예레미야 8

1나 여호와가 말하노라 그 때에 사람들이 유다 왕들의 뼈와 그 방백들의 뼈와 제사장들의 뼈와 선지자들의 뼈와 예루살렘 거민의 뼈를 그 묘실에서 끌어내어 2그들의 사랑하며 섬기며 순종하며 구하며 경배하던 해와 달과 하늘의 뭇 별 아래 쬐리니 그 뼈가 거두이거나 묻히지 못하여 지면에서 분토 같을 것이며 3이 악한 족속의 남아 있는 자, 무릇 내게 쫓겨나서 각처에 남아 있는 자가 사는 것보다 죽는 것을 원하리라 만군의 여호와의 말이니라 4너는 또 그들에게 말하기를 여호와의 말씀에 사람이 엎드러지면 어찌 일어나지 아니하겠으며 사람이 떠나갔으면 어찌 돌아오지 아니하겠느냐 5이 예루살렘 백성이 항상 나를 떠나 물러감은 어찜이뇨 그들이 거짓을 고집하고 돌아오기를 거절하도다 6내가 귀를 기울여 들은즉 그들이 정직을 말하지 아니하며 그 악을 뉘우쳐서 나의 행한 것이 무엇인고 말하는 자가 없고 전장을 향하여 달리는 말 같이 각각 그 길로 행하도다 7공중의 학은 그 정한 시기를 알고 반구와 제비와 두루미는 그 올 때를 지키거늘 내 백성은 여호와의 규례를 알지 못하도다 하셨다 하라 8너희가 어찌 우리는 지혜가 있고 우리에게는 여호와의 율법이 있다 말하겠느뇨 참으로 서기관의 거짓 붓이 거짓되게 하였나니 9지혜롭다 하는 자들은 수욕을 받으며 경황 중에 잡히리라 보라 그들이 나 여호와의 말을 버렸으니 그들에게 무슨 지혜가 있으랴 10그러므로 내가 그들의 아내를 타인에게 주겠고 그들의 전지를 그 차지할 자들에게 주리니 그들은 가장 작은 자로부터 큰 자까지 다 탐남하며 선지자로부터 제사장까지 다 거짓을 행함이라 11그들이 딸 내 백성의 상처를 심상히 고쳐주며 말하기를 평강하다, 평강하다 하나 평강이 없도다 12그들이 가증한 일을 행할 때에 부끄러워하였느냐 아니라 조금도 부끄러워 아니할 뿐 아니라 얼굴도 붉어지지 아니하였느니라 그러므로 그들이 엎드러질 자와 함께 엎드러질 것이라 내가 그들을 벌할 때에 그들이 거꾸러지리라 여호와의 말이니라 13여호와께서 말씀하시되 내가 그들을 진멸하리니 포도나무에 포도가 없을 것이며 무화과 나무에 무화과가 없을 것이며 그 잎사귀가 마를 것이라 내가 그들에게 준 것이 없어지리라 하셨나니 14우리가 어찌 가만히 앉았으랴 모일지어다 우리가 견고한 성읍들로나 들어가서 거기서 멸망하자 우리가 여호와께 범죄하였으므로 우리 하나님 여호와께서 우리를 멸하시며 우리에게 독한 물을 마시우심이니라 15우리가 평강을 바라나 좋은 것이 없으며 고치심을 입을 때를 바라나 놀라움뿐이로다 16그 말의 부르짖음이 단에서부터 들리고 그 준마들의 우는 소리에 온 땅이 진동하며 그들이 이르러 이 땅과 그 소유와 성읍과 그 중의 거민을 삼켰도다 17여호와께서 말씀하시되 내가 술법으로도 제어할 수 없는 뱀과 독사를 너희 중에 보내리니 그것들이 너희를 물리라 하시도다 18슬프다 나의 근심이여 어떻게 위로를 얻을 수 있을까 나의 중심이 번뇌하도다 19딸 내 백성의 심히 먼 땅에서 부르짖는 소리로다 이르기를 여호와께서 시온에 계시지 아니한가 그 왕이 그 중에 계시지 아니한가 그러나 여호와께서는 이르시기를 그들이 어찌하여 그 조각한 신상과 이방의 헛된 것들로 나를 격노케 하였는고 하시니 20추수할 때가 지나고 여름이 다하였으나 우리는 구원을 얻지 못한다 하는도다 21딸 내 백성이 상하였으므로 나도 상하여 슬퍼하며 놀라움에 잡혔도다 22길르앗에는 유향이 있지 아니한가 그곳에는 의사가 있지 아니한가 딸 내 백성이 치료를 받지 못함은 어찜인고

1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; 2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth. 3Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies. 4“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “‘Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? 5Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to return. 6I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. 7Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law. 8How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. 9The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them? 10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. 11They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. 13I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. 15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! 16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein. 17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh. 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. 19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities? 20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. 22Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

1Ter zelfder tijd, spreekt de HEERE, zullen zij de beenderen der koningen van Juda, en de beenderen hunner vorsten, en de beenderen der priesteren, en de beenderen der profeten, en de beenderen der inwoners van Jeruzalem, uit hun graven uithalen. 2En zij zullen ze uitspreiden voor de zon, en voor de maan, en voor het ganse heir des hemels, die zij liefgehad, en die zij gediend, en die zij nagewandeld, en die zij gezocht hebben, en voor dewelke zij zich nedergebogen hebben; zij zullen niet verzameld noch begraven worden; tot mest op den aardbodem zullen zij zijn. 3En de dood zal voor het leven verkoren worden, bij het ganse overblijfsel der overgeblevenen uit dit boze geslacht, in al de plaatsen der overgeblevenen, waar Ik hen henengedreven zal hebben, spreekt de HEERE der heirscharen. 4Zeg wijders tot hen: Zo zegt de HEERE: Zal men vallen, en niet weder opstaan? Zal men afkeren, en niet wederkeren? 5Waarom keert dan dit volk te Jeruzalem af met een altoosdurende afkering? Zij houden vast aan bedrog, zij weigeren weder te keren. 6Ik heb geluisterd en toegehoord, zij spreken dat niet recht is, er is niemand, die berouw heeft over zijn boosheid, zeggende: Wat heb ik gedaan? Een ieder keert zich om in zijn loop, gelijk een onbesuisd paard in den strijd. 7Zelfs een ooievaar aan den hemel weet zijn gezette tijden, en een tortelduif, en kraan, en zwaluw, nemen den tijd hunner aankomst waar; maar Mijn volk weet het recht des HEEREN niet. 8Hoe zegt gij dan: Wij zijn wijs en de wet des HEEREN is bij ons! Ziet, waarlijk tevergeefs werkt de valse pen der schriftgeleerden. 9De wijzen zijn beschaamd, verschrikt en gevangen; ziet, zij hebben des HEEREN woord verworpen, wat wijsheid zouden zij dan hebben? 10Daarom zal Ik hun vrouwen aan anderen geven, hun akkers aan andere bezitters; want van den kleinste aan tot den grootste toe pleegt een ieder van hen gierigheid; van den profeet aan tot den priester toe bedrijft een ieder van hen valsheid. 11En zij genezen de breuk van de dochter Mijns volks op het lichtste, zeggende: Vrede, vrede! doch daar is geen vrede. 12Zijn zij beschaamd, omdat zij gruwel bedreven hebben? Ja, zij schamen zich in het minste niet, en weten niet schaamrood te worden; daarom zullen zij vallen onder de vallenden; ten tijde hunner bezoeking zullen zij struikelen, zegt de HEERE. 13Ik zal hen voorzeker wegrapen, spreekt de HEERE; er zijn geen druiven aan den wijnstok, en geen vijgen aan den vijgeboom, ja, het blad is afgevallen; en de geboden, die Ik hun gegeven heb, die overtreden zij. 14Waarom blijven wij zitten? Verzamelt u, en laat ons ingaan in de vaste steden, en aldaar stilzwijgen; immers heeft ons de HEERE, onze God, doen stilzwijgen, en ons met gallewater gedrenkt, omdat wij tegen den HEERE gezondigd hebben. 15Men wacht naar vrede, maar er is niets goeds, naar tijd van genezing, maar ziet, er is verschrikking. 16Van Dan af wordt het gesnuif zijner paarden gehoord; het ganse land beeft van het geluid der briesingen zijner sterken; en zij komen daarhenen, dat zij het land opeten en diens volheid, de stad en die daarin wonen. 17Want ziet, Ik zend slangen, basilisken onder ulieden, tegen dewelke geen bezwering is; die zullen u bijten, spreekt de HEERE. 18Mijn verkwikking is in droefenis; mijn hart is flauw in mij. 19Ziet, de stem van het geschrei der dochteren mijns volks is uit zeer verren lande: Is dan de HEERE niet te Sion, is haar koning niet bij haar? Waarom hebben zij Mij vertoornd met hun gesneden beelden, met ijdelheden der vreemden? 20De oogst is voorbijgaande, de zomer is ten einde; nog zijn wij niet verlost. 21Ik ben gebroken vanwege de breuk der dochter mijns volks; ik ga in het zwart, ontzetting heeft mij aangegrepen. 22Is er geen balsem in Gilead? Is er geen heelmeester aldaar? Want waarom is de gezondheid der dochter mijns volks niet gerezen?