Jeremiah 5
1 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
汝等ヱルサレムの邑をめぐりて視且察りその街を尋ねよ汝等もし一人の公義を行ひ眞理を求る者に逢はばわれ之(ヱルサレム)を赦すべし
2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
彼らヱホバは活くといふとも實は僞りて誓ふなり
3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
ヱホバよ汝の目は誠實を顧みるにあらずや汝彼らを撻どもかれら痛苦をおぼえず彼等を滅せどもかれら懲治をうけず其面を磐よりも硬くして歸ることを拒めり
4 Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
故に我いひけるは此輩は惟いやしき愚なる者なればヱホバの途と其神の鞫を知ざるなり
5 I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
われ貴人にゆきて之に語らんかれらはヱホバの途とその神の鞫を知るなり然に彼らも皆軛を折り縛を斷り
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
故に林よりいづる獅子は彼らを殺しアラバの狼はかれらを滅し豹はその邑をねらふ此處よりいづる者は皆裂るべしそは其罪おほくその背違はなはだしければなり
7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
我なに故に汝をゆるすべきや汝の諸子われを棄て神にあらざる神を指して誓ふ我すでに彼らを誓はせたれど彼ら姦淫して娼妓の家に群集る
8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
彼らは肥たる牡馬のごとくに行めぐりおのおの嘶きて隣の妻を慕ふ
9 Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
ヱホバいひたまふ我これらの事のために彼らを罰せざらんや我心はかくの如き民に仇を復さざらんや
10 Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
汝等その石垣にのぼりて滅せされど悉くはこれを滅す勿れその枝を截除けヱホバのものに有ざればなり
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,”
イスラエルの家とユダの家は大に我に悖るなりとヱホバいひたまふ
12 They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
彼等はヱホバを認ずしていふヱホバはある者にあらず災われらに來らじ我儕劍と饑饉をも見ざるべし
13 The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
預言者は風となり言はかれらの衷にあらず斯彼らになるべしと
14 Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
故に萬軍の神ヱホバかくいひたまふ汝等この言を語により視よわれ汝の口にある我言を火となし此民を薪となさんその火彼らを焚盡すべし
15 Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
ヱホバいひ給ふイスラエルの家よみよ我遠き國人をなんぢらに來らしめん其國は強くまた古き國なり汝等その言をしらず其語ることをも曉らざるなり
16 Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
その箙は啓きたる墓のごとし彼らはみな勇士なり
17 They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
彼らは汝の穡れたる物と汝の糧食を食ひ汝の子女を食ひ汝の羊と牛を食ひ汝の葡萄の樹と無花果の樹を食ひまた劍をもて汝の賴むところの堅き邑を滅さん
18 “Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
されど其時われことごとくは汝を滅さじとヱホバいひたまふ
19 And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
汝等何ゆゑにわれらの神ヱホバ此等の諸のことを我儕になしたまふやといはば汝かれらに答ふべし汝ら我をすて汝らの地に於て異なる神に奉へしごとく汝らのものにあらざる地に於て異邦人につかふべしと
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:
汝これをヤコブの家にのべまたこれをユダに示していへ
21 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
愚にして了知なく目あれども見えず耳あれども聞えざる民よこれをきけ
22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
ヱホバいひ給ふ汝等われを畏れざるか我前に戰慄かざるか我は沙を置て海の界となしこれを永遠の限界となし踰ることをえざらしむ其浪さかまきいたるも勝ことあたはず澎湃もこれを踰るあたはざるなり
23 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
然るにこの民は背き且悖れる心あり旣に背きて去れり
24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
彼らはまた我儕に雨をあたへて秋の雨と春の雨を時にしたがひて下し我儕のために收穫の時節を定め給へる我神ヱホバを畏るべしと其心にいはざるなり
25 Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
汝等の愆はこれらの事を退け汝等の罪は嘉物を汝らに來らしめざりき
26 For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
我民のうちに惡者あり網を張る者のごとくに身をかがめてうかがひ罟を置て人をとらふ
27 Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
樊籠に鳥の盈るがごとく不義の財彼らの家に充つこの故に彼らは大なる者となり富る者となる
28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
彼らは肥て光澤あり其惡き行は甚し彼らは訟をたださず孤の訟を糺さずして利達をえ亦貧者の訴を鞫かず
29 Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
ヱホバいひ給ふわれかくのごときことを罰せざらんや我心は是のごとき民に仇を復さざらんや
30 A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
この地に驚くべき事と憎むべきこと行はる
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
預言者は僞りて預言をなし祭司は彼らの手によりて治め我民は斯る事を愛すされど汝等その終に何をなさんとするや
