耶利米書 第 16 章

And you, do not take a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

And there shall not be born to you a son or a daughter in this place.

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

They shall die of a sickly death; they shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be for an example upon the face of the earth, and for the beasts of the earth and for the birds of the sky; they shall fall by the sword and be consumed by famine.

Thus says the Lord: Do not enter into their mourning feast, and do not go to lament, and do not mourn for them; for I have withdrawn my peace from this people.

They shall not lament for them, nor shall they make cuttings, nor shall they shave themselves.

And bread shall not be broken in their mourning for comfort over one who has died; they shall not give him a cup to drink for comfort over his father and his mother.

You shall not enter a house of drinking to sit together with them to eat and to drink.

For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am putting an end, out of this place and before your eyes and in your days, to the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they say to you: Why has the Lord spoken all these evils against us? What is our injustice, and what is our sin that we have sinned before the Lord our God?

Then you shall say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, says the Lord, and went after foreign gods and served them and worshiped them, and forsook me and did not keep my law.

And you did worse than your fathers; and behold, you are each walking after what pleases his own evil heart, so as not to obey me.

And I will cast you out from this land into the land that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, who will not show you mercy.

Therefore, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no longer say: The Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

but rather: The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where they had been driven. And I will restore them to their land, which I gave to their fathers.

Behold, I am sending many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish for them; and after this I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain and upon every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

For my eyes are upon all their ways; and their wrongdoings were not hidden from before my eyes.

And I will repay double their iniquities and their sins, by which they profaned my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their lawless deeds with which they defiled my inheritance.

O Lord, my strength and my help and my refuge in the day of evils! To you the nations shall come from the end of the earth, and they shall say: How false were the idols our fathers acquired, and there is no profit in them.

Shall a man make gods for himself? And these are not gods.

Therefore, behold, I will make known to them at this time my hand, and I will make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.