エレミヤ書 29

1 預言者ヱレミヤ、ヱルサレムより書をかの擄へうつされて餘れるところの長老および祭司と預言者ならびにネブカデネザルがヱルサレムよりバビロンに移したるすべての民に送れり

And these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah, the prophet, sent from Jerusalem to the remnant of the elders of the transmigration, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had led away from Jerusalem to Babylon,

2 是より先ヱコニヤ王と王后と寺人およびユダとヱルサレムの牧伯等および木匠と鐵匠はヱルサレムをされり

after king Jeconiah, with the queen, and the eunuchs, and the leaders of Judah and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen and engravers, had departed from Jerusalem.

3 ヱレミヤその書をシヤパンの子エラサおよびヒルキヤの子ゲマリヤ即ちユダの王ゼデキヤがバビロンにつかはしてバビロンの王ネブカデネザルにいたらしむる者の手によりて送れり其書にいはく

It was sent by the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and by Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, the king of Judah, sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, saying:

4 萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神すべて擄うつされし者即ち我ヱルサレムよりバビロンに移さしめし者にかくいふ

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who have been taken away, whom I have caused to be transferred from Jerusalem to Babylon:

5 汝ら屋を建てこれに住ひ圃をつくりてその果をくらへ

Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit.

6 妻を娶て子女をうみ又汝らの子に媳を娶り汝らの女を嫁がしめ彼らに子女を生しめよ此は汝等かしこに減ずして增んがためなり

Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number.

7 我汝らを擄移さしめしところの邑の安を求めこれが爲にヱホバにいのれその邑の安によりて汝らもまた安をうればなり

And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be taken away, and pray to the Lord on its behalf. For your peace will be in its peace.

8 萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいひたまふ汝らの中の預言者と卜筮士に惑はさるる勿れまた汝ら自ら作りしところの夢に聽したがふ勿れ

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not allow your prophets and your diviners, who are in your midst, to seduce you. And you should pay no attention to your dreams, which you are dreaming.

9 そは彼ら我名をもて謊を汝らに預言すればなり我彼らを遣さずヱホバいひたまふ

For they prophesy falsely to you in my name, and I have not sent them, says the Lord.

10 ヱホバかくいひたまふバビロンに於て七十年滿なばわれ汝らを眷み我嘉言を汝らになして汝らをこの處に歸らしめん

For thus says the Lord: When the seventy years will begin to be completed in Babylon, I will visit you. And I will raise up over you my good word, so that I may lead you back to this place.

11 ヱホバいひたまふ我が汝らにむかひて懷くところの念は我これを知るすなはち災をあたへんとにあらず平安を與へんとおもひ又汝らに後と望をあたへんとおもふなり

For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

12 汝らわれに龥はり往て我にいのらん我汝らに聽べし

And you shall call upon me, and you shall go forth. And you shall pray to me, and I will heed you.

13 汝らもし一心をもて我を索めなば我に尋ね遇はん

You shall seek me. And you will find me, when you have sought me with your whole heart.

14 ヱホバいひたまふ我汝らの遇ところとならんわれ汝らの俘擄を解き汝らを萬國よりすべて我汝らを逐やりし處より集め且我汝らをして擄らはれて離れしめしその處に汝らをひき歸らんとヱホバいひたまふ

And I will be found by you, says the Lord. And I will lead you back from your captivity. And I will gather you from all the nations and all the places, to which I have expelled you, says the Lord. And I will return you from the place to which I sent you into captivity.

15 ヱホバわれらの爲にバビロンに於て預言者を立たまひしと汝らはいふ

For you have said: ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.’

16 ダビデの位に坐する王とこの邑に住るすべての民汝らと偕にとらへ移されざりし兄弟につきてヱホバかくいひたまふ

For thus says the Lord, to the king who sits upon the throne of David, and to all the people who live in this city, to your brothers who have not departed with you in the transmigration:

17 萬軍のヱホバかくいふ視よわれ劍と饑饉と疫病を彼らにおくり彼らを惡くして食はれざる惡き無花果のごとくになさん

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send among them the sword, and famine, and pestilence. And I will make them like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.

18 われ劍と饑饉と疫病をもて彼らを逐ひまた彼らを地の萬國にわたして虐にあはしめ我彼らを逐やる諸國に於て呪詛となり詫異となり人の嗤笑となり恥辱とならしめん

And I will pursue them with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence. And I will give them over to affliction, amid all the kingdoms of the earth: as a curse, and in stupor, and with hissing, and as a disgrace among all the nations to which I have driven them out.

19 是彼ら我言を聽ざればなりとヱホバいひたまふ我この言を我僕なる預言者によりて遣り頻におくれども汝ら聽ざるなりとヱホバいひたまふ

For they have not listened to my words, says the Lord, which I sent to them through my servants, the prophets, rising while it was still night, and sending. But you have not listened, says the Lord.

20 わがヱルサレムよりバビロンにおくりし諸の俘擄人よ汝らヱホバの言をきけ

Therefore, listen to the word of the Lord, all you of the transmigration, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem into Babylon.

21 我名をもて謊を汝らに預言するコラヤの子アハブとマアセヤの子ゼデキヤにつきて萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいふ視よわれ彼らをバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手に付さん彼これを汝らの目の前に殺すべし

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and to Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy falsely to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will strike them down before your eyes.

22 バビロンにあるユダの俘擄人は皆彼らをもて詛となし願くはヱホバ汝をバビロンの王が火にて焚しゼデキヤとアハブのごとき者となしたまはん事をといふ

And a curse will be taken up about them, by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying: ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire!’

23 こは彼らイスラエルの中に惡をなし鄰の妻を犯し且我彼らに命ぜざる謊の言をわが名をもて語りしによる我これを知りまた證すとヱホバいひたまふ

For they have acted foolishly in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and they have spoken lying words in my name, which I did not command them. I am the Judge and the Witness, says the Lord.

24 汝ネヘラミ人シマヤにかく語りいふべし

And to Shemaiah of Nehelam, you shall say:

25 萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいふ汝おのれの名をもて書をヱルサレムにある諸の民と祭司マアセヤの子ゼパニヤおよび諸の祭司に送りていふ

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Similarly, you have sent letters in your name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying:

26 ヱホバ汝を祭司ヱホヤダに代て祭司となし汝らをヱホバの室の監督となしたまふ此すべて狂妄ひ且みづから預言者なりといふ者を獄と桎梏につながしめんためなり

‘The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada, the priest, so that you would be the ruler in the house of the Lord over every man who raves and prophesies, to send him to the stocks and to prison.

27 然るに汝いま何故に汝らにむかひてみづから預言者なりといふところのアナトテのヱレミヤを斥責めざるや

And now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesies to you?

28 そは彼バビロンにをる我儕に書を送り時尚長ければ汝ら家を建て之に住ひ圃をつくりてその實をくらへといへり

For about this, he has sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time. Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruits.’”

29 祭司ゼパニヤこの書を預言者ヱレミヤに讀きかせたり

Thus, Zephaniah, the priest, read this letter, in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

30 時にヱホバの言ヱレミヤにのぞみていふ

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:

31 諸の俘擄人に書をおくりて云べしネヘラミ人シマヤの事につきてヱホバかくいふ我シマヤを遣さざるに彼汝らに預言し汝らに謊を信ぜしめしによりて

“Send to all those of the transmigration, saying: Thus says the Lord to Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and because he has caused you to trust in a lie:

32 ヱホバかくいふ視よ我ネヘラミ人シマヤと其子孫を罰すべし彼ヱホバに逆くことを敎へしによりて此民のうちに彼に屬する者一人も住ふことなからん且我民に吾がなさんとする善事をみざるべしとヱホバいひたまふ

For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will visit upon Shemaiah of Nehelam, and upon his offspring. There will not be, for him, even one man sitting in the midst of this people. And he will not see the good that I will accomplish for my people, says the Lord. For he has spoken a betrayal against the Lord.”