¹ Riječ koja se javi Jeremiji za sve Judejce što življahu u zemlji egipatskoj, što življahu u Migdolu, u Tafnisu, u Memfisu i u zemlji Patrosu.

² Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama, Bog Izraelov: "I sami vidjeste svu nesreću koju sam svalio na Jeruzalem i na sve gradove judejske: evo danas su to gomile ruševina, a u njima nitko više ne živi,

³ zbog nedjela njihovih što ih učiniše da bi mene vrijeđali, polazeći drugim bogovima kojih nisu poznavali ni oni, ni vi, ni oci vaši, da im kade i da im služe.

⁴ A ja sam vam jednako slao svoje sluge proroke da vam kažu: 'Ne činite tih gnusoba koje su mi ogavne!'

⁵ Ali me oni nisu slušali, niti su uho svoje priklonili da se okane zloće svoje i prestanu kaditi tuđim bogovima.

⁶ Zato se izli gnjev moj i srdžba moja i rasplamtje se u gradovima judejskim i po ulicama jeruzalemskim, te se pretvoriše u pustoš i razvaline, kao što su danas.

⁷ Zašto sami svaljujete na se tako golemu nesreću" - govori Jahve, Bog nad Vojskama, Bog Izraelov - "te sami do korijena istrebljujete iz Judeje sve muško i žensko, djecu i dojenčad, te vam ni ostatka ostati neće,

⁸ jer me vrijeđate djelima ruku svojih, kadeći tuđim bogovima u zemlji egipatskoj, u koju ste došli prebivati, a bit ćete iskorijenjeni i postat ćete kletva i ruglo među svim narodima na zemlji?

⁹ Jeste li zaboravili bezakonja otaca svojih, bezakonja kraljeva judejskih, bezakonja knezova svojih i žena njihovih i bezakonja svoja, bezakonja žena svojih, počinjena u zemlji judejskoj i po ulicama jeruzalemskim?

¹⁰ Do dana današnjega nisu se pokajali, nisu se bojali, nisu živjeli po Zakonu mojemu ni po odredbama mojim, koje dadoh vama i ocima vašim."

¹¹ Zato ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama, Bog Izraelov: "Evo, okrećem svoje lice vama, na nesreću vašu, da zatrem svu zemlju judejsku.

¹² Odnijet ću ostatak Judeje koji je odlučio da ide u zemlju egipatsku da se ondje stani; svi će izginuti u zemlji egipatskoj, past će od mača, od gladi će pogibati, poginut će svi, malo i veliko, pomrijet će od mača i gladi, i bit će prokletstvo, užas, kletva i poruga.

¹³ Kaznit ću sve koji budu u zemlji egipatskoj, kao što sam kaznio Jeruzalem: mačem, glađu i kugom.

¹⁴ A od ostatka Judeje koji je došao da se stani u Egiptu, nitko neće uteći ni preživjeti da bi se mogao vratiti u zemlju judejsku za kojom im duše čeznu, da se u nju vrate i ondje nastane. Jer se nitko neće vratiti, osim izbjeglica."

¹⁵ I tada svi muškarci koji su znali da im žene kade tuđim bogovima, i sve nazočne žene, u velikom mnoštvu, i sav narod što življaše u zemlji egipatskoj i u Patrosu odgovoriše Jeremiji:

¹⁶ "Riječi koje si u ime Jahvino nama objavio mi ne slušamo;

¹⁷ naprotiv, i dalje ćemo se držati zadane riječi: kadit ćemo nebeskoj kraljici i lijevati ljevanice, kao što smo i mi i oci naši, naši kraljevi i knezovi činili u gradovima judejskim i po ulicama jeruzalemskim: tada imadosmo kruha izobila, bijasmo sretni i ne trpjesmo nikakvih nesreća.

¹⁸ Ali otkako prestadosmo kaditi nebeskoj kraljici i lijevati joj ljevanice, u svemu smo oskudijevali i od mača i gladi pogibali."

¹⁹ A žene rekoše: "Kad kadimo kraljici nebeskoj i lijevamo joj ljevanice, zar joj bez znanja svojih muževa pečemo kolače u obliku lika njezina i lijevamo ljevanice?"

²⁰ Tada Jeremija svemu narodu, muškarcima i ženama, i svim ljudima koji su mu tako govorili reče:

²¹ "Nije li se Jahve spomenuo i nije li ga u srce dirnuo tamjan što ste ga palili po ulicama jeruzalemskim, vi i oci vaši, vaši kraljevi, knezovi i puk zemaljski?

²² Jahve više nije mogao podnositi zlodjela vaših i gnusoba koje počiniste, i zato se zemlja vaša pretvorila u pustoš i ruševine, u prokletstvo, bez stanovnika, kao što je i danas.

²³ Zbog toga što ste, prinoseći tamjan, zgriješili Jahvi, što Jahvina glasa ne slušaste i Jahvina se Zakona i njegovih se naredaba i svjedočanstava ne držaste, snađe vas ova nevolja, kakva je danas."

²⁴ Zatim reče Jeremija svemu narodu, osobito ženama: "Čujte riječ Jahvinu, svi Judejci koji ste u zemlji egipatskoj:

²⁵ Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama, Bog Izraelov: 'Vi žene, ono što vaša usta obećaju, to vaše ruke moraju i izvršiti. Rekoste: 'Mi ćemo se tvrdo držati zavjeta što ih učinismo: kaditi kraljici nebeskoj i lijevati joj ljevanice.' Držite se samo svojih zavjeta i lijevajte revno ljevanice!

²⁶ Ali čujte zato riječ Jahvinu, svi vi Judejci nastanjeni u zemlji egipatskoj! Evo, zaklinjem se velikim imenom svojim,' govori Jahve. 'U svoj zemlji egipatskoj nijedna usta judejska neće više izustiti mojega imena; nitko neće reći: 'Živoga mi Jahve!'

²⁷ Evo, bdim nad njima, na nesreću, a ne na dobro njihovo: svi ljudi judejski što su u zemlji egipatskoj poginut će od mača i gladi do potpunog istrebljenja.

²⁸ I bit će malo onih koji će izbjeći maču i vratiti se iz egipatske zemlje u zemlju judejsku. Onda će sav ostatak judejski, svi koji dođoše u zemlju egipatsku da ondje žive, spoznati čija riječ vrijedi, moja ili njihova.

²⁹ A ovo neka vam bude znamenje - riječ je Jahvina - da ću vas kazniti na ovome mjestu, da biste znali da će se vama na nesreću ispuniti prijetnje moje protiv vas.'

³⁰ Ovako govori Jahve: 'Gle, predat ću faraona Hofru, kralja egipatskoga, u ruke njegovim neprijateljima i u ruke onih koji mu rade o glavi, baš kao što sam Sidkiju, kralja Judejskoga, predao u ruke Nabukodonozora, kralja babilonskoga, neprijatelja njegova, koji mu je radio o glavi.'"

¹ Hannah prayed, and said: "My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

² There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

³ "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

⁴ "The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

⁵ Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

⁶ "Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

⁷ Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.

⁹ He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

¹⁰ Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."

¹¹ Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.

¹³ The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

¹⁴ and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

¹⁵ Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."

¹⁶ If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;" then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."

¹⁷ The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

¹⁹ Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

²⁰ Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.

²¹ Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

²² Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

²³ He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

²⁴ No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.

²⁵ If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

²⁶ The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.

²⁷ A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?

²⁸ Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

²⁹ Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

³⁰ "Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

³¹ Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.

³² You shall see the affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth which [God] shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

³³ The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

³⁴ "'This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall both die.

³⁵ I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.

³⁶ It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"