エレミヤ書 12

1 ヱホバよわが汝と爭ふ時に汝は義し惟われ鞫の事につきて汝と言ん惡人の途のさかえ悖れる者のみな福なるは何故ぞや

[Too] righteous art thou, O Lord, that I could plead with thee; yet must I speak of [the principles of] justice with thee: Wherefore is the way of the wicked happy? do all those prosper that deal treacherously?

2 汝かれらを植たり彼らは根づき成長て實を結べりその口は汝に近けどもその心は汝に遠ざかる

Thou hast planted them; they have also taken root; they grow; they also bring forth fruit: thou art near, in their mouth, and far from their mind.

3 ヱホバ汝われを知り我を見またわが心の汝にむかひて何なるかを試みたまふ羊を宰りに牽いだすがごとく彼らを牽いだし殺す日の爲にかれらをそなへたまへ

But thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou seest me, and probest my heart toward thee; set them apart like sheep for the slaughter, and destine them for the day of slaying.

4 いつまでこの地は哭きすべての畑の蔬菜は枯をるべけんやこの地に住る者の惡によりて畜獸と鳥は滅さる彼らいふ彼は我らの終をみざるべしと

How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of all the field wither? Because of the wickedness of those that dwell therein are wholly removed the beasts and the birds; because they said, He will not see our last end.

5 汝もし歩行者とともに趨てつかれなばいかで騎馬者と競はんや汝平安なる地を恃まばいかでヨルダンの傍の叢に居ることをえんや

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how then canst thou contend with the horses? and if in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee, ] how then wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?

6 汝の兄弟と汝の父の家も汝を欺きまた大聲をあげて汝を追ふかれらしたしく汝に語るともこれを信ずる勿れ

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, even they have called forth a crowd of men after thee: believe them not, though they speak kindly unto thee.

7 われ我家を離れわが產業をすて我靈魂の愛するところの者をその敵の手にわたせり

I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given up the most dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 わが產業は林の獅子のごとし我にむかひて其聲を揚ぐ故にわれ之を惡めり

My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it sent forth its voice against me: therefore do I hate it.

9 我產業は我におけること班駁ある鳥のごとくならずや鳥之を圍むにあらずや野のすべての獸きたりあつまれ來てこれを食へ

Is my heritage become unto me as a bird of prey stained with blood? so that the birds of prey are all around it? Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them hither to devour.

10 衆の牧者わが葡萄園をほろぼしわが地を踐踏しわがうるはしき地を荒野となせり

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden under foot my field, they have rendered my pleasant field a desolate wilderness.

11 彼らこれを荒地となせりその荒地我にむかひて哭くなり一人もかへりみる者なければこの全地は荒たり

They have made it a desert, and being desolate it mourneth before me: the whole land is made desolate, because no man laid it to heart.

12 毀滅者は野のすべての童山のうへに來れりヱホバの劍地のこの極よりかの極までを滅ぼすすべて血氣ある者は安をえず

Over all the mountain-peaks in the wilderness did the destroyers come; for the sword of the Lord devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: there is no peace to any flesh.

13 彼らは麥を播て荊棘をかる勞れども得るところなし汝らはその作物のために恥るにいたらん是ヱホバの烈き怒によりてなり

They have sown wheat, but they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain [but] have no profit; be therefore ashamed of your products, because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

14 わがイスラエルの民に嗣しむる產業をせむるところのすべてのわが惡き隣にむかひてヱホバかくいふみよわれ彼等をその地より拔出しまたユダの家を彼らの中より拔出すべし

Thus hath said the Lord against all my bad neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit, Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and the house of Judah will I pluck out from the midst of them.

15 われ彼らを拔出せしのちまた彼らを恤みておのおのを其產業にかへし各人をその地に歸らしめん

And it shall come to pass, that, after I have plucked them out, and I will again have mercy on them, and will restore them, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

16 彼等もし我民の道をまなび我名をさしてヱホバは活くと誓ふこと嘗て我民を敎へてバアルを指て誓はしめし如くせば彼らはわが民の中に建らるべし

And it shall come to pass, if they will truly learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As the Lord liveth; as they had taught my people to swear by Ba'al: that they shall then be built up in the midst of my people.

17 されど彼らもし聽かざれば我かならずかかる民を全く拔出して滅すべしとヱホバいひたまふ

But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck out that nation, plucking out and exterminating [them], saith the Lord.