Jeremias 9

1 Oh that my head were waters,

and my eyes a spring of tears,

that I might weep day and night

for the slain of the daughter of my people!

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness

a lodging place of wayfaring men,

that I might leave my people

and go from them!

For they are all adulterers,

an assembly of treacherous men.

3 "They bend their tongue,

as their bow, for falsehood.

They have grown strong in the land,

but not for truth;

for they proceed from evil to evil,

and they don’t know me," says Yahweh.

4 "Everyone beware of his neighbor,

and don’t trust in any brother;

for every brother will utterly supplant,

and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

5 Friends deceive each other,

and will not speak the truth.

They have taught their tongue to speak lies.

They weary themselves committing iniquity.

6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.

Through deceit, they refuse to know me," says Yahweh.

7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,

"Behold, I will melt them and test them;

for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow.

It speaks deceit.

One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth,

but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh.

"Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?

10 I will weep and wail for the mountains,

and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,

because they are burned up, so that no one passes through;

Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock.

Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.

They are gone.

11 "I will make Jerusalem heaps,

a dwelling place of jackals.

I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,

without inhabitant."

12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

13 Yahweh says, "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them." 15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."

17 Yahweh of Armies says,

"Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come.

Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

18 Let them make haste

and take up a wailing for us,

that our eyes may run down with tears

and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,

‘How we are ruined!

We are greatly confounded

because we have forsaken the land,

because they have cast down our dwellings.’"

20 Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.

Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.

Teach your daughters wailing.

Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

21 For death has come up into our windows.

It has entered into our palaces

to cut off the children from outside,

and the young men from the streets.

22 Speak, "Yahweh says,

"‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,

and as the handful after the harvester.

No one will gather them.’"

23 Yahweh says,

"Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.

Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.

Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

24 But let him who glories glory in this,

that he has understanding, and knows me,

that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,

for I delight in these things," says Yahweh.

25 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."

1 Auē, me he wai tōku māhunga,

me he puna roimata ōku kanohi,

kia tangihia ai e ahau

ngā tūpāpaku o te tamāhine

a tāku iwi i te ao, i te pō!

2 Auē, me he tīhokahoka tōku,

he mea nā te tira haere i te koraha!

Kia whakarērea ai e ahau tāku iwi,

kia mawehe ai i roto i a rātou,

he hunga pūremu katoa nei hoki rātou,

he huihuinga nō te hunga tinihanga.

3 "Me te mea he kōpere nā rātou ō rātou arero

e whakapikoa ana hei kōrero teka;

kua tupu kaha ake rātou i runga i te whenua,

kāhore ia mō te pono;

engari e koni atu ana i te kino ki te kino,

kāhore hoki ō rātou mōhio ki ahau," e ai tā Ihowā.

4 "Kia tūpato i ō koutou hoa, e tēnei, e tēnei,

kaua e whakawhirinaki ki te tuakana, ki te teina.

Nō te mea he māminga rawa tā ngā tuākana, tā ngā tēina katoa;

kei runga anō i te ngautuarā te haere o ngā hoa katoa.

5 Ka tinihangatia e rātou tōna hoa, tōna hoa,

kāhore hoki he pono o te kōrero;

kua whakaakona e rātou ō rātou arero ki te kōrero teka;

ruha noa rātou i te mahinga i te hē.

6 Kei waenga tinihanga koe e noho ana;

nā te tinihanga rātou te pai ai ki te mōhio ki ahau,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

7 Heoi, ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano:

"Nanā, ka whakarewa ahau i a rātou, ka whakamātau i a rātou;

me pēhea hoki ahau, ko te tamāhine nei ia a tāku iwi?

8 Ko te rite i tō rātou arero kei te kōpere whakamate;

he kōrero tinihanga tāna.

He kōrero pai tā te māngai o tētahi ki tōna hoa,

kei roto ia i tōna ngākau e whanga ana mōna.

9 E kore ianei ahau e whiu i a rātou mō ēnei mea? e ai tā Ihowā;

e kore ianei tōku wairua

e rapu utu i te iwi pēnei?"

10 He whakaaro ki ngā maunga i ara ai tāku tangi,

tāku auē, he whakaaro ki ngā puninga o te koraha tāku uhunga;

nō te mea kua wera, kāhore tētahi tangata e tika nā reira,

kāhore e rangona te reo o ngā kararehe;

ko ngā manu o te rangi, ko ngā kararehe,

pūtere atu ana, kua riro.

11 "Ka meinga hoki e ahau a Hiruhārama hei pūranga,

hei nohoanga kurī mohoao,

ka meinga anō e ahau ngā pā o Hūrā kia ururuatia,

tē ai he tangata."

12 Ko wai te tangata whakaaro nui e mātau ana ki tēnei? I kōrerotia anō ki a wai e te māngai o Ihowā, māna e whakaatu? He aha rā te whenua i whakangaromia ai, i wera ai, ānō ko te koraha, kāhore he tangata e tika ana i reira?

13 Anō rā ko Ihowā: "Mō rātou i whakarere i tāku ture i hoatu e ahau ki tō rātou aroaro, ā, kīhai i whakarongo ki tōku reo, kīhai i haere i taua ara. 14 Nā, haere ana rātou i ngā tikanga mārō o ō rātou ngākau; kei te whai i ngā Paarimi i whakaakona nei e ō rātou mātua ki a rātou." 15 Heoi, ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: "Tēnei ahau te whāngai nei i a rātou, i tēnei iwi, ki te taru kawa, te whakainu nei i a rātou ki te wai kawa. 16 Ka whakamararatia anō rātou e ahau ki roto ki ngā iwi kīhai nei i mōhiotia e rātou, e ō rātou mātua; ka ungā anō e ahau te hoari hei whai i a rātou ā poto noa rātou i ahau."

Ka Karanga atu te Iwi o Hiruhārama kia Āwhinatia

17 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano:

"Whakaaroa e koutou, karangatia hoki ngā wāhine tangi kia haere mai;

unga tāngata ki ngā wāhine whakaaro nui kia haere mai.

18 Kia hohoro anō te ara o tā rātou tangi mō tātou,

kia tārere ai ngā roimata o ō tātou kanohi,

kia maringi iho ai ngā wai o ō tātou kamo.

19 Nō te mea e rangona ana te reo tangi i Hiona:

‘Anō tō tātou pāhuatanga!

Nui atu tō tātou whakamā,

nō te mea kua mahue i a tātou te whenua,

nō te mea kua turakina mai e rātou ō tātou nohoanga.’ "

20 Whakarongo rāia, e ngā wāhine, ki te kupu a Ihowā,

kia riro anō i ō koutou taringa te kupu a tōna māngai.

Whakaakona ā koutou tamāhine ki te tangi,

ngā hoa hoki o tēnei, o tēnei, ki te uhunga.

21 Nō te mea kua tae ake te mate ki roto ki ō tātou matapihi,

kua tomo ki ō tātou whare kīngi,

hautope atu ai i ngā kōhungahunga i waho,

i ngā taitamariki anō hoki i ngā huanui.

22 Kōrero! "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

‘Tērā ngā tinana o ngā tāngata e hinga

ānō he whakawairākau ki te mata o te māra,

ānō he kutanga wīti i muri i te kaitapahi,

ā, kāhore he kaikohi.’ "

23 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Kaua te tangata whakaaro nui e whakamanamana ki tōna whakaaro nui,

kaua hoki te mārohirohi e whakamanamana ki tōna mārohirohi;

kaua te tangata taonga e whakamanamana ki ōna taonga;

24 engari, ko tēnei hei whakamanamananga mā te tangata whakamanamana,

arā kua whai whakaaro ia, kua mōhio ki ahau,

ko Ihowā ahau, ko te kaimahi o te mahi tohu, o te whakawā,

o te tika i runga i te whenua;

ko āku hoki ēnei e whakaahuareka ai,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

25 "Nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā," e ai tā Ihowā, "e whiua ai e ahau te hunga katoa i kotia i roto i tō rātou kotingakore: 26 ko Īhipa, ko Hūrā, ko Ēroma, ko ngā tama a Āmona, ko Moapa, ko te hunga katoa e noho ana i te koraha, e whakaihoa nei ngā tapa o ō rātou makawe. He mea kokotikore hoki ngā iwi katoa; ko te whare katoa anō o Īharaira, he mea kokotikore te ngākau."