Jeremiah 21
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
ゼデキヤ王マルキヤの子パシユルと祭司マアセヤの子ゼパニヤをヱレミヤに遣し
2 “Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
バビロンの王ネブカデネザル我らを攻むれば汝われらの爲にヱホバに求めよヱホバ恒のごとくそのもろもろの奇なる跡をもて我らを助けバビロンの王を我らより退かしめたまふことあらんと曰しむ其時ヱホバの言ヱレミヤに臨めり
3 But Jeremiah answered, “You are to tell Zedekiah that
ヱレミヤ彼らにこたへけるは汝らゼデキヤにかく語ふべし
4 this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいひたまふ視よわれ汝らがこの邑の外にありて汝らを攻め圍むところのバビロン王およびカルデヤ人とたたかひて手に持ところのその武器をかへし之を邑のうちに聚めん
5 And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
われ手を伸べ臂をつよくし震怒と憤恨と烈き怒をもて汝らをせむべし
6 I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
我また此邑にすめる人と畜を撃ん皆重き疫病によりて死べし
7 ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
ヱホバいひたまふ此後われユダの王ゼデキヤとその諸臣および民此邑に疫病と劍と饑饉をまぬかれて遺れる者をバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手と其敵の手および凡そその生命を索る者の手に付さんバビロンの王は劍の刃をもて彼らを撃ちかれらを惜まず顧みず恤れまざるべし
8 Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
汝また此民にヱホバかくいふと語るべし視よわれ生命の道と死の道を汝らの前に置く
9 Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
この邑にとどまる者は劍と饑饉と疫病に死べしされど汝らを攻め圍むところのカルデヤ人に出降る者はいきん其命はおのれの掠取物となるべし
10 For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
ヱホバいひたまふ我この邑に面を向しは福をあたふる爲にあらず禍をあたへんが爲なりこの邑はバビロンの王の手に付されん彼火をもて之を焚くべし
11 Moreover, tell the house of the king of Judah to hear the word of the LORD.
またユダの王の家に告べし汝らヱホバの言をきけ
12 O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
ダビデの家よヱホバかくいふ汝朝ごとに義く鞫をなし物を奪はるる人をその暴逆者の手より救へ否ざれば汝らの行の惡によりて我怒火のごとくに發で燃て滅ざるべし
13 Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau— declares the LORD— you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
ヱホバいひたまふ谷と平原の磐とにすめる者よみよ我汝に敵す汝らは誰か降て我儕を攻んや誰かわれらの居處にいらんやといふ
14 I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”
我汝らをその行の果によりて罰せん又其林に火を起し其四周をことごとく焚つくすべしとヱホバいひたまふ
