エレミヤ書 2
1 ヱホバの言我にのぞみていふ
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 ゆきてヱルサレムに住る者の耳につげよヱホバ斯くいふ我汝につきて汝の若き時の懇切なんぢが契をなせしときの愛曠野なる種播ぬ地にて我に從ひしことを憶ゆと
Go and call out before the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, I remember unto thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, thy going after me in the wilderness, through a land that is not sown.
3 イスラエルはヱホバの聖物にしてその初に結べる實なりすべて之を食ふものは罰せられ災にあふべしとヱホバ云ひたまへり
A holy thing is Israel unto the Lord, the first of his fruits: all that devour him shall incur guilt; evil shall come over them, saith the Lord.
4 ヤコブの家とイスラエルの家の諸の族よヱホバの言をきけ
Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel.
5 ヱホバかくいひたまふ汝等の先祖は我に何の惡事ありしを見て我に遠かり 虛しき物にしたがひて虛しくなりしや
Thus hath said the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they went away far from me, and walked after vanity, and became vain?
6 かれらは我儕をエジプトの地より導きいだし曠野なる岩穴ある荒たる地 旱きたる死の蔭の地 人の過ぎざる地 人の住はざる地を通らしめしヱホバはいづこにあるといはざりき
That they said not, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of wildness, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land through which no one had passed, and where no man had dwelt?
7 われ汝等を導きて園のごとき地にいれ其實と佳物をくらはしめたり然ど汝等此處にいり我地を汚し我產業を憎むべきものとなせり
And I brought you into the land of fruitful fields, to eat its fruit and its goodly products; but ye came and ye made unclean my land, and my heritage ye rendered an abomination.
8 祭司はヱホバは何處にいますといはず律法をあつかふ者は我を知らず牧者は我に背き預言者はバアルによりて預言し益なきものに從へり
The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Ba'al, and after things that cannot profit did they walk.
9 故にわれ尚汝等とあらそはん且汝の子孫とあらそふべしとヱホバいひたまふ
Therefore will I contend yet farther with you, saith the Lord, and with your children's children will I contend.
10 汝等キッテムの諸島にわたりて觀よまた使者をケダルにつかはし斯のごとき事あるや否やを詳細に察せしめよ
For pass over to the isles of the Chittites, and see; and unto Kedar send, and consider well and see if any thing like this hath happened.
11 その神を神にあらざる者に易たる國ありや然るに我民はその榮を益なき物にかへたり
Hath a nation exchanged its gods, which are yet no gods? and [still] my people hath exchanged its glory for that which can not profit.
12 天よこの事を驚け慄けいたく怖れよとヱホバいひたまふ
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and let your hair stand at an end, be ye greatly terrified, saith the Lord.
13 蓋わが民はふたつの惡事をなせり即ち活る水の源なる我をすて自己水溜を掘れりすなはち壞れたる水溜にして水を有たざる者なり
For two evils have my people committed: me have they forsaken, the source of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.
14 イスラエルはしもべなるか家にうまれし僕なるかいかにして擄掠となれるや
Is Israel a servant? or one born [to servitude] in the house? why hath he been given up to plunder?
15 わかき獅子かれにむかひて哮えその聲をあげてその地を荒せりその諸邑は焚れて住む人なし
[That] over him young lions roared, let their voice resound, and changed his land into a waste, that his cities are burnt, left without an inhabitant?
16 ノフとタパネスの諸子も汝の頭首の髮をくらはん
Even the children of Noph and Thachpanches have crushed the crown of thy head.
17 汝の神ヱホバの汝を途にみちびきたまへる時に汝これを棄たるによりて此事汝におよぶにあらずや
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, through thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while he was leading thee on the [right] way?
18 汝ナイルの水を飮んとてエジプトの路にあるは何ゆゑぞまた河の水を飮んとてアツスリヤの路にあるは何故ぞ
And now what hast thou to do on the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shichor? and what hast thou to do on the way of Asshur, to drink the waters of the river?
19 汝の惡は汝をこらしめ汝の背は汝をせめん斯く汝が汝の神ヱホバをすてたると我を畏るることの汝の衷にあらざるとは惡く且つ苦きことなるを汝見てしるべしと主なる萬軍のヱホバいひ給ふ
Thy own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall correct thee; and thou shalt know and see that evil and bitter was thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while the dread of me was not upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal of hosts.
20 汝昔より汝の軛ををり汝の縛を截ちていひけるは我つかふることをせじと即ち汝すべての高山のうへと諸の靑木の下に妓女のごとく身をかがめたり
Because from yore did I break thy yoke, did I burst asunder thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress: nevertheless upon every high hill and under every green tree thou makest thy bed, as harlot.
21 われ汝を植て佳き葡萄の樹となし全き眞の種となせしにいかなれば汝われに向ひて異なる葡萄の樹の惡き枝にかはりしや
Yet I had planted thee as a branch of a noble vine, wholly of the proper seed; but how art thou changed unto me into a degenerate plant of an ignoble vine?
22 たとひ嚥哘をもて自ら濯ひまたおほくの灰汁を加ふるも汝の惡はわが前に汚れたりと主ヱホバいひ給ふ
For though thou wash thyself with natron, and take for thyself much soap: yet would the stain of thy iniquity remain before me, saith the Lord Eternal.
23 汝いかで我は汚れずバアルに從はざりしといふことを得んや汝谷の中のおこなひを觀よ汝のなせしことを知れ汝は疾走るわかき牝の駱駝にしてその途にさまよへり
How canst thou say, I am not become unclean, after the Be'alim have I not gone? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [like] a swift dromedary bound fast to her ways;
24 汝は曠野になれたる野の牝驢馬なり其欲のために風にあへぐその欲のうごくときは誰かこれをとどめえん凡てこれを尋る者は自ら勞するにおよばすその月の中に之にあふべし
[Like] a wild ass used to the wilderness, that at her pleasure snuffeth up the wind; her lust—who can turn this away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month will they find her.
25 汝足をつつしみて跣足にならざるやうにし喉をつつしみて渇かぬやうにせよしかるに汝いふ是は徒然なり然りわれ異なる國の者を愛してこれに從ふなりと
“Prevent thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from being thirsty;” but thou saidst, It is useless; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 盜人の執へられて恥辱をうくるがごとくイスラエルの家恥辱をうく彼等その王その牧伯その祭司その預言者みな然り
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so have the house of Israel been made ashamed, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
27 彼等木にむかひて汝は我父なりといひまた石にむかひて汝は我を生みたりといふ彼等は背を我にむけて其面をわれに向けずされど彼等災にあふときは起てわれらを救ひ給へといふ
Who say to the wood, Thou art my father; and to the stone, Thou hast brought us forth; for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their misfortune will they say, Arise, and save us.
28 汝がおのれの爲に造りし神はいづこにあるやもし汝が災にあふときかれら汝を救ふを得ば起つべきなりそはユダよ汝の神は汝の邑の數に同じければなり
But where are then thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy misfortune; for equal to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.
29 汝等なんぞ我とあらそふや汝らは皆我に背けりとヱホバいひ給ふ
Wherefore will ye contend with me? all of you have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
30 我が汝らの衆子を打しは益なかりき彼等は懲治をうけず汝等の劍は猛き獅子のごとく汝等の預言者を滅せり
To no purpose have I smitten your children; correction they accepted not: your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 なんぢらこの世の人よヱホバの言をきけ我はイスラエルのために曠野となりしや暗き地となりしや何故にわが民はわれら徘徊りて復汝に來らじといふや
O [present] generation, regard ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of deep darkness? wherefore say my people, We wander about; we cannot come any more unto thee?
32 それ處女はその飾物を忘れんや新婦はその帶をわすれんや然ど我民の我を忘れたる日は數へがたし
Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her decorations? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 汝愛を得んとて如何に汝の途を美くするぞよされば汝の行はあしき事を爲すに慣たり
Why ornamentest thou thy way to seek for love? truly even the worst hast thou used thyself as thy ways.
34 また汝の裾に辜なき貧者の生命の血ありわれ盜人の穿たる所にて之を見ずしてすべて此等の上にこれを見る
Also on thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent needy ones: not while breaking in [thy house] didst thou find them; but for all these things.
35 されど汝いふわれは辜なし故にその怒はかならず我に臨まじとみよ汝われ罪を犯さざりしといふにより我汝とあらそふべし
Yet thou sayest, Yea, I am innocent, surely his anger is already turned away from me. Behold, I will hold judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36 なんぢ何故にその途を易んとて迅くはしるや汝アツスリヤに恥辱をうけしごとくエジプトにも亦恥辱をうけん
Why makest thou thyself so very low to change thy way? also because of Egypt shalt thou be made ashamed, as thou wast put to shame because of Assyria.
37 汝兩手を頭に置てかしこよりも出去らんそはヱホバ汝のたのむところの者を棄れば汝彼等によりて望を遂ること無るべければなり
Also from this one shalt thou go forth, with thy hands [clasped] over thy head; for the Lord hath rejected those on whom thou trustest and thou shalt not prosper with them.
