Jeremiah 24

1 Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, 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 first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.

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 And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.

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 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

ヱホバの言また我にのぞみていふ

5 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans;

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 and I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them and not pull them down, and 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 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto 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 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that 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 And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall 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 and I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto 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