1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 ¶ Shall I not visit them for these things ? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12 ¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women , that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them .
23 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
9–BOB
1 Koshkiydi, boshim bir buloq boʻlsa,
Koʻzlarim yoshlar chashmasi boʻlsa.
Xalqim halokatga uchragani uchun,
Kechayu kunduz yigʻlagan boʻlar edim!
2 Qaniydi, sahroda bir qoʻnolgʻam boʻlsa,
Men xalqimni tark etgan boʻlardim,
Ularning orasidan chiqib ketardim!
Axir, ularning hammasi zinokor, xoinlar toʻdasidir.
3 Egamiz shunday demoqda:
“Xalqim tillarini kamon kabi qayirib,
Yolgʻon soʻzlarni oʻqdek otishadi.
Xalqim nohaqlik qilib, yurtda kuchayib bormoqda,
Yomonlik ketidan yomonlik qilmoqda,
Ular Meni tan olmaydilar.
4 Qoʻshningizdan ehtiyot boʻling,
Qarindoshingizga ishonmang.
Hamma qarindoshingiz yolgʻonchi ,
Hamma qoʻshningiz tuhmatchi.
5 Qoʻshni qoʻshnisini aldaydi,
Birontasi toʻgʻri gap gapirmaydi.
Tili yolgʻon gapirishga oʻrganib qolgan.
Holdan toyguncha gunoh qilishadi.
6 Ey Yeremiyo, sen yolgʻonchilar orasida yashayapsan,
Ular yolgʻonlari dastidan
Meni tan olishni xohlamayaptilar.”
Egamizning kalomi shudir.
7 Shu sababdan Sarvari Olam demoqda:
“Men xalqimni sinovdan oʻtkazib, poklayman.
Ularni boshqa nima ham qilar edim?!
8 Ularning tili halokat keltiradigan oʻqqa oʻxshaydi,
Ogʻzidan faqat yolgʻon soʻzlar chiqadi.
Qoʻshnilariga shirin gapirishadi,
Ichlarida esa ularni tuzoqqa tushirmoqchi boʻlishadi.
9 Shunday ekan, bu qilmishlari uchun ularni jazolamaymi?!
Shunday bir xalqdan oʻch olmaymi?!”
Egamizning kalomi shudir.
10 Men togʻlar uchun faryod qilib, yigʻlayman,
Dashtdagi yaylovlar uchun marsiya aytaman,
Chunki yaylovlarning hammasi qurib qolgan.
U yerdan hech kim oʻtmaydi,
Sigirlarning maʼrashi eshitilmaydi.
Qushlaru hayvonlar bu yerlarni tark etgan.
11 Egamiz shunday dedi:
“Men Quddusni vayron qilaman,
Bu yerni chiyaboʻrilarning makoniga aylantiraman.
Yahudo shaharlari huvullab qoladi,
U yerda bironta ham odam qolmaydi.”
12 Men Egamizdan soʻradim:
— Ey Egam, nechun bu yurt shu qadar vayron boʻlib ketdi? Nechun sahro kabi huvullab qoldi? U yerda bironta ham sayyoh koʻrinmaydi. Qaysi farosatli odamning bunga aqli yetadi?! Sen bularni kim orqali xalqqa yetkazasan?
13 Egamiz shunday javob berdi:
— Men xalqimga qonunlar bergan edim, lekin ular rad etdilar, Menga itoat etmadilar, qonunlarimga rioya qilmadilar. 14 Aksincha, yuraklarining oʻjarliklariga itoat qildilar, ota–bobolari oʻrgatgandek Baalga sigʻindilar. 15 Shuning uchun Men bu xalqqa achchiq oʻtdan yedirib, zaharli suvdan ichiraman, — deb aytmoqda Isroil xalqining Xudosi — Sarvari Olam. 16 — Oʻzlari va ota–bobolari bilmagan xalqlar orasiga Men ularni tarqatib yuboraman. Ularning ketidan qilich joʻnatib, qirdirib tashlayman.
Quddus aholisi aza tutadi
17 Sarvari Olam shunday demoqda:
“Endi quloq soling!
Yigʻichi ayollarni chaqirib keling,
Ularning eng mohirlari kelsin.”
18 Xalq shunday dedi:
“Ularga ayting, tezroq kelsin.
Biz uchun marsiya aytishsin,
Koʻzimizdan yoshlar oqsin,
Kipriklarimizdan suvlar toʻkilsin.
19 Ana, Quddusdan faryod eshitilmoqda:
«Xonavayron boʻldik!
Qanday sharmandagarchilik!
Yurtimizni tark etishga majburmiz,
Uylarimiz vayron boʻldi.»”
20 Ey ayollar, Egamizning soʻzini eshiting,
Uning ogʻzidan chiqqan har bir soʻziga quloq soling.
Qizlaringizga marsiya aytishni oʻrgating,
Bir–biringizga yigʻi qoʻshigʻini yodlating.
21 Ana, derazalardan oʻlim oʻrmaladi,
Qalʼalarimizga kirib oldi.
Koʻchalardagi bolalarni yoʻq qilib tashladi,
Maydonlardagi yoshlarni qirib yubordi.
22 Ey ayollar, sizlar ayting:
“Egamiz shunday demoqda:
«Odamlarning jasadlari yotadi
Daladagi goʻng kabi
Oʻroq solingan bugʻdoy kabi,
Ularni hech kim yigʻishtirib olmaydi.»”
23 Egamiz shunday deb aytmoqda: “Donolar donoligi bilan maqtanmasin. Kuchlilar kuchi bilan maqtanmasin. Boylar boyligi bilan maqtanmasin. 24 Kim maqtanmoqchi boʻlsa, Egamizni bilaman, deb maqtansin, Egamizni tushunaman, deb maqtansin. Men Egangizman. Men mehr–shafqat koʻrsataman, yer yuzida adolatu haqiqat ila ish tutaman. Bunday qilishdan Men zavqlanaman.” Egamizning kalomi shudir.
25 Egamiz demoqda: “Shunday kunlar keladiki, badani sunnat qilingan, ammo yuragi sunnat qilinmagan odamlarning hammasini Men jazolayman. 26 Ha, Men Misrliklarni, Edom naslini, Ommon xalqini, Moʻabliklarni, sochini oldirib yuradigan choʻl qabilalarining hammasini va ular bilan birga Oʻz xalqim Yahudoni jazolayman. Aslida, bu xalqlarning hammasi sunnatsiz, ularning yuragi sunnat qilinmagan.”
