エレミヤ書 18

1 ヱホバよりヱレミヤにのぞめる言いふ

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 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

Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

3 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

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

4 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

And the vessel that he made of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

5 時にヱホバの言我にのぞみていふ

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

6 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

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are all of you in mine hand, O house of Israel.

7 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

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

8 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

If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

9 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

And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

10 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

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

11 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

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return all of you now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

12 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

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

13 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

Therefore thus says the LORD; Ask all of you now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14 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

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

15 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

Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a road not properly built;

16 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

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

17 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

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.

18 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

Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

19 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

Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

20 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

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.

21 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

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

22 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

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

23 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

Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.