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예레미야 4
Korean Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
예레미야 4
Korean Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
4 “오, 이스라엘아
돌아오고 싶으면 내게로 돌아오너라.”
주께서 말씀하신다.
“꼴도 보기 싫은 네 우상들을 내 눈앞에서 치워버리고
다시는 잘못된 길로 가지 않고
2 내 이름으로만 맹세하고
진실되고 정의롭고 의롭게 산다면
너희는 세상 뭇 나라들에게 복이 되고
모든 사람들이 와서 내 이름을 찬양하리라.”
3 주께서 유다 백성과 예루살렘에게 하시는 말씀이시다.
“너희들의 굳은 마음 밭을 갈아엎어라.
귀한 씨를 가시덤불에 뿌리지 말아라.
4 유다 사람들아, 예루살렘 백성들아
주 앞에서 너희 마음과 가슴을 깨끗이 하여라[a].
그렇게 하지 않으면
너희가 지은 모든 죄들 때문에 내 분노가 불처럼 너희를 덮치리라
타오르는 그 분노를 아무도 끄지 못하리라.”
북쪽에서 오는 재앙
5 “유다에게 이 말을 선포하라.
예루살렘에게 이 말을 들려주어라.
온 땅에 나팔을 불어 알려라.
큰 소리로 이렇게 말해라.
‘다들 모여라.
모두 튼튼한 성으로 도망치자.’
6 깃발로 시온 쪽을 가리키며 외쳐라.
‘어서 도망쳐라.
늑장부리지 말아라.’
내가 북쪽[b]에서 큰 불행과 엄청난 파괴를 불러오리라.”
7 사자가 자기 굴에서 일어났다.
뭇 민족들을 멸망시키는 자가 길을 나섰다.
그가 네 땅을 폐허로 만들려고 저 있던 곳을 떠났다.
이제 네 모든 성읍이 폐허가 되어 사람이 살지 않게 되리라.
8 그러니 너희는 거친 마포 옷을 입고 슬피 울며 탄식하여라.
아직도 주의 진노가 우리 위에 머물러 계시기 때문이다.
9 주께서 말씀하신다.
“그 날에 왕과 고관들은 용기를 잃고
제사장들이 겁에 질리며
예언자들이 자지러지게 놀라리라.”
10 그래서 내가 이렇게 말씀드렸다. “아, 주 하나님. 당신께서는 이 백성과 예루살렘을 감쪽같이 속이셨습니다. ‘너희는 안전할 것이다.’ 하시더니, 이제 저희의 목에 칼이 닿았습니다.”
11 그 날이 오면 이 백성과 예루살렘에게 해줄 말은 이렇다. “아무것도 자라지 않는 사막의 언덕에서 뜨거운 바람이 내 백성을 향하여 불어온다. 그 바람은 곡식을 키질하거나 알곡을 가려내기에 적절한 부드러운 바람이 아니다. 12 그것은 내가 보내는 성난 바람이다. 이제 나는 너희에게 심판을 선언한다.”
13 우리의 적이 먹구름처럼 밀려옵니다.
그의 전차들이 회오리바람처럼 밀려오며
그의 말들은 독수리보다 빠르게 달려듭니다.
큰 일 났습니다.
이제 우리는 모두 망했습니다.
14 예루살렘아, 네가 구원을 얻으려거든
네 마음에서 악을 말끔히 씻어 버려라.
언제까지 네 흉악한 생각들을 마음속에 품고 살려느냐?
15 단에서 누군가 외치는 소리가 들려오고
에브라임의 산악지방에서 재난을 알리는 소식이 날아든다.
16 “뭇 민족들에게 이 말을 전해 주어라.
예루살렘에게도 알려 주어라.
‘먼 땅에서 적군들이 몰려와 에워싸고
유다의 모든 성읍을 향해서 진군의 함성을 지른다.
17 그들은 파수꾼이 밭을 지키듯 예루살렘을 둘러싸고 있다.
예루살렘이 나를 거역했기 때문이다.’”
주께서 말씀하신다.
18 “네가 걸어온 길과 짓들이 이 모든 재앙을 네게 불러들였다.
이것이 네 벌이다.
얼마나 뼈아픈 벌이냐?
네 마음속까지 뚫고 들어가는구나.”
예레미야의 외침
19 “아, 나의 심장! 나의 심장!
내가 고통으로 온 몸을 뒤틉니다.
아, 찢어질 것 같은 이 심장의 고통!
내 속의 심장이 마구 뜁니다.
나는 조용히 있을 수가 없습니다.
전쟁 나팔 소리를 듣고
전쟁의 함성소리를 들었기 때문입니다.
20 불행이 꼬리를 물고 닥쳐옵니다.
온 나라가 황무지가 되었습니다.
눈 깜작할 사이에 제 천막들이 찢겨나가고
한 순간에 모든 처소가 무너져버렸습니다.
21 제가 언제까지 저 전쟁의 깃발을 보아야 합니까?
언제까지 저 나팔 소리를 들어야 합니까?”
주께서 말씀하신다.
22 “내 백성은 어리석어 나를 모른다.
그들은 어리석은 자식들이어서 깨닫는 힘이 없다.
그들은 악한 짓을 하는 데는 영리하지만
선한 일은 어떻게 해야 하는지도 모른다.”
재앙이 다가온다
23 내가 땅을 보았더니
그곳은 형체도 없고 텅 비어 있었다.
하늘을 보았더니
그곳에는 빛이 없었다[c].
24 내가 산들을 바라보았더니
산들은 떨고
언덕들은 모두 흔들거리고 있었다.
25 아무리 둘러보아도 사람 하나 없고
하늘을 나는 새들도 모두 날아가 버리고 없습니다.
26 둘러보니 기름진 땅은 사막이 되었고
모든 성읍은 폐허 속에 누워 있습니다.
주님 앞에, 주님의 무서운 진노 앞에 누워 있습니다.
27 주께서 하신 말씀이다.
“모든 땅이 폐허가 된다 하더라도
내가 그것을 완전히 무너뜨리지는 않겠다.
28 땅이 슬피 울고 하늘이 어두워지리라.
내가 이미 그렇게 말했고
내 화를 조금도 늦추지 않을 것이기 때문이다.
나는 이미 결정을 내렸으며
그 결정을 돌이키는 일도 없으리라.”
29 군대의 말발굽 소리와 활 쏘는 병사들의 함성에
모든 성읍에 사는 자들이 달아난다.
더러는 숲 속에 숨고
더러는 바위틈에 올라가 숨는다.
모두 성읍을 버리고 떠나니
성읍에는 사람의 그림자조차 없다.
30 예루살렘아
네가 망했는데
어찌하여 붉은 옷을 차려입고
금붙이로 꾸미느냐?
눈가에 짙은 화장을 하다니.
네가 아무리 아름답게 꾸며도 소용없는 일.
네 애인들은 너를 깔보고
네 목숨을 노린다.
31 나는 아기 낳는 여자가 진통으로 괴로워하는 소리를 이미 들었다.
첫 아이를 낳는 여자처럼 신음하는 소리.
딸 시온이 숨을 몰아쉬며 허공에 손을 내저으며 울부짖는 소리.
“아, 나는 힘없이 죽어간다.
내 목숨이 살인자들의 손에 넘겨졌구나.”
Jeremiah 4
The Message
Jeremiah 4
The Message
4 1-2 “If you want to come back, O Israel,
you must really come back to me.
You must get rid of your stinking sin paraphernalia
and not wander away from me anymore.
Then you can say words like, ‘As God lives . . . ’
and have them mean something true and just and right.
And the godless nations will get caught up in the blessing
and find something in Israel to write home about.”
* * *
3-4 Here’s another Message from God
to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Plow your unplowed fields,
but then don’t plant weeds in the soil!
Yes, circumcise your lives for God’s sake.
Plow your unplowed hearts,
all you people of Judah and Jerusalem.
Prevent fire—the fire of my anger—
for once it starts it can’t be put out.
Your wicked ways
are fuel for the fire.
God’s Sledgehammer Anger
5-8 “Sound the alarm in Judah,
broadcast the news in Jerusalem.
Say, ‘Blow the ram’s horn trumpet through the land!’
Shout out—a bullhorn bellow!—
‘Close ranks!
Run for your lives to the shelters!’
Send up a flare warning Zion:
‘Not a minute to lose! Don’t sit on your hands!’
Disaster’s descending from the north. I set it off!
When it lands, it will shake the foundations.
Invaders have pounced like a lion from its cover,
ready to rip nations to shreds,
Leaving your land in wrack and ruin,
your cities in rubble, abandoned.
Dress in funereal black.
Weep and wail,
For God’s sledgehammer anger
has slammed into us head-on.
9 “When this happens”
—God’s Decree—
“King and princes will lose heart;
priests will be baffled and prophets stand dumbfounded.”
10 Then I said, “Alas, Master God!
You’ve fed lies to this people, this Jerusalem.
You assured them, ‘All is well, don’t worry,’
at the very moment when the sword was at their throats.”
* * *
11-12 At that time, this people, yes, this very Jerusalem,
will be told in plain words:
“The northern hordes are sweeping in
from the desert steppes—
A wind that’s up to no good, a gale-force wind.
I ordered this wind.
I’m pronouncing
my hurricane judgment on my people.”
Your Evil Life Is Piercing Your Heart
13-14 Look at them! Like banks of storm clouds,
racing, tumbling, their chariots a tornado,
Their horses faster than eagles!
Woe to us! We’re done for!
Jerusalem! Scrub the evil from your lives
so you’ll be fit for salvation.
How much longer will you harbor
devious and malignant designs within you?
15-17 What’s this? A messenger from Dan?
Bad news from Ephraim’s hills!
Make the report public.
Broadcast the news to Jerusalem:
“Invaders from far off are
raising war cries against Judah’s towns.
They’re all over her, like a dog on a bone.
And why? Because she rebelled against me.”
God’s Decree.
18 “It’s the way you’ve lived
that’s brought all this on you.
The bitter taste is from your evil life.
That’s what’s piercing your heart.”
* * *
19-21 I’m doubled up with cramps in my belly—
a poker burns in my gut.
My insides are tearing me up,
never a moment’s peace.
The ram’s horn trumpet blast rings in my ears,
the signal for all-out war.
Disaster hard on the heels of disaster,
the whole country in ruins!
In one stroke my home is destroyed,
the walls flattened in the blink of an eye.
How long do I have to look at the warning flares,
listen to the siren of danger?
Experts at Evil
22 “What fools my people are!
They have no idea who I am.
A company of half-wits,
dopes and donkeys all!
Experts at evil
but klutzes at good.”
23-26 I looked at the earth—
it was back to pre-Genesis chaos and emptiness.
I looked at the skies,
and not a star to be seen.
I looked at the mountains—
they were trembling like aspen leaves,
And all the hills
rocking back and forth in the wind.
I looked—what’s this! Not a man or woman in sight,
and not a bird to be seen in the skies.
I looked—this can’t be! Every garden and orchard shriveled up.
All the towns were ghost towns.
And all this because of God,
because of the blazing anger of God.
27-28 Yes, this is God’s Word on the matter:
“The whole country will be laid waste—
still it won’t be the end of the world.
The earth will mourn
and the skies lament
Because I’ve given my word and won’t take it back.
I’ve decided and won’t change my mind.”
You’re Not Going to Seduce Anyone
29 Someone shouts, “Horsemen and archers!”
and everybody runs for cover.
They hide in ditches,
they climb into caves.
The cities are emptied,
not a person left anywhere.
30-31 And you, what do you think you’re up to?
Dressing up in party clothes,
Decking yourselves out in jewelry,
putting on lipstick and rouge and mascara!
Your primping goes for nothing.
You’re not going to seduce anyone. They’re out to kill you!
And what’s that I hear? The cry of a woman in labor,
the screams of a mother giving birth to her firstborn.
It’s the cry of Daughter Zion, gasping for breath,
reaching out for help:
“Help, oh help me! I’m dying!
The killers are on me!”
Jeremiah 4
New International Version
Jeremiah 4
New International Version
4 “If you, Israel, will return,(A)
then return to me,”
declares the Lord.
“If you put your detestable idols(B) out of my sight
and no longer go astray,
2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way
you swear,(C) ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’(D)
then the nations will invoke blessings(E) by him
and in him they will boast.(F)”
3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:
“Break up your unplowed ground(G)
and do not sow among thorns.(H)
4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
circumcise your hearts,(I)
you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or my wrath(J) will flare up and burn like fire(K)
because of the evil(L) you have done—
burn with no one to quench(M) it.
Disaster From the North
5 “Announce in Judah and proclaim(N) in Jerusalem and say:
‘Sound the trumpet(O) throughout the land!’
Cry aloud and say:
‘Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities!’(P)
6 Raise the signal(Q) to go to Zion!
Flee for safety without delay!
For I am bringing disaster(R) from the north,(S)
even terrible destruction.”
7 A lion(T) has come out of his lair;(U)
a destroyer(V) of nations has set out.
He has left his place
to lay waste(W) your land.
Your towns will lie in ruins(X)
without inhabitant.
8 So put on sackcloth,(Y)
lament(Z) and wail,
for the fierce anger(AA) of the Lord
has not turned away from us.
9 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
“the king and the officials will lose heart,(AB)
the priests will be horrified,
and the prophets will be appalled.”(AC)
10 Then I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived(AD) this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’(AE) when the sword is at our throats!”
11 At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind(AF) from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse; 12 a wind(AG) too strong for that comes from me. Now I pronounce my judgments(AH) against them.”
13 Look! He advances like the clouds,(AI)
his chariots(AJ) come like a whirlwind,(AK)
his horses(AL) are swifter than eagles.(AM)
Woe to us! We are ruined!(AN)
14 Jerusalem, wash(AO) the evil from your heart and be saved.(AP)
How long(AQ) will you harbor wicked thoughts?
15 A voice is announcing from Dan,(AR)
proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.(AS)
16 “Tell this to the nations,
proclaim concerning Jerusalem:
‘A besieging army is coming from a distant land,(AT)
raising a war cry(AU) against the cities of Judah.(AV)
17 They surround(AW) her like men guarding a field,
because she has rebelled(AX) against me,’”
declares the Lord.
18 “Your own conduct and actions(AY)
have brought this on you.(AZ)
This is your punishment.
How bitter(BA) it is!
How it pierces to the heart!”
19 Oh, my anguish, my anguish!(BB)
I writhe in pain.(BC)
Oh, the agony of my heart!
My heart pounds(BD) within me,
I cannot keep silent.(BE)
For I have heard the sound of the trumpet;(BF)
I have heard the battle cry.(BG)
20 Disaster follows disaster;(BH)
the whole land lies in ruins.(BI)
In an instant my tents(BJ) are destroyed,
my shelter in a moment.
21 How long must I see the battle standard(BK)
and hear the sound of the trumpet?(BL)
22 “My people are fools;(BM)
they do not know me.(BN)
They are senseless children;
they have no understanding.(BO)
They are skilled in doing evil;(BP)
they know not how to do good.”(BQ)
23 I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and empty;(BR)
and at the heavens,
and their light(BS) was gone.
24 I looked at the mountains,
and they were quaking;(BT)
all the hills were swaying.
25 I looked, and there were no people;
every bird in the sky had flown away.(BU)
26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;(BV)
all its towns lay in ruins(BW)
before the Lord, before his fierce anger.(BX)
27 This is what the Lord says:
“The whole land will be ruined,(BY)
though I will not destroy(BZ) it completely.
28 Therefore the earth will mourn(CA)
and the heavens above grow dark,(CB)
because I have spoken and will not relent,(CC)
I have decided and will not turn back.(CD)”
29 At the sound of horsemen and archers(CE)
every town takes to flight.(CF)
Some go into the thickets;
some climb up among the rocks.(CG)
All the towns are deserted;(CH)
no one lives in them.
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