Jeremias 44

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 2 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them, 3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, "Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate." 5 But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods. 6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’

7 "Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining, 8 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

11 "Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. 12 I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach. 13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’"

15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 "As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine."

19 The women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of the sky and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?"

20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying, 21 "The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind? 22 Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today. 23 Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today."

24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, "Hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt! 25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, "We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her."

"‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’

26 "Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "As the Lord Yahweh lives." 27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone. 28 Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

29 "‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’ 30 Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.’"

Tā Ihowā Pānui ki ngā Hūrai kei Īhipa e Noho ana

1 Ko te kupu i puta mai ki a Heremaia mō ngā Hūrai katoa e noho ana i te whenua o Īhipa, e noho ana i Mikitoro, i Tahapanehe, i Nopo, i te whenua hoki o Pātoro, i mea ia: 2 "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: Kua kite koutou i te kino katoa i tākina mai nei e ahau ki runga ki Hiruhārama, ki ngā pā katoa hoki o Hūrā. Nā, i tēnei rā he ururua rātou; kāhore hoki he tangata e noho ana i reira, 3 mō tā rātou kino i mahia e rātou hei whakapātaritari i ahau, i tō rātou haerenga ki te tahu whakakakara, ā, ki te mahi ki ngā atua kē, kīhai nei rātou i mōhio, rātou, koutou rānei, ō koutou mātua rānei. 4 He ahakoa rā, i ungā atu e ahau āku pononga katoa, ngā poropiti, ki a koutou, maranga wawe ana ahau ki te unga i a rātou; i mea ahau, ‘Kaua rā e mahia tēnei mea whakarihariha e kino nei ahau.’ 5 Otiia, kīhai rātou i rongo, kīhai hoki i tahuri mai ō rātou taringa, kīhai i hoki mai i tō rātou kino, arā i te tahu whakakakara ki ngā atua kē. 6 Koia i ringihia atu ai tōku weriweri, tōku riri, ngiha tonu ki ngā pā o Hūrā, ki ngā ara hoki o Hiruhārama; nā, he ururua rātou, he tūhea, koia anō tēnei ināianei.

7 "Mō reira ko te kupu tēnei ināianei a Ihowā, a te Atua o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: He aha koutou i mahi ai i tēnei kino nui mō ō koutou wairua, ka hātepe atu i a koutou, i ngā tāne, i ngā wāhine, i te kōhungahunga, i te mea ngote ū, i roto i a Hūrā, ā, kore iho he toenga o koutou e mahue? 8 I a koutou i whakapātaritari nā i ahau ki ngā mahi a ō koutou ringa, i a koutou ka tahu whakakakara nei ki ngā atua kē i te whenua o Īhipa, kua haere atu nā koutou ki reira noho ai, e hātepea atu ai koutou, e waiho ai koutou hei kanga, hei ingoa kino roto i ngā iwi katoa o te whenua. 9 Kua wareware rānei koutou ki te kino o ō koutou mātua, ki te kino o ngā kīngi o Hūrā, ki te kino hoki o ā rātou wāhine, ki ō koutou nā kino, ki te kino hoki o ā koutou wāhine i mahia nei e rātou ki te whenua o Hūrā, ki ngā ara hoki o Hiruhārama? 10 Taea noatia tēnei rā kāhore anō rātou i whakaiti i a rātou, kāhore anō i wehi, kāhore i haere i runga i tāku ture, i runga i āku tikanga i hoatu e ahau ki tō koutou aroaro, ki te aroaro hoki o ō koutou mātua.

11 "Mō reira ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: Nanā, ka anga kē atu tōku mata i a koutou mō te kino, he hātepe i a Hūrā katoa. 12 Nā, ka mau ahau ki ngā mōrehu o Hūrā, kua mārō nei ō rātou mata ki te haere ki te whenua o Īhipa, ki reira noho ai, ā, ka poto rātou katoa; ka hinga rātou ki te whenua o Īhipa; ka pau rātou i te hoari, i te hemokai. Ka mate rātou, mai i te iti ki te rahi, i te hoari, i te hemokai; ā, ka waiho rātou hei kanga, hei mīharotanga, hei kohukohutanga, hei ingoa kino. 13 Nō te mea ka whiua e ahau te hunga e noho ana i te whenua o Īhipa, ka rite ki tāku whiunga i Hiruhārama ki te hoari, ki te hemokai, ki te mate urutā. 14 Nā, ka kore tētahi o ngā mōrehu o Hūrā i haere nei ki te whenua o Īhipa noho ai e mawhiti, e toe, hei hoki ki te whenua o Hūrā, ki te wāhi e hiahia nei rātou kia hoki ki reira noho ai. Nā, e kore tētahi e hoki, ko te hunga anake e mawhiti atu."

15 Nā, kātahi ngā tāngata katoa i mōhio kua tahu whakakakara ā rātou wāhine ki ngā atua kē, ngā wāhine katoa hoki e tū mai ana, he nui te huihui, me te iwi katoa hoki e noho ana i te whenua o Īhipa, i Pātoro, ka whakahoki ki a Heremaia, ka mea, 16 "Nā, mō te kupu kua kōrerotia nei e koe ki a mātou i runga i te ingoa o Ihowā, e kore mātou e rongo ki a koe. 17 Engari, ka tino mahi mātou i ngā mea katoa i puaki i ō mātou māngai, ka tahu whakakakara ki te kuīni o te rangi, ka riringi anō i ngā ringihanga ki a ia, ka pērā me tā mātou, me tā ō mātou mātua, me tā ō mātou kīngi, me tā ō mātou rangatira i ngā pā o Hūrā, i ngā ara o Hiruhārama. I mākona hoki mātou i reira i te kai, i pai hoki mātou, ā, kīhai i kite i te hē. 18 Otiia, nō te mutunga o tā mātou tahu whakakakara ki te kuīni o te rangi, o tā mātou ringihanga i ngā ringihanga ki a ia, kua kore ngā mea katoa i a mātou, ā poto iho mātou i te hoari, i te hemokai.

19 "Ā, i a mātou i tahu whakakakara ai ki te kuīni o te rangi, i riringi ai hoki i ngā ringihanga ki a ia, e ngaro ana rānei ā mātou tāne i a mātou e hanga ana i ngā keke māna, hei karakia ki a ia, i a mātou hoki i riringi ai i ngā ringihanga māna?"

20 Kātahi a Heremaia ka kōrero ki te iwi katoa, ki ngā tāne, ki ngā wāhine, ki te iwi katoa anō nāna taua kupu whakautu ki a ia, ka mea, 21 "Ko te whakakakara i tahuna rā e koutou ki ngā pā o Hūrā, ki ngā ara hoki o Hiruhārama, e koutou, e ō koutou mātua, e ō koutou kīngi, e ō koutou rangatira, e te iwi hoki o te whenua, kīhai ianei ēnā mea i maharatia e Ihowā, kīhai ianei i puta ake ki tōna ngākau? 22 Ā, tē āhei a Ihowā te whakamanawanui tonu i te kino o ā koutou hanga, i ngā mea whakarihariha i mahia e koutou; heoi kua ururua tō koutou whenua, kua waiho hei mīharotanga, hei kohukohutanga, tē ai he tangata hei noho, koia anō tēnei ināianei. 23 Nō te mea kua tahu koutou i te whakakakara, kua hara hoki ki a Ihowā, ā, kīhai i rongo ki te reo o Ihowā, kīhai hoki i haere i runga i tāna ture, i runga i āna tikanga, i runga i āna whakaatu; mō reira i tūtaki ai tēnei hē ki a koutou, koia anō tēnei ināianei."

24 I mea atu anō a Heremaia ki te iwi katoa, ki ngā wāhine katoa hoki, "Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā, e Hūrā katoa i te whenua o Īhipa nei. 25 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira; e kī ana ia: Ko koutou, me ā koutou wāhine, kua kōrero ō koutou māngai, kua rite anō i ō koutou ringa te kupu, ‘Ka mahia mārietia e mātou ā mātou kupu taurangi i kōrerotia e mātou, kia tahu whakakakara ki te kuīni o te rangi, kia riringi i ngā ringihanga ki a ia.’

"Tēnā whakaūngia ā koutou kupu taurangi, mahia hoki ā koutou kupu taurangi. 26 Mō reira whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā, e Hūrā katoa e noho nei i te whenua o Īhipa: ‘Nanā, kua oatitia e ahau tōku ingoa nui,’ e ai tā Ihowā, ‘e kore tōku ingoa e whakahuatia ā muri ake nei e te māngai o tētahi tangata o Hūrā i te whenua katoa o Īhipa, e kore e kīia, "E ora ana te Ariki, a Ihowā." 27 Nanā, kei te tirotiro ahau i a rātou mō te kino, ehara i te mea hei pai; ā, ko ngā tāngata katoa o Hūrā i te whenua o Īhipa, ka poto i te hoari, i te hemokai hoki, ā mōtī noa rātou. 28 Ā, ko ngā mōrehu i te hoari, ka hoki atu i te whenua o Īhipa ki te whenua o Hūrā, he hunga torutoru; ā, ka mōhio ngā mōrehu katoa o Hūrā i haere nei ki te whenua o Īhipa noho ai, ko tā wai kupu e tū, ko tāku rānei, ko tā rātou rānei.

29 " ‘Ā, ko te tohu tēnei ki a koutou,’ e ai tā Ihowā, ‘ka whiua koutou e ahau ki tēnei wāhi, kia mōhio ai koutou ka mau tonu āku kupu ki te kino mō koutou.’ 30 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: ‘Nanā, ka hoatu e ahau a Parao Hopara kīngi o Īhipa ki te ringa o ōna hoariri, ki te ringa hoki o te hunga e whai ana kia whakamatea ia; ka rite anō ki tāku hoatutanga i a Terekia kīngi o Hūrā ki te ringa o Nepukareha kīngi o Papurōna, o tōna hoariri i whai nei kia whakamatea ia.’ "