Jeremiah 5
1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
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 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
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 see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
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, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by 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 great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
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 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
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 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
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 were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour'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 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from 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 against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
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 people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.
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 would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
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 And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to 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 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.
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 See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
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 arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
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 take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
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 But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.
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 it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
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 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,
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 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
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 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past 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 the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
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 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
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 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
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 there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
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 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
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 become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
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 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from 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 thing of wonder and fear has come about 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 give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and 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
