Jeremias 5

1 "Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her. 2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely."

3 O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God. 5 I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

7 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. 9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says Yahweh.

12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, "It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine. 13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them."

14 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, "Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. 15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say. 16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men. 17 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.

18 "But even in those days," says Yahweh, "I will not make a full end of you. 19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

20 "Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear: 22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

23 "But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. 24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

25 "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. 26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich. 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

29 "Shouldn’t I punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 "An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Te Tino Piraunga o te Iwi a Ihowā

1 "E oma, kōpikopiko koutou i ngā ara o Hiruhārama,

tirohia kia mōhio ai koutou.

Rapua i ngā waharoa o reira,

me kāhore e kite i tētahi tangata, mehemea tērā he tangata

e whakarite pai ana, e rapu ana i te pono;

ā, ka murua e ahau ngā hē o reira.

2 Nā, ahakoa mea noa rātou, ‘Kei te ora a Ihowā,’

he pono he oati teka tā rātou."

3 He teka ianei, e Ihowā, kei runga ōu kanohi i te pono?

I whiua rātou e koe, heoi kīhai i pōuri;

mōtī iho rātou i a koe,

heoi kāhore i pai kia anga mai ki te ako.

Kua meinga e rātou ō rātou mata kia mārō atu i te kōhatu,

kua kore e pai ki te hoki mai.

4 Koia ahau i mea ai, "He pono he rawakore ēnei,

he kūware,

kāhore hoki rātou e mōhio ki te ara a Ihowā,

ki te whakarite a tō rātou Atua.

5 Ka haere ahau ki ngā tāngata rarahi,

ka kōrero ki a rātou;

e mōhio ana hoki rātou ki te ara a Ihowā,

ki te whakarite a tō rātou Atua."

Heoi, ko ēnei, kotahi tonu rātou tahi nāna i wāwāhi te ioka,

i motumotu hoki ngā here.

6 "Mō reira ka whakamatea rātou e te raiona i roto i te ngahere,

ka pāhuatia e te wuruhi o ngā ahiahi,

ka tūteia ō rātou pā e te reparo,

ko te hunga katoa e puta mai ki waho ka haehaea;

he maha hoki ō rātou pokanga kētanga,

nui haere ō rātou tahuritanga kētanga.

7 "Me pēhea e murua ai e ahau tēnei hē ōu?

Kua whakarere nei āu tama i ahau,

oatitia ana e rātou ngā mea ehara nei i te atua.

I tō rātou mākonatanga i tāku kai,

nā, kei te pūremu,

rōpū tonu rātou i roto i ngā whare o ngā wāhine kairau.

8 Ko tō rātou rite kei te hōiho whāngai i te ata;

e tangi ana ki te wahine a tōna hoa, a tōna hoa.

9 E kore ianei ahau e whiu mō ēnei mea?"

e ai tā Ihowā;

"e kore ianei tōku wairua e rapu utu

i te iwi pēnei?

10 "Haere koutou ki runga ki ōna taiepa wāwāhi ai;

otiia kaua e whakapaua rawatia;

whakakāhoretia ōna pekerangi;

ehara hoki ēnā i a Ihowā.

11 He nui hoki te tinihanga o te whare o Īharaira

rāua ko te whare o Hūrā ki ahau,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

12 Kua whakakāhore rātou ki tā Ihowā,

kua mea, "Ehara i a ia.

E kore hoki te hē e tae mai ki a tātou;

e kore anō tātou e kite i te hoari, i te hemokai.

13 Ko ngā poropiti he hau kau,

kāhore hoki he kupu i a rātou;

ko ēnei mea ka pā ki a rātou."

14 Nā reira tēnei kupu a Ihowā, a te Atua o ngā mano:

"Mō tā koutou kōrerotanga i tēnā kupu,

tēnei ahau te mea nei i āku kupu i roto i tōu māngai hei ahi,

ko tēnei iwi hoki hei rākau, ā, ka pau rātou.

15 Tēnei ahau te kawe nei

i tētahi iwi o tawhiti ki a koutou, e te whare o Īharaira,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

"He iwi kaha, he iwi nōnamata riro,

he iwi kāhore nei koe e mōhio ki tōna reo,

kāhore anō hoki e mārama ki tāna e kōrero ai.

16 Ko tāna papa pere he urupā tuwhera,

he tāngata mārohirohi katoa rātou.

17 Ā, ka pau i a rātou āu hua e kotia ana, me tāu taro,

ngā kai hei kainga mā āu tama, mā āu tamāhine;

ka pau i a rātou āu hipi me āu kau;

ka pau i a rātou āu wāina me āu piki;

ka hautopea iho ki te hoari ōu pā taiepa,

āu i whakawhirinaki ai.

18 "Ahakoa i aua rā anō," e ai tā Ihowā, "e kore e whakapaua rawatia tāku ki a koutou. 19 Nā, ki te kī mai koutou ā mua, ‘He aha a Ihowā, tō tātou Atua i mea ai i ēnei mea katoa ki a tātou?’ Ko reira koe kī atu ai ki a rātou, ‘Ka pēnā i a koutou kua whakarere nā i ahau, kua mahi nā ki ngā atua kē i tō koutou whenua, waihoki ka mahi koutou ki ngā tāngata kē i te whenua ehara nei i a koutou.’

20 Whakaaturia tēnei i roto i te whare o Hākopa,

kia rangona anō i roto i a Hūrā; mea atu:

21 Tēnā, whakarongo ki tēnei, e te iwi wairangi kāhore nei he ngākau,

he kanohi nei ō rātou, heoi kāhore e kite,

he taringa ō rātou, ā, kāhore e rongo.

22 Kāhore rānei ō koutou wehi ki ahau? e ai tā Ihowā.

E kore ianei koutou e hopohopo ki tōku aroaro?

Nāku nei hoki i mea te onepū hei rohe ki te moana,

he tikanga mau tonu, e kore anō e koni mai.

Ahakoa ngana noa ōna ngaru, e kore e taea tā rātou;

hāmama noa, e kore anō e koni mai.

23 Ko tēnei iwi ia, he tutū, he whakakeke ō rātou ngākau;

kua peka kē atu rātou, kua riro.

24 Kāhore hoki ā rātou kīanga ake i roto i ō rātou ngākau,

‘Tēnā, kia wehi tātou ki a Ihowā, ki tō tātou Atua,

ko ia nei te kaihōmai i te ua;

i tō mua, i tō muri, i te wā e tika ai;

nāna nei i mau ai

ki a tātou ngā wiki i whakaritea mō te kotinga.’

25 Nā ō koutou hē ēnei i puta kē ai,

ko ō koutou hara anō hei kaiponu atu i te pai i a koutou.

26 "E kitea ana hoki he hunga kino i roto i tāku iwi;

titiro matatau mai ana rātou,

me te mea he kaihopu manu e kūpapa ana;

kei te whakatakoto māhanga rātou, kei te hopu tāngata.

27 Kei te whare manu e kī ana i ngā manu

te rite o ō rātou whare e kī tonu nei i te tinihanga;

nā reira rātou i nui ai, i whai taonga ai,

28 tetere tonu rātou, tōwahiwahi ana.

Kua neke rawa ake tā rātou i ngā mahi a te hunga kino;

ko te whakawā, ko te whakawā a te pani,

kāhore i whakaritea e rātou, heoi kake tonu rātou;

kāhore hoki e whakatikaia e rātou te whakawā a ngā rawakore.

29 E kore rānei ahau e whai mahara ki ēnei mea?"

e ai tā Ihowā.

"E kore rānei tōku wairua

e rapu utu i te iwi pēnei?

30 "Whakamīharo rawa, whakawehi rawa

te mea e meatia ana ki te whenua:

31 e poropiti teka ana ngā poropiti;

ā, e whakahaere ana ngā tohunga, ko tā rātou te tikanga;

ā, pai tonu tāku iwi ki te pēnā.

Nā, ka pēhea rā koutou i tōna tukunga iho?"