エレミヤ書 23
1 ヱホバいひ給ひけるは嗚呼わが養ふ群を滅し散す牧者は禍なるかな
Alas for the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture Declareth Yahweh.
2 故にイスラエルの神ヱホバ我民を養ふ牧者につきて斯いふ汝らはわが群を散しこれを逐はなちて顧みざりき視よわれ汝らの惡き行によりて汝等に報ゆべしとヱホバいふ
Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Concerning the shepherds who are tending my people, —Ye have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and have not visited them, —Behold me! visiting upon you the wickedness of your doings Declareth Yahweh.
3 われ我群の遺餘たる者をその逐はなちたる諸の地より集め再びこれを其牢に歸さん彼らは子を產て多くなるべし
I myself, therefore will gather the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands whither I have driven them, —And will bring them back unto their own fold, And they shall be fruitful and multiply;
4 我これを養ふ牧者をその上に立ん彼等はふたたび慄かず懼ずまた失じとヱホバいひたまふ
And I will raise up over them shepherds who will tend them, —So shall they not be afraid any more, nor be dismayed nor be missing, Declareth Yahweh.
5 ヱホバいひたまひけるは視よわがダビデに一の義き枝を起す日來らん彼王となりて世を治め榮え公道と公義を世に行ふべし
Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, when I will raise up to David A righteous Bud, And he shall reign as king, and prosper, And shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
6 其日ユダは救をえイスラエルは安に居らん其名はヱホバ我儕の義と稱らるべし
In his days, Shall Judah be saved, And Israel abide securely, —And, this, is his name whereby he shall be called Yahweh, our Righteousness.
7 この故にヱホバいひ給ふ視よイスラエルの民をエジプトの地より導出せしヱホバは活くと人衆復いはずして
Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall not be said any more As Yahweh liveth, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 イスラエルの家の裔を北の地と其諸て逐やりし地より導出せしヱホバは活くといふ日來らん彼らは自己の地に居るべし
but—As Yahweh liveth who hath brought up and who hath brought in the seed of the house of Israel out of the land of the North, and out of all the lands whither I have driven them, —And they shall remain upon their own soil.
9 預言者輩のために我心はわが衷に壞れわが骨は皆震ふ且ヱホバとその聖言のためにわれは醉る人のごとく酒に勝るる人のごとし
As for the prophets, —Broken is my heart within me Trembled have all my bones, I have become as a drunken man, And as a strong man whom wine hath overcome, —Because of Yahweh, And because of his holy words.
10 この地は姦淫をなすもの盈ち地は呪詛によりて憂へ曠野の艸は枯る彼らの途はあしく其力は正しからず
For with adulterers, is the land filled, Yea because of cursing, doth the land mourn, Dried up are the oases of the desert, —And, their oppression hath become wicked, And, their might is not right.
11 預言者と祭司は偕に邪惡なりわれ我家に於てすら彼等の惡を見たりとヱホバいひたまふ
For both prophet and priest, are profane, —Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh.
12 故にかれらの途は暗に在る滑なる途の如くならん彼等推れて其途に仆るべし我災をその上にのぞましめん是彼らが刑罰らるる年なりとヱホバいひたまふ
Therefore, shall their way become to them like slippery places in darkness, They shall be driven on and shall fall therein, —For I will bring in upon them calamity—The year of their visitation, Declareth Yahweh.
13 われサマリヤの預言者の中に愚昧なる事あるをみたり彼等はバアルに託りて預言し我民イスラエルを惑はせり
Even among the prophets of Samaria, had I seen a foolish thing, —They prophesied by Baal, And led astray my people Israel.
14 我ヱルサレムの預言者の中にも憎むべき事あるを見たり彼等は姦淫をなし詐僞をおこなひ惡人の手を堅くして人をその惡に離れざらしむ彼等みな我にはソドムのごとく其民はゴモラのごとし
But among the prophets of Jerusalem, have I seen a horrible thing, —Committing adultery, And walking in falsehood, And so strengthening the hands of doers of wickedness, not to return any man from his wickedness: They have all of them become to me as Sodom, And her inhabitants as Gomorrah.
15 この故に萬軍のヱホバ預言者につきてかくいひたまふ視よわれ茵蔯を之に食はせ毒水をこれに飮せんそは邪惡ヱルサレムの預言者よりいでて此全地に及べばなり
Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts Concerning the prophets, —Behold me! Feeding them with wormwood, And I will cause them to drink poisoned water, —For from the prophets of Jerusalem, hath there gone forth profanity unto all the land.
16 萬軍のヱホバかくいひたまふ汝等に預言する預言者の言を聽く勿れ彼等は汝らを欺きヱホバの口よりいでざるおのが心の默示を語るなり
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, —Do not hearken unto the words of the prophets who are prophesying unto you, They are filling you, with vain hopes, —The vision of their own hearts, do they speak, Not from the mouth of Yahweh!
17 常に彼らは我を藐忽ずる者にむかひて汝等平安をえんとヱホバいひたまへりといひ又己が心の剛愎なるに循ひて行むところのすべての者に向ひて災汝らに來らじといへり
They keep on saying to them who despise me, Yahweh, hath spoken, saying, Prosperity, shall ye have! And to every one who is going on in the stubbornness of his own heart, have they said, There shall come on you, no calamity
18 誰かヱホバの議會に立て其言を見聞せし者あらんや誰か其耳を傾けて我言を聽し者あらんや
For who hath stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should see and hear his word? Who hath given ear to his word and heard it?
19 みよヱホバの暴風あり怒と旋轉風いでて惡人の首をうたん
Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, Even a tempest whirling along: On the head of the lawless, shall it hurl itself down.
20 ヱホバの怒はかれがその心の思を行ひてこれを遂げ給ふまでは息じ末の日に汝ら明にこれを曉らん
The anger of Yahweh, wilt not return, Until he hath executed nor Until he hath established The purposes of his heart, —In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it perfectly.
21 預言者等はわが遣さざるに趨り我告ざるに預言せり
I sent not the prophets yet they, ran, I spake not unto them yet, they, prophesied.
22 彼らもし我議會に立ちしならば我民にわが言をきかしめて之をその惡き途とその惡き行に離れしめしならん
But if they had stood in my council, Then might they have announced my words unto my people, And have turned them from their wicked way and from the wickedness of their doings.
23 ヱホバいひ給ふ我はただ近くにおいてのみ神たらんや遠くに於ても神たるにあらずや
Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off?
24 ヱホバいひたまふ人我に見られざる樣に密かなる處に身を匿し得るかヱホバいひたまふ我は天地に充るにあらずや
Can any hide himself in secret places that I, shall not see him? Demandeth Yahweh, —The heavens and the earth, do I not fill? Demandeth Yahweh.
25 われ我名をもて謊を預言する預言者等がわれ夢を見たりわれ夢を見たりと曰ふをきけり
I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy in my name falsely, saying, —I have dreamed! I have dreamed!
26 謊を預言する預言者等はいつまで此心をいだくや彼らは其心の詐僞を預言するなり
How long shall it be in the heart of the prophets, To be prophets of falsehood, —And prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
27 彼らは其先祖がバアルによりて我名を忘れしごとく互に夢をかたりて我民にわが名を忘れしめんと思ふや
Who lay a plot to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they relate every man to his neighbour, —Just as their fathers forgat, my name, for Baal.
28 夢をみし預言者は夢を語るべし我言を受し者は誠實をもて我言を語るべし糠いかで麥に比擬ことをえんやとヱホバいひたまふ
The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as a dream, And he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as truth, —What is the chaff to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh:
29 ヱホバ言たまはく我言は火のごとくならずや又磐を打碎く槌の如くならずや
Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh, —And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff?
30 故に視よわれ我言を相互に竊める預言者の敵となるとヱホバいひたまふ
Therefore! behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh, —who steal my words, every man from his neighbour:
31 視よわれは彼いひたまへりと舌をもて語るところの預言者の敵となるとヱホバいひたまふ
Behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh, who presume with their tongue and declare He declareth:
32 ヱホバいひたまひけるは視よわれ僞の夢を預言する者の敵となる彼らは之を語りまたその謊と其誇をもて我民を惑はす我かれらを遣さずかれらに命ぜざるなり故に彼らは斯民に益なしとヱホバいひ給ふ
Behold me! against such as prophesy the dreams of falsehood, Declareth Yahweh, who have related them and led astray my people, with their falsehoods and with their recklessness, —whereas, I, had not sent them nor commanded them, so that they could be of no, profit, to this people, Declareth Yahweh.
33 この民或は預言者又は祭司汝に問てヱホバの重負は何ぞやといはば汝彼等にこたへてヱホバの重負は我汝等を棄んとヱホバの云たまひし事是なりといふべし
But when this people or a prophet or a priest shall ask thee saying What is the oracle of Yahweh? Then shalt thou say unto them Ye, yourselves, are the oracle, Therefore will I reject you Declareth Yahweh;
34 ヱホバの重負といふところの預言者と祭司と民には我その人と其家にこれを降さん
But the prophet, or the priest or the people who shall say—the oracle of Yahweh, I will bring punishment upon that man and upon his house.
35 汝らはおのおの斯互に言ひその兄弟にいふべしヱホバは何と應へたまひしやヱホバは何と云たまひしやと
Thus, shall ye say—every man unto his neighbour and every man unto his brother, —What hath Yahweh, answered? or, What hath Yahweh, spoken?
36 汝ら復びヱホバの重負といふべからず人の重負となる者は其人の言なるべし汝らは活る神萬軍のヱホバなる我らの神の言を枉るなり
but the oracle of Yahweh, shall ye not mention, any more, —for, every man’s oracle, shall be his own word, because ye have perverted the words of a Living God, Yahweh of hosts our God.
37 汝かく預言者にいふべしヱホバは汝に何と答へ給ひしやヱホバは何といひたまひしやと
Thus, shalt thou say unto the prophet, —What hath Yahweh, answered thee? or What hath Yahweh, spoken?
38 汝らもしヱホバの重負といはばヱホバそれにつきてかくいひたまふ我人を汝らに遣して汝等ヱホバの重負といふべからずといはしむるも汝らはヱホバの重負といふ此言をいふによりて
But, since ye keep on saying, The Oracle of Yahweh, therefore, Thus saith Yahweh, Because ye have said this word, The oracle of Yahweh, whereas I had sent unto you saying, Ye shall not say, The oracle of Yahweh
39 われ必ず汝らを忘れ汝らと汝らの先祖にあたへし此邑と汝らとを我前より棄ん
therefore, behold me! I will lift you up, —and carry you away, and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers from before my face;
40 且われ永遠の辱と永遠なる忘らるることなき恥を汝らにかうむらしめん
and will give unto you reproach age-abiding, —and disgrace age-abiding, which shall not be forgotten.
