예레미야 15

1여호와께서 내게 이르시되 모세와 사무엘이 내 앞에 섰다 할지라도 내 마음은 이 백성을 향할 수 없나니 그들을 내 앞에서 쫓아내치라 2그들이 만일 네게 말하기를 우리가 어디로 나아가리요 하거든 너는 그들에게 이르기를 여호와의 말씀에 사망할 자는 사망으로 나아가고 칼을 받을 자는 칼로 나아가고 기근을 당할 자는 기근으로 나아가고 포로 될 자는 포로 됨으로 나아갈지니라 하셨다 하라 3나 여호와가 말하노라 내가 그들을 네 가지로 벌하리니 곧 죽이는 칼과 찢는 개와 삼켜 멸하는 공중의 새와 땅의 짐승으로 할 것이며 4유다 왕 히스기야의 아들 므낫세가 예루살렘에 행한 바를 인하여 내가 그들을 세계 열방 중에 흩으리라 5예루살렘아 너를 불쌍히 여길 자 누구며 너를 곡할 자 누구며 돌이켜 네 평안을 물을 자 누구뇨 6여호와께서 가라사대 네가 나를 버렸고 내게서 물러갔으므로 네게로 내 손을 펴서 너를 멸하였노니 이는 내가 뜻을 돌이키기에 염증이 났음이로다 7내가 그들을 그 땅의 여러 성문에서 키로 까불러 그 자식을 끊어서 내 백성을 멸하였나니 이는 그들이 그 길에서 돌이키지 아니하였음이라 8그들의 과부가 내 앞에 바다 모래보다 더 많아졌느니라 내가 대낮에 훼멸할 자를 그들에게로 데려다가 그들과 청년들의 어미를 쳐서 놀람과 두려움을 그들에게 졸지에 임하게 하였으며 9일곱 자식을 생산한 여인으로는 쇠약하여 기절하게 하며 오히려 백주에 그의 해로 떨어져서 그로 수치와 근심을 당케 하였느니라 그 남은 자는 그 대적의 칼에 붙이리라 여호와의 말이니라 10내게 재앙이로다 나의 모친이여 모친이 나를 온 세계에게 다툼과 침을 당할 자로 낳으셨도다 내가 뀌어 주지도 아니하였고 사람이 내게 뀌이지도 아니하였건마는 다 나를 저주하는도다 11여호와께서 가라사대 내가 진실로 너를 강하게 할 것이요 너로 복을 얻게 할 것이며 내가 진실로 네 대적으로 재앙과 환난의 때에 간구하게 하리라 12누가 능히 철 곧 북방의 철과 놋을 꺾으리요 13그러나 네 모든 죄로 인하여 네 사경의 모든 재산과 보물로 값 없이 탈취를 당하게 할 것이며 14너로 네 대적과 함께 네가 알지 못하는 땅에 이르게 하리니 이는 나의 진노의 맹렬한 불이 너희를 사르려 함이니라 15여호와여 주께서 아시오니 원컨대 주는 나를 기억하시며 권고하사 나를 박해하는 자에게 보복하시고 주의 오래 참으심을 인하여 나로 멸망치 말게 하옵시며 주를 위하여 내가 치욕 당하는 줄을 아시옵소서 16만군의 하나님 여호와시여 나는 주의 이름으로 일컬음을 받는 자라 내가 주의 말씀을 얻어 먹었사오니 주의 말씀은 내게 기쁨과 내 마음의 즐거움이오나 17내가 기뻐하는 자의 회에 앉지 아니하며 즐거워하지도 아니하고 주의 손을 인하여 홀로 앉았사오니 이는 주께서 분노로 내게 채우셨음이니이다 18나의 고통이 계속하며 상처가 중하여 낫지 아니함은 어찜이니이까 주께서는 내게 대하여 물이 말라서 속이는 시내 같으시리이까 19여호와께서 이같이 말씀하시되 네가 만일 돌아오면 내가 너를 다시 이끌어서 내 앞에 세울 것이며 네가 만일 천한 것에서 귀한 것을 취할 것 같으면 너는 내 입 같이 될 것이라 그들은 네게로 돌아오려니와 너는 그들에게로 돌아가지 말지니라 20내가 너로 이 백성 앞에 견고한 놋 성벽이 되게 하리니 그들이 너를 칠지라도 이기지 못할 것은 내가 너와 함께 하여 너를 구하여 건짐이니라 여호와의 말이니라 21내가 너를 악한 자의 손에서 건지며 무서운 자의 손에서 구속하리라

1Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go out. 2It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go out? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity. 3I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. 4I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 5For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? 6You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. 7I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn’t return from their ways. 8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. 9She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and their residue will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. 10Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me. 11Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? 13Your substance and your treasures will I give for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. 14I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you. 15Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; you are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. 16Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies. 17I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. 18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? 19Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them. 20I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh. 21I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

1Maar de HEERE zeide tot mij: Al stond Mozes en Samuel voor Mijn aangezicht, zo zou toch Mijn ziel tot dit volk niet wezen; drijf ze weg van Mijn aangezicht, en laat ze uitgaan. 2En het zal geschieden, wanneer zij tot u zullen zeggen: Waarhenen zullen wij uitgaan? dat gij tot hen zult zeggen: Zo zegt de HEERE: Wie ten dood, ten dode; en wie tot het zwaard, ten zwaarde, en wie tot den honger, ten honger; en wie ter gevangenis, ter gevangenis! 3Want Ik zal bezoeking over hen doen met vier geslachten, spreekt de HEERE: met het zwaard, om te doden; en met de honden, om te slepen; en met het gevogelte des hemels, en met het gedierte der aarde, om op te eten en te verderven. 4En Ik zal hen overgeven tot een beroering aan alle koninkrijken der aarde, vanwege Manasse, zoon van Jehizkia, koning van Juda, om hetgeen hij te Jeruzalem gedaan heeft. 5Want wie zou u verschonen, o Jeruzalem? of wie zou medelijden met u hebben, of wie zou aftreden, om u naar vrede te vragen? 6Gij hebt Mij verlaten, spreekt de HEERE; gij zijt achterwaarts gegaan; daarom zal Ik Mijn hand tegen u uitstrekken en u verderven; Ik ben des berouwens moede geworden. 7En Ik zal hen wannen met een wan, in de poorten des lands; Ik heb Mijn volk van kinderen beroofd en verdaan; zij zijn van hun wegen niet wedergekeerd. 8Hun weduwen zijn Mij meerder geworden dan zand der zeeen; Ik heb hun over de moeder doen komen een jongeling, een verwoester op den middag; Ik heb hem haastelijk hen doen overvallen, de stad met verschrikkingen. 9Zij, die zeven baarde, is zwak geworden; zij heeft haar ziel uitgeblazen, haar zon is ondergegaan, als het nog dag was; zij is beschaamd en schaamrood geworden; en hunlieder overblijfsel zal Ik aan het zwaard overgeven, voor het aangezicht hunner vijanden, spreekt de HEERE. 10Wee mij, mijn moeder, dat gij mij gebaard hebt, een man van twist, en een man van krakeel den gansen lande! Ik heb hun niet op woeker gegeven, ook hebben zij mij niet op woeker gegeven, nog vloekt mij een ieder van hen. 11De HEERE zeide: Zo niet uw overblijfsel ten goede zal zijn; zo Ik niet, in de tijd des kwaads en in tijd der benauwdheid, bij den vijand voor u tussenkome! 12Zal ook enig ijzer het ijzer van het noorden of koper verbreken? 13Ik zal uw vermogen en uw schatten tot een roof geven, zonder prijs; en dat om al uw zonden, en in al uw landpalen. 14En Ik zal u overvoeren met uw vijanden, in een land, dat gij niet kent; want een vuur is aangestoken in Mijn toorn, het zal over u branden. 15O HEERE! Gij weet het, gedenk mijner, en bezoek mij, en wreek mij van mijn vervolgers; neem mij niet weg in Uw lankmoedigheid over hen; weet, dat ik om Uwentwil versmaadheid drage. 16Als Uw woorden gevonden zijn, zo heb ik ze opgegeten, en Uw woord is mij geweest tot vreugde en tot blijdschap mijns harten; want ik ben naar Uw Naam genoemd, o HEERE, God der heirscharen! 17Ik heb in den raad der bespotters niet gezeten, noch ben van vreugde opgesprongen; vanwege Uw hand heb ik alleen gezeten, want Gij hebt mij met gramschap vervuld. 18Waarom is mijn pijn steeds durende, en mijn plage smartelijk? Zij weigert geheeld te worden; zoudt Gij mij ganselijk zijn als een leugenachtige, als wateren, die niet bestendig zijn? 19Daarom zegt de HEERE alzo: Zo gij zult wederkeren, zo zal Ik u doen wederkeren; gij zult voor Mijn aangezicht staan; en zo gij het kostelijke van het snode uittrekt, zult gij als Mijn mond zijn; laat hen tot u wederkeren, maar gij zult tot hen niet wederkeren. 20Want Ik heb u tegen dit volk gesteld tot een koperen vasten muur; zij zullen wel tegen u strijden, maar u niet overmogen; want Ik ben met u, om u te behouden en om u uit te rukken, spreekt de HEERE. 21Ja, Ik zal u rukken uit de hand der bozen, en Ik zal u verlossen uit de handpalm der tirannen.