エレミヤ書 19
1 主はこう言われる、「行って、陶器師のびんを買い、民の長老と年長の祭司のうちの数人を伴って、
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 瀬戸かけの門の入口にあるベンヒンノムの谷へ行き、その所で、わたしがあなたに語る言葉をのべて、
And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entrance of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 言いなさい、『ユダの王たち、およびエルサレムに住む者よ、主の言葉を聞きなさい。万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう仰せられる、見よ、わたしは災をこの所に下す。おおよそ、その災のことを聞くものの耳は両方とも鳴る。
And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 彼らがわたしを捨て、この所を汚し、この所で、自分も先祖たちもユダの王たちも知らなかった他の神々に香をたき、かつ罪のない者の血を、この所に満たしたからである。
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 また彼らはバアルのために高き所を築き、火をもって自分の子どもたちを焼き、燔祭としてバアルにささげた。これはわたしの命じたことではなく、定めたことでもなく、また思いもしなかったことである。
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
6 主は言われる、それゆえ、見よ、この所をトペテまたはベンヒンノムの谷と呼ばないで、虐殺の谷と呼ぶ日がくる。
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 またわたしはこの所でユダとエルサレムの計りごとを打ち破り、つるぎをもって、彼らをその敵の前と、そのいのちを求める者の手に倒れさせ、またその死体を空の鳥と地の獣の食い物とし、
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 かつ、この町を荒れすたれさせて、人に舌打ちされるものとする。そこを通る人は皆そのもろもろの災を見て身震いし、舌打ちする。
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
9 また彼らがその敵とその命を求める者とに囲まれて苦しみ悩む時、わたしは彼らに自分のむすこの肉、娘の肉を食べさせる。彼らはまた互にその友の肉を食べるようになる』。
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.
10 そこで、あなたは、一緒に行く人々の目の前で、そのびんを砕き、
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 そして彼らに言いなさい、『万軍の主はこう仰せられる、陶器師の器をひとたび砕くならば、もはやもとのようにすることはできない。このようにわたしはこの民とこの町とを砕く。人々はほかに葬るべき場所がないために、トペテに葬るであろう。
And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
12 主は仰せられる、わたしはこの所と、ここに住む者とにこのようにし、この町をトペテのようにする。
Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city as Tophet:
13 エルサレムの家とユダの王たちの家、すなわち彼らがその屋上で天の衆群に香をたき、ほかの神々に酒を注いだ家は、皆トペテの所のように汚される』」。
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
14 エレミヤは主が彼をつかわして預言させられたトペテから帰ってきて、主の家の庭に立ち、すべての民に言った、
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD’S house; and said to all the people,
15 「万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう仰せられる、見よ、わたしは、この町とそのすべての村々に、わたしの言ったもろもろの災を下す。彼らが強情で、わたしの言葉に聞き従おうとしないからである」。
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
