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 the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

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

Say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by 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 says the LORD: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood 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 do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots 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

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become 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 says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which 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

I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into 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

Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, 'Why has the LORD 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

Then they shall answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served 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

Do not weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country."

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 says the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: "He shall not return there any more.

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

But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more."

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 builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

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 says, "I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms," and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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

Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was 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 judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.

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 but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it."

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 says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "they shall not lament for him, saying, 'Alas my brother. or, Alas sister.' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Alas lord.' or, 'Alas his majesty.'

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 shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond 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 lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are 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 spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, 'I will not hear.' This has been your way from your youth, that you did not obey 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

The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded 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

Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly you will groan when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail.

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," says the LORD, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;

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 will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even 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

I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

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

But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return."

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

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land that they do not know?

29 地よ地よ地よヱホバの言をきけ

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

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 says the LORD, "Write this man down childless, a man who will not succeed in his days; for none of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.