1 In the raashayath (beginning) of the mamalakah (reign) of Yahawayaqayam (Jehoiakim) the ban (son) of Yaashayah (Josiah), malak (king) of Yahawadah (Judah), came this dabar (word / matter) to Yaramayah (Jeremiah) from Yahawah (), amar (spoke),
2 Thus amar (spoke) Yahawah () to me: “ishah (make) mawasarawath (bonds) and bars, and nathan (give) them on your tzawaar (neck);
3 And shalach (send) them to the malak (king) of Adawam (Edom), and to the malak (king) of Mawaab (Moab), and to the malak (king) of the banay (children) of Imawan (Ammon), and to the malak (king) of Tzar (Tyre), and to the malak (king) of Tzayadawan (Sidon), by the yad (hand) of the malaakayam (messengers) who bawaa (come) to Yarawashalam (Jerusalem) to Tzadaqayah (Zedekiah) malak (king) of Yahawadah (Judah);
4 And give them a tzawah (command) to their adawan (master / lord), amar (spoke), ‘Thus thaamaraw (says) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies), the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel), “You shall amar (spoke) your adawan (master / lord):
5 ‘I ishah (make) made the aratz (Earth/land), the adam (men) and the animals that are on the surface of the aratz (Earth/land), by my gadawal (very great/important/mighty) kach (strength / mighty / power) and by my natah (outstretched) zarawai (arm); and I nathan (give) it to whom it seems yashar (upright) to me.
6 Now nathan (give) I given all these aratzawath (lands) into the yad (hand) of Nabawakadanaatzar (Nebuchadnezzar) the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon), my ibad (servant); and the animals of the shadah (field) also nathan (give) I given him to ibad (servant) him.
7 All the gawayam (heathen) shall ibad (servant) him, and his ban (son), and his ban (son) ban (son), until the ith (time) of his own aratz (Earth/land) bawaa (bring): and then many gawayam (heathen) and gadawal (very great/important/mighty) malakayam (kings) shall ibad (servant) him their bondservant.
8 “‘“‘It shall happen, that the gaway (heathen / nation) and the mamalakah (kingdom) which will not ibad (servant) the same Nabawakadanaatzar (Nebuchadnezzar) malak (king) of Babal (Babylon), and that will not nathan (give) their tzawaar (neck) under the il (over) of the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon),’ that gaway (heathen / nation) will I paqad (visit), naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (), ‘with the charab (sword), and with the raib (famine), and with the dabar (word / matter), until I thamam (have) consumed them by his yad (hand).
9 But as for you, don't you shamai (hearken / hear) to your nabayaa (prophet/prophecy), nor to your diviners, nor to your chalawam (dreams), nor to your inan (cloud), nor to your kashap (sorcerers), who amar (said) to you, amar (said), “You shall not ibad (servant) the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon):”
10 For they nabaa (prophesy) a shaqar (lie) to you, to rachaq (remove) you far from your adamah (land), and that I should nadach (drive) you out, and you should abad (destroy / perish).
11 But the gaway (heathen / nation) that shall bawaa (come) their tzawaar (neck) under the il (over) of the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon), and ibad (servant) him, that nation will I yanach (let) remain in their own adamah (land),’ naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (); ‘and they shall ibad (servant) it, and yashab (inhabit/dwell) therein.’”’”
12 I dabar (word / matter) to Tzadaqayah (Zedekiah) malak (king) of Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah) according to all these dabarayam (words), amar (said), “bawaa (bring) your tzawaar (necks) under the il (over) of the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon), and ibad (servant) him and his im (nation / people), and chayah (live).
13 Why will you mawath (death), you and your im (nation / people), by the charab (sword), by the raib (famine), and by the dabar (word / matter), as Yahawah () has dabar (word / matter) concerning the gaway (heathen / nation) that will not ibad (servant) the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon)?
14 Don't shamai (hearken / hear) to the dabaray (words) of the nabaayam (prophets) who amar (said) to you, amar (said), ‘You shall not ibad (servant) the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon);’ for they nabaa (prophesy) a shaqar (lie) to you.
15 For I have not shalach (send) them,” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (), “but they nabaa (prophesy) falsely in my sham (name); that I may nadach (drive) you out, and that you may abad (destroy / perish), you, and the nabaayam (prophets) who nabaa (prophesy) to you.”
16 Also I dabar (word / matter) to the kahanayam (priests) and to all this im (nation / people), amar (spoke), Thus amar (spoke) Yahawah (): “Don't shamai (hearken / hear) to the dabaray (words) of your nabayaa (prophet/prophecy) who nabaa (prophesy) to you, amar (spoke), ‘Behold, the kalay (vessels) of Yahawah () bayath (house) shall now maharah (shortly) be shawab (turn back / repent) again from Babal (Babylon);’ for they nabaa (prophesy) a shaqar (lie) to you.
17 Don't shamai (hearken / hear) to them; ibad (servant) the malak (king) of Babal (Babylon), and chayah (live): why should this iyar (city) become a desolation?
18 But if they be nabaayam (prophets), and if the dabar (word / matter) of Yahawah () be with them, let them now pagai (make) intercession to Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies), that the kalayam (vessels) which are yathar (left) in the bayath (house) of Yahawah (), and in the bayath (house) of the malak (king) of Yahawadah (Judah), and at Yarawashalam (Jerusalem), don't bawaa (come) to Babal (Babylon).
19 For thus amar (spoke) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies) concerning the imadayam (pillars), and concerning the yam (sea/waters), and concerning the makanawath (bases), and concerning the yathar (residue) of the kalayam (vessels) that are yathar (left) in this iyar (city),
20 Which Nabawakadanaatzar (Nebuchadnezzar) malak (king) of Babal (Babylon) didn't laqach (take / seize), when he galah (carried) away captive Yakanayah (Jeconiah) the ban (son) of Yahawayaqayam (Jehoiakim), malak (king) of Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah), from Yarawashalam (Yarawashalam / Jerusalem) to Babal (Babylon), and all the charay (nobles) of Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah) and Yarawashalam (Yarawashalam / Jerusalem);
21 Yes, thus amar (spoke) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies), the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel), concerning the kalayam (vessels) that are yathar (left) in the bayath (house) of Yahawah (), and in the bayath (house) of the malak (king) of Yahawadah (Judah), and at Yarawashalam (Jerusalem):
22 ‘They shall be bawaa (come) to Babal (Babylon), and there shall they be, until the yawam (day) that I paqad (visit) them,’ naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (); ‘then will I ilah (go up / offer) them up, and shawab (turn back / repent) them to this maqawam (place).’”