Jeremiah

The weeping prophet's witness to the fall of Jerusalem

The oracles and biography of Jeremiah, a Judean prophet active before, during, and after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The book oscillates between judgment poetry, prose narratives of the prophet's persecution, and oracles of restoration.

第1章

便雅憫地亞拿突城的祭司中、希勒家的兒子耶利米的話記在下面。

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

猶大王亞們的兒子約西亞在位十三年、耶和華的話臨到耶利米。

to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

從猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬在位的時候、直到猶大王約西亞的兒子西底家在位的末年、就是十一年五月間耶路撒冷人被擄的時候、耶和華的話、也常臨到耶利米。

It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

耶利米說、耶和華的話臨到我、說、

Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

我未將你造在腹中、我已曉得你、你未出母胎、我已分別你爲聖．我已派你作列國的先知。

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

我就說、主耶和華阿、我不知怎樣說、因爲我是年幼的。

Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.

耶和華對我說、你不要說我是年幼的．因爲我差遣你到誰那裏去、你都要去．我吩咐你說甚麼話、你都要說。

But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak.

你不要懼怕他們、因爲我與你同在、要拯救你．這是耶和華說的。

Be not afraid because of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.

於是耶和華伸手按我的口、對我說、我已將當說的話傳給你。

Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth:

看哪、我今日立你在列邦列國之上、爲要施行拔出、拆毀、毀壞、傾覆、又要建立栽植。

see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

耶和華的話、又臨到我說、耶利米你看見甚麼．我說、我看見一根杏樹枝。

Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.

耶和華對我說、你看得不錯．因爲我留意保守我的話、使得成就。

Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.

耶和華的話第二次臨到我說、你看見甚麼．我說、我看見一個燒開的鍋、從北而傾。

And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face thereof is from the north.

耶和華對我說、必有災禍從北方發出、臨到這地的一切居民。

Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

耶和華說、看哪、我要召北方列國的衆族．他們要來、各安座位在耶路撒冷的城門口、周圍攻擊城牆、又要攻擊猶大的一切城邑。

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

至於這民的一切惡、就是離棄我、向別神燒香、跪拜自己手所造的、我要發出我的判語、攻擊他們。

And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

所以你當束腰、起來將我所吩咐你的一切話告訴他們．不要因他們驚惶、免得我使你在他們面前驚惶。

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.

看哪、我今日使你成爲堅城、鐵柱、銅牆、與全地、和猶大的君王、首領、祭司、並地上的衆民反對。

For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

他們要攻擊你、卻不能勝你．因爲我與你同在、要拯救你．這是耶和華說的。

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.

第2章

耶和華的話臨到我說、

And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

你去向耶路撒冷人的耳中喊叫說、耶和華如此說、你幼年的恩愛、婚姻的愛情、你怎樣在曠野、在未曾耕種之地跟隨我、我都記得。

Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

那時以色列歸耶和華爲聖、作爲土產初熟的果子．凡吞喫他的、必算爲有罪．災禍必臨到他們．這是耶和華說的。

Israel [was] holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.

雅各家、以色列家的各族阿、你們當聽耶和華的話。

Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

耶和華如此說、你們的列祖見我有甚麼不義、竟遠離我、隨從虛無的神、自己成爲虛妄的呢．

thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

他們也不說、那領我們從埃及地上來、引導我們經過曠野、沙漠有深坑之地、和乾旱死蔭、無人經過、無人居住之地的耶和華在哪裏呢。

Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

我領你們進入肥美之地、使你們得喫其中的果子和美物．但你們進入的時候、就玷汚我的地、使我的產業成爲可憎的。

And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

祭司都不說、耶和華在哪裏呢．傳講律法的、都不認識我、官長違背我、先知藉巴力說豫言、隨從無益的神。

The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

耶和華說、我因此必與你們爭辯、也必與你們的子孫爭辯。

Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children`s children will I contend.

你們且過到基提海島去察看、打發人往基達去、留心查考、看曾有這樣的事沒有。

For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.

豈有一國換了他的神麼、其實這不是神．但我的百姓、將他們的榮耀、換了那無益的神。

Hath a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

諸天哪、要因此驚奇、極其恐慌、甚爲淒涼．這是耶和華說的。

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.

因爲我的百姓、做了兩件惡事、就是離棄我這活水的泉源、爲自己鑿出池子、是破裂不能存水的池子。

For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

以色列是僕人麼．是家中生的奴僕麼．爲何成爲掠物呢。

Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?

少壯獅子向他咆哮、大聲吼叫、使他的地荒涼、城邑也都焚燒、無人居住。

The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

挪弗人和答比匿人、也打破你的頭頂．

The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

這事臨到你身上、不是你自招的麼．不是因耶和華你神引你行路的時候、你離棄他麼。

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?

現今你爲何在埃及路上、要喝西曷的水呢．你爲何在亞述路上、要喝大河的水呢。

And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

你自己的惡、必懲治你、你背道的事、必責備你．由此可知可見你離棄耶和華你的神、不存敬畏我的心、乃爲惡事、爲苦事、這是主萬軍之耶和華說的。

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

我在古時折斷你的軛、解開你的繩索、你說、我必不事奉耶和華．因爲你在各高岡上、各青翠樹下、屈身行淫。〈或作我在古時折斷你的軛解開你的繩索你就說我必不事奉別神誰知你在各高岡上各青翠樹下仍屈身行淫〉

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

然而我栽你是上等的葡萄樹、全然是眞種子．你怎麼向我變爲外邦葡萄樹的壞枝子呢．

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

你雖用鹼、多用肥皂洗濯、你罪孽的痕跡、仍然在我面前顯出．這是主耶和華說的。

For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

你怎能說、我沒有玷汚、沒有隨從衆巴力．你看你谷中的路、就知道你所行的如何．你是快行的獨峯駝、狂奔亂走．

How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

你是野驢慣在曠野、慾心發動就吸風．起性的時候、誰能使他轉去呢．凡尋找他的、必不至疲乏．在他的月分、必能尋見。

a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

我說、你不要使腳上無鞋、喉嚨乾渴。你倒說、這是枉然．我喜愛別神、我必隨從他們。

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

賊被捉拿、怎樣羞愧、以色列家、和他們的君王、首領、祭司、先知、也都照樣羞愧．

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

他們向木頭說、你是我的父、向石頭說、你是生我的．他們以背向我、不以面向我．及至遭遇患難的時候卻說、起來拯救我們。

who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

你爲自己作的神在哪裏呢．你遭遇患難的時候、叫他們起來拯救你罷。猶大阿、你神的數目、與你城的數目相等。

But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

耶和華說、你們爲何與我爭辯呢．你們都違背了我。

Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.

我責打你們的兒女、是徒然的．他們不受懲治．你們自己的刀、吞滅你們的先知、好像殘害的獅子。

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

這世代的人哪、你們要看明耶和華的話。我豈向以色列作曠野呢．或作幽暗之地呢．我的百姓爲何說、我們脫離約束、再不歸向你了。

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?

處女豈能忘記他的妝飾呢、新婦豈能忘記他的美衣呢．我的百姓、卻忘記了我無數的日子。

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

你怎麼修飾你的道路、要求愛情呢．就是惡劣的婦人、你也叫他們行你的路。

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

並且你的衣襟上有無辜窮人的血．你殺他們、並不是遇見他們挖窟窿、乃是因這一切的事。

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

你還說、我無辜．耶和華的怒氣、必定向我消了．看哪、我必審問你、因你自說、我沒有犯罪。

Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

你爲何東跑西奔、要更換你的路呢．你必因埃及蒙羞、像從前因亞述蒙羞一樣。

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

你也必兩手抱頭、從埃及出來．因爲耶和華已經棄絕你所倚靠的、你必不因他們得順利。

From thence also shalt thou go forth, with thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah hath rejected those in whom thou trustest, and thou shalt not prosper with them.

第3章

有話說、人若休妻、妻離他而去、作了別人的妻、前夫豈能再收回他來．若收回他來、那地豈不是大大玷汚了麼．但你和許多親愛的行邪淫、還可以歸向我．這是耶和華說的。

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man`s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

你向淨光的高處舉目觀看．你在何處沒有淫行呢．你坐在道旁等候、好像亞拉伯人在曠野埋伏一樣．並且你的淫行邪惡玷汚了全地。

Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

因此甘霖停止、春〈原文作晚〉雨不降．你還是有娼妓之臉、不顧羞恥。

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot`s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

從今以後、你豈不向我呼叫說、我父阿、你是我幼年的恩主。

Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?

耶和華豈永遠懷怒、存留到底麼．看哪、你又發惡言、又行壞事、隨自己的私意而行。〈或作你雖這樣說還是行惡放縱慾心〉

Will he retain [his anger] for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

約西亞王在位的時候、耶和華又對我說、背道的以色列所行的、你看見沒有．他上各高山、在各青翠樹下行淫。

Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

他行這些事以後、我說、他必歸向我．他卻不歸向我．他奸詐的妹妹猶大、也看見了。

And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

背道的以色列行淫．我爲這緣故給他休書休他．我看見他奸詐的妹妹猶大、還不懼怕、也去行淫。

And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.

因以色列輕忽了他的淫亂、和石頭木頭行淫、地就被玷汚了。

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

雖有這一切的事、他奸詐的妹妹猶大、還不一心歸向我、不過是假意歸我．這是耶和華說的。

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.

耶和華對我說、背道的以色列、比奸詐的猶大還顯爲義

And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

你去向北方宣告說、耶和華說、背道的以色列阿、回來罷．我必不怒目看你們．因爲我是慈愛的、我必不永遠存怒．這是耶和華說的。

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep [anger] for ever.

只要承認你的罪孽、就是你違背耶和華你的神、在各青翠樹下、向別神東奔西跑、沒有聽從我的話．這是耶和華說的。

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、背道的兒女阿、回來罷．因爲我作你們的丈夫．並且我必將你們從一城取一人、從一族取兩人、帶到錫安。

Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

我也必將合我心的牧者、賜給你們．他們必以知識和智慧、牧養你們。

and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

耶和華說、你們在國中生養衆多、當那些日子、人必不再題說、耶和華的約櫃．不追想、不記念、不覺缺少、也不再製造。

And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.

那時、人必稱耶路撒冷爲耶和華的寶座．萬國必到耶路撒冷、在耶和華立名的地方聚集．他們必不再隨從自己頑梗的惡心行事。

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

當那些日子、猶大家要和以色列家同行、從北方之地、一同來到我賜給你們列祖爲業之地。

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.

我說、我怎樣將你安置在兒女之中、賜給你美地、就是萬國中肥美的產業．我又說、你們必稱我爲父、也不再轉去不跟從我。

But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

以色列家、你們向我行詭詐、眞像妻子行詭詐、離開他丈夫一樣．這是耶和華說的。

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.

在淨光的高處聽見人聲、就是以色列人哭泣懇求之聲．乃因他們走彎曲之道、忘記耶和華他們的神。

A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

你們這背道的兒女阿、回來罷．我要醫治你們背道的病。看哪、我們來到你這裏．因你是耶和華我們的神。

Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.

仰望從小山、或從大山的喧嚷中得幫助、眞是枉然的．以色列得救、誠然在乎耶和華我們的神。

Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

從我們幼年以來、那可恥的偶像、將我們列祖所勞碌得來的羊羣牛羣、和他們的兒女、都吞喫了。

But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

我們在羞恥中躺臥罷．願慚愧將我們遮蓋．因爲從立國〈原文作幼年〉以來、我們和我們的列祖、常常得罪耶和華我們的神、沒有聽從耶和華我們神的話。

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

第4章

耶和華說、以色列阿、你若回來歸向我、若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像、你就不被遷移．

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;

你必憑誠實、公平、公義、指着永生的耶和華起誓．列國必因耶和華稱自己爲有福、也必因他誇耀。

and thou shalt swear, As Jehovah liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

耶和華對猶大和耶路撒冷人如此說、要開墾你們的荒地、不要撒種在荊棘中。

For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民哪、你們當自行割禮、歸耶和華、將心裏的汚穢除掉．恐怕我的忿怒、因你們的惡行發作、如火𤏲起、甚至無人能以熄滅。

Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

你們當傳揚在猶大、宣告在耶路撒冷、說、你們當在國中吹角、高聲呼叫說、你們當聚集、我們好進入堅固城。

Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

應當向錫安豎立大旗．要逃避、不要遲延．因我必使災禍、與大毀滅、從北方來到。

Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

有獅子從密林中上來、是毀壞列國的．他已經動身、出離本處、要使你的地荒涼、使你的城邑變爲荒塲、無人居住。

A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

因此你們當腰束麻布、大聲哀號．因爲耶和華的烈怒、沒有向我們轉消。

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

耶和華說、到那時君王和首領的心、都要消滅．祭司都要驚奇、先知都要詫異。

And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

我說、哀哉、主耶和華阿、你眞是大大的欺哄這百姓和耶路撒冷、說、你們必得平安．其實刀劍害及性命了。

Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.

那時、必有話對這百姓和耶路撒冷說、有一陣熱風、從曠野淨光的高處、向我的衆民〈原文作民女〉颳來、不是爲簸揚、也不是爲揚淨．

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

必有一陣更大的風、從這些地方爲我颳來．現在我又必發出判語、攻擊他們。

a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.

看哪、仇敵必如雲上來、他的戰車如旋風、他的馬匹比鷹更快。我們有禍了．我們敗落了。

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.

耶路撒冷阿、你當洗去心中的惡、使你可以得救．惡念存在你心裏、要到幾時呢。

O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

有聲音從但傳揚、從以法蓮山報禍患．

For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim:

你們當傳給列國、報告攻擊耶路撒冷的事、說、有探望的人、從遠方來到、向猶大的城邑、大聲吶喊。

make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

他們周圍攻擊耶路撒冷、好像看守田園的、因爲他背叛了我．這是耶和華說的。

As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

你的行動、你的作爲、招惹這事．這是你罪惡的結果．實在是苦、是害及你心了。

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.

我的肺腑阿、我的肺腑阿、我心疼痛．我心在我裏面、煩躁不安．我不能靜默不言．因爲我已經聽見角聲、和打仗的喊聲。

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

毀壞的信息連絡不絕．因爲全地荒廢．我的帳棚、忽然毀壞、我的幔子、頃刻破裂。

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.

我看見大旗、聽見角聲、要到幾時呢。

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

耶和華說、我的百性愚頑、不認識我．他們是愚昧無知的兒女．有智慧行惡、沒有知識行善。

For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

先知說、我觀看地、不料、地是空虛混沌、我觀看天、天也無光。

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

我觀看大山、不料、盡都震動、小山也都搖來搖去。

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

我觀看、不料、無人、空中的飛鳥也都躱避。

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

我觀看、不料、肥田變爲荒地、一切城邑在耶和華面前、因他的烈怒、都被拆毀。

I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, [and] before his fierce anger.

耶和華如此說、全地必然荒涼、我卻不毀滅淨盡。

For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

因此、地要悲哀、在上的天、也必黑暗．因爲我言已出、我意已定、必不後悔、也不轉意不作。

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

各城的人、因馬兵和弓箭手的響聲、就都逃跑、進入密林、爬上磐石．各城被撇下、無人住在其中。

Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

你淒涼的時候要怎樣行呢．你雖穿上朱紅衣服、佩戴黃金裝飾、用顏料修飾眼目、這樣標緻、是枉然的．戀愛你的藐視你、並且尋索你的性命。

And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.

我聽見有聲音、彷彿婦人產難的聲音、好像生頭胎疼痛的聲音、是錫安女子的聲音．〈女子就是指民的意思〉他喘着氣、挓挱手、說、我有禍了．在殺人的跟前、我的心發昏了。

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

第5章

你們當在耶路撒冷的街上、跑來跑去、在寬闊處尋找、看看有一人行公義、求誠實沒有、若有、我就赦免這城。

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

其中的人、雖然指着永生的耶和華起誓、所起的誓、實在是假的。

And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely.

耶和華阿、你的眼目、不是看顧誠實麼．你擊打他們、他們卻不傷慟．你毀滅他們、他們仍不受懲治．他們使臉剛硬過於磐石、不肯回頭。

O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

我說、這些人實在是貧窮的、是愚昧的．因爲不曉得耶和華的作爲、和他們神的法則。

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

我要去見尊大的人、對他們說話．因爲他們曉得耶和華的作爲、和他們神的法則．那知、這些人齊心將軛折斷、掙開繩索。

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

因此、林中的獅子、必害死他們、晚上〈或作野地〉的豺狼、必滅絕他們、豹子要在城外窺伺他們．凡出城的、必被撕碎．因爲他們的罪過極多、背道的事也加增了。

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

我怎能赦免你呢．你的兒女離棄我、又指着那不是神的起誓．我使他們飽足、他們就行姦淫、成羣的聚集在娼妓家裏。

How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots` houses.

他們像餧飽的馬、到處亂跑、各向他鄰舍的妻發嘶聲。

They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor`s wife.

耶和華說、我豈不因這些事討罪呢．豈不報復這樣的國民呢。

Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

你們要上他葡萄園的牆、施行毀壞．但不可毀壞淨盡、只可除掉他的枝子．因爲不屬耶和華。

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah`s.

原來以色列家和猶大家、大行詭詐攻擊我．這是耶和華說的。

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

他們不認耶和華、說、這並不是他、災禍必不臨到我們．刀劍和饑荒、我們也看不見。

They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

先知的話、必成爲風、道也不在他們裏面．這災必臨到他們身上。

and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

所以耶和華萬軍之神如此說、因爲百姓說這話、我必使我的話、在你口中爲火、使他們爲柴、這火便將他們燒滅。

Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

耶和華說、以色列家阿、我必使一國的民從遠方來攻擊你、是強盛的國、是從古而有的國．他們的言語你不曉得、他們的話你不明白。

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

他們的箭袋、是敞開的墳墓、他們都是勇士。

Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

他們必喫盡你的莊稼、和你的糧食、是你兒女該喫的．必喫盡你的牛羊、喫盡你的葡萄和無花果．又必用刀毀壞你所倚靠的堅固城。

And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.

耶和華說、就是到那時、我也不將你們毀滅淨盡。

But even in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.

百姓若說、耶和華我們的神、爲甚麼向我們行這一切事呢．你就對他們說、你們怎樣離棄耶和華、〈原文作我〉在你們的地上、事奉外邦神、也必照樣在不屬你們的地上、事奉外邦人。

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

當傳揚在雅各家、報告在猶大、說、

Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

愚昧無知的百姓阿、你們有眼不看、有耳不聽、現在當聽這話。

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:

耶和華說、你們怎麼不懼怕我呢．我以永遠的定例、用沙爲海的界限、水不得越過．因此、你們在我面前還不戰兢麼。波浪雖然翻騰、卻不能逾越．雖然匉訇、卻不能過去。

Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

但這百姓有背叛忤逆的心．他們叛我而去。

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

心內也不說、我們應當敬畏耶和華我們的神．他按時賜雨、就是秋雨春雨．又爲我們定收割的節令、永存不廢。

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

你們的罪孽、使這些事轉離你們、你們的罪惡、使你們不能得福。

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

因爲在我民中有惡人、他們埋伏窺探、好像捕鳥的人．他們設立圈套陷害人。

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

籠內怎樣滿了雀鳥、他們的房中、也照樣充滿詭詐．所以他們得成爲大、而且富足。

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

他們肥胖光潤、作惡過甚、不爲人伸寃、就是不爲孤兒伸寃、不使他亨通、也不爲窮人辨屈。

They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

耶和華說、我豈不因這些事討罪呢．豈不報復這樣的國民呢。

Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

國中有可驚駭、可憎惡的事．

A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

就是先知說假豫言、祭司藉他們把持權柄．我的百姓也喜愛這些事．到了結局你們怎樣行呢。

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

第6章

便雅憫人哪、你們要逃出耶路撒冷、在提哥亞吹角、在伯哈基琳立號旗．因爲有災禍、與大毀滅、從北方張望。

Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

那秀美嬌嫩的錫安女子、我必剪除。〈女子就是指民的意思〉

The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

牧人必引他們的羊羣到他那裏、在他周圍支搭帳棚、各在自己所佔之地、使羊喫草。

Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

你們要準備攻擊他、起來罷、我們可以趁午時上去。哀哉、日已漸斜、晚影拖長了。

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

起來罷、我們夜間上去、毀壞他的宮殿。

Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

因爲萬軍之耶和華如此說、你們要砍伐樹木、築壘攻打耶路撒冷．這就是那該罰的城、其中盡是欺壓。

For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

井怎樣湧出水來、這城也照樣湧出惡來．在其間常聽見有強暴毀滅的事、病患損傷也常在我面前。

As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

耶路撒冷阿、你當受教、免得我心與你生疎、免得我使你荒涼、成爲無人居住之地。

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

萬軍之耶和華曾如此說、敵人必擄盡以色列剩下的民、如同摘淨葡萄一樣．你要像摘葡萄的人摘了又摘、回手放在筐子裏。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.

現在我可以向誰說話作見證、使他們聽呢．他們的耳朶未受割禮、不能聽見．看哪、耶和華的話、他們以爲羞辱、不以爲喜悅。

To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

因此我被耶和華的忿怒充滿、難以含忍．我要傾在街中的孩童、和聚會的少年人身上．連夫帶妻、並年老的與日子滿足的、都必被擒拿。

Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

他們的房屋、田地、和妻子、都必轉歸別人．我要伸手攻擊這地的居民．這是耶和華說的。

And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.

因爲他們從最小的到至大的、都一味的貪婪．從先知到祭司、都行事虛謊。

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

他們輕輕忽忽的醫治我百姓的損傷、說、平安了、平安了．其實沒有平安。

They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

他們行可憎的事、知道慚愧麼．不然、他們毫不慚愧、也不知羞恥．因此、他們必在仆倒的人中仆倒．我向他們討罪的時候、他們必致跌倒．這是耶和華說的。

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

耶和華如此說、你們當站在路上察看、訪問古道、那是善道、便行在其間．這樣、你們心裏必得安息．他們卻說、我們不行在其間。

Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].

我設立守望的人照管你們、說、要聽角聲．他們卻說、我們不聽。

And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

列國阿、因此你們當聽．會衆阿、要知道他們必遭遇的事。

Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

地阿、當聽我必使災禍臨到這百姓、就是他們意念所結的果子、因爲他們不聽從我的言語．至於我的訓誨、〈或作律法〉他們也厭棄了。

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

從示巴出的乳香、從遠方出的菖蒲、〈或作甘蔗〉奉來給我有何益呢．你們的燔祭不蒙悅納、你們的平安祭我也不喜悅。

To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.

所以耶和華如此說、我要將絆腳石放在這百姓前面．父親和兒子、要一同跌在其上．鄰舍與朋友、也都滅亡。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

耶和華如此說、看哪、有一種民、從北方而來．並有一大國被激動、從地極來到。

Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

他們拿弓和槍．性情殘忍、不施憐憫．他們的聲音、像海浪匉訇．錫安城阿、〈城原文作女子〉他們騎馬、都擺隊伍、如上戰塲的人要攻擊你。

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

我們聽見他們的風聲、手就發輭．痛苦將我們抓住、疼痛彷彿產難的婦人。

We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

你們不要往田野去、也不要行在路上．因四圍有仇敵的刀劍、和驚嚇。

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

我民哪、〈民原文作民女〉應當腰束麻布、輥在灰中．你要悲傷、如喪獨生子痛痛哭號、因爲滅命的要忽然臨到我們。

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

我使你在我民中爲高臺、爲保障、〈高臺或作試驗人的〉使你知道試驗他們的行動。

I have made thee a trier [and] a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

他們都是極悖逆的、往來讒謗人．他們是銅是鐵、都行壞事。

They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

風箱吹火．鉛被燒燬．他們煉而又煉、終是徒然．因爲惡劣的還未除掉。

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

人必稱他們爲被棄的銀渣、因爲耶和華已經棄掉他們。

Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

第7章

耶和華的話臨到耶利米、說、

The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

你當站在耶和華殿的門口、在那裏宣傳這話、說、你們進這些門敬拜耶和華的一切猶大人、當聽耶和華的話。

Stand in the gate of Jehovah`s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你們改正行動作爲、我就使你們在這地方仍然居住。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

你們不要倚靠虛謊的話、說、這些是耶和華的殿、是耶和華的殿、是耶和華的殿。

Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.

你們若實在改正行動作爲、在人和鄰舍中間誠然施行公平．

For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

不欺壓寄居的、和孤兒寡婦、在這地方不流無辜人的血、也不隨從別神陷害自己．

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

我就使你們在這地方仍然居住、就是我古時所賜給你們列祖的地、直到永遠。

then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.

看哪、你們倚靠虛謊無益的話。

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

你們偷盜、殺害、姦淫、起假誓、向巴力燒香、並隨從素不認識的別神．

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

且來到這稱爲我名下的殿、在我面前敬拜、又說、我們可以自由了．你們這樣的舉動、是要行那些可憎的事麼。

and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

這稱爲我名下的殿、在你們眼中、豈可看爲賊窩麼．我都看見了．這是耶和華說的。

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.

你們且往示羅去、就是我先前立爲我名的居所、察看我因這百姓以色列的罪惡、向那地所行的如何。

But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

耶和華說、現在因你們行了這一切的事、我也從早起來警戒你們、你們卻不聽從、呼喚你們、你們卻不答應．

And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:

所以我要向這稱我爲名下、你們所倚靠的殿、與我所賜給你們和你們列祖的地施行、照我從前向示羅所行的一樣。

therefore will I do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

我必將你們從我眼前趕出、正如趕出你們的衆弟兄、就是以法蓮的一切後裔。

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

所以你不要爲這百姓祈禱、不要爲他們呼求禱告、也不要向我爲他們祈求．因我不聽允你。

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.

他們在猶大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上所行的、你沒有看見麼。

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

孩子撿柴、父親燒火、婦女摶麵作餅、獻給天后、又向別神澆奠祭、惹我發怒。

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

耶和華說、他們豈是惹我發怒呢．不是自己惹禍、以致臉上慚愧麼。

Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

所以主耶和華如此說、看哪、我必將我的怒氣和忿怒、傾在這地方的人和牲畜身上、並田野的樹木和地裏的出產上．必如火𤏲起、不能熄滅。

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你們將燔祭加在平安祭上、喫肉罷。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

因爲我將你們列祖從埃及地領出來的那日、燔祭平安祭的事、我並沒有題說、也沒有吩咐他們．

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

我只吩咐他們這一件、說、你們當聽從我的話、我就作你們的神、你們也作我的子民．你們行我所吩咐的一切道、就可以得福。

but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

他們卻不聽從、不側耳而聽、竟隨從自己的計謀、和頑梗的惡心、向後不向前。

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

自從你們列祖出埃及地的那日、直到今日、我差遣我的僕人衆先知、到你們那裏去、每日從早起來差遣他們．

Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

你們卻不聽從、不側耳而聽、竟硬着頸項行惡、比你們列祖更甚。

yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

你要將這一切的話告訴他們、他們卻不聽從、呼喚他們、他們卻不答應。

And thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

你要對他們說、這就是不聽從耶和華他們神的話、不受教訓的國民．從他們的口中誠實滅絕了。

And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

耶路撒冷阿、要剪髮拋棄、在淨光的高處舉哀．因爲耶和華丟掉離棄了惹他忿怒的世代。

Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

耶和華說、猶大人行我眼中看爲惡的事、將可憎之物設立在稱爲我名下的殿中、汚穢這殿。

For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

他們在欣嫩子谷建築陀斐特的邱壇、好在火中焚燒自己的兒女．這並不是我所吩咐的、也不是我心所起的意。

And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.

耶和華說、因此日子將到、這地方不再稱爲陀斐特和欣嫩子谷、反倒稱爲殺戮谷．因爲要在陀斐特葬埋屍首、甚至無處可葬。

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place [to bury].

並且這百姓的屍首、必給空中的飛鳥、和地上的野獸作食物、並無人鬨趕。

And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

那時、我必使猶大城邑中、和耶路撒冷街上、歡喜和快樂的聲音、新郎和新婦的聲音、都止息了．因爲地必成爲荒塲。

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

第8章

耶和華說、到那時人必將猶大王的骸骨、和他首領的骸骨、祭司的骸骨、先知的骸骨、並耶路撒冷居民的骸骨、都從墳墓中取出來、

At that time, saith Jehovah, 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;

拋散在日頭、月亮、和天上衆星之下、就是他們從前所喜愛、所事奉、所隨從、所求問、所敬拜的．這些骸骨不再收殮、不再葬埋．必在地面上、成爲糞土。

and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

並且這惡族所剩下的民、在我所趕他們到的各處、寧可揀死不揀生、這是萬軍之耶和華說的。

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.

你要對他們說、耶和華如此說、人跌倒、不再起來麼．人轉去、不再轉來麼。

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

這耶路撒冷的民、爲何恆久背道呢．他們守定詭詐、不肯回頭。

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

我留心聽、聽見他們說不正直的話．無人悔改惡行、說、我作的是甚麼呢．他們各人轉奔己路、如馬直闖戰塲。

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

空中的鸛鳥、知道來去的定期．斑鳩燕子與白鶴、也守候當來的時令．我的百姓、卻不知道耶和華的法則。

Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.

你們怎麼說、我們有智慧、耶和華的律法在我們這裏．看哪、文士的假筆舞弄虛假。

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

智慧人慚愧、驚惶、被擒拿．他們棄掉耶和華的話、心裏還有甚麼智慧呢。

The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

所以我必將他們的妻子給別人、將他們的田地給別人爲業．因爲他們從最小的到至大的、都一味的貪婪．從先知到祭司、都行事虛謊。

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

他們輕輕忽忽的醫治我百姓的損傷、說、平安了、平安了．其實沒有平安。

And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

他們行可憎的事、知道慚愧麼．不然、他們毫不慚愧、也不知羞恥．因此他們必在仆倒的人中仆倒．我向他們討罪的時候、他們必致跌倒．這是耶和華說的。

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、我必使他們全然滅絕．葡萄樹上必沒有葡萄、無花果樹上必沒有果子、葉子也必枯乾．我所賜給他們的、必離開他們過去。

I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah: there shall be no grapes 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.

我們爲何靜坐不動呢．我們當聚集、進入堅固城、在那裏靜默不言．因爲耶和華我們的神、使我們靜默不言、又將苦膽水給我們喝、都因我們得罪了耶和華。

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

我們指望平安、卻得不着好處．指望痊癒的時候、不料、受了驚惶．

We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

聽見從但那裏敵人的馬噴鼻氣．他的壯馬發嘶聲、全地就都震動．因爲他們來吞滅這地、和其上所有的．吞滅這城、與其中的居民。

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.

看哪、我必使毒蛇到你們中間、是不服法術的、必咬你們．這是耶和華說的。

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

我有憂愁、願能自慰．我心在我裏面發昏。

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

聽阿、是我百姓的哀聲、從極遠之地而來、說、耶和華不在錫安麼．錫安的王不在其中麼．耶和華說、他們爲甚麼以雕刻的偶像、和外邦虛無的神、惹我發怒呢。

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

麥秋已過、夏令已完、我們還未得救。

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

先知說、因我百姓的損傷、我也受了損傷．我哀痛．驚惶將我抓住。

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

在基列豈沒有乳香呢．在那裏豈沒有醫生呢．我百姓爲何不得痊癒呢。

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

第9章

但願我的頭爲水、我的眼爲淚的泉源、我好爲我百姓〈原文作民女七節同〉中被殺的人、晝夜哭泣。

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

惟願我在曠野有行路人住宿之處、使我可以離開我的民出去．因他們都是行姦淫的、是行詭詐的一黨。

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.

他們彎起舌頭、像弓一樣、爲要說謊話．他們在國中、增長勢力、不是爲行誠實、乃是惡上加惡、並不認識我．這是耶和華說的。

And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

你們各人當謹防鄰舍、不可信靠弟兄．因爲弟兄盡行欺騙、鄰舍都往來讒謗人。

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

他們各人欺哄鄰舍、不說眞話．他們教舌頭學習說謊．勞勞碌碌的作孽。

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

你的住處在詭詐的人中．他們因行詭詐不肯認識我．這是耶和華說的。

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

所以萬軍之耶和華如此說、看哪、我要將他們鎔化熬煉．不然、我因我百姓的罪該怎樣行呢。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

他們的舌頭是毒箭、說話詭詐．人與鄰舍口說和平話、心卻謀害他。

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

耶和華說、我豈不因這些事討他們的罪呢．豈不報復這樣的國民呢。

Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

我要爲山嶺哭泣悲哀、爲曠野的草塲揚聲哀號、因爲都已乾焦、甚至無人經過．人也聽不見牲畜鳴叫．空中的飛鳥、和地上的野獸、都已逃去。

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

我必使耶路撒冷變爲亂堆、爲野狗的住處．也必使猶大的城邑、變爲荒塲、無人居住。

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

誰是智慧人、可以明白這事．耶和華的口向誰說過、使他可以傳說．徧地爲何滅亡乾焦好像曠野、甚至無人經過呢。

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

耶和華說、因爲這百姓離棄我在他們面前所設立的律法、沒有遵行、也沒有聽從我的話．

And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

只隨從自己頑梗的心行事、照他們列祖所教訓的、隨從衆巴力．

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;

所以萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、看哪、我必將茵蔯給這百姓喫、又將苦膽水給他們喝。

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

我要把他們散在列邦中、就是他們和他們列祖素不認識的列邦．我也要使刀劍追殺他們、直到將他們滅盡。

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

萬軍之耶和華如此說、你們應當思想、將善唱哀歌的婦女召來．又打發人召善哭的婦女來。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:

叫他們速速爲我們舉哀、使我們眼淚汪汪、使我們的眼皮湧出水來。

and 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.

因爲聽見哀聲出於錫安、說、我們怎樣敗落了．我們大大的慚愧、我們撇下地土、人也拆毀了我們的房屋。

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

婦女們哪、你們當聽耶和華的話、領受他口中的言語．又當教導你們的兒女舉哀、各人教導鄰舍唱哀歌。

Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

因爲死亡上來、進了我們的窗戶、入了我們的宮殿．要從外邊剪除孩童、從街上剪除少年人。

For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

你當說、耶和華如此說、人的屍首必倒在田野像糞土、又像收割的人遺落的一把禾稼、無人收取。

Speak, Thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather [them].

耶和華如此說、智慧人不要因他的智慧誇口、勇士不要因他的勇力誇口、財主不要因他的財物誇口．

Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

誇口的卻因他有聰明、認識我是耶和華、又知道我喜悅在世上施行慈愛公平和公義、以此誇口．這是耶和華說的。

but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、看哪、日子將到、我要刑罰一切受過割禮、心卻未受割禮的．

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

就是埃及、猶大、以東、亞捫人、摩押人、和一切住在曠野剃周圍頭髮的．因爲列國人都沒有受割禮、以色列人心中、也沒有受割禮。

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

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以色列家阿、要聽耶和華對你們所說的話。

Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

耶和華如此說、你們不要效法列國的行爲、也不要爲天象驚惶．因列國爲此事驚惶。

thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

衆民的風俗是虛空的．他們在樹林中用斧子砍伐一棵樹、匠人用手工造成偶像。

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

他們用金銀妝飾他、用釘子和錘子釘穩、使他不動搖。

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

他好像棕樹、是鏇成的、不能說話、不能行走、必須有人抬着。你們不要怕他．他不能降禍、也無力降福。

They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

耶和華阿、沒有能比你的．你本爲大、有大能大力的名。

There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

萬國的王阿、誰不敬畏你．敬畏你本是合宜的．因爲在列國的智慧人中、雖有政權的尊榮、也不能比你。

Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.

他們盡都是畜類、是愚昧的．偶像的訓誨算甚麼呢．偶像不過是木頭。

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

有銀子打成片、是從他施帶來的、並有從烏法來的金子、都是匠人和銀匠的手工．又有藍色紫色料的衣服、都是巧匠的工作。

There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.

惟耶和華是眞神、是活神、是永遠的王．他一發怒大地震動、他一惱恨、列國都擔當不起。

But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

你們要對他們如此說、不是那創造天地的神、必從地上從天下被除滅。

Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

耶和華用能力創造大地、用智慧建立世界、用聰明鋪張穹蒼。

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

他一發聲、空中便有多水激動．他使雲霧從地極上騰．他造電隨雨而閃、從他府庫中帶出風來。

when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

各人都成了畜類、毫無知識．各銀匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧．他所鑄的偶像、本是虛假的、其中並無氣息．

Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

都是虛無的、是迷惑人的工作．到追討的時候、必被除滅。

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

雅各的分不像這些．因他是造作萬有的主．以色列也是他產業的支派．萬軍之耶和華是他的名。

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

受圍困的人哪、當收拾你的財物、從國中帶出去。

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

因爲耶和華如此說、這時候、我必將此地的居民、好像用機弦甩出去、又必加害在他們身上、使他們覺悟。

For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].

民說、禍哉、我受損傷．我的傷痕、極其重大．我卻說、這眞是我的痛苦、必須忍受。

Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

我的帳棚毀壞、我的繩索折斷。我的兒女離我出去、沒有了．無人再支搭我的帳棚、掛起我的幔子。

My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

因爲牧人都成爲畜類、沒有求問耶和華．所以不得順利、他們的羊羣也都分散。

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

有風聲、看哪、敵人來了、有大擾亂從北方出來、要使猶大城邑、變爲荒涼、成爲野狗的住處。

The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

耶和華阿、我曉得人的道路不由自己．行路的人、也不能定自己的腳步。

O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

耶和華阿、求你從寬懲治我．不要在你的怒中懲治我、恐怕使我歸於無有。

O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

願你將忿怒傾在不認識你的列國中、和不求告你名的各族上．因爲他們吞了雅各、不但吞了而且滅絕、把他的住處變爲荒塲。

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

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耶和華的話臨到耶利米、說、

The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

當聽這約的話、告訴猶大人、和耶路撒冷的居民．

Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

對他們說、耶和華以色列的神如此說、不聽從這約之話的人、必受咒詛．

and say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant,

這約、是我將你們列祖從埃及地領出來、脫離鐵爐的那日所吩咐他們的、說、你們要聽從我的話、照我一切所吩咐的去行．這樣、你們就作我的子民、我也作你們的神．

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;

我好堅定向你們列祖所起的誓、給他們流奶與蜜之地、正如今日一樣。我就回答說、耶和華阿、阿們。

that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

耶和華對我說、你要在猶大城邑中、和耶路撒冷街市上、宣告這一切話、說、你們當聽從遵行這約的話。

And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

因爲我將你們列祖從埃及地領出來的那日、直到今日、都是從早起來、切切告誡他們、說、你們當聽從我的話。

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

他們卻不聽從、不側耳而聽、竟隨從自己頑梗的惡心去行．所以我使這約中一切咒詛的話、臨到他們身上、這約是我吩咐他們行的、他們卻不去行。

Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.

耶和華對我說、在猶大人和耶路撒冷居民中、有同謀背叛的事。

And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

他們轉去效法他們的先祖、不肯聽我的話、犯罪作孽．又隨從別神事奉他．以色列家和猶大家背了我與他們列祖所立的約。

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

所以耶和華如此說、我必使災禍臨到他們、是他們不能逃脫的．他們必向我哀求、我卻不聽。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.

那時猶大城邑的人、和耶路撒冷的居民、要去哀求他們燒香所供奉的神．只是遭難的時候、這些神毫不拯救他們。

Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

猶大阿、你神的數目、與你城的數目相等．你爲那可恥的巴力所築燒香的壇、也與耶路撒冷街道的數目相等。

For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

所以你不要爲這百姓祈禱、不要爲他們呼求禱告．因爲他們遭難向我哀求的時候、我必不應允。

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.

我所親愛的、旣行許多淫亂、聖肉也離了你、你在我殿中作甚麼呢．你作惡就喜樂。

What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

從前耶和華給你起名叫青橄欖樹、又華美、又結好果子．如今他用鬨嚷之聲、點火在其上、枝子也被折斷。

Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

原來栽培你的萬軍之耶和華已經說、要降禍攻擊你、是因以色列家和猶大家行惡、向巴力燒香、惹我發怒、是自作自受。

For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.

耶和華指示我、我就知道．你將他們所行的給我指明。

And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.

我卻像柔順的羊羔、被牽到宰殺之地．我並不知道他們設計謀害我、說、我們把樹連果子都滅了罷、將他從活人之地剪除、使他的名不再被記念。

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

按公義判斷、察驗人肺腑心腸的萬軍之耶和華阿、我卻要見你在他們身上報仇．因我將我的案件向你稟明了。

But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

所以耶和華論到尋索你命的亞拿突人如此說、他們說、你不要奉耶和華的名說豫言、免得你死在我們手中．

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;

所以萬軍之耶和華如此說、看哪、我必刑罰他們、他們的少年人、必被刀劍殺死．他們的兒女、必因饑荒滅亡。

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

並且沒有餘剩的人留給他們．因爲在追討之年、我必使災禍臨到亞拿突人。

and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

第12章

耶和華阿、我與你爭辯的時候、你顯爲義．但有一件、我還要與你理論．惡人的道路爲何亨通呢．大行詭詐的爲何得安逸呢．

Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

你栽培了他們、他們也扎了根、長大、而且結果．他們的口、是與你相近、心卻與你遠離。

Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

耶和華阿、你曉得我、看見我、察驗我向你是怎樣的心．求你將他們拉出來、好像將宰的羊、叫他們等候殺戮的日子。

But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

這地悲哀、通國的青草枯乾、要到幾時呢．因其上居民的惡行、牲畜和飛鳥都滅絕了．他們曾說、他看不見我們的結局。

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

耶和華說、你若與步行的人同跑、尚且覺累、怎能與馬賽跑呢．你在平安之地、雖然安穩、在約但河邊的叢林要怎樣行呢。

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

因爲連你弟兄和你父家、都用奸詐待你．他們也在你後邊大聲喊叫．雖向你說好話、你也不要信他們。

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

我離了我的殿宇、撇棄我的產業、將我心裏所親愛的、交在他仇敵的手中。

I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

我的產業向我如林中的獅子．他發聲攻擊我．因此我恨惡他。

My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

我的產業、向我豈如斑點的鷙鳥呢．鷙鳥豈在他四圍攻擊他呢．你們要去聚集田野的百獸、帶來吞喫罷。

Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

許多牧人毀壞我的葡萄園、踐踏我的分、使我美好的分變爲荒涼的曠野。

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

他們使地荒涼．地旣荒涼、便向我悲哀．全地荒涼、因無人介意。

They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

滅命的都來到曠野中一切淨光的高處．耶和華的刀、從地這邊、直到地那邊、盡行殺滅．凡有血氣的、都不得平安。

Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.

他們種的是麥子、收的是荊棘．勞勞苦苦、卻毫無益處．因耶和華的烈怒、你們必爲自己的土產羞愧。

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

耶和華如此說、一切惡鄰、就是佔據我使百姓以色列所承受產業的、我要將他們拔出本地、又要將猶大家從他們中間拔出來。

Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

我拔出他們以後、我必轉過來憐憫他們、把他們再帶回來、各歸本業、各歸故土。

And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

他們若殷勤學習我百姓的道、指着我的名起誓、說、我指着永生的耶和華起誓．正如他們從前教我百姓指着巴力起誓、他們就必建立在我百姓中間。

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.

他們若是不聽、我必拔出那國、拔出而且毀滅．這是耶和華說的。

But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah.

第13章

耶和華對我如此說、你去買一根麻布帶子束腰、不可放在水中。

Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

我就照着耶和華的話、買了一根帶子束腰。

So I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.

耶和華的話、第二次臨到我說、

And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying,

要拿着你所買的腰帶、就是你腰上的帶子、起來、往伯拉河去、將腰帶藏在那裏的磐石穴中。

Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.

我就去、照着耶和華所吩咐我的、將腰帶藏在伯拉河邊。

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.

過了多日、耶和華對我說、你起來、往伯拉河去、將我吩咐你藏在那裏的腰帶取出來。

And it came to pass after many days, that Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.

我就往伯拉河去、將腰帶從我所藏的地方刨出來．見腰帶已經變壞、毫無用了。

Then I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

耶和華的話臨到我說、

Then the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

耶和華如此說、我必照樣敗壞猶大的驕傲、和耶路撒冷的大驕傲。

Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

這惡民、不肯聽我的話、按自己頑梗的心而行、隨從別神、事奉敬拜、他們也必像這腰帶、變爲無用。

This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

耶和華說、腰帶怎樣緊貼人腰、照樣、我也使以色列全家、和猶大全家緊貼我、好叫他們屬我爲子民、使我得名聲、得頌讚、得榮耀．他們卻不肯聽。

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

所以你要對他們說、耶和華以色列的神如此說、各罎都要盛滿了酒．他們必對你說、我們豈不確知各罎都要盛滿了酒呢。

Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

你就要對他們說、耶和華如此說、我必使這地的一切居民、就是坐大衞寶座的君王、和祭司、與先知、並耶路撒冷的一切居民、都酩酊大醉。

Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David`s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

耶和華說、我要使他們彼此相碰、就是父與子彼此相碰．我必不可憐、不顧惜、不憐憫、以致滅絕他們。

And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

你們當聽、當側耳而聽．不要驕傲．因爲耶和華已經說了。

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Jehovah hath spoken.

耶和華你們的神未使黑暗來到、你們的腳、未在昏暗山上絆跌之先、當將榮耀歸給他．免得你們盼望光明、他使光明變爲死蔭、成爲幽暗。

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

你們若不聽這話、我必因你們的驕傲、在暗地哭泣．我眼必痛哭流淚、因爲耶和華的羣衆被擄去了。

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah`s flock is taken captive.

你要對君王和太后說、你們當自卑、坐在下邊、因你們的頭巾、就是你們的華冠、已經脫落了。

Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.

南方的城、盡都關閉、無人開放．猶大全被擄掠、且擄掠淨盡。

The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

你們要舉目觀看從北方來的人．先前賜給你的羣衆、就是你佳美的羣衆、如今在哪裏呢。

Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

耶和華立你自己所交的朋友爲首、轄制你、那時你還有甚麼話說呢．痛苦豈不將你抓住、像產難的婦人麼。

What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

你若心裏說、這一切事爲何臨到我呢．你的衣襟揭起、你的腳跟受傷、是因你的罪孽甚多。

And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.

古實人豈能改變皮膚呢．豹豈能改變斑點呢．若能、你們這習慣行惡的、便能行善了。

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

所以我必用曠野的風、吹散他們、像吹過的碎稭一樣。

Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.

耶和華說、這是你所當得的、是我量給你的分．因爲你忘記我、倚靠虛假。〈或作偶像〉

This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

所以我要揭起你的衣襟、蒙在你臉上、顯出你的醜陋。

Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

你那些可憎惡之事、就是在田野的山上行姦淫、發嘶聲、做淫亂的事、我都看見了。耶路撒冷阿、你有禍了．你不肯潔淨、還要到幾時呢。

I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

第14章

耶和華論到乾旱之災的話、臨到耶利米。

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

猶大悲哀、城門衰敗、衆人披上黑衣坐在地上．耶路撒冷的哀聲上達。

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

他們的貴胄打發家僮打水．他們來到水池、見沒有水、就拿着空器皿、蒙羞慚愧、抱頭而回。

And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.

耕地的也蒙羞抱頭．因爲無雨降在地上、地都乾裂。

Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.

田野的母鹿、生下小鹿、就撇棄、因爲無草。

Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh [her young], because there is no grass.

野驢站在淨光的高處、喘氣好像野狗．因爲無草、眼目失明。

And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

耶和華阿、我們的罪孽、雖然作見證告我們、還求你爲你名的緣故行事．我們本是多次背道、得罪了你。

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name`s sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

以色列所盼望在患難時作他救主的阿、你爲何在這地像寄居的、又像行路的只住一宵呢。

O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

你爲何像受驚的人、像不能救人的勇士呢．耶和華阿、你仍在我們中間、我們也稱爲你名下的人．求你不要離開我們。

Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

耶和華對這百姓如此說、這百姓喜愛妄行、〈原文作飄流〉不禁止腳步．所以耶和華不悅納他們．現今要記念他們的罪孽、追討他們的罪惡。

Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

耶和華又對我說、不要爲這百姓祈禱求好處。

And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] good.

他們禁食的時候、我不聽他們的呼求．他們獻燔祭和素祭、我也不悅納．我卻要用刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、滅絕他們。

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

我就說、唉、主耶和華阿、那些先知常對他們說、你們必不看見刀劍、也不遭遇饑荒．耶和華要在這地方賜你們長久的平安。

Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

耶和華對我說、那些先知託我的名說假豫言．我並沒有打發他們、沒有吩咐他們、也沒有對他們說話．他們向你們豫言的、乃是虛假的異象、和占卜、並虛無的事、以及本心的詭詐。

Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

所以耶和華如此說、論到託我名說豫言的那些先知、我並沒有打發他們、他們還說這地不能有刀劍饑荒．其實那些先知必被刀劍饑荒滅絕。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

聽他們說豫言的百姓、必因饑荒刀劍拋在耶路撒冷的街道上、無人葬埋．他們連妻子帶兒女、都是如此．我必將他們的惡、倒在他們身上。〈或作我必使他們罪惡的報應臨到他們身上〉

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

你要將這話對他們說、願我眼淚汪汪、晝夜不息．因爲我百姓〈原文作民的處女〉受了裂口破壞的大傷。

And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

我若出往田間、就見有被刀殺的．我若進入城內、就見有因饑荒患病的．連先知帶祭司在國中往來、也是毫無知識。〈或作不知怎樣纔好〉

If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

你全然棄掉猶大麼．你心厭惡錫安麼．爲何擊打我們、以致無法醫治呢．我們指望平安、卻得不着好處．指望痊癒、不料、受了驚惶。

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

耶和華阿、我們承認自己的罪惡、和我們列祖的罪孽．因我們得罪了你。

We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

求你爲你名的緣故、不厭惡我們、不辱沒你榮耀的寶座．求你追念、不要背了與我們所立的約。

Do not abhor [us], for thy name`s sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

外邦人虛無的神中、有能降雨的麼。天能自降甘霖麼．耶和華我們的神阿、能如此的、不是你麼．所以我們仍要等候你、因爲這一切都是你所造的。

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.

第15章

耶和華對我說、雖有摩西和撒母耳站在我面前代求、我的心也不顧惜這百姓．你將他們從我眼前趕出、叫他們去罷。

Then said Jehovah unto 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 forth.

他們問你說、我們往那裏去呢．你便告訴他們、耶和華如此說、定爲死亡的、必至死亡．定爲刀殺的、必交刀殺．定爲饑荒的、必遭饑荒．定爲擄掠的、必被擄掠。

And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: 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.

耶和華說、我命定四樣害他們、就是刀劍殺戮、狗類撕裂、空中的飛鳥、和地上的野獸吞喫毀滅。

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

又必使他們在天下萬國中、拋來拋去．都因猶大王希西家的兒子瑪拿西在耶路撒冷所行的事。

And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

耶路撒冷阿、誰可憐你呢．誰爲你悲傷呢．誰轉身問你的安呢。

For who will have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to ask of thy welfare?

耶和華說、你棄絕了我、轉身退後．因此我伸手攻擊你、毀壞你．我後悔甚不耐煩。

Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.

我在境內各城門口、〈或作我在這地邊界的關口〉用簸箕簸了我的百姓、使他們喪掉兒女．我毀滅他們、他們仍不轉離所行的道。

And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

他們的寡婦在我面前、比海沙更多．我使滅命的午間來、攻擊少年人的母親、使痛苦驚嚇忽然臨到他身上。

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

生過七子的婦人、力衰氣絕、尚在白晝、日頭忽落．他抱愧蒙羞．其餘的人、我必在他們敵人跟前、交與刀劍．這是耶和華說的。

She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.

我的母親哪、我有禍了、因你生我作爲遍地相爭相競的人．我素來沒有借貸與人、人也沒有借貸與我、人人卻都咒罵我。

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast 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] every one of them doth curse me.

耶和華說、我必要堅固你、使你得好處．災禍苦難臨到的時候、我必要使仇敵央求你。

Jehovah said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

人豈能將銅與鐵、就是北方的鐵、折斷呢．

Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

我必因你在四境之內所犯的一切罪、把你的貨物財寶當掠物、白白的交給仇敵。

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

我也必使仇敵帶這掠物到你所不認識的地去．因我怒中起的火要將你們焚燒。

And I will make [them] to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

耶和華阿、你是知道的．求你記念我、眷顧我、向逼迫我的人爲我報仇．不要向他們忍怒取我的命．要知道我爲你的緣故、受了凌辱。

O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.

耶和華萬軍之神阿、我得着你的言語、就當食物喫了．你的言語、是我心中的歡喜快樂．因我是稱爲你名下的人。

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

我沒有坐在宴樂人的會中、也沒有歡樂．我因你的感動、〈感動原文作手〉獨自靜坐．因你使我滿心憤恨。

I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

我的痛苦、爲何長久不止呢．我的傷痕、爲何無法醫治、不能痊癒呢．難道你待我有詭詐、像流乾的河道麼。

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

耶和華如此說、你若歸回、我就將你再帶來、使你站在我面前．你若將寶貴的、和下賤的分別出來、你就可以當作我的口、他們必歸向你、你卻不可歸向他們。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.

我必使你向這百姓成爲堅固的銅牆．他們必攻擊你、卻不能勝你．因我與你同在、要拯救你、搭救你．這是耶和華說的。

And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.

我必搭救你脫離惡人的手、救贖你脫離強暴人的手。

And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

第16章

耶和華的話又臨到我說、

The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying,

你在這地方不可娶妻、生兒養女。

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

因爲論到在這地方所生的兒女、又論到在這國中生養他們的父母、耶和華如此說、

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

他們必死得甚苦、無人哀哭、必不得葬埋．必在地上像糞土．必被刀劍和饑荒滅絕．他們的屍首必給空中的飛鳥、和地上的野獸作食物。

They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

耶和華如此說、不要進入喪家、不要去哀哭、也不要爲他們悲傷．因我已將我的平安、慈愛、憐憫、從這百姓奪去了．這是耶和華說的。

For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.

連大帶小、都必在這地死亡、不得葬埋．人必不爲他們哀哭、不用刀劃身、也不使頭光禿。

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

他們有喪事、人必不爲他們擘餅、因死人安慰他們．他們喪父喪母、人也不給他們一杯酒安慰他們。

neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

你不可進入宴樂的家、與他們同坐喫喝。

And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

因爲萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你們還活着的日子在你們眼前、我必使歡喜和快樂的聲音、新郎和新婦的聲音、從這地方止息了。

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

你將這一切的話、指示這百姓、他們問你說、耶和華爲甚麼說、要降這大災禍攻擊我們呢．我們有甚麼罪孽呢．我們向耶和華我們的神犯了甚麼罪呢．

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?

你就對他們說、耶和華說、因爲你們列祖離棄我、隨從別神、事奉敬拜、不遵守我的律法．

Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

而且你們行惡、比你們列祖更甚．因爲各人隨從自己頑梗的惡心行事、甚至不聽從我。

and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

所以我必將你們從這地趕出、直趕到你們和你們列祖素不認識的地．你們在那裏必晝夜事奉別神．因爲我必不向你們施恩。

therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.

耶和華說、日子將到、人必不再指着那領以色列人從埃及地上來之永生的耶和華起誓．

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

卻要指着那領以色列人從北方之地．並趕他們到的各國上來之永生的耶和華起誓．並且我要領他們再入我從前賜給他們列祖之地。

but, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

耶和華說、我要召許多打魚的、把以色列人打上來．然後我要召許多打獵的、從各山上、各岡上、各石穴中、獵取他們。

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

因我的眼目察看他們的一切行爲．他們不能在我面前遮掩、他們的罪孽、也不能在我眼前隱藏。

For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.

我先要加倍報應他們的罪孽、和罪惡、因爲他們用可憎之屍、玷汚我的地土、又用可厭之物、充滿我的產業。

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations.

耶和華阿、你是我的力量、是我的保障、在苦難之日、是我的避難所．列國人必從地極來到你這裏、說、我們列祖所承受的、不過是虛假、是虛空無益之物。

O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, [even] vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

人豈可爲自己製造神呢．其實這不是神。

Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?

耶和華說、我要使他們知道、就是這一次使他們知道我的手、和我的能力．他們就知道我的名是耶和華了。

Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Jehovah.

第17章

猶大的罪、是用鐵筆、用金鋼鑽記錄的．銘刻在他們的心版上、和壇角上。

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

他們的兒女、記念他們高岡上青翠樹旁的壇、和木偶。

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

我田野的山哪、我必因你在四境之內所犯的罪、把你的貨物、財寶、並邱壇、當掠物交給仇敵。

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

並且你因自己的罪、必失去我所賜給你的產業．我也必使你在你所不認識的地上、服事你的仇敵、因爲你使我怒中起火、直燒到永遠。

And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn for ever.

耶和華如此說、倚靠人血肉的膀臂、心中離棄耶和華的、那人有禍了．

Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

因他必像沙漠的杜松、不見福樂來到、卻要住曠野乾旱之處、無人居住的鹼地。

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

倚靠耶和華、以耶和華爲可靠的、那人有福了。

Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is.

他必像樹栽於水旁、在河邊扎根、炎熱來到、並不懼怕、葉子仍必青翠、在乾旱之年毫無掛慮、而且結果不止。

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

人心比萬物都詭詐、壞到極處、誰能識透呢。

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

我耶和華是鑒察人心、試驗人肺腑的、要照各人所行的、和他作事的結果報應他。

I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

那不按正道得財的、好像鷓鴣菢不是自己下的蛋．到了中年、那財都必離開他、他終久成爲愚頑人。

As the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

我們的聖所是榮耀的寶座、從太初安置在高處。

A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

耶和華以色列的盼望阿、凡離棄你的、必至蒙羞。耶和華說、離開我的、他們的名字必寫在土裏、因爲他們離棄我這活水的泉源。

O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

耶和華阿、求你醫治我、我便痊癒．拯救我、我便得救．因你是我所讚美的。

Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

他們對我說、耶和華的話在哪裏呢、叫這話應驗罷。

Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

至於我、那跟從你作牧人的職分、我並沒有急忙離棄、也沒有想那災殃的日子、這是你知道的．我口中所出的言語、都在你面前。

As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

不要使我因你驚恐．當災禍的日子、你是我的避難所。

Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.

願那些逼迫我的蒙羞、卻不要使我蒙羞、使他們驚惶、卻不要使我驚惶、使災禍的日子臨到他們、以加倍的毀壞毀壞他們。

Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

耶和華對我如此說、你去站在平民的門口、就是猶大君王出入的門、又站在耶路撒冷的各門口．

Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

對他們說、你們這猶大君王、和猶大衆人、並耶路撒冷的一切居民、凡從這些門進入的、都當聽耶和華的話。

and say unto them, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

耶和華如此說、你們要謹愼、不要在安息日擔甚麼擔子、進入耶路撒冷的各門．

Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

也不要在安息日、從家中擔出擔子去．無論何工都不可作、只要以安息日爲聖日、正如我所吩咐你們列祖的。

neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

他們卻不聽從、不側耳而聽、竟硬着頸項不聽、不受教訓。

But they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

耶和華說、你們若留意聽從我、在安息日不擔甚麼擔子進入這城的各門、只以安息日爲聖日、在那日無論何工都不作、

And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

那時就有坐大衞寶座的君王、和首領、他們與猶大人、並耶路撒冷的居民、或坐車、或騎馬、進入這城的各門．而且這城必存到永遠。

then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever.

也必有人從猶大城邑、和耶路撒冷四圍的各處、從便雅憫地、高原、山地、並南地而來、都帶燔祭、平安祭、素祭、和乳香、並感謝祭、到耶和華的殿去。

And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, unto the house of Jehovah.

你們若不聽從我、不以安息日爲聖日、仍在安息日擔擔子、進入耶路撒冷的各門、我必在各門中點火、這火也必燒燬耶路撒冷的宮殿、不能熄滅。

But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

第18章

耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

你起來、下到窰匠的家裏去、我在那裏要使你聽我的話。

Arise, and go down to the potter`s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

我就下到窰匠的家裏去、正遇他轉輪做器皿。

Then I went down to the potter`s house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.

窰匠用泥作的器皿、在他手中做壞了、他又用這泥另作別的器皿．窰匠看怎樣好、就怎樣作。

And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

耶和華的話就臨到我說、

Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

耶和華說、以色列家阿、我待你們、豈不能照這窰匠弄泥麼．以色列家阿、泥在窰匠的手中怎樣、你們在我的手中也怎樣。

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter`s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

我何時論到一邦、或一國、說、要拔出、拆毀、毀壞。

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

我所說的那一邦、若是轉意離開他們的惡、我就必後悔、不將我想要施行的災禍降與他們。

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

我何時論到一邦、或一國、說、要建立、栽植．

And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

他們若行我眼中看爲惡的事、不聽從我的話、我就必後悔、不將我所說的福氣賜給他們。

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

現在你要對猶大人、和耶路撒冷的居民說、耶和華如此說、我造出災禍攻擊你們、定意刑罰你們．你們各人當回頭離開所行的惡道、改正你們的行動作爲。

Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

他們卻說、這是枉然．我們要照自己的計謀去行．各人隨自己頑梗的惡心作事。

But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

所以耶和華如此說、你們且往各國訪問、有誰聽見這樣的事、以色列民〈原文作處女〉行了一件極可憎惡的事。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

利巴嫩的雪、從田野的磐石上豈能斷絕呢。從遠處流下的涼水、豈能乾涸呢。

Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

我的百姓竟忘記我、向假神燒香、使他們在所行的路上、在古道上絆跌、使他們行沒有修築的斜路．

For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

以致他們的地令人驚駭、常常嗤笑、凡經過這地的、必驚駭搖頭。

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

我必在仇敵面前分散他們、好像用東風吹散一樣．遭難的日子、我必以背向他們、不以面向他們。

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

他們就說、來罷．我們可以設計謀害耶利米、因爲我們有祭司講律法、智慧人設謀畧、先知說豫言、都不能斷絕．來罷、我們可以用舌頭擊打他、不要理會他的一切話。

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

耶和華阿、求你理會我、且聽那些與我爭競之人的話。

Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

豈可以惡報善呢．他們竟挖坑要害我的性命．求你記念我怎樣站在你面前、爲他們代求、要使你的忿怒向他們轉消。

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

故此、願你將他們的兒女交與饑荒、和刀劍．願他們的妻無子、且作寡婦、又願他們的男人被死亡所滅、他們的少年人在陣上被刀擊殺。

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

你使敵軍忽然臨到他們的時候、願人聽見哀聲從他們的屋內發出、因他們挖坑要捉拿我、暗設網羅要絆我的腳。

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

耶和華阿、他們要殺我的那一切計謀、你都知道．不要赦免他們的罪孽、也不要從你面前塗抹他們的罪惡、要叫他們在你面前跌倒、願你發怒的時候罰辦他們。

Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

第19章

耶和華如此說、你去買窰匠的瓦瓶、又帶百姓中的長老、和祭司中的長老、

Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter`s earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

出去到欣嫩子谷、哈珥西〈哈珥西就是瓦片的意思〉的門口那裏、宣告我所吩咐你的話、

and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee;

說、猶大君王、和耶路撒冷的居民哪、當聽耶和華的話．萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我必使災禍臨到這地方、凡聽見的人都必耳鳴．

and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

因爲他們和他們列祖、並猶大君王離棄我、將這地方看爲平常、在這裏向素不認識的別神燒香、又使這地方滿了無辜人的血．

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

又建築巴力的邱壇、好在火中焚燒自己的兒子、作爲燔祭獻給巴力．這不是我所吩咐的、不是我所題說的、也不是我心所起的意。

and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

耶和華說、因此、日子將到、這地方不再稱爲陀斐特、和欣嫩子谷、反倒稱爲殺戮谷。

therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

我必在這地方、使猶大和耶路撒冷的計謀落空、也必使他們在仇敵面前倒於刀下、並尋索其命的人手下．他們的屍首我必給空中的飛鳥、和地上的野獸作食物。

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

我必使這城、令人驚駭嗤笑．凡經過的人、必因這城所遭的災、驚駭嗤笑。

And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

我必使他們在圍困窘迫之中、就是仇敵和尋索其命的人窘迫他們的時候、各人喫自己兒女的肉、和朋友的肉。

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.

你要在同去的人眼前、打碎那瓶、

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

對他們說、萬軍之耶和華如此說、我要照樣打碎這民、和這城、正如人打碎窰匠的瓦器、以致不能再囫圇．並且人要在陀斐特葬埋屍首、甚至無處可葬。

and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter`s vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

耶和華說、我必向這地方、和其中的居民如此行、使這城與陀斐特一樣。

Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

耶路撒冷的房屋、和猶大君王的宮殿、是已經被玷汚的、就是他們在其上向天上的萬象燒香、向別神澆奠祭的宮殿房屋、都必與陀斐特一樣。

and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.

耶利米從陀斐特、就是耶和華差他去說豫言的地方、回來站在耶和華殿的院中、對衆人說、

Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah`s house, and said to all the people:

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我必使我所說的一切災禍臨到這城、和屬城的一切城邑、因爲他們硬着頸項、不聽我的話。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

第20章

祭司音麥的兒子巴施戶珥、作耶和華殿的總管、聽見耶利米豫言這些事．

Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

他就打先知耶利米、用耶和華殿裏便雅憫高門內的枷、將他枷在那裏。

Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.

次日巴施戶珥將耶利米開枷釋放．於是耶利米對他說、耶和華不是叫你的名爲巴施戶珥、乃是叫你瑪歌珥米撒畢、〈就是四面驚嚇的意思〉

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

因耶和華如此說、我必使你自覺驚嚇、你也必使衆朋友驚嚇、他們必倒在仇敵的刀下、你也必親眼看見、我必將猶大人全交在巴比倫王的手中、他要將他們擄到巴比倫去、也要用刀將他們殺戮。

For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

並且我要將這城中的一切貨財、和勞碌得來的、並一切珍寶、以及猶大君王所有的寶物、都交在他們仇敵的手中．仇敵要當作掠物、帶到巴比倫去。

Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the precious things thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

你這巴施戶珥和一切住在你家中的人、都必被擄去、你和你的衆朋友、就是你向他們說假豫言的、都必到巴比倫去、要死在那裏、葬在那裏。

And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.

耶和華阿、你曾勸導我、我也聽了你的勸導．你比我有力量、且勝了我．我終日成爲笑話、人人都戲弄我。

O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

我每逢講論的時候、就發出哀聲、我喊叫說、有強暴、和毀滅．因爲耶和華的話終日成了我的凌辱、譏刺。

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

我若說、我不再題耶和華、也不再奉他的名講論、我便心裏覺得似乎有燒着的火、閉塞在我骨中、我就含忍不住、不能自禁。

And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain].

我聽見了許多人的讒謗、四圍都是驚嚇．就是我知己的朋友也都窺探我、願我跌倒、說、告他罷、我們也要告他、或者他被引誘、我們就能勝他、在他身上報仇。

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

然而耶和華與我同在、好像甚可怕的勇士．因此、逼迫我的必都絆跌、不能得勝、他們必大大蒙羞、就是受永不忘記的羞辱、因爲他們行事沒有智慧。

But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

試驗義人、察看人肺腑心腸的萬軍之耶和華阿、求你容我見你在他們身上報仇、因我將我的案件向你稟明了。

But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

你們要向耶和華唱歌、讚美耶和華、因他救了窮人的性命脫離惡人的手。

Sing unto Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

願我生的那日受咒詛、願我母親產我的那日不蒙福。

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

給我父親報信說、你得了兒子、使我父親甚歡喜的、願那人受咒詛。

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

願那人像耶和華所傾覆而不後悔的城邑．願他早晨聽見哀聲、晌午聽見吶喊．

And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

因他在我未出胎的時候不殺我、使我母親成了我的墳墓、胎就時常重大。

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

我爲何出胎見勞碌愁苦、使我的年日因羞愧消滅呢。

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

第21章

耶和華的話臨到耶利米．那時西底家王打發瑪基雅的兒子巴施戶珥、和瑪西雅的兒子祭司西番雅、去見耶利米、說、

The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

請你爲我們求問耶和華、因爲巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒來攻擊我們、或者耶和華照他一切奇妙的作爲待我們、使巴比倫王離開我們上去。

Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

耶利米對他們說、你們當對西底家這樣說、

Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

耶和華以色列的神如此說、我要使你們手中的兵器、就是你們在城外與巴比倫王、和圍困你們的迦勒底人打仗的兵器、翻轉過來、又要使這些都聚集在這城中。

Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

並且我要在怒氣、忿怒、和大惱恨中、用伸出來的手、並大能的膀臂、親自攻擊你們。

And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.

又要擊打這城的居民、連人帶牲畜都必遭遇大瘟疫死亡。

And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

以後我要將猶大王西底家、和他的臣僕百姓、就是在城內、從瘟疫、刀劍、饑荒中剩下的人、都交在巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的手中、和他們仇敵、並尋索其命的人手中．巴比倫王必用刀擊殺他們、不顧惜、不可憐、不憐憫．這是耶和華說的。

And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

你要對這百姓說、耶和華如此說、看哪、我將生命的路、和死亡的路、擺在你們面前。

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

住在這城裏的、必遭刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫而死．但出去歸降圍困你們迦勒底人的、必得存活、要以自己的命爲掠物。

He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

耶和華說、我向這城變臉、降禍不降福、這城必交在巴比倫王的手中、他必用火焚燒。

For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

至於猶大王的家、你們當聽耶和華的話．

And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah:

大衞家阿、耶和華如此說、你們每早晨要施行公平、拯救被搶奪的脫離欺壓人的手、恐怕我的忿怒、因你們的惡行發作、如火𤏲起、甚至無人能以熄滅。

O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

耶和華說、住山谷、和平原磐石上的居民、你們說、誰能下來攻擊我們、誰能進入我們的住處呢．看哪、我與你們爲敵。

Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

耶和華又說、我必按你們作事的結果刑罰你們、我也必使火在耶路撒冷的林中𤏲起、將他四圍所有的盡行燒滅。

And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

第22章

耶和華如此說、你下到猶大王的宮中、在那裏說這話．

Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

說、坐大衞寶座的猶大王阿、你和你的臣僕、並進入城門的百姓、都當聽耶和華的話。

And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates.

耶和華如此說、你們要施行公平和公義、拯救被搶奪的脫離欺壓人的手、不可虧負寄居的和孤兒寡婦、不可以強暴待他們、在這地方也不可流無辜人的血。

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

你們若認眞行這事、就必有坐大衞寶座的君王、和他的臣僕、百姓、或坐車、或騎馬、從這城的各門進入。

For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

你們若不聽這些話、耶和華說、我指着自己起誓、這城必變爲荒塲。

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.

耶和華論到猶大王的家如此說、我看你如基列、如利巴嫩頂、然而我必使你變爲曠野、爲無人居住的城邑。

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.

我要豫備行毀滅的人、各拿器械攻擊你、他們要砍下你佳美的香柏樹、扔在火中。

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

許多國的民要經過這城、各人對鄰舍說、耶和華爲何向這大城如此行呢。

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

他們必回答說、是因離棄了耶和華他們神的約、事奉敬拜別神。

Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

不要爲死人哭號、不要爲他悲傷、卻要爲離家出外的人大大哭號、因爲他不得再回來、也不得再見他的本國。

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

因爲耶和華論到從這地方出去的猶大王約西亞的兒子沙龍、〈列王下二十三章三十節名約哈斯〉就是接續他父親約西亞作王的、這樣說、他必不得再回到這裏來．

For thus saith Jehovah touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more.

卻要死在被擄去的地方、必不得再見這地。

But in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.

那行不義蓋房、行不公造樓、白白使用人的手工不給工價的、有禍了。

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor`s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

他說、我要爲自己蓋廣大的房、寬敞的樓、爲自己開窗戶．這樓房的護牆板是香柏木的．樓房是丹色油漆的。

that saith, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

難道你作王是在乎造香柏木樓房爭勝麼．你的父親豈不是也喫、也喝、也施行公平和公義麼．那時他得了福樂。

Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

他爲困苦和窮乏人伸寃、那時就得了福樂．認識我不在乎此麼．這是耶和華說的。

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

惟有你的眼、和你的心、專顧貪婪、流無辜人的血、行欺壓和強暴。

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

所以耶和華論到猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬、如此說、人必不爲他舉哀、說、哀哉、我的哥哥．或說、哀哉、我的姐姐．也不爲他舉哀、說、哀哉、我的主．或說、哀哉、我主的榮華。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

他被埋葬好像埋驢一樣、要拉出去扔在耶路撒冷的城門之外。

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

你要上利巴嫩哀號、在巴珊揚聲、從亞巴琳哀號、因爲你所親愛的都毀滅了。

Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all thy lovers are destroyed.

你興盛的時候、我對你說話、你卻說、我不聽．你自幼年以來總是這樣、不聽從我的話。

I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

你的牧人要被風吞喫、你所親愛的必被擄去．那時你必因你一切的惡、抱愧蒙羞。

The wind shall feed all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

你這住利巴嫩在香柏樹上搭窩的、有痛苦臨到你、好像疼痛臨到產難的婦人、那時你何等可憐。

O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

耶和華說、猶大王約雅敬的兒子哥尼雅、〈又名耶哥尼雅下同〉雖是我右手上帶印的戒指、我憑我的永生起誓、也必將你從其上摘下來。

As I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

並且我必將你交給尋索你命的人、和你所懼怕的人手中、就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、和迦勒底人的手中。

and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

我也必將你、和生你的母親、趕到別國、並不是你們生的地方、你們必死在那裏．

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

但心中甚想歸回之地、必不得歸回。

But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.

哥尼雅這人是被輕看、破壞的器皿麼、是無人喜愛的器皿麼、他和他的後裔、爲何被趕到不認識之地呢。

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

地阿、地阿、地阿、當聽耶和華的話。

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.

耶和華如此說、要寫明這人算爲無子、是平生不得亨通的、因爲他後裔中再無一人得亨通、能坐在大衞的寶座上、治理猶大。

Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

第23章

耶和華說、那些殘害趕散我草塲之羊的牧人、有禍了。

Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.

耶和華以色列的神斥責那些牧養他百姓的牧人、如此說、你們趕散我的羊羣、並沒有看顧他們．我必討你們這行惡的罪．這是耶和華說的。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.

我要將我羊羣中所餘剩的、從我趕他們到的各國內、招聚出來、領他們歸回本圈、他們也必生養衆多。

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

我必設立照管他們的牧人、牧養他們．他們不再懼怕、不再驚惶、也不缺少一個．這是耶和華說的。

And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、日子將到、我要給大衞興起一個公義的苗裔、他必掌王權、行事有智慧、在地上施行公平、和公義。

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

在他的日子、猶大必得救、以色列也安然居住．他的名必稱爲耶和華我們的義。

In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

耶和華說、日子將到、人必不再指着那領以色列人從埃及地上來永生的耶和華起誓．

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

卻要指着那領以色列家的後裔從北方、和趕他們到的各國中上來永生的耶和華起誓．他們必住在本地。

but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.

論到那些先知、我心在我裏面憂傷、我骨頭都發顫．因耶和華和他的聖言、我像醉酒的人、像被酒所勝的人。

Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.

地滿了行淫的人．因妄自賭咒、地就悲哀、曠野的草塲都枯乾了．他們所行的道乃是惡的、他們的勇力使得不正。

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

連先知、帶祭司、都是褻瀆的、就是在我殿中我也看見他們的惡．這是耶和華說的。

for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

因此、他們的道路必像黑暗中的滑地、他們必被追趕、在這路中仆倒、因爲當追討之年、我必使災禍臨到他們．這是耶和華說的。

Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

我在撒瑪利亞的先知中曾見愚妄、他們藉巴力說豫言、使我的百姓以色列走錯了路。

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

我在耶路撒冷的先知中曾見可憎惡的事、他們行姦淫、作事虛妄．又堅固惡人的手、甚至無人回頭離開他的惡、他們在我面前都像所多瑪、耶路撒冷的居民都像蛾摩拉。

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

所以萬軍之耶和華論到先知如此說、我必將茵蔯給他們喫、又將苦膽水給他們喝、因爲褻瀆的事出於耶路撒冷的先知、流行徧地。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

萬軍之耶和華如此說、這些先知向你們說豫言、你們不要聽他們的話．他們以虛空教訓你們、所說的異象、是出於自己的心、不是出於耶和華的口。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

他們常對藐視我的人說、耶和華說、你們必享平安．又對一切按自己頑梗之心而行的人說、必沒有災禍臨到你們。

They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

有誰站在耶和華的會中、得以聽見並會悟他的話呢．有誰留心聽他的話呢。

For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my word, and heard it?

看哪、耶和華的忿怒好像暴風、已經發出．是暴烈的旋風、必轉到惡人的頭上。

Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.

耶和華的怒氣必不轉消、直到他心中所擬定的成就了、末後的日子你們要全然明白。

The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

我沒有打發那些先知、他們竟自奔跑、我沒有對他們說話、他們竟自豫言。

I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

他們若是站在我的會中、就必使我的百姓聽我的話、又使他們回頭離開惡道、和他們所行的惡。

But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

耶和華說、我豈爲近處的神呢、不也爲遠處的神麼。

Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?

耶和華說、人豈能在隱密處藏身、使我看不見他呢．耶和華說、我豈不充滿天地麼。

Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.

我已聽見那些先知所說的、就是託我名說的假豫言、他們說、我作了夢、我作了夢。

I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

說假豫言的先知、就是豫言本心詭詐的先知、他們這樣存心要到幾時呢。

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

他們各人將所作的夢對鄰舍述說、想要使我的百姓忘記我的名、正如他們列祖因巴力忘記我的名一樣。

that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal.

得夢的先知、可以述說那夢．得我話的人、可以誠實講說我的話．糠粃怎能與麥子比較呢．這是耶和華說的。

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、我的話豈不像火、又像能打碎磐石的大錘麼。

Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

耶和華說、那些先知、各從鄰舍偷竊我的言語、因此我必與他們反對。

Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

耶和華說、那些先知用舌頭、說是耶和華說的．我必與他們反對。

Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

耶和華說、那些以幻夢爲豫言、又述說這夢、以謊言和矜誇使我百姓走錯了路的、我必與他們反對．我沒有打發他們、也沒有吩咐他們、他們與這百姓毫無益處．這是耶和華說的。

Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.

無論是百姓、是先知、是祭司、問你說、耶和華有甚麼默示呢、你就對他們說、甚麼默示阿、耶和華說、我要撇棄你們。

And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith Jehovah.

無論是先知、是祭司、是百姓、說耶和華的默示、我必刑罰那人、和他的家。

And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

你們各人要對鄰舍、各人要對弟兄如此說、耶和華回答甚麼、耶和華說了甚麼呢。

Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What hath Jehovah answered? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

耶和華的默示你們不可再題、各人所說的話必作自己的重擔．〈重擔和默示原文同〉因爲你們謬用永生神萬軍之耶和華我們神的言語。

And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no more: for every man`s own word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God.

你們要對先知如此說、耶和華回答你甚麼、耶和華說了甚麼呢。

Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

你們若說耶和華的默示、耶和華就如此說、因你們說耶和華的默示這句話、我也打發人到你們那裏去、告訴你們不可說耶和華的默示、

But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah; therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah;

所以我必全然忘記你們、將你們和我所賜給你們並你們列祖的城、撇棄了。

therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

又必使永遠的凌辱、和長久的羞恥、臨到你們、是不能忘記的。

and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

第24章

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、將猶大王約雅敬的兒子耶哥尼雅、和猶大的首領、並工匠、鐵匠、從耶路撒冷擄去、帶到巴比倫．這事以後、耶和華指給我看、有兩筐無花果、放在耶和華的殿前。

Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

一筐是極好的無花果、好像是初熟的．一筐是極壞的無花果、壞得不可喫。

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

於是耶和華問我說、耶利米你看見甚麼、我說、我看見無花果、好的極好、壞的極壞、壞得不可喫。

Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

耶和華的話臨到我說、

And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

耶和華以色列的神如此說、被擄去的猶大人、就是我打發離開這地到迦勒底人之地去的、我必看顧他們如這好無花果、使他們得好處。

Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

我要眷顧他們、使他們得好處、領他們歸回這地、我也要建立他們、必不拆毀、栽植他們、並不拔出。

For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

我要賜他們認識我的心、知道我是耶和華．他們要作我的子民、我要作他們的神、因爲他們要一心歸向我。

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

耶和華如此說、我必將猶大王西底家、和他的首領、以及剩在這地耶路撒冷的餘民、並住在埃及地的猶大人、都交出來、好像那極壞、壞得不可喫的無花果。

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,

我必使他們交出來、在天下萬國中拋來拋去、遭遇災禍、在我趕逐他們到的各處、成爲凌辱、笑談、譏刺、咒詛。

I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

我必使刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、臨到他們、直到他們從我所賜給他們和他們列祖之地滅絕。

And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

第25章

猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年、就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的元年、耶和華論猶大衆民的話、臨到耶利米。

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,)

先知耶利米就將這話對猶大衆人、和耶路撒冷的一切居民說、

which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:

從猶大王亞們的兒子約西亞十三年、直到今日、這二十三年之內、常有耶和華的話臨到我、我也對你們傳說、就是從早起來傳說、只是你們沒有聽從。

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

耶和華也從早起來、差遣他的僕人衆先知到你們這裏來、（只是你們沒有聽從、也沒有側耳而聽）

And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)

說、你們各人當回頭離開惡道、和所作的惡、便可居住耶和華古時所賜給你們和你們列祖之地、直到永遠。

saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore;

不可隨從別神、事奉敬拜、以你們手所作的惹我發怒、這樣、我就不加害與你們。

and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

然而你們沒有聽從我、竟以手所作的惹我發怒、陷害自己．這是耶和華說的。

Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

所以萬軍之耶和華如此說、因爲你們沒有聽從我的話、

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words,

我必召北方的衆族、和我僕人巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒來攻擊這地、和這地的居民、並四圍一切的國民、我要將他們盡行滅絕、以致他們令人驚駭、嗤笑、並且永久荒涼．這是耶和華說的。

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and [I will send] unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

我又要使歡喜和快樂的聲音、新郎和新婦的聲音、推磨的聲音、和燈的亮光、從他們中間止息。

Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

這全地必然荒涼、令人驚駭．這些國民要服事巴比倫王七十年。

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

七十年滿了以後、我必刑罰巴比倫王、和那國民、並迦勒底人之地、因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼．這是耶和華說的。

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.

我也必使我向那地所說的話、就是記在這書上的話、是耶利米向這些國民說的豫言、都臨到那地。

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

因爲有多國和大君王、必使迦勒底人作奴僕、我也必照他們的行爲、按他們手所作的、報應他們。

For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

耶和華以色列的神對我如此說、你從我手中接這杯忿怒的酒、使我所差遣你去的各國的民喝。

For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

他們喝了就要東倒西歪、並要發狂、因我使刀劍臨到他們中間。

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

我就從耶和華的手中接了這杯、給耶和華所差遣我去的各國的民喝．

Then took I the cup at Jehovah`s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:

就是耶路撒冷、和猶大的城邑、並耶路撒冷的君王、與首領、使這城邑荒涼、令人驚駭、嗤笑、咒詛、正如今日一樣。

[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

又有埃及王法老、和他的臣僕、首領、以及他的衆民．

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

並雜族的人民、和烏斯地的諸王、與非利士地的諸王、亞實基倫、迦薩、以革倫、以及亞實突剩下的人．

and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

以東、摩押、亞捫人、

Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

推羅的諸王、西頓的諸王、海島的諸王、

and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

底但、提瑪、布斯、和一切剃周圍頭髮的．

Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off;

亞拉伯的諸王、住曠野雜族人民的諸王、

and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;

心利的諸王、以攔的諸王、瑪代的諸王、

and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

北方遠近的諸王、以及天下地上的萬國喝了．以後示沙克〈就是巴比倫〉王也要喝。

and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

你要對他們說、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你們要喝、且要喝醉、要嘔吐、且要跌倒、不得再起來、都因我使刀劍臨到你們中間。

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

他們若不肯從你手接這杯喝、你就要對他們說、萬軍之耶和華如此說、你們一定要喝。

And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink.

我旣從稱爲我名下的城起首施行災禍、你們能盡免刑罰麼．你們必不能免、因爲我要命刀劍臨到地上一切的居民．這是萬軍之耶和華說的。

For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.

所以你要向他們豫言這一切的話攻擊他們、說、耶和華必從高天吼叫、從聖所發聲、向自己的羊羣大聲吼叫、他要向地上一切的居民吶喊、像踹葡萄的一樣。

Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

必有響聲達到地極、因爲耶和華與列國相爭、凡有血氣的他必審問．至於惡人、他必交給刀劍．這是耶和華說的。

A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith Jehovah.

萬軍之耶和華如此說、看哪、必有災禍從這國發到那國、並有大暴風從地極颳起。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

到那日、從地這邊直到地那邊、都有耶和華所殺戮的．必無人哀哭、不得收殮、不得葬埋、必在地上成爲糞土。

And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.

牧人哪、你們當哀號、呼喊．羣衆的頭目阿、你們要輥在灰中、因爲你們被殺戮分散的日子足足來到、你們要跌碎、好像美器打碎一樣。

Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.

牧人無路逃跑、羣衆的頭目也無法逃脫。

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

聽阿、有牧人呼喊、有羣衆頭目哀號的聲音、因爲耶和華使他們的草塲變爲荒塲。

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture.

耶和華發出猛烈的怒氣、平安的羊圈就都寂靜無聲。

And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

他離了隱密處像獅子一樣、他們的地、因刀劍兇猛的欺壓、又因他猛烈的怒氣、都成爲可驚駭的。

He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

第26章

猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬登基的時候、有這話從耶和華臨到耶利米說、

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,

耶和華如此說、你站在耶和華殿的院內、對猶大衆城邑的人、就是到耶和華殿來禮拜的說我所吩咐你的一切話、一字不可刪減．

Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah`s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Jehovah`s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.

或者他們肯聽從、各人回頭離開惡道、使我後悔不將我因他們所行的惡、想要施行的災禍、降與他們。

It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

你要對他們說、耶和華如此說、你們若不聽從我、不遵行我設立在你們面前的律法、

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

不聽我從早起來、差遣到你們那裏去我僕人衆先知的話、（你們還是沒有聽從）

to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

我就必使這殿如示羅、使這城爲地上萬國所咒詛的。

then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

耶利米在耶和華殿中說的這些話、祭司先知與衆民都聽見了。

And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.

耶利米說完了耶和華所吩咐他對衆人說的一切話、祭司、先知、與衆民、都來抓住他說、你必要死。

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

你爲何託耶和華的名豫言、說、這殿必如示羅、這城必變爲荒塲無人居住呢．於是衆民都在耶和華的殿中、聚集到耶利米那裏。

Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

猶大的首領聽見這事、就從王宮上到耶和華的殿、坐在耶和華殿的新門口。

And when the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king`s house unto the house of Jehovah; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah`s [house].

祭司、先知、對首領和衆民說、這人是該死的、因爲他說豫言攻擊這城、正如你們親耳所聽見的。

Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

耶利米就對衆首領、和衆民說、耶和華差遣我豫言、攻擊這殿和這城、說你們所聽見的這一切話。

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

現在要改正你們的行動作爲、聽從耶和華你們神的話、他就必後悔、不將所說的災禍降與你們。

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

至於我、我在你們手中、你們眼看何爲善、何爲正、就那樣待我罷。

But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.

但你們要確實的知道、若把我治死、就使無辜人的血歸到你們、和這城、並其中的居民了、因爲耶和華實在差遣我到你們這裏來、將這一切話傳與你們耳中。

Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

首領和衆民就對祭司、先知說、這人是不該死的、因爲他是奉耶和華我們神的名、向我們說話。

Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

國中的長老、就有幾個人起來、對聚會的衆民說、

Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

當猶大王希西家的日子、有摩利沙人彌迦對猶大衆人豫言說、萬軍之耶和華如此說、錫安必被耕種像一塊田、耶路撒冷必變爲亂堆、這殿的山必像叢林的高處。

Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

猶大王希西家、和猶大衆人、豈是把他治死呢、希西家豈不是敬畏耶和華、懇求他的恩麼．耶和華就後悔、不把自己所說的災禍降與他們．若治死這人、我們就作了大惡、自害己命。

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and entreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.

又有一個人奉耶和華的名說豫言、是基列耶琳人示瑪雅的兒子烏利亞、他照耶利米的一切話說豫言、攻擊這城和這地。

And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

約雅敬王和他衆勇士、衆首領、聽見了烏利亞的話、王就想要把他治死．烏利亞聽見就懼怕、逃往埃及去了。

and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

約雅敬王便打發亞革波的兒子以利拿單、帶領幾個人往埃及去、

and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;

他們就從埃及將烏利亞帶出來、送到約雅敬王那裏、王用刀殺了他、把他的屍首拋在平民的墳地中。

and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

然而沙番的兒子亞希甘、保護耶利米、不交在百姓的手中治死他。

But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

第27章

猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬〈約雅敬是西底家的別名、看第三節〉登基的時候、有這話從耶和華臨到耶利米說、

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

耶和華對我如此說、你作繩索與軛、加在自己的頸項上．

Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

藉那些來到耶路撒冷見猶大王西底家的使臣之手、把繩索與軛、送到以東王、摩押王、亞捫王、推羅王、西頓王那裏。

and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

且囑咐使臣、傳與他們的主人說、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、

and give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters:

我用大能和伸出來的膀臂、創造大地和地上的人民、牲畜、我看給誰相宜、就把地給誰。

I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me.

現在我將這些地、都交給我僕人巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的手、我也將田野的走獸給他使用。

And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.

列國都必服事他和他的兒孫、直到他本國遭報的日期來到．那時多國和大君王、要使他作他們的奴僕。

And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son`s son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.

無論那一邦、那一國、不肯服事這巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、也不把頸項放在巴比倫王的軛下、我必用刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、刑罰那邦、直到我藉巴比倫王的手、將他們毀滅．這是耶和華說的。

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

至於你們、不可聽從你們的先知、和占卜的、圓夢的、觀兆的、以及行邪術的、他們告訴你們說、你們不至服事巴比倫王。

But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

他們向你們說假豫言、要叫你們遷移、遠離本地、以致我將你們趕出去、使你們滅亡。

for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

但那一邦肯把頸項放在巴比倫王的軛下、服事他、我必使那邦仍在本地存留、得以耕種居住．這是耶和華說的。

But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

我就照這一切的話、對猶大王西底家說、要把你們的頸項放在巴比倫王的軛下、服事他和他的百姓、便得存活。

And I spake to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

你和你的百姓、爲何要因刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫死亡、正如耶和華論到不服事巴比倫王的那國說的話呢。

Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

不可聽那些先知對你們所說的話、他們說、你們不至服事巴比倫王、其實他們向你們說假豫言。

And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.

耶和華說、我並沒有打發他們、他們卻託我的名說假豫言、好使我將你們、和向你們說豫言的那些先知、趕出去一同滅亡。

For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

我又對祭司、和這衆民說、耶和華如此說、你們不可聽那先知對你們所說的豫言、他們說、耶和華殿中的器皿、快要從巴比倫帶回來．其實他們向你們說假豫言。

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Jehovah`s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.

不可聽從他們、只管服事巴比倫王便得存活．這城何至變爲荒塲呢。

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

他們若果是先知、有耶和華的話臨到他們、讓他們祈求萬軍之耶和華使那在耶和華殿中、和猶大王宮內、並耶路撒冷剩下的器皿、不被帶到巴比倫去。

But if they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

因爲萬軍之耶和華論到柱子、銅海、盆座、並剩在這城裏的器皿、

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,

就是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒擄掠猶大王約雅敬的兒子耶哥尼雅、和猶大耶路撒冷一切貴胄的時候所沒有掠去的器皿．

which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

論到那在耶和華殿中、和猶大王宮內、並耶路撒冷剩下的器皿、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、

yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

必被帶到巴比倫存在那裏、直到我眷顧以色列人的日子、那時、我必將這器皿帶回來、交還此地．這是耶和華說的。

They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, saith Jehovah; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

第28章

當年、就是猶大王西底家登基第四年五月、基遍人押朔的兒子先知哈拿尼雅、在耶和華的殿中當着祭司和衆民、對我說、

And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我已經折斷巴比倫王的軛。

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

二年之內、我要將巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒從這地掠到巴比倫的器皿、就是耶和華殿中的一切器皿、都帶回此地。

Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Jehovah`s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:

我又要將猶大王約雅敬的兒子耶哥尼雅、和被擄到巴比倫去的一切猶大人、帶回此地、因爲我要折斷巴比倫王的軛。這是耶和華說的。

and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went to Babylon, saith Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

先知耶利米當着祭司、和站在耶和華殿裏的衆民、對先知哈拿尼雅說、

Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah,

阿們、願耶和華如此行、願耶和華成就你所豫言的話、將耶和華殿中的器皿、和一切被擄去的人、從巴比倫帶回此地。

even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah do so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Jehovah`s house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto this place.

然而我向你和衆民耳中所要說的話、你應當聽。

Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:

從古以來、在你我以前的先知、向多國和大邦說豫言、論到爭戰、災禍、瘟疫的事。

The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

先知豫言的平安、到話語成就的時候、人便知道他眞是耶和華所差來的。

The prophet that prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that Jehovah hath truly sent him.

於是先知哈拿尼雅、將先知耶利米頸項上的軛取下來、折斷了。

Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah`s neck, and brake it.

哈拿尼雅又當着衆民說、耶和華如此說、二年之內、我必照樣從列國人的頸項上、折斷巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的軛．於是先知耶利米就走了。

And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

先知哈拿尼雅把先知耶利米頸項上的軛折斷以後、耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

你去告訴哈拿尼雅說、耶和華如此說、你折斷木軛、卻換了鐵軛．

Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron.

因爲萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我已將鐵軛加在這些國的頸項上、使他們服事巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、他們總要服事他、我也把田野的走獸給了他。

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may served Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

於是先知耶利米對先知哈拿尼雅說、哈拿尼雅阿、你應當聽．耶和華並沒有差遣你、你竟使這百姓倚靠謊言。

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

所以耶和華如此說、看哪、我要叫你去世、你今年必死、因爲你向耶和華說了叛逆的話。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebellion against Jehovah.

這樣、先知哈拿尼雅當年七月間就死了。

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

第29章

先知耶利米從耶路撒冷寄信與被擄的祭司、先知、和衆民、並生存的長老、就是尼布甲尼撒從耶路撒冷擄到巴比倫去的。

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

（這在耶哥尼雅王、和太后、太監、並猶大、耶路撒冷的首領、以及工匠、鐵匠、都離了耶路撒冷以後。）

(after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,)

他藉沙番的兒子以利亞薩、和希勒家的兒子基瑪利的手寄去．他們二人、是猶大王西底家打發往巴比倫去見尼布甲尼撒王的。

by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) saying,

信上說、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神、對一切被擄去的、就是我使他們從耶路撒冷被擄到巴比倫的人、如此說、

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon:

你們要蓋造房屋住在其中、栽種田園喫其中所產的。

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

娶妻生兒女、爲你們的兒子娶妻、使你們的女兒嫁人、生兒養女、在那裏生養衆多、不至減少。

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

我所使你們被擄到的那城、你們要爲那城求平安、爲那城禱告耶和華、因爲那城得平安、你們也隨着得平安。

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、不要被你們中間的先知和占卜的誘惑、也不要聽信自己所作的夢．

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

因爲他們託我的名對你們說假豫言、我並沒有差遣他們．這是耶和華說的。

For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.

耶和華如此說、爲巴比倫所定的七十年滿了以後、我要眷顧你們、向你們成就我的恩言、使你們仍回此地。

For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

耶和華說、我知道我向你們所懷的意念、是賜平安的意念、不是降災禍的意念、要叫你們末後有指望。

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

你們要呼求我、禱告我、我就應允你們。

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

你們尋求我、若專心尋求我、就必尋見。

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

耶和華說、我必被你們尋見、我也必使你們被擄的人歸回、將你們從各國中、和我所趕你們到的各處招聚了來、又將你們帶回我使你們被擄掠離開的地方．這是耶和華說的。

And I will be found of you, saith Jehovah, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places wither I have driven you, saith Jehovah; and I will bring you again unto the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

你們說、耶和華在巴比倫爲我們興起先知．

Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

所以耶和華論到坐大衞寶座的王、和住在這城裏的一切百姓、就是未曾與你們一同被擄的弟兄、

thus saith Jehovah concerning the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

萬軍之耶和華如此說、看哪、我必使刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、臨到他們、使他們像極壞的無花果、壞得不可喫。

thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

我必用刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、追趕他們、使他們在天下萬國拋來拋去、在我所趕他們到的各國中、令人咒詛、驚駭、嗤笑、羞辱。

And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;

耶和華說、這是因爲他們沒有聽從我的話、就是我從早起來差遣我僕人衆先知去說的、無奈他們不聽．這是耶和華說的。

because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith Jehovah.

所以你們一切被擄去的、就是我從耶路撒冷打發到巴比倫去的、當聽耶和華的話。

Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神、論到哥賴雅的兒子亞哈、並瑪西雅的兒子西底家、如此說、他們是託我名向你們說假豫言的．我必將他們交在巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的手中、他要在你們眼前殺害他們。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie unto you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

住巴比倫一切被擄的猶大人、必藉這二人賭咒、說、願耶和華使你像巴比倫王在火中燒的西底家和亞哈一樣。

and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

這二人是在以色列中行了醜事、與鄰舍的妻行淫、又假託我名說我未曾吩咐他們的話．知道的是我、作見證的也是我．這是耶和華說的。

because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors` wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.

論到尼希蘭人示瑪雅、你當說、

And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying,

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你曾用自己的名寄信給耶路撒冷的衆民、和祭司瑪西雅的兒子西番雅、並衆祭司、說、

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

耶和華已經立你西番雅爲祭司、代替祭司耶何耶大、使耶和華殿中有官長、好將一切狂妄自稱爲先知的人、用枷枷住、用鎖鎖住。

Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Jehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in shackles.

現在亞拿突人耶利米、向你們自稱爲先知、你們爲何沒有責備他呢．

Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,

因爲他寄信給我們在巴比倫的人說、被擄的事必長久、你們要蓋造房屋住在其中、栽種田園喫其中所產的。

forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?

祭司西番雅就把這信念給先知耶利米聽。

And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

於是耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

你當寄信給一切被擄的人、說、耶和華論到尼希蘭人示瑪雅說、因爲示瑪雅向你們說豫言、我並沒有差遣他、他使你們倚靠謊言．

Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in a lie;

所以耶和華如此說、我必刑罰尼希蘭人示瑪雅、和他的後裔、他必無一人存留住在這民中、也不得見我所要賜與我百姓的福樂、因爲他向耶和華說了叛逆的話。這是耶和華說的。

therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do unto my people, saith Jehovah, because he hath spoken rebellion against Jehovah.

第30章

耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

耶和華以色列的神如此說、你將我對你說過的一切話都寫在書上。

Thus speaketh Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

耶和華說、日子將到、我要使我的百姓以色列、和猶大被擄的人歸回．我也要使他們回到我所賜給他們列祖之地、他們就得這地爲業．這是耶和華說的。

For, lo, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

以下是耶和華論到以色列和猶大所說的話．

And these are the words that Jehovah spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

耶和華如此說、我們聽見聲音、是戰抖懼怕而不平安的聲音。

For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

你們且訪問看看、男人有產難麼、我怎麼看見人人用手掐腰、像產難的婦人、臉面都變青了呢。

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

哀哉、那日爲大、無日可比、這是雅各遭難的時候、但他必被救出來。

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob`s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

萬軍之耶和華說、到那日、我必從你頸項上折斷仇敵的軛、扭開他的繩索、外邦人不得再使你作他們的奴僕。

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

你們卻要事奉耶和華你們的神、和我爲你們所要興起的王大衞。

but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

故此、耶和華說、我的僕人雅各阿、不要懼怕．以色列阿、不要驚惶．因我要從遠方拯救你、從被擄到之地拯救你的後裔、雅各必回來得享平靖安逸、無人使他害怕。

Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

因我與你同在、要拯救你．也要將所趕散你到的那些國、滅絕淨盡、卻不將你滅絕淨盡、倒要從寬懲治你、萬不能不罰你．〈不罰你或作以你爲無罪〉這是耶和華說的。

For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.

耶和華如此說、你的損傷無法醫治、你的傷痕極其重大。

For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.

無人爲你分訴、使你的傷痕得以纏裹、你沒有醫治的良藥。

There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

你所親愛的都忘記你、不來探問〈或作理會〉你．我因你的罪孽甚大、罪惡衆多、曾用仇敵加的傷害、傷害你、用殘忍者的懲治、懲治你。

All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

你爲何因損傷哀號呢、你的痛苦無法醫治、我因你的罪孽甚大、罪惡衆多、曾將這些加在你身上。

Why criest thou for thy hurt? thy pain is incurable: for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

故此、凡吞喫你的、必被吞喫．你的敵人、個個都被擄去、擄掠你的、必成爲擄物、搶奪你的、必成爲掠物。

Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

耶和華說、我必使你痊癒、醫好你的傷痕、都因人稱你爲被趕散的、說、這是錫安、無人來探問〈或作理會〉的。

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

耶和華如此說、我必使雅各被擄去的帳棚歸回、也必顧惜他的住處．城必建造在原舊的山岡、宮殿也照舊有人居住。

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob`s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.

必有感謝和歡樂的聲音、從其中發出．我要使他們增多、不致減少．使他們尊榮、不致卑微。

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

他們的兒女要如往日、他們的會衆堅立在我面前、凡欺壓他們的、我必刑罰他。

Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.

他們的君王、必是屬乎他們的．掌權的必從他們中間而出．我要使他就近我、他也要親近我、不然、誰有膽量親近我呢．這是耶和華說的。

And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is he that hath had boldness to approach unto me? saith Jehovah.

你們要作我的子民、我要作你們的神。

And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

看哪、耶和華的忿怒、好像暴風已經發出、是掃滅的暴風、必轉到惡人的頭上。

Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.

耶和華的烈怒必不轉消、直到他心中所擬定的成就了．末後的日子你們要明白。

The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it.

第31章

耶和華說、那時我必作以色列各家的神．他們必作我的子民。

At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

耶和華如此說、脫離刀劍的、就是以色列人、我使他享安息的時候、他曾在曠野蒙恩。

Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

古時〈或作從遠方〉耶和華向以色列〈原文作我〉顯現、說、我以永遠的愛、愛你、因此我以慈愛、吸引你。

Jehovah appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

以色列的民哪、〈民原文作處女〉我要再建立你、你就被建立．你必再以擊鼓爲美、與歡樂的人一同跳舞而出。

Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

又必在撒瑪利亞的山上、栽種葡萄園、栽種的人要享用所結的果子。

Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit thereof].

日子必到、以法蓮山上守望的人、必呼叫說、起來罷、我們可以上錫安、到耶和華我們的神那裏去。

For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God.

耶和華如此說、你們當爲雅各歡樂歌唱、因萬國中爲首的歡呼．當傳揚頌讚、說、耶和華阿、求你拯救你的百姓以色列所剩下的人。

For thus saith Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

我必將他們從北方領來、從地極招聚、同着他們來的、有瞎子、瘸子、孕婦、產婦、他們必成爲大幫回到這裏來。

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall they return hither.

他們要哭泣而來、我要照他們懇求的引導他們、使他們在河水旁走正直的路、在其上不致絆跌、因爲我是以色列的父、以法蓮是我的長子。

They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

列國阿、要聽耶和華的話、傳揚在遠處的海島、說、趕散以色列的、必招聚他、又看守他、好像牧人看守羊羣．

Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd doth his flock.

因耶和華救贖了雅各、救贖他脫離比他更強之人的手。

For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

他們要來到錫安的高處歌唱、又流歸耶和華施恩之地、就是有五穀、新酒、和油、並羊羔、牛犢之地．他們的心必像澆灌的園子、他們也不再有一點愁煩。

And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

那時處女必歡樂跳舞、年少的年老的、也必一同歡樂、因爲我要使他們的悲哀變爲歡喜、並要安慰他們、使他們的愁煩轉爲快樂。

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

我必以肥油使祭司的心滿足．我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足．這是耶和華說的。

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah.

耶和華如此說、在拉瑪聽見號咷痛哭的聲音、是拉結哭他兒女不肯受安慰、因爲他們都不在了。

Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

耶和華如此說、你禁止聲音不要哀哭、禁止眼目不要流淚、因你所作之工、必有賞賜．他們必從敵國歸回．這是耶和華說的。

Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

耶和華說、你末後必有指望、你的兒女必回到自己的境界。

And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and [thy] children shall come again to their own border.

我聽見以法蓮爲自己悲歎、說、你責罰我、我便受責罰、像不慣負軛的牛犢一樣、求你使我回轉、我便回轉、因爲你是耶和華我的神。

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

我回轉以後、就眞正懊悔、受教以後、就拍腿歎息、我因擔當幼年的凌辱、就抱愧蒙羞。

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

耶和華說、以法蓮是我的愛子麼、是可喜悅的孩子麼、我每逢責備他、仍深顧念他、所以我的心腸戀慕他、我必要憐憫他。

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.

以色列民哪、〈民原文作處女〉你當爲自己設立指路碑、豎起引路柱、你要留心向大路、就是你所去的原路．你當回轉、回轉到你這些城邑。

Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

背道的民哪、〈民原文作女子〉你反來復去要到幾時呢．耶和華在地上造了一件新事、就是女子護衞男子。

How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我使被擄之人歸回的時候、他們在猶大地和其中的城邑、必再這樣說、公義的居所阿、聖山哪、願耶和華賜福給你。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.

猶大和屬猶大城邑的人、農夫和放羊的人、要一同住在其中。

And Judah and all the cities thereof shall dwell therein together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with flocks.

疲乏的人、我使他飽飫、愁煩的人、我使他知足。

For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

先知說、我醒了、覺着睡得香甜。

Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

耶和華說、日子將到、我要把人的種、和牲畜的種、播種在以色列家、和猶大家。

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

我先前怎樣留意將他們拔出、拆毀、毀壞、傾覆、苦害、也必照樣留意將他們建立、栽植．這是耶和華說的。

And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah.

當那些日子、人不再說、父親喫了酸葡萄、兒子的牙酸倒了．

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children`s teeth are set on edge.

但各人必因自己的罪死亡、凡喫酸葡萄的、自己的牙必酸倒。

But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

耶和華說、日子將到、我要與以色列家和猶大家、另立新約。

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

不像我拉着他們祖宗的手、領他們出埃及地的時候、與他們所立的約．我雖作他們的丈夫、他們卻背了我的約．這是耶和華說的。

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、那些日子以後、我與以色列家所立的約、乃是這樣．我要將我的律法放在他們裏面、寫在他們心上．我要作他們的神、他們要作我的子民。

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

他們各人不再教導自己的鄰舍、和自己的弟兄、說、你該認識耶和華．因爲他們從最小的、到至大的、都必認識我．我要赦免他們的罪孽、不再記念他們的罪惡．這是耶和華說的。

and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

那使太陽白日發光、使星月有定例、黑夜發亮、又攪動大海、使海中波浪匉訇的、萬軍之耶和華是他的名、他如此說、

Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:

這些定例、若能在我面前廢掉、以色列的後裔也就在我面前斷絕、永遠不再成國．這是耶和華說的。

If these ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

耶和華如此說、若能量度上天、尋察下地的根基、我就因以色列後裔一切所行的棄絕他們．這是耶和華說的。

Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、日子將到、這城必爲耶和華建造、從哈楠業樓、直到角門。

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner.

準繩要往外量出、直到迦立山、又轉到歌亞。

And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.

拋屍的全谷、和倒灰之處、並一切田地、直到汲淪溪、又直到東方馬門的拐角、都要歸耶和華爲聖、不再拔出、不再傾覆、直到永遠。

And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

第32章

猶大王西底家第十年、就是尼布甲尼撒十八年、耶和華的話臨到耶利米。

The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

那時巴比倫王的軍隊圍困耶路撒冷、先知耶利米囚在護衞兵的院內、在猶大王的宮中．

Now at that time the king of Babylon`s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah`s house.

因爲猶大王西底家已將他囚禁、說、你爲甚麼豫言說、耶和華如此說、我必將這城交在巴比倫王的手中、他必攻取這城。

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

猶大王西底家必不能逃脫迦勒底人的手、定要交在巴比倫王的手中、要口對口彼此說話、眼對眼彼此相看。

and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

巴比倫王必將西底家帶到巴比倫、西底家必住在那裏、直到我眷顧他的時候．你們雖與迦勒底人爭戰、卻不順利．這是耶和華說的。

and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?

耶利米說、耶和華的話臨到我說、

And Jeremiah said, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

你叔叔沙龍的兒子哈拿篾、必來見你、說、我在亞拿突的那塊地、求你買來、因你買這地、是合乎贖回之理。

Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾、果然照耶和華的話、來到護衞兵的院內、對我說、我在便雅憫境內、亞拿突的那塊地、求你買來、因你買來是合乎承受之理、是你當贖的、你爲自己買來罷．我耶利米就知道這是耶和華的話。

So Hanamel mine uncle`s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah.

我便向我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾、買了亞拿突的那塊地、平了十七舍客勒銀子給他。

And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle`s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

我在契上畫押、將契封緘、又請見證人來、並用天平將銀子平給他。

And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

我便將照例按規所立的買契、就是封緘的那一張、和敞着的那一張、

So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, [according to] the law and custom, and that which was open:

當着我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾、和畫押作見證的人、並坐在護衞兵院內的一切猶大人眼前、交給瑪西雅的孫子尼利亞的兒子巴錄、

and I delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel mine uncle`s [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the guard.

當着他們衆人眼前、我囑咐巴錄說、

And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、要將這封緘的、和敞着的兩張契、放在瓦器裏、可以存留多日．

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.

因爲萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、將來在這地必有人再買房屋、田地、和葡萄園。

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.

我將買契交給尼利亞的兒子巴錄以後、便禱告耶和華說、

Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

主耶和華阿、你曾用大能和伸出來的膀臂創造天地、在你沒有難成的事．

Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,

你施慈愛與千萬人、又將父親的罪孽報應在他後世子孫的懷中、是至大全能的神、萬軍之耶和華是你的名。

who showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts is his name;

謀事有大畧、行事有大能、注目觀看世人一切的舉動、爲要照各人所行的、和他作事的結果報應他。

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

在埃及地顯神蹟奇事、直到今日在以色列和別人中間也是如此、使自己得了名聲、正如今日一樣。

who didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and madest thee a name, as at this day;

用神蹟奇事、和大能的手、並伸出來的膀臂、與大可畏的事、領你的百姓以色列出了埃及、

and didst bring forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

將這地賜給他們、就是你向他們列祖起誓應許賜給他們流奶與蜜之地。

and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

他們進入這地得了爲業、卻不聽從你的話、也不遵行你的律法、你一切所吩咐他們行的、他們一無所行、因此你使這一切的災禍臨到他們。

and they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.

看哪、敵人已經來到、築壘要攻取這城、城也因刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、交在攻城的迦勒底人手中．你所說的話都成就了、你也看見了。

Behold, the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

主耶和華阿、你對我說、要用銀子爲自己買那塊地、又請見證人、其實這城已交在迦勒底人的手中了。

And thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy thee the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

我是耶和華、是凡有血氣者的神、豈有我難成的事麼。

Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

耶和華如此說、我必將這城交付迦勒底人的手、和巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的手、他必攻取這城。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

攻城的迦勒底人、必來放火焚燒這城、和其中的房屋、在這房屋上、人曾向巴力燒香、向別神澆奠、惹我發怒。

and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

以色列人和猶大人、自從幼年以來、專行我眼中看爲惡的事、以色列人盡以手所作的惹我發怒．這是耶和華說的。

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.

這城自從建造的那日、直到今日、常惹我的怒氣和忿怒、使我將這城從我面前除掉。

For this city hath been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

是因以色列人和猶大人一切的邪惡、就是他們和他們的君王、首領、祭司、先知、並猶大的衆人、以及耶路撒冷的居民所行的、惹我發怒。

because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

他們以背向我、不以面向我．我雖從早起來教訓他們、他們卻不聽從、不受教訓．

And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

竟把可憎之物、設立在稱爲我名下的殿中、汚穢了這殿。

But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

他們在欣嫩子谷、建築巴力的邱壇、好使自己的兒女經火歸摩洛、他們行這可憎的事、使猶大陷在罪裏、這並不是我所吩咐的、也不是我心所起的意。

And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

現在論到這城、就是你們所說已經因刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、交在巴比倫王手中的、耶和華以色列的神如此說、

And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:

我在怒氣、忿怒、和大惱恨中、將以色列人趕到各國、日後我必從那裏將他們招聚出來、領他們回到此地、使他們安然居住。

Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

他們要作我的子民、我要作他們的神。

and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

我要使他們彼此同心同道、好叫他們永遠敬畏我、使他們和他們後世的子孫得福樂。

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

又要與他們立永遠的約、必隨着他們施恩、並不離開他們、且使他們有敬畏我的心不離開我。

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

我必歡喜施恩與他們、要盡心盡意、誠誠實實、將他們栽於此地．

Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

因爲耶和華如此說、我怎樣使這一切大禍臨到這百姓、我也要照樣使我所應許他們的一切福樂、都臨到他們。

For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

你們說、這地是荒涼、無人民、無牲畜、是交付迦勒底人手之地．日後在這境內、必有人置買田地。

And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

在便雅憫地、耶路撒冷四圍的各處、猶大的城邑、山地的城邑、高原的城邑、並南地的城邑、人必用銀子買田地、在契上畫押、將契封緘、請出見證人、因爲我必使被擄的人歸回．這是耶和華說的。

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith Jehovah.

第33章

耶利米還囚在護衞兵的院內、耶和華的話第二次臨到他說、

Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

成就的是耶和華、造作爲要建立的也是耶和華．耶和華是他的名．他如此說、

Thus saith Jehovah that doeth it, Jehovah that formeth it to establish it; Jehovah is his name:

你求告我、我就應允你、並將你所不知道、又大又難的事、指示你。

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

論到這城中的房屋、和猶大王的宮室、就是拆毀爲擋敵人高壘和刀劍的、耶和華以色列的神如此說、

For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;

人要與迦勒底人爭戰、正是拿死屍充滿這房屋、就是我在怒氣和忿怒中所殺的人．因他們的一切惡我就掩面不顧這城．

while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:

看哪、我要使這城得以痊癒安舒、使城中的人得醫治．又將豐盛的平安和誠實顯明與他們。

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them abundance of peace and truth.

我也要使猶大被擄的和以色列被擄的歸回、並建立他們和起初一樣。

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

我要除淨他們的一切罪、就是向我所犯的罪．又要赦免他們的一切罪、就是干犯我、違背我的罪。

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

這城、要在地上萬國人面前、使我得頌讚、得榮耀、名爲可喜可樂之城、萬國人因聽見我向這城所賜的福樂、所施的恩惠平安、就懼怕戰兢。

And [this city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.

耶和華如此說、你們論這地方說、是荒廢無人民無牲畜之地、但在這荒涼無人民無牲畜的猶大城邑、和耶路撒冷的街上、

Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

必再聽見有歡喜和快樂的聲音、新郎和新婦的聲音、並聽見有人說、要稱謝萬軍之耶和華、因耶和華本爲善、他的慈愛永遠長存．又有奉感謝祭到耶和華殿中之人的聲音．因爲我必使這地被擄的人歸回．和起初一樣．這是耶和華說的。

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; [and of them] that bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, saith Jehovah.

萬軍之耶和華如此說、在這荒廢無人民無牲畜之地、並其中所有的城邑、必再有牧人的住處．他們要使羊羣躺臥在那裏。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

在山地的城邑、高原的城邑、南地的城邑、便雅憫地、耶路撒冷四圍的各處、和猶大的城邑、必再有羊羣從數點的人手下經過．這是耶和華說的。

In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him that numbereth them, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、日子將到、我應許以色列家和猶大家的恩言、必然成就。

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

當那日子、那時候、我必使大衞公義的苗裔長起來．他必在地上施行公平和公義。

In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

在那日子猶大必得救、耶路撒冷必安然居住．他的名必稱爲耶和華我們的義。

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

因爲耶和華如此說、大衞必永不斷人坐在以色列家的寶座上．

For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

祭司利未人在我面前也不斷人獻燔祭、燒素祭、時常辦理獻祭的事。

neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,

耶和華如此說、你們若能廢棄我所立白日黑夜的約、使白日黑夜不按時輪轉．

Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

就能廢棄我與我僕人大衞所立的約、使他沒有兒子在他的寶座上爲王．並能廢棄我與事奉我的祭司利未人所立的約。

then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

天上的萬象不能數算、海邊的塵沙也不能斗量．我必照樣使我僕人大衞的後裔、和事奉我的利未人多起來。

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,

你沒有揣摩這百姓的話麼．他們說、耶和華所揀選的二族、他已經棄絕了．他們這樣藐視我的百姓、以爲不再成國。

Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

耶和華如此說、若是我立白日黑夜的約不能存住、若是我未曾安排天地的定例．

Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

我就棄絕雅各的後裔、和我僕人大衞的後裔、不使大衞的後裔治理亞伯拉罕以撒雅各的後裔．因爲我必使他們被擄的人歸回、也必憐憫他們。

then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

第34章

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領他的全軍、和地上屬他的各國各邦、攻打耶路撒冷和屬耶路撒冷所有的城邑．那時、耶和華的話臨到耶利米說．

The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:

耶和華以色列的神說、你去告訴猶大王西底家、耶和華如此說、我要將這城交付巴比倫王的手、他必用火焚燒．

Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

你必不能逃脫他的手、定被拿住、交在他的手中．你的眼要見巴比倫王的眼．他要口對口和你說話、你也必到巴比倫去。

and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

猶大王西底家阿、你還要聽耶和華的話．耶和華論到你如此說、你必不被刀劍殺死．

Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus saith Jehovah concerning thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword;

你必平安而死．人必爲你焚燒物件、好像爲你列祖、就是在你以前的先王焚燒一般．人必爲你舉哀、說、哀哉、我主阿．耶和華說、這話是我說的。

thou shalt die in peace; and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament thee, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.

於是先知耶利米在耶路撒冷將這一切話告訴猶大王西底家．

Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

那時、巴比倫王的軍隊正攻打耶路撒冷、又攻打猶大所剩下的城邑、就是拉吉和亞西加．原來猶大的堅固城只剩下這兩座。

when the king of Babylon`s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.

西底家王與耶路撒冷的衆民立約、要向他們宣告自由、叫各人任他希伯來的僕人和婢女自由出去、誰也不可使他的一個猶大弟兄作奴僕．（此後、有耶和華的話臨到耶利米．）

The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

所有立約的首領和衆民、就任他的僕人婢女自由出去、誰也不再叫他們作奴僕．大家都順從、將他們釋放了．

And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant, that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

後來卻又反悔、叫所任去自由的僕人婢女回來、勉強他們仍爲僕婢。

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

因此耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

耶和華以色列的神如此說、我將你們的列祖從埃及地爲奴之家領出來的時候、與他們立約、說、

Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

你的一個希伯來弟兄、若賣給你服事你六年、到第七年你們各人就要任他自由出去．只是你們列祖不聽從我、也不側耳而聽。

At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

如今你們回轉、行我眼中看爲正的事、各人向鄰舍宣告自由．並且在稱爲我名下的殿中、在我面前立約．

And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

你們卻又反悔、褻瀆我的名、各人叫所任去隨意自由的僕人婢女回來、勉強他們仍爲僕婢。

but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

所以耶和華如此說、你們沒有聽從我、各人向弟兄鄰舍宣告自由．看哪、我向你們宣告一樣自由、就是使你們自由於刀劍饑荒瘟疫之下．並且使你們在天下萬國中拋來拋去．這是耶和華說的。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

猶大的首領、耶路撒冷的首領、太監、祭司、和國中的衆民、曾將牛犢劈開、分成兩半、從其中經過、在我面前立約．後來又違背我的約、不遵行這約上的話．

And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;

我必將他們交在仇敵和尋索其命的人手中．他們的屍首必給空中的飛鳥、和地上的野獸作食物。

I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth.

並且我必將猶大王西底家和他的首領、交在他們仇敵和尋索其命的人、與那暫離你們而去巴比倫王軍隊的手中。

And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon`s army, that are gone away from you.

耶和華說、我必吩咐他們回到這城、攻打這城、將城攻取、用火焚燒．我也要使猶大的城邑變爲荒塲、無人居住。

Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

第35章

當猶大王約西亞之子約雅敬的時候、耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

你去見利甲族的人、和他們說話、領他們進入耶和華殿的一間屋子、給他們酒喝．

Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

我就將哈巴洗尼雅的孫子雅利米雅的兒子雅撒尼亞、和他弟兄、並他衆子、以及利甲全族的人、

Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

領到耶和華的殿、進入神人伊基大利的兒子哈難衆子的屋子．那屋子在首領的屋子旁邊、在沙龍之子把門的瑪西雅屋子以上。

and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

於是我在利甲族人面前設擺盛滿酒的碗和杯、對他們說、請你們喝酒。

And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

他們卻說、我們不喝酒．因爲我們先祖利甲的兒子約拿達曾吩咐我們說、你們與你們的子孫、永不可喝酒．

But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever:

也不可蓋房、撒種、栽種葡萄園．但一生的年日要住帳棚、使你們的日子在寄居之地得以延長。

neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn.

凡我們先祖利甲的兒子約拿達所吩咐我們的話、我們都聽從了．我們和我們的妻子兒女、一生的年日、都不喝酒．

And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

也不蓋房居住．也沒有葡萄園、田地、和種子．

nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

但住帳棚、聽從我們先祖約拿達的話、照他所吩咐我們的去行。

but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒上此地來、我們因怕迦勒底的軍隊、和亞蘭的軍隊、就說、來罷、我們到耶路撒冷去．這樣、我們纔住在耶路撒冷。

But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.

耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你去對猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民說、耶和華說、你們不受教訓、不聽從我的話麼。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith Jehovah.

利甲的兒子約拿達所吩咐他子孫不可喝酒的話、他們已經遵守、直到今日也不喝酒、因爲他們聽從先祖的吩咐。我從早起來警戒你們、你們卻不聽從我。

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father`s commandment: but I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me.

我從早起來、差遣我的僕人衆先知去、說、你們各人當回頭離開惡道、改正行爲、不隨從事奉別神、就必住在我所賜給你們和你們列祖的地上．只是你們沒有聽從我、也沒有側耳而聽。

I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

利甲的兒子約拿達的子孫、能遵守先人所吩咐他們的命、這百姓卻沒有聽從我．

Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto me;

因此、耶和華萬軍之神以色列的神如此說、我要使我所說的一切災禍臨到猶大人、和耶路撒冷的一切居民．因爲我對他們說話、他們沒有聽從、我呼喚他們、他們沒有答應。

therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

耶利米對利甲族的人說、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、因你們聽從你們先祖約拿達的吩咐、謹守他的一切誡命、照他所吩咐你們的去行．

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

所以萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、利甲的兒子約拿達必永不缺人侍立在我面前。

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

第36章

猶大王、約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年、耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

你取一書卷、將我對你說攻擊以色列、和猶大、並各國的一切話、從我對你說話的那日、就是從約西亞的日子起、直到今日、都寫在其上．

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

或者猶大家聽見我想要降與他們的一切災禍、各人就回頭離開惡道、我好赦免他們的罪孽和罪惡。

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

所以耶利米召了尼利亞的兒子巴錄來、巴錄就從耶利米口中、將耶和華對耶利米所說的一切話寫在書卷上。

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

耶利米吩咐巴錄說、我被拘管、不能進耶和華的殿．

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:

所以你要去、趁禁食的日子、在耶和華殿中、將耶和華的話、就是你從我口中所寫在書卷上的話、念給百姓和一切從猶大城邑出來的人聽．

therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in Jehovah`s house upon the fast-day; and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

或者他們在耶和華面前懇求、各人回頭離開惡道．因爲耶和華向這百姓所說要發的怒氣和忿怒是大的。

It may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah, and will return every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people.

尼利亞的兒子巴錄就照先知耶利米一切所吩咐的去行、在耶和華的殿中、從書上念耶和華的話。

And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Jehovah in Jehovah`s house.

猶大王、約西亞的兒子約雅敬第五年九月、耶路撒冷的衆民、和那從猶大城邑來到耶路撒冷的衆民、在耶和華面前宣告禁食的日子。

Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.

巴錄就在耶和華殿的上院、耶和華殿的新門口、沙番的兒子文士基瑪利雅的屋內、念書上耶利米的話給衆民聽。

Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Jehovah`s house, in the ears of all the people.

沙番的孫子基瑪利雅的兒子米該亞、聽見書上耶和華的一切話、

And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Jehovah,

他就下到王宮、進入文士的屋子．衆首領、就是文士以利沙瑪、示瑪雅的兒子第萊雅、亞革波的兒子以利拿單、沙番的兒子基瑪利雅、哈拿尼雅的兒子西底家、和其餘的首領、都坐在那裏。

he went down into the king`s house, into the scribe`s chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

於是米該亞對他們述說他所聽見的一切話、就是巴錄向百姓念那書的時候所聽見的。

Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

衆首領就打發古示的曾孫示利米雅的孫子尼探雅的兒子猶底到巴錄那裏、對他說、你將所念給百姓聽的書卷拿在手中、到我們這裏來．尼利亞的兒子巴錄就手拿書卷、來到他們那裏。

Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

他們對他說、請你坐下、念給我們聽．巴錄就念給他們聽。

And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

他們聽見這一切話就害怕、面面相觀、對巴錄說、我們必須將這一切話告訴王。

Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

他們問巴錄說、請你告訴我們、你怎樣從他口中寫這一切話呢。

And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

巴錄回答說、他用口向我說這一切話、我就用筆墨寫在書上。

Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

衆首領對巴錄說、你和耶利米要去藏起來．不可叫人知道你們在那裏。

Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.

衆首領進院見王、卻先把書卷存在文士以利沙瑪的屋內．以後將這一切話說給王聽。

And they went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.

王就打發猶底去拿這書卷來．他便從文士以利沙瑪的屋內取來、念給王、和王左右侍立的衆首領聽。

So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.

那時正是九月、王坐在過冬的房屋裏、王的前面火盆中有燒𤏲的火。

Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.

猶底念了三四篇、〈或作行〉王就用文士的刀將書卷割破、扔在火盆中、直到全卷在火中燒盡了。

And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

王和聽見這一切話的臣僕、都不懼怕、也不撕裂衣服。

And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

以利拿單和第萊雅並基瑪利雅懇求王不要燒這書卷．他卻不聽。

Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.

王就吩咐哈米勒的兒子〈或作王的兒子〉耶拉篾、和亞斯列的兒子西萊雅、並亞伯疊的兒子示利米雅、去捉拿文士巴錄、和先知耶利米．耶和華卻將他們隱藏。

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king`s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.

王燒了書卷．其上有巴錄從耶利米口中所寫的話、以後耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

你再取一卷、將猶大王約雅敬所燒第一卷上的一切話寫在其上。

Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

論到猶大王約雅敬你要說、耶和華如此說、你燒了書卷、說、你爲甚麼在其上寫着說、巴比倫王必要來毀滅這地、使這地上絕了人民牲畜呢。

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

所以耶和華論到猶大王約雅敬說．他後裔中必沒有人坐在大衞的寶座上．他的屍首必被拋棄、白日受炎熱、黑夜受寒霜。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

我必因他、和他後裔．並他臣僕的罪孽、刑罰他們．我要使我所說的一切災禍臨到他們、和耶路撒冷的居民、並猶大人．只是他們不聽。

And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.

於是耶利米又取一書卷、交給尼利亞的兒子文士巴錄、他就從耶利米的口中寫了猶大王約雅敬所燒前卷上的一切話．另外又添了許多相彷的話。

Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.

第37章

約西亞的兒子西底家代替約雅敬的兒子哥尼雅爲王、是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒立在猶大地作王的。

And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

但西底家、和他的臣僕、並國中的百姓、都不聽從耶和華藉先知耶利米所說的話。

But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of Jehovah, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

西底家王打發示利米雅的兒子猶甲、和祭司瑪西雅的兒子西番雅、去見先知耶利米、說、求你爲我們禱告耶和華我們的神。

And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us.

那時耶利米在民中出入．因爲他們還沒有把他囚在監裏。

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

法老的軍隊已經從埃及出來．那圍困耶路撒冷的迦勒底人、聽見他們的風聲、就拔營離開耶路撒冷去了。

And Pharaoh`s army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that were besieging Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they brake up from Jerusalem.

耶和華的話臨到先知耶利米說、

Then came the word of Jehovah unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

耶和華以色列的神如此說、猶大王打發你們來求問我、你們要如此對他說．那出來幫助你們法老的軍隊、必回埃及本國去。

Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh`s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

迦勒底人必再來、攻打這城．並要攻取、用火焚燒。

And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

耶和華如此說、你們不要自欺、說、迦勒底人必定離開我們．因爲他們必不離開。

Thus saith Jehovah, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.

你們卽便殺敗了與你們爭戰的迦勒底全軍、但剩下受傷的人、也必各人從帳棚裏起來、用火焚燒這城。

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yea would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

迦勒底的軍隊、因怕法老的軍隊、拔營離開耶路撒冷的時候、

And it came to pass that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh`s army,

耶利米就雜在民中出離耶路撒冷、要往便雅憫地去、在那裏得自己的地業。

then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.

他到了便雅憫門那裏、有守門官、名叫伊利雅、是哈拿尼亞的孫子、示利米雅的兒子．他就拿住先知耶利米、說、你是投降迦勒底人哪。

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans.

耶利米說、你這是謊話．我並不是投降迦勒底人．伊利雅不聽他的話、就拿住他、解到首領那裏。

Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

首領惱怒耶利米、就打了他、將他囚在文士約拿單的房屋中．因爲他們以這房屋當作監牢。

And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

耶利米來到獄中、進入牢房、在那裏囚了多日．

When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

西底家王打發人提出他來、在自己的宮內私下問他說、從耶和華有甚麼話臨到沒有．耶利米說、有．又說、你必交在巴比倫王手中。

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

耶利米又對西底家王說、我在甚麼事上得罪你、或你的臣僕、或這百姓、你竟將我囚在監裏呢。

Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

對你們豫言巴比倫王必不來攻擊你們和這地的先知、現今在哪裏呢。

Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

主我的王阿、求你現在垂聽、准我在你面前的懇求．不要使我回到文士約拿單的房屋中、免得我死在那裏。

And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

於是西底家王下令、他們就把耶利米交在護衞兵的院中、每天從餅舖街取一個餅給他、直到城中的餅用盡了．這樣、耶利米仍在護衞兵的院中。

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers` street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

第38章

瑪坦的兒子示法提雅、巴施戶珥的兒子基大利、示利米雅的兒子猶甲、瑪基雅的兒子巴示戶珥聽見耶利米對衆人所說的話、說、

And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spake unto all the people, saying,

耶和華如此說、住在這城裏的、必遭刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫而死．但出去歸降迦勒底人的、必得存活、就是以自己命爲掠物的、必得存活。

Thus saith Jehovah, He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey, and he shall live.

耶和華如此說、這城必要交在巴比倫王軍隊的手中．他必攻取這城。

Thus saith Jehovah, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

於是首領對王說、求你將這人治死．因他向城裏剩下的兵丁和衆民說這樣的話、使他們的手發輭．這人不是求這百姓得平安、乃是叫他們受災禍。

Then the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

西底家王說、他在你們手中．無論何事、王也不能與你們反對。

And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you.

他們就拿住耶利米、下在哈米勒的兒子〈或作王的兒子〉瑪基雅的牢獄裏．那牢獄在護衞兵的院中．他們用繩子將耶利米繫下去。牢獄裏沒有水、只有淤泥．耶利米就陷在淤泥中。

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king`s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

在王宮的太監、古實人以伯米勒、聽見他們將耶利米下了牢獄、（那時王坐在便雅憫門口）

Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king`s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,)

以伯米勒就從王宮裏出來、對王說、

Ebed-melech went forth out of the king`s house, and spake to the king, saying,

主我的王阿、這些人向先知耶利米一味的行惡、將他下在牢獄中．他在那裏必因飢餓而死．因爲城中再沒有糧食。

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.

王就吩咐古實人以伯米勒說、你從這裏帶領三十人、趁着先知耶利米未死以前、將他從牢獄中提上來。

Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

於是以伯米勒帶領這些人同去、進入王宮、到庫房以下、從那裏取了些碎布和破爛的衣服、用繩子縋下牢獄去到耶利米那裏。

So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

古實人以伯米勒、對耶利米說、你用這些碎布和破爛的衣服放在繩子上、墊你的胳肢窩．耶利米就照樣行了。

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

這樣、他們用繩子將耶利米從牢獄裏拉上來．耶利米仍在護衞兵的院中。

So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

西底家王打發人帶領先知耶利米、進耶和華殿中第三門裏見王．王就對耶利米說、我要問你一件事、你絲毫不可向我隱瞞。

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

耶利米對西底家說、我若告訴你、你豈不定要殺我麼．我若勸戒你、你必不聽從我。

Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.

西底家王就私下向耶利米說、我指着那造我們生命之永生的耶和華起誓、我必不殺你、也不將你交在尋索你命的人手中。

So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

耶利米對西底家說、耶和華萬軍之神、以色列的神如此說、你若出去歸降巴比倫王的首領、你的命就必存活、這城也不至被火焚燒．你和你的全家都必存活。

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon`s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.

你若不出去歸降巴比倫王的首領、這城必交在迦勒底人手中．他們必用火焚燒、你也不得脫離他們的手。

But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon`s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

西底家王對耶利米說、我怕那些投降迦勒底人的猶大人、恐怕迦勒底人將我交在他們手中、他們戲弄我。

And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

耶利米說、迦勒底人必不將你交出。求你聽從我對你所說耶和華的話．這樣、你必得好處、你的命也必存活。

But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of Jehovah, in that which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.

你若不肯出去、耶和華指示我的話乃是這樣．

But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me:

猶大王宮裏所剩的婦女、必都帶到巴比倫王的首領那裏．這些婦女必說、你知己的朋友催逼你、勝過你．見你的腳陷入淤泥中．就轉身退後了。

behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah`s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon`s princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: [now that] thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

人必將你的后妃、和你的兒女、帶到迦勒底人那裏．你也不得脫離他們的手、必被巴比倫王的手捉住．你也必使這城被火焚燒。

And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

西底家對耶利米說、不要使人知道這些話、你就不至於死。

Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

首領若聽見了我與你說話、就來見你、問你說、你對王說甚麼話、不要向我們隱瞞、我們就不殺你．王向你說甚麼話、也要告訴我們．

But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

你就對他們說、我在王面前懇求不要叫我回到約拿單的房屋死在那裏。

then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan`s house, to die there.

隨後衆首領來見耶利米、問他、他就照王所吩咐的一切話回答他們。他們不再與他說話．因爲事情沒有洩漏。

Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

於是耶利米仍在護衞兵的院中、直到耶路撒冷被攻取的日子。

So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

第39章

猶大王西底家第九年十月、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領全軍來圍困耶路撒冷。

And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;

西底家十一年四月初九日、城被攻破。

in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

耶路撒冷被攻取的時候、巴比倫王的首領、尼甲沙利薛、三甲尼波、撒西金、拉撒力、尼甲沙利薛、拉墨、並巴比倫王其餘的一切首領、都來坐在中門。

that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

猶大王西底家和一切兵丁看見他們、就在夜間、從靠近王園兩城中間的門出城逃跑、往亞拉巴逃去。

And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king`s garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

迦勒底的軍隊追趕他們、在耶利哥的平原追上西底家、將他拿住、帶到哈馬地的利比拉、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒那裏．尼布甲尼撒就審判他。

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.

巴比倫王在利比拉、西底家眼前殺了他的衆子、又殺了猶大的一切貴胄．

Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

並且剜西底家的眼睛、用銅鍊鎖着他、要帶到巴比倫去。

Moreover he put out Zedekiah`s eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

迦勒底人用火焚燒王宮、和百姓的房屋、又拆毀耶路撒冷的城牆。

And the Chaldeans burned the king`s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

那時護衞長尼布撒拉旦、將城裏所剩下的百姓、和投降他的逃民、以及其餘的民、都擄到巴比倫去了。

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and the residue of the people that remained.

護衞長尼布撒拉旦卻將民中毫無所有的窮人留在猶大地、當時給他們葡萄園和田地。

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, that had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒題到耶利米、囑咐護衞長尼布撒拉旦說、

Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

你領他去、好好的看待他、切不可害他．他對你怎麼說、你就向他怎麼行。

Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

護衞長尼布撒拉旦、和尼布沙斯班、拉撒力、尼甲沙利薛、拉墨、並巴比倫王的一切官長、

So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;

打發人去、將耶利米從護衞兵院中提出來、交與沙番的孫子亞希甘的兒子基大利、帶回家去。於是耶利米住在民中。

they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

耶利米還囚在護衞兵院中的時候、耶和華的話臨到他說、

Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

你去告訴古實人以伯米勒說、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我說降禍不降福的話必臨到這城、到那時必在你面前成就了。

Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before thee in that day.

耶和華說、到那日我必拯救你．你必不至交在你所怕的人手中。

But I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

我定要搭救你．你不至倒在刀下、卻要以自己的命爲掠物、因你倚靠我．這是耶和華說的。

For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith Jehovah.

第40章

耶利米鎖在耶路撒冷和猶大被擄到巴比倫的人中、護衞長尼布撒拉旦將他從拉瑪釋放以後、耶和華的話臨到耶利米。

The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive unto Babylon.

護衞長將耶利米叫來、對他說、耶和華你的神曾說要降這禍與此地．

And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;

耶和華使這禍臨到、照他所說的行了．因爲你們得罪耶和華、沒有聽從他的話、所以這事臨到你們。

and Jehovah hath brought it, and done according as he spake: because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

現在我解開你手上的鍊子。你若看與我同往巴比倫去好、就可以去、我必厚待你．你若看與我同往巴比倫去不好、就不必去．看哪、全地在你面前．你以爲那裏美好、那裏合宜、只管上那裏去罷。

And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thy hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well unto thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee; whither it seemeth good and right unto thee to go, thither go.

耶利米還沒有回去、護衞長說、你可以回到沙番的孫子亞希甘的兒子基大利那裏去．現在巴比倫王立他作猶大城邑的省長．你可以在他那裏住在民中．不然、你看那裏合宜、就可以上那裏去。於是護衞長送他糧食和禮物、釋放他去了。

Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let him go.

耶利米就到米斯巴見亞希甘的兒子基大利、在他那裏住在境內剩下的民中。

Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

在田野的一切軍長、和屬他們的人、聽見巴比倫王立了亞希甘的兒子基大利作境內的省長、並將沒有擄到巴比倫的男人、婦女、孩童、和境內極窮的人、全交給他．

Now when all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

於是軍長尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、加利亞的兩個兒子約哈難和約拿單、單戶篾的兒子西萊雅、並尼陀法人以斐的衆子、瑪迦人的兒子耶撒尼亞、和屬他們的人、都到米斯巴見基大利。

then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

沙番的孫子亞希甘的兒子基大利向他們和屬他們的人起誓、說、不要怕服事迦勒底人、只管住在這地、服事巴比倫王、就可以得福。

And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

至於我、我要住在米斯巴、伺候那到我們這裏來的迦勒底人．只是你們當積蓄酒、油、和夏天的果子、收在器皿裏、住在你們所佔的城邑中。

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that shall come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

在摩押地、和亞捫人中、在以東地、和各國的一切猶大人、聽見巴比倫王留下些猶大人、並立沙番的孫子亞希甘的兒子基大利管理他們．

Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

這一切猶大人、就從所趕到的各處回來、到猶大地的米斯巴基大利那裏、又積蓄了許多的酒、並夏天的果子。

then all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

加利亞的兒子約哈難、和在田野的一切軍長、來到米斯巴見基大利、

Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

對他說、亞捫人的王巴利斯打發尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利來要你的命、你知道麼．亞希甘的兒子基大利卻不信他們的話。

and said unto him, Dost thou know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take thy life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

加利亞的兒子約哈難在米斯巴私下對基大利說、求你容我去殺尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、必無人知道．何必讓他要你的命、使聚集到你這裏來的猶大人都分散、以致猶大剩下的人都滅亡呢。

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?

亞希甘的兒子基大利對加利亞的兒子約哈難說、你不可行這事．你所論以實瑪利的話是假的。

But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

第41章

七月間、王的大臣宗室以利沙瑪的孫子尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、帶着十個人、來到米斯巴見亞希甘的兒子基大利．他們在米斯巴一同喫飯。

Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、和同他來的那十個人起來、用刀殺了沙番的孫子亞希甘的兒子基大利、就是巴比倫王所立爲全地省長的。

Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

以實瑪利又殺了在米斯巴基大利那裏的一切猶大人、和所遇見的迦勒底兵丁。

Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war.

他殺了基大利、無人知道、

And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

第二天、有八十人從示劍、和示羅、並撒瑪利亞來、鬍鬚剃去、衣服撕裂、身體畫破、手拿素祭和乳香、要奉到耶和華的殿。

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利出米斯巴迎接他們、隨走隨哭．遇見了他們、就對他們說、你們可以來見亞希甘的兒子基大利。

And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

他們到了城中、尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、和同着他的人就將他們殺了、拋在坑中。

And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

只是他們中間有十個人對以實瑪利說、不要殺我們．因爲我們有許多大麥、小麥、油、蜜、藏在田間．於是他住了手、沒有將他們殺在弟兄中間。

But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

以實瑪利將所殺之人的屍首、都拋在坑裏基大利的旁邊．這坑是從前亞撒王因怕以色列王巴沙所挖的．尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、將那些被殺的人填滿了坑。

Now the pit wherein Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel,) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

以實瑪利將米斯巴剩下的人、就是衆公主、和仍住在米斯巴所有的百姓、原是護衞長尼布撒拉旦交給亞希甘的兒子基大利的、都擄去了．尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利擄了他們、要往亞捫人那裏去。

Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king`s daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.

加利亞的兒子約哈難、和同着他的衆軍長、聽見尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利所行的一切惡、

But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

就帶領衆人前往、要和尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利爭戰、在基遍的大水旁〈或作大水池旁〉遇見他。

then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

以實瑪利那裏的衆人看見加利亞的兒子約哈難、和同着他的衆軍長、就都歡喜。

Now it came to pass that, when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

這樣以實瑪利從米斯巴所擄去的衆人、都轉身歸加利亞的兒子約哈難去了。

So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、和八個人脫離約哈難的手、逃往亞捫人那裏去了。

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利、殺了亞希甘的兒子基大利．從米斯巴將剩下的一切百姓、兵丁、婦女、孩童、太監、擄到基遍之後、加利亞的兒子約哈難、和同着他的衆軍長、將他們都奪回來、

Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:

帶到靠近伯利恆的金罕寓〈或作基羅特金罕〉住下、要進入埃及去．

and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

因爲尼探雅的兒子以實瑪利殺了巴比倫王所立爲省長的亞希甘的兒子基大利、約哈難懼怕迦勒底人。

because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.

第42章

衆軍長、和加利亞的兒子約哈難、並何沙雅的兒子耶撒尼亞、〈耶撒尼亞又名亞撒利雅見四十三章二節〉以及衆百姓、從最小的、到至大的、都進前來、

Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

對先知耶利米說、求你准我們在你面前祈求、爲我們這剩下的人禱告耶和華你的神．我們本來衆多、現在剩下的極少這是你親眼所見的。

and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented before thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:

願耶和華你的神指示我們所當走的路、所當作的事。

that Jehovah thy God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

先知耶利米對他們說、我已經聽見你們了．我必照着你們的話禱告耶和華你們的神．耶和華無論回答甚麼、我必都告訴你們、毫不隱瞞。

Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

於是他們對耶利米說、我們若不照耶和華你的神差遣你來說的一切話行、願耶和華在我們中間作眞實誠信的見證。

Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the word wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us.

我們現在請你到耶和華我們的神面前、他說的無論是好是歹、我們都必聽從．我們聽從耶和華我們神的話、就可以得福。

Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God.

過了十天、耶和華的話臨到耶利米。

And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah.

他就將加利亞的兒子約哈難、和同着他的衆軍長、並衆百姓、從最小的、到至大的、都叫了來、

Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

對他們說、耶和華以色列的神、就是你們請我在他面前爲你們祈求的主、如此說、

and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him:

你們若仍住在這地、我就建立你們必不拆毀、栽植你們並不拔出．因我爲降與你們的災禍後悔了。

If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

不要怕你們所怕的巴比倫王．耶和華說、不要怕他．因爲我與你們同在、要拯救你們脫離他的手。

Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

我也要使他發憐憫、好憐憫你們、叫你們歸回本地。

And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

倘若你們說、我們不住在這地、以致不聽從耶和華你們神的話、

But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovah your God,

說、我們不住這地、卻要進入埃及地、在那裏看不見爭戰、聽不見角聲、也不至無食飢餓．我們必住在那裏。

saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

你們所剩下的猶大人哪、現在要聽耶和華的話．萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你們若定意要進入埃及、在那裏寄居．

now therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;

你們所懼怕的刀劍、在埃及地必追上你們．你們所懼怕的饑荒、在埃及要緊緊的跟隨你們．你們必死在那裏。

then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

凡定意要進入埃及在那裏寄居的、必遭刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫而死、無一人存留、逃脫我所降與他們的災禍。

So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我怎樣將我的怒氣和忿怒傾在耶路撒冷的居民身上、你們進入埃及的時候、我也必照樣將我的忿怒傾在你們身上、以致你們令人辱罵、驚駭、咒詛、羞辱、你們不得再見這地方。

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

所剩下的猶大人哪、耶和華論到你們說、不要進入埃及去．你們要確實的知道我今日警教你們了。

Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day.

你們行詭詐自害．因爲你們請我到耶和華你們的神那裏、說、求你爲我們禱告耶和華我們神、照耶和華我們的神一切所說的告訴我們、我們就必遵行。

For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it:

我今日將這話告訴你們．耶和華你們的神爲你們的事、差遣我到你們那裏說的、你們卻一樣沒有聽從。

and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you.

現在你們要確實的知道、你們在所要去寄居之地必遭刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫而死。

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn there.

第43章

耶利米向衆百姓說完了耶和華他們神的一切話、就是耶和華他們神差遣他去所說的一切話、

And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, wherewith Jehovah their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

何沙雅的兒子亞撒利雅、和加利亞的兒子約哈難、並一切狂傲的人、就對耶利米說、你說謊言．耶和華我們的神並沒有差遣你來說、你們不可進入埃及在那裏寄居．

then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;

這是尼利亞的兒子巴錄挑唆你害我們、要將我們交在迦勒底人的手中、使我們有被殺的、有被擄到巴比倫去的。

but Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.

於是加利亞的兒子約哈難、和一切軍長、並衆百姓、不聽從耶和華的話住在猶大地。

So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of Jehovah, to dwell in the land of Judah.

加利亞的兒子約哈難、和一切軍長、卻將所剩下的猶大人、就是從被趕到各國回來、在猶大地寄居的男人、婦女、孩童、和衆公主、並護衞長尼布撒拉旦所留在沙番的孫子亞希甘的兒子基大利那裏的衆人、與先知耶利米、以及尼利亞的兒子巴錄、

But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all the nations whither they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah;

the men, and the women, and the children, and the king`s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;

都帶入埃及地、到了答比匿．這是因他們不聽從耶和華的話。

and they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah: and they came unto Tahpanhes.

在答比匿耶和華的話臨到耶利米說、

Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

你在猶大人眼前要用手拿幾塊大石頭、藏在砌磚的灰泥中、就是在答比匿法老的宮門那裏．

Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh`s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

對他們說、萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我必召我的僕人巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒來．在所藏的石頭上我要安置他的寶座．他必將光華的寶帳支搭在其上。

and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

他要來攻擊埃及地．定爲死亡的、必至死亡、定爲擄掠的、必被擄掠、定爲刀殺的、必交刀殺。

And he shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

我要在埃及神的廟中使火𤏲起．巴比倫王要將廟宇焚燒、神像擄去．他要得〈得原文作披上〉埃及地、好像牧人披上外衣、從那裏安然而去。

And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

他必打碎埃及地伯示麥的柱像．用火焚燒埃及神的廟宇。

He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

第44章

有臨到耶利米的話、論及一切住在埃及地的猶大人、就是住在密奪、答比匿、挪弗、巴忒羅境內的猶大人說、

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我所降與耶路撒冷、和猶大各城的一切災禍、你們都看見了．那些城邑今日荒涼、無人居住．

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

這是因居民所行的惡、去燒香事奉別神、就是他們、和你們、並你們列祖所不認識的神、惹我發怒。

because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

我從早起來差遣我的僕人衆先知去說、你們切不要行我所厭惡這可憎之事。

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

他們卻不聽從、不側耳而聽、不轉離惡事、仍向別神燒香。

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

因此、我的怒氣和忿怒都倒出來、在猶大城邑中、和耶路撒冷的街市上、如火𤏲起、以致都荒廢淒涼、正如今日一樣。

Wherefore my wrath and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.

現在耶和華萬軍之神、以色列的神如此說、你們爲何作這大惡自害己命、使你們的男人、婦女、嬰孩、和喫奶的、都從猶大中剪除、不留一人呢．

Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;

就是因你們手所作的、在所去寄居的埃及地、向別神燒香惹我發怒、使你們被剪除、在天下萬國中令人咒詛羞辱。

in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

你們列祖的惡行、猶大列王和他們后妃的惡行、你們自己和你們妻子的惡行、就是在猶大地、耶路撒冷街上所行的、你們都忘了麼。

Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

到如今還沒有懊悔、沒有懼怕、沒有遵行我在你們和你們列祖面前所設立的法度律例。

They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

所以萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我必向你們變臉降災、以致剪除猶大衆人。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

那定意進入埃及地、在那裏寄居的、就是所剩下的猶大人、我必使他們盡都滅絕．必在埃及地仆倒、必因刀劍饑荒滅絕．從最小的、到至大的、都必遭刀劍饑荒而死、以致令人辱罵、驚駭、咒詛、羞辱。

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

我怎樣用刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫、刑罰耶路撒冷、也必照樣刑罰那些住在埃及地的猶大人．

For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

甚至那進入埃及地寄居的、就是所剩下的猶大人、都不得逃脫、也不得存留歸回猶大地、他們心中甚想歸回居住之地．除了逃脫的以外、一個都不能歸回。

so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.

那些住在埃及地巴忒羅知道自己妻子向別神燒香的、與旁邊站立的衆婦女聚集成羣、回答耶利米說、

Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

論到你奉耶和華的名向我們所說的話、我們必不聽從。

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee.

我們定要成就我們口中所出的一切話、向天后燒香、澆奠祭按着我們與我們列祖、君王、首領、在猶大的城邑中、和耶路撒冷的街市上、素常所行的一樣．因爲那時我們喫飽飯、享福樂、並不見災禍。

But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

自從我們停止向天后燒香、澆奠祭、我們倒缺乏一切．又因刀劍饑荒滅絕。

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

婦女說、我們向天后燒香、澆奠祭、作天后像的餅供奉他、向他澆奠祭、是外乎我們的丈夫麼。

And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands?

耶利米對一切那樣回答他的男人婦女說、

Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying,

你們與你們列祖、君王、首領、並國內的百姓、在猶大城邑中、和耶路撒冷街市上所燒的香、耶和華豈不記念、心中豈不思想麼。

The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Jehovah remember them, and came it not into his mind?

耶和華因你們所作的惡、所行可憎的事、不能再容忍．所以你們的地荒涼、令人驚駭、咒詛、無人居住、正如今日一樣。

so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

你們燒香、得罪耶和華、沒有聽從他的話、沒有遵行他的律法、條例、法度．所以你們遭遇這災禍、正如今日一樣。

Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as it is this day.

耶利米又對衆民和衆婦女說、你們在埃及地的一切猶大人、當聽耶和華的話．

Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、你們和你們的妻、都口中說、手裏作、說、我們定要償還所許的願、向天后燒香、澆奠祭．現在你們只管堅定所許的願而償還罷。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.

所以你們住在埃及地的一切猶大人、當聽耶和華的話．耶和華說、我指着我的大名起誓、在埃及全地、我的名不再被猶大一個人的口稱呼、說、我指着主永生的耶和華起誓。

Therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Jehovah liveth.

我向他們留意降禍不降福、在埃及地的一切猶大人必因刀劍饑荒所滅、直到滅盡。

Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

脫離刀劍、從埃及地歸回猶大地的人數很少．那進入埃及地要在那裏寄居的、就是所剩下的猶大人、必知道是誰的話立得住、是我的話呢、是他們的話呢。

And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

耶和華說、我在這地方刑罰你們、必有豫兆、使你們知道我降禍與你們的話、必要立得住。

And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

耶和華如此說、我必將埃及王法老合弗拉交在他仇敵和尋索其命的人手中、像我將猶大王西底家交在他仇敵和尋索其命的巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒手中一樣。

Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

第45章

猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年、尼利亞的兒子巴錄將先知耶利米口中所說的話寫在書上、耶利米說、

The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

巴錄阿、耶和華以色列的神說、

Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:

巴錄〈原文作你〉曾說、哀哉、耶和華將憂愁加在我的痛苦上．我因唉哼而困乏、不得安歇。

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

你要這樣告訴他、耶和華如此說、我所建立的我必拆毀．我所栽植的我必拔出．在全地我都如此行。

Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

你爲自己圖謀大事麼．不要圖謀．我必使災禍臨到凡有血氣的．但你無論往那裏去、我必使你以自己的命爲掠物．這是耶和華說的。

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

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耶和華論列國的話臨到先知耶利米。

The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

論到關乎埃及王法老尼哥的軍隊．這軍隊安營在伯拉河邊的迦基米施、是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒在猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年所打敗的。

Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

你們要豫備大小盾牌、往前上陣。

Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

你們套上車、騎上馬、頂盔站立、磨槍貫甲。

Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

我爲何看見他們驚惶轉身退後呢．他們的勇士打敗了、急忙逃跑、並不回頭．驚嚇四圍都有．這是耶和華說的。

Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.

不要容快跑的逃避、不要容勇士逃脫．〈或作快跑的不能逃避勇士不能逃脫〉他們在北方伯拉河邊絆跌仆倒。

Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

像尼羅河漲發、像江河之水翻騰的是誰呢。

Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

埃及像尼羅河漲發、像江河的水翻騰．他說、我要漲發遮蓋徧地．我要毀滅城邑、和其中的居民。

Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.

馬匹上去罷．車輛急行罷．勇士、就是手拿盾牌的古實人和弗人、〈又作呂彼亞人〉並拉弓的路德族、都出去罷。

Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

那日是主萬軍之耶和華報仇的日子、要向敵人報仇．刀劍必吞喫得飽、飲血飲足．因爲主萬軍之耶和華、在北方伯拉河邊有獻祭的事。

For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

埃及的民哪、〈民原文作處女〉可以上基列取乳香去．你雖多服良藥、總是徒然、不得治好。

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.

列國聽見你的羞辱、徧地滿了你的哀聲．勇士與勇士彼此相碰、一齊跌倒。

The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

耶和華對先知耶利米所說的話、論到巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒要來攻擊埃及地。

The word that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

你們要傳揚在埃及、宣告在密奪、報告在挪弗、答比匿、說、要站起出隊、自作準備．因爲刀劍在你四圍施行吞滅的事。

Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.

你的壯士爲何被沖去呢．他們站立不住、因爲耶和華驅逐他們。

Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.

使多人絆跌、他們也彼此撞倒、說、起來罷、我們再往本民本地去、好躱避欺壓的刀劍。

He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

他們在那裏喊叫說、埃及王法老不過是個聲音．〈不過是個聲音或作已經敗亡〉他已錯過所定的時候了。

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

君王、名爲萬軍之耶和華的、說、我指着我的永生起誓、尼布甲尼撒〈原文作他〉來的勢派必像他泊在衆山之中、像迦密在海邊一樣。

As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

住在埃及的民哪、〈民原文作女子〉要豫備擄去時所用的物件．因爲挪弗必成爲荒塲、且被燒燬、無人居住。

O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

埃及是肥美的母牛犢．但出於北方的毀滅〈毀滅或作牛蝱〉來到了、來到了。

Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

其中的雇勇、好像圈裏的肥牛犢．他們轉身退後、一齊逃跑、站立不住．因爲他們遭難的日子、追討的時候、已經臨到。

Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

其中的聲音、好像蛇行一樣．敵人要成隊而來、如砍伐樹木的手拿斧子攻擊他。

The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

耶和華說、埃及的樹林、雖然不能尋察、〈或作穿不過〉敵人卻要砍伐、因他們多於蝗蟲、不可勝數。

They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

埃及的民〈民原文作女子〉必然蒙羞．必交在北方人的手中。

The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神說、我必刑罰挪的亞捫〈埃及尊大之神〉和法老、並埃及、與埃及的神、以及君王．也必刑罰法老、和倚靠他的人。

Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him:

我要將他們交付尋索其命之人的手、和巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒與他臣僕的手．以後埃及必再有人居住、與從前一樣．這是耶和華說的。

and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.

我的僕人雅各阿、不要懼怕．以色列阿、不要驚惶。因我要從遠方拯救你、從被擄到之地拯救你的後裔．雅各必回來、得享平靖安逸、無人使他害怕。

But fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

我的僕人雅各阿、不要懼怕．因我與你同在．我要將我所趕你到的那些國滅絕淨盡．卻不將你滅絕淨盡、倒要從寬懲治你、萬不能不罰你．〈不罰你或作以你爲無罪〉這是耶和華說的。

Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.

第47章

法老攻擊迦薩之先、有耶和華論非利士人的話臨到先知耶利米。

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

耶和華如此說、有水從北方發起、成爲漲溢的河、要漲過徧地和其中所有的、並城和其中所住的、人必呼喊、境內的居民都必哀號。

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and them that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

聽見敵人壯馬蹄跳的響聲、和戰車隆隆、車輪轟轟、爲父的手就發輭、不回頭看顧兒女．

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

因爲日子將到、要毀滅一切非利士人、剪除幫助推羅西頓所剩下的人．原來耶和華必毀滅非利士人、就是迦斐託海島餘剩的人。

because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

迦薩成了光禿．平原中所剩的亞實基倫歸於無有．你用刀劃身、要到幾時呢。

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

耶和華的刀劍哪、你到幾時纔止息呢．你要入鞘、安靖不動。

O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still.

耶和華旣吩咐你攻擊亞實基倫、和海邊之地、他已經派定你、焉能止息呢。

How canst thou be quiet, seeing Jehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there hath he appointed it.

第48章

論摩押。萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、尼波有禍了、因變爲荒塲．基列亭蒙羞被攻取．米斯迦蒙羞被毀壞。

Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.

摩押不再被稱讚．有人在希實本設計謀害他、說、來罷、我們將他剪除、不再成國。瑪得緬哪、你也必默默無聲．刀劍必追趕你。

The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee.

從何羅念有喊荒涼大毀滅的哀聲．

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

摩押毀滅了．他的孩童〈或作家僮〉發哀聲、使人聽見。

Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

人上魯希坡隨走隨哭．因爲在何羅念的下坡、聽見毀滅的哀聲。

For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

你們要奔逃、自救性命、獨自居住好像曠野的杜松。

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

你因倚靠自己所作的、和自己的財寶、必被攻取、基抹和屬他的祭司、首領、也要一同被擄去。

For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

行毀滅的、必來到各城、並無一城得免．山谷必至敗落、平原必被毀壞．正如耶和華所說的。

And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovah hath spoken.

要將翅膀給摩押、使他可以飛去．他的城邑必至荒涼、無人居住。

Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

懶惰爲耶和華行事的、必受咒詛．禁止刀劍不經血的、必受咒詛。

Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

摩押自幼年以來、常享安逸、如酒在渣滓上澄清、沒有從這器皿倒在那器皿裏、也未曾被擄去．因此、他的原味尚存、香氣未變。

Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed.

耶和華說、日子將到、我必打發倒酒的往他那裏去、將他倒出來．倒空他的器皿、打碎他的罎子。

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.

摩押必因基抹羞愧、像以色列家從前倚靠伯特利的神羞愧一樣。

And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

你們怎麼說、我們是勇士、是有勇力打仗的呢。

How say ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?

摩押變爲荒塲．敵人上去進了他的城邑．他所特選的少年人、下去遭了殺戮．這是君王、名爲萬軍之耶和華說的。

Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

摩押的災殃臨近、他的苦難、速速來到。

The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

凡在他四圍的、和認識他名的、你們都要爲他悲傷、說、那結實的杖、和那美好的棍、何竟折斷了呢。

All ye that are round about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!

住在底本的民哪、〈民原文作女子〉要從你榮耀的位上下來、坐受乾渴．因毀滅摩押的上來攻擊你．毀壞了你的保障。

O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.

住亞羅珥的阿、要站在道旁觀望．問逃避的男人、和逃脫的女人、說、是甚麼事呢。

O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What hath been done?

摩押因毀壞蒙羞．你們要哀號呼喊．要在亞嫩旁報告、說、摩押變爲荒塲。

Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

刑罰臨到平原之地的何倫、雅雜、米法押、

And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,

底本、尼波、伯低比拉太音、

and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,

基列亭、伯迦末、伯米恩、

and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,

加畧、波斯拉、和摩押地遠近所有的城邑。

and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

摩押的角砍斷了、摩押的膀臂折斷了．這是耶和華說的。

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith Jehovah.

你們要使摩押沉醉、因他向耶和華誇大．他要在自己所吐之中打輥、又要被人嗤笑。

Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

摩押阿、你不曾嗤笑以色列麼．他豈是在賊中查出來的呢．你每逢題到他便搖頭。

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

摩押的居民哪、要離開城邑、住在山崖裏、像鴿子在深淵口上搭窩。

O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

我們聽說摩押人驕傲、是極其驕傲．聽說他自高自傲、並且狂妄、居心自大。

We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.

耶和華說、我知道他的忿怒、是虛空的．他誇大的話、一無所成。

I know his wrath, saith Jehovah, that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing.

因此、我要爲摩押哀號、爲摩押全地呼喊．人必爲吉珥哈列設人歎息。

Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn.

西比瑪的葡萄樹阿、我爲你哀哭甚於雅謝人哀哭．你的枝子蔓延過海、直長到雅謝海、那行毀滅的、已經臨到你夏天的果子、和你所摘的葡萄。

With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.

肥田和摩押地的歡喜快樂、都被奪去、我使酒醡的酒絕流、無人踹酒歡呼．那歡呼卻變爲仇敵的吶喊。〈原文作那歡呼卻不是歡呼〉

And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

希實本人發的哀聲、達到以利亞利、直達到雅雜、從瑣珥達到何羅念、直到伊基拉施利施亞．因爲寧林的水、必然乾涸。

From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

耶和華說、我必在摩押地、使那在邱壇獻祭的、和那向他的神燒香的、都斷絕了。

Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

我心腹爲摩押哀鳴如簫、我心腸爲吉珥哈列設人、也是如此．因摩押人所得的財物、都滅沒了。

Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.

各人頭上光禿、鬍鬚剪短、手有畫傷、腰束麻布。

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

在摩押的各房頂上、和街市上、處處有人哀哭．因我打碎摩押、好像打碎無人喜悅的器皿．這是耶和華說的。

On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.

摩押何等毀壞、何等哀號、何等羞愧轉背．這樣、摩押必令四圍的人嗤笑驚駭。

How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.

耶和華如此說、仇敵必如大鷹飛起、展開翅膀、攻擊摩押。

For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

加畧被攻取、保障也被佔據、到那日、摩押的勇士心中疼痛、如臨產的婦人。

Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

摩押必被毀滅、不再成國、因他向耶和華誇大。

And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.

耶和華說、摩押的居民哪、恐懼、陷坑、網羅、都臨近你。

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.

躱避恐懼、的必墜入陷坑．從陷坑上來的、必被網羅纏住．因我必使追討之年臨到摩押．這是耶和華說的。

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

躱避的人、無力站在希實本的影下．因爲有火從希實本發出、有火燄出於西宏的城、燒盡摩押的角、和鬨嚷人的頭頂。

They that fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

摩押阿、你有禍了．屬基抹的民滅亡了．因你的衆子都被擄去．你的衆女也被擄去。

Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.

耶和華說、到末後、我還要使被擄的摩押人歸回。摩押受審判的話到此爲止。

Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

第49章

論亞捫人。耶和華如此說、以色列沒有兒子麼、沒有後嗣麼．瑪勒堪爲何得迦得之地爲業呢．屬他的民爲何住其中的城邑呢。

Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities thereof?

耶和華說、日子將到、我必使人聽見打仗的喊聲、是攻擊亞捫人拉巴的喊聲、拉巴要成爲亂堆．屬他的鄉村〈原文作女子〉要被火焚燒．先前得以色列地爲業的、此時以色列倒要得他們的地爲業．這是耶和華說的。

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah.

希實本哪、你要哀號、因爲愛地變爲荒塲．拉巴的居民哪、〈居民原文作女子〉要呼喊、以麻布束腰．要哭號、在籬笆中跑來跑去．因瑪勒堪和屬他的祭司、首領、要一同被擄去。

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

背道的民哪、〈民原文作女子〉你們爲何因有山谷、就是水流的山谷、誇張呢．爲何倚靠財寶、說、誰能來到我們這裏呢。

Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come unto me?

主萬軍之耶和華說、我要使恐嚇從四圍的人中臨到你們．你們必被趕出、各人一直前往、沒有人收聚逃民。

Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, from all that are round about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.

後來我還要使被擄的亞捫人歸回．這是耶和華說的。

But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah.

論以東。萬軍之耶和華如此說、提幔中再沒有智慧麼．明哲人不再有謀畧麼．他們的智慧盡歸無有麼。

Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

底但的居民哪、要轉身逃跑、住在深密處．因爲我向以掃追討的時候、必使災殃臨到他。

Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him.

摘葡萄的、若來到他那裏、豈不剩下些葡萄呢．盜賊若夜間而來、豈不毀壞、直到彀了呢。

If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?

我卻使以掃赤露、顯出他的隱密處．他不能自藏．他的後裔、弟兄、鄰舍、盡都滅絕、他也歸於無有。

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not.

你撇下孤兒、我必保全他們的命．你的寡婦可以倚靠我。

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

耶和華如此說、原不該喝那杯的、一定要喝．你能盡免刑罰麼．你必不能免、一定要喝。

For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.

耶和華說、我指着自己起誓、波斯拉必令人驚駭、羞辱、咒詛、並且荒涼．他的一切城邑、必變爲永遠的荒塲。

For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

我從耶和華那裏聽見信息、並有使者被差往列國去、說、你們聚集來攻擊以東．要起來爭戰。

I have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

我使你在列國中爲最小、在世人中被藐視。

For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

住在山穴中據守山頂的阿、論到你的威嚇、你因心中的狂傲自欺．你雖如大鷹高高搭窩、我卻從那裏拉下你來．這是耶和華說的。

As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.

以東必令人驚駭．凡經過的人、就受驚駭、又因他一切的災禍嗤笑。

And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

耶和華說、必無人住在那裏、也無人在其中寄居．要像所多瑪蛾摩拉和鄰近的城邑傾覆的時候一樣。

As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

仇敵必像獅子從約但河邊的叢林上來、攻擊堅固的居所．轉眼之間、我要使以東人逃跑、離開這地．誰蒙揀選、我就派誰治理這地．誰能比我呢．誰能給我定規日期呢．有何牧人能在我面前站立得住呢。

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?

你們要聽耶和華攻擊以東所說的謀畧、和他攻擊提幔居民所定的旨意．仇敵定要將他們羣衆微弱的拉去、定要使他們的居所荒涼。

Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

因他們仆倒的聲音、地就震動．人在紅海那裏、必聽見呼喊的聲音。

The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

仇敵必如大鷹飛起、展開翅膀攻擊波斯拉．到那日、以東的勇士心中疼痛、如臨產的婦人。

Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

論大馬色。哈馬和亞珥拔蒙羞．因他們聽見凶惡的信息、就消化了．海上有憂愁、不得平靜。

Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

大馬色發輭、轉身逃跑．戰兢將他捉住、痛苦憂愁將他抓住、如產難的婦人一樣。

Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

我所喜樂可稱讚的城、爲何被撇棄了呢。

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

他的少年人、必仆倒在街上．當那日、一切兵丁必默默無聲．這是萬軍之耶和華說的。

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.

我必在大馬色城中使火𤏲起、燒滅便哈達的宮殿。

And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

論巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒所攻打的基達、和夏瑣的諸國。耶和華如此說、迦勒底人哪、起來上基達去、毀滅東方人。

Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

他們的帳棚、和羊羣、都要奪去、將幔子、和一切器皿、並駱駝、爲自己掠去。人向他們喊着說、四圍都有驚嚇。

Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!

耶和華說、夏瑣的居民哪、要逃奔遠方、住在深密處．因爲巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒設計謀害你們、起意攻擊你們。

Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

耶和華說、迦勒底人哪、起來、上安逸無慮的居民那裏去．他們是無門無閂、獨自居住的。

Arise, get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that dwelleth without care, saith Jehovah; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.

他們的駱駝、必成爲掠物．他們衆多的牲畜、必成爲擄物。我必將剃周圍頭髮的人、分散四方、〈方原文作風〉使災殃從四圍臨到他們．這是耶和華說的。

And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith Jehovah.

夏瑣必成爲野狗的住處、永遠淒涼．必無人住在那裏、也無人在其中寄居。

And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

猶大王西底家登基的時候、耶和華論以攔的話臨到先知耶利米說、

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

萬軍之耶和華如此說、我必折斷以攔人的弓、就是他們爲首的權力。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

我要使四風從天的四方颳來、臨到以攔人、將他們分散四方．〈方原文作風〉這被趕散的人、沒有一國不到的。

And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

耶和華說、我必使以攔人在仇敵和尋索其命的人面前驚惶．我也必使災禍、就是我的烈怒、臨到他們．又必使刀劍追殺他們、直到將他們滅盡。

And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith Jehovah; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them;

我要在以攔設立我的寶座、從那裏除滅君王、和首領．這是耶和華說的。

and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence king and princes, saith Jehovah.

到末後、我還要使被擄的以攔人歸回．這是耶和華說的。

But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.

第50章

耶和華藉先知耶利米論巴比倫和迦勒底人之地所說的話。

The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

你們要在萬國中傳揚報告、豎立大旗．要報告、不可隱瞞、說、巴比倫被攻取、彼勒蒙羞、米羅達驚惶．巴比倫的神像都蒙羞、他的偶像都驚惶。

Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.

因有一國從北方上來攻擊他、使他的地荒涼、無人居住．連人帶牲畜、都逃走了。

For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.

耶和華說、當那日子、那時候、以色列人要和猶大人同來、隨走隨哭、尋求耶和華他們的神。

In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God.

他們必訪問錫安、又面向這裏、說、來罷、你們要與耶和華聯合爲永遠不忘的約。

They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

我的百姓作了迷失的羊．牧人使他們走差路、使他們轉到山上．他們從大山走到小山、竟忘了安歇之處。

My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.

凡遇見他們的、就把他們吞滅．敵人說、我們沒有罪、因他們得罪那作公義居所的耶和華、就是他們列祖所仰望的耶和華。

All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

我民哪、你們要從巴比倫中逃走、從迦勒底人之地出去．要像羊羣前面走的公山羊。

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

因我必激動聯合的大國、從北方上來攻擊巴比倫．他們要擺陣攻擊他．他必從那裏被攻取．他們的箭、好像善射之勇士的箭、一枝也不徒然返回。

For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

迦勒底必成爲掠物．凡擄掠他的都必心滿意足．這是耶和華說的。

And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.

搶奪我產業的阿、你們因歡喜快樂、且像踹穀撒歡的母牛犢、又像發嘶聲的壯馬．

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;

你們的母巴比倫就極其抱愧、生你們的必然蒙羞．他要列在諸國之末、成爲曠野、旱地、沙漠。

your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

因耶和華的忿怒、必無人居住、要全然荒涼．凡經過巴比倫的、要受驚駭、又因他所遭的災殃嗤笑。

Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

所有拉弓的、你們要在巴比倫的四圍擺陣、射箭攻擊他．不要愛惜箭枝、因他得罪了耶和華。

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah.

你們要在他四圍吶喊．他已經投降．外郭坍塌了、城牆拆毀了．因爲這是耶和華報仇的事．你們要向巴比倫報仇、他怎樣待人、也要怎樣待他。

Shout against her round about: she hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

你們要將巴比倫撒種的、和收割時拿鐮刀的、都剪除了．他們各人、因怕欺壓的刀劍、必歸回本族、逃到本土。

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

以色列是打散的羊、是被獅子趕出的．首先是亞述王將他吞滅、末後是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒將他的骨頭折斷。

Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

所以萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、我必罰巴比倫王、和他的地、像我從前罰亞述王一樣。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

我必再領以色列回他的草塲．他必在迦密和巴珊喫草、又在以法蓮山上、和基列境內、得以飽足。

And I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

耶和華說、當那日子、那時候、雖尋以色列的罪孽、一無所有．雖尋猶大的罪惡、也無所見．因爲我所留下的人、我必赦免。

In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

耶和華說上去攻擊米拉大翁之地、又攻擊比割的居民．要追殺滅盡、照我一切所吩咐你的去行。

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

境內有打仗和大毀滅的響聲。

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

全地的大錘、何竟砍斷破壞．巴比倫在列國中、何竟荒涼。

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

巴比倫哪、我爲你設下網羅、你不知不覺被纏住．你被尋着、也被捉住、因爲你與耶和華爭競。

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

耶和華已經開了武庫、拿出他惱恨的兵器．因爲主萬軍之耶和華、在迦勒底人之地有當作的事。

Jehovah hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.

你們要從極遠的邊界來攻擊他、開他的倉廩、將他堆如高堆、毀滅淨盡、絲毫不留。

Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

要殺他的一切牛犢、使他們下去遭遇殺戮．他們有禍了、因爲追討他們的日子已經來到。

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

有從巴比倫之地逃避出來的人、在錫安揚聲報告耶和華我們的神報仇、就是爲他的殿報仇。

The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.

招集一切弓箭手來、攻擊巴比倫．要在巴比倫四圍安營．不要容一人逃脫、照着他所做的報應他．他怎樣待人、也要怎樣待他．因爲他向耶和華以色列的聖者、發了狂傲。

Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

所以他的少年人、必仆倒在街上．當那日、一切兵丁必默默無聲．這是耶和華說的。

Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.

主萬軍之耶和華說、你這狂傲的阿、我與你反對．因爲我追討你的日子已經來到。

Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

狂傲的必絆跌仆倒、無人扶起．我也必使火在他的城邑中𤏲起來、將他四圍所有的盡行燒滅。

And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.

萬軍之耶和華如此說、以色列人和猶大人一同受欺壓．凡擄掠他們的、都緊緊抓住他們、不肯釋放。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

他們的救贖主大有能力．萬軍之耶和華是他的名．他必伸清他們的寃、好使全地得平安、並攪擾巴比倫的居民。

Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

耶和華說、有刀劍臨到迦勒底人、和巴比倫的居民、並他的首領、與智慧人。

A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

有刀劍臨到矜誇的人、他們就成爲愚昧．有刀劍臨到他的勇士、他們就驚惶。

A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

有刀劍臨到他的馬匹、車輛、和其中雜族的人民．他們必像婦女一樣。有刀劍臨到他的寶物、就被搶奪。

A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

有乾旱臨到他的衆水、就必乾涸．因爲這是有雕刻偶像之地、人因偶像而顚狂。

A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

所以曠野的走獸和豺狼、必住在那裏、鴕鳥也住在其中、永無人煙、世世代代無人居住。

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

耶和華說、必無人住在那裏、也無人在其中寄居．要像我傾覆所多瑪蛾摩拉和鄰近的城邑一樣。

As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

看哪、有一種民從北方而來．並有一大國和許多君王被激動、從地極來到。

Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

他們拿弓和槍．性情殘忍、不施憐憫．他們的聲音像海浪匉訇。巴比倫城阿、〈城原文作女子〉他們騎馬、都擺隊伍、如上戰塲的人、要攻擊你。

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

巴比倫王聽見他們的風聲、手就發輭．痛苦將他抓住、疼痛彷彿產難的婦人。

The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

仇敵必像獅子從約但河邊的叢林上來、攻擊堅固的居所．轉眼之間、我要使他們逃跑、離開這地．誰蒙揀選、我就派誰治理這地．誰能比我呢．誰能給我定規日期呢．有何牧人能在我面前站立得住呢。

Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?

你們要聽耶和華攻擊巴比倫所說的謀畧、和他攻擊迦勒底人之地所定的旨意。仇敵定要將他們羣衆微弱的拉去、定要使他們的居所荒涼。

Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

因巴比倫被取的聲音、地就震動、人在列邦都聽見呼喊的聲音。

At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.

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耶和華如此說、我必使毀滅的風颳起、攻擊巴比倫、和住在立加米的人。

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind.

我要打發外邦人來到巴比倫、簸揚他、使他的地空虛．在他遭禍的日子、他們要周圍攻擊他。

And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

拉弓的、要向拉弓的和貫甲挺身的射箭．不要憐惜他的少年人．要滅盡他的全軍。

Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

他們必在迦勒底人之地、被殺仆倒、在巴比倫的街上被刺透。

And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

以色列和猶大、雖然境內充滿違背以色列聖者的罪、卻沒有被他的神萬軍之耶和華丟棄。

For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

你們要從巴比倫中逃奔、各救自己的性命．不要陷在他的罪孽中、一同滅亡、因爲這是耶和華報仇的時候．他必向巴比倫施行報應。

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah`s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.

巴比倫素來是耶和華手中的金杯、使天下沉醉．萬國喝了他的酒就顚狂了。

Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah`s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

巴比倫忽然傾覆毀壞．要爲他哀號、爲止他的疼痛、拿乳香、或者可以治好。

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

我們想醫治巴比倫、他卻沒有治好．離開他罷、我們各人歸回本國．因爲他受的審判通於上天、達到穹蒼。

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

耶和華已經彰顯我們的公義．來罷、我們可以在錫安報告耶和華我們神的作爲。

Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

你們要磨尖了箭頭、抓住盾牌．耶和華定意攻擊巴比倫、將他毀滅、所以激動了瑪代君王的心、因這是耶和華報仇、就是爲自己的殿報仇。

Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

你們要豎立大旗、攻擊巴比倫的城牆．要堅固瞭望臺、派定守望的設下埋伏．因爲耶和華指着巴比倫居民所說的話、所定的意、他已經作成。

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

住在衆水之上多有財寶的阿、你的結局到了、你貪婪之量滿了。

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

萬軍之耶和華指着自己起誓、說、我必使敵人充滿你、像螞蚱一樣．他們必吶喊攻擊你。

Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

耶和華用能力創造大地、用智慧建立世界、用聰明鋪張穹蒼。

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

他一發聲、空中便有多水激動．他使雲霧從地極上騰．他造電隨雨而閃、從他府庫中帶出風來。

各人都成了畜類、毫無知識．各銀匠都因他的偶像羞愧．他所鑄的偶像、本是虛假的、其中並無氣息．

Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

都是虛無的、是迷惑人的工作．到追討的時候、必被除滅。

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

雅各的分不像這些．因他是造作萬有的主．以色列也是他產業的支派．萬軍之耶和華是他的名。

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

你是我爭戰的斧子、和打仗的兵器．我要用你打碎列國、用你毀滅列邦．

Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

用你打碎馬和騎馬的．用你打碎戰車和坐在其上的．

and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

用你打碎男人和女人．用你打碎老年人和少年人．用你打碎壯丁和處女．

and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

用你打碎牧人和他的羣畜．用你打碎農夫和他一對牛．用你打碎省長和副省長。

and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke [of oxen]; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

耶和華說、我必在你們眼前報復巴比倫人和迦勒底居民在錫安所行的諸惡。

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith Jehovah.

耶和華說、你這行毀滅的山哪、就是毀滅天下的山、我與你反對．我必向你伸手、將你從山巖輥下去、使你成爲燒燬的山。

Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

人必不從你那裏取石頭爲房角石、也不取石頭爲根基石．你必永遠荒涼．這是耶和華說的。

And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.

要在境內豎立大旗、在各國中吹角、使列國豫備攻擊巴比倫、將亞拉臘、米尼、亞實基拿各國招來攻擊他．又派軍長來攻擊他、使馬匹上來如螞蚱．

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

使列國和瑪代君王、與省長、和副省長、並他們所管全地之人、都豫備攻擊他。

Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion.

地必震動而瘠苦．因耶和華向巴比倫所定的旨意成立了、使巴比倫之地荒涼、無人居住。

And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

巴比倫的勇士止息爭戰、藏在堅壘之中．他們的勇力衰盡、好像婦女一樣．巴比倫的住處有火𤏲起．門閂都折斷了。

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

通報的要彼此相遇、送信的要互相迎接、報告巴比倫王、說、城的四方、被攻取了．

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

渡口被佔據了、葦塘被火燒了、兵丁也驚慌了。

and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

萬軍之耶和華以色列的神如此說、巴比倫城、〈城原文作女子〉好像踹穀的禾塲．再過片時、收割他的時候就到了。

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

以色列人說、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒吞滅我、壓碎我、使我成爲空虛的器皿．他像大魚、將我吞下、用我的美物充滿他的肚腹、又將我趕出去。

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.

錫安的居民要說、巴比倫以強暴待我、損害我的身體．願這罪歸給他．耶路撒冷人要說、願流我們血的罪、歸到迦勒底的居民。

The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

所以耶和華如此說、我必爲你伸寃、爲你報仇．我必使巴比倫的海枯竭、使他的泉源乾涸。

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

巴比倫必成爲亂堆、爲野狗的住處、令人驚駭、嗤笑、並且無人居住。

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

他們要像少壯獅子咆哮、像小獅子吼叫。

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions` whelps.

他們火熱的時候、我必爲他們設擺酒席、使他們沉醉、好叫他們快樂、睡了長覺、永不醒起．這是耶和華說的。

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

我必使他們像羊羔、像公綿羊和公山羊、下到宰殺之地。

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

示沙克〈就是巴比倫〉何竟被攻取．天下所稱讚的、何竟被佔據．巴比倫在列國中、何竟變爲荒塲。

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

海水漲起、漫過巴比倫．他被許多海浪遮蓋。

The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

他的城邑、變爲荒塲、旱地、沙漠、無人居住、無人經過之地。

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

我必刑罰巴比倫的彼勒、使他吐出所吞的．萬民必不再流歸他那裏、巴比倫的城牆、也必坍塌了。

And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

我的民哪、你們要從其中出去、各人拯救自己、躱避耶和華的烈怒。

My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Jehovah.

你們不要心驚膽怯、也不要因境內所聽見的風聲懼怕．因爲這年有風聲傳來、那年也有風聲傳來、境內有強暴的事、官長攻擊官長。

And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

日子將到、我必刑罰巴比倫雕刻的偶像．他全地必然抱愧．他被殺的人、必在其中仆倒。

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

那時、天地和其中所有的、必因巴比倫歡呼．因爲行毀滅的、要從北方來到他那裏．這是耶和華說的。

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saith Jehovah.

巴比倫怎樣使以色列被殺的人仆倒、照樣他全地被殺的人、也必在巴比倫仆倒。

As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

你們躱避刀劍的要快走、不要站住．要在遠方記念耶和華、心中追想耶路撒冷。

Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

我們聽見辱罵就蒙羞、滿面慚愧．因爲外邦人進入耶和華殿的聖所。

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah`s house.

耶和華說、日子將到、我必刑罰巴比倫雕刻的偶像．通國受傷的人必唉哼。

Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

巴比倫雖升到天上、雖使他堅固的高處更堅固、還有行毀滅的、從我這裏到他那裏．這是耶和華說的。

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

有哀號的聲音、從巴比倫出來．有大毀滅的響聲、從迦勒底人之地發出。

The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

因耶和華使巴比倫變爲荒塲、使其中的大聲滅絕．仇敵彷彿衆水波浪匉訇、響聲已經發出。

For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

這是行毀滅的臨到巴比倫．巴比倫的勇士被捉住．他們的弓折斷了．因爲耶和華是施行報應的神、必定施行報應。

for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

君王、名爲萬軍之耶和華的、說、我必使巴比倫的首領、智慧人、省長、副省長、和勇士、都沉醉、使他們睡了長覺、永不醒起。

And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

萬軍之耶和華如此說、巴比倫寬闊的城牆、必全然傾倒、他高大的城門、必被火焚燒．衆民所勞碌的必致虛空、列國所勞碌的被火焚燒．他們都必困乏。

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

猶大王西底家在位第四年、上巴比倫去的時候、瑪西雅的孫子尼利亞的兒子西萊雅與王同去．（西萊雅是王宮的大臣）先知耶利米有話吩咐他。

The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.

耶利米將一切要臨到巴比倫的災禍、就是論到巴比倫的一切話、寫在書上。

And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

耶利米對西萊雅說、你到了巴比倫務要念這書上的話。

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

又說、耶和華阿、你曾論到這地方、說、要剪除、甚至連人帶牲畜沒有在這裏居住的、必永遠荒涼。

and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

你念完了這書、就把一塊石頭拴在書上、扔在伯拉河中、

And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

說、巴比倫因耶和華所要降與他的災禍、必如此沉下去、不再興起．人民也必困乏。耶利米的話到此爲止。

and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

第52章

西底家登基的時候、年二十一歲．在耶路撒冷作王十一年．他母親名叫哈慕他、是立拿人耶利米的女兒。

Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

西底家行耶和華眼中看爲惡的事、是照約雅敬一切所行的。

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

因此、耶和華的怒氣在耶路撒冷和猶大發作、以致將人民從自己的面前趕出。

For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

西底家背叛巴比倫王。他作王第九年、十月初十日、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領全軍來攻擊耶路撒冷、對城安營、四圍築壘攻城。

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

於是城被圍困、直到西底家王十一年。

So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

四月初九日、城裏有大饑荒、甚至百姓都沒有糧食。

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

城被攻破、一切兵丁、就在夜間從靠近王園兩城中間的門、出城逃跑、迦勒底人正在四圍攻城、他們就往亞拉巴逃去。

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king`s garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.

迦勒底的軍隊追趕西底家王、在耶利哥的平原追上他．他的全軍都離開他四散了。

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

迦勒底人就拿住王、帶他到哈馬地的利比拉巴比倫王那裏．巴比倫王便審判他。

Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.

巴比倫王在西底家眼前、殺了他的衆子．又在利比拉殺了猶大的一切首領．

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

並且剜了西底家的眼睛、用銅鍊鎖着他、帶到巴比倫去、將他囚在監裏、直到他死的日子。

And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒十九年、五月初十日、在巴比倫王面前侍立的護衞長尼布撒拉旦進入耶路撒冷、

Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:

用火焚燒耶和華的殿、和王宮．又焚燒耶路撒冷的房屋、就是各大戶家的房屋。

and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king`s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

跟從護衞長迦勒底的全軍、就拆毀耶路撒冷四圍的城牆。

And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

那時護衞長尼布撒拉旦將民中最窮的、和城裏所剩下的百姓、並已經投降巴比倫王的人、以及大衆所剩下的人、都擄去了。

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

但護衞長尼布撒拉旦留下些民中最窮的、使他們修理葡萄園、耕種田地。

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

耶和華殿的銅柱、並殿內的盆座、和銅海、迦勒底人都打碎了、將那銅運到巴比倫去了。

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

又帶去鍋、鏟子、蠟剪、盤子、調羹、並所用的一切銅器、

The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

杯、火鼎、碗、盆、燈臺、調羹、爵、無論金的銀的、護衞長也都帶去了。

And the cups, and the firepans, and the basins, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,- the captain of the guard took away.

所羅門爲耶和華殿所造的兩根銅柱、一個銅海、並座下的十二隻銅牛、這一切的銅、多得無法可稱。

The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah-the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

這一根柱子高十八肘、厚四指、是空的．圍十二肘。

And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

柱上有銅頂、高五肘、銅頂的周圍有網子和石榴、都是銅的．那一根柱子照此一樣、也有石榴。

And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like unto these, and pomegranates.

柱子四面有九十六個石榴．在網子周圍、共有一百石榴。

And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.

護衞長拿住大祭司西萊雅、副祭司西番亞、和三個把門的．

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

又從城中拿住一個管理兵丁的官、〈或作太監〉並在城裏所遇常見王面的七個人、和檢點國民軍長的書記、以及城裏所遇見的國民六十個人。

and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king`s face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

護衞長尼布撒拉旦將這些人帶到利比拉巴比倫王那裏。

And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

巴比倫王就把他們擊殺在哈馬地的利比拉。這樣、猶大人被擄去離開本地。

And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

尼布甲尼撒所擄的民數、記在下面．在他第七年擄去猶大人三千零二十三名．

This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;

尼布甲尼撒十八年從耶路撒冷擄去八百三十二人．

in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons;

尼布甲尼撒二十三年、護衞長尼布撒拉旦擄去猶大人七百四十五名．共有四千六百人。

in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

猶大王約雅斤被擄後三十七年．巴比倫王以未米羅達元年、十二月二十五日、使猶大王約雅斤抬頭、提他出監．

And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;

又對他說恩言、使他的位高過與他一同在巴比倫衆王的位、

and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

給他脫了囚服。他終身在巴比倫王面前喫飯。

and changed his prison garments. And [Jehoiachin] did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life:

巴比倫王賜他所需用的食物、日日賜他一分．終身是這樣、直到他死的日子。

and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

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