Jeremias 16

Te Takakauranga o Heremaia me tana Karere

1 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea ia: 2 "Kaua koe e moe hoa, kauaka hoki he tama, he tamāhine māu i tēnei wāhi." 3 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā mō ngā tama, mō ngā tamāhine ka whānau ki tēnei wāhi, mō ō rātou whaea hoki i whānau ai rātou, mō ō rātou pāpā anō nā rātou nei aua tamariki i tēnei whenua: 4 "He kino rawa ngā mate e mate ai rātou; e kore rātou e tangihia, e kore hoki e tanumia; ka waiho rātou hei whakawairākau i runga i te mata o te oneone. Ka poto atu rātou i te hoari, i te hemokai; ko ō rātou tinana hei kai mā ngā manu o te rangi, mā ngā kararehe o te whenua."

5 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā: "Kaua e tomo ki te whare tangihanga, kaua hoki e haere ki te tangi, ki te uhunga i a rātou; kua tangohia atu hoki e ahau tāku rangimārie i tēnei iwi," e ai tā Ihowā, "arā te aroha noa me ngā mahi tohu. 6 Ka mate ngā mea nunui rātou ko ngā mea ririki ki tēnei whenua; e kore rātou e tanumia, e kore hoki te tangata e tangi ki a rātou, e kore e haehae i a rātou, e kore e whakamoremore i ō rātou māhunga mō rātou. 7 E kore hoki e tuwhaina mai te taro mā rātou i te tangihanga, hei whakamārie i a rātou mō te tūpāpaku; e kore hoki e hōmai ki a rātou te kapu whakamārie kia inumia, ina mea ki tōna pāpā, ki tōna whaea.

8 "Kaua anō hoki koe e tomo ki te whare hākari noho tahi ai me rātou, kai ai, inu ai rānei. 9 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: Nanā, ka whakamutua e ahau i tēnei wāhi, i mua i ō koutou kanohi, ā, i ō koutou rā, te reo o te harakoa, te reo o te hari, te reo o te tāne mārena hou, te reo o te wahine mārena hou.

10 "Nā, ka kōrerotia e koe ēnei kupu katoa ki tēnei iwi, ā, ka mea rātou ki a koe, ‘Nā te aha tēnei kino nui katoa i kōrerotia mai ai e Ihowā ki a mātou? He aha hoki tō mātou hē? He aha anō tō mātou hara i hara ai mātou ki a Ihowā, ki tō mātou Atua?’ 11 Kātahi koe ka mea ki a rātou: ‘Nō te mea i whakarērea ahau e ō koutou mātua,’ e ai tā Ihowā, ‘ā, haere ana rātou ki te whai i ngā atua kē, mahi ana ki a rātou, koropiko ana ki a rātou, whakarērea ana ahau e rātou, kīhai hoki rātou i pupuri i tāku ture; 12 me koutou anō, kino atu tā koutou mahi i tā ō koutou mātua; nō te mea, nanā, kei te whai koutou i ngā tikanga pakeke o tōna ngākau kino, o tōna ngākau kino, nāwai ā, kāhore koutou e rongo ki ahau. 13 Nā reira ka ākiritia atu koutou e ahau i tēnei whenua ki tētahi whenua kīhai i mōhiotia e koutou, e ō koutou mātua rānei; ā, ki reira koutou mahi ai ki ngā atua kē i te ao, i te pō; e kore hoki e puta tōku aroha ki a koutou.’ "

Ka Whakahokia e Ihowā a Īharaira

14 "Nanā, kei te haere ake nei hoki ngā rā, e ai tā Ihowā, e kore ai e kōrerotia, ‘E ora ana a Ihowā nāna nei i kawe mai ngā tama a Īharaira i te whenua o Īhipa,’ 15 engari, ‘E ora ana a Ihowā nāna nei i kawe mai ngā tama a Īharaira i te whenua ki te raki, i ngā whenua katoa anō i peia atu ai rātou e ia.’ Ā, ka whakahokia mai rātou e ahau ki tō rātou whenua i hoatu rā e ahau ki ō rātou mātua.

16 "Nanā, ka tīkina atu e ahau ētahi kaihī ika tokomaha," e ai tā Ihowā, "ā, ka hīa rātou e rātou. Muri iho ka tīkina e ahau he tangata whai kīrehe mohoao, he tokomaha, ā, ka whāia rātou i runga i ngā maunga katoa, i runga i ngā pukepuke katoa, i roto hoki i ngā rua o ngā kāmaka. 17 Nō te mea kei runga ōku kanohi i ō rātou ara katoa; kāhore hoki e huna atu i tōku mata, kāhore anō tō rātou hē e huna i ōku kanohi. 18 Nā, ka mātua rite i ahau ngā utu mō tō rātou hē, mō tō rātou hara, kia rua; mō rātou i whakapoke i tōku whenua ki ngā tinana o ā rātou mea anuanu, i whakakī hoki i tōku wāhi tupu ki ā rātou mea whakarihariha."

19 E Ihowā, e tōku kaha, e tōku pā kaha,

e tōku rerenga atu i te wā o te raru,

tērā e haere mai ngā iwi

i ngā pito o te whenua ki a koe, ā, ka mea:

"Koia anō! He teka kau ngā taonga tupu o ō tātou mātua,

he horihori, he mea huakore.

20 E hanga rānei te tangata i ētahi atua mōna,

ehara nei i te atua?"

21 "Mō reira ka meinga rātou e ahau kia mōhio,

ka meinga rātou e ahau kia mōhio i tēnei wā kotahi nei ki tōku ringa,

ki tōku kaha hoki;

ā, ka mōhio rātou,

ko Ihowā tōku ingoa."

1 The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place. 3 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land: 4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

5 For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies. 6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; 7 neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 8 And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 9 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God? 11 then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 12 and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me: 13 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.

14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15 but, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations.

19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit. 20 Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?

21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Jehovah.