Jeremiah 16

vayehi devar-Adonai elay lemor

The word of GOD came to me:

lo-tiqqakh lekha isha velo-yihyu lekha banim uvanot bammaqom hazzeh

You are not to marry and not to have sons and daughters in this place.

ki-khoh amar Adonai al-habbanim ve'al-habbanot hayyillodim bammaqom hazzeh ve'al-immotam hayyoledot otam ve'al-avotam hammolidim otam ba'arets hazzot

For thus said GOD concerning any sons and daughters that may be born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bear them, and concerning the fathers who beget them in this land:

memote takhalu'im yamutu lo yissafedu velo yiqqaveru ledomen al-pene ha'adamah yihyu uvakherev uvara'av yikhlu vehayetah nivlatam lema'akhal le'of hashamayim ulevehemat ha'arets

They shall die gruesome deaths. They shall not be lamented or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

ki-khoh amar Adonai al-tavo bet marzeakh ve'al-telekh lispod ve'al-tanod lahem ki-asafti et-shelomi me'et ha'am hazzeh ne'um-Adonai et-hakhesed ve'et-harakhamim

For thus said GOD: Do not enter a house of mourning, Do not go to lament and to condole with them; For I have withdrawn My favor from that people —declares GOD— My kindness and compassion.

umetu gedolim uqetannim ba'arets hazzot lo yiqqaveru velo-yispedu lahem velo yitgodad velo yiqqareakh lahem

Great and small alike shall die in this land, They shall not be buried; no one shall lament them, Nor gash and tonsure themselves for them.

velo-yifresu lahem al-evel lenakhamo al-met velo-yashqu otam kos tankhumim al-aviv ve'al-immo

They shall not break bread for a mourner To offer comfort for a death, Nor offer one a cup of consolation For the loss of their father or mother.

uvet-mishteh lo-tavo lashevet otam le'ekhol velishtot

Nor shall you enter a house of feasting, To sit down with them to eat and drink.

ki khoh amar Adonai tseva'ot elohe yisra'el hinni mashbit min-hammaqom hazzeh le'enekhem uvimekhem qol sason veqol simkhah qol khatan veqol kallah

For thus said GOD of Hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to banish from this place, in your days and before your eyes, the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of bridegroom and bride.

vehayah ki taggid la'am hazzeh et kol-haddevarim ha'elleh ve'ameru elekha al-meh dibber Adonai alenu et kol-hara'ah haggedolah hazzot umeh avonenu umeh khattatenu asher khatanu la-Adonai elohenu

And when you announce all these things to that people, and they ask you, “Why has GOD decreed upon us all this fearful evil? What is the iniquity and what the sin that we have committed against the ETERNAL our God?”

ve'amarta alehem al asher-azevu avotekhem oti ne'um-Adonai vayyelekhu akhare elohim akherim vayya'avdum vayyishtakhavu lahem ve'oti azavu ve'et-torati lo shamaru

say to them, “Because your ancestors deserted Me—declares GOD—and followed other gods and served them and worshiped them; they deserted Me and did not keep My Instruction.

ve'attem hare'otem la'asot me'avotekhem vehinnekhem holekhim ish akhare sherirut libbo-hara levilti shemoa elay

And you have acted worse than your ancestors, every one of you following the willfulness of their own evil heart and paying no heed to Me.

vehetalti etkhem me'al ha'arets hazzot al-ha'arets asher lo yedatem attem va'avotekhem va'avadtem-sham et-elohim akherim yomam valaylah asher lo-etten lakhem khaninah

Therefore I will hurl you out of this land to a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods, day and night; for I will show you no mercy.”

lakhen hinneh-yamim ba'im ne'um-Adonai velo-ye'amer od khay-Adonai asher he'elah et-bene yisra'el me'erets mitsrayim

Assuredly, a time is coming—declares GOD—when it shall no more be said, “As GOD lives who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt,”

ki im-khay-Adonai asher he'elah et-bene yisra'el me'erets tsafon umikkol ha'aratsot asher hiddikham shammah vahashivotim al-admatam asher natatti la'avotam

but rather, “As GOD lives who brought the Israelites out of the northland, and out of all the lands to which they had been banished.” For I will bring them back to their land, which I gave to their ancestors.

hinni sholeakh (ldvgym) [ledayyagim] rabbim ne'um-Adonai vedigum ve'akhare-khen eshlakh lerabbim tsayyadim vetsadum me'al kol-har ume'al kol-givah uminneqiqe hassela'im

Lo, I am sending for many fishermen —declares GOD— And they shall haul them out; And after that I will send for many hunters, And they shall hunt them Out of every mountain and out of every hill And out of the clefts of the rocks.

ki enay al-kol-darkhehem lo nisteru millefanay velo-nitspan avonam minneged enay

For My eyes are on all their ways, They are not hidden from My presence, Their iniquity is not concealed from My sight.

veshillamti rishonah mishneh avonam vekhattatam al khallelam et-artsi benivlat shiqqutsehem veto'avotehem male'u et-nakhalati

I will pay them in full— Nay, doubly for their iniquity and their sins— Because they have defiled My land With the corpses of their abominations, And have filled My own possession With their abhorrent things.

Adonai uzzi uma'uzzi umenusi beyom tsarah elekha goyim yavo'u me'afse-arets veyomeru akh-sheqer nakhalu avotenu hevel ve'en-bam mo'il

O ETERNAL One, my strength and my stronghold, My refuge in a day of trouble, To You nations shall come From the ends of the earth and say: Our ancestors inherited utter delusions, Things that are futile and worthless.

haya'aseh-llo adam elohim vehemmah lo elohim

Can mortals make gods for themselves? No-gods are they!

lakhen hinni modi'am bappa'am hazzot odi'em et-yadi ve'et-gevurati veyade'u ki-shemi Adonai

Assuredly, I will teach them, Once and for all I will teach them My power and My might. And they shall learn that My name is GOD.