Jeremiah 24

1 The Lord showed me in vision two baskets of figs placed in front of the Lord's Temple. This happened after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken to Babylon Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, as well as the leaders of Judah, and the craftsmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem.

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 was full of very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket only had very bad figs, so bad they couldn't be eaten.

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 “Jeremiah,” the Lord asked, “what can you see?” “I see figs!” I replied. “The good figs look very good, but the bad figs look very bad, so bad they can't be eaten.”

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 Then a message from the Lord came to me, saying,

ヱホバの言また我にのぞみていふ

5 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The good figs represent to me the exiles from Judah, those I have sent away from here to the country of Babylonia.

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 I will watch over them and I will bring them back to this country. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

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 I will give them the desire to know me, to know that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will come back completely committed to me.

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 But the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten, says the Lord, represent the way I will deal with Zedekiah, king of Judah, his officials, and those who are left of Jerusalem, as well as those remaining in this country and those living in 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 I'm going to make an example of them that will horrify and offend everyone on earth. They will be disgraced, mocked, ridiculed, and cursed everywhere I've exiled 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 I'm going to attack them with war and famine and plague, until they're completely wiped out from the country that I gave to them and their forefathers.

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