Jeremias 25

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

4 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear), 5 saying, "Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more. 6 Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm."

7 "Yet you have not listened to me," says Yahweh, "that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt."

8 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: "Because you have not heard my words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north," says Yahweh, "and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 "It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation," says Yahweh, "for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. 13 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands."

15 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. 16 They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them."

17 Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: 18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people; 20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 21 Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon; 22 and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off; 24 and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; 26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them.

27 "You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you."’ 28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: "You shall surely drink. 29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies."’

30 "Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them,

"‘Yahweh will roar from on high,

and utter his voice from his holy habitation.

He will mightily roar against his fold.

He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes,

against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31 A noise will come even to the end of the earth;

for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations.

He will enter into judgment with all flesh.

As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,"’ says Yahweh."

32 Yahweh of Armies says,

"Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation,

and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth."

33 The slain of Yahweh will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground.

34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry.

Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock;

for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come,

and you will fall like fine pottery.

35 The shepherds will have no way to flee.

The leader of the flock will have no escape.

36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds,

and the wailing of the leader of the flock,

for Yahweh destroys their pasture.

37 The peaceful folds are brought to silence

because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

38 He has left his covert, as the lion;

for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression,

and because of his fierce anger.

Kua Kitea Kētia te Noho Herehere i Papurōna

1 Ko te kupu i puta mai ki a Heremaia mō te iwi katoa o Hūrā i te whā o ngā tau o Iehoiakimi tama a Hōhia kīngi o Hūrā (ko te tau tuatahi tērā o Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna). 2 I kōrerotia taua mea e Heremaia, e te poropiti, ki te iwi katoa o Hūrā, ki ngā tāngata katoa hoki o Hiruhārama, i kī ia: 3 Nō te tekau mā toru o ngā tau o Hōhia tama a Amono kīngi o Hūrā, ā tae noa mai ki tēnei rā, ka rua tekau mā toru ēnei ngā tau, te putanga mai o te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, me tāku kōrero anō ki a koutou, moata ai i te ata, ā, ka kōrero; heoi kīhai koutou i rongo.

4 Nā, kua ungā e Ihowā āna pononga katoa, ngā poropiti ki a koutou, moata ai i ngā ata, ā, ka unga i a rātou; heoi kīhai koutou i rongo, kīhai anō ō koutou taringa i anga ki te whakarongo; 5 i mea rātou, "Tahuri mai koutou, e tērā, e tērā i tōna ara kino, i te kino hoki o ā koutou mahi, ā, e noho ki te oneone i hōmai e Ihowā ki a koutou ko ō koutou mātua, onamata ā ake ake. 6 Kaua hoki e whāia he atua kē, kaua e mahi ki a rātou, kaua e koropiko ki a rātou, kaua hoki ahau e whakapātaritaria ki te mahi a ō koutou ringa; ā, e kore koutou e hē i ahau."

7 "Heoi, kīhai koutou i rongo ki ahau," e ai tā Ihowā; "he mea kia whakapātaritaria ai ahau ki te mahi a ō koutou ringa, hei hē anō mō koutou."

8 Mō reira ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano: "Nā, kīhai nā koutou i rongo ki āku kupu, 9 nanā, ka unga tāngata ahau ki te tiki i ngā hapū katoa o te raki," e ai tā Ihowā, "ā, ka unga tāngata ahau ki tāku pononga, ki a Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna, ā, ka kawea mai rātou ki tēnei whenua, ki ōna tāngata hoki, ā, ki ngā iwi katoa nei ā tawhio noa; ka tino whakangaromia rātou e ahau, ka meinga hei mīharotanga, hei whakahīanga atu, hei ururua tūturu. 10 Ka tangohia atu hoki e ahau i a rātou te reo o te koa, te reo o te hari, te reo o te tāne mārena hou, te reo o te wahine mārena hou, te haruru o ngā kōhatu mira, te mārama hoki o te rama. 11 Ā, ka waiho tēnei whenua katoa hei ururua, hei keteketenga; ā, ka mahi ēnei iwi ki te kīngi o Papurōna, e whitu tekau tau.

12 "Ā, ka rite ngā tau e whitu tekau, ka whiua e ahau te kīngi o Papurōna me taua iwi," e ai tā Ihowā, "mō tō rātou kino, me te whenua hoki o ngā Karari; ka meinga a reira e ahau kia ururua ā ake ake. 13 Ka kawea hoki e ahau ki runga ki taua whenua āku kupu katoa i kōrerotia e ahau mō reira, ngā mea katoa kua oti te tuhituhi ki tēnei pukapuka, kua poropititia nei e Heremaia mō aua iwi katoa. 14 Ka whakamahia hoki rātou, āe rā, rātou e ngā iwi maha, e ngā kīngi nunui hoki; ā, ka rite ki ā rātou hanga, ki te mahi hoki a ō rātou ringa tāku utu ki a rātou."

Te Kapu o te Riri o Ihowā

15 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira ki ahau: "Tangohia te kapu wāina o tēnei riri i tōku ringa, whakainumia mā ngā iwi katoa ka ungā nei koe e ahau ki a rātou. 16 Ā, ka inu rātou, hūrori atu, hūrori mai, ka haurangi, i te hoari e ungā e ahau ki waenganui i a rātou."

17 Kātahi ahau ka tango i te kapu i te ringa o Ihowā, whakainumia ana mā ngā iwi katoa i ungā nei ahau e Ihowā ki a rātou: 18 arā mā Hiruhārama, mā ngā pā o Hūrā, mā ōna kīngi, ā, mā ōna rangatira, kia meinga ai rātou hei ururua, hei mīharotanga, hei whakahīanga, hei kanga; hei pēnei me tō tēnei rā; 19 mā Parao kīngi o Īhipa, rātou ko āna tāngata, ko āna rangatira, ko tōna iwi katoa; 20 mā ngā iwi i whakaranua, mā ngā kīngi katoa o te whenua o Uhu, mā ngā kīngi katoa o te whenua o ngā Pirihitini – mā Ahakerono, mā Kaha, mā Ekerono, mā ngā mōrehu anō o Aharoro; 21 mā Ēroma, mā Moapa, mā ngā tama a Āmona; 22 mā ngā kīngi katoa o Tāira, mā ngā kīngi katoa o Hairona, mā ngā kīngi o te motu i tērā taha o te moana; 23 mā Rerana, mā Tema, mā Putu, mā te hunga katoa e tapahia ana ngā tapa o ō rātou makawe; 24 mā ngā kīngi katoa o Arāpia, mā ngā kīngi katoa o te iwi i whakaranua, e noho ana i te koraha; 25 mā ngā kīngi katoa o Tīmiri, mā ngā kīngi katoa o Erama, mā ngā kīngi katoa o ngā Meri. 26 Mā ngā kīngi katoa o te raki, mā ngā mea e tata ana, mā ngā mea, i tawhiti, mā tētahi, mā tētahi; mā ngā kīngitanga katoa hoki o te ao, i te mata o te oneone. Ā, ka inu te kīngi o Hehaka i muri i a rātou.

27 "Me kī anō e koe ki a rātou, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: E inu koutou, ā, haurangi iho, ruaki, e hinga ki raro, kaua e ara mai anō ki runga, i te hoari hoki e ungā e ahau ki waenganui i a koutou.’ 28 Nā, ki te kore rātou e pai ki te tango i te kapu i roto i tōu ringa kia inumia, kātahi koe ka mea ki a rātou, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano: Me inu rawa nei e koutou. 29 Nō te mea, nanā, ka tīmata ahau ki te whakatupu kino i te pā i huaina nei tōku ingoa mō reira; ā, kia tukua koutou kia kāhore rawa e whiua? E kore rā koutou e kore te whiua; nō te mea ka karangatia e ahau he hoari ki runga ki ngā tāngata katoa o te whenua, e ai tā Ihowā o ngā mano.’

30 "Mō reira me poropiti e koe ēnei kupu katoa ki a rātou, mea atu ki a rātou:

‘Ka hāmama mai a Ihowā i te wāhi tiketike,

ka puaki mai tōna reo i tōna kāinga tapu;

ka tino nui tāna hāmama ki tāna taiepa hipi;

ka umere ia, ka pērā i tā ngā kaitakahi karepe,

ki ngā tāngata katoa o te whenua.

31 Ka pakū te ngangau ki te pito rā anō o te whenua;

nō te mea he totohe tā Ihowā ki ngā iwi,

ka whakawākia e ia ngā kikokiko katoa;

ko te hunga kino, ka tukua e ia ki te hoari,’ "

e ai tā Ihowā.

32 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano:

"Ka puta atu he kino

i tētahi iwi ki tētahi iwi,

ā, ka whakatutūtia he tūkauati nui

i ngā pito rawa o te whenua!"

33 Nā, ko ngā tūpāpaku a Ihowā ka takoto i taua rā i tētahi pito o te whenua tae noa ki tētahi pito o te whenua. E kore hoki rātou e tangihia, e kore anō e kohikohia, e tanumia rānei; hei whakawairākau rātou ki te mata o te whenua.

34 Auē, e ngā hēpara, hāmama;

okeoke i roto i te pungarehu, e ngā metararahi o te kāhui.

Kua tae mai hoki ngā rā mō koutou kia patupatua,

ā, ka tukitukia koutou e ahau mongamonga noa,

ā, ka taka koutou ānō he oko i matenuitia.

35 Ā, ka kore he wāhi hei rerenga mō ngā hēpara,

kāhore he mawhititanga mō ngā metararahi o te kāhui.

36 He reo nō te tangi o ngā hēpara,

he auē nō ngā metararahi o te kāhui!

Nō te mea e pāhuatia ana e Ihowā tō rātou haerenga hipi,

37 ā, ka meinga kia nohopuku ngā nohoanga hipi hūmārie;

nō te mea ka mura te riri o Ihowā.

38 Ka whakarērea e ia tōna kuhunga, ka pērā i te raiona;

ka waiho hoki tō rātou whenua hei mīharotanga

i te taikaha o te hoari tūkino,

i te muranga o tōna riri.