Jeremiah 5
1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.
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: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear 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, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.
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 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement 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 therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.
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 Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.
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 can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot’s house.
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 become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed 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 Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
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 Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because 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 house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith 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 have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and 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 have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall 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 Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
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 will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
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 quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
その箙は啓きたる墓のごとし彼らはみな勇士なり
17 And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
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 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
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 if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers 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 ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, 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 Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
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 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over 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 become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted 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 And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly 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 turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things 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 among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps 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 As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
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 are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the poor.
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 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
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 Astonishing and wonderful things have been done 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 prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?
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
