Jeremias 7

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2 "Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’"

3 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’ 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, 7 then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more. 8 Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations? 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it," says Yahweh.

12 "But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 Now, because you have done all these works," says Yahweh, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer; 14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring*7:15 or, seed of Ephraim.

16 "Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you. 17 Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me to anger?" says Yahweh. "Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"

20 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: "Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched."

21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. 22 For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. 26 Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

27 "You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’ 29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

30 "For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says Yahweh. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind. 32 Therefore behold, the days come", says Yahweh, "that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury. 33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away. 34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste."

Ka Kauwhau a Heremaia i roto i te Temepara

1 Ko te kupu i a Heremaia, he mea nā Ihowā, i kī mai ia: 2 "E tū ki te kūwaha o te whare o Ihowā, ka karanga i tēnei kupu ki reira, ka mea: ‘Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā, e Hūrā katoa e tomo nei ki ēnei kūwaha ki te koropiko ki a Ihowā. 3 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: Whakapaia ō koutou ara me ā koutou mahi, ā, ka meinga e ahau kia noho koutou ki tēnei wāhi. 4 Kei whakawhirinaki ki ngā kupu teka noa, kei kī: "Ko te temepara o Ihowā, ko te temepara o Ihowā, ko te temepara o Ihowā ēnei." 5 Ki te whakapaia rawatia hoki ō koutou ara, me ā koutou mahi; ki te mea ka tika rawa tā koutou whakarite whakawā i waenganui i te tangata rāua ko tōna hoa; 6 ki te kore koutou e tūkino i te manene, i te pani, i te pouaru, ā, kāhore e whakaheke i ngā toto o te harakore ki tēnei wāhi, kāhore hoki e haere, e whai i ngā atua kē hei hē mō koutou; 7 kātahi ahau ka mea i a koutou kia noho ki tēnei wāhi, ki te whenua i hoatu e ahau ki ō koutou mātua inamata ake ake.

8 " ‘Nanā, kei te whakawhirinaki nā koutou ki ngā kupu teka, kāhore nei he pai. 9 E tāhae rānei koutou, e patu tangata, e pūremu? E oati teka rānei? E tahu whakakakara rānei ki a Paara, e whai rānei i ngā atua kē kīhai i mātauria e koutou, 10 ā, ka haere mai, ka tū ki tōku aroaro i tēnei whare kua huaina nei ki tōku ingoa, ka mea, "Kua ora mātou!" – kia mahi ai koutou i ēnei mea whakarihariha katoa? 11 Ki tā koutou titiro kua waiho koia hei ana mō ngā kaipāhua tēnei whare kua huaina nei ki tōku ingoa? Nanā, kua kite ahau, ahau nei anō, e ai tā Ihowā.

12 " ‘Engari, haere rā ki tōku wāhi i Hiro, ki te wāhi i whakanohoia mataatitia ai e ahau tōku ingoa, tirohia tāku mea ai ki reira mō te kino o tāku iwi, o Īharaira. 13 Nā, ināianei, i tā koutou meatanga i ēnei mea katoa, e ai tā Ihowā, i kōrero anō ahau ki a koutou; maranga wawe ana ahau, kōrero ana, heoi kīhai koutou i rongo mai; karanga ana ahau ki a koutou, ā, kīhai i utua tāku. 14 Nā, ko tāku e mea ai ki tēnei whare i huaina nei ki tōku ingoa, ki tā koutou e whakawhirinaki nei, ki te wāhi anō i hoatu nei e ahau ki a koutou, ki ō koutou mātua, ka rite ki tāku i mea ai ki Hiro. 15 Ka ākiritia atu anō koutou e ahau i tōku aroaro, ka pērātia me tāku ākiritanga i ō koutou tēina katoa, i ngā uri katoa o Ēparaima.’ "

Te Whakahoihoi o te Iwi

16 "Heoi, kaua koe e īnoi mō tēnei iwi; kei ara hoki tētahi tangi, tētahi kupu wawao āu mō rātou, kaua hoki ahau e whakamārietia, nō te mea e kore ahau e rongo ki a koe. 17 Kāhore ianei koe i te kite i tā rātou e mea nei i ngā pā o Hūrā, i ngā ara anō o Hiruhārama? 18 Ko ngā tamariki kei te kohikohi wahie, ko ngā mātua kei te whakaū i te ahi, ko ngā wāhine kei te pokepoke i te parāoa hei hanga i ētahi keke, he mea ki te kuīni o te rangi, riringi tonu iho i te ringihanga ki ngā atua kē, hei whakapātaritari i ahau. 19 He whakapātaritari rānei tā rātou ki ahau? e ai tā Ihowā. He teka ianei ki a rātou anō, ā, whakamā iho ō rātou mata?

20 " ‘Nā, ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Nanā, ka ringihia tōku riri, tōku āritarita, ki runga ki tēnei wāhi, ki runga ki te tangata, ki te kararehe, ki te rākau o te māra, ki ngā hua o te oneone; ā, ka ngiha, e kore anō e tineia.

21 " ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: Ko ā koutou tahunga tinana tāpiritia iho ki runga ki ā koutou patunga tapu, kainga hoki he kikokiko. 22 Kāhore hoki āku kōrero ki ō koutou mātua, kāhore āku whakahau ki a rātou i te rā i kawea mai ai rātou e ahau i te whenua o Īhipa, mō ngā tahunga tinana, mō ngā patunga tapu. 23 Engari ko te kupu tēnei i whakahaua e ahau ki a rātou; i kī ahau: Whakarongo ki tōku reo, ā, hei Atua ahau mō koutou, ko koutou hoki hei iwi māku, me haere anō koutou i runga i te ara katoa ka whakahaua nei e ahau ki a koutou, kia whiwhi ai ki te pai. 24 Otiia, kīhai rātou i rongo, kīhai anō tahuri tō rātou taringa; nā, haere ana rātou i runga i ō rātou ake whakaaro, i ngā tikanga pakeke o ō rātou ngākau kino; ko tā rātou he anga ki muri, kīhai hoki i anga ki mua. 25 Nō te rā i haere mai ai ō koutou mātua i te whenua o Īhipa tae mai ki tēnei rā tāku tononga atu i āku pononga katoa, i ngā poropiti, ki a koutou, maranga wawe ana ahau i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, ungā ana rātou e ahau. 26 Heoi, kīhai rātou i rongo ki ahau, kīhai anō i tahuri tō rātou taringa. Nā, whakapakeketia ana e rātou tō rātou kakī; kino iho tā rātou i tā ō rātou mātua.’

27 "Nā, māu e kōrero ēnei kupu katoa ki a rātou, e kore ia rātou e rongo ki a koe; karanga ki a rātou, e kore anō e utua tāu. 28 Ā, me kī atu ki a rātou: Ko te iwi tēnei kīhai nei i rongo ki te reo o Ihowā, o tō rātou Atua, kīhai hoki i pai ki te ako. Kua kore te pono kua tapahia atu i tō rātou māngai. 29 Waruhia ōu makawe, e Hiruhārama, makā atu; anga atu ki te tangi ki runga ki ngā wāhi tiketike; kua paopaongia nei hoki e Ihowā, kua whakarērea te whakatupuranga i riri ai ia.

30 " ‘He kino hoki te mahi a ngā tama a Hūrā ki tāku titiro, e ai tā Ihowā; whakatūria ake e rātou ā rātou mea whakarihariha ki te whare kua huaina nei ki tōku ingoa, whakapokea iho e rātou. 31 Hangā ake e rātou ngā wāhi tiketike o Topete, o tērā i te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, hei tahunga mō ā rātou tama, mō ā rātou tamāhine ki te ahi – he mea kīhai nei i whakahaua e ahau, kīhai anō i puta ake i roto i tōku ngākau. 32 Mō reira, nā, kei te haere mai ngā rā, e ai tā Ihowā, e kore ai e kīia i muri, Ko Topete, Ko te Raorao o te Tama a Hinomo, rānei; engari Ko te Raorao i te Parekura. Ka tanu tāngata hoki rātou ki Topete, ā, kia kore rā anō he wāhi hei tanumanga. 33 Ā, ka waiho ngā tinana o tēnei iwi hei kai mā ngā manu o te rangi, mā ngā kararehe o te whenua; kāhore hoki he kaiwhakawehi atu. 34 Ka whakamutua anō e ahau i roto i ngā pā o Hūrā, i ngā ara anō o Hiruhārama, te reo koa, te reo hari, te reo o te tāne mārena hou, te reo o te wahine mārena hou; nō te mea ka ururuatia te whenua.