Jeremias 16

1 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 "You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place." 3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land: 4 "They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth."

5 For Yahweh says, "Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," says Yahweh, "even loving kindness and tender mercies. 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them. 7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

8 "You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink." 9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "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 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’ 11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. 12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me. 13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

14 "Therefore behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ 15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

16 "Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says Yahweh, "and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. 18 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 my inheritance with their abominations."

19 Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold,

and my refuge in the day of affliction,

the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth,

and will say,

"Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,

vanity and things in which there is no profit.

20 Should a man make to himself gods

which yet are no gods?"

21 "Therefore behold, I will cause them to know,

this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might.

Then they will know that my name is Yahweh."

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."