エレミヤ書 23
1 ヱホバいひ給ひけるは嗚呼わが養ふ群を滅し散す牧者は禍なるかな
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD.
2 故にイスラエルの神ヱホバ我民を養ふ牧者につきて斯いふ汝らはわが群を散しこれを逐はなちて顧みざりき視よわれ汝らの惡き行によりて汝等に報ゆべしとヱホバいふ
Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says the LORD.
3 われ我群の遺餘たる者をその逐はなちたる諸の地より集め再びこれを其牢に歸さん彼らは子を產て多くなるべし
“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.
4 我これを養ふ牧者をその上に立ん彼等はふたたび慄かず懼ずまた失じとヱホバいひたまふ
I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says the LORD.
5 ヱホバいひたまひけるは視よわがダビデに一の義き枝を起す日來らん彼王となりて世を治め榮え公道と公義を世に行ふべし
“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
6 其日ユダは救をえイスラエルは安に居らん其名はヱホバ我儕の義と稱らるべし
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: The LORD our righteousness.
7 この故にヱホバいひ給ふ視よイスラエルの民をエジプトの地より導出せしヱホバは活くと人衆復いはずして
“Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that they will no more say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
8 イスラエルの家の裔を北の地と其諸て逐やりし地より導出せしヱホバは活くといふ日來らん彼らは自己の地に居るべし
but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”
9 預言者輩のために我心はわが衷に壞れわが骨は皆震ふ且ヱホバとその聖言のためにわれは醉る人のごとく酒に勝るる人のごとし
Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of his holy words.
10 この地は姦淫をなすもの盈ち地は呪詛によりて憂へ曠野の艸は枯る彼らの途はあしく其力は正しからず
“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
11 預言者と祭司は偕に邪惡なりわれ我家に於てすら彼等の惡を見たりとヱホバいひたまふ
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.
12 故にかれらの途は暗に在る滑なる途の如くならん彼等推れて其途に仆るべし我災をその上にのぞましめん是彼らが刑罰らるる年なりとヱホバいひたまふ
Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says the LORD.
13 われサマリヤの預言者の中に愚昧なる事あるをみたり彼等はバアルに託りて預言し我民イスラエルを惑はせり
“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14 我ヱルサレムの預言者の中にも憎むべき事あるを見たり彼等は姦淫をなし詐僞をおこなひ惡人の手を堅くして人をその惡に離れざらしむ彼等みな我にはソドムのごとく其民はゴモラのごとし
In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
15 この故に萬軍のヱホバ預言者につきてかくいひたまふ視よわれ茵蔯を之に食はせ毒水をこれに飮せんそは邪惡ヱルサレムの預言者よりいでて此全地に及べばなり
Therefore the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
16 萬軍のヱホバかくいひたまふ汝等に預言する預言者の言を聽く勿れ彼等は汝らを欺きヱホバの口よりいでざるおのが心の默示を語るなり
The LORD of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 常に彼らは我を藐忽ずる者にむかひて汝等平安をえんとヱホバいひたまへりといひ又己が心の剛愎なるに循ひて行むところのすべての者に向ひて災汝らに來らじといへり
They say continually to those who despise me, ‘The LORD has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’
18 誰かヱホバの議會に立て其言を見聞せし者あらんや誰か其耳を傾けて我言を聽し者あらんや
For who has stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
19 みよヱホバの暴風あり怒と旋轉風いでて惡人の首をうたん
Behold, the LORD’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.
20 ヱホバの怒はかれがその心の思を行ひてこれを遂げ給ふまでは息じ末の日に汝ら明にこれを曉らん
The LORD’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
21 預言者等はわが遣さざるに趨り我告ざるに預言せり
I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
22 彼らもし我議會に立ちしならば我民にわが言をきかしめて之をその惡き途とその惡き行に離れしめしならん
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 ヱホバいひ給ふ我はただ近くにおいてのみ神たらんや遠くに於ても神たるにあらずや
“Am I a God at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a God afar off?
24 ヱホバいひたまふ人我に見られざる樣に密かなる處に身を匿し得るかヱホバいひたまふ我は天地に充るにあらずや
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
25 われ我名をもて謊を預言する預言者等がわれ夢を見たりわれ夢を見たりと曰ふをきけり
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
26 謊を預言する預言者等はいつまで此心をいだくや彼らは其心の詐僞を預言するなり
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
27 彼らは其先祖がバアルによりて我名を忘れしごとく互に夢をかたりて我民にわが名を忘れしめんと思ふや
They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
28 夢をみし預言者は夢を語るべし我言を受し者は誠實をもて我言を語るべし糠いかで麥に比擬ことをえんやとヱホバいひたまふ
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says the LORD.
29 ヱホバ言たまはく我言は火のごとくならずや又磐を打碎く槌の如くならずや
“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 故に視よわれ我言を相互に竊める預言者の敵となるとヱホバいひたまふ
“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who each steal my words from his neighbour.
31 視よわれは彼いひたまへりと舌をもて語るところの預言者の敵となるとヱホバいひたまふ
Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32 ヱホバいひたまひけるは視よわれ僞の夢を預言する者の敵となる彼らは之を語りまたその謊と其誇をもて我民を惑はす我かれらを遣さずかれらに命ぜざるなり故に彼らは斯民に益なしとヱホバいひ給ふ
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says the LORD, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says the LORD.
33 この民或は預言者又は祭司汝に問てヱホバの重負は何ぞやといはば汝彼等にこたへてヱホバの重負は我汝等を棄んとヱホバの云たまひし事是なりといふべし
“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says the LORD.’
34 ヱホバの重負といふところの預言者と祭司と民には我その人と其家にこれを降さん
As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household.
35 汝らはおのおの斯互に言ひその兄弟にいふべしヱホバは何と應へたまひしやヱホバは何と云たまひしやと
You will say everyone to his neighbour, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’
36 汝ら復びヱホバの重負といふべからず人の重負となる者は其人の言なるべし汝らは活る神萬軍のヱホバなる我らの神の言を枉るなり
You will mention the message from the LORD no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of Armies, our God.
37 汝かく預言者にいふべしヱホバは汝に何と答へ給ひしやヱホバは何といひたまひしやと
You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
38 汝らもしヱホバの重負といはばヱホバそれにつきてかくいひたまふ我人を汝らに遣して汝等ヱホバの重負といふべからずといはしむるも汝らはヱホバの重負といふ此言をいふによりて
Although you say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ therefore the LORD says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from the LORD,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from the LORD,”
39 われ必ず汝らを忘れ汝らと汝らの先祖にあたへし此邑と汝らとを我前より棄ん
therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
40 且われ永遠の辱と永遠なる忘らるることなき恥を汝らにかうむらしめん
I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”
