Yeremya 34

¹Rab şöyle dedi: Kendine bağlar ve boyunduruklar yap ve onları boynunun etrafına geçir.

³Ve onları, Yahuda Kralı Sidkiya ile karşılaşmak üzere Yeruşalim'e gelen kendi ulaklarının elleriyle Edom kralına, Moav kralına, Ammonoğulları kralına, Sur kralına ve Sidon kralına gönder.

⁴Onlara, efendilerine söylemeleri için şu talimatı ver: İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab şöyle dedi: Efendilerinize şöyle söyleyeceksiniz:

⁵Yeryüzünü büyük gücümle ve kaldırılmış bileğimle ben yarattım; ve onu gözümde uygun görünene vereceğim.

⁶Yeryüzünü, kendisine hizmet etmesi için Babil Kralı Nebukadnessar'a verdim; kırın yabanıl hayvanlarını da ona çalışıp hizmet etmeleri için verdim.

⁸Boyunlarını Babil kralının boyunduruğu altına sokmayan her ulusu ve krallığı, onun elinde yok olup bitene dek kılıçla ve kıtlıkla cezalandıracağım, dedi Rab.

⁹Bu yüzden sizler, 'Babil kralına asla hizmet etmeyeceksiniz' diyen sahte peygamberlerinizi, falcılarınızı, rüya görenlerinizi, alamet yorumcularınızı ve büyücülerinizi dinlemeyin.

¹⁰Çünkü sizi kendi topraklarınızdan uzaklaştırmak için size yalanlar peygamberlik ediyorlar.

¹¹Ancak boynunu Babil kralının boyunduruğu altına sokup ona hizmet eden ulusu kendi topraklarında bırakacağım; ona hizmet edecek ve orada yaşayacak.

¹²Yahuda Kralı Sidkiya'ya da tüm bu sözlere göre konuşarak şöyle dedim: Boynunuzu sokun,

¹⁴ve Babil kralına hizmet edin; çünkü onlar size adaletsizce peygamberlik ediyorlar.

¹⁵'Çünkü onları ben göndermedim' diyor Rab, 'yine de adımla haksız yere peygamberlik ediyorlar; öyle ki, sizi yok edeyim ve hem siz hem de size haksız yere yalanlar peygamberlik eden peygamberleriniz yok olasınız.'

¹⁶Size, bütün bu halka ve kâhinlere de konuşup şöyle dedim: Rab şöyle dedi: Size, 'İşte, Rab'bin evinin kapları Babil'den geri dönecek' diye peygamberlik eden peygamberlerin sözlerini dinlemeyin; çünkü onlar size adaletsizce peygamberlik ediyorlar,

¹⁷onları ben göndermedim.

¹⁸Eğer peygamberlerse ve eğer onlarda Rab'bin sözü varsa, bana karşı çıksınlar.

¹⁹Çünkü Rab şöyle dedi: Geriye kalan kaplar hakkında da,

²⁰Babil kralı, Yehoyakin'i Yeruşalim'den sürgün ettiğinde almadığı kaplar,

²²Babil'e gidecek, diyor Rab.

¹(Μασ. ΚΖ´, 2-22 ). - ΟΥΤΩΣ εἶπε Κύριος· ποίησον σεαυτῷ δεσμοὺς καὶ κλοιοὺς καὶ περίθου περὶ τὸν τράχηλόν σου·

³καὶ ἀποστελεῖς αὐτοὺς πρὸς βασιλέα ᾿Ιδουμαίας καὶ πρὸς βασιλέα Μωὰβ καὶ πρὸς βασιλέα υἱῶν ᾿Αμμὼν καὶ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Τύρου καὶ πρὸς βασιλέα Σιδῶνος ἐν χερσὶν ἀγγέλων αὐτῶν τῶν ἐρχομένων εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτῶν εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ πρὸς Σεδεκίαν βασιλέα ᾿Ιούδα.

⁴καὶ συντάξεις αὐτοῖς πρὸς τοὺς κυρίους αὐτῶν εἰπεῖν· οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· οὕτως ἐρεῖτε πρὸς τοὺς κυρίους ὑμῶν·

⁵ὅτι ἐγὼ ἐποίησα τὴν γῆν ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ μου τῇ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐπιχείρῳ μου τῷ ὑψηλῷ καὶ δώσω αὐτὴν ᾧ ἐὰν δόξῃ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς μου.

⁶ἔδωκα τὴν γῆν τῷ Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος δουλεύειν αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτῷ.

⁸καὶ τὸ ἔθνος καὶ ἡ βασιλεία, ὅσοι ἐὰν μὴ ἐμβάλωσι τὸν τράχηλον αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸν ζυγὸν βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος, ἐν μαχαίρᾳ καὶ ἐν λιμῷ ἐπισκέψομαι αὐτούς, εἶπε Κύριος, ἕως ἐκλίπωσιν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ.

⁹καὶ ὑμεῖς μὴ ἀκούετε τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν μαντευομένων ὑμῖν καὶ τῶν ἐνυπνιαζομένων ὑμῖν καὶ τῶν οἰωνισμάτων ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν φαρμακῶν ὑμῶν τῶν λεγόντων· οὐ μὴ ἐργάσησθε τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος,

¹⁰ὅτι ψευδῆ αὐτοὶ προφητεύουσιν ὑμῖν πρὸς τὸ μακρῦναι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ὑμῶν.

¹¹καὶ τὸ ἔθνος, ὃ ἐὰν εἰσαγάγῃ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ζυγὸν βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἐργάσηται αὐτῷ, καὶ καταλείψω αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐργᾶται αὐτῷ καὶ ἐνοικήσει ἐν αὐτῇ. -

¹²Καὶ πρὸς Σεδεκίαν βασιλέα ᾿Ιούδα ἐλάλησα κατὰ πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους λέγων· εἰσαγάγετε τὸν τράχηλον ὑμῶν

¹⁴καὶ ἐργάσασθε τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος, ὅτι ἄδικα αὐτοὶ προφητεύουσιν ὑμῖν·

¹⁵ὅτι οὐκ ἀπέστειλα αὐτούς, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ προφητεύουσι τῷ ὀνόματί μου ἐπ’ ἀδίκῳ πρὸς τὸ ἀπολέσαι ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἀπολεῖσθε ὑμεῖς καὶ οἱ προφῆται ὑμῶν οἱ προφητεύοντες ὑμῖν ἐπ’ ἀδίκῳ ψευδῆ.

¹⁶ὑμῖν καὶ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ καὶ τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν ἐλάλησα λέγων· οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· μὴ ἀκούετε τῶν λόγων τῶν προφητῶν τῶν προφητευόντων ὑμῖν λεγόντων· ἰδοὺ σκεύη οἴκου Κυρίου ἐπιστρέψει ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος, ὅτι ἄδικα αὐτοὶ προφητεύουσιν ὑμῖν,

¹⁷οὐκ ἀπέστειλα αὐτούς.

¹⁸εἰ προφῆταί εἰσι καὶ εἰ ἔστι λόγος Κυρίου ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἀπαντησάτωσάν μοι·

¹⁹ὅτι οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· καὶ τῶν ἐπιλοίπων σκευῶν,

²⁰ὧν οὐκ ἔλαβε βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος, ὅτε ἀπῴκισε τὸν ᾿Ιεχονίαν ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ,

²²εἰς Βαβυλῶνα εἰσελεύσεται, λέγει Κύριος.

²Thus said the Lord; Make to thyself bonds and yokes, and put [them] about thy neck,

³and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.

⁴And thou shalt commission them to say to their lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your lords;

⁵I have made the earth by my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem [good] in mine eyes.

⁶I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labour for him.

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⁸And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, saith the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.

⁹And hearken ye not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:

¹⁰for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.

¹¹But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.

¹²I spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into [the yoke], and serve the king of Babylon.

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¹⁴For they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you,

¹⁵for I sent them not, saith the Lord; and they prophesy [in] my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.

¹⁶I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous [words].

¹⁷I sent them not.

¹⁸If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said.

¹⁹And as for the remaining vessels,

²⁰which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem,

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²²they shall go into Babylon, saith the Lord.