エレミヤ書 5
1 汝等ヱルサレムの邑をめぐりて視且察りその街を尋ねよ汝等もし一人の公義を行ひ眞理を求る者に逢はばわれ之(ヱルサレム)を赦すべし
Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness — Then am I propitious to her.
2 彼らヱホバは活くといふとも實は僞りて誓ふなり
And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.
3 ヱホバよ汝の目は誠實を顧みるにあらずや汝彼らを撻どもかれら痛苦をおぼえず彼等を滅せどもかれら懲治をうけず其面を磐よりも硬くして歸ることを拒めり
Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.
4 故に我いひけるは此輩は惟いやしき愚なる者なればヱホバの途と其神の鞫を知ざるなり
And I — I said, 'Surely these [are] poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.
5 われ貴人にゆきて之に語らんかれらはヱホバの途とその神の鞫を知るなり然に彼らも皆軛を折り縛を斷り
I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
6 故に林よりいづる獅子は彼らを殺しアラバの狼はかれらを滅し豹はその邑をねらふ此處よりいづる者は皆裂るべしそは其罪おほくその背違はなはだしければなり
Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.
7 我なに故に汝をゆるすべきや汝の諸子われを棄て神にあらざる神を指して誓ふ我すでに彼らを誓はせたれど彼ら姦淫して娼妓の家に群集る
For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.
8 彼らは肥たる牡馬のごとくに行めぐりおのおの嘶きて隣の妻を慕ふ
Fed horses — they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
9 ヱホバいひたまふ我これらの事のために彼らを罰せざらんや我心はかくの如き民に仇を復さざらんや
For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?
10 汝等その石垣にのぼりて滅せされど悉くはこれを滅す勿れその枝を截除けヱホバのものに有ざればなり
Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they [are] not Jehovah's,
11 イスラエルの家とユダの家は大に我に悖るなりとヱホバいひたまふ
For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah.
12 彼等はヱホバを認ずしていふヱホバはある者にあらず災われらに來らじ我儕劍と饑饉をも見ざるべし
They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, '[It is] not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.
13 預言者は風となり言はかれらの衷にあらず斯彼らになるべしと
And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' — thus it is done by them.
14 故に萬軍の神ヱホバかくいひたまふ汝等この言を語により視よわれ汝の口にある我言を火となし此民を薪となさんその火彼らを焚盡すべし
Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, Because of your speaking this word, Lo, I am making My words in thy mouth become fire, And this people wood, and it hath devoured them.
15 ヱホバいひ給ふイスラエルの家よみよ我遠き國人をなんぢらに來らしめん其國は強くまた古き國なり汝等その言をしらず其語ることをも曉らざるなり
Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation — strong it [is], a nation — from of old it [is], A nation — thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.
16 その箙は啓きたる墓のごとし彼らはみな勇士なり
Its quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, All of them — mighty ones.
17 彼らは汝の穡れたる物と汝の糧食を食ひ汝の子女を食ひ汝の羊と牛を食ひ汝の葡萄の樹と無花果の樹を食ひまた劍をもて汝の賴むところの堅き邑を滅さん
And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting — by the sword.
18 されど其時われことごとくは汝を滅さじとヱホバいひたまふ
And even in those days, an affirmation of Jehovah, I do not make you a completion.
19 汝等何ゆゑにわれらの神ヱホバ此等の諸のことを我儕になしたまふやといはば汝かれらに答ふべし汝ら我をすて汝らの地に於て異なる神に奉へしごとく汝らのものにあらざる地に於て異邦人につかふべしと
And it hath come to pass, when ye say, 'For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?' That thou hast said unto them, 'As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.
20 汝これをヤコブの家にのべまたこれをユダに示していへ
Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,
21 愚にして了知なく目あれども見えず耳あれども聞えざる民よこれをきけ
Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.
22 ヱホバいひ給ふ汝等われを畏れざるか我前に戰慄かざるか我は沙を置て海の界となしこれを永遠の限界となし踰ることをえざらしむ其浪さかまきいたるも勝ことあたはず澎湃もこれを踰るあたはざるなり
Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.
23 然るにこの民は背き且悖れる心あり旣に背きて去れり
And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.
24 彼らはまた我儕に雨をあたへて秋の雨と春の雨を時にしたがひて下し我儕のために收穫の時節を定め給へる我神ヱホバを畏るべしと其心にいはざるなり
And they have not said in their heart, 'Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'
25 汝等の愆はこれらの事を退け汝等の罪は嘉物を汝らに來らしめざりき
Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.
26 我民のうちに惡者あり網を張る者のごとくに身をかがめてうかがひ罟を置て人をとらふ
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap — men they capture.
27 樊籠に鳥の盈るがごとく不義の財彼らの家に充つこの故に彼らは大なる者となり富る者となる
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
28 彼らは肥て光澤あり其惡き行は甚し彼らは訟をたださず孤の訟を糺さずして利達をえ亦貧者の訴を鞫かず
They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless — and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
29 ヱホバいひ給ふわれかくのごときことを罰せざらんや我心は是のごとき民に仇を復さざらんや
For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?
30 この地に驚くべき事と憎むべきこと行はる
An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.
31 預言者は僞りて預言をなし祭司は彼らの手によりて治め我民は斯る事を愛すされど汝等その終に何をなさんとするや
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved [it] so, And what do they at its latter end?
