エレミヤ書 12
1 ヱホバよわが汝と爭ふ時に汝は義し惟われ鞫の事につきて汝と言ん惡人の途のさかえ悖れる者のみな福なるは何故ぞや
You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
2 汝かれらを植たり彼らは根づき成長て實を結べりその口は汝に近けどもその心は汝に遠ざかる
You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
3 ヱホバ汝われを知り我を見またわが心の汝にむかひて何なるかを試みたまふ羊を宰りに牽いだすがごとく彼らを牽いだし殺す日の爲にかれらをそなへたまへ
But you, LORD, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 いつまでこの地は哭きすべての畑の蔬菜は枯をるべけんやこの地に住る者の惡によりて畜獸と鳥は滅さる彼らいふ彼は我らの終をみざるべしと
How long shall the land be parched, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, "He shall not see our latter end."
5 汝もし歩行者とともに趨てつかれなばいかで騎馬者と競はんや汝平安なる地を恃まばいかでヨルダンの傍の叢に居ることをえんや
"If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
6 汝の兄弟と汝の父の家も汝を欺きまた大聲をあげて汝を追ふかれらしたしく汝に語るともこれを信ずる勿れ
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: do not believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
7 われ我家を離れわが產業をすて我靈魂の愛するところの者をその敵の手にわたせり
I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 わが產業は林の獅子のごとし我にむかひて其聲を揚ぐ故にわれ之を惡めり
My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
9 我產業は我におけること班駁ある鳥のごとくならずや鳥之を圍むにあらずや野のすべての獸きたりあつまれ來てこれを食へ
Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.
10 衆の牧者わが葡萄園をほろぼしわが地を踐踏しわがうるはしき地を荒野となせり
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 彼らこれを荒地となせりその荒地我にむかひて哭くなり一人もかへりみる者なければこの全地は荒たり
They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
12 毀滅者は野のすべての童山のうへに來れりヱホバの劍地のこの極よりかの極までを滅ぼすすべて血氣ある者は安をえず
Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
13 彼らは麥を播て荊棘をかる勞れども得るところなし汝らはその作物のために恥るにいたらん是ヱホバの烈き怒によりてなり
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
14 わがイスラエルの民に嗣しむる產業をせむるところのすべてのわが惡き隣にむかひてヱホバかくいふみよわれ彼等をその地より拔出しまたユダの家を彼らの中より拔出すべし
Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: 'look, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15 われ彼らを拔出せしのちまた彼らを恤みておのおのを其產業にかへし各人をその地に歸らしめん
It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 彼等もし我民の道をまなび我名をさしてヱホバは活くと誓ふこと嘗て我民を敎へてバアルを指て誓はしめし如くせば彼らはわが民の中に建らるべし
It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, "As the LORD lives;" even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
17 されど彼らもし聽かざれば我かならずかかる民を全く拔出して滅すべしとヱホバいひたまふ
But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,'" says the LORD.
