エレミヤ書 27
1 ユダの王ヨシヤの子ゼデキヤが世を治め始めたころ、この言葉が主からエレミヤに臨んだ。
THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
2 すなわち主はこうわたしに仰せられた、「綱と、くびきとを作って、それをあなたの首につけ、
Proclaim ye among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say ye, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
3 エルサレムにいるユダの王ゼデキヤの所に来た使者たちによって、エドムの王、モアブの王、アンモンびとの王、ツロの王、シドンの王に言いおくりなさい。
For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
4 彼らの主君にこの命を伝えさせなさい、『万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう仰せられる、あなたがたは主君にこのように告げなければならない。
In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
5 わたしは大いなる力と伸べた腕とをもって、地と地の上にいる人と獣とをつくった者である。そして心のままに地を人に与える。
They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
6 いまわたしはこのすべての国を、わたしのしもべであるバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手に与え、また野の獣をも彼に与えて彼に仕えさせた。
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
7 彼の地に時がくるまで、万国民は彼とその子とその孫に仕える。その時がくるならば、多くの国と大いなる王たちとが彼を自分の奴隷にする。
All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
8 バビロンの王ネブカデネザルに仕えず、バビロンの王のくびきを自分の首に負わない民と国とは、わたしがつるぎと、ききんと、疫病をもって罰し、ついには彼の手によってことごとく滅ぼすと主は言われる。
Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
9 それで、あなたがたの預言者、占い師、夢みる者、法術師、魔法使が、「あなたがたはバビロンの王に仕えることはない」と言っても、聞いてはならない。
For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
10 彼らはあなたがたに偽りを預言して、あなたがたを自分の国から遠く離れさせ、わたしに、あなたがたを追い出してあなたがたを滅ぼさせるのである。
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11 しかしバビロンの王のくびきを首に負って、彼に仕える国民を、わたしはその故国に残らせ、それを耕して、そこに住まわせると主は言われる』」。
Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
12 わたしはユダの王ゼデキヤにも同じように言った、「あなたがたは、バビロンの王のくびきを自分の首に負って、彼とその民とに仕え、そして生きなさい。
Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
13 どうしてあなたと、あなたの民とが、主がバビロンの王に仕えない国民について言われたように、つるぎと、ききんと、疫病に死んでよかろうか。
by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
14 あなたがたはバビロンの王に仕えることはないとあなたがたに告げる預言者の言葉を聞いてはならない。彼らがあなたがたに預言していることは偽りであるからだ。
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
15 主は言われる、わたしが彼らをつかわしたのではないのに、彼らはわたしの名によって偽って預言している。そのために、わたしはあなたがたを追い払い、あなたがたと、あなたがたに預言する預言者たちを滅ぼすようになるのだ」。
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
16 わたしはまた祭司とこのすべての民とに語って言った、「主はこう仰せられる、『見よ、主の宮の器は今、すみやかに、バビロンから返されてくる』とあなたがたに預言する預言者の言葉を聞いてはならない。それは、彼らがあなたがたに預言していることは偽りであるからだ。
Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
17 彼らのいうことを聞いてはならない。バビロンの王に仕え、そして生きなさい。どうしてこの町が荒れ地となってよかろうか。
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
18 もし彼らが預言者であって、主の言葉が彼らのうちにあるのであれば、主の宮とユダの王の宮殿とエルサレムとに残されている器が、バビロンに移されないように、万軍の主に、とりなしを願うべきだ。
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
19 万軍の主は柱と海と台、その他この町に残っている器について、こう仰せられる。
And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
20 これはバビロンの王ネブカデネザルが、ユダの王エホヤキムの子エコニヤ、およびユダとエルサレムのすべての身分の尊い人々を捕えてエルサレムからバビロンに移したときに、持ち去らなかった器である。
In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
21 すなわち万軍の主、イスラエルの神は、主の宮とユダの王の宮殿とエルサレムとに残されている器について、こう仰せられる。
on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.
22 これらはバビロンに携え行かれ、わたしが顧みる日までそこにおかれている。その後、わたしはこれらのものを、この所に携え帰らせると主は言われる」。
A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou didst resist the Lord.
The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
For her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
Dry ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the Lord: for thy day is come, and the time of thy retribution.
And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
[the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.
