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Jeremias 38
Ang Pulong Sang Dios
Jeremias 38
Ang Pulong Sang Dios
Ginhulog si Jeremias sa Buho nga Pulunduhan sang Tubig
38 Nakabati sila ni Shefatia nga anak ni Matan, si Gedalia nga anak ni Pashur, si Jehucal nga anak ni Shelemia, kag si Pashur nga anak ni Malkia sa ginsiling ni Jeremias sa mga tawo. Amo ini ang ginsiling ni Jeremias, “Nagasiling ang Ginoo nga 2 ang bisan sin-o nga magpabilin sa sini nga siyudad mapatay sa inaway, gutom, kag balatian. Pero ang bisan sin-o nga magsurender sa mga taga-Babilonia[a] indi mapatay kundi maluwas kag mabuhi. 3 Nagasiling man ang Ginoo nga sigurado gid nga maagaw ini nga siyudad sang mga taga-Babilonia kag sakupon nila ini.”
4 Gani ato nga mga opisyal nagsiling sa hari, “Dapat patyon ini nga tawo. Ginapaluya lang niya ang mga soldado nga nabilin sa sini nga siyudad, pati ang tanan nga tawo, tungod sang iya ginapanghambal sa ila. Wala siya nagahandom sang kaayuhan sang mga tawo kundi sang ila kalaglagan.” 5 Nagsabat si Haring Zedekia, “Pagusto kamo kon ano ang himuon ninyo sa iya. Indi ako makapamalabag.”
6 Gani ginkuha nila si Jeremias kag gintunton sa buho nga pulunduhan sang tubig didto sa lagwerta sang mga guwardya. Ini nga pulunduhan sang tubig ginapanag-iyahan ni Malkia nga anak sang hari. Wala ini sing tubig pero may lunang, kag halos nalubong didto si Jeremias.
7-8 Pero sang mabatian ni Ebed Melec nga taga-Etiopia[b], nga isa sa mga opisyal sang palasyo, nga ginsulod si Jeremias sa buho nga pulunduhan sang tubig, nagkadto siya sa hari didto sa palasyo. Nagapungko sadto ang hari sa Puwertahan ni Benjamin. Nagsiling siya sa hari, 9 “Mahal nga Hari, malain ang ginhimo sang sina nga mga tawo kay Jeremias. Ginhulog nila siya sa buho, kag mapatay gid siya didto sa gutom kon maubos na ang pagkaon sa siyudad.” 10 Dayon nagmando ang hari kay Ebed Melec, “Upda ang 30 sa akon mga tinawo kag kuhaa ninyo si Jeremias sa buho agod indi siya mapatay.”
11 Gani gin-upod ni Ebed Melec ang mga tawo kag nagkadto sila sa bodega sang palasyo. Nagkuha si Ebed Melec didto sang mga lapat kag gintunton dayon nila ini upod sa lubid didto kay Jeremias sa buho. 12 Nagsiling si Ebed Melec kay Jeremias, “Ihapin sa imo ilok ang mga lapat agod indi ka masakitan sang lubid.” Ginhimo ato ni Jeremias, 13 kag dayon ginbatak nila siya paguwa sa buho. Kag nagpabilin nga priso si Jeremias didto sa lagwerta sang mga guwardya.
Ginpatawag Liwat ni Haring Zedekia si Jeremias
14 Karon, ginpatawag ni Haring Zedekia si Jeremias didto sa ikatatlo nga puwertahan sang templo sang Ginoo. Nagsiling si Zedekia kay Jeremias, “May ipamangkot ako sa imo, kag gusto ko nga sugiran mo ako sing matuod.”
15 Nagsiling si Jeremias kay Zedekia, “Kon sugiran ko ikaw sing matuod, ipapatay mo ako. Bisan laygayan ko pa ikaw, indi ka gihapon magpamati sa akon.” 16 Pero nagsumpa sing sekreto si Haring Zedekia kay Jeremias. Siling niya, “Nagasumpa ako sa Ginoo nga buhi, nga naghatag sa aton sang kabuhi, nga indi ko ikaw pagpatyon ukon pag-itugyan sa gusto magpatay sa imo.”
17 Nagsiling si Jeremias kay Zedekia, “Amo ini ang ginasiling sang Ginoong Dios nga Makagagahom, ang Dios sang Israel: Kon magsurender ka sa mga opisyal sang hari sang Babilonia, maluwas mo ang imo kabuhi kag indi pagsunugon ini nga siyudad. Ikaw kag ang imo panimalay mabuhi. 18 Pero kon indi ka gani magsurender, itugyan ini nga siyudad sa mga taga-Babilonia, kag sunugon nila ini kag indi ka gid makapalagyo sa ila.” 19 Nagsiling si Haring Zedekia, “Nahadlok ako sa mga Judio nga nagadampig sa mga taga-Babilonia. Basi kon itugyan ako sang mga taga-Babilonia sa ila kag sakiton nila ako.”
20 Nagsabat si Jeremias, “Indi ka pag-itugyan sa ila kon tumanon mo lang ang Ginoo. Kon sundon mo ang akon ginasiling, maluwas ang imo kabuhi, kag wala sing may matabo sa imo. 21 Pero kon indi ka gani magsurender, amo ini ang ginpahayag sang Ginoo sa akon nga matabo sa imo: 22 Ang tanan nga babayi nga nabilin sa imo palasyo pagadal-on sang mga opisyal sang hari sang Babilonia. Ini nga mga babayi magasiling sa imo: ‘Gintunto ka lang sang imo suod nga mga abyan. Karon nga ang imo mga tiil nagalubong sa lunang, ginbayaan ka nila.’
23 “Ang tanan mo nga asawa kag kabataan pagabihagon sang mga taga-Babilonia. Ikaw mismo indi makapalagyo sa ila; bihagon ka sang hari sang Babilonia, kag pagasunugon ini nga siyudad.”
24 Dayon nagsiling si Zedekia kay Jeremias, “Indi ka gid magpanugid sang aton gin-estoryahan agod indi ka mapatay. 25 Basi kon mabalitaan sang mga opisyal nga nag-estoryahanay kita kag mamangkot sila sa imo, ‘Ano ang inyo gin-estoryahan sang hari? Kon indi ka manugid patyon ka namon.’ 26 Kon matabo ini, silingon mo sila, ‘Nagpakitluoy ako sa hari nga indi niya ako pag-ibalik sa balay ni Jonatan agod mapatay didto.’ ”
27 Nagkadto matuod ang mga opisyal kay Jeremias kag ginpamangkot siya. Ginsabat niya sila suno sa ginsiling sang hari sa iya. Gani wala na sila magsagi pangusisa, kay wala man sing may nakabati sang pag-estoryahanay ni Jeremias kag sang hari.
28 Nagpabilin nga priso si Jeremias didto sa lagwerta sang mga guwardya hasta sang adlaw nga naagaw ang Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 38
New International Version
Jeremiah 38
New International Version
Jeremiah Thrown Into a Cistern
38 Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur(A), Jehukal[a](B) son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah heard what Jeremiah was telling all the people when he said, 2 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague,(C) but whoever goes over to the Babylonians[b] will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.’(D) 3 And this is what the Lord says: ‘This city will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.’”(E)
4 Then the officials(F) said to the king, “This man should be put to death.(G) He is discouraging(H) the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”
5 “He is in your hands,”(I) King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing(J) to oppose you.”
6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard.(K) They lowered Jeremiah by ropes(L) into the cistern; it had no water in it,(M) only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.(N)
7 But Ebed-Melek,(O) a Cushite,[c] an official[d](P) in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,(Q) 8 Ebed-Melek went out of the palace and said to him, 9 “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern,(R) where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread(S) in the city.”
10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melek the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
11 So Ebed-Melek took the men with him and went to a room under the treasury in the palace. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from there and let them down with ropes(T) to Jeremiah in the cistern. 12 Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so, 13 and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.(U)
Zedekiah Questions Jeremiah Again
14 Then King Zedekiah sent(V) for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the Lord. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide(W) anything from me.”
15 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I give you an answer, will you not kill me? Even if I did give you counsel, you would not listen to me.”
16 But King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly(X) to Jeremiah: “As surely as the Lord lives, who has given us breath,(Y) I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who want to kill you.”(Z)
17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender(AA) to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.(AB) 18 But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands(AC) of the Babylonians and they will burn(AD) it down; you yourself will not escape(AE) from them.’”
19 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid(AF) of the Jews who have gone over(AG) to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians may hand me over to them and they will mistreat me.”
20 “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey(AH) the Lord by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well(AI) with you, and your life(AJ) will be spared. 21 But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the Lord has revealed to me: 22 All the women(AK) left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you:
“‘They misled you and overcame you—
those trusted friends(AL) of yours.
Your feet are sunk in the mud;(AM)
your friends have deserted you.’
23 “All your wives and children(AN) will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape(AO) from their hands but will be captured(AP) by the king of Babylon; and this city will[e] be burned down.”(AQ)
24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know(AR) about this conversation, or you may die. 25 If the officials hear that I talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us or we will kill you,’ 26 then tell(AS) them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house(AT) to die there.’”
27 All the officials did come to Jeremiah and question him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard his conversation with the king.
28 And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard(AU) until the day Jerusalem was captured.
The Fall of Jerusalem(AV)
This is how Jerusalem(AW) was taken:
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 38:1 Hebrew Jukal, a variant of Jehukal
- Jeremiah 38:2 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 18, 19 and 23
- Jeremiah 38:7 Probably from the upper Nile region
- Jeremiah 38:7 Or a eunuch
- Jeremiah 38:23 Or and you will cause this city to
Jeremiah 38
King James Version
Jeremiah 38
King James Version
38 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
2 Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
3 Thus saith the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king saying,
9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the Lord hath shewed me:
22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
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