Jeremiah 29
1 This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
預言者ヱレミヤ、ヱルサレムより書をかの擄へうつされて餘れるところの長老および祭司と預言者ならびにネブカデネザルがヱルサレムよりバビロンに移したるすべての民に送れり
2 (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
是より先ヱコニヤ王と王后と寺人およびユダとヱルサレムの牧伯等および木匠と鐵匠はヱルサレムをされり
3 The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:
ヱレミヤその書をシヤパンの子エラサおよびヒルキヤの子ゲマリヤ即ちユダの王ゼデキヤがバビロンにつかはしてバビロンの王ネブカデネザルにいたらしむる者の手によりて送れり其書にいはく
4 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神すべて擄うつされし者即ち我ヱルサレムよりバビロンに移さしめし者にかくいふ
5 “Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.
汝ら屋を建てこれに住ひ圃をつくりてその果をくらへ
6 Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.
妻を娶て子女をうみ又汝らの子に媳を娶り汝らの女を嫁がしめ彼らに子女を生しめよ此は汝等かしこに減ずして增んがためなり
7 Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
我汝らを擄移さしめしところの邑の安を求めこれが爲にヱホバにいのれその邑の安によりて汝らもまた安をうればなり
8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいひたまふ汝らの中の預言者と卜筮士に惑はさるる勿れまた汝ら自ら作りしところの夢に聽したがふ勿れ
9 For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”
そは彼ら我名をもて謊を汝らに預言すればなり我彼らを遣さずヱホバいひたまふ
10 For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
ヱホバかくいひたまふバビロンに於て七十年滿なばわれ汝らを眷み我嘉言を汝らになして汝らをこの處に歸らしめん
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
ヱホバいひたまふ我が汝らにむかひて懷くところの念は我これを知るすなはち災をあたへんとにあらず平安を與へんとおもひ又汝らに後と望をあたへんとおもふなり
12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
汝らわれに龥はり往て我にいのらん我汝らに聽べし
13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
汝らもし一心をもて我を索めなば我に尋ね遇はん
14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
ヱホバいひたまふ我汝らの遇ところとならんわれ汝らの俘擄を解き汝らを萬國よりすべて我汝らを逐やりし處より集め且我汝らをして擄らはれて離れしめしその處に汝らをひき歸らんとヱホバいひたまふ
15 Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
ヱホバわれらの爲にバビロンに於て預言者を立たまひしと汝らはいふ
16 this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—
ダビデの位に坐する王とこの邑に住るすべての民汝らと偕にとらへ移されざりし兄弟につきてヱホバかくいひたまふ
17 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
萬軍のヱホバかくいふ視よわれ劍と饑饉と疫病を彼らにおくり彼らを惡くして食はれざる惡き無花果のごとくになさん
18 I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
われ劍と饑饉と疫病をもて彼らを逐ひまた彼らを地の萬國にわたして虐にあはしめ我彼らを逐やる諸國に於て呪詛となり詫異となり人の嗤笑となり恥辱とならしめん
19 I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
是彼ら我言を聽ざればなりとヱホバいひたまふ我この言を我僕なる預言者によりて遣り頻におくれども汝ら聽ざるなりとヱホバいひたまふ
20 So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
わがヱルサレムよりバビロンにおくりし諸の俘擄人よ汝らヱホバの言をきけ
21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
我名をもて謊を汝らに預言するコラヤの子アハブとマアセヤの子ゼデキヤにつきて萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいふ視よわれ彼らをバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手に付さん彼これを汝らの目の前に殺すべし
22 Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
バビロンにあるユダの俘擄人は皆彼らをもて詛となし願くはヱホバ汝をバビロンの王が火にて焚しゼデキヤとアハブのごとき者となしたまはん事をといふ
23 For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
こは彼らイスラエルの中に惡をなし鄰の妻を犯し且我彼らに命ぜざる謊の言をわが名をもて語りしによる我これを知りまた證すとヱホバいひたまふ
24 You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that
汝ネヘラミ人シマヤにかく語りいふべし
25 this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいふ汝おのれの名をもて書をヱルサレムにある諸の民と祭司マアセヤの子ゼパニヤおよび諸の祭司に送りていふ
26 ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
ヱホバ汝を祭司ヱホヤダに代て祭司となし汝らをヱホバの室の監督となしたまふ此すべて狂妄ひ且みづから預言者なりといふ者を獄と桎梏につながしめんためなり
27 So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
然るに汝いま何故に汝らにむかひてみづから預言者なりといふところのアナトテのヱレミヤを斥責めざるや
28 For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
そは彼バビロンにをる我儕に書を送り時尚長ければ汝ら家を建て之に住ひ圃をつくりてその實をくらへといへり
29 (Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
祭司ゼパニヤこの書を預言者ヱレミヤに讀きかせたり
30 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
時にヱホバの言ヱレミヤにのぞみていふ
31 “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
諸の俘擄人に書をおくりて云べしネヘラミ人シマヤの事につきてヱホバかくいふ我シマヤを遣さざるに彼汝らに預言し汝らに謊を信ぜしめしによりて
32 this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
ヱホバかくいふ視よ我ネヘラミ人シマヤと其子孫を罰すべし彼ヱホバに逆くことを敎へしによりて此民のうちに彼に屬する者一人も住ふことなからん且我民に吾がなさんとする善事をみざるべしとヱホバいひたまふ
