エレミヤ書 18
1 ヱホバよりヱレミヤにのぞめる言いふ
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2 汝起て陶人の屋にくだれ我かしこに於てわが言を汝に聞しめんと
“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
3 われすなはち陶人の屋にくだり視るに轆轤をもて物をつくりをりしが
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
4 その泥をもて造れるところの器陶人の手のうちに傷ねたれば彼その心のままに之をもて別の器をつくれり
But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
5 時にヱホバの言我にのぞみていふ
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 ヱホバいふイスラエルの家よこの陶人のなすが如くわれ汝になすことをえざるかイスラエルの家よ陶人の手に泥のあるごとく汝らはわが手にあり
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
7 われ急に民あるひは國をぬくべし敗るべし滅すべしといふことあらんに
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
8 もし我いひしところの國その惡を離れなば我之に災を降さんとおもひしことを悔ん
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
9 我また急に民あるいは國を立べし植べしといふことあらんに
And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
10 もし其國わが目に惡く見ゆるところの事を行ひわが聲に遵はずば我これに福祉を錫へんといひしことを悔ん
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
11 汝いまユダの人々とヱルサレムに住る者にいへヱホバかくいへり視よ我汝らに災をくださんと思ひめぐらし汝らをはかる計策を設く故に汝らおのおの其惡き途を離れ其途と行をあらためよと
Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
12 しかるに彼らいふ是は徒然なりわれらは自己の圖維ところにしたがひ各自その惡き心の剛愎なるを行はんと
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
13 この故にヱホバかくいひたまふ汝ら異國のうちに問へ斯の如きことを聞し者ありやイスラエルの處女はいと驚くべきことをなせり
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
14 レバノンの雪豈野の磐を離れんや遠方より流くる冷なる水豈涸かんや
Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
15 しかるに我民は我をわすれて虛き物に香を焚り是等の物彼らをその途すなはち古き途に蹶かせまた徑すなはち備なき道に行しめ
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
16 その地を荒して恒に人の笑とならしめん凡て其處を過る者は驚きてその首を搖らん
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
17 われ東風のごとくに彼らをその敵の前に散さん其滅亡の日にはわれ背を彼らに向て面をむけじ
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
18 彼らいふ去來われら計策を設てヱレミヤをはからんそれ祭司には律法あり智慧ある者には謀畧あり預言者には言ありて失ざるべし去來われら舌をもて彼を撃ちその諸の言を聽ことをせざらんと
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
19 ヱホバよ我にききたまへ又我と爭ふ者の聲をききたまへ
Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
20 惡をもて善に報ゆべきものならんや彼らはわが生命をとらん爲に坑を掘れりわが汝の前に立て彼らを善く言ひ汝の憤怒を止めんとせしを憶えたまへ
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
21 さればかれらの子女を饑饉にあたへ彼らを劍の刃にわたしたまへ其妻は子を失ひ且寡となり其男は死をもて亡されその少者は劍をもて戰に殺されよかし
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
22 汝突然に敵をかれらに臨ませたまふ時號呼をその家の内より聞えしめよそは彼ら坑を掘りて我を執へんとしまた機檻を置てわが足を執へんとすればなり
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
23 ヱホバよ汝はかれらが我を殺さんとするすべての謀畧を知りたまふ其惡を赦すことなく其罪を汝の前より抹去りたまふなかれ彼らを汝の前に仆れしめよ汝の怒りたまふ時にかく彼らになしたまへ
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
