Jeremiah 31
1 Yahweh says that at that time, he will be the God [who is worshiped by] all the clans in Israel, and they will be his people.
「主は言われる、その時わたしはイスラエルの全部族の神となり、彼らはわたしの民となる」。
2 This is what Yahweh says: “Those [people] who remained alive and were not killed by [their enemies’] swords were blessed [by me even] in the desert; I enabled them to have peace.
主はこう言われる、「つるぎをのがれて生き残った民は、荒野で恵みを得た。イスラエルが安息を求めた時、
3 Long ago [I, ] Yahweh, said to [your ancestors, ] the Israeli people, ‘I have loved you and I will continue to love you forever. By faithfully loving you, I have brought you close to myself.’
主は遠くから彼に現れた。わたしは限りなき愛をもってあなたを愛している。それゆえ、わたしは絶えずあなたに真実をつくしてきた。
4 And [now I tell you], my Israeli people whom I love [MET], that I will cause you to be a nation again. You will [joyfully] dance as you play your tambourines.
イスラエルのおとめよ、再びわたしはあなたを建てる、あなたは建てられる。あなたは再び鼓をもって身を飾り、出て行って、喜び楽しむ者と共に踊る。
5 Again you will plant your vineyards on the hills of Samaria, and you will eat the grapes [that grow there].
またあなたはぶどうの木をサマリヤの山に植える。植える者は、植えてその実を食べることができる。
6 There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria [MTY], ‘Come, let’s go up to Jerusalem to [worship] Yahweh, our God!'”
見守る者がエフライムの山の上に立って呼ばわる日が来る。『立って、シオンに上り、われわれの神、主に、もうでよう』と」。
7 And now Yahweh also says this: “Sing joyfully about [what I have done for] the people of Israel! Shout about [your nation, ] the greatest nation! Shout joyfully, praising me and saying, ‘Yahweh, rescue your people, the ones who are still alive!’
主はこう仰せられる、「ヤコブのために喜んで声高く歌い、万国のかしらのために叫び声をあげよ。告げ示し、ほめたたえて言え、『主はその民イスラエルの残りの者を救われた』と。
8 Do that [because] I will bring them back from the northeast, from the most distant places on the earth. Among them will be blind people and lame people, women who are pregnant and women who are (having labor pains/about to give birth to babies). They will be a huge group of people!
見よ、わたしは彼らを北の国から連れ帰り、彼らを地の果から集める。彼らのうちには、盲人やあしなえ、妊婦、産婦も共にいる。彼らは大きな群れとなって、ここに帰ってくる。
9 They will be crying as they return, and they will be praying [to me]. I will guide them along streams of water, on level paths where they will not stumble. [I will do this] because I am [like] a father to the Israeli people; [it is as though] Israel is my oldest son.”
彼らは泣き悲しんで帰ってくる。わたしは慰めながら彼らを導き帰る。彼らがつまずかないように、まっすぐな道により、水の流れのそばを通らせる。それは、わたしがイスラエルの父であり、エフライムはわたしの長子だからである。
10 Yahweh says, “[You people in the] nations of the world, listen to this message from me. Then proclaim it to [people who live along] the coasts far away. I scattered my people, but I will gather them [again] and will take care of them like [SIM] a shepherd takes care of his sheep.
万国の民よ、あなたがたは主の言葉を聞き、これを遠い、海沿いの地に示して言いなさい、『イスラエルを散らした者がこれを集められる。牧者がその群れを守るようにこれを守られる』と。
11 I will buy [my] Israeli people back from those who [conquered them because] they were more powerful [than my people].
すなわち主はヤコブをあがない、彼らよりも強い者の手から彼を救いだされた。
12 My people will return [to Jerusalem] and shout joyfully on the slopes of Zion Hill. They will rejoice about the things that I have abundantly given to them— grain and new wine and [olive] oil and young sheep and cattle. They themselves will be like a well-watered garden, and they will no longer be sad.
彼らは来てシオンの山で声高く歌い、主から賜わった良い物のために、穀物と酒と油および若き羊と牛のために、喜びに輝く。その魂は潤う園のようになり、彼らは重ねて憂えることがない。
13 The young women will dance joyfully, and [all] the men, young ones and old ones, will join with them. I will cause them to rejoice instead of mourning; I will comfort them and cause them to be happy instead of being sad.
その時おとめたちは舞って楽しみ、若い者も老いた者も共に楽しむ。わたしは彼らの悲しみを喜びにかえ、彼らを慰め、憂いの代りに喜びを与える。
14 The priests will have plenty of things to eat and drink, and [all] my people will be filled with the good things that I give them. [That will certainly happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!”
わたしは多くのささげ物で、祭司の心を飽かせ、わたしの良き物で、わたしの民を満ち足らせると主は言われる」。
15 Yahweh [also] says this: “Women were weeping in Ramah [town on the border between Israel and Judah]; they were mourning and crying very loudly. [The women who were the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, the two grandsons of] Rachel [the wife of Jacob], were weeping about their children, and no one could comfort them because their children were [all] dead.
主はこう仰せられる、「嘆き悲しみ、いたく泣く声がラマで聞える。ラケルがその子らのために嘆くのである。子らがもはやいないので、彼女はその子らのことで慰められるのを願わない」。
16 [But now] this is what [I], Yahweh, say: ‘Do not cry [any more], because I will reward you [for the good things you have done for your children]. Your children will return from the land where their enemies [have taken them].
主はこう仰せられる、「あなたは泣く声をとどめ、目から涙をながすことをやめよ。あなたのわざに報いがある。彼らは敵の地から帰ってくると主は言われる。
17 [I], Yahweh, am telling you that there are things that you can confidently expect [me to do for you] in the future. Your children will return to their own land.’
あなたの将来には希望があり、あなたの子供たちは自分の国に帰ってくると主は言われる。
18 I have heard [the people of] Israel grieving very much [and saying to me], ‘You punished us severely, like [SIM] calves are beaten [by their owners to train them for pulling a plow]. [So] bring us back [to obey/worship you again], because we are ready to return to you, because you [alone] are Yahweh, our God.
わたしは確かに、エフライムがこう言って嘆くの聞いた、『あなたはわたしを懲しめられた、わたしはくびきに慣れない子牛のように懲しめをうけた。主よ、あなたはわたしの神、主でいらせられる、わたしを連れ帰って、もとにかえしてください。
19 We turned away [from you], but we repented; [after you] caused us to realize [that we were guilty]. We beat our chests to show that we were very ashamed [DOU] of the sins that we committed when we were young.’
わたしはそむき去った後、悔い、教をうけた後、ももを打った。若い時のはずかしめが身にあるので、わたしは恥じ、 うろたえた』。
20 But [I], Yahweh, say this: The Israeli people certainly are [RHQ] still my dear children [DOU]. It is often necessary for me to threaten [to punish] them, but I still love them. That is why I have not forgotten them, and I will certainly act mercifully toward them.
主は言われる、エフライムはわたしの愛する子、わたしの喜ぶ子であろうか。わたしは彼について語るごとに、なお彼を忘れることができない。それゆえ、わたしの心は彼をしたっている。わたしは必ず彼をあわれむ。
21 [You Israeli people, ] set up road signs; put up posts [along the roads] to mark the road on which you walked [when you were taken from Jerusalem]. My precious/beloved Israeli people, come back to your towns here.
みずからのために道しるべを置き、みずからのために標柱を立てよ。大路に、あなたの通って行った道に心を留めよ。イスラエルのおとめよ、帰れ、これらの、あなたの町々に帰れ。
22 You people who have been like [MET] daughters who have forsaken their parents, how long will you continue to wander [away from me] [RHQ]? I, Yahweh, will cause something to happen on the earth that (is new/has not happened before): The women of Israel will be protecting their husbands as they travel [back here]!”
不信の娘よ、いつまでさまようのか。主は地の上に新しい事を創造されたのだ、女が男を保護する事である」。
23 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “When I bring them back from the countries to which they have been exiled, all the people from the towns in Judah will again say, [‘I hope that] Yahweh will bless this my home, the holy place where righteous [people will live]!’
万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう言われる、「わたしが彼らを再び栄えさせる時、人々はまたユダの地とその町々でこの言葉を言う、『正義のすみかよ、聖なる山よ、どうか主がおまえを祝福してくださるように』。
24 [The people of] Judah [who live in] the towns, including the farmers and the shepherds, will all live together [peacefully].
ユダとそのすべての町の人、および農夫と群れを飼って歩き回る者は共にそこに住む。
25 I will enable weary people to rest, and enable people who are very exhausted to become strong again.”
わたしが疲れた魂を飽き足らせ、すべて悩んでいる魂を慰めるからである」。
26 I, [Jeremiah], woke up [after dreaming all those things], and I looked [around]. I had slept [very] delightfully!
ここでわたしは目をさましたが、わたしの眠りは、ここちよかった。
27 [Then] Yahweh said [to me], “There will be a time when I will greatly increase [MET] the number of people and the number of livestock here in Israel and Judah.
「主は言われる、見よ、わたしが人の種と獣の種とをイスラエルの家とユダの家とにまく日が来る。
28 [Previously], I caused [their enemies to] remove the people from their land and to destroy their land and to cause them to experience many disasters [DOU]. But in the future, I will enable them to build houses and to plant crops [here in Israel again]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.
わたしは彼らを抜き、砕き、倒し、滅ぼし、悩まそうと待ちかまえていたように、また彼らを建て、植えようと待ちかまえていると主は言われる。
29 [Previously the people often said, ] ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but it is the children’s teeth that ache.’ [They meant that it was not fair for them to be punished for their ancestors’ sins]. But [when I bring them back to their land], they will no longer say that.
その時、彼らはもはや、『父がすっぱいぶどうを食べたので、子どもの歯がうく』とは言わない。
30 But now all people will die because of the sins that they themselves have committed.
人はめいめい自分の罪によって死ぬ。すっぱいぶどうを食べる人はみな、その歯がうく。
31 [I], Yahweh, say this: ‘There will be a time when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and Judah.
主は言われる、見よ、わたしがイスラエルの家とユダの家とに新しい契約を立てる日が来る。
32 [This new agreement will] not be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors when I took them by their hands and led them out of Egypt. They broke that agreement, even though I [loved them like] [MET] husbands love their wives.’
この契約はわたしが彼らの先祖をその手をとってエジプトの地から導き出した日に立てたようなものではない。わたしは彼らの夫であったのだが、彼らはそのわたしの契約を破ったと主は言われる。
33 This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
しかし、それらの日の後にわたしがイスラエルの家に立てる契約はこれである。すなわちわたしは、わたしの律法を彼らのうちに置き、その心にしるす。わたしは彼らの神となり、彼らはわたしの民となると主は言われる。
34 And it will not be [necessary] for them to teach their neighbors or their relatives and say, “[You need to] know Yahweh,” because everyone, including unimportant people and very important people, will [already] know me. And I will forgive them for having been very wicked, and I will never think again about the sins that they have committed.’”
人はもはや、おのおのその隣とその兄弟に教えて、『あなたは主を知りなさい』とは言わない。それは、彼らが小より大に至るまで皆、わたしを知るようになるからであると主は言われる。わたしは彼らの不義をゆるし、もはやその罪を思わない」。
35 Yahweh is the one who causes the sun to give light during the day, and who causes the moon and the stars to give light during the night. He stirs up the seas, with the result that waves roar. His name is the Commander of the armies of angels, and this is what he says:
主はこう言われる、すなわち太陽を与えて昼の光とし、月と星とを定めて夜の光とし、海をかき立てて、その波を鳴りとどろかせる者その名は万軍の主という。
36 “I will not reject my Israeli people any more than I will get rid of the laws [that control the universe].
主は言われる、「もしこの定めがわたしの前ですたれてしまうなら、イスラエルの子孫もすたって、永久にわたしの前で民であることはできない」。
37 And this is what I say: ‘No one can measure the sky, and no one can find out what is supporting the earth. Similarly, I cannot reject forever the descendants of Jacob because of all the [evil] things that they have done.’ [That is certain, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!
主はこう言われる、「もし上の天を量ることができ、下の地の基を探ることができるなら、そのとき、わたしはイスラエルのすべての子孫をそのもろもろの行いのために捨て去ると主は言われる」。
38 [I], Yahweh, also say that there will be a time when [everything in] Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the tower of Hananel [at the northeast corner, west] to [the gate named] the Corner Gate.
主は言われる、「見よ、この町が、ハナネルの塔から隅の門まで、主のために再建される時が来る。
39 [Workers] will stretch a measuring line/string over Gareb Hill all the way [southwest] to Goah.
測りなわはそれよりも遠くまっすぐに延びて、ガレブの丘に達し、ゴアのほうに向かう。
40 And the whole area, including the place where corpses and ashes are thrown in the [Kidron] Valley, and all the fields to the east as far as the Horse Gate, will become set apart for me. And the city [of Jerusalem] will never again be captured or destroyed.”
死体と灰との谷の全部、またキデロンの谷に行くまでと、東のほうの馬の門のすみに行くまでとのすべての畑はみな主の聖なる所となり、永遠にわたって、ふたたび抜かれ、また倒されることはない」。
