Heremaia 9
1 Aue, me he wai toku mahunga! me he puna roimata oku kanohi, kia tangihia ai e ahau nga tupapaku o te tamahine a taku iwi i te ao, i te po!
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
2 Aue, me he tihokahoka toku, he mea na te tira haere i te koraha! kia whakarerea ai e ahau taku iwi, kia mawehe ai i roto i a ratou, he hunga puremu katoa nei hoki ratou, he huihuinga no te hunga tinihanga.
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.
3 Me te mea he kopere na ratou o ratou arero e whakapikoa ana hei korero teka: kua tupu kaha ake ratou i runga i te whenua, kahore ia mo te pono; engari e koni atu ana i te kino ki te kino, kahore hoki o ratou mohio ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa.
And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.
4 Kia tupato i o koutou hoa, e tenei, e tenei, kaua e whakawhirinaki ki te tuakana, ki te teina: no te mea he maminga rawa ta nga tuakana, ta nga teina katoa; kei runga ano i te ngautuara te haere o nga hoa katoa.
Let every man take heed of his neighbor, and let his not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.
5 Ka tinihangatia e ratou tona hoa, tona hoa, kahore hoki he pono o te korero; kua whakaakona e ratou o ratou arero ki te korero teka; ruha noa ratou i te mahinga i te he.
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
6 Kei waenga tinihanga koe e noho ana: na te tinihanga ratou te pai ai ki te mohio ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa.
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
7 Heoi ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, Nana, ka whakarewa ahau i a ratou, ka whakamatau i a ratou; me pehea hoki ahau, ko te tamahine nei ia a taku iwi?
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?
8 Ko te rite i to ratou arero kei te kopere whakamate; he korero tinihanga tana: he korero pai ta te mangai o tetahi ki tona hoa, kei roto ia i tona ngakau e whanga ana mona.
Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him.
9 E kore ianei ahau e whiu i a ratou mo enei mea? e ai ta Ihowa; e kore ianei toku wairua e rapu utu i te iwi penei?
Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?
10 He whakaaro ki nga maunga i ara ai taku tangi, taku aue, he whakaaro ki nga puninga o te koraha taku uhunga; no te mea kua wera, kahore tetahi tangata e tika na reira, kahore e rangona te reo o nga kararehe; ko nga manu o te rangi, ko nga karare he, putere atu ana, kua riro.
For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed.
11 Ka meinga hoki e ahau a Hiruharama hei puranga, hei nohoanga kuri mohoao, ka meinga ano e ahau nga pa o Hura kia ururuatia, te ai he tangata.
And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.
12 Ko wai te tangata whakaaro nui e matau ana ki tenei? i korerotia ano ki a wai e te mangai o Ihowa, mana e whakaatu? he aha ra te whenua i whakangaromia ai, i wera ai, ano ko te koraha, kahore he tangata e tika ana i reira?
Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?
13 Ano ra ko Ihowa, Mo ratou i whakarere i taku ture i hoatu e ahau ki to ratou aroaro, a kihai i whakarongo ki toku reo, kihai i haere i taua ara;
And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.
14 Na haere ana ratou i nga tikanga maro o o ratou ngakau; kei te wahi i nga Paarimi i whakaakona nei e o ratou matua ki a ratou.
But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
15 Heoi ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, a te Atua o Iharaira, Tenei ahau te whangai nei i a ratou, i tenei iwi, ki te taru kawa, te whakainu nei i a ratou ki te wai kawa.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 Ka whakamararatia ano ratou e ahau ki roto ki nga iwi kihai nei i mohiotia e ratou, e o ratou matua: ka unga ano e ahau te hoari hei whai i a ratou a poto noa ratou i ahau.
And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.
17 Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa o nga mano, Whakaaroa e koutou, karangatia hoki nga wahine tangi kia haere mai; unga tangata ki nga wahine whakaaro nui kia haere mai.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:
18 Kia hohoro ano te ara o ta ratou tangi mo tatou, kia tarere ai nga roimata o o tatou kanohi, kia maringi iho ai nga wai o o tatou kamo.
Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.
19 No te mea e rangona ana te reo tangi i Hiona, Ano to tatou pahuatanga! Nui atu to tatou whakama, no te mea kua mahue i a tatou te whenua, no te mea kua turakina mai e ratou o tatou nohoanga.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.
20 Whakarongo raia, e nga wahine, ki te kupu a Ihowa, kia riro ano i o koutou taringa te kupu a tona mangai; whakaakona a koutou tamahine ki te tangi, nga hoa hoki o tenei, o tenei, ki te uhunga.
Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbor mourning.
21 No te mea kua tae ake te mate ki roto ki o tatou matapihi, kua tomo ki o tatou whare kingi, hautope atu ai i nga kohungahunga i waho, i nga taitamariki ano hoki i nga huanui.
For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.
22 Korero, Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Tera nga tinana o nga tangata e hinga ano he whakawairakau ki te mata o te mara, ano he kutanga witi i muri i te kaitapahi, a kahore he kaikohi.
Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.
23 Ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Kaua te tangata whakaaro nui e whakamanamana ki tona whakaaro nui, kaua hoki te marohirohi e whakamanamana ki tona marohirohi; kaua te tangata taonga e whakamanamana ki ona taonga;
Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 Engari ko tenei hei whakamanamananga ma te tangata whakamanamana, ara kua whai whakaaro ia, kua mohio ki ahau, ko Ihowa, ahau, ko te kaimahi o te mahi tohu, o te whakawa, o te tika i runga i te whenua: ko aku hoki enei e whakaahuareka ai, e ai t a Ihowa.
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.
25 Nana, kei te haere mai nga ra, e ai ta Ihowa, e whiua ai e ahau te hunga katoa i kotia i roto i to ratou kotingakore;
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.
26 Ko Ihipa, ko Hura, ko Eroma, ko nga tama a Amona, ko Moapa, ko te hunga katoa e noho ana i te koraha, e whakaihoa nei nga tapa o o ratou makawe: he mea kokotikore hoki nga iwi katoa; ko te whare katoa ano o Iharaira, he mea kokotikore te ngakau.
Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
