Heremaia 9
1 Aue, me he wai toku mahunga! me he puna roimata oku kanohi, kia tangihia ai e ahau nga tupapaku o te tamahine a taku iwi i te ao, i te po!
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.
2 Aue, me he tihokahoka toku, he mea na te tira haere i te koraha! kia whakarerea ai e ahau taku iwi, kia mawehe ai i roto i a ratou, he hunga puremu katoa nei hoki ratou, he huihuinga no te hunga tinihanga.
Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 Me te mea he kopere na ratou o ratou arero e whakapikoa ana hei korero teka: kua tupu kaha ake ratou i runga i te whenua, kahore ia mo te pono; engari e koni atu ana i te kino ki te kino, kahore hoki o ratou mohio ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa.
And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, says the Lord.
4 Kia tupato i o koutou hoa, e tenei, e tenei, kaua e whakawhirinaki ki te tuakana, ki te teina: no te mea he maminga rawa ta nga tuakana, ta nga teina katoa; kei runga ano i te ngautuara te haere o nga hoa katoa.
Beware you each of his neighbor, and trust you not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.
5 Ka tinihangatia e ratou tona hoa, tona hoa, kahore hoki he pono o te korero; kua whakaakona e ratou o ratou arero ki te korero teka; ruha noa ratou i te mahinga i te he.
Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
6 Kei waenga tinihanga koe e noho ana: na te tinihanga ratou te pai ai ki te mohio ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa.
[There is] usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, says the Lord.
7 Heoi ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, Nana, ka whakarewa ahau i a ratou, ka whakamatau i a ratou; me pehea hoki ahau, ko te tamahine nei ia a taku iwi?
Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do [thus] because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.
8 Ko te rite i to ratou arero kei te kopere whakamate; he korero tinihanga tana: he korero pai ta te mangai o tetahi ki tona hoa, kei roto ia i tona ngakau e whanga ana mona.
Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.
9 E kore ianei ahau e whiu i a ratou mo enei mea? e ai ta Ihowa; e kore ianei toku wairua e rapu utu i te iwi penei?
Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?
10 He whakaaro ki nga maunga i ara ai taku tangi, taku aue, he whakaaro ki nga puninga o te koraha taku uhunga; no te mea kua wera, kahore tetahi tangata e tika na reira, kahore e rangona te reo o nga kararehe; ko nga manu o te rangi, ko nga karare he, putere atu ana, kua riro.
Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.
11 Ka meinga hoki e ahau a Hiruharama hei puranga, hei nohoanga kuri mohoao, ka meinga ano e ahau nga pa o Hura kia ururuatia, te ai he tangata.
And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.
12 Ko wai te tangata whakaaro nui e matau ana ki tenei? i korerotia ano ki a wai e te mangai o Ihowa, mana e whakaatu? he aha ra te whenua i whakangaromia ai, i wera ai, ano ko te koraha, kahore he tangata e tika ana i reira?
Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to him, let him tell you therefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.
13 Ano ra ko Ihowa, Mo ratou i whakarere i taku ture i hoatu e ahau ki to ratou aroaro, a kihai i whakarongo ki toku reo, kihai i haere i taua ara;
And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not listened to my voice;
14 Na haere ana ratou i nga tikanga maro o o ratou ngakau; kei te wahi i nga Paarimi i whakaakona nei e o ratou matua ki a ratou.
but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them [to worship]:
15 Heoi ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira, Tenei ahau te whangai nei i a ratou, i tenei iwi, ki te taru kawa, te whakainu nei i a ratou ki te wai kawa.
therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:
16 Ka whakamararatia ano ratou e ahau ki roto ki nga iwi kihai nei i mohiotia e ratou, e o ratou matua: ka unga ano e ahau te hoari hei whai i a ratou a poto noa ratou i ahau.
and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
17 Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, Whakaaroa e koutou, karangatia hoki nga wahine tangi kia haere mai; unga tangata ki nga wahine whakaaro nui kia haere mai.
Thus says the Lord, Call you the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
18 Kia hohoro ano te ara o ta ratou tangi mo tatou, kia tarere ai nga roimata o o tatou kanohi, kia maringi iho ai nga wai o o tatou kamo.
and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
19 No te mea e rangona ana te reo tangi i Hiona, Ano to tatou pahuatanga! Nui atu to tatou whakama, no te mea kua mahue i a tatou te whenua, no te mea kua turakina mai e ratou o tatou nohoanga.
For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Sion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
20 Whakarongo raia, e nga wahine, ki te kupu a Ihowa, kia riro ano i o koutou taringa te kupu a tona mangai; whakaakona a koutou tamahine ki te tangi, nga hoa hoki o tenei, o tenei, ki te uhunga.
Hear now, you women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and [every] woman her neighbor a dirge.
21 No te mea kua tae ake te mate ki roto ki o tatou matapihi, kua tomo ki o tatou whare kingi, hautope atu ai i nga kohungahunga i waho, i nga taitamariki ano hoki i nga huanui.
For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Korero, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Tera nga tinana o nga tangata e hinga ano he whakawairakau ki te mata o te mara, ano he kutanga witi i muri i te kaitapahi, a kahore he kaikohi.
And the carcases of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather [them].
23 Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Kaua te tangata whakaaro nui e whakamanamana ki tona whakaaro nui, kaua hoki te marohirohi e whakamanamana ki tona marohirohi; kaua te tangata taonga e whakamanamana ki ona taonga;
Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;
24 Engari ko tenei hei whakamanamananga ma te tangata whakamanamana, ara kua whai whakaaro ia, kua mohio ki ahau, ko Ihowa, ahau, ko te kaimahi o te mahi tohu, o te whakawa, o te tika i runga i te whenua: ko aku hoki enei e whakaahuareka ai, e ai t a Ihowa.
but let him that boasts boast in this, the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and righteousness, upon the earth; for in these things is my pleasure, says the Lord.
25 Nana, kei te haere mai nga ra, e ai ta Ihowa, e whiua ai e ahau te hunga katoa i kotia i roto i to ratou kotingakore;
Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision;
26 Ko Ihipa, ko Hura, ko Eroma, ko nga tama a Amona, ko Moapa, ko te hunga katoa e noho ana i te koraha, e whakaihoa nei nga tapa o o ratou makawe: he mea kokotikore hoki nga iwi katoa; ko te whare katoa ano o Iharaira, he mea kokotikore te ngakau.
on Egypt, and on Idumea, and on Edom, and on the children of Ammon, and on the children of Moab, and on every one that shaves his face round about, [even] them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised [in] their hearts.
