エレミヤ書 29

1 預言者ヱレミヤ、ヱルサレムより書をかの擄へうつされて餘れるところの長老および祭司と預言者ならびにネブカデネザルがヱルサレムよりバビロンに移したるすべての民に送れり

And these [are] words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people — whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,

2 是より先ヱコニヤ王と王后と寺人およびユダとヱルサレムの牧伯等および木匠と鐵匠はヱルサレムをされり

After the going forth of Jeconiah the king, and the mistress, and the officers, heads of Judah and Jerusalem, and the artificer, and the smith, from Jerusalem —

3 ヱレミヤその書をシヤパンの子エラサおよびヒルキヤの子ゲマリヤ即ちユダの王ゼデキヤがバビロンにつかはしてバビロンの王ネブカデネザルにいたらしむる者の手によりて送れり其書にいはく

By the hand of Eleasah son of Shaphan, and Gemariah son of Hilkijah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon — to Babylon, saying,

4 萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神すべて擄うつされし者即ち我ヱルサレムよりバビロンに移さしめし者にかくいふ

'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, to all the removal that I removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,

5 汝ら屋を建てこれに住ひ圃をつくりてその果をくらへ

Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;

6 妻を娶て子女をうみ又汝らの子に媳を娶り汝らの女を嫁がしめ彼らに子女を生しめよ此は汝等かしこに減ずして增んがためなり

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

7 我汝らを擄移さしめしところの邑の安を求めこれが爲にヱホバにいのれその邑の安によりて汝らもまた安をうればなり

And seek the peace of the city whither I have removed you, and pray for it unto Jehovah, for in its peace ye have peace.

8 萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいひたまふ汝らの中の預言者と卜筮士に惑はさるる勿れまた汝ら自ら作りしところの夢に聽したがふ勿れ

'For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets who [are] in your midst, and your diviners, lift you up, nor hearken ye unto their dreams, that ye are causing [them] to dream;

9 そは彼ら我名をもて謊を汝らに預言すればなり我彼らを遣さずヱホバいひたまふ

For with falsehood they are prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

10 ヱホバかくいひたまふバビロンに於て七十年滿なばわれ汝らを眷み我嘉言を汝らになして汝らをこの處に歸らしめん

'For thus said Jehovah, Surely at the fulness of Babylon — seventy years — I inspect you, and have established towards you My good word, to bring you back unto this place.

11 ヱホバいひたまふ我が汝らにむかひて懷くところの念は我これを知るすなはち災をあたへんとにあらず平安を與へんとおもひ又汝らに後と望をあたへんとおもふなり

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you — an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

12 汝らわれに龥はり往て我にいのらん我汝らに聽べし

'And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,

13 汝らもし一心をもて我を索めなば我に尋ね遇はん

And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

14 ヱホバいひたまふ我汝らの遇ところとならんわれ汝らの俘擄を解き汝らを萬國よりすべて我汝らを逐やりし處より集め且我汝らをして擄らはれて離れしめしその處に汝らをひき歸らんとヱホバいひたまふ

And I have been found of you — an affirmation of Jehovah; and I have turned back [to] your captivity, and have gathered you out of all the nations, and out of all the places whither I have driven you — an affirmation of Jehovah — and I have brought you back unto the place whence I removed you.

15 ヱホバわれらの爲にバビロンに於て預言者を立たまひしと汝らはいふ

'Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,

16 ダビデの位に坐する王とこの邑に住るすべての民汝らと偕にとらへ移されざりし兄弟につきてヱホバかくいひたまふ

Surely thus said Jehovah concerning the king who is sitting on the throne of David, and concerning all the people that is dwelling in this city, your brethren who went not forth with you in the removal;

17 萬軍のヱホバかくいふ視よわれ劍と饑饉と疫病を彼らにおくり彼らを惡くして食はれざる惡き無花果のごとくになさん

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Lo, I am sending among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I have given them up as figs that [are] vile, that are not eaten for badness.

18 われ劍と饑饉と疫病をもて彼らを逐ひまた彼らを地の萬國にわたして虐にあはしめ我彼らを逐やる諸國に於て呪詛となり詫異となり人の嗤笑となり恥辱とならしめん

And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,

19 是彼ら我言を聽ざればなりとヱホバいひたまふ我この言を我僕なる預言者によりて遣り頻におくれども汝ら聽ざるなりとヱホバいひたまふ

Because that they have not hearkened unto My words — an affirmation of Jehovah — that I sent unto them by My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye hearkened not — an affirmation of Jehovah.

20 わがヱルサレムよりバビロンにおくりし諸の俘擄人よ汝らヱホバの言をきけ

'And ye, hear ye a word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity that I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon,

21 我名をもて謊を汝らに預言するコラヤの子アハブとマアセヤの子ゼデキヤにつきて萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいふ視よわれ彼らをバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手に付さん彼これを汝らの目の前に殺すべし

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in My name falsehood: Lo, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath smitten them before your eyes,

22 バビロンにあるユダの俘擄人は皆彼らをもて詛となし願くはヱホバ汝をバビロンの王が火にて焚しゼデキヤとアハブのごとき者となしたまはん事をといふ

And taken from them hath been a reviling by all the removed of Judah that [are] in Babylon, saying, Jehovah doth set thee as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire;

23 こは彼らイスラエルの中に惡をなし鄰の妻を犯し且我彼らに命ぜざる謊の言をわが名をもて語りしによる我これを知りまた證すとヱホバいひたまふ

Because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and speak a word in My name falsely that I have not commanded them, and I [am] He who knoweth and a witness — an affirmation of Jehovah.

24 汝ネヘラミ人シマヤにかく語りいふべし

'And unto Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou dost speak, saying,

25 萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいふ汝おのれの名をもて書をヱルサレムにある諸の民と祭司マアセヤの子ゼパニヤおよび諸の祭司に送りていふ

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, Because that thou hast sent in thy name letters unto all the people who [are] in Jerusalem, and unto Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and unto all the priests, saying,

26 ヱホバ汝を祭司ヱホヤダに代て祭司となし汝らをヱホバの室の監督となしたまふ此すべて狂妄ひ且みづから預言者なりといふ者を獄と桎梏につながしめんためなり

Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks.

27 然るに汝いま何故に汝らにむかひてみづから預言者なりといふところのアナトテのヱレミヤを斥責めざるや

And now, why hast thou not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you?

28 そは彼バビロンにをる我儕に書を送り時尚長ければ汝ら家を建て之に住ひ圃をつくりてその實をくらへといへり

Because that he hath sent unto us to Babylon, saying, It [is] long, build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit.'

29 祭司ゼパニヤこの書を預言者ヱレミヤに讀きかせたり

And Zephaniah the priest readeth this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

30 時にヱホバの言ヱレミヤにのぞみていふ

And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

31 諸の俘擄人に書をおくりて云べしネヘラミ人シマヤの事につきてヱホバかくいふ我シマヤを遣さざるに彼汝らに預言し汝らに謊を信ぜしめしによりて

'Send unto all the removal, saying, Thus said Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I — I have not sent him, and he doth cause you to trust on falsehood,

32 ヱホバかくいふ視よ我ネヘラミ人シマヤと其子孫を罰すべし彼ヱホバに逆くことを敎へしによりて此民のうちに彼に屬する者一人も住ふことなからん且我民に吾がなさんとする善事をみざるべしとヱホバいひたまふ

Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people — an affirmation of Jehovah — for apostasy he hath spoken against Jehovah.'