Jeremiah 24
1 The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the LORD’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
バビロンの王ネブカデネザル、ユダの王ヱホヤキムの子ヱコニヤおよびユダの牧伯等と木匠と鐵匠をヱルサレムよりバビロンに移せしのちヱホバ我にヱホバの殿の前に置れたる二筐の無花果を示したまへり
2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
その一の筐には始に熟せしがごとき至佳き無花果ありその一の筐にはいと惡くして食ひ得ざるほどなる惡き無花果あり
3 Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
ヱホバ我にいひ給ひけるはヱレミヤよ汝何を見しや我答へけるは無花果なりその佳き無花果はいと佳しその惡きものは至惡しくして食ひ得ざるほどに惡し
4 The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
ヱホバの言また我にのぞみていふ
5 “The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいふ我わが此處よりカルデヤ人の地に逐ひやりしユダの虜人を此佳き無花果のごとくに顧みて惠まん
6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
我彼等に目をかけて之をめぐみ彼らを此地にかへし彼等を建て仆さず植て拔じ
7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.
我彼らに我のヱホバなるを識るの心をあたへん彼等我民となり我彼らの神とならん彼等は一心をもて我に歸るべし
8 “‘As the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the LORD says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
ヱホバかくいひたまへり我ユダの王ゼデキヤとその牧伯等およびヱルサレムの人の遺りて此地にをる者ならびにエジプトの地に住る者とを此惡くして食はれざる惡き無花果のごとくになさん
9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
我かれらをして地のもろもろの國にて虐遇と災害にあはしめん又彼らをしてわが逐やらん諸の處にて辱にあはせ諺となり嘲と詛に遭しめん
10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”
われ劍と饑饉と疫病をかれらの間におくりて彼らをしてわが彼らとその先祖にあたへし地に絕るにいたらしめん
