Olugero lw’Omubumbi n’Ebbumba
1Kino ky’ekigambo ekyajjira Yeremiya ekyava eri Mukama nti, 2“Serengeta mu nnyumba y’omubumbi nkuweere eyo obubaka bwange.” 3Awo ne nserengeta eri ennyumba y’omubumbi ne mmulaba ng’akolera emirimu gye ku nnamuziga. 4Naye ekintu kye yali abumba kyali kyonoonekedde mu ngalo ze, omubumbi kyeyava akibumbamu ekintu ekirala ng’akibumba nga bwe yasiima.
5Awo ekigambo kya Mukama ne kinzijira nga kigamba nti, 618:6 Is 45:9; Bar 9:20-21“Gwe ennyumba ya Isirayiri, siyinza nze kubakola ng’omubumbi ono bw’akoze?” bw’ayogera Mukama. “Okufaanana ng’ebbumba mu mukono gw’omubumbi, bwe mutyo bwe muli mu ngalo zange, ggwe ennyumba ya Isirayiri. 718:7 Yer 1:10Ekiseera kyonna bwe nnangirira nti eggwanga oba obwakabaka bwa kusiguukululwa, okumenyebwa era n’okuzikirizibwa, 818:8 a Yer 26:13; Yon 3:8-10 b Ez 18:21; Kos 11:8-9era singa eggwanga lye nalabula lyenenya ebibi byalyo, olwo ndyejjusa ne sibatuusaako kabi ke nnali ŋŋambye okubakola. 918:9 Yer 1:10; 31:28Era ekiseera kyonna nnangirira ebikwata ku ggwanga oba obwakabaka nti ndizimba era ndisimba, 1018:10 a Ez 33:18 b 1Sa 2:29-30era bwe likola ebibi mu maaso gange, ne litaŋŋondera, ndyejjusa obulungi bwe nagamba okubakolera.
1118:11 a Yer 4:6 b 2Bk 17:13; Is 1:16-19 c Yer 7:3“Noolwekyo gamba abantu ba Yuda n’abo ababeera mu Yerusaalemi nti, ‘Kino Mukama ky’ayogera nti, Laba ntekateeka okubatuusaako ekikangabwa era nteesezza okubakola akabi. Kale muve mu makubo gammwe amabi, buli omu ku mmwe, mukyuse enneeyisa yammwe n’ebikolwa byammwe.’ 1218:12 Is 57:10; Yer 2:25Naye ne boogera nti, ‘Tekirina kye kigasa. Tujja kugenda mu maaso n’entegeka yaffe; buli omu ku ffe anaakolanga ng’obukakanyavu bw’omutima gwe bwe buli.’ ”
1318:13 a Is 66:8; Yer 2:10 b Yer 5:30Noolwekyo bw’ati Mukama ng’agamba nti,
“Mwebuuzeeko mu mawanga.
Ani eyali awuliddeko ekintu bwe kiti?
Muwala wange Isirayiri
akoze ekintu eky’ekivve.
14Omuzira oguli ku Lebanooni
gwali guwedde ku njazi zaakwo?
Amazzi gaakwo amannyogovu agava ewala
gaali galeseeyoko okukulukuta?
1518:15 a Yer 10:15 b Yer 6:16 c Is 57:14; 62:10Naye ate abantu bange banneerabidde,
banyookezza obubaane eri bakatonda abalala,
abaleetera okwesittala mu makubo gaabwe
era ne mu makubo ag’edda
era ne balaga mu bukubokubo.
1618:16 a Yer 25:9 b Yer 19:8 c Zab 22:7Ensi yaabwe ya kusigala matongo,
ekintu eky’okusekererwa emirembe gyonna,
abo bonna abayise balyewuunya
era ne banyeenya emitwe gyabwe.
1718:17 a Yer 13:24 b Yer 2:27Ndibasaasaanya mu maaso g’abalabe baabwe
ng’empewo eva ebuvanjuba;
ndibalaga mabega
so si maaso gange ku lunaku olw’okulabirako ennaku.”
1818:18 a Yer 11:19 b Mal 2:7 c Yer 5:13 d Zab 52:2Awo ne balyoka bagamba nti, “Mujje tubeeko kye tukola Yeremiya. Kubanga bakabona weebali banaatutegeezanga amateeka, n’amagezi tunaagafunanga ku bagezi, era n’ebyobunnabbi binaavanga mu bannabbi. Kaakano mujje tumulumbe tumuwakanye era tuleme okussaayo omwoyo ku bigambo bye.”
19Ompulirize, Ayi Mukama,
owulirize abampakanya kye bagamba.
2018:20 a Zab 35:7; 57:6 b Zab 106:23Ebikolwa ebirungi binaasasulwanga na bikolwa ebibi?
Bansimidde obunnya.
Ojjukire nga nayimirira mu maaso go
ne nkaaba ku lwabwe,
nga nsaba olekeraawo okubasunguwalira.
2118:21 a Yer 11:22 b Zab 109:9Noolwekyo abaana baabwe baleke bafe enjala,
obaweeyo battibwe n’ekitala.
Leka bakazi baabwe bafuuke bagumba era babe bannamwandu;
abasajja baabwe battibwe;
abavubuka baabwe batirimbulwe n’ekitala mu lutalo.
2218:22 a Yer 6:26 b Zab 140:5Leka okukaaba kuwulirwe nga kuva mu nnyumba zaabwe,
bwe banaalumbibwa ne bazindibwa embagirawo,
kubanga bansimidde ekinnya bankwate
era bateze ebigere byange emitego.
2318:23 a Yer 11:21 b Zab 109:14Naye Ayi Mukama, gw’omanyi byonna,
bye bateesa banzite.
Tobasonyiwa byonoono byabwe
wadde okusangulawo ebibi byabwe mu maaso go.
Obawangulire ddala,
era obabonereze mu kiseera ky’obusungu bwo.
At the potter’s house
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2‘Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.’ 3So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6He said, ‘Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?’ declares the Lord. ‘Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11‘Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, “This is what the Lord says: look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.” 12But they will reply, “It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.” ’
13Therefore this is what the Lord says:
‘Enquire among the nations:
who has ever heard anything like this?
A most horrible thing has been done
by Virgin Israel.
14Does the snow of Lebanon
ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources
ever stop flowing?18:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
15Yet my people have forgotten me;
they burn incense to worthless idols,
which made them stumble in their ways,
in the ancient paths.
They made them walk in byways,
on roads not built up.
16Their land will be an object of horror
and of lasting scorn;
all who pass by will be appalled
and will shake their heads.
17Like a wind from the east,
I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face
in the day of their disaster.’
18They said, ‘Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.’
19Listen to me, Lord;
hear what my accusers are saying!
20Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember that I stood before you
and spoke on their behalf
to turn your wrath away from them.
21So give their children over to famine;
hand them over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives be made childless and widows;
let their men be put to death,
their young men slain by the sword in battle.
22Let a cry be heard from their houses
when you suddenly bring invaders against them,
for they have dug a pit to capture me
and have hidden snares for my feet.
23But you, Lord, know
all their plots to kill me.
Do not forgive their crimes
or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.
