Jeremias 4

1 "If you will return, Israel," says Yahweh, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed; 2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him."

3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns. 4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’ 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."

7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. 8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us. 9 "It will happen at that day," says Yahweh, "that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder."

10 Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart."

11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse. 12 A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them."

13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined. 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you? 15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: 16 "Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’" says Yahweh. 18 "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment. 21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

22 "For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good." 23 I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. 25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled. 26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger. 27 For Yahweh says, "The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. 28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."

29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."

1 "Ki te mea ka hoki mai koe e Īharaira,"

e ai tā Ihowā,

"hoki mai ki ahau;

ki te whakarērea anō e koe āu mea whakarihariha i tōku aroaro,

e kore koe e riro kē,

2 ka oati anō koe, ‘Kei te ora a Ihowā,’

i runga i te pono, i te whakawā pai, i te tika,

māna hoki ngā iwi ka whakapai ai ki a rātou anō,

ka whakamanamana anō rātou ki a ia."

3 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā ki ngā tāngata o Hūrā, ā, ki Hiruhārama:

"Ngakia tā koutou pātohe;

kaua hoki e whakatō ki roto ki ngā tātarāmoa.

4 Kotia hoki koutou, hei mea ki a Ihowā,

whakarērea hoki ngā kiri matamata o ō koutou ngākau,

e ngā tāngata o Hūrā, e te hunga anō e noho ana i Hiruhārama;

kei puta tōku riri ānō he ahi, kei mura,

ā, kāhore e tineia, mō te kino hoki o ā koutou mahi."

Ka Whakawehitia a Hūrā ki te Whakaekenga

5 "Karangatia i roto i a Hūrā, kia rongo a Hiruhārama, mea atu:

‘Whakatangihia te tētere ki te whenua!’

Karanga, mea atu;

‘Whakamine mai,

tātou ka haere ki ngā pā taiepa!’

6 Whakaarahia te kara ki te ritenga o Hiona,

pūtere atu koutou, kaua e tū;

nō te mea ka kawea mai e ahau he kino i te raki,

he whatīanga nui."

7 Kei te haere mai he raiona i tōna urupuia rākau,

kei te ara anō he kaiwhakangaro mō ngā tauiwi;

kei te ara ia, kua puta mai ia i tōna wāhi;

hei whakangaro i tōu whenua,

hei mea i ōu pā kia ururua;

kāhore he tangata hei noho.

8 Mō konei whītikiria he kākahu taratara ki a koutou,

e tangi, auē:

Nō te mea kāhore te muranga o tō Ihowā riri

e tahuri atu i a tātou.

9 "I taua rā," e ai tā Ihowā,

"ka pirau te ngākau o te kīngi, me te ngākau o ngā rangatira;

ā, ka mīharo ngā tohunga,

ā, ko ngā poropiti ketekete kau ana."

10 Anō rā ko ahau, "Auē, e te Ariki, e Ihowā, kua pōhēhē rawa i a koe tēnei iwi, a Hiruhārama anō, i te kupu nei, ‘Ka mau te rongo ki a koutou.’ Tēnā ia, kua pā te hoari ki te wairua."

11 I taua wā ka kōrerotia ki tēnei iwi, ki Hiruhārama anō, "He hau wera nō ngā wāhi tiketike i te koraha e tika mai ana ki te tamāhine a tāku iwi, ehara i te mea hei pōwhiriwhiri, hei tahi rānei – 12 he hau tōtōpū nō aua wāhi ka tae mai ki ahau. Ākuanei ahau whakapuaki ai i te whakawā mō rātou."

13 Nanā, ko tōna haerenga mai ka rite ki ngā kapua,

rite tonu anō ōna hāriata ki te tūkauati;

he tere rawa ōna hōiho i te ēkara –

auē, te mate mō tātou, kei te pāhuatia hoki tātou!

14 Horoia atu te kino o tōu ngākau e Hiruhārama,

kia ora ai koe.

Kia pēhea te roa o te noho o ōu whakaaro kino

i roto i a koe?

15 Nō te mea e whakaatu mai ana he reo i Rāna,

e mea ana hoki i te kino kia rangona i Maunga Ēparaima.

16 "Kōrero ki ngā iwi;

nanā, kia rangona te hē mō Hiruhārama:

‘Kei te haere mai he kaitiaki i te whenua tawhiti,

ka puaki tō rātou reo mō ngā pā o Hūrā.

17 Ko tā rātou ki a ia rite tonu ki tā ngā kaitiaki

o te māra i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha,

mōna i tutū ki ahau,’ "

e ai tā Ihowā.

18 "Nā tōu ara, nā āu mahi,

ēnei i pā ai ki a koe;

nōu tēnei hē; he kawa hoki,

kua pā hoki ki tōu ngākau."

Te Pōuri mō te Iwi Turaki

19 Ōku whēkau, ōku whēkau!

Mamae pū a roto o tōku ngākau,

oho ana tōku ngākau i roto i ahau;

e kore ahau e whakarongo puku;

kua rongo hoki koe, e tōku wairua,

ki te tangi o te tētere,

ki te hāmama o te whawhai.

20 He ngaromanga hono iho ki te ngaromanga te karangatia nei;

kua pāhuatia katoatia hoki te whenua;

kitea rawatia ake kua pāhuatia ōku tēneti,

mea kau iho ko ōku kākahu ārai.

21 Kia pēhea ake te roa ōku ka titiro nei ki te kara,

ka rongo nei ki te tangi o te tētere?

22 "He wairangi hoki tāku iwi,

kāhore e mōhio ki ahau.

He tamariki kūware,

kāhore ō rātou mātauranga;

e mōhio ana rātou ki te mahi kino,

ki te mahi pai ia kāhore he mātauranga."

23 I titiro ahau ki te whenua,

nā, kāhore he āhua, e takoto kau ana,

ki ngā rangi anō,

nā, kāhore ō reira mārama.

24 I titiro ahau ki ngā maunga, nā, e ngāueue ana,

ā, ko ngā pukepuke katoa e nekeneke haere ana.

25 I titiro ahau, ā, kāhore he tangata,

ā, ko ngā manu katoa o te rangi kua rere atu.

26 I titiro ahau, nā, he koraha kau te māra mōmona,

kua pakaru ōna pā katoa

i te aroaro o Ihowā, i te muranga o tōna riri.

27 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā:

"Ka ururua katoa te whenua,

otiia e kore e whakapaua rawatia e ahau.

28 Mō konei ka tangi te whenua,

ka mangu anō te rangi i runga;

nō te mea kua kōrero nei ahau, kua takoto tōku whakaaro,

ā, kāhore anō i puta kē tāku, e kore hoki ahau e tahuri atu i tēnā."

29 Ka whati katoa te pā i te ngangau o ngā hōia eke hōiho, o ngā kaikōpere;

ka haere rātou ki roto ki ngā urupuia rākau,

ka piki ki ngā kāmaka;

ka mahue katoa ngā pā,

kāhore hoki tētahi tangata e noho ki roto.

30 Ā, ko koe, kia oti koe te pāhua, ka pēhea koe?

Ahakoa kākahu noa koe i te ngangana,

ahakoa whakapaipai noa koe i a koe ki ngā whakapaipai kōura.

Ahakoa haehae noa koe i ōu kanohi,

mea rawa ki te pukepoto,

maumau mea noa koe i a koe kia ātaahua.

Ka whakahāwea ki a koe te hunga i aroha ki a koe,

ka whai kia mate koe.

31 Kua rongo hoki ahau i te reo, me te mea nō te wahine e whānau ana,

he mamae, me te mea ko tāna mātāmua e puta ana,

ko te reo o te tamāhine a Hiona e whakahotuhotu ana,

whewhera tonu ōna ringa, me te karanga,

"Auē te mate i ahau!

Kua hemo hoki tōku wairua i mua i ngā kaiwhakamate!"