Jeremiah 19
1 Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
主はこう言われる、「行って、陶器師のびんを買い、民の長老と年長の祭司のうちの数人を伴って、
2 and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.
瀬戸かけの門の入口にあるベンヒンノムの谷へ行き、その所で、わたしがあなたに語る言葉をのべて、
3 Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
言いなさい、『ユダの王たち、およびエルサレムに住む者よ、主の言葉を聞きなさい。万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう仰せられる、見よ、わたしは災をこの所に下す。おおよそ、その災のことを聞くものの耳は両方とも鳴る。
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
彼らがわたしを捨て、この所を汚し、この所で、自分も先祖たちもユダの王たちも知らなかった他の神々に香をたき、かつ罪のない者の血を、この所に満たしたからである。
5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.
また彼らはバアルのために高き所を築き、火をもって自分の子どもたちを焼き、燔祭としてバアルにささげた。これはわたしの命じたことではなく、定めたことでもなく、また思いもしなかったことである。
6 Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.
主は言われる、それゆえ、見よ、この所をトペテまたはベンヒンノムの谷と呼ばないで、虐殺の谷と呼ぶ日がくる。
7 “‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
またわたしはこの所でユダとエルサレムの計りごとを打ち破り、つるぎをもって、彼らをその敵の前と、そのいのちを求める者の手に倒れさせ、またその死体を空の鳥と地の獣の食い物とし、
8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
かつ、この町を荒れすたれさせて、人に舌打ちされるものとする。そこを通る人は皆そのもろもろの災を見て身震いし、舌打ちする。
9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’
また彼らがその敵とその命を求める者とに囲まれて苦しみ悩む時、わたしは彼らに自分のむすこの肉、娘の肉を食べさせる。彼らはまた互にその友の肉を食べるようになる』。
10 “Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
そこで、あなたは、一緒に行く人々の目の前で、そのびんを砕き、
11 and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
そして彼らに言いなさい、『万軍の主はこう仰せられる、陶器師の器をひとたび砕くならば、もはやもとのようにすることはできない。このようにわたしはこの民とこの町とを砕く。人々はほかに葬るべき場所がないために、トペテに葬るであろう。
12 This is what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
主は仰せられる、わたしはこの所と、ここに住む者とにこのようにし、この町をトペテのようにする。
13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
エルサレムの家とユダの王たちの家、すなわち彼らがその屋上で天の衆群に香をたき、ほかの神々に酒を注いだ家は、皆トペテの所のように汚される』」。
14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:
エレミヤは主が彼をつかわして預言させられたトペテから帰ってきて、主の家の庭に立ち、すべての民に言った、
15 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”
「万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう仰せられる、見よ、わたしは、この町とそのすべての村々に、わたしの言ったもろもろの災を下す。彼らが強情で、わたしの言葉に聞き従おうとしないからである」。
