Yeremia 11:19
Jeremiah 11:19 · Biblica® Open Kiswahili Contemporary Version 2015
Nilikuwa kama mwana-kondoo mpole aliyeongozwa machinjoni; mimi sikutambua kwamba walikuwa wamefanya shauri baya dhidi yangu, wakisema, “Sisi na tuuangamize mti na matunda yake; nasi tumkatilie mbali kutoka nchi ya walio hai, ili jina lake lisikumbukwe tena.”
Jeremiah 11:19 in English
Jeremiah 11:19 · Berean Standard Bible
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Context
17Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote, aliyekupanda, ametamka maafa kwa ajili yako, kwa sababu nyumba ya Israeli na nyumba ya Yuda mmefanya maovu na kunikasirisha kwa kumfukizia Baali uvumba. 18Kwa sababu Bwana alinifunulia hila zao mbaya, nilizifahamu, kwa kuwa wakati ule alinionyesha yale waliyokuwa wanayafanya. 19Nilikuwa kama mwana-kondoo mpole aliyeongozwa machinjoni; mimi sikutambua kwamba walikuwa wamefanya shauri baya dhidi yangu, wakisema,
“Sisi na tuuangamize mti na matunda yake;
nasi tumkatilie mbali kutoka nchi ya walio hai,
ili jina lake lisikumbukwe tena.” 20Lakini, Ee Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote, wewe uhukumuye kwa haki,
nawe uchunguzaye moyo na akili,
wacha nione ukiwalipiza wao kisasi,
kwa maana kwako nimeweka shauri langu. 21“Kwa hiyo hili ndilo Bwana asemalo kuhusu watu wa Anathothi wale wanaotafuta uhai wako wakisema, ‘Usitoe unabii kwa jina la Bwana, la sivyo utakufa kwa mikono yetu’:
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