Jeremiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Jeremiah 16 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Και έγεινε λόγος Κυρίου προς εμέ, λέγων,
1 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 Μη λάβης εις σεαυτόν γυναίκα μηδέ να γείνωσιν εις σε υιοί μηδέ θυγατέρες εν τω τόπω τούτω.
2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
3 Διότι ούτω λέγει Κύριος περί των υιών και περί των θυγατέρων των γεννωμένων εν τω τόπω τούτω και περί των μητέρων αυτών, αίτινες εγέννησαν αυτούς, και περί των πατέρων αυτών, οίτινες ετεκνοποίησαν αυτούς εν τη γη ταύτη·
3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
4 θέλουσιν αποθάνει με οδυνηρόν θάνατον· δεν θέλουσι κλαυθή ουδέ θέλουσι ταφή· θέλουσιν είσθαι διά κοπρίαν επί το πρόσωπον της γης, και θέλουσιν αφανισθή υπό μαχαίρας και υπό πείνης, και τα πτώματα αυτών θέλουσιν είσθαι τροφή εις τα πετεινά του ουρανού και εις τα θηρία της γης.
4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
5 Διότι ούτω λέγει Κύριος· Μη εισέλθης εις οίκον πένθους και μη υπάγης να πενθήσης μηδέ να συγκλαύσης αυτούς· διότι αφήρεσα την ειρήνην μου από του λαού τούτου, λέγει Κύριος, το έλεος και τους οικτιρμούς.
5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.
6 Και θέλουσιν αποθάνει μεγάλοι και μικροί εν τη γη ταύτη· δεν θέλουσι ταφή ουδέ θέλουσι κλαύσει αυτούς ουδέ θέλουσι κάμει εντομάς εις τα σώματα αυτών ουδέ θέλουσι ξυρισθή δι' αυτούς·
6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.
7 ουδέ θέλουσι διαμοιράσει άρτον εις το πένθος προς παρηγορίαν αυτών διά τον τεθνεώτα, ουδέ θέλουσι ποτίσει αυτούς το ποτήριον της παρηγορίας διά τον πατέρα αυτών ή διά την μητέρα αυτών.
7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Και δεν θέλεις εισέλθει εις οίκον συμποσίου, διά να συγκαθήσης μετ' αυτών διά να φάγης και να πίης.
8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
9 Διότι ούτω λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων, ο Θεός του Ισραήλ Ιδού, εγώ θέλω παύσει από του τόπου τούτου, ενώπιον των οφθαλμών υμών και εν ταις ημέραις υμών, την φωνήν της χαράς και την φωνήν της ευφροσύνης, την φωνήν του νυμφίου και την φωνήν της νύμφης.
9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 Και όταν αναγγείλης προς τον λαόν τούτον πάντας τούτους τους λόγους, και είπωσι προς σε, Διά τι ο Κύριος επρόφερεν άπαν τούτο το μέγα κακόν εναντίον ημών; και τις η ανομία ημών; και τις η αμαρτία ημών, την οποίαν ημαρτήσαμεν εις Κύριον τον Θεόν ημών;
10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
11 Τότε θέλεις ειπεί προς αυτούς, Επειδή με εγκατέλιπον οι πατέρες υμών, λέγει Κύριος, και υπήγαν οπίσω άλλων θεών και ελάτρευσαν αυτούς και προσεκύνησαν αυτούς και εγκατέλιπον εμέ και τον νόμον μου δεν εφύλαξαν·
11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
12 και επειδή σεις επράξατε χειρότερα παρά τους πατέρας υμών, και ιδού, περιπατείτε έκαστος οπίσω της ορέξεως της πονηράς αυτού καρδίας, ώστε να μη υπακούητε εις εμέ·
12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
13 διά τούτο θέλω απορρίψει υμάς από της γης ταύτης, εις την γην, την οποίαν δεν εγνωρίσατε, υμείς και οι πατέρες υμών· και εκεί θέλετε λατρεύσει άλλους θεούς ημέραν και νύκτα· διότι δεν θέλω κάμει έλεος προς υμάς.
13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
14 Διά τούτο ιδού, έρχονται ημέραι, λέγει Κύριος, και δεν θέλουσιν ειπεί πλέον, Ζη Κύριος, όστις ανήγαγε τους υιούς Ισραήλ εκ γης Αιγύπτου,
14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
15 αλλά, Ζη Κύριος, όστις ανήγαγε τους υιούς Ισραήλ εκ της γης του βορρά και εκ πάντων των τόπων όπου είχε διώξει αυτούς· και θέλω επαναφέρει αυτούς πάλιν εις την γην αυτών, την οποίαν έδωκα εις τους πατέρας αυτών.
15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 Ιδού, θέλω αποστείλει πολλούς αλιείς, λέγει Κύριος, και θέλουσιν αλιεύσει αυτούς· και μετά ταύτα θέλω αποστείλει πολλούς κυνηγούς και θέλουσι θηρεύσει αυτούς από παντός όρους και από παντός λόφου και από των σχισμών των βράχων.
16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17 Διότι οι οφθαλμοί μου είναι επί πάσας τας οδούς αυτών· δεν είναι κεκρυμμέναι από του προσώπου μου ουδέ η ανομία αυτών είναι κεκρυμμένη απ' έμπροσθεν των οφθαλμών μου.
17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
18 Και πρώτον θέλω ανταποδώσει διπλά την ανομίαν αυτών και την αμαρτίαν αυτών· διότι εμίαναν την γην μου με τα πτώματα των βδελυγμάτων αυτών και ενέπλησαν την κληρονομίαν μου από των μιασμάτων αυτών.
18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
19 Κύριε, δύναμίς μου και φρούριόν μου και καταφυγή μου εν ημέρα θλίψεως, τα έθνη θέλουσιν ελθεί προς σε από των περάτων της γης και θέλουσιν ειπεί, Βεβαίως οι πατέρες ημών εκληρονόμησαν ψεύδος, ματαιότητα και τα ανωφελή.
19 Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
20 Θέλει κάμει άνθρωπος εις εαυτόν θεούς τους μη όντας θεούς;
20 Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”
21 Διά τούτο, ιδού, θέλω κάμει αυτούς ταύτην την φοράν να γνωρίσωσι, θέλω κάμει αυτούς να γνωρίσωσι την χείρα μου και την δύναμίν μου, και θέλουσι γνωρίσει ότι το όνομά μου είναι ο Κύριος.
21 “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 1:4; Jeremiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:1
- 2 1 Corinthians 7:26–27; Luke 23:29; Genesis 19:14; Luke 21:23; Matthew 24:19
- 3 Jeremiah 16:5; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 6:21
- 4 Jeremiah 25:33; Psalm 83:10; Jeremiah 9:22; Zephaniah 1:17; Jeremiah 34:20
- 5 Ezekiel 24:16–23; Isaiah 27:11; Jeremiah 15:1–4; Deuteronomy 31:17; Jeremiah 16:6–7
- 6 Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 41:5; Leviticus 19:28; Jeremiah 48:37
- 7 Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Deuteronomy 26:14; Job 42:11; Proverbs 31:6–7
- 8 Ecclesiastes 7:2–4; Jeremiah 15:17; Isaiah 22:12–14; Amos 6:4–6; Luke 17:27–29
- 9 Hosea 2:11; Ezekiel 26:13; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 25:10; Isaiah 24:7–12
- 10 Jeremiah 5:19; Deuteronomy 29:24–25; 1 Kings 9:8–9; Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 2:35
- 11 Psalm 106:35–41; Ezekiel 11:21; Nehemiah 9:26–29; Jeremiah 22:9; 1 Peter 4:3
- 12 Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 7:26; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 7:24
- 13 Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 4:26–28; Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 17:4; 2 Chronicles 7:20
- 14 Jeremiah 23:7–8; Deuteronomy 15:15; Exodus 20:2; Hosea 3:4–5; Micah 6:4
- 15 Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 32:37; Jeremiah 24:6; Amos 9:14; Ezekiel 39:28
- 16 Habakkuk 1:14–15; Amos 4:2; Micah 7:2; Revelation 6:15–17; Amos 9:1–3
- 17 Proverbs 15:3; Proverbs 5:21; Jeremiah 23:24; Psalm 90:8; Job 34:21–22
- 18 Isaiah 40:2; Numbers 35:33–34; Jeremiah 17:18; Jeremiah 2:7; Revelation 18:6
- 19 Isaiah 25:4; Nahum 1:7; Jeremiah 17:17; Isaiah 2:2–3; Isaiah 44:10
- 20 Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 37:19; Galatians 4:8; Acts 19:26; Isaiah 36:19
- 21 Psalm 9:16; Jeremiah 33:2; Psalm 83:18; Amos 5:8; Exodus 15:3
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)