Jeremias 13

1 Yahweh said to me, "Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water."

2 So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.

3 Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying, 4 "Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."

5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

6 After many days, Yahweh said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there."

7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

8 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 9 "Yahweh says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing. 11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

12 "Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, "Every container should be filled with wine."’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’ 13 Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, "Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together," says Yahweh: "I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them."’"

15 Hear, and give ear.

Don’t be proud,

for Yahweh has spoken.

16 Give glory to Yahweh your God,

before he causes darkness,

and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains,

and while you look for light,

he turns it into the shadow of death,

and makes it deep darkness.

17 But if you will not hear it,

my soul will weep in secret for your pride.

My eye will weep bitterly,

and run down with tears,

because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

18 Say to the king and to the queen mother,

"Humble yourselves.

Sit down, for your crowns have come down,

even the crown of your glory.

19 The cities of the South are shut up,

and there is no one to open them.

Judah is carried away captive: all of them.

They are wholly carried away captive.

20 Lift up your eyes,

and see those who come from the north.

Where is the flock that was given to you,

your beautiful flock?

21 What will you say when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you?

Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?

22 If you say in your heart,

"Why have these things come on me?"

Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity,

and your heels suffer violence.

23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin,

or the leopard his spots?

Then may you also do good,

who are accustomed to do evil.

24 "Therefore I will scatter them

as the stubble that passes away

by the wind of the wilderness.

25 This is your lot,

the portion measured to you from me," says Yahweh,

"because you have forgotten me,

and trusted in falsehood."

26 Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face,

and your shame will appear.

27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries

and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution,

on the hills in the field.

Woe to you, Jerusalem!

You will not be made clean.

How long will it yet be?"

Te Whītiki Rinena

1 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā ki ahau: "Tīkina, hokona he whītiki rīnena mōu, ka whītiki ai ki tōu hope; kaua hoki e tukua ki te wai." 2 Heoi, kua hokona e ahau tētahi whītiki, ko tā Ihowā i kī ai, whītikiria iho e ahau ki tōku hope.

3 Nā, ko te rua o ngā putanga mai o te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau; i mea ia: 4 "E mau ki te whītiki i hokona e koe, ki tērā i tōu hope, ka whakatika, ka haere ki Uparati, ka huna ki tētahi rua i te kāmaka." 5 Heoi, haere ana ahau, huna ana i taua mea ki Uparati, pērā tonu me tā Ihowā i whakahau ai ki ahau.

6 Ā, ka maha ngā rā, ka kī mai a Ihowā ki ahau, "Whakatika, haere ki Uparati, tīkina i reira te whītiki i whakahau ai ahau ki a koe kia huna ki reira." 7 Kātahi ka haere ahau ki Uparati, kei te keri, tangohia mai ana e ahau te whītiki i te wāhi i hunā ai e ahau. Nā, kua kino te whītiki, kīhai i pai mō tētahi mea.

8 Kātahi ka puta mai te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea ia: 9 "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: ‘Ka pēnā anō tāku whakakino i te whakapehapeha o Hūrā, i te whakapehapeha nui o Hiruhārama. 10 Ko tēnei iwi kino e kore nei e pai ki te whakarongo ki āku kupu, e haere ana i runga i ngā tikanga pakeke o ō rātou ngākau, e whai ana i ngā atua kē, e mahi ana, e koropiko ana ki a rātou, ka rite rātou ki tēnei whītiki e kore nei e pai mō tētahi mea. 11 He pēnei i te whītiki e piri nei ki te hope o te tangata, pēnā tonu tāku meatanga i te whare katoa o Īharaira, i te whare katoa o Hūrā, kia piri ki ahau,’ e ai tā Ihowā, ‘kia waiho ai rātou hei iwi māku, hei ingoa, hei whakamoemiti, hei korōria; heoi kīhai rātou i rongo.’ "

Te Tohu o ngā Pounamu Wāina

12 "Nā, me kōrero tēnei kupu ki a rātou: ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira: Ka whakakīia katoatia ngā pounamu ki te wāina.’ Ā, e mea anō rātou ki a koe, ‘Kīhai ianei mātou i tino mōhio ka whakakīia katoatia ngā pounamu ki te wāina?’ 13 Ko reira koe mea ai ki a rātou: ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: Tēnei ahau te whakakī nei i ngā tāngata katoa o tēnei whenua, arā i ngā kīngi e noho ana i runga i te torōna o Rāwiri, rātou ko ngā tohunga, ko ngā poropiti, ko ngā tāngata katoa anō o Hiruhārama ki te haurangi. 14 Ka ākina atu anō rātou e ahau tētahi ki tētahi, ngā mātua ngātahi anō ko ngā tamariki, e ai tā Ihowā. E kore e tohungia e ahau, e kore e manawapātia, e kore e arohaina, kia kore ai rātou e ngaro i ahau.’ "

Ka Whakawehia te Iwi ki te Whakamanene

15 Whakarongo, tahuri mai ngā taringa;

kaua e whakapehapeha;

nā Ihowā hoki te kupu.

16 Whakakorōriatia tō koutou Atua, a Ihowā,

i te mea kīanō ia i whakapōuri noa,

i te mea kīanō ō koutou waewae

i tūtuki i runga i ngā maunga pōuri,

i te mea hoki e tatari ana koutou ki te mārama;

nā, kua puta kē i a ia ko te ātārangi o te mate,

kua meinga kia pōuri kerekere.

17 Tēnā ki te kore koutou e rongo,

ka tangi tōku wairua i ngā wāhi ngaro

ki tō koutou whakapehapeha;

nui atu anō te tangi o tōku kanohi,

tārere iho anō ngā roimata;

nō te mea ka whakaraua te kāhui a Ihowā.

18 Mea atu ki te kīngi rāua ko te kuīni,

"Whakaititia kōrua, e noho;

nō te mea ka riro iho ō kōrua whakapaipai māhunga,

te karauna o tō kōrua korōria."

19 Ka tūtakina ngā pā o te tonga,

kāhore he kaiwhakatuwhera.

Ka whakaraua katoatia a Hūrā,

poto rawa ki te whakarau.

20 E ara ō koutou kanohi,

tirohia te hunga e haere mai ana i te raki.

Kei hea te kāhui i hoatu ki a koe,

tāu kāhui ātaahua nā?

21 Ka pēhea tāu kupu ina whakanohoia e ia

ōu hoa ki runga ake i a koe hei māhunga,

nāu nā hoki rātou i ako hei rangatira, hei ariki mōu?

E kore ianei koe e mau pū i te mamae,

ānō he wahine e whakawhānau ana?

22 Nā, ki te mea koe i roto i tōu ngākau,

"He aha ēnei mea i pā ai ki ahau?"

Nā te nui o tōu kino i hurahia ai te remu o tōu,

i whakatupuria kinotia ai ōu rekereke.

23 E taea rānei e te Etiopiana te whakaputa kē tōna kiri,

e te reparo rānei tōna kōtingotingo?

Me kore noa e taea te mahi pai

e koutou kua taunga nei ki te mahi kino.

24 "Ka tītaritaria anō rātou e ahau,

ānō he pāpapa e rere ana i runga i te hau o te koraha.

25 Ko te rota tēnā māu,

ko te wāhi i rūritia atu e ahau mōu,"

e ai tā Ihowā;

"mōu i wareware ki ahau,

i whakawhirinaki ki te teka.

26 Ka hurahia hoki e ahau ngā remu o tōu ki runga ki tōu kanohi,

ā, ka kitea tōu mea e whakamā ai koe.

27 Kua kite ahau i ōu whakarihariha,

i ōu pūremutanga, tāu tangi ā-hōiho, te weriweri o tōu moepuku,

i runga i ngā pukepuke i te pārae.

Auē te mate mōu, e Hiruhārama!

E kore nei koe e meinga kia mā;

āhea rawa rā anō?"