Jeremiah 22

koh amar Adonai red bet-melekh yehudah vedibbarta sham et-haddavar hazzeh

Thus said GOD: Go down to the palace of the king of Judah, where you shall utter this word.

ve'amarta shema devar-Adonai melekh yehudah hayyoshev al-kisse david attah va'avadekha ve'ammekha habba'im bashe'arim ha'elleh

Say: “Hear the word of GOD: O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, and your courtiers and your subjects who enter these gates!

koh amar Adonai asu mishpat utsedaqah vehatsilu gazul miyyad ashoq veger yatom ve'almanah al-tonu al-takhmosu vedam naqi al-tishpekhu bammaqom hazzeh

Thus said GOD: Do what is just and right; rescue from the defrauder anyone who is robbed; do not wrong the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow; commit no lawless act, and do not shed the blood of the innocent in this place.

ki im-aso ta'asu et-haddavar hazzeh uva'u vesha'are habbayit hazzeh melakhim yoshevim ledavid al-kiso rokhevim barekhev uvassusim hu va'avadav ve'ammo

For if you fulfill this command, then through the gates of this palace shall enter kings of David’s line who sit upon his throne, riding horse-drawn chariots, with their courtiers and their subjects.

ve'im lo tishme'u et-haddevarim ha'elleh bi nishbati ne'um-Adonai ki-lekhorbah yihyeh habbayit hazzeh

But if you do not heed these commands, I swear by Myself—declares GOD—that this palace shall become a ruin.”

ki-khoh amar Adonai al-bet melekh yehudah gilad attah li rosh hallevanon im-lo ashitekha midbar arim lo (nvshvh) [noshavu]

For thus said GOD concerning the royal palace of Judah: You are as Gilead to Me, As the summit of Lebanon; But I will make you a desert, Uninhabited towns.

veqiddashti alekha mashkhitim ish vekhelayw vekharetu mivkhar arazekha vehippilu al-ha'esh

I will appoint destroyers against you, Each with his tools; They shall cut down your choicest cedars And make them fall into the fire.

ve'averu goyim rabbim al ha'ir hazzot ve'ameru ish el-re'ehu al-meh asah Adonai kakhah la'ir haggedolah hazzot

And when many nations pass by this city and people ask one another, “Why did GOD do thus to that great city?”

ve'ameru al asher azevu et-berit Adonai elohehem vayyishtakhavu lelohim akherim vayya'avdum

the reply will be, “Because they forsook the covenant with the ETERNAL their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.”

al-tivku lemet ve'al-tanudu lo bekhu vakho laholekh ki lo yashuv od vera'ah et-erets moladto

Do not weep for the dead And do not lament for him; Weep rather for him who is leaving, For he shall never come back To see the land of his birth!

ki khoh amar-Adonai el-shallum ben-yoshiyyahu melekh yehudah hammolekh takhat yoshiyyahu aviv asher yatsa min-hammaqom hazzeh lo-yashuv sham od

For thus said GOD concerning Shallum son of King Josiah of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah as king, but who has gone forth from this place: He shall never come back.

ki bimqom asher-higlu oto sham yamut ve'et-ha'arets hazzot lo-yireh od

He shall die in the place to which he was exiled, and he shall not see this land again.

hoy boneh veto belo-tsedeq va'aliyyotayw belo mishpat bere'ehu ya'avod khinnam ufo'alo lo yitten-lo

Ha! He who builds his house with unfairness And his upper chambers with injustice, Who makes his neighbors work without pay And does not give them their wages,

ha'omer evneh-lli bet middot va'aliyyot meruvvakhim veqara lo khallonay vesafun ba'arez umashoakh bashashar

Who thinks: I will build me a vast palace With spacious upper chambers, Provided with windows, Paneled in cedar, Painted with vermilion!

hatimlokh ki attah metakhareh va'arez avikha halo akhal veshatah ve'asah mishpat utsedaqah az tov lo

Do you think you are more a king Because you compete in cedar? Your father ate and drank And dispensed justice and equity— Then all went well with him.

dan din-ani ve'evyon az tov halo-hi hadda'at oti ne'um-Adonai

He upheld the rights of the poor and needy— Then all was well. That is truly heeding Me —declares GOD.

ki en enekha velibbekha ki im-al-bitsekha ve'al dam-hannaqi lishpokh ve'al-ha'osheq ve'al-hammerutsah la'asot

But your eyes and your mind are only On ill-gotten gains, On shedding the blood of the innocent, On committing fraud and violence.

lakhen koh-amar Adonai el-yehoyaqim ben-yoshiyyahu melekh yehudah lo-yispedu lo hoy akhi vehoy akhot lo-yispedu lo hoy adon vehoy hodoh

Assuredly, thus said GOD concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not mourn for him, “Ah, brother! Ah, sister!” They shall not mourn for him, “Ah, lord! Ah, his majesty!”

qevurat khamor yiqqaver sakhov vehashlekh mehale'ah lesha'are yerushalai͏m

He shall have the burial of a donkey, Dragged out and left lying Outside the gates of Jerusalem.

ali hallevanon utse'aqi uvabbashan teni qolekh vetsa'aqi me'avarim ki nishberu kol-me'ahavayikh

Climb Lebanon and cry out, Raise your voice in Bashan, Cry out from Abarim, For all your lovers are crushed.

dibbarti elayikh beshalvotayikh amart lo eshma zeh darkekh minne'urayikh ki lo-shama'att beqoli

I spoke to you when you were prosperous; You said, “I will not listen.” That was your way ever since your youth, You would not heed Me.

kol-ro'ayikh tireh-ruakh ume'ahavayikh bashevi yelekhu ki az tevoshi venikhlamt mikkol ra'atekh

All your shepherds shall be devoured by the wind, And your lovers shall go into captivity. Then you shall be shamed and humiliated Because of all your depravity.

(yshvty) [yoshavt] ballevanon (mqnnty) [mequnnant] ba'arazim mah-nnekhant bevo-lakh khavalim khil kayyoledah

You who dwell in Lebanon, Nestled among the cedars, How much grace will you have When pains come upon you, Travail as in childbirth!

khay-ani ne'um-Adonai ki im-yihyeh konyahu ven-yehoyaqim melekh yehudah khotam al-yad yemini ki misham etteqenka

As I live—declares GOD—if you, O King Coniah, son of Jehoiakim, of Judah, were a signet on my right hand, I would tear you off even from there.

unetattikha beyad mevaqshe nafshekha uveyad asher-attah yagor mippenehem uveyad nevukhadretsar melekh-bavel uveyad hakkasdim

I will deliver you into the hands of those who seek your life, into the hands of those you dread, into the hands of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and into the hands of the Chaldeans.

vehetalti otekha ve'et-immekha asher yeladatkha al ha'arets akheret asher lo-yulladtem sham vesham tamutu

I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another land, where you were not born; there you shall both die.

ve'al-ha'arets asher-hem menasse'im et-nafsham lashuv sham shammah lo yashuvu

They shall not return to the land that they yearn to come back to.

ha'etsev nivzeh nafuts ha'ish hazzeh konyahu im-keli en khefets bo maddua hutelu hu vezaro vehushlekhu al-ha'arets asher lo-yada'u

Is this man Coniah A wretched broken pot, A vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out, And cast away in a land they knew not?

erets erets arets shimi devar-Adonai

O land, land, land, Hear the word of GOD!

koh amar Adonai kitvu et-ha'ish hazzeh ariri gever lo-yitslakh beyamayw ki lo yitslakh mizzaro ish yoshev al-kisse david umoshel od bihudah

Thus said GOD: Record this man as without succession, One who shall never be found acceptable; For none of his offspring shall be accepted To sit on the throne of David And to rule again in Judah.