Jeremiah 5
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon 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, YHWH liveth; surely they 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 YHWH, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; 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 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of YHWH, nor the judgment of their Elohim.
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 get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of YHWH, and the judgment of their Elohim: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and 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 forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
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 shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no elohim: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
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 as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed 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 Shall I not visit for these things? saith YHWH: and shall not my soul be avenged on 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 ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not YHWH '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 Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith YHWH.
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 belied YHWH, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor 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 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto 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 Wherefore thus saith YHWH Elohim of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people 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 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith YHWH: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest 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 mighty men.
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 thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
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 YHWH, I will not make a full end with you.
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 shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth YHWH our Elohim all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange elohim in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that 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 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it 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 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have 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 Fear ye not me? saith YHWH: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they 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 this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted 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 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear YHWH our Elohim, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the 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 away these things, 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: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they 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 cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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 waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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 YHWH: shall not my soul be avenged on 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 wonderful and horrible thing is committed 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 prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do 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
