Jeremiah 17

1 [Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!

Kua oti te hara o Hura te tuhituhi ki te pene rino, ki te mata hoki o te taimana: he mea whaowhao rawa ki te papa o to ratou ngakau, ki runga hoki ki nga haona o a koutou aata;

2 [Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.

I a ratou tamariki e mahara ana ki a ratou aata, ki a ratou Aherimi hoki i te taha o nga rakau kouru nui i runga i nga pukepuke tiketike.

3 So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.

E toku maunga i te parae, ka hoatu e ahau ou rawa, ou taonga katoa kia pahuatia, me ou wahi tiketike, he mea mo te hara, puta noa i ou rohe katoa.

4 The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”

A ko koe, nau ake ano, ka mutu ki tou kainga tupu i hoatu na e ahau ki a koe; a ka meinga koe e ahau kia mahi ki ou hoariri ki te whenua kihai i mohiotia e koe: no te mea kua tahuna e koutou he ahi i ahau e riri ana, ko tona ka mo ake tonu atu.

5 This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.

Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa: Ka kanga te tangata e whakawhirinaki ana ki te tangata, e mea ana hoki i te kikokiko hei ringa mona, e kotiti ke ana hoki tona ngakau i a Ihowa.

6 They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.

Ka rite hoki ia ki te manoao i te koraha, e kore hoki e kite i te putanga mai o te pai; engari ko nga wahi waikore o te koraha hei kainga mona, he whenua tote, e kore nei e nohoia.

7 But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].

Ka manaakitia te tangata e whakawhirinaki ana ki a Ihowa, ko Ihowa tana e tumanako ai.

8 Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.

Ka rite hoki ia ki te rakau i whakatokia ki te taha o nga wai, e toro nei ona pakiaka ki te awa, a kahore e wehi i te tikakatanga mai o te ra, engari ka matomato tonu tona rau; e kore e manukanuka i te tau raki, e kore ano hoki e mutu tona whai h ua.

9 Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.

Ko te ngakau, he mea tinihanga atu i nga mea katoa, a he tino mate rawa: e mohiotia ranei e wai?

10 But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”

Ko taku, ko ta Ihowa, he rapu i te ngakau, he whakamatautau i nga whatumanawa, kia hoatu ai ki tenei, ki tenei kia rite ki tona ara ake, kia rite hoki ki nga hua o ana mahi.

11 [I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.

Ka rite ki te patiri, e whakawhaiti nei i nga pi, ehara i a ia i whakawhanau, he pera te tangata e whiwhi ana ki te taonga, a kahore i tika mana; i waenganui o ona ra ka mahue ia i a ratou, a wairangi noa iho ia i tona mutunga iho.

12 Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.

Ko to tatou wahi tapu he torona kororia, he mea whakanoho ki te wahi tiketike mai i te timatanga.

13 You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.

E Ihowa, e ta Iharaira e tumanako nei, ka whakama te hunga katoa e whakarere ana i a koe; ka tuhituhia ki te whenua te hunga e kotiti ana i ahau, mo ratou i whakarere i a Ihowa, i te puna wai ora.

14 Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.

Rongoatia ahau, e Ihowa, a ka mahu toku mate; whakaorangia ahau, a ka ora ahau: ko koe hoki taku e whakamoemiti ai.

15 People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]

Nana, kei te ki mai ratou ki ahau, Kei hea te kupu a Ihowa? tena ra, kia puta mai.

16 Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].

Na, ko ahau nei, kihai ahau i hohoro atu i te mahi hepara i muri i a koe, kihai hoki i hiahia ki te ra o te mamae; e mohio ana ano koe: i mua i tou kanohi te mea i puta mai i oku ngutu.

17 Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.

Kei waiho koe hei whakawehi moku: ko koe taku e whakamanawa atu ai i te ra o te he.

18 [So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!

Kia whakama te hunga e tukino ana i ahau, kaua ia ahau e whakama: kia wehi ratou, kaua ia ahau e wehi: kawea te ra o te kino ki runga ki a ratou, kia rua hoki nga whakangaromanga e whakangaro ai koe i a ratou.

19 This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.

I penei mai ta Ihowa kupu ki ahau, Haere, e tu ki te kuwaha o nga tama a te iwi, e tomo ai nga kingi o Hura, e haere atu ai hoki, a ki nga kuwaha katoa o Hiruharama:

20 Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!

A ka mea ki a ratou, Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowa, e nga kingi o Hura, e Hura katoa, e nga tangata katoa hoki o Hiruharama, e tomo nei ma enei kuwaha:

21 He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!

Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Kia tupato ki a koutou, a kaua he kawenga e waha i te ra hapati, kaua ano e maua mai ki roto ma nga kuwaha o Hiruharama;

22 Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,

Kaua hoki he kawenga e maua atu i o koutou whare i te ra hapati, kaua hoki koutou e mahi i tetahi mahi; engari me whakatapu e koutou te ra hapati, kia rite ki taku i whakahau ai ki o koutou matua;

23 but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.

Otiia kihai ratou i rongo, kihai hoki i tahuri to ratou taringa, engari i whakapakeke i to ratou kaki, kei rongo ratou, kei manako hoki ki te ako.

24 But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,

Na, ki te ata whakarongo koutou ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa, kia kaua e mau kawenga ma nga kuwaha o tenei pa i te ra hapati, engari kia whakatapu i te ra hapati, kia kaua e mahi i tetahi mahi i reira;

25 kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.

Katahi ka tomo ki nga kuwaha o tenei pa he kingi, he rangatira, e noho ana i runga i te torona o Rawiri, e eke ana ki te hariata, ki te hoiho, ratou, a ratou rangatira, me nga tangata o Hura, me te hunga e noho ana i Hiruharama; a ka tuturu tene i pa a ake ake.

26 And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.

A ka haere mai nga tangata i nga pa o Hura, i nga wahi i nga taha o Hiruharama, i te whenua o Pineamine, i te mania, i nga maunga, i te tonga hoki, me te mau mai he tahunga tinana, he patunga tapu, he whakahere, he whakakakara, a ka maua mai hok i he whakawhetai, ki te whare o Ihowa.

27 But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”

Ki te kore ia koutou e whakarongo ki taku kia whakatapua te ra hapati, kia kaua hoki e maua he kawenga, a ka tomo ki nga kuwaha o Hiruharama i te ra hapati; katahi ka ngiha i ahau he ahi i nga kuwaha o reira, a ka pau nga whare kingi o Hiruharam a, e kore ano e tineia.