Jeremiah 5
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And see I pray you and know and seek out in the broad places thereof, Whether ye can find, a man, Whether there is one Doing justice Demanding fidelity, —That I may pardon her.
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 Even though they say By the life of Yahweh, Yet in fact falsely, do they swear.
彼らヱホバは活くといふとも實は僞りて誓ふなり
3 O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them—They have refused to receive correction, —They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, 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 And, I, said, —Only, poor people, are they, —They act foolishly, For they know not the way of Yahweh, the justice 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 betake me unto the great men, and will speak, with them! For, they, know the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God! Yea but, they, with one accord have broken the yoke, torn off the bands.
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 For this cause, hath the lion out of the forest smitten them, The wolf of the waste plains, preyeth upon them, The leopard, is keeping watch over their cities, Every one that goeth out from thence, is torn in pieces, —For they have multiplied their transgressions, Numerous are their apostasies.
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, for this, can I pardon thee? Thine own sons, have forsaken me, And have sworn by No-gods, —When I had fed them to the full, Then committed they adultery, And the house of the unchaste woman, they used to throng:
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 Lusty, well-fed horses, had they become, Every man unto his neighbour’s wife, would neigh!
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 For these things, shall I not punish? Demandeth Yahweh: Yea on a nation such as this, must not my soul avenge herself?
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 ye her walls and destroy, But a full end, do not make, —Remove her tendrils, For not to Yahweh, do, they, belong!
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 very treacherously, have the house of Israel and the house of Judah dealt with me, Declareth Yahweh.
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 acted deceptively against Yahweh, And have said, Not He! Neither shall there come upon us, calamity, Nor sword nor famine, shall we see;
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 But the prophets, shall prove to be wind, And there is no one speaking in them, —Thus, shall it be done to themselves!
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 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of hosts, Because ye have spoken this word, —Behold me! making my words in thy mouth to be fire, And, this people, —wood, So shall it 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 me! bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh, —A nation invincible, it is, A nation from age-past times, hath it been, A nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, Neither shalt thou understand what it speaketh:
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 Its quiver, is like an open sepulchre, —They all, are heroes:
その箙は啓きたる墓のごとし彼らはみな勇士なり
17 Then shall it eat thy harvest and thy bread which thy sons and thy daughters should eat, —It shall eat thy flock and thy herd, It shall eat thy vine and thy fig-tree, —It shall destroy thy defenced cities wherein thou, art trusting, 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 Yet, even in those days, Declareth Yahweh, Will I not make of you, a full end.
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, For what cause hath Yahweh our God done to us all these things? Then shalt thou say unto them, —As ye forsook me, and served the gods of the foreigner in your own land, So, shall ye serve aliens in a land 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 Tell ye this, throughout the house of Jacob, —And let it be heard throughout 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 this, I pray you ye people—foolish and without heart, —Eyes, have they, and see not, Ears, have they, 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 Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And because of me, will ye not be pained? In that though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age-abiding, and it should not pass beyond it, —When they would toss themselves Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar Then should they not pass beyond 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 Yet, this people hath an obstinate and rebellious heart, —They have turned aside, and gone their way;
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 have they said in their heart, —Let us we pray you, revere Yahweh our God, Who giveth rain, even the early and the latter, in its season, —The appointed weeks of harvest, he reserveth for us.
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 thrust away these things, Yea, your sins, have withholden that which is good 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 there have been found among my people lawless men, —One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture 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 unrighteous gain, —For this cause, have they 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 have waxed fat, they shine Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless that they might prosper, —Yea justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.
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 Upon these things, shall I not bring punishment? Demandeth Yahweh. Or, on a nation such as this, shall not my soul avenge herself?
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 An astounding and horrible thing, hath been brought to pass 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, have prophesied, falsely, And the priests tread down by their means, And, my people, love it, so, —What then can ye do as to her latter end?
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
