Jeremias 38
1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.
A i rongo a Hepatia tama a Matana, ratou ko Keraira tama a Pahuru, ko Iukara tama a Heremia, ko Pahuru tama a Marakia, i nga kupu i korerotia e Heremaia ki te iwi katoa, i a ia i ki ra,
2 Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go you and destroy not Israel.
Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Ko te tangata e noho ana i tenei pa ka mate i te hoari, i te hemokai, i te mate uruta: ko te tangata ia e haere atu ana ki nga Karari, ka ora; a ka waiho tona wairua hei taonga parau ki a ia, a ka ora ia.
3 The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn you in compassion.
Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Ka tino hoatu tenei pa ki te ringa o te ope a te kingi o Papurona, a ka horo i a ia.
4 For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.
Na ka mea atu nga rangatira ki te kingi, Me whakamate tenei tangata; ma tana penei hoki ka ngoikore ai nga ringa o nga tangata whawhai e toe ana ki te pa nei, me nga ringa o te iwi katoa, ma tana korero i enei tu kupu ki a ratou: kahore hoki tene i tangata i te rapu i te pai mo tenei iwi, engari i te kino.
5 For you have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant you, and praise.
Na ka mea a Kingi Terekia, Nana, kei to koutou ringa ai: ehara hoki te kingi i te mea e ahei te whakahe ki ta koutou.
6 For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise you, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
Katahi ratou ka mau ki a Heremaia, maka ana e ratou ki te poka a Marakia tama a te kingi, ki tera i te marae o te whare herehere; a tukua ana a Heremaia e ratou ki raro, ki te taura. Na kahore he wai i roto i te poka, engari he oru: a tapoko ana a Heremaia ki te oru.
7 For thus says the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice you, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise you: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.
Na, i te rongonga o Eperemereke Etiopiana, he unaka no te whare o te kingi, kua tukua a Heremaia ki te poka; e noho ana hoki te kingi i te kuwaha o Pineamine i taua wa;
8 Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and [the people] shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.
Katahi a Eperemereke ka haere atu i te whare o te kingi, ka korero ki te kingi, ka mea,
9 They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
E toku ariki, e te kingi, he kino nga mea kua mahia e enei tangata i a ratou katoa i mahi ai ki a Heremaia poropiti, kua maka nei e ratou ki te poka; a tera ia e mate ki te wahi kei reira nei ia i te hemokai: kahore atu hoki he taro i te pa.
10 Hear the words of the Lord, you nations, and proclaim [them] to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.
Katahi te kingi ka whakahau ki a Eperemereke Etiopiana, ka mea, Mauria atu etahi tangata i konei, kia toru tekau, ka tango ake i a Heremaia poropiti i roto i te poka, keiwha mate ia.
11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them [that were] stronger than he.
Heoi kua mau a Eperemereke ki nga tangata hei hoa mona, a haere ana ki te whare o te kingi ki raro i te whare taonga, tangohia ana mai e ia i reira etahi karukaru tawhito me etahi tawhetawhe pirau, tukua iho ana e ia ki nga taura ki a Heremaia k i roto ki te poka.
12 And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, [even] to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.
Katahi a Eperemereke Etiopiana ka mea iho ki a Heremaia, Tena, kahua nga karukaru tawhito nei me nga tawhetawhe pirau nei ki raro i ou peke, ki raro atu i nga taura. Na peratia ana e Heremaia.
13 Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.
Heoi ka hutia ake e ratou a Heremaia ki nga taura, whakaputaina ake ana ia i roto i te poka: a noho tonu iho a Heremaia ki te marae o te whare herehere.
14 I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus says the Lord.
Katahi a Kingi Terekia ka unga tangata atu ki te tiki i a Heremaia poropiti ki a ia, ki te tuatoru o nga tomokanga, i te whare o Ihowa: a ka mea te kingi ki a Heremaia, Me ui e ahau tetahi mea i a koe; kaua e huna tetahi mea i ahau.
15 A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.
Ano ra ko Heremaia ki a Terekia, Ki te whakaaturia e ahau ki a koe, he teka ianei ko te whakamate kau tau moku? a ki te whakatakotoria e ahau he whakaaro ki a koe, e kore koe e whakarongo ki ahau.
16 Thus says the Lord; Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears: for their is a reward for your works; and they shall return from the land of [your] enemies.
Heoi ka oati puku a Kingi Terekia ki a Heremaia, ka mea, E ora ana a Ihowa, nana nei tenei wairua i hanga mo tatou, e kore ahau e whakamate i a koe, e kore ano koe e tukua e ahau ki te ringa o enei tangata e whai nei kia whakamatea koe.
17 [There shall be] an dwelling [home] for your children.
Katahi a Heremaia ka mea atu ki a Terekia, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, a te Atua o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira; Ki te haere atu koe ki nga rangatira o te kingi o Papurona, ka ora tou wairua, e kore hoki tenei pa e tahuna ki te ahi; engari ka or a koe me tou whare:
18 I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn you me, and I shall turn; for you [are] the Lord my God.
Tena ki te kore koe e haere ki nga rangatira a te kingi o Papurona, katahi tenei pa ka hoatu ki te ringa o nga Karari, a ka tahuna e ratou ki te ahi, a e kore koe e mawhiti i o ratou ringa.
19 For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed you that I bore reproach from my youth.
Na ka mea a Kingi Terekia ki a Heremaia, E wehi ana ahau i nga Hurai i papahoro atu nei ki nga Karari, kei tukua ahau ki o ratou ringa, ka tawaitia ahau e ratou.
20 Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste [to help] him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.
Otiia ka mea a Heremaia, E kore koe e tukua e ratou. Whakarongo oti ki te reo o Ihowa e korerotia nei e ahau ki a koe: na ka whiwhi koe ki te pai, a ka ora tou wairua.
21 Prepare yourself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to your ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which you went, return mourning to your cities.
Tena ki te kore koe e pai ki te haere atu, ko te kupu tenei i whakakitea e Ihowa ki ahau:
22 How long, O disgraced daughter, will you turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.
Inana, ko nga wahine katoa e mahue ana ki te whare o te kingi o Hura ka whakaputaina ki waho ki nga rangatira a te kingi o Papurona, a ka mea aua wahine, i tohea koe e ou hoa aroha, a riro ana koe i ta ratou: na, ka totohu nei ou waewae ki te pa ru, kua hoki ke atu ratou ki muri.
23 For thus says the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!
Na ka whakaputaina e ratou au wahine katoa, me au tamariki, ki waho ki nga Karari: a e kore e mawhiti i o ratou ringa, engari ka mau koe i te ringa o te kingi o Papurona: a mau e tahuna ai tenei pa ki te ahi.
24 And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and [the shepherd] shall go forth with the flock.
Katahi a Terekia ka mea ki a Heremaia, Kei mohiotia enei kupu e tetahi, a e kore koe e mate.
25 For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.
Otiia, ki te rongo nga rangatira kua korero ahau ki a koe, a ka tae ratou ki a koe, ka mea ki a koe, Tena, whakaaturia mai ki a matou, he aha tau i korero ai ki te kingi: kaua e huna ki a matou, a e kore matou e whakamate i a koe: i pehea hoki t e korero a te kingi ki a koe?
26 Therefore I awake, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Katahi koe ka mea ki a ratou, I te kawe ahau i taku inoi ki te kingi, kia kaua ahau e whakahokia ki te whare o Honatana, ki reira mate ai.
27 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.
Ko te haerenga mai tera o nga rangatira katoa ki a Heremaia, ka ui ki a ia; a korerotia ana e ia i runga i nga kupu katoa i whakahaua ra e te kingi. Heoi mutu tonu ta ratou korero ki a ia; no te mea kahore taua mea i mohiotia.
28 And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord.
Heoi noho ana a Heremaia i te marae o te whare herehere, a taea noatia te ra i horo ai a Hiruharama. Na, i te horonga o Hiruharama,
29 In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.
30 But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
32 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
33 For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
34 And they shall not at all teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:
36 if these ordinances cease from before me, says the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.
37 Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, says the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, says the Lord, for all that they have done.
38 Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner.
39 And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of choice stones.
40 And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever.
