Jeremiah 18
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
ヱホバよりヱレミヤにのぞめる言いふ
2 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
汝起て陶人の屋にくだれ我かしこに於てわが言を汝に聞しめんと
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.
われすなはち陶人の屋にくだり視るに轆轤をもて物をつくりをりしが
4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
その泥をもて造れるところの器陶人の手のうちに傷ねたれば彼その心のままに之をもて別の器をつくれり
5 Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
時にヱホバの言我にのぞみていふ
6 “House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
ヱホバいふイスラエルの家よこの陶人のなすが如くわれ汝になすことをえざるかイスラエルの家よ陶人の手に泥のあるごとく汝らはわが手にあり
7 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
われ急に民あるひは國をぬくべし敗るべし滅すべしといふことあらんに
8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
もし我いひしところの國その惡を離れなば我之に災を降さんとおもひしことを悔ん
9 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
我また急に民あるいは國を立べし植べしといふことあらんに
10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
もし其國わが目に惡く見ゆるところの事を行ひわが聲に遵はずば我これに福祉を錫へんといひしことを悔ん
11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’
汝いまユダの人々とヱルサレムに住る者にいへヱホバかくいへり視よ我汝らに災をくださんと思ひめぐらし汝らをはかる計策を設く故に汝らおのおの其惡き途を離れ其途と行をあらためよと
12 But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
しかるに彼らいふ是は徒然なりわれらは自己の圖維ところにしたがひ各自その惡き心の剛愎なるを行はんと
13 Therefore the LORD says: “Ask now amongst the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
この故にヱホバかくいひたまふ汝ら異國のうちに問へ斯の如きことを聞し者ありやイスラエルの處女はいと驚くべきことをなせり
14 Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
レバノンの雪豈野の磐を離れんや遠方より流くる冷なる水豈涸かんや
15 For my people have forgotten me. They have burnt incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,
しかるに我民は我をわすれて虛き物に香を焚り是等の物彼らをその途すなはち古き途に蹶かせまた徑すなはち備なき道に行しめ
16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
その地を荒して恒に人の笑とならしめん凡て其處を過る者は驚きてその首を搖らん
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
われ東風のごとくに彼らをその敵の前に散さん其滅亡の日にはわれ背を彼らに向て面をむけじ
18 Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
彼らいふ去來われら計策を設てヱレミヤをはからんそれ祭司には律法あり智慧ある者には謀畧あり預言者には言ありて失ざるべし去來われら舌をもて彼を撃ちその諸の言を聽ことをせざらんと
19 Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
ヱホバよ我にききたまへ又我と爭ふ者の聲をききたまへ
20 Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
惡をもて善に報ゆべきものならんや彼らはわが生命をとらん爲に坑を掘れりわが汝の前に立て彼らを善く言ひ汝の憤怒を止めんとせしを憶えたまへ
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
さればかれらの子女を饑饉にあたへ彼らを劍の刃にわたしたまへ其妻は子を失ひ且寡となり其男は死をもて亡されその少者は劍をもて戰に殺されよかし
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.
汝突然に敵をかれらに臨ませたまふ時號呼をその家の内より聞えしめよそは彼ら坑を掘りて我を執へんとしまた機檻を置てわが足を執へんとすればなり
23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.
ヱホバよ汝はかれらが我を殺さんとするすべての謀畧を知りたまふ其惡を赦すことなく其罪を汝の前より抹去りたまふなかれ彼らを汝の前に仆れしめよ汝の怒りたまふ時にかく彼らになしたまへ
