Heremaia 19

1 Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Haere, hokona mai tetahi pounamu oneone a te kaihanga rihi, ka tango mai hoki i etahi o nga kaumatua o te iwi, i etahi o nga kaumatua o nga tohunga;

Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

2 Ka haere ki te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, ki tera i te tomokanga ki te kuwaha Hahiti, a ka karanga i reira i nga kupu e korerotia e ahau ki a koe:

And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

3 Ki atu, Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowa, e nga kingi o Hura, e te hunga e noho ana i Hiruharama, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira: Tenei ahau te kawe nei i te kino ki tenei wahi, a ko nga tangata katoa e rongo ana, ka tioro oro ona taringa.

And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

4 Kua whakarere nei ratou i ahau, kua whakarereketia e ratou tenei wahi, kua tahu whakakakara ki konei ki nga atua ke, kihai nei i mohiotia e ratou, e ratou ko o ratou matua, e nga kingi hoki o Hura; a kua whakakiia e ratou tenei wahi ki te toto o te hunga kore hara.

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

5 Kua hanga hoki e ratou nga wahi tiketike o Paara, kia tahuna ai e ratou a ratou tamariki ki te ahi hei tahunga tinana ki a Paara; he mea kihai i whakahaua e ahau, kihai i korerotia e ahau, kihai ano hoki i puta ake i toku ngakau.

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt-offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke [it], neither came [it] into my mind:

6 Mo reira, nana, kei te haere mai nga ra, e ai ta Ihowa, e kore ai tenei wahi e huaina, ko Topete, Ko te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, ranei; engari Ko te raorao o te Parekura.

Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

7 Na ka meinga e ahau kia he te whakaaro o Hura raua ko Hiruharama ki tenei wahi; a ka meinga ratou e ahau kia hinga i te hoari i te aroaro o o ratou hoariri, i te ringa ano o te hunga e whai ana kia whakamatea ratou: a ko o ratou tinana ka hoatu e ahau hei kai ma nga manu o te rangi, ma nga kararehe hoki o te whenua.

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

8 A ka meinga e ahau tenei pa hei miharotanga, hei whakahianga; ko nga tangata katoa e haere i konei ka oho, ka whakahi ki ona mate uruta katoa.

And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

9 Ka meinga ano ratou e ahau kia kai i nga kikokiko o a ratou tama, i nga kikokiko o a ratou tamahine, a ka kai ratou i nga kikokiko o tona hoa tata, o tona hoa tata, i te whakapaenga, i te kopaninga e kopania ai ratou e o ratou hoariri, e te hunga hoki e whai ana kia whakamatea ratou.

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.

10 Katahi koe ka wahi i te pounamu i te tirohanga a nga tangata ka haere tahi atu na koutou,

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

11 A ka mea atu ki a ratou, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, Ka rite taku wawahi i tenei iwi, i tenei pa, ka penei me te wahanga o te oko a te kaihanga rihi, e kore nei e taea te tapitapi kia ora ano: a ka tanu hoki ratou ki Topete, kia kore ra ano he wahi hei tanumanga.

And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.

12 Ko taku tenei e mea ai ki tenei wahi, e ai ta Ihowa, ki ona tangata hoki, kia meinga ra ano tenei pa kia rite ki Topete:

Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

13 A ko nga whare o Hiruharama, me nga whare o nga kingi o Hura, kua whakapokea nei, ka rite ki tenei wahi, ki Topete, ara ko nga whare katoa i tahu whakakakara ai ratou i runga i nga tuanui ki te ope katoa o te rangi, i ringihia ai hoki e ratou he ringihanga ki nga atua ke.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

14 Katahi ka haere mai a Heremaia i Topete, i te wahi i unga ai ia e Ihowa ki te poropiti; a tu ana ia i te marae o te whare o Ihowa, a ka mea ki te iwi katoa,

Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,

15 Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira, Nana, ka kawea mai e ahau ki runga ki tenei pa, a ki runga hoki i ona pa katoa, te kino katoa i korerotia ra e ahau mo konei; no te mea kua whakapakeketia e ratou o ratou kaki, kia kore ai ratou e rongo ki aku kupu.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.