エレミヤ書 24
1 バビロンの王ネブカデネザル、ユダの王ヱホヤキムの子ヱコニヤおよびユダの牧伯等と木匠と鐵匠をヱルサレムよりバビロンに移せしのちヱホバ我にヱホバの殿の前に置れたる二筐の無花果を示したまへり
The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2 その一の筐には始に熟せしがごとき至佳き無花果ありその一の筐にはいと惡くして食ひ得ざるほどなる惡き無花果あり
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3 ヱホバ我にいひ給ひけるはヱレミヤよ汝何を見しや我答へけるは無花果なりその佳き無花果はいと佳しその惡きものは至惡しくして食ひ得ざるほどに惡し
Then said the LORD unto me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
4 ヱホバの言また我にのぞみていふ
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいふ我わが此處よりカルデヤ人の地に逐ひやりしユダの虜人を此佳き無花果のごとくに顧みて惠まん
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
6 我彼等に目をかけて之をめぐみ彼らを此地にかへし彼等を建て仆さず植て拔じ
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
7 我彼らに我のヱホバなるを識るの心をあたへん彼等我民となり我彼らの神とならん彼等は一心をもて我に歸るべし
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
8 ヱホバかくいひたまへり我ユダの王ゼデキヤとその牧伯等およびヱルサレムの人の遺りて此地にをる者ならびにエジプトの地に住る者とを此惡くして食はれざる惡き無花果のごとくになさん
And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus says the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9 我かれらをして地のもろもろの國にて虐遇と災害にあはしめん又彼らをしてわが逐やらん諸の處にて辱にあはせ諺となり嘲と詛に遭しめん
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
10 われ劍と饑饉と疫病をかれらの間におくりて彼らをしてわが彼らとその先祖にあたへし地に絕るにいたらしめん
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
