Jeremiah 24

1 The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, 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 of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.

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 the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

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 the Lord came to me, saying:

ヱホバの言また我にのぞみていふ

5 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their own good.

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 my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will be their God: and I will build them up, 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 the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to 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 very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and 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 deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

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, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and 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