51

The Utter Destruction of Babylon

¹Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will raise up against ⚓Babylon,
Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai,
⚓A destroying wind.
²And I will send ⚓winnowers to Babylon,
Who shall winnow her and empty her land.
⚓For in the day of doom
They shall be against her all around.
³Against her⚓let the archer bend his bow,
And lift himself up against her in his armor.
Do not spare her young men;
⚓Utterly destroy all her army.
⁴Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
⚓And those thrust through in her streets.
⁵For Israel is ⚓not forsaken, nor Judah,
By his God, the Lord of hosts,
Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”
⁶⚓Flee from the midst of Babylon,
And every one save his life!
Do not be cut off in her iniquity,
For ⚓this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance;
⚓He shall recompense her.
⁷⚓Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
⚓The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations ⚓are deranged.
⁸Babylon has suddenly ⚓fallen and been destroyed.
⚓Wail for her!
⚓Take balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.
⁹We would have healed Babylon,
But she is not healed.
Forsake her, and ⚓let us go everyone to his own country;
⚓For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.
¹⁰The Lord has ⚓revealed our righteousness.
Come and let us ⚓declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
¹¹⚓Make the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
⚓The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
⚓For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is⚓the vengeance of the Lord,
The vengeance for His temple.
¹²⚓Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong,
Set up the watchmen,
Prepare the ambushes.
For the Lord has both devised and done
What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
¹³⚓O you who dwell by many waters,
Abundant in treasures,
Your end has come,
The measure of your covetousness.
¹⁴⚓The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with men, ⚓as with locusts,
And they shall lift ⚓up a shout against you.”
¹⁵⚓He has made the earth by His power;
He has established the world by His wisdom,
And ⚓stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
¹⁶When He utters His voice—
There is a multitude of waters in the heavens:
⚓“He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightnings for the rain;
He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”
¹⁷⚓Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;
Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image;
⚓For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.
¹⁸They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
¹⁹The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things;
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance.
The Lord of hosts is His name.
²⁰“You⚓are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
²¹With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
²²With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces ⚓old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
²³With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.
²⁴“And⚓ I will repay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done
In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord.
²⁵“Behold, I am against you, ⚓O destroying mountain,
Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord.
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
Roll you down from the rocks,
⚓And make you a burnt mountain.
²⁶They shall not take from you a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for a foundation,
⚓But you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord.
²⁷⚓Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
⚓Prepare the nations against her,
Call ⚓the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
²⁸Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
²⁹And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every ⚓purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
⚓To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
⚓They became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
⚓The bars of her gate are broken.
³¹⚓One runner will run to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;
³²⚓The passages are blocked,
The reeds they have burned with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.
³³For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is⚓like a threshing floor
When⚓it is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
⚓And the time of her harvest will come.”
³⁴“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has ⚓devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an ⚓empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
³⁵Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
³⁶Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ⚓I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
⚓I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
³⁷⚓Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
⚓An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
³⁸They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
³⁹In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
⚓I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
⁴⁰“I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.
⁴¹“Oh, how ⚓Sheshach is taken!
Oh, how ⚓the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
⁴²⚓The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
⁴³⚓Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ⚓no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
⁴⁴I will punish ⚓Bel in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, ⚓the wall of Babylon shall fall.
⁴⁵“My⚓ people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
⁴⁶And lest your heart faint,
And you fear ⚓for the rumor that will be heard in the land
(A rumor will come one year,
And after that, in another year
A rumor will come,
And violence in the land,
Ruler against ruler),
⁴⁷Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.
⁴⁸Then ⚓the heavens and the earth and all that is in them
Shall sing joyously over Babylon;
⚓For the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the Lord.
⁴⁹As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.
⁵⁰⚓You who have escaped the sword,
Get away! Do not stand still!
⚓Remember the Lord afar off,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
⁵¹⚓We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces,
For strangers ⚓have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.
⁵²“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
⁵³⚓Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.
⁵⁴⚓The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,
⁵⁵Because the Lord is plundering Babylon
And silencing her loud voice,
Though her waves roar like great waters,
And the noise of their voice is uttered,
⁵⁶Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men are taken.
Every one of their bows is broken;
⚓For the Lordis the God of recompense,
He will surely repay.
⁵⁷“And I will make drunk
Her princes and ⚓wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says ⚓the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
⁵⁸Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly ⚓broken,
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
⚓The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”

Jeremiah’s Command to Seraiah

⁵⁹The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of ⚓Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster. ⁶⁰So Jeremiah ⚓wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. ⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, ⁶²then you shall say, ‘O Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that ⚓none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’ ⁶³Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, ⚓that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. ⁶⁴Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

51

Yawmsaub rau txim rau Npanpiloo

¹Yawmsaub hais li no tias, “Kuv yuav tshoov
ib tug uas ua kev puam tsuaj lub siab
kuas tawm tsam Npanpiloo,
thiab tawm tsam cov neeg Kheedia.
²Thiab yuav xa cov uas txawj ntxuaj
mus rau Npanpiloo,
mas lawv yuav ntxuaj nws.
Lawv yuav tsis tseg ib yam dabtsi
nyob hauv lub tebchaws
rau thaum uas lawv vij txhua fab tuaj,
yog hnub uas raug txom nyem ceeblaj.
³Tsis txhob tseev cov uas txawj tua hneev
nta tau hneev,
tsis txhob tseev lawv hnav tau
lub tsho hlau sawv li.
Tsis txhob tseg nws tej tub hluas siav li,
cia li muab nws tej tub rog coob coob
ua puam tsuaj huvsi.
⁴Lawv yuav raug muab tua tuag tag
rau hauv Kheedia tebchaws,
thiab raug mob hauv nws tej kev.
⁵Rau qhov Yixayee thiab Yuda tus Vajtswv
uas yog Yawmsaub muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus
tsis tau tso lawv tseg,
txawm yog lawv lub tebchaws⚓
muaj kev txhaum txim puv nkaus
rau Yixayee tus Vajtswv uas dawb huv kuj xij.

⁶“Cia li khiav tawm hauv nruab nrab Npanpiloo,
cia txhua tus huas siav dim.
Tsis txhob raug tua
rau thaum rau txim rau nws,
rau qhov no yog lub sijhawm
uas Yawmsaub ua pauj,
yog Yawmsaub ua pauj rau nws
raws li tsim nyog pauj.
⁷Npanpiloo twb txeev ua lub khob kub
uas nyob hauv Yawmsaub txhais tes,
ua rau lub ntiajteb huvsi qaug cawv,
thiab tej tebchaws tau haus
nws tej cawv txiv hmab,
mas tej tebchaws thiaj qaug cawv tag
tsis meej pem.
⁸Ib pliag ntshis xwb Npanpiloo
twb vau pes hlo tawg tag.
Cia li quaj nyiav nws.
Cia li muab tshuaj kho nws tej mob,
tej zaum yuav kho tau nws zoo kaj.
⁹‘Peb xav kho kom Npanpiloo zoo,
tiamsis nws tsis zoo.
Cia li muab nws tso tseg,
peb cia li mus,
nyias mus rau nyias lub tebchaws,
vim qhov uas txiav txim rau nws
loj nce mus nto ntuj,
thiab raug muab tsa mus txog ntua qab ntuj.
¹⁰Yawmsaub tsa peb txojcai lawm.
Cia li los,
cia peb piav Yawmsaub
uas yog peb tus Vajtswv tej haujlwm
rau hauv Xi‑oo.’

¹¹“Cia li hov rab xub vos
thiab tuav rawv daim hlau tiv thaiv.
Yawmsaub tshoov Midia tej vajntxwv lub siab,
vim nws twb npaj siab
yuav ua rau Npanpiloo puam tsuaj.
No yog qhov uas Yawmsaub ua pauj,
yog ua pauj nws lub tuam tsev.
¹²Cia li tsa chij ua rog rau lub loog Npanpiloo.
Cia li tso neeg zov zoo zoo,
thiab tsa cov uas faj xwm,
thiab npaj cov uas mus zov kev tos,
rau qhov Yawmsaub twb npaj tseg
thiab ua kom tiav raws li nws tau hais tseg
txog cov neeg hauv Npanpiloo.
¹³Koj tus uas nyob ntawm ntau tus dej
thiab muaj nyiaj txiag cuab txhiaj cuab tam
ntau kawg 'e,
koj lub caij kawg los txog lawm,
txoj hlua uas ntsuas koj txojsia
twb muab txiav tu nrho lawm.
¹⁴Yawmsaub uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus
tau tuav nws lub npe cog lus khov kho.
Kuv yeej yuav coj neeg tuaj
puv nkaus lub tebchaws,
coob yam nkaus li tej kooj txig,
mas lawv yuav tsa lub suab qw
uas kov yeej koj.

¹⁵“Nws yog tus uas siv nws lub hwjchim tsim lub ntiajteb,
thiab siv nws lub tswvyim tsim tsa lub qab ntuj,
thiab siv nws txojkev txawj ntse nthuav lub ntuj.
¹⁶Thaum nws tsa nws lub suab hu,
tej dej saum nruab ntug nrov vig voog,
thiab nws ua huab sawv tim qab ntuj kawg tuaj.
Nws ua xob laim rau thaum nag los,
thiab coj cua tawm hauv nws tej txhab cua los.
¹⁷Txhua tus neeg tsis thoob tsib
thiab tsis paub qabhau.
Txhua tus Kws ntaus kub yuav txaj muag
vim tej dab mlom uas nws ua,
rau qhov nws tej dab mlom yog cuav
thiab tsis txawj ua pa kiag li.
¹⁸Tej dab mlom ntawd tsis muaj qabhau kiag li,
yog tej uas ntxim thuam luag.
Thaum txog sijhawm teem txim,
tej ntawd yuav puam tsuaj tag.
¹⁹Tus uas yog Yakhauj li Vajtswv
tsis thooj li tej dab mlom ntawd,
rau qhov nws yog tus uas tsim txhua yam,
thiab haiv neeg Yixayee
yog nws qub txeeg qub teg,
nws lub npe hu ua Yawmsaub
uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus.

²⁰“Npanpiloo, koj yog kuv rab qws
thiab yog kuv tej cuab yeej ua rog,
kuv siv koj tsoo tej tebchaws
tawg ua tej dwb daim,
kuv siv koj ua rau tej tebchaws puam tsuaj tag.
²¹Kuv siv koj tsoo tej nees
thiab cov uas caij nees tawg ua tej dwb daim,
kuv siv koj tsoo tej tsheb ua rog
thiab cov uas tsav tsheb tawg ua tej dwb daim.
²²Kuv siv koj tsoo tej pojniam txivneej
tawg ua tej dwb daim,
kuv siv koj tsoo tej poj koob yawm txwv
thiab tej hluas tawg ua tej dwb daim,
kuv siv koj tsoo tej tub hluas ntxhais hluas
tawg ua tej dwb daim.
²³Kuv siv koj tsoo cov uas yug yaj
thiab lawv pab yaj tawg ua tej dwb daim,
kuv siv koj tsoo cov uas ua teb
thiab lawv tej nkawm nyuj tawg ua tej dwb daim,
kuv siv koj tsoo cov thawj hauv tej moos
thiab cov tim xyoob tawg ua tej dwb daim.
²⁴“Kuv yuav ua pauj rau Npanpiloo thiab cov neeg hauv Kheedia sawvdaws tab meeg koj pom ntsoov, ua pauj rau tej kev phem huvsi uas lawv ua hauv Xi‑oo.” Yawmsaub hais li no ntag.

²⁵Yawmsaub hais tias,
“Lub roob uas ua kom puam tsuaj 'e,
koj yog lub roob uas ua kom thoob ntiajteb
puam tsuaj, kuv tawm tsam koj.
Kuv yuav tsa kuv txhais tes tawm tsam koj,
thiab muab koj dov saum tsua los,
thiab muab koj ua lub roob uas kub hnyiab tag.
²⁶Luag yuav tsis muab koj tej pob zeb ib lub twg
coj mus ua lub thawj ntawm kaum tsev,
thiab tsis coj mus tiag taw ua tsev
tiamsis koj yuav ua lub chaw uas muab tso tseg
nyob do cuas mus ib txhis.”
Yawmsaub hais li no ntag.
²⁷“Cia li tsa chij ua rog rau hauv ntiajteb,
cia li tshuab raj kub yaj rau hauv tej tebchaws,
cia li npaj tej tebchaws tuaj ua rog rau nws,
cia li hu tebchaws Alalab thiab tebchaws Mini
thiab tebchaws Akhena tuaj ua rog rau nws.
Cia li tsa ib tug thawj rog mus tawm tsam nws,
cia li coj tej nees tuaj coob yam nkaus li
kooj txig ua npoj ntws.
²⁸Cia li npaj tej tebchaws tuaj ua rog rau nws,
yog npaj cov Midia tej vajntxwv
thiab cov thawj thiab tej tim xyoob,
thiab txhua lub tebchaws uas zwm rau Midia.
²⁹Lub tebchaws ntseeg nkaws
mob ntswj ib ce pes yos,
rau qhov Yawmsaub yeej yuav ua
raws li nws npaj tseg rau Npanpiloo,
yuav ua rau Npanpiloo nyob do cuas
tsis muaj neeg nyob hauv kiag li.
³⁰Npanpiloo tej tub rog twb tso tes tag lawm,
lawv lam nyob hauv lawv tej chaw ruaj khov xwb.
Lawv twb qaug zog tag lawm,
lawv zoo li pojniam xwb.
Tej vaj tse hauv Npanpiloo tabtom kub hnyiab,
tej las rooj kuj lov tag.
³¹Ib tug dhia tuaj tag los ib tug dhia tuaj thiab,
ib tug tshaj xo tuaj tag los ib tug tuaj thiab,
yog tuaj hais rau vajntxwv Npanpiloo tias
nws lub nroog twb raug luag txeeb tag nrho lawm.
³²Lub chaw hla dej luag twb txeeb tau lawm,
lub chaw faj xwm kub hnyiab tag,
thiab tej tub rog kuj ntshai ras zom zaws.”
³³Yawmsaub tus muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus
uas yog Yixayee tus Vajtswv hais li no tias,
“Npanpiloo tus ntxhais zoo yam nkaus li
lub tshav ntaus qoob rau thaum luag tuaj tsuj.
Ib pliag xwb twb yuav txog lub sijhawm hlais.

³⁴“Vajntxwv Nenpukhanexa hauv Npanpiloo
twb noj kuv⚓ lawm,
nws muab kuv tsuam lawm,
nws ua rau kuv zoo li
lub tais uas nyob khoom xwb,
nws muab kuv nqos kiag zoo li zaj nqos lawm,
nws muab kuv tej qhov txhia chaw uas qab
noj puv nkaus nws lub plab,
thiab nws muab kuv ntuav tawm mus.”
³⁵Cia tus uas nyob hauv Xi‑oo hais tias
“Cia txojkev ua limhiam ntais ntuj
uas ua rau kuv thiab kuv tej kwvtij⚓
rov poob rau saum Npanpiloo.”
Cia Yeluxalees hais tias,
“Kuv cov ntshav cia cov Kheedia ris.”
³⁶Vim li no Yawmsaub hais li no tias,
“Kuv yuav hais koj tshaj plaub
thiab sawv koj chaw ua pauj.
Kuv yuav ua rau nws lub hiavtxwv qhuav
thiab ua rau nws tej hauv dej saus.
³⁷Mas Npanpiloo yuav pob ua tej niag pawg cia,
ua chaw rau hma nkaum,
ua lub chaw uas luag ceeb thiab ntshai,
thiab ua rau luag thuam,
tsis muaj neeg nyob hauv li.
³⁸Lawv yuav ua ke nyooj laws li tsov ntxhuav,
lawv yuav quaj mluj mlom li
tej menyuam tsov ntxhuav.
³⁹Thaum uas lawv ua nyaum heev
kuv yuav npaj ib pluag noj haus rau lawv
ua kom lawv qaug cawv ua lom vab vab,
mus txog thaum lawv tsis meej pem
thiab pw tsaug zog mus ib txhis tsis xeev li.”
Yawmsaub hais li no ntag.
⁴⁰“Kuv yuav coj lawv los tua
yam li tua menyuam yaj
thiab tua tej txiv yaj txiv tshis.

⁴¹“Npanpiloo raug txeeb lawm lauj,
lub nroog uas thoob ntiajteb qhuas
raug ntes lawm lauj!
Npanpiloo tau ua lub chaw
uas ib tsoom tebchaws
ceeb thiab ntshai lawm lauj!
⁴²Dej hiavtxwv nphau tuaj nyab Npanpiloo,
tej niag nthwv dej nrov voog tuaj
npog nkaus nws.
⁴³Nws tej moos ua chaw rau luag ceeb thiab ntshai,
thiab ua lub tebchaws qhuav nkig nkuav
thiab ua ntuj nrag teb do,
ua lub tebchaws uas tsis muaj neeg nyob li,
thiab tsis muaj leejtwg hla hauv mus li.
⁴⁴Kuv yuav rau txim rau tus dab Npee hauv Npanpiloo,
thiab ua rau nws ntuav tej uas nws nqos lawm
tawm hauv lub ncauj los.
Tej tebchaws yuav tsis mus
nrhiav nws nchuav nthwv lawm.
Npanpiloo tej ntsa loog pob tag lawm lauj!

⁴⁵“Kuv cov neeg, cia li tawm hauv nws mus.
Cia txhua tus huas kom dim txojsia
ntawm qhov uas Yawmsaub npau taws heev.
⁴⁶Nej tsis txhob poob siab
thiab tsis txhob ntshai tej xov
uas hnov hauv lub tebchaws ntawd.
Muaj xov tuaj xyoo tag
los tseem tuaj xyoo thiab,
yog xov hais txog kev ua limhiam ntais ntuj
hauv lub tebchaws,
thiab ib tug thawj
kuj tawm tsam rau ib tug thawj.
⁴⁷Vim li no, saib maj,
lub caij lub nyoog tabtom los yuav txog
mas kuv yuav rau txim rau Npanpiloo tej dab mlom.
Nws lub tebchaws huvsi yuav raug txaj muag,
thiab nws cov neeg uas raug tua yuav ntog tag
rau hauv nruab nrab nws lub tebchaws.
⁴⁸Mas lub ntuj thiab lub ntiajteb
thiab txhua yam uas nyob hauv
yuav qw zoo siab xyiv fab txog Npanpiloo,
vim tus uas ua kom puam tsuaj yuav tuaj
sab qaum teb ped tuaj tawm tsam nws.”
Yawmsaub hais li no ntag.
⁴⁹“Npanpiloo yuav tsum ntog tuag tag
vim yog nws tua cov Yixayee,
ib yam li Npanpiloo ua rau ib tsoom neeg
thoob ntiajteb ntog tuag tag.

⁵⁰“Nej cov uas dim hniav ntaj,
cia li mus tsis txhob nyob twjywm tos.
Txawm yog nej nyob deb
los cia li nco txog Yawmsaub,
thiab cia Yeluxalees los nyob
hauv nej lub siab.”
⁵¹“Peb tau txaj muag,
vim yog peb hnov tej lus uas thuam peb.
Kev poob koob npog nkaus
peb lub ntsej muag tag,
vim lwm haiv neeg tau nkag rau hauv
Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev tej chav uas dawb huv.”

⁵²Yawmsaub hais tias, “Vim li no, saib maj,
lub caij lub nyoog tabtom los yuav txog
mas kuv yuav rau txim rau nws tej dab mlom,
thiab cov uas raug mob raug to
yuav quaj ntsaj thoob nws lub tebchaws.
⁵³Txawm yog Npanpiloo nce mus txog saum ntuj,
thiab ua tau nws lub chaw tiv thaiv
siab siab uas ruaj khov,
los cov uas ua kom puam tsuaj
yuav tuaj ntawm kuv mus tawm tsam nws.”
Yawmsaub hais li no ntag.

⁵⁴“Mloog saib, muaj suab quaj qw
hauv Npanpiloo tuaj,
muaj suab puam tsuaj loj nrov
hauv cov Kheedia lub tebchaws tuaj.
⁵⁵Yawmsaub tabtom ua rau
Npanpiloo piam tag,
thiab ua rau nws lub suab
uas nrov heev ntsiag to mus.
Tej tub rog tuaj nrov vig voog
yam li tej niag nthwv dej uas loj heev,
lawv tsa suab qw nrov heev,
⁵⁶rau qhov tus uas ua kom puam tsuaj
twb tuaj tawm tsam Npanpiloo.
Nws tej tub rog luag twb ntes tau tag lawm,
nws tej hneev kuj raug muab lov
ua tej ywb yav tag lawm,
vim Yawmsaub yog Vajtswv uas ua pauj,
nws yeej ua pauj tiag tiag li.
⁵⁷Kuv yuav ua rau nws cov thawj
thiab nws cov neeg txawj ntse,
thiab cov thawj hauv tej moos
thiab nws cov thawj rog
thiab nws tej tub rog qaug cawv tag.
Lawv yuav pw tsaug zog
mus ib txhis tsis xeev li.”
Tus vajntxwv uas npe hu ua Yawmsaub
uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus
hais li no ntag.

⁵⁸Yawmsaub uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus
hais li no tias,
“Npanpiloo tej ntsa loog uas tuab heev
yuav raug muab rhuav pob tag ti nkaus npoo av,
thiab nws tej rooj loog uas siab siab
yuav raug muab hlawv kub hnyiab tag.
Tej pejxeem ua tej haujlwm hnyav
do tsis muaj qabhau,
thiab tej tebchaws ua haujlwm khwv txog siav
kom raug muab hlawv pov tseg xwb.”

⁵⁹Tej lus no yog tej uas Yelemi uas ua xibhwb cev Vajtswv lus muab rau Xelaya rau thaum Xelaya nrog Yuda tus vajntxwv Xedekhiya mus rau Npanpiloo, yog xyoo plaub uas Xedekhiya ua vajntxwv kav. Xelaya yog Neliya tus tub, yog Maxeya tus xeeb ntxwv, nws yog tus thawj tub rog uas npaj chaw rau lawv so taug kev. ⁶⁰Yelemi sau tej kev xwm txheej phem huvsi uas yuav raug Npanpiloo rau hauv ntawv, yog tej lus sau cia uas hais txog Npanpiloo no huvsi. ⁶¹Mas Yelemi hais rau Xelaya tias, “Thaum koj mus txog Npanpiloo lawm, koj yuav tsum nyeem tej lus no huvsi nav, ⁶²thiab hais tias, ‘Au Yawmsaub, koj tau hais txog lub chaw no tias koj yuav muab rhuav pov tseg, kom thiaj tsis muaj ib yam dabtsi nyob hauv li, tsis hais neeg thiab tsiaj txhu, mas yuav nyob do cuas cia mus ib txhis.’ ⁶³Thaum koj nyeem phau ntawv no tag, cia li muab ib lub pob zeb khi rau phau ntawv, es muab pov rau hauv nruab nrab tus dej Yufeti, ⁶⁴thiab hais tias, ‘Npanpiloo yuav tog rau hauv ib yam li no tsis ntab los li, vim yog tej xwm txheej phem uas kuv yuav coj los raug nws.’ ”
Yelemi tej lus tag li no lawm.