エレミヤ書 6
1 ベニヤミンの人々よ、エルサレムの中から避難せよ。テコアでラッパを吹き、ベテハケレムに合図の火をあげよ。北から災が臨み、大いなる滅びが来るからである。
Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.
2 わたしは美しい、たおやかなシオンの娘を滅ぼす。
The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
3 牧者たちは、その群れをひきいて来て、彼女を攻め、彼女の周囲に天幕を張る。群れはおのおのその所で草を食う。
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
4 「戦いを始め、彼女を攻めよ。立て、われわれは真昼に攻撃しよう」。「わざわいなるかな、日ははや傾き、夕日の影は長くなった」。
Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.
5 「立て、われわれは夜の間に攻撃しよう、そして彼女のもろもろの宮殿を破壊しよう」。
Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.
6 万軍の主はこう言われる、「あなたがたは彼女の木を切り倒し、エルサレムにむかって塁を築け。これは罰すべき町である、そのうちにはただ圧制だけがある。
For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.
7 井戸に新しい水がわくように彼女はその悪を常にあらたに流す。そのうちには暴虐と破滅とが聞える。わたしの前に病と傷とが絶えない。
As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
8 エルサレムよ、戒めを受けいれよ。さもないと、わたしはあなたから離れ、あなたを荒れ地とし、住む人のない地とする」。
Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
9 万軍の主はこう言われる、「ぶどうの残りを摘みとるように、イスラエルの残りの民をのこらず摘み取れ。ぶどうを摘みとる人のように、あなたの手をふたたびその枝に伸ばせ」。
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.
10 わたしはだれに語り、だれを戒めて、聞かせようか。見よ、彼らの耳は閉ざされて、聞くことができない。見よ、彼らは主の言葉をあざけり、それを喜ばない。
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
11 それゆえ、わたしの身には主の怒りが満ち、それを忍ぶのに、うみつかれている。「それをちまたにいる子供らと、集まっている若い人々とに漏らせ。夫も妻も、老いた人も、年のひじょうに進んだ人も捕えられ、
For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.
12 彼らの家と畑と妻とは共に他人に渡る。わたしが手を伸ばして、この地に住む者を撃つからである」と主は言われる。
And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.
13 「それは彼らが、小さい者から大きい者まで、みな不正な利をむさぼり、また預言者から祭司にいたるまで、みな偽りを行っているからだ。
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
14 彼らは、手軽にわたしの民の傷をいやし、平安がないのに『平安、平安』と言っている。
And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15 彼らは憎むべきことをして、恥じたであろうか。すこしも恥ずかしいとは思わず、また恥じることを知らなかった。それゆえ彼らは倒れる者と共に倒れる。わたしが彼らを罰するとき、彼らは倒れる」と主は言われる。
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
16 主はこう言われる、「あなたがたはわかれ道に立って、よく見、いにしえの道につき、良い道がどれかを尋ねて、その道に歩み、そしてあなたがたの魂のために、安息を得よ。しかし彼らは答えて、『われわれはその道に歩まない』と言った。
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
17 わたしはあなたがたの上に見張びとを立て、『ラッパの音に気をつけよ』と言った。しかし彼らは答えて、『われわれは気をつけることはしない』と言った。
And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.
18 それゆえ国々の民よ、聞け。会衆よ、彼らにどのようなことが起るかを知れ。
So then, give ear, you nations, and ...
19 地よ、聞け。見よ、わたしはこの民に災をくだす。それは彼らのたくらみの実である。彼らがわたしの言葉に気をつけず、わたしのおきてを捨てたからである。
Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.
20 シバから、わたしの所に乳香が来、遠い国から、菖蒲が来るのはなんのためか。あなたがたの燔祭はわたしには喜ばしくなく、あなたがたの犠牲もうれしくはない。
To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
21 それゆえ主はこう言われる、『見よ、わたしはこの民の前につまずく石を置く、人々は父も子も共にそれにつまずき、隣り人もその友も滅びる』」。
For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.
22 主はこう言われる、「見よ、民が北の国から来る、大いなる国民が地の果から興る。
The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
23 彼らは弓とやりをとる。彼らは残忍で、あわれみがなく、海のような響きを立てる。シオンの娘よ、彼らは馬に乗り、いくさ人のように身をよろって、あなたを攻める」。
Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.
24 われわれはそのうわさを聞いて、手は弱り、子を産む女に臨むような悩みと苦しみとに捕えられた。
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
25 畑に出てはならない、また道を歩いてはならない。敵はつるぎを持ち、恐れが四方にあるからだ。
Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
26 わが民の娘よ、荒布を身にまとい、灰の中にまろび、ひとり子を失った時のように、悲しみ、いたく嘆け。滅ぼす者が、にわかにわれわれを襲うからだ。
O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.
27 「わたしはあなたを民のうちに立てて、ためす者、試みる者とした。あなたが彼らの道を知り、それをためすことができるようにするためである。
I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.
28 彼らはみな、強情な反逆者であって、歩きまわって人をそしる。彼らは青銅や鉄であって、みな卑しいことを行う。
All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
29 ふいごは激しく吹き、鉛は火にとけて尽き、精錬はいたずらに進む。悪しき者がまだ除かれないからである。
The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
30 主が彼らを捨てられたので、彼らは捨てられた銀と呼ばれる」。
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
