Jeremiah 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
ああ我わが首を水となし我目を涙の泉となすことをえんものを我民の女の殺されたる者の爲に晝夜哭かん
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
嗚呼われ曠野に旅人の寓所をえんものを我民を離れてさりゆかん彼らはみな姦淫するもの悖れる者の族なればなり
3 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
彼らは弓を援くがごとく其舌をもて僞をいだす彼らは此地において眞實のために強からず惡より惡にすすみまた我を知ざるなりとヱホバいひたまふ
4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
汝らおのおの其隣に心せよ何の兄弟をも信ずる勿れ兄弟はみな欺きをなし隣はみな讒りまはればなり
5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
彼らはおのおの其隣を欺きかつ眞實をいはず其舌に謊をかたることを敎へ惡をなすに勞る
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
汝の住居は詭譎の中にあり彼らは詭譎のために我を識ことをいなめりとヱホバいひたまふ
7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
故に萬軍のヱホバかくいひたまへり視よ我かれらを鎔し試むべしわれ我民の女の事を如何になすべきや
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
彼らの舌は殺す矢のごとしかれら詭をいふまた其口をもて隣におだやかにかたれども其心の中には害をはかるなり
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
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ごとき民に仇を復さざらんや
10 I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
われ山のために泣き咷び野の牧場のために悲むこれらは焚れて過る人なしまたここに牛羊の聲をきかず天空の鳥も獸も皆逃てさりぬ
11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
われヱルサレムを邱墟とし山犬の巢となさんまたユダの諸の邑々を荒して住む人なからしめん
12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
智慧ありてこの事を曉る人は誰ぞやヱホバの口の言を受てこれを示さん者は誰ぞやこの地滅されまた野のごとく焚れて過る者なきにいたりしは何故ぞ
13 Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
ヱホバいひたまふ是彼ら我その前に立しところの律法をすて我聲をきかず之に從はざるによりてなり
14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
彼らはその心の剛愎なるとその列祖たちがおのれに敎へしバアルとに從へり
15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
この故に萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいひたまふ視よわれ彼等すなはち斯民に茵蔯を食はせ毒なる水を飮せ
16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
彼らもその先祖たちもしらざりし國人のうちに彼らを散しまた彼らを滅し盡すまで其後に劍をつかはさん
17 Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
萬軍のヱホバかくいひたまふ汝らよく考へ哭婦をよびきたれ又人を遣して智き婦をまねけよ
18 Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
彼らは速にきたりて我儕のために哭哀しみ我儕の目に涙をこぼさせ我儕の目蓋より水を溢れしめん
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
シオンより哀の聲きこゆ云く嗚呼われら滅され我ら痛く辱めらる我らは其地を去り彼らはわが住家を毀ちたり
20 Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
婦たちよヱホバの言をきけ汝らの耳に其口の言をいれよ汝らの女に哭ことを敎へおのおのその隣に哀の歌を敎ふべし
21 For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
そは死のぼりてわれらの窓よりいり我らの殿舍に入り外にある諸子を絕し街にある壯年を殺さんとすればなり
22 Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”
ヱホバかくいへりと汝云ふべし人の屍は糞土のごとく田野に墮ちんまた收穫者のうしろに殘りて斂めずにある把のごとくならんと
23 Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
ヱホバかくいひたまふ智慧ある者はその智慧に誇る勿れ力ある者は其力に誇るなかれ富者はその富に誇ること勿れ
24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
誇る者はこれをもて誇るべし即ち明哲して我を識る事とわがヱホバにして地に仁惠と公道と公義とを行ふ者なるを知る事是なり我これらを悦ぶなりとヱホバいひたまふ
25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
ヱホバいひたまひけるは視よわれすべて陽の皮に割禮をうけたる者すなはちエジプトとユダとエドムとアンモンの子孫とモアブと野にをりてその鬚を剃る者とを罰する日きたらんそはすべて異邦人は割禮をうけずまたイスラエルの家も心に割禮をうけざればなり
26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
ヱホバいひたまひけるは視よわれすべて陽の皮に割禮をうけたる者すなはちエジプトとユダとエドムとアンモンの子孫とモアブと野にをりてその鬚を剃る者とを罰する日きたらんそはすべて異邦人は割禮をうけずまたイスラエルの家も心に割禮をうけざればなり
