Jeremiah 18
1 The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
ヱホバよりヱレミヤにのぞめる言いふ
2 “Rise, and you have gone down [to] the potter’s house, and there I cause you to hear My words”;
汝起て陶人の屋にくだれ我かしこに於てわが言を汝に聞しめんと
3 and I go down [to] the potter’s house, and behold, he is doing a work on the stones,
われすなはち陶人の屋にくだり視るに轆轤をもて物をつくりをりしが
4 and the vessel that he is making is marred, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he has turned and he makes it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.
その泥をもて造れるところの器陶人の手のうちに傷ねたれば彼その心のままに之をもて別の器をつくれり
5 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
時にヱホバの言我にのぞみていふ
6 “O house of Israel, am I not able to do to you as this potter?” A declaration of YHWH. “Behold, as clay in the hand of the potter, So [are] you in My hand, O house of Israel.
ヱホバいふイスラエルの家よこの陶人のなすが如くわれ汝になすことをえざるかイスラエルの家よ陶人の手に泥のあるごとく汝らはわが手にあり
7 The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,
われ急に民あるひは國をぬくべし敗るべし滅すべしといふことあらんに
8 And that nation has turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have relented of the calamity that I thought to do to it.
もし我いひしところの國その惡を離れなば我之に災を降さんとおもひしことを悔ん
9 And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant,
我また急に民あるいは國を立べし植べしといふことあらんに
10 And it has done evil in My eyes, So as not to listen to My voice, Then I have relented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.
もし其國わが目に惡く見ゆるところの事を行ひわが聲に遵はずば我これに福祉を錫へんといひしことを悔ん
11 And now, speak now to men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am framing calamity against you, And devising a scheme against you; Please turn back, each from his evil way, And amend your ways and your doings.”
汝いまユダの人々とヱルサレムに住る者にいへヱホバかくいへり視よ我汝らに災をくださんと思ひめぐらし汝らをはかる計策を設く故に汝らおのおの其惡き途を離れ其途と行をあらためよと
12 And they have said, “It is incurable, For we go after our own plans, And each of us does the stubbornness of his evil heart.”
しかるに彼らいふ是は徒然なりわれらは自己の圖維ところにしたがひ各自その惡き心の剛愎なるを行はんと
13 Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Now ask among the nations, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
この故にヱホバかくいひたまふ汝ら異國のうちに問へ斯の如きことを聞し者ありやイスラエルの處女はいと驚くべきことをなせり
14 Does snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Will the cold strange [waters] that are flowing be forsaken?
レバノンの雪豈野の磐を離れんや遠方より流くる冷なる水豈涸かんや
15 But My people have forgotten Me, they make incense to a vain thing, And they cause them to stumble in their ways—paths of old, To walk in paths—a way not raised up,
しかるに我民は我をわすれて虛き物に香を焚り是等の物彼らをその途すなはち古き途に蹶かせまた徑すなはち備なき道に行しめ
16 To make their land become a desolation, A continuous hissing, Everyone passing by it is astonished, And bemoans with his head.
その地を荒して恒に人の笑とならしめん凡て其處を過る者は驚きてその首を搖らん
17 I scatter them before an enemy as with an east wind, I show them the neck and not the face, In the day of their calamity.”
われ東風のごとくに彼らをその敵の前に散さん其滅亡の日にはわれ背を彼らに向て面をむけじ
18 And they say, “Come, And we devise schemes against Jeremiah, For law does not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we strike him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.”
彼らいふ去來われら計策を設てヱレミヤをはからんそれ祭司には律法あり智慧ある者には謀畧あり預言者には言ありて失ざるべし去來われら舌をもて彼を撃ちその諸の言を聽ことをせざらんと
19 Give attention, O YHWH, to me, And listen to the voice of those contending with me.
ヱホバよ我にききたまへ又我と爭ふ者の聲をききたまへ
20 Is evil repaid instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before You to speak good of them, To turn back Your wrath from them.
惡をもて善に報ゆべきものならんや彼らはわが生命をとらん爲に坑を掘れりわが汝の前に立て彼らを善く言ひ汝の憤怒を止めんとせしを憶えたまへ
21 Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men [are] struck by sword in battle,
さればかれらの子女を饑饉にあたへ彼らを劍の刃にわたしたまへ其妻は子を失ひ且寡となり其男は死をもて亡されその少者は劍をもて戰に殺されよかし
22 A cry is heard from their houses, For You suddenly bring a troop against them, For they dug a pit to capture me, And they have hidden snares for my feet.
汝突然に敵をかれらに臨ませたまふ時號呼をその家の内より聞えしめよそは彼ら坑を掘りて我を執へんとしまた機檻を置てわが足を執へんとすればなり
23 And You, O YHWH, You have known, All their counsel against me [is] for death, You do not cover over their iniquity, Nor blot out their sin from before You, And they are made to stumble before You, Work against them in the time of Your anger!
ヱホバよ汝はかれらが我を殺さんとするすべての謀畧を知りたまふ其惡を赦すことなく其罪を汝の前より抹去りたまふなかれ彼らを汝の前に仆れしめよ汝の怒りたまふ時にかく彼らになしたまへ
