エレミヤ書 3
1 世にいへるあり人もしその妻をいださんに去りゆきてほかの人の妻とならば其夫ふたたび彼に歸るべけんやさすれば其地はおほいに汚れざらんや汝はおほくの者と姦淫を行へりされど汝われに皈れよとヱホバいひ給ふ
...saying: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, may he return unto her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou yet return to Me? saith the LORD.
2 汝目をあげてもろもろの童山をみよ姦淫を行はざる所はいづこにあるや汝は曠野にをるアラビヤ人の爲すがごとく路に坐して人をまてり汝は姦淫と惡をもて此地を汚せり
Lift up thine eyes unto the high hills, and see: Where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.
3 この故に雨はとどめられ春の雨はふらざりし然れど汝娼妓の額あれば肯て恥ず
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 汝いまより我を呼ていはざらんや我父よ汝はわが少時の交友なり
Didst thou not just now cry unto Me: 'My father, Thou art the friend of my youth.
5 窮なくその怒を含まんや恒に之を存たんやと視よ汝はかくいへど力をきはめて惡を爲すなり
Will He bear grudge for ever? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.
6 ヨシヤ王のときヱホバまた我にいひ給ひけるは汝そむけるイスラエルのなせしことを見しや彼はすべての高山にのぼりすべての靑木の下にゆきて其處に姦淫を行へり
And the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king: 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel did? she went up upon every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and there played the harlot.
7 彼このすべての事を爲せしのち我かれに汝われに歸れと言しかどもわれに歸らざりき其悖れる姊妹なるユダ之を見たり
And I said: After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 我に背けるイスラエル姦淫をなせしにより我かれを出して離緣状をあたへたれどその悖れる姊妹なるユダは懼れずして往て姦淫を行ふ我これを見る
And I saw, when, forasmuch as backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, that yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot;
9 また其姦淫の噪をもてこの地を汚し且石と木とに姦淫を行へり
and it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks;
10 此諸の事あるも仍其悖れる姊妹なるユダは眞心をもて我にかへらず僞れるのみとヱホバいひたまふ
and yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD —
11 ヱホバまた我にいひたまひけるは背けるイスラエルは悖れるユダよりも自己を義とす
even the LORD said unto me — backsliding Israel hath proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
12 汝ゆきて北にむかひ此言を宣ていふべしヱホバいひたまふ背けるイスラエルよ歸れわれ怒の面を汝らにむけじわれは矜恤ある者なり怒を限なく含みをることあらじとヱホバいひたまふ
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; I will not frown upon you; for I am merciful, saith the LORD, I will not bear grudge for ever.
13 汝ただ汝の罪を認はせそは汝の神ヱホバにそむき經めぐりてすべての靑木の下にて異邦人にゆき汝等わが聲をきかざればなりとヱホバいひ給ふ
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and ye have not hearkened to My voice, saith the LORD.
14 ヱホバいひたまふ背ける衆子よ我にかへれそはわれ汝等を娶ればなりわれ邑より一人支派より二人を取りて汝等をシオンにつれゆかん
Return, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am a lord unto you, and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion;
15 われ我心に合ふ牧者を汝等にあたへん彼等は知識と明哲をもて汝等を養ふべし
and I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16 ヱホバいひたまふ汝等地に增して多くならんときは人々復ヱホバの契約の櫃といはず之を想ひいでず之を憶えずこれを尋ねずこれを作らざるべし
And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the LORD; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they make mention of it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
17 その時ヱルサレムはヱホバの座位と稱へられ萬國の民ここに集るべし即ちヱホバの名によりてヱルサレムに集り重て其惡き心の剛愎なるにしたがひて行まざるべし
At that time they shall call Jerusalem The throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
18 その時ユダの家はイスラエルの家とともに行みて北の地よりいで我汝らの先祖たちに與へて嗣しめし地に偕にきたるべし
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.'
19 我いへり嗚呼われいかにして汝を諸子の中に置き萬國の中にて最も美しき產業なる此美地を汝にあたへんと我またいへり汝われを我父とよび亦我を離れざるべしと
But I said: 'How would I put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, the goodliest heritage of the nations!' And I said: 'Thou shalt call Me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following Me.'
20 然にイスラエルの家よ妻の誓に違きてその夫を棄るがごとく汝等われに背けりとヱホバいひたまふ
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
21 聲山のうへに聞ゆ是はイスラエルの民の悲み祈るなり蓋彼等まがれる途にあゆみ其神ヱホバを忘るればなり
Hark! upon the high hills is heard the suppliant weeping of the children of Israel; for that they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 背ける諸子よ我に歸れわれ汝の退違をいやさん／視よ我儕なんぢに到る汝はわれらの神ヱホバなればなり
Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God.
23 信に諸の岡とおほくの山に救を望むはいたづらなり誠にイスラエルの救はわれらの神ヱホバにあり
Truly vain have proved the hills, the uproar on the mountains; truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 羞恥はわれらの幼時より我儕の先祖の產業すなはち其多の羊とそのおほくの牛および其子その女を呑盡せり
But the shameful thing hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 われらは羞恥に臥し我らは恥辱に覆はるべしそは我儕とわれらの列祖は我らの幼時より今日にいたるまで罪をわれらの神ヱホバに犯し我儕の神ヱホバの聲に遵はざればなり
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the LORD our God.'
