Jeremiah 6
1 “O sons of Benjamin, be strengthened in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Tekoa, and lift up a banner over the house of Haccherem. For an evil has been seen from the north, with great destruction.
ベニヤミンの人々よ、エルサレムの中から避難せよ。テコアでラッパを吹き、ベテハケレムに合図の火をあげよ。北から災が臨み、大いなる滅びが来るからである。
2 I have compared the daughter of Zion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
わたしは美しい、たおやかなシオンの娘を滅ぼす。
3 The pastors will come to her with their flocks. They have pitched their tents against her all around. Each one will feed those who are under his hand.
牧者たちは、その群れをひきいて来て、彼女を攻め、彼女の周囲に天幕を張る。群れはおのおのその所で草を食う。
4 ‘Sanctify a war against her! Rise up together, and let us ascend at midday.’ ‘Woe to us! For the day has declined; for the shadows of the evening have grown longer.’
「戦いを始め、彼女を攻めよ。立て、われわれは真昼に攻撃しよう」。「わざわいなるかな、日ははや傾き、夕日の影は長くなった」。
5 ‘Rise up, and let us ascend in the night, and let us destroy her houses.’”
「立て、われわれは夜の間に攻撃しよう、そして彼女のもろもろの宮殿を破壊しよう」。
6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “Cut down her trees, and build a rampart around Jerusalem. This is the city of visitation! Every kind of false claim is in her midst.
万軍の主はこう言われる、「あなたがたは彼女の木を切り倒し、エルサレムにむかって塁を築け。これは罰すべき町である、そのうちにはただ圧制だけがある。
7 Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.
井戸に新しい水がわくように彼女はその悪を常にあらたに流す。そのうちには暴虐と破滅とが聞える。わたしの前に病と傷とが絶えない。
8 O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land.”
エルサレムよ、戒めを受けいれよ。さもないと、わたしはあなたから離れ、あなたを荒れ地とし、住む人のない地とする」。
9 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “They will gather the remnant of Israel, even as a single cluster of grapes is gathered from a vine. Direct your hand, as a grape-gatherer directs his hand to the basket.
万軍の主はこう言われる、「ぶどうの残りを摘みとるように、イスラエルの残りの民をのこらず摘み取れ。ぶどうを摘みとる人のように、あなたの手をふたたびその枝に伸ばせ」。
10 To whom should I speak, and to whom should I testify, so as to be heard? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and so they are unable to hear. Behold, for them, the word of the Lord has become a disgrace. And so they will not accept it.
わたしはだれに語り、だれを戒めて、聞かせようか。見よ、彼らの耳は閉ざされて、聞くことができない。見よ、彼らは主の言葉をあざけり、それを喜ばない。
11 For this reason, I have been filled with the fury of the Lord. I labor to bear it. Let it be poured out upon the child outside, or upon a group of young men meeting together. For a man will be taken captive with a woman, an elder will be taken captive with one who is full of days.
それゆえ、わたしの身には主の怒りが満ち、それを忍ぶのに、うみつかれている。「それをちまたにいる子供らと、集まっている若い人々とに漏らせ。夫も妻も、老いた人も、年のひじょうに進んだ人も捕えられ、
12 And their houses will be given over to others, with both their lands and their wives. For I will extend my hand over the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord.
彼らの家と畑と妻とは共に他人に渡る。わたしが手を伸ばして、この地に住む者を撃つからである」と主は言われる。
13 Certainly, from the least of them even to the greatest, all of them practice greed. And from the prophet even to the priest, all of them act with deceit.
「それは彼らが、小さい者から大きい者まで、みな不正な利をむさぼり、また預言者から祭司にいたるまで、みな偽りを行っているからだ。
14 And they healed the destruction of the daughter of my people with disgrace, by saying: ‘Peace, peace.’ And there was no peace.
彼らは、手軽にわたしの民の傷をいやし、平安がないのに『平安、平安』と言っている。
15 They were confounded, because they committed an abomination. Or rather, they were not confounded with shame, because they did not know how to blush. For this reason, they will fall among those who are being destroyed. In the time of their visitation, they will fall, says the Lord.”
彼らは憎むべきことをして、恥じたであろうか。すこしも恥ずかしいとは思わず、また恥じることを知らなかった。それゆえ彼らは倒れる者と共に倒れる。わたしが彼らを罰するとき、彼らは倒れる」と主は言われる。
16 Thus says the Lord: “Stand above the ways, and see and ask, about the ancient paths, as to which is the good way, and then walk in it. And you will find refreshment for your souls. But they said: ‘We will not walk.’
主はこう言われる、「あなたがたはわかれ道に立って、よく見、いにしえの道につき、良い道がどれかを尋ねて、その道に歩み、そしてあなたがたの魂のために、安息を得よ。しかし彼らは答えて、『われわれはその道に歩まない』と言った。
17 And I appointed watchers over you, saying: ‘Listen for the sound of the trumpet.’ And they said: ‘We will not listen.’
わたしはあなたがたの上に見張びとを立て、『ラッパの音に気をつけよ』と言った。しかし彼らは答えて、『われわれは気をつけることはしない』と言った。
18 For this reason, hear, O Gentiles, and know, O congregation, how much I will do to them.
それゆえ国々の民よ、聞け。会衆よ、彼らにどのようなことが起るかを知れ。
19 Hear, O earth! Behold, I will lead evils over this people, as the fruits of their own thoughts. For they have not listened to my words, and they have cast aside my law.
地よ、聞け。見よ、わたしはこの民に災をくだす。それは彼らのたくらみの実である。彼らがわたしの言葉に気をつけず、わたしのおきてを捨てたからである。
20 For what reason are you bringing me frankincense from Sheba, and sweet smelling reeds from a far away land? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
シバから、わたしの所に乳香が来、遠い国から、菖蒲が来るのはなんのためか。あなたがたの燔祭はわたしには喜ばしくなく、あなたがたの犠牲もうれしくはない。
21 Therefore, thus says the Lord: “Behold I will bring this people to utter ruin, and they will fall, with their fathers and sons; neighbor and relative will perish together.”
それゆえ主はこう言われる、『見よ、わたしはこの民の前につまずく石を置く、人々は父も子も共にそれにつまずき、隣り人もその友も滅びる』」。
22 Thus says the Lord: “Behold, a people is coming from the land of the north, and a great nation will rise up from the ends of the earth.
主はこう言われる、「見よ、民が北の国から来る、大いなる国民が地の果から興る。
23 They will take hold of arrow and shield. They are cruel, and they will not take pity. Their voice will roar like the ocean. And they will climb upon horses, for they have been prepared like men for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion.
彼らは弓とやりをとる。彼らは残忍で、あわれみがなく、海のような響きを立てる。シオンの娘よ、彼らは馬に乗り、いくさ人のように身をよろって、あなたを攻める」。
24 ‘We have heard of their fame. Our hands have become weakened. Tribulation has overtaken us, like the pains of a woman giving birth.’
われわれはそのうわさを聞いて、手は弱り、子を産む女に臨むような悩みと苦しみとに捕えられた。
25 Do not choose to go out into the fields, and you should not walk along the roadway. For the sword and the terror of the enemy is on every side.
畑に出てはならない、また道を歩いてはならない。敵はつるぎを持ち、恐れが四方にあるからだ。
26 Wrap yourself in haircloth, O daughter of my people. And sprinkle yourself with ashes. Make a mourning for yourself, as for an only son, a bitter lamentation: ‘for the destroyer will overwhelm us suddenly.’
わが民の娘よ、荒布を身にまとい、灰の中にまろび、ひとり子を失った時のように、悲しみ、いたく嘆け。滅ぼす者が、にわかにわれわれを襲うからだ。
27 I have presented you as a strong tester among my people. And you will test and know their way.
「わたしはあなたを民のうちに立てて、ためす者、試みる者とした。あなたが彼らの道を知り、それをためすことができるようにするためである。
28 All these leaders who are turning away and walking deceitfully, they are brass and iron; they have all been corrupted.
彼らはみな、強情な反逆者であって、歩きまわって人をそしる。彼らは青銅や鉄であって、みな卑しいことを行う。
29 The bellows has failed; the lead has been consumed by fire; the molten metal was melted to no purpose. For their wickedness has not been consumed.
ふいごは激しく吹き、鉛は火にとけて尽き、精錬はいたずらに進む。悪しき者がまだ除かれないからである。
30 Call them: ‘Rejected silver.’ For the Lord has cast them aside.”
主が彼らを捨てられたので、彼らは捨てられた銀と呼ばれる」。
