whakatōkia he kāri, kainga ō rātou hua.’ "

29 Nā, i kōrerotia tēnei pukapuka e Tepania tohunga ki ngā taringa o Heremaia poropiti. 30 Kātahi ka puta mai te kupu a Ihowā ki a Heremaia, i mea ia: 31 "Tukua he kupu ki ngā whakarau katoa, mea atu, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā mō Hemaia Neherami: Kua poropiti nā a Hemaia ki a koutou, ā, kīhai hoki ia i ungā e ahau, ā, kua meinga koutou e ia kia whakawhirinaki ki te teka, 32 mō reira ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: Nanā, ka whiua e ahau a Hemaia Neherami rātou ko ōna uri; kore iho he tangata mōna hei noho i roto i tēnei iwi, e kore hoki ia e kite i te pai e mahia e ahau ki tāku iwi, e ai tā Ihowā; nō te mea kua kōrero ia i te tutū mō Ihowā.’ "