¹The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

¹الكلام الذي صار الى ارميا من قبل الرب قائلا

²Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

²قم انزل الى بيت الفخاري وهناك اسمعك كلامي.

³Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels.

³فنزلت الى بيت الفخاري واذا هو يصنع عملا على الدولاب.

⁴When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

⁴ففسد الوعاء الذي كان يصنعه من الطين بيد الفخاري فعاد وعمله وعاء آخر كما حسن في عيني الفخاري ان يصنعه.

⁵Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

⁵فصار اليّ كلام الرب قائلا

⁶House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

⁶أما استطيع ان اصنع بكم كهذا الفخاري يا بيت اسرائيل يقول الرب. هوذا كالطين بيد الفخاري انتم هكذا بيدي يا بيت اسرائيل.

⁷At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

⁷تارة اتكلم على امة وعلى مملكة بالقلع والهدم والاهلاك

⁸if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

⁸فترجع تلك الامة التي تكلمت عليها عن شرها فاندم عن الشر الذي قصدت ان اصنعه بها.

⁹At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

⁹وتارة اتكلم على امة وعلى مملكة بالبناء والغرس

¹⁰if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

¹⁰فتفعل الشر في عينيّ فلا تسمع لصوتي فاندم عن الخير الذي قلت اني احسن اليها به

¹¹Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

¹¹فالآن كلم رجال يهوذا وسكان اورشليم قائلا. هكذا قال الرب. هانذا مصدر عليكم شرا وقاصد عليكم قصدا. فارجعوا كل واحد عن طريقه الرديء واصلحوا طرقكم واعمالكم.

¹²But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

¹²فقالوا باطل. لاننا نسعى وراء افكارنا وكل واحد يعمل حسب عناد قلبه الرديء.

¹³Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

¹³لذلك هكذا قال الرب. اسألوا بين الامم من سمع كهذه. ما يقشعر منه جدا عملت عذراء اسرائيل.

¹⁴Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

¹⁴هل يخلو صخر حقلي من ثلج لبنان. او هل تنشف المياه المنفجرة الباردة الجارية.

¹⁵For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

¹⁵لان شعبي قد نسيني. بخروا للباطل وقد اعثروهم في طرقهم في السبل القديمة ليسلكوا في شعب في طريق غير مسهل

¹⁶to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

¹⁶لتجعل ارضهم خرابا وصفيرا ابديا. كل مار فيها يدهش وينغض راسه.

¹⁷I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

¹⁷كريح شرقية ابددهم امام العدو. اريهم القفا لا الوجه في يوم مصيبتهم

¹⁸Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

¹⁸فقالوا هلم فنفكر على ارميا افكارا لان الشريعة لا تبيد عن الكاهن ولا المشورة عن الحكيم ولا الكلمة عن النبي. هلم فنضربه باللسان ولكل كلامه لا نصغ.

¹⁹Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

¹⁹اصغ لي يا رب واسمع صوت اخصامي.

²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

²⁰هل يجازى عن خير بشر. لانهم حفروا حفرة لنفسي. اذكر وقوفي امامك لأتكلم عنهم بالخير لاردّ غضبك عنهم.

²¹Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.

²¹لذلك سلّم بنيهم للجوع وادفعهم ليد السيف فتصير نساؤهم ثكالى وارامل وتصير رجالهم قتلى الموت وشبانهم مضروبي السيف في الحرب.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

²²ليسمع صياح من بيوتهم اذ تجلب عليهم جيشا بغتة. لانهم حفروا حفرة ليمسكوني وطمروا فخاخا لرجليّ.

²³Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don’t forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

²³وانت يا رب عرفت كل مشورتهم عليّ للموت. لا تصفح عن اثمهم ولا تمح خطيتهم من امامك بل ليكونوا متعثرين امامك. في وقت غضبك عاملهم