エレミヤ書 22
1 ヱホバかくいひたまへり汝ユダの王の室にくだり彼處にこの言をのべていへ
Thus said YHWH: “Go down [to] the house of the king of Judah, and you have spoken this word there, and have said,
2 ダビデの位に坐するユダの王よ汝と汝の臣および此門よりいる汝の民ヱホバの言をきけ
Hear a word of YHWH, O king of Judah, who are sitting on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people, who are coming in at these gates,”
3 ヱホバかくいふ汝ら公道と公義を行ひ物を奪はるる人をその暴虐者の手より救ひ異邦人と孤子と嫠婦をなやまし虐ぐる勿れまた此處に無辜の血を流す勿れ
Thus said YHWH: “Do judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, you do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood you do not shed in this place.
4 汝らもし此言を眞に行はばダビデの位に坐する王とその臣および其民は車と馬に乗てこの室の門にいることをえん
For if you certainly do this thing, Then kings sitting for David on his throne Have come in by the gates of this house, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people.
5 然ど汝らもし此言を聽ずばわれ自己を指して誓ふ此室は荒地となるべしとヱホバいひたまふ
And if you do not hear these words, I have sworn by Myself,” A declaration of YHWH, “That this house is for a desolation.”
6 ヱホバ、ユダの王の家につきてかく曰たまふ汝は我におけることギレアデのごとくレバノンの巓のごとし然どわれかならず汝を荒野となし人の住はざる邑となさん
For thus said YHWH concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You [are] Gilead to Me—head of Lebanon, If not—I make you a wilderness, Cities [that] are not inhabited.
7 われ破壞者をまふけて汝を攻めしめん彼ら各人その武器を執り汝の美しき香柏を斫てこれを火に投いれん
And I have separated destroyers for you, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of your cedars, And have cast them on the fire.”
8 多の國の人此邑をすぎ互に語てヱホバ何なれば此大なる邑にかく爲せしやといはんに
And many nations have passed by this city, And they have each said to his neighbor, “Why has YHWH done thus to this great city?”
9 人こたへて是は彼等其神ヱホバの契約をすてて他の神を拜し之に奉へしに由なりといはん
And they have said, “Because that they have forsaken The covenant of their God YHWH, And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.”
10 死者の爲に泣くことなくまた之が爲に嗟くこと勿れ寧擄へ移されし者の爲にいたく嗟くべし彼は再び歸てその故園を見ざるべければなり
You do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep severely for the traveler, For he does not return again, Nor has he seen the land of his birth.
11 ユダの王ヨシヤの子シヤルム即ちその父に繼で王となりて遂に此處をいでたる者につきてヱホバかくいひたまへり彼は再び此處に歸らじ
For thus said YHWH concerning Shallum son of Josiah king of Judah, who is reigning instead of his father Josiah, who has gone forth from this place: “He does not return here again;
12 彼はその移されし處に死んふたたび此地を見ざるべし
For he dies in the place to where they have removed him, And he does not see this land again.
13 不義をもて其室をつくり不法をもて其樓を造り其隣人を傭て何をも與へず其價を拂はざる者は禍なるかな
Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, He lays service on his neighbor for nothing, And he does not give his wage to him.
14 彼いふ我己の爲に廣厦と涼しき樓をつくり又己の爲に窓を造り香柏をもて之を蔽ひ赤く之を塗んと
Who is saying, I build a large house for myself, And airy upper chambers, And he has cut out its windows for himself, Covered with cedar, and painted with vermillion.
15 汝香柏を爭ひもちふるによりて王たるを得るか汝の父は食飮せざりしや公義と公道を行ひて福を得ざりしや
Do you reign, because you are fretting yourself in cedar? Your father—did he not eat and drink? Indeed, he did judgment and righteousness, Then [it is] well with him.
16 彼は貧者と患艱者の訟を理して祥をえたりかく爲すは我を識ことに非ずやとヱホバいひ給ふ
He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then [it is] well—is it not to know Me?” A declaration of YHWH.
17 然ど汝の目と心は惟貪をなさんとし無辜の血を流さんとし虐遇と暴逆をなさんとするのみ
“But your eyes and your heart are not, Except on your dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.”
18 故にヱホバ、ユダの王のヨシヤの子ヱホヤキムにつきてかく曰たまふ衆人は哀しいかな我兄かなしいかな我姊といひて嗟かず又哀しいかな主よ哀しいかな其榮と曰て嗟かじ
Therefore, thus said YHWH concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They do not lament for him, Oh, my brother! And, Oh, my sister! They do not lament for him, Oh, lord! And, Oh, his splendor!
19 彼は驢馬を埋るがごとく埋られん即ち曳れてヱルサレムの門の外に投棄らるべし
He is buried [with] the burial of a donkey, Dragged and cast out there to the gates of Jerusalem.
20 汝レバノンに登りて呼ばはりバシヤンに汝の聲を揚げアバリムより呼はれ其は汝の愛する者悉く滅されたればなり
Go up to Lebanon, and cry, And give forth your voice in Bashan, And cry from Abarim, For all loving you have been destroyed.
21 汝の平康なる時我汝に語しかども汝は我にきかじといへり汝いとけなき時よりわが聲を聽ずこれ汝の故習なり
I have spoken to you in your ease, You have said, I do not listen, This [is] your way from your youth, For you have not listened to My voice.
22 汝の牧者はみな風に呑つくされ汝の愛する者はとらへ移されん其時汝はおのれの諸の惡のために痛く恥べし
Wind consumes all your friends, And your lovers go into captivity, Surely then you are ashamed, And have blushed for all your wickedness.
23 汝レバノンにすみ巢を香柏につくる者よ汝の劬勞子を產む婦の痛苦のごとくにきたらんとき汝の哀慘はいかにぞや
O dweller in Lebanon, making a nest among cedars, How gracious have you been when pangs come to you, Pain—as of a travailing woman.”
24 ヱホバいひたまふ我は活くユダの王ヱホヤキムの子ヱコニヤは我右の手の指環なれども我これを拔ん
“[As] I live,” A declaration of YHWH, “Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah was a seal on My right hand, surely there I draw you away,
25 われ汝の生命を索る者の手および汝が其面を畏るる者の手すなはちバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手とカルデヤ人の手に汝を付さん
And I have given you into the hand of those seeking your life, And into hands of which you are afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 われ汝と汝を生し母を汝等がうまれざりし他の地に逐やらん汝ら彼處に死べし
And I have cast you, And your mother who bore you, to another country, Where you were not born, and you die there.
27 彼らの靈魂のいたく歸らんことを願ふところの地に彼らは歸ることをえず
And to the land to where they are lifting up their soul to return, They do not return there.”
28 この人ヱコニヤは賤しむべき壞れたる器ならんや好ましからざる器具ならんや如何なれば彼と其子孫は逐出されてその識ざる地に投やらるるや
A grief—a despised broken thing—is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Indeed, were they cast on to a land that they did not know?
29 地よ地よ地よヱホバの言をきけ
Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of YHWH!
30 ヱホバかくいひたまふこの人を子なくして其生命の中に榮えざる人と錄せそはその子孫のうちに榮えてダビデの位に坐しユダを治る人かさねてなかるべければなり
Thus said YHWH: “Write this man down [as] childless, A man—he does not prosper in his days, For none of his seed prospers, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling in Judah again!”
