Jeremiah 19
1 Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Haere, hokona mai tetahi pounamu oneone a te kaihanga rihi, ka tango mai hoki i etahi o nga kaumatua o te iwi, i etahi o nga kaumatua o nga tohunga;
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.
Ka haere ki te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, ki tera i te tomokanga ki te kuwaha Hahiti, a ka karanga i reira i nga kupu e korerotia e ahau ki a koe:
3 Say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
Ki atu, Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowa, e nga kingi o Hura, e te hunga e noho ana i Hiruharama, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira: Tenei ahau te kawe nei i te kino ki tenei wahi, a ko nga tangata katoa e rongo ana, ka tioro oro ona taringa.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burnt 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,
Kua whakarere nei ratou i ahau, kua whakarereketia e ratou tenei wahi, kua tahu whakakakara ki konei ki nga atua ke, kihai nei i mohiotia e ratou, e ratou ko o ratou matua, e nga kingi hoki o Hura; a kua whakakiia e ratou tenei wahi ki te toto o te hunga kore hara.
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.
Kua hanga hoki e ratou nga wahi tiketike o Paara, kia tahuna ai e ratou a ratou tamariki ki te ahi hei tahunga tinana ki a Paara; he mea kihai i whakahaua e ahau, kihai i korerotia e ahau, kihai ano hoki i puta ake i toku ngakau.
6 Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.
Mo reira, nana, kei te haere mai nga ra, e ai ta Ihowa, e kore ai tenei wahi e huaina, ko Topete, Ko te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, ranei; engari Ko te raorao o te Parekura.
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.
Na ka meinga e ahau kia he te whakaaro o Hura raua ko Hiruharama ki tenei wahi; a ka meinga ratou e ahau kia hinga i te hoari i te aroaro o o ratou hoariri, i te ringa ano o te hunga e whai ana kia whakamatea ratou: a ko o ratou tinana ka hoatu e ahau hei kai ma nga manu o te rangi, ma nga kararehe hoki o te whenua.
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.
A ka meinga e ahau tenei pa hei miharotanga, hei whakahianga; ko nga tangata katoa e haere i konei ka oho, ka whakahi ki ona mate uruta katoa.
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.”’
Ka meinga ano ratou e ahau kia kai i nga kikokiko o a ratou tama, i nga kikokiko o a ratou tamahine, a ka kai ratou i nga kikokiko o tona hoa tata, o tona hoa tata, i te whakapaenga, i te kopaninga e kopania ai ratou e o ratou hoariri, e te hunga hoki e whai ana kia whakamatea ratou.
10 “Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
Katahi koe ka wahi i te pounamu i te tirohanga a nga tangata ka haere tahi atu na koutou,
11 and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Hosts 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.
A ka mea atu ki a ratou, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, Ka rite taku wawahi i tenei iwi, i tenei pa, ka penei me te wahanga o te oko a te kaihanga rihi, e kore nei e taea te tapitapi kia ora ano: a ka tanu hoki ratou ki Topete, kia kore ra ano he wahi hei tanumanga.
12 This is what I will do to this place,” says the LORD, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
Ko taku tenei e mea ai ki tenei wahi, e ai ta Ihowa, ki ona tangata hoki, kia meinga ra ano tenei pa kia rite ki Topete:
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 burnt incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
A ko nga whare o Hiruharama, me nga whare o nga kingi o Hura, kua whakapokea nei, ka rite ki tenei wahi, ki Topete, ara ko nga whare katoa i tahu whakakakara ai ratou i runga i nga tuanui ki te ope katoa o te rangi, i ringihia ai hoki e ratou he ringihanga ki nga atua ke.
14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house, and said to all the people:
Katahi ka haere mai a Heremaia i Topete, i te wahi i unga ai ia e Ihowa ki te poropiti; a tu ana ia i te marae o te whare o Ihowa, a ka mea ki te iwi katoa,
15 “The LORD of Hosts, 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.’”
Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira, Nana, ka kawea mai e ahau ki runga ki tenei pa, a ki runga hoki i ona pa katoa, te kino katoa i korerotia ra e ahau mo konei; no te mea kua whakapakeketia e ratou o ratou kaki, kia kore ai ratou e rongo ki aku kupu.
