Jeremias 6

1 "Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction. 2 I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion. 3 Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place."

4 "Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces." 6 For Yahweh of Armies said, "Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself. 7 As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me. 8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."

9 Yahweh of Armies says, "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets."

10 To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in.

"Pour it out on the children in the street,

and on the assembly of young men together;

for even the husband with the wife will be taken,

the aged with him who is full of days.

12 Their houses will be turned to others,

their fields and their wives together;

for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh."

13 "For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness.

From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

14 They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially,

saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?

No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.

Therefore they will fall among those who fall.

When I visit them, they will be cast down," says Yahweh.

16 Yahweh says, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ 18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. 20 To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me."

21 Therefore Yahweh says, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish." 22 Yahweh says, "Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

24 We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor. 25 Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side. 26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

27 "I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. 29 The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."

Te Putanga me te Wiwini o te Whakaekenga

1 "Putere atu, e ngā tama a Pineamine,

i roto i Hiruhārama!

Whakatangihia te tētere ki Tekoa,

kōkiritia ake he ahi tohu ki Petehakereme.

He kino hoki te titiro mai nei i te raki,

he whakangaromanga nui.

2 Ka tapahia atu e ahau te wahine ātaahua,

te wahine whakatarapī, te tamāhine a Hiona.

3 Ka haere mai ngā hēpara, me ā rātou kāhui ki a ia;

ka whakatūria ō rātou tēneti ki tētahi taha ōna, ki tētahi taha;

ka kai rātou ki tōna wāhi, ki tōna wāhi.

4 "Kia rite ngā mea mō te whawhai ki a ia;

whakatika, kia whakaekea i te poutūmārōtanga.

Auē te mate mō tātou! Kua tāwharara hoki te rā,

kua whakawairua kau anō ngā ātārangi o te ahiahi.

5 Maranga, kia whakaekea e tātou te pō,

kia wāwāhia anō ōna whare kīngi."

6 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano:

"Tuaina he rākau,

haupūria ake he pukepuke hei whawhai ki Hiruhārama.

Ko te pā tēnei e whiua;

he tūkino kau tāna i roto i a ia.

7 Rite tonu ki te pukenga ake o te wai

o te puna te pukenga ake o tōna kino.

He tūkino, he pāhua te rangona ana i roto i a ia;

kei tōku aroaro tonu te mamae me te patunga.

8 E ako, e Hiruhārama,

kei puta kē tōku ngākau ki a koe,

kei meinga koe e ahau kia ururuatia,

he whenua kāhore e nohoia."

9 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano:

"Ka āta hamua mārietia ngā toenga o Īharaira,

ānō he wāina;

kia rite tāu ki tā te kaikohi karepe,

whakahokia iho tōu ringa ki roto ki ngā kete."

10 Ki a wai rā tāku kōrero, tāku whakaatu tikanga,

e rongo ai rātou?

Nanā, he mea kokotikore tō rātou taringa,

tē whakarongo ai rātou.

Nanā, hei tāwainga mā rātou te kupu a Ihowā,

kāhore e arongia e rātou.

11 Nā, kī tonu ahau i te riri o Ihowā;

ruha iho ahau i te koromaki.

"Ringihia ki runga ki te kōhungahunga i te ara,

ki te whakaminenga anō o ngā taitamariki, hui katoa;

nō te mea ka hopukia te tāne rāua ko te wahine,

te koroheke rāua ko te tangata kua maha ōna rā.

12 Ka riro kē ō rātou whare i ētahi atu,

ngā māra ngātahi anō ko ngā wāhine;

nō te mea ka totoro tōku ringa

ki ngā tāngata o te whenua,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

13 "Ko te mea iti ō rātou, ko te mea nui hoki

kei runga i te apo;

ko te poropiti, ko te tohunga,

rātou katoa kei te mahi teka.

14 Ko tā rātou rongoātanga hoki

i te mamae o tāku iwi he hanga noa iho;

e kī ana, ‘Ka mau te rongo, ka mau te rongo’;

i te mea kāhore nei he maunga rongo.

15 I whakamā rānei rātou i a rātou e mahi ana i ngā mea whakarihariha?

Hore rawa ō rātou whakamā,

kāhore hoki i mōhio ki te numinumi.

Mō reira ka hinga rātou i roto i te hunga e hinga ana;

i te wā e whiu ai ahau i a rātou,

ka whakatakā rātou,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

16 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"E tū ki ngā ara, tirohia atu,

uia ngā ara tawhito kei hea te ara pai,

ka haere i reira, ā, ka kite koutou

i te tānga manawa mō ō koutou wairua.

Heoi, e kī mai ana rātou, ‘E kore mātou e haere i reira.’

17 I whakatūria anō e ahau ētahi kaitūtei mō koutou, i mea ahau,

‘Whakarongo ki te tangi o te tētere.’

Heoi, e kī ana rātou, ‘E kore mātou e whakarongo.’

18 Mō reira, whakarongo, e ngā iwi,

kia mōhio anō koe, e te huihui,

ki ngā mea kei roto i a rātou.

19 Whakarongo, e te whenua;

tēnei ahau te kawe mai nei i te kino mō tēnei iwi,

i ngā hua o ō rātou whakaaro;

mō rātou kīhai i whakarongo ki āku kōrero;

ko tāku ture, paopaongia ake e rātou.

20 Hei aha te whakakakara i tae mai ai ki ahau i Hēpā,

te kākaho kakara i te whenua tawhiti?

E kore ā koutou tahunga tinana e arongia,

e kore anō ā koutou patunga tapu e reka ki ahau.

21 Mō reira ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

Tēnei ahau te whakatakoto nei

i ngā tūtukitanga waewae ki mua i tēnei iwi,

e tūtuki ngātahi ai ngā mātua, ngā tamariki;

ka ngaro te tangata noho tata rāua ko tōna hoa."

22 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Tēnei te haere mai nei he iwi i te whenua ki te raki,

ka whakaarahia mai anō he iwi nui i ngā pito o te whenua.

23 Ka mau rātou ki te kōpere, ki te tao;

he nanakia rātou, e kore hoki e tohu tāngata.

Ko tō rātou reo, ānō kei te moana e haruru ana,

ā, eke ai rātou i runga i te hōiho;

rārangi rawa rātou, me te mea he tāngata e mea ana

ki te whawhai ki a koe, e te tamāhine a Hiona."

24 Kua rongo mātou ki tōna rongo;

ngoikore iho ō mātou ringa.

Mau pū mātou i te pāwera, i te mamae,

me te mea he wahine e whānau ana.

25 Kei puta atu ki te māra,

kaua hoki e haere i te ara;

kei reira hoki te hoari a te hoariri,

ā, kei ngā taha katoa te wehi.

26 E te tamāhine a tāku iwi, whītikiria te kākahu taratara,

ka takaoriori ki te pungarehu,

hei te tangi ki te huatahi tāu tangi ki a koe,

kia tīwerawera te tangi;

nō te mea kīhai i aha kua tae mai

te kaipāhua ki a tātou.

27 "Kua oti koe te mea e ahau hei pourewa,

hei pā kaha, i roto i tōku iwi;

kia mōhio ai koe,

kia whakamātau ai i tō rātou ara.

28 He tino nui tō rātou tutū,

ā, ko tā rātou i a rātou e hāereere ana he ngau tuarā.

He parāhi rātou, he rino;

he hunga whakangau kē rātou katoa.

29 Kei te kakā te hau o te pupuhi ahi;

kua pau te matā i te ahi,

maumau whakarewa noa te kaitahi para;

kāhore nei hoki te hunga kino kia unuhia atu.

30 E huaina rātou e te tangata he hiriwa i paopaongia,

nō te mea kua paopao nei a Ihowā ki a rātou."