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
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive 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 Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths 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
by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:
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
The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive 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 dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat 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 father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
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
Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have 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 the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are amongst you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamt.
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. 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 the LORD says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return 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 towards you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
12 汝らわれに龥はり往て我にいのらん我汝らに聽べし
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to 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 find me, when you search for me with all your 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
I will be found by you,” says the LORD, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you,” says the LORD. “I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
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
Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets 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
the LORD says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity,
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
the LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so 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
I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach amongst all the nations where I have driven them,
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
because they have not listened to my words,” says the LORD, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” 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
Hear therefore the LORD’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to 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
The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them 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
A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted 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
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says the LORD.
24 汝ネヘラミ人シマヤにかく語りいふべし
Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
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
“The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at 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 the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the LORD’s house, for every man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
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
Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet 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
because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”
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
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
Then the LORD’s word 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 of the captives, saying, ‘The LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and 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
therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell amongst this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says the LORD, “because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.”’”
