Ombuze ya Jeremia kombara Sidkija
1 Nebukadnesar, ombara ya Babilon, wa zika Sidkija, omuzandu wa Josija, okurira ombara mOjuda, moruveze rwa Jojakin, omuzandu wa Jojakim. 2 Nungwari Sidkija novahongore ve novature vehi kave karere nonḓuviro kombuze Muhona ndja yandjere ku ami.
3 Ombara Sidkija wa tuma Jukal, omuzandu wa Selemja, nomupristeri Sefanja, omuzandu wa Maaseja, okukaningira kutja mbi kumbire otjiwaṋa tjetu ku Muhona, Ndjambi wetu. 4 Ami tjandje ingee hiya tuwa motjovakamburwa, nu ee ryanga noukutuke mokati kotjiwaṋa. 5 Otjimbumba tja Babilon tjovita tja koverere Jerusalem, nungwari otjo tji tja zuva kutja otjimbumba tja Engipte tjovita tja kondo omuruko wa Engipte, otjimbumba tja Babilon tjovita otji tja yaruka ombunda.
6 Muhona, Ndjambi wa Israel, otje ndji raera 7 kutja mbi tje nai ku Sidkija: “Tjiri, otjimbumba tja Engipte tjovita tji ri mondjira okuyekukuvatera, nungwari matji yaruka kehi ratjo. 8 Ovababilon otji mave kotoka, ave rwisa otjihuro, ave tji kambura nave tji nyosa. 9 Ami, ngu mbi ri Muhona, me mu rongo kutja amu he riwovisa mokutjangovasi Ovababilon kave nokukotoka, orondu owo mave kotoka. 10 Nangarire kutja mwa havere otjimbumba atjihe tja Babilon tjovita, nga tji pa hupu ovarumendu ozondjahe porwe mba saravara mozondanda zawo, ovarumendu mbo mave sekama nave nyosa otjihuro hi okumana.”
Jeremia ma kamburwa na tuwa motjovakamburwa
11 Otjimbumba tja Babilon tjovita tja yaruka ombunda okuza mOjerusalem, otjimbumba tja Engipte tjovita tjinga atji ri popezu. 12 Ami otji mba vanga okuza mo mOjerusalem nokuyenda kehi ra Benjamin okukarumata eṱa randje mouini weṱunḓu retu. 13 Nungwari tji mba vaza Omuvero wa Benjamin, omunene wovatjevere ngwa ri moviungura, wena Jirija, omuzandu wa Selemja, omuzandu wa Hananja, we ndji tjaera na tja: “Kurama, ove movanga okukonda kOvababilon!”
14 Ami mba zira e tja: “Ka tjiperi! Ami hi nokukonda kOvababilon!” Nungwari Jirija ka vangere okupuratena ko ku ami; eye we ndji kambura ne ndji twara kovahongore. 15 Owo ve ndji pindikira tjinene nave rakiza kutja mbi tonwe nave ndji patere mondjuwo ya Jonatan, omutjangerepo wouhona, ndja isiwa po otjovakamburwa. 16 Ami mba tuwa metuwo romehi ne ṱizirwa mo oruveze orure.
17 Eyuva rimwe ombara Sidkija wa hinda omundu ku ami, nu tji mbe ya, eye arire tje ndji purire peke mondjuwo youhona a tja: “Pe nombuze yorive ndja zu ku Muhona are?”
Ami mba zira e tja: “Ii, opu i ri; ove mo yandjewa mouvara wombara ya Babilon.” 18 Ami mba pura ombara Sidkija e tja: “Ami mba tjita ouvi watjike kove poo kovahongore voye poo kotjiwaṋa hi, tji we ndji twa motjovakamburwa nai? 19 Ovaprofete veṋu mbe mu raera kutja ombara ya Babilon kai nokurwisa eṋe poo indi ehi, nambano ve ri pi? 20 Nambano, muhona ombara, ami me riyarikaṋa kutja u puratene ku ami nu u tjite imbi mbi me ningire kove. Arikana, o ndji yarura motjovakamburwa mondjuwo ya Jonatan. Tji wa tjiti nao, ami, tjiri, me ṱire moṋa mwi!”
21 Ombara Sidkija otja rakiza kutja mbi paterwe morupanda romatjeverero rwondjuwo youhona. Ami mba kara mo, neyuva arihe ee pewa omboroto ombomba okuza kovatereke, nga ozomboroto azehe motjihuro tji papu.
King Zedekiah Asks Jeremiah To Pray
1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had removed Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim from being the king of Judah and had made Josiah's son Zedekiah king instead. 2 But Zedekiah, his officials, and everyone else in Judah ignored everything the Lord had told me.
3-5 Later, the Babylonian army attacked Jerusalem, but they left after learning that the Egyptian army was headed in this direction.
One day, Zedekiah sent Jehucal and the priest Zephaniah to talk with me. At that time, I was free to go wherever I wanted, because I had not yet been put in prison. Jehucal and Zephaniah said, “Jeremiah, please pray to the Lord our God for us.”
6-7 Then the Lord told me to send them back to Zedekiah with this message:
Zedekiah, you wanted Jeremiah to ask me, the Lord God of Israel, what is going to happen. So I will tell you. The king of Egypt and his army came to your rescue, but soon they will go back to Egypt. 8 Then the Babylonians will return and attack Jerusalem, and this time they will capture the city and set it on fire. 9 Don't fool yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians will leave as they did before. 10 Even if you could defeat their entire army, their wounded survivors would still be able to leave their tents and set Jerusalem on fire.
Jeremiah Is Put in Prison
11 The Babylonian army had left because the Egyptian army was on its way to help us. 12 So I decided to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of the Benjamin tribe to claim my share of my family's land. 13 I was leaving Jerusalem through Benjamin Gate, when I was stopped by Irijah, the officer in charge of the soldiers at the gate. He said, “Jeremiah, you're under arrest for trying to join the Babylonians.”
14 “I'm not trying to join them!” I answered. But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took me to the king's officials. 15-16 They were angry and ordered the soldiers to beat me. Then I was taken to the house that belonged to Jonathan, one of the king's officials. It had been turned into a prison, and I was kept in a basement room.
After I had spent a long time there, 17 King Zedekiah secretly had me brought to his palace, where he asked, “Is there any message for us from the Lord?”
“Yes, there is, Your Majesty,” I replied. “The Lord is going to let the king of Babylonia capture you.”
18 Then I continued, “Your Majesty, why have you put me in prison? Have I committed a crime against you or your officials or the nation? 19 Have you locked up the prophets who lied to you and said that the king of Babylonia would never attack Jerusalem? 20 Please, don't send me back to that prison at Jonathan's house. If you do, I will die there.”
21 King Zedekiah had me taken to the prison cells in the courtyard of the palace guards. He told the soldiers to give me a loaf of bread from one of the bakeries every day until the city ran out of grain.
