这些是便雅悯地亚拿突城的祭司，希勒家的儿子耶利米的话。
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2亚们的儿子犹大王约西亚在位第十三年，耶和华的话临到耶利米。To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3从约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬在位的时候，直到约西亚的儿子犹大王西底家在位的末年，就是第十一年五月间耶路撒冷被掳时，耶和华的话也常临到耶利米。耶利米蒙选召
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.
4耶利米说，耶和华的话临到我，说：Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5“我尚未将你造在母腹中，就已认识你； 你未出母胎，我已将你分别为圣， 派你作列国的先知。”Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
6我就说：“唉，主耶和华！看哪，我不知道怎么说，因为我年轻。”Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
7耶和华对我说： “不要说‘我年轻’， 因为我差遣你到谁那里去，你都要去； 我吩咐你说什么话，你都要说。But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
8你不要怕他们， 因为我与你同在，要拯救你。 这是耶和华说的。”Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
9于是耶和华伸手按住我的口， 对我说： “看哪，我已将我的话放在你口中。Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10我今日立你在列邦列国之上， 为要拔出，拆毁，毁坏，倾覆， 又要建立，栽植。”两个异象
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
11耶和华的话临到我，说：“耶利米，你看见什么？”我说：“我看见一根杏树枝。”Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
12耶和华对我说：“你看得不错；因为我要看守☛“看守”与“杏树枝”的希伯来话发音相近。我的话，使它实现。”Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
13耶和华的话第二次临到我，说：“你看见什么？”我说：“我看见一个水烧开的锅，从北而倾。”And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
14耶和华对我说：“必有灾祸从北方发出，临到这地所有的居民。Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15看哪，我要召北方列国的万族。这是耶和华说的。他们要来，各安宝座在耶路撒冷的城门口，周围攻击城墙，又要攻击犹大的一切城镇。For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16这民离弃我，向别神烧香，跪拜自己手所造的，我要针对这一切恶行，向他们宣读我的判决。And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
17所以你当束腰，起来，将我所吩咐你的一切话都告诉他们；不要因他们惊惶，免得我使你在他们面前惊惶。Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
18看哪，我今日使你成为坚城、铁柱、铜墙，对抗全地和犹大的君王、官长、祭司，并这地的百姓。For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen 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.
19他们要攻击你，却不能胜过你，因为我与你同在，要拯救你。这是耶和华说的。”And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
神眷顾以色列
耶和华的话临到我，说：
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2“你去向耶路撒冷居民的耳朵呼喊，耶和华如此说： ‘你年轻时的恩爱， 新婚时的爱情， 你怎样在旷野， 在未耕种之地跟随我， 我都记得。Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
3那时以色列归耶和华为圣， 作为他初熟的土产； 凡吞吃它的必算为有罪， 灾祸必临到他们。 这是耶和华说的。’”以色列祖先的罪恶
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
4雅各家，以色列家的各族啊，当听耶和华的话，Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
5耶和华如此说： “你们的祖先看我有什么错处， 竟远离我，随从那虚无的神明☛“虚无的神明”：原文是“虚无”。， 自己成为虚无呢？Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
6他们并不问： ‘那领我们从埃及地上来， 引导我们走过旷野、沙漠有坑洞之地， 走过干旱死荫、无人经过、 无人居住之地的耶和华在哪里呢？’Neither said they, Where is the LORD 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 no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7我领你们进入肥沃之地， 使你们得吃其中的果子和美物； 你们进入时，却使我的地玷污， 使我的产业成为可憎的。And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
8祭司从来不问：‘耶和华在哪里呢？’ 传讲律法的不认识我， 官长违背我， 先知藉巴力说预言， 随从无益的东西。”神谴责他的子民
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
9“我因此必与你们争辩， 也与你们的子孙争辩。 这是耶和华说的。Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
10你们且渡到基提海岛察看， 派人往基达去留心查考， 看可曾有过这样的事。For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
11岂有一国换了它的神明吗？ 其实那不是神明！ 但我的百姓将他们的荣耀换了那无益的东西。Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
12诸天哪，要因此震惊， 颤栗，极其凄凉！ 这是耶和华说的。Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13因为我的百姓做了两件恶事： 离弃我这活水的泉源； 又为自己凿出水池， 却是破裂不能储水的池子。”以色列不忠的结局
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.
14“以色列是仆人吗？ 是家中生的奴仆吗？ 为何成为掠物呢？Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
15少壮狮子向它咆哮，大声吼叫， 使它的地荒芜； 城镇烧毁，无人居住。The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16挪弗☛“挪弗”即埃及的孟斐斯；本卷书44．1，46．14、19同。人和答比匿人打破你的头颅。Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17这不是你自己招惹的吗？ 不是因耶和华－你神引导你行路时， 你离弃了他吗？Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18现今你为何在埃及路上喝西曷河☛“西曷河”是尼罗河的支流。的水呢？ 为何在亚述路上喝大河的水呢？And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
19你自己的恶必惩治你， 你背道的事必责罚你。 由此可知可见，你离弃耶和华－你的神， 不存敬畏我的心， 实为恶事，为苦事； 这是万军之主耶和华说的。”以色列拒绝敬拜耶和华
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
20“你☛“你”是根据七十士译本；原文是“我”。在古时折断你的轭，解开你的绳索， 说：‘我必不事奉耶和华☛“不事奉耶和华”：原文另译“不作恶”。。’ 你在各高冈上、各青翠的树下屈身行淫。For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
21然而，我栽种你为上等的葡萄树， 全用纯正的种子； 你怎么向我变为外邦葡萄树的坏枝子呢？Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
22你虽用碱、多用皂荚清洗， 你罪孽的痕迹仍显在我面前。 这是主耶和华说的。For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
23你怎能说： ‘我没有玷污，没有随从巴力’？ 看看你在谷中所做的，思想你自己的所作所为； 你是快行的独峰驼，狂奔乱闯。How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24你是野驴，习惯旷野， 欲心发动时就呼吸急促， 发情时谁能使它转回呢？ 凡寻找它的必不费力， 在它的季节必能寻见它。A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
25你不要弄到赤足而行， 喉咙干渴。 你却说：‘没有用的， 我喜爱陌生人， 我必随从他们。’”以色列该受惩罚
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26“贼被捉拿，怎样羞愧， 以色列家和他们的君王、官长、 祭司、先知也都照样羞愧。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,
27他们向木头说：‘你是我的父’； 向石头说：‘你是生我的。’ 他们以背向我， 不肯以面向我； 及至遭遇患难时却说： ‘起来拯救我们吧！’Saying 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.
28你为自己做的神明在哪里呢？ 你遭遇患难的时候， 让它们起来拯救你吧！ 犹大啊，你神明的数目与你城的数目相等。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.
29“你们为何与我争辩呢？ 你们都违背了我。 这是耶和华说的。Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
30我责打你们的儿女是徒然的， 他们不受管教。 你们自己的刀吞灭你们的先知， 好像残害人的狮子。In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31这世代的人哪， 你们要留意耶和华的话。 我向以色列岂是旷野， 或幽暗之地呢？ 我的百姓为何说： ‘我们脱离约束，不再归向你了’？O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32少女岂能忘记她的妆饰呢？ 新娘岂能忘记她的美衣呢？ 我的百姓却在无数的日子里忘记了我！Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33“你竟然如此精于求爱之道， 可把你的门径教邪恶的女人！Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
34你衣服的边上有无辜贫穷人的血， 其实你并未发现他们挖洞进屋偷窃☛参出22．2。。 虽有这一切的事☛“其实...一切的事，”七十士译本是“我并没有在洞里找到他们，而是在每棵橡树底下。”，Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
35你还说：‘我无辜； 耶和华的怒气必定转离我了。’ 看哪，我必审问你； 因你自己说：‘我没有犯罪。’Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36你为何东奔西跑改变你的道路呢？ 你必因埃及蒙羞， 像从前因亚述蒙羞一样。Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
37你也必两手抱头离开这里； 因为耶和华已经弃绝你所倚靠的， 你不能因他们而得顺利。”Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
不忠的以色列
耶和华说☛“耶和华说”或译“有话说”；七十士译本和其他古译本没有“耶和华说”。：“人若休妻， 妻离他而去，做了别人的妻子， 前夫岂能再回到她那里呢？ 那地岂不是大大污秽了吗？ 但你和许多情郎行淫， 还是可以回到我这里。 这是耶和华说的。They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
2你举目向光秃的高地观看， 何处没有你的淫行呢？ 你坐在道路旁等候， 好像阿拉伯人在旷野埋伏， 你的淫行和邪恶使全地污秽了。Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
3因此甘霖停止， 春雨不降。 你还是一副娼妓之脸， 不顾羞耻。Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4你不是才向我呼叫说： ‘我父啊，你是我年轻时的密友，Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
5人岂永远怀恨，长久存怒吗？’ 看哪，你虽这样说，还是竭尽所能去行恶。”以色列和犹大应当悔改
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
6约西亚王在位的时候，耶和华对我说：“你看见背道的以色列所做的吗？她上到各高山，在各青翠的树下行淫。The LORD said also 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.
7我说：‘她行这些事以后会回转归向我’，她却不回转。她奸诈的妹妹犹大也看见了。And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8我看见背道的以色列行淫，我为这缘故给她休书休了她，她奸诈的妹妹犹大还不惧怕，也去行淫。And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9因以色列轻忽了她的淫乱，与石头和木头行奸淫☛“与石头和木头行奸淫”意思是“拜石头和木头”。，她和这地就都污秽了☛“她和...污秽了”：原文另译“她就使这地污秽了”。。And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10虽有这一切的事，她奸诈的妹妹犹大还不一心归向我，不过是假意归我。这是耶和华说的。”And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
11耶和华对我说：“背道的以色列比奸诈的犹大还显为义。And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12你去向北方宣告这些话，说： ‘背道的以色列啊，回来吧！ 这是耶和华说的。 我必不怒目看你们， 因为我是慈爱的， 这是耶和华说的。 我必不永远怀怒；Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
13只要承认你的罪孽， 就是违背耶和华－你的神， 在各青翠的树下追逐外族的神明☛“外族的神明”：原文是“外族”。， 没有听从我的话。 这是耶和华说的。Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
14背道的儿女啊，回来吧！ 这是耶和华说的。 因为我作你们的丈夫， 要将你们从一城取一人， 从一族取两人，带到锡安。Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
15“‘我必将合我心意的牧者赏赐给你们，他们要以知识和智慧牧养你们。And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16你们在国中生养众多的时候，那些日子，人必不再提说耶和华的约柜，不追想，不记念，不觉缺少，也不再制造。这是耶和华说的。And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
17那时，人必称耶路撒冷为耶和华的宝座；万国聚集在那里，为耶和华的名来到耶路撒冷，他们必不再随从自己顽梗的恶心行事。At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18当那些日子，犹大家要和以色列家同行，从北方之地一同来到我所赐给你们祖先为业之地。’”神的子民拜偶像
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 have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19“我说，我多么乐意把你列在儿女之中， 赐给你美地， 就是万国中最美的产业。 我说，你会以‘我父啊’称呼我， 不再转离而跟从我。But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
20以色列家啊，你们向我行诡诈， 真像妻子行诡诈离开丈夫。 这是耶和华说的。”Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
21有声音从光秃的高地传来， 就是以色列人哭泣恳求的声音， 因为他们走弯曲之道， 忘记耶和华－他们的神。A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22“你们这背道的儿女啊，回来吧！ 我要医治你们背道的病。” “看哪，我们来到你这里， 因你是耶和华－我们的神。Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
23从小山来的真是枉然， 大山的喧嚷也是枉然☛小山和大山是拜偶像的地方。。 以色列得救，诚然在乎耶和华－我们的神。Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24“从我们幼年以来，那可耻之物☛“那可耻之物”就是“偶像”。吞吃了我们祖先劳碌得来的，就是他们的羊群、牛群和他们的儿女。For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25我们在羞耻中躺卧吧！愿惭愧将我们遮盖！因为从我们幼年以来，我们和我们的祖先都得罪了耶和华－我们的神，没有听从耶和华－我们神的话。”We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
呼召以色列悔改
耶和华说：“以色列啊， 你若回转，回转归向我， 若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像， 不再犹疑不定，If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2凭诚实、公平、公义 指着永生的耶和华起誓； 列国就必因他蒙福， 也必因他夸耀。”And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3耶和华对犹大人和耶路撒冷人如此说： “你们要为自己开垦荒地， 不要撒种在荆棘里。For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民哪， 你们当自行割礼，归耶和华， 将你们心里的污秽☛“污秽”：原文是“包皮”。除掉； 免得我的愤怒因你们的恶行发作， 如火燃起， 甚至无人能熄灭！”外患威胁犹大
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5你们要在犹大传扬， 在耶路撒冷宣告，说： “当在国中吹角，高声呼叫说： ‘你们当聚集！ 我们好进入坚固城！’Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6应当向锡安竖立大旗。 逃吧，不要迟延， 因我必使灾祸与大毁灭从北方来到。Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7有狮子从密林中上来， 是毁坏列国的。 它已动身出离本处， 要使你的地荒凉， 使你的城镇变为废墟，无人居住。The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8因此，你们当腰束麻布，哭泣哀号， 因为耶和华的烈怒并未转离我们。”For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9耶和华说：“到那时，君王和领袖的心要失丧，祭司都要惊奇，先知都要诧异。”And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, 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.
10我说：“哀哉！主耶和华啊，你真是大大欺哄这百姓和耶路撒冷，说：‘你们必得平安。’其实刀剑已经抵住喉咙了！”Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
11那时，必有话对这百姓和耶路撒冷说：“来自旷野光秃高地的热风吹向我的百姓☛“我的百姓”：原文直译“我百姓的女儿”。，不是为簸扬，也不是为扬净。At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12又有一阵比这更大的风向我刮来；现在，我要向他们宣读我的判决。”犹大被围困
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
13看哪，他必如云涌上； 他的战车如旋风， 他的马比鹰更快。 我们有祸了！ 我们败落了！Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14耶路撒冷啊，你当洗去心中的恶， 使你可以得救。 恶念在你里面要存到几时呢？O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
15有声音从但传出， 有灾祸从以法莲山传来。For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
16你们当传给列国， 看哪，要向耶路撒冷报告： “有围攻的人从远方来到， 向犹大的城镇大声喊叫。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.
17他们包围耶路撒冷， 好像看守田园的， 因为它背叛了我。 这是耶和华说的。As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
18你的作风和行为招惹这事； 这是你罪恶的结果， 实在是苦， 刺透了你的心！”耶利米为同胞担忧
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
19我的肺腑啊，我的肺腑啊，我心疼痛！ 我的心在我里面烦躁不安。 我不能静默不言， 因我已听见角声和打仗的喊声。My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20毁坏的信息不断传来， 因为全地荒废。 我的帐棚忽然毁坏， 我的幔子顷刻破裂。Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21我看见大旗，听见角声， 要到几时呢？How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我； 他们是愚昧无知的儿女， 有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”将要来临的毁灭
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23我观看地， 看哪，地是空虚混沌； 我观看天，天也无光。I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24我观看大山，看哪，尽都震动， 小山也都摇来摇去。I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25我观看，看哪，无人； 空中的飞鸟也都躲避。I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26我观看，看哪，肥田变为荒地； 所有城镇在耶和华面前， 因他的烈怒都被拆毁。I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27耶和华如此说：“全地必然荒凉， 我却不毁灭净尽。For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28因此，地要悲哀， 天上也必黑暗； 因为我言已出，我意已定， 必不改变，也不由此转回。”For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29各城的人因骑兵和弓箭手的响声就都逃跑， 进入密林，爬上磐石； 城镇都被抛弃， 无人住在其中。The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30你这被毁灭的啊， 你要做什么呢？ 你穿上朱红衣服， 佩戴黄金饰物， 用眼影修饰眼睛， 徒然美化你自己。 恋慕你的却藐视你， 寻索你的性命。And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31我听见有仿佛妇人临产的声音， 好像是生头胎疼痛的声音， 原来是锡安☛“锡安”：原文直译“锡安女子”。的声音； 她喘着气，伸开手： “我有祸了！ 在杀人者跟前，我的心灵发昏。”For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
耶路撒冷的罪
你们要走遍耶路撒冷的街市， 在广场寻找， 看是否有人行公平、求诚实； 若有，我就赦免这城。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 executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2虽然他们说“我对永生的耶和华发誓”， 所起的誓实在是假的。And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3耶和华啊，你的眼目不是在寻找诚实吗？ 你击打他们，他们却不伤恸； 你摧毁他们，他们仍不领受管教。 他们使脸刚硬过于磐石， 不肯回头。O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have 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.
4我说：“这些人实在是贫寒的， 他们是愚昧的， 因为不知道耶和华的作为， 也不知道他们神的法则。Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5我要去见尊贵的人，向他们说话， 他们应该知道耶和华的作为， 知道他们神的法则。” 然而，这些人却齐心将轭折断， 挣开绳索。I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6因此，林中的狮子必害死他们， 野地的狼必灭绝他们， 豹子在城外窥伺。 凡出城的必被撕碎， 因为他们的罪过极多， 背道的事也增加。Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7我怎能赦免你呢？ 你的儿女离弃我， 又指着那不是神的起誓。 我使他们饱足， 他们就行奸淫， 居住☛“居住”是根据七十士译本；原文是“割划自己”；另有古译本是“成群聚集”。在娼妓家里。How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8他们如喂饱的马，精力旺盛， 各向邻舍的妻子吹哨。They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
9我岂不因这些事施行惩罚吗？ 像这样的国家，我岂能不报复呢？ 这是耶和华说的。Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10你们要上去毁坏它的葡萄园， 但不可毁坏净尽， 只可除掉其枝子， 因为不属耶和华。Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
11以色列家和犹大家向我大行诡诈。 这是耶和华说的。耶和华丢弃以色列
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
12关乎耶和华他们说了虚谎的话： “他不会的， 灾祸必不临到我们， 我们也不会遇见刀剑和饥荒。They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13先知不过是一阵风， 道也不在他们里面； 这灾祸必临到他们身上。”And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14所以耶和华－万军之神如此说： “因为他们说这话， 看哪，我必使我的话在你口中为火， 使这百姓为柴， 火便将他们烧灭。Wherefore thus saith the LORD 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.
15以色列家啊， 看哪，我必使一国从远方来攻击你， 是强盛的国， 是古老的国； 他们的言语你不知道， 所说的话你不明白。 这是耶和华说的。Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
16他们的箭袋有如敞开的坟墓， 他们全都是勇士。Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
17他们必吃尽你的庄稼和粮食， 是你儿女该吃的☛“是你儿女该吃的”：七十士译本是“吃尽你的儿女”。； 必吃尽你的牛羊， 吃尽你的葡萄和无花果； 又必用刀剑毁坏你所倚靠的坚固城。And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18“就是在那些日子，我也不会将你们毁灭净尽。这是耶和华说的。Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
19百姓若说：‘耶和华－我们的神为什么向我们行这一切事呢？’你就对他们说：‘你们怎样离弃我，在你们的地上事奉外邦神明，也必照样在不属你们的地上事奉外族人。’”神警告他的子民
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
20当在雅各家传扬， 在犹大宣告，说：Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21“愚昧无知的百姓啊， 你们有眼不看， 有耳不听， 现在当听这话。Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22你们难道不惧怕我吗？ 在我面前还不战兢吗？ 这是耶和华说的。 我以沙为海的界限， 作永远的条例，使它不得越过。 波浪汹涌，却不能胜过； 怒涛澎湃，仍无法越过。Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which 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?
23但这百姓有背叛忤逆的心， 他们转离而去。But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24他们心里并不说： ‘我们应当敬畏耶和华－我们的神； 他按时赐雨，就是秋雨和春雨， 又为我们定收割的季节。’Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25你们的罪孽使这些转离你们， 你们的罪恶使你们不能得福。Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26在我百姓当中有恶人， 他们埋伏，好像捕鸟的人在窥探☛“他们...在窥探”：原文另译“他们设罗网，像捕鸟人的网”。； 他们设罗网陷害人。For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27笼子怎样装满雀鸟， 他们的屋里也照样充满诡诈； 他们因此得以强大富足。As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28他们肥胖光润，作恶过甚， 不为人伸冤， 不为孤儿伸冤，使他们胜诉， 也不为贫穷人辩护。They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29我岂不因这些事施行惩罚吗？ 像这样的国家，我岂能不报复呢？ 这是耶和华说的。Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30“国中有令人惊骇、 恐怖的事发生，A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31就是先知说假预言， 祭司把权柄抓在自己手上， 我的百姓也喜爱这样， 到了结局你们要怎么办呢？”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?
耶路撒冷遭围攻
便雅悯人哪，当逃离耶路撒冷， 在提哥亚吹号角， 在伯．哈基琳升信号， 因为有灾祸与大毁灭从北方逼近。O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
2那秀美娇嫩的锡安☛“锡安”：原文直译“锡安女子”。， 我必剪除。☛本节另译“我把锡安比作最可爱的草场”。I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3牧人必引领羊群到它那里， 在它周围支搭帐棚， 各在自己的地方放牧。The 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.
4“你们要准备攻击它。 起来吧，我们要趁正午上去。” “哀哉！日已渐斜， 黄昏的影子拖长了。”Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5“起来吧，我们要在夜间上去， 毁坏它的宫殿。”Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6万军之耶和华如此说： “你们要砍伐树木， 建土堆攻打耶路撒冷， 就是那该受罚的城☛“该受罚的城”：原文另译“放纵的城”或“被弃的城”。， 其中尽是欺压。For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7井怎样涌出水来， 这城也照样涌出恶来； 其中常听闻残暴毁灭的事， 病痛损伤也常在我面前。As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
8耶路撒冷啊，当受管教， 免得我心与你生疏， 免得我使你荒凉， 成为无人居住之地。”叛逆的以色列
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9万军之耶和华如此说： “他们洗劫以色列剩下的民， 如摘净葡萄一样； 现你的手如采收葡萄的人，在树枝上采了又采☛“你的手...采了又采”：七十士译本是“你要像摘葡萄的人，回手放在筐子里”。。”Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10现在我可以向谁说话，警告谁，使他们听呢？ 看哪，他们的耳朵未受割礼，不能听见。 看哪，他们以耶和华的话为羞辱， 不以为喜悦。To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11因此我被耶和华的愤怒充满，难以忍受。 “你要把它倒在街上孩童 和成群的年轻人身上， 他们连夫带妻， 年长者与高龄的人都必被擒拿。Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, 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.
12他们的房屋、田地， 和妻子都要一起转归别人， 我要伸手攻击这地的居民。” 这是耶和华说的。And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
13“因为他们从最小的到最大的都贪图不义之财， 从先知到祭司全都行事虚假。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.
14他们轻忽地医治我百姓的损伤， 说：‘平安了！平安了！’ 其实没有平安。They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15他们行可憎之事，应当羞愧； 然而他们却一点也不觉得羞愧， 也不知羞耻。 因此，他们必与仆倒的人一同仆倒， 我惩罚他们的时候， 他们必跌倒。” 这是耶和华说的。以色列拒绝神的道路
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 the LORD.
16耶和华如此说： “你们当站在路边察看， 寻访古老的路， 哪里是完善的道路，就行走在其上； 这样，你们自己必找到安息。 他们却说：‘我们不走。’Thus saith the LORD, 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.
17我为你们设立守望的人， 要留心听角声。 他们却说：‘我们不听。’Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18因此，列国啊，当听！ 会众啊，要知道他们必遭遇的事。Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19地啊，当听！ 看哪，我必使灾祸临到这百姓， 是他们计谋所结的果子； 因为他们不肯留心听我的话， 至于我的律法，他们也厌弃。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, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20从示巴来的乳香， 从远方出的香菖蒲， 奉来给我有何用呢？ 你们的燔祭不蒙悦纳； 你们的祭物，我也不喜悦。”To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21所以耶和华如此说： “看哪，我要将绊脚石放在这百姓面前； 父亲和儿子要一同跌在其上， 邻舍与朋友也都灭亡。”北方来的侵略者
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22耶和华如此说： “看哪，有一民族从北方而来； 有一大国被激起，从地极来到。Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23他们拿弓和枪， 性情残忍，不施怜悯； 他们的声音如海浪澎湃。 锡安☛“锡安”：原文直译“锡安女子”。哪， 他们都骑马， 如上战场的人摆阵攻击你。”They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24我们听见这样的风声，手就发软； 痛苦将我们抓住， 疼痛仿佛临产的妇人。We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
25你们不要出到田野去， 也不要行走在路上， 因四围有仇敌的刀剑和惊吓。Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
26我的百姓☛“我的百姓”：原文直译“我百姓的女儿”。啊，应当腰束麻布，滚在灰中。 要悲伤，如丧独子般痛痛哭号， 因为灭命的忽然临到我们。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 spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27我使你作我百姓的测试者☛“测试者”或译“庇护所”。和考验者☛“考验者”：原文另译“堡垒”。， 使你知道并考验他们的行为。I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28他们极其悖逆， 到处毁谤人， 他们是铜是铁， 全都败坏了。They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
29风箱吹火，铅被烧毁， 炼而又炼，终是徒然， 因为恶劣的还未除掉。The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30人必称他们为被抛弃的银子， 因为耶和华已经抛弃了他们。Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
耶利米在圣殿讲道
耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2“你当站在耶和华殿的门口，在那里宣讲这话说：所有从这些门进来敬拜耶和华的犹大人哪，当听耶和华的话。Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你们要改正你们的所作所为，我就使你们仍然居住这地☛“我就...这地”：有古译本是“让我与你们住在这地”。。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4不要倚靠虚谎的话，说：‘这是耶和华的殿，是耶和华的殿，是耶和华的殿！’Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5“你们若实在改正你们的所作所为，彼此诚然施行公平，For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6不欺压寄居的和孤儿寡妇，不在这地方流无辜人的血，也不随从别神陷害自己，If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7我就使你们仍然居住这地☛“我就...这地”：有古译本是“我就与你们住在这地”。，就是我从古时所赐给你们祖先的地，从永远到永远。Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8“看哪，你们倚靠虚谎无益的话语。Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9你们岂可偷盗，杀害，奸淫，起假誓，向巴力烧香，随从素不认识的别神，Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10又来到这称为我名下的殿，在我面前敬拜，说‘我们平安无事’，为了要行这一切可憎的事呢？And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11这称为我名下的殿在你们眼中岂可看为贼窝呢？看哪，我真的都看见了。这是耶和华说的。Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
12你们到我的地方示罗去，就是我先前在那里立为我名的居所，察看我因这百姓以色列的罪恶向那地方所行的事。But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13现在，因你们行了这一切的事，我一再警戒你们，你们却不听从；我呼唤你们，你们也不回应。这是耶和华说的。And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14所以我要向这称为我名下、你们所倚靠的殿，与我所赐给你们和你们祖先的地这样行，正如我从前向示罗所行的。Therefore will I do unto this 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 have done to Shiloh.
15我必将你们从我眼前赶出，正如赶出你们的众弟兄，就是所有以法莲的后裔。”百姓违背命令
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16“所以，你不要为这百姓祈祷；不要为他们呼求祷告，也不要为他们向我祈求，因我不听你。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.
17他们在犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街上所做的，你难道没有看见吗？Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18孩子捡柴，父亲烧火，妇女揉面做饼，献给天后，又向别神献浇酒祭，惹我发怒。The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their 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.
19他们岂是惹我发怒呢？不是自己惹祸，以致脸上惭愧吗？这是耶和华说的。”Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20所以主耶和华如此说：“看哪，我必将我的怒气和愤怒倾倒在这地方的人和牲畜身上、田野的树木和地里的出产上，它必燃烧，不会熄灭。”Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury 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.
21万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：“你们要将燔祭加在你们的祭物上，又要吃肉；Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22因为我将你们祖先从埃及地领出来的那日，燔祭和祭物的事我并没有提说，也没有吩咐他们。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:
23我只吩咐他们这一件事说：‘你们当听从我的话，我就作你们的神，你们也作我的子民。你们行走我所吩咐的一切道路，就可以得福。’But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24他们却不听从，也不侧耳而听，竟随从自己的计谋和顽梗的恶心去行，不进反退。But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25自从你们祖先出埃及地的那日，直到今日，我每日一再差遣我的仆人众先知到你们那里去。Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26你们却不听我，不侧耳而听，竟硬着颈项行恶，比你们的祖先更甚。Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27“你要将这一切的话告诉他们，他们却不听你；呼唤他们，他们却不回应。Therefore 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.
28你要对他们说：‘这就是不听从耶和华－他们神的话、不领受训诲的国民；诚信已从他们口中消失殆尽了。But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29耶路撒冷啊，要剪头发，扔掉它， 在光秃的高地唱哀歌， 因为耶和华弃绝、离弃了惹他发怒的世代。’”在欣嫩子谷的罪行
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事，将可憎之偶像立在称为我名下的殿里，玷污这殿。这是耶和华说的。For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31他们在欣嫩子谷建造陀斐特的丘坛，要在火中焚烧自己的儿女。这并不是我所吩咐的，我心里也从来没有想过。And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32因此，看哪，日子将到，这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒称为杀戮谷。他们要在陀斐特埋葬尸首，甚至无处可葬。这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33并且这百姓的尸首要给空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽作食物，无人吓走它们。And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34那时，我必止息犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街上欢喜和快乐的声音、新郎和新娘的声音，因为这地必然荒芜。”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 be desolate.
耶和华说：“那时，人必将犹大诸王和领袖的骸骨、祭司和先知的骸骨，以及耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都从坟墓中取出来，
At that time, saith the LORD, 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:
2散布在太阳、月亮和天上众星之下，就是他们从前所喜爱、所事奉、所随从、所求问、所敬拜的。这些骸骨不被收殓，不被埋葬，必在地面上成为粪土。And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3这邪恶家族所幸存的余民，就是在我赶他们到的各处所剩下的☛有古卷和七十士译本没有“所剩下的”。，全都宁可选死不选活。这是万军之耶和华说的。”罪与罚
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
4“你要对他们说，耶和华如此说： 人跌倒，不再起来吗？ 人转去，不再转回来吗？Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5这耶路撒冷的百姓为何永久背道呢？ 他们抓住诡诈，不肯回头。Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6我留心听，听见他们说不诚实的话。 无人懊悔自己的恶行，说： ‘我做的是什么呢？’ 他们全都转奔己路， 如马直闯战场。I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
7空中的鹳鸟知道自己的季节， 斑鸠、燕子与白鹤也守候当来的时令； 我的百姓却不知道耶和华的法则。Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8“你们怎么说：‘我们有智慧， 耶和华的律法在我们这里’？ 看哪，其实文士的假笔舞弄虚假。How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9智慧人惭愧，惊惶，被擒拿； 看哪，他们背弃耶和华的话， 还会有什么智慧呢？The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10因此，我必将他们的妻子给别人， 将他们的田地给别人为业； 因为他们从最小的到最大的都贪图不义之财， 从先知到祭司全都行事虚假。Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit 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.
11他们轻忽地医治我百姓的损伤，说： ‘平安了！平安了！’ 其实没有平安。For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12他们行可憎之事，应当羞愧； 然而他们却一点也不觉得羞愧， 又不知羞耻。 因此，他们必与仆倒的人一样仆倒； 我惩罚他们的时候， 他们必跌倒。 这是耶和华说的。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 the LORD.
13我必使他们全然灭绝； 葡萄树上必没有葡萄☛“我必...葡萄”：有古译本是“我要采收果子，但葡萄树上必没有葡萄”。， 无花果树上没有果子， 叶子也必枯干。 我所赐给他们的， 必离他们而去。 这是耶和华说的。”I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: 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.
14我们为何静坐不动呢？ 我们当聚集，进入坚固城， 在那里静默不言； 因为耶和华－我们的神使我们静默不言， 又将苦水给我们喝， 都因我们得罪了耶和华。Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15我们指望平安， 却得不着福气； 指望痊愈时刻， 看哪，受了惊惶。We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16“从但那里传来敌人的马喷气的声音， 壮马发出嘶声， 全地就都震动； 因为他们来吞灭这地和其上所有的， 吞灭这城与其中的居民。The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17看哪，我必派蛇进到你们中间， 就是法术无法驱除的毒蛇， 它们必咬你们。 这是耶和华说的。”耶利米为同胞悲伤
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
18忧愁时我寻找安慰☛“忧愁...安慰”：七十士译本是“无法医治的忧伤压倒你们的心”。， 我心在我里面发昏。When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19听啊，是我百姓呼救的声音从远地传来： “耶和华不是在锡安吗？ 锡安的王不是在其中吗？” “他们为什么以自己雕刻的偶像 和外邦虚无的神明☛“虚无的神明”：原文是“虚无”。惹我发怒呢？”Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20“秋收已过，夏季已完， 我们还未得救！”The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21因我百姓的损伤， 我也受了损伤。 我哀恸，惊惶将我抓住。For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22在基列岂没有乳香呢？ 在那里岂没有医生呢？ 我百姓☛“我百姓”：原文直译“我百姓的女儿”。为何得不着医治呢？Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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!
2惟愿在旷野有旅客的客栈， 我好离开我的百姓而去； 因他们全都行奸淫， 是行诡诈的一党。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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3他们弯起舌头像弓， 为要说谎话； 他们在国中增长势力， 不是为诚信。 他们恶上加恶， 并不认识我。 这是耶和华说的。And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4你们各人当谨防邻舍， 不可信赖弟兄； 因为弟兄尽行欺骗， 邻舍也都往来毁谤人。Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5他们互相欺骗， 不说真话， 训练自己的舌头说谎， 竭尽所能地作恶。And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6你居住在诡诈的人中； 他们因行诡诈☛“竭尽...因行诡诈”：七十士译本是“他们不停地作恶，不知悔改；压迫又压迫，欺骗又欺骗 ”。，不愿意认识我。 这是耶和华说的。Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7所以万军之耶和华如此说： “看哪，我要熬炼他们，考验他们； 不然，为了我的百姓☛“我的百姓”：原文直译“我百姓的女儿”。，我该如何行呢？Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8他们的舌头是毒箭，说话诡诈， 跟邻舍口说平安， 心却谋害他。Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9我岂不因这些事向他们施行惩罚吗？ 像这样的国家，我岂能不报复呢？ 这是耶和华说的。”Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10我要为山岭哭泣悲哀， 为旷野的草场扬声哀号； 因为都已枯焦，甚至无人经过。 牲畜的鸣叫听不见， 空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽也都逃离。For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11我必使耶路撒冷成为废墟，为野狗的住处， 也必使犹大的城镇荒废，无人居住。And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12谁是智慧人，可以明白这事？耶和华的口可向谁述说，使他传讲呢？这地为何毁灭，枯焦如旷野，无人经过呢？Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13耶和华说：“因为这百姓离弃我在他们面前所设立的律法，不听从我的话，不肯遵行，And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14反随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们祖先所教训的随从诸巴力。”But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15所以万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：“看哪，我必将茵陈给这百姓吃，又用苦水给他们喝。Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16我要把他们分散在他们和他们祖宗所不认识的列国；我也要使刀剑追杀他们，直到将他们灭尽。”耶路撒冷哀求援助
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17万军之耶和华如此说： “你们要考虑， 将唱哀歌的妇女召来， 差人召善哭的妇女前来，Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18叫她们速速为我们举哀， 使我们泪眼汪汪， 使我们的眼皮涌出泪水。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.
19因为有哀声从锡安传来： ‘我们竟然败落！ 我们何等惭愧！ 我们撇下土地， 人拆毁了我们的房屋。’”For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20妇女们哪，当听耶和华的话， 领受他口中的言语； 当教导你们的女儿举哀， 各人教导女伴唱哀歌。Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21因为死亡从窗户进来， 进入我们的宫殿， 从外边剪除孩童， 从街上剪除少年。For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22你当说，耶和华如此说： 人的尸首必倒在田野像粪土， 又像收割的人身后遗落的禾稼， 无人拾取。Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23耶和华如此说：“智慧人不要因他的智慧夸口，勇士不要因他的力气夸口，财主也不要因他的财富夸口；Thus saith the LORD, 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:
24夸口的却要夸自己有聪明，认识我是耶和华，知道我喜悦在世上施行慈爱、公平和公义。这是耶和华说的。But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25“看哪，日子将到，这是耶和华说的，我要惩罚只在肉身受割礼的人，Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26就是埃及、犹大、以东、亚扪人、摩押人，和住旷野所有剃鬓发的人；因为列国都未受割礼，以色列全家心中也未受割礼。”Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
拜偶像和真敬拜
以色列家啊，要听耶和华对你们所说的话，
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2耶和华如此说： “不要效法列国的行为， 任凭列国因天象惊惶， 你们不要惊惶。Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3万民的习俗是虚空的； 偶像☛“偶像”：原文是“它”。不过是从树林中砍来的木头， 是匠人用斧头做成的手工。For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4人用金银妆饰它， 用钉子和锤子钉稳， 使它不动摇。They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5偶像好像瓜田里的稻草人， 不能说话，不能行走， 必须有人抬着。 不要怕它们， 因它们不能降祸， 也无力降福。”They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6耶和华啊，没有谁能与你相比！ 你本为大，你的名也大有能力。Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7万国的王啊，谁不敬畏你？ 敬畏你本是合宜的； 列国所有的智慧人中， 在他们一切的国度里， 都没有能与你相比的。Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8他们如同畜牲，尽都愚昧。 偶像的训诲算什么呢？ 偶像不过是木头，But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
9锤炼的银片是从他施来的， 金子则从乌法☛“乌法”：有古译本是“俄斐”。而来， 都是匠人和银匠的手工； 又有蓝色和紫色的衣服， 全都是巧匠的作品。Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10惟耶和华是真神， 是活的神，是永远的王。 他一发怒，大地震动； 他一恼恨，列国担当不起。But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11你们要对他们这样说：“那些不是创造天地的神明，必从地上、从天下被除灭！”☛本节原文是亚兰文。颂赞神的诗
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12耶和华以能力创造大地， 以智慧建立世界， 以聪明铺张穹苍。He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13他一出声，天上就有众水澎湃； 他使云雾从地极上腾， 造电随雨而闪， 从仓库中吹出风来。When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14人人都如同畜牲，毫无知识； 银匠都因偶像羞愧， 他所铸的偶像本是虚假， 它们里面并无气息。Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15偶像都是虚无的， 是迷惑人的作品， 到受罚的时刻必被除灭。They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16雅各所得的福分不是这样， 因主☛“主”：原文是“他”。是那创造万有的， 以色列是他产业的支派， 万军之耶和华是他的名。预告被掳
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
17受围困的居民哪，当收拾你的行囊， 离开这地。Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18因为耶和华如此说： “看哪，这一次，我必将此地的居民抛出去， 又必加害他们， 使他们觉悟☛“使他们觉悟”：七十士译本是“你的灾难就被发现”。。”For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19祸哉！我受损伤， 我的伤痕极其重大。 我却说：“这真的是我必须忍受的痛苦。”Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20我的帐棚毁坏， 我的绳索折断， 我的儿女都离我而去，不在了。 再无人来支搭我的帐棚，挂起我的幔子。My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21因为牧人如同畜牲， 没有寻求耶和华， 所以不得顺利； 他们的羊群也都分散了。For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22有风声！看哪，来了！ 有大扰乱从北方而来， 要使犹大的城镇变为废墟， 成为野狗的住处。Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
23耶和华啊，我知道人的道路不由自己， 行路的人也不能定自己的脚步。O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24耶和华啊，求你按公平管教我， 不要在你的怒中惩治我， 免得你使我归于无有。O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25求你将愤怒倾倒在不认识你的列国中， 倾倒在不求告你名的各族上； 因为他们吞了雅各，不但吞了，而且灭绝， 使他的住处变为荒凉。Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
耶利米宣告神的约
耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2“当听这约的话，告诉犹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;
3对他们说，耶和华－以色列的神如此说：‘不听从这约之话的人必受诅咒。And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
4这约是我将你们祖先从埃及地领出来，脱离铁炉的那日所吩咐他们的，说：你们要听从我的话，照我所吩咐的一切去做。这样，你们作我的子民，我也作你们的神，Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from 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:
5我好坚定我向你们列祖所起的誓，赏赐他们流奶与蜜之地，正如今日一样。’”我就回应说：“耶和华啊，阿们！”That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6耶和华对我说：“你要在犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街市宣告这一切话，说：‘当听从遵行这约的话，Then the LORD 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.
7因为我将你们祖先从埃及地领出来的那日，直到今日，都一再切切告诫他们说：当听从我的话。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.
8他们却不听从，也不侧耳而听，竟随从自己顽梗的恶心去行。我就使这约中一切诅咒的话临到他们身上；这约是我吩咐他们遵行的，他们却不遵行。’”Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
9耶和华对我说：“在犹大人和耶路撒冷居民中有同谋背叛的事。And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10他们转去效法他们祖先的恶行，不肯听我的话，竟随从别神，事奉它们。以色列家和犹大家违背了我与他们列祖所立的约。They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went 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.
11所以耶和华如此说：看哪，我必使灾祸临到他们，是他们不能逃脱的。他们向我哀求，我却不听。Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
12那时，犹大城镇的人和耶路撒冷的居民要哀求他们烧香所供奉的神明；只是遭难的时候，这些神明一点也不能拯救他们。Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13犹大啊，你神明的数目与你城镇的数目相等；你所筑可耻的坛，就是向巴力烧香的坛☛“你所筑...烧香的坛”：七十士译本是“你为巴力烧香所筑的坛”。，也与耶路撒冷街道的数目相等。For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
14“所以你不要为这百姓祈祷，也不要为他们呼求祷告，因为他们遭难向我哀求的时候，我必不应允。Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15我所亲爱的既多设恶谋，还能在我殿中做什么呢？你因作恶就喜乐，圣肉要离开你。What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
16从前耶和华给你起名叫青橄榄树，又华美又结好果子；如今他用一声巨响点火在其上，枝子就折断了。The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17“原来栽培你的万军之耶和华已经说要降祸给你，是因以色列家和犹大家行恶。他们向巴力烧香，惹我发怒，是自作自受。”杀害耶利米的阴谋
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18耶和华指示我，我才知道； 你将他们所做的给我指明。And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
19我像柔顺的羔羊被牵去宰杀， 并不知道他们设计谋害我： “我们把树连果子都灭了吧！ 把他从活人之地剪除， 使他的名不再被记得。”But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought 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.
20按公义判断、察验人肺腑心肠的万军之耶和华啊， 求你使我得见你在他们身上报仇， 因我已将我的案件向你禀明了。But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
21所以，耶和华论到寻索你命的亚拿突人如此说：“他们说：你不要奉耶和华的名说预言，免得你死在我们手中。Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
22所以万军之耶和华如此说：看哪，我必惩罚他们；他们的壮丁必被刀剑杀死，他们的儿女必因饥荒而死，Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
23他们当中必无任何幸存者；因为在他们受罚之年，我必使灾祸临到亚拿突人。”And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
耶利米询问耶和华
耶和华啊，我与你争辩的时候， 你总是显为义； 但有一件，我还要与你理论： 恶人的道路为何亨通呢？ 大行诡诈的为何得安逸呢？Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2你栽培了他们， 他们也扎了根， 长大，而且结果。 他们的口与你相近， 心却与你远离。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 reins.
3耶和华啊，你认识我，看见我， 你察验我向你的心如何。 求你将他们拉出来， 如将宰的羊， 为杀戮的日子分别出来。But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4这地悲哀， 一切田野的青草枯干要到几时呢？ 因其上居民的恶行， 牲畜和飞鸟都灭绝了。 因为他们说：“他看不见☛“他看不见”：死海古卷是“耶和华不让你看见”。我们的结局☛“他看不见...结局”：七十士译本是“神看不见我们的道路”。。”How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
5“你与步行的人同跑， 尚且觉得累， 怎能与马赛跑呢？ 你在安全之地尚且会跌倒☛“尚且会跌倒”或译“感觉安稳”。， 在约旦河边的丛林要怎么办呢？If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
6因为连你兄弟和你父家都以诡诈待你， 甚至在你后边大声喊叫。 虽然他们向你说好话， 你也不要相信他们。”耶和华为他的子民忧伤
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7我离弃了我的殿宇， 撇弃了我的产业， 将我心里所亲爱的交在她☛“她”指的是“所亲爱的”、“产业”。仇敌手中。I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8我的产业向我如林中的狮子， 出声攻击我， 因此我恨恶她。Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
9我的产业向我如斑点的鸷鸟， 有鸷鸟在四围攻击她。 你们去聚集田野的百兽， 叫它们来吞吃吧！Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10许多牧人毁坏我的葡萄园， 践踏我的地产， 使我美好的地产变为荒凉的旷野。Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11他们使地荒凉； 地既荒凉，就向我哀哭。 全地荒凉，却无人在意。They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
12灭命的来到旷野中一切光秃的高地； 耶和华的刀从地这边直到地那边，尽行杀灭， 凡血肉之躯都不得平安。The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
13他们种的是麦子， 收的却是荆棘； 辛辛苦苦却无收获。 因耶和华的烈怒， 你们必为自己的收成感到羞愧。耶和华对以色列的许诺
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
14耶和华如此说：“看哪，我要将所有的恶邻拔出本地，他们曾占据了我赐给以色列百姓所承受的产业；我也要将犹大家从他们中间拔出来。Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
15我拔出他们以后，必回转过来怜悯他们，使他们归回，各归本业，各归故土。And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16他们若殷勤学习我百姓的道，指着我的名起誓：‘我指着永生的耶和华起誓’，正如他们从前教我百姓指着巴力起誓，他们必在我百姓中得以建立。And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
17他们若是不听，我必拔出那国，不但拔出，还要毁灭。这是耶和华说的。”But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
腰带的比喻
耶和华对我如此说：“你去买一条麻布带子，束在你腰上，不可把它泡在水里。”
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
2我就照耶和华的话，买了一条带子，束在我的腰上。So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
3耶和华的话第二次临到我，说：And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
4“要拿你所买、在你腰上的带子，起来往幼发拉底河去，把腰带藏在那里的磐石穴中。”Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
5我就去，照着耶和华命令我的，把腰带藏在幼发拉底河边。So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
6过了多日，耶和华对我说：“你起来往幼发拉底河去，把我命令你藏在那里的腰带取出来。”And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
7我就往幼发拉底河去，把那腰带从我所藏的地方挖出来。看哪，腰带已经破烂，毫无用处了。Then I went to 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.
8耶和华的话临到我，说：Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9“耶和华如此说：我要照样败坏犹大的骄傲和耶路撒冷的狂傲。Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10这恶民不肯听我的话，按自己顽梗的心而行，随从别神，事奉敬拜它们；这恶民必像这腰带，毫无用处。This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
11腰带怎样紧贴人的腰，照样，我也曾使以色列全家和犹大全家紧贴着我，归我为子民，使我得名声，得颂赞，得荣耀；他们却不肯听从。这是耶和华说的。”酒坛的比喻
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 the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
12“所以你要对他们说：‘耶和华－以色列的神如此说：各坛都要装满酒。’他们必对你说：‘我们岂不知道各坛都要装满酒吗？’Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD 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?
13你就对他们说：‘耶和华如此说：看哪，我必使这地所有的居民，就是坐大卫宝座的君王、祭司和先知，并耶路撒冷所有的居民，都酩酊大醉。Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, 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.
14我要使他们彼此冲突，连父与子也互相冲突；我必不可怜，不顾惜，不怜悯，以致将他们灭绝。这是耶和华说的。’”耶利米警告狂傲的行为
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
15你们当听，当侧耳而听； 不可骄傲，因为耶和华已经吩咐了。Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
16当耶和华－你们的神 尚未使黑暗来临， 在昏暗的山上 你们的脚未绊跌以前， 要将荣耀归给他。 你们盼望光明， 他却使光明变为死荫， 成为幽暗。Give glory to the LORD 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.
17你们若不听这话， 我的心必因你们的骄傲暗自哭泣； 我的眼必痛哭流泪， 因为耶和华的羊群被掳去了。But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
18你要对君王和太后说： “你们当自卑，坐下； 因你们的王冠， 就是你们华美的冠冕已经掉落了☛“因你们...掉落了”：七十士译本和其他古译本是“因你们华美的冠冕已经从头上掉落了”。。”Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19尼革夫☛“尼革夫”是音译，意思是“旷野干旱的地方”，指“南方之地”；本卷书下同。的城镇都被关闭， 无人打开； 犹大全被掳掠， 掳掠净尽。The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
20你们要举目观看从北方来的人。 先前赐给你的羊群， 就是你所引以为荣的羊， 现今在哪里呢？Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21耶和华立你自己所教导的盟友， 立他们为头来辖制你， 你还有什么话可说呢？☛“耶和华...可说呢？”或译“当他来惩罚你的时候，你还有什么话可说呢？你自己所教导的盟友作头来辖制你。” 痛苦岂不将你抓住像临产的妇人吗？What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22你若心里说：“这一切的事为何临到我呢？” 是因你罪孽甚多。 你的下摆揭起， 你的脚跟受伤。And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
23古实☛“古实”包括苏丹的大部分和埃塞俄比亚的一部分。人岂能改变皮肤呢？ 豹岂能改变斑点呢？ 若能，你们这善于行恶的便能行善了。Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
24我必吹散他们， 如碎秸随旷野的风飘动。Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
25这是你所当得的， 是我量给你的报应☛“我量给你的报应”：七十士译本是“你们背叛我的报应”。； 因为你忘记了我， 倚靠虚假☛“虚假”或译“偶像”。。 这是耶和华说的。This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26我要揭起你的下摆， 蒙在你脸上， 显露你的羞耻。Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
27你在田野的山上行奸淫， 发嘶声，谋淫乱， 这些可憎之事我都看见了。 耶路撒冷啊，你有祸了！ 你不肯洁净☛“你不肯洁净”：七十士译本是“你不肯洁净来跟从我”。还要等到几时呢？I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
可怕的旱灾
耶和华的话临到耶利米，论到旱灾的事：
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2“犹大悲哀，城门衰败； 众人坐在地上哀恸， 耶路撒冷的哀声上达。Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3他们的贵族打发僮仆去打水； 他们来到水池， 找不到水，就拿着空器皿， 蒙羞惭愧，抱头而回。And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4因为无雨降在地上，土地就干裂， 农夫为此蒙羞抱头。Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5田野的母鹿因为无草 也撇弃才生的小鹿。Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
6野驴站在光秃的高地喘气，好像野狗； 它们的眼目因无草而失明。”And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7耶和华啊，虽然我们的罪孽控告我们， 求你为你名的缘故行动吧！ 我们本是多次背道，得罪了你。O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
8以色列所盼望，在患难时作他救主的啊， 你在这地为何像寄居的， 又如旅行的只住一夜呢？O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
9你为何像受惊吓的人， 像不能救人的勇士呢？ 耶和华啊，你在我们中间， 我们是称为你名下的人， 求你不要离开我们。Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10耶和华论到这百姓如此说： “这百姓喜爱游荡， 不约束自己的脚步， 所以耶和华不悦纳他们。 现今他要记起他们的罪孽， 惩罚他们的罪恶。”Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11耶和华又对我说：“不要为这百姓求福。Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
12他们禁食的时候，我不听他们的呼求；他们献燔祭和素祭，我也不悦纳。我却要用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫灭绝他们。”When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
13我就说：“唉！主耶和华，看哪，那些先知常对他们说：‘你们必不见刀剑，也不遭饥荒；耶和华要在这地方赏赐你们真正的平安。’”Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! 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.
14耶和华对我说：“那些先知托我的名说假预言，我并未差遣他们，没有吩咐他们，也没有对他们说话；他们向你们预言的是虚假的异象、占卜、虚无，以及心中的诡诈。Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
15所以耶和华如此说：‘论到托我名说预言的那些先知，我并未差遣他们；他们说这地不会有刀剑、饥荒，其实那些先知自己必被刀剑、饥荒灭绝。Therefore thus saith the LORD 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.
16听他们说预言的百姓必因饥荒、刀剑被扔在耶路撒冷的街道上，无人埋葬。他们连妻子带儿女，都是如此。我必将他们的恶倒在他们身上。’”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.
17你要向他们说这些话： 愿我眼泪汪汪， 昼夜不息， 因为少女─我百姓☛“我百姓”：原文直译“我百姓的女儿”。受了重大的打击， 伤口极其严重。Therefore 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 blow.
18我若出到田间， 看哪，有被刀杀的； 我若进入城内， 看哪，有因饥荒患病的； 先知和祭司也在各地往来经商， 不知如何是好。百姓恳求耶和华怜悯
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
19你全然弃绝犹大吗？ 你的心厌恶锡安吗？ 你为何击打我们，使我们无法得医治呢？ 我们指望平安，却得不着福气； 指望痊愈，看哪，受了惊惶。Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
20耶和华啊，我们承认自己的罪恶 和我们祖先的罪孽， 因我们得罪了你。We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21求你为你名的缘故， 不厌恶，不轻视你荣耀的宝座。 求你记念， 不要违背你与我们所立的约。Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22外邦虚无的神明☛“虚无的神明”：原文是“虚无”。中有能降雨的吗？ 天能自降甘霖吗？ 耶和华－我们的神啊，不是你吗？ 我们要等候你， 因为这一切都是你所造的。Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
犹大百姓的厄运
耶和华对我说：“虽有摩西和撒母耳站在我面前，我的心也不顾惜这百姓。你把他们从我眼前赶出，叫他们出去吧！
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
2他们若问你说：‘我们往哪里去呢？’你就告诉他们，耶和华如此说： ‘定为死亡的，必致死亡； 定为刀杀的，必被刀杀； 定为饥荒的，必遭饥荒； 定为掳掠的，必被掳掠。’”And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; 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 the captivity, to the captivity.
3“我命定四样灾害临到他们，就是刀剑杀戮、群狗拖拉、空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽吞吃毁灭。这是耶和华说的。And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
4我必使地上万国因他们而惊骇，都因希西家的儿子犹大王玛拿西在耶路撒冷所做的事。”And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
5耶路撒冷啊，有谁同情你呢？ 有谁为你悲伤呢？ 有谁转身问你安呢？For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
6你弃绝了我， 转身退后； 因此我伸手攻击你，毁灭你， 我已怜悯到厌烦了。 这是耶和华说的。Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
7我在境内各关口 用簸箕筛我的百姓， 使他们丧掉儿女， 又毁灭他们， 他们仍不转离所行的道。And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
8他们的寡妇在我面前比海沙更多； 我使灭命者在正午来到， 攻击年轻人的母亲， 使痛苦惊吓忽然临到她身上。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 spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9生过七个孩子的妇人衰弱； 尚在白昼，太阳忽然落下， 她就抱愧蒙羞。 我必当着敌人的面， 将他们当中的幸存者交给刀剑。 这是耶和华说的。耶利米向耶和华诉苦
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 ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
10我的母亲哪，我有祸了！因你生我作全地争相指控的人。我素来没有借贷给人，人也没有借贷给我，人人却都咒骂我。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 neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
11耶和华说：“我必定释放☛“释放”：原文另译“坚固”。你，使你得福气。灾祸苦难来临时，我必使仇敌央求你。The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
12人岂能将铜与铁，就是北方的铁折断呢？Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
13“我必因你在四境之内所犯的一切罪，将你的货物财宝当掠物，白白地交出来☛“白白地交出来”：原文直译“不以任何代价交出来”；七十士译本是“作为该付的代价”。。Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
14我要使你的仇敌过去，到你所不认识的地方☛“我要...地方”：有古卷和七十士译本是“我要使你在你所不认识之地服侍你四围的仇敌”。，因为你们要被我怒中所起的火焚烧。”And I will make thee 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.
15耶和华啊，你是知道的； 求你记念我，眷顾我， 向迫害我的人为我报仇； 不要把我取去，因你不轻易发怒， 要知道我为你的缘故受了凌辱。O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
16耶和华－万军之神啊， 我得着你的话就把它们吃了， 你的话是我心中的欢喜快乐； 因我是称为你名下的人。Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
17我并未坐在享乐人的会中欢乐； 因你的手，我就独自静坐， 你使我满心愤慨。I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
18我的痛苦为何长久不止呢？ 我的伤痕为何无法可医，不能痊愈呢？ 难道你以诡诈待我，像流干的河道吗？Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
19所以耶和华如此说：“你若回转， 我就使你归回， 站在我面前。 你若能将宝物和无用之物分别出来， 你就可以当作我的口。 他们必归向你， 你却不可归向他们。Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
20我必使你向这百姓成为坚固的铜墙。 他们必攻击你，却不能胜过你； 因我与你同在，要拯救你，搭救你。 这是耶和华说的。And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen 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 the LORD.
21我必搭救你脱离恶人的手， 救赎你脱离残暴之人的手。”And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
耶和华要耶利米独身
耶和华的话又临到我，说：
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
2“你不可在这地方娶妻，为自己生儿育女。Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
3因为论到在这地方所生的儿女，又论到在这国中生他们的父母，耶和华如此说：For thus saith the LORD 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;
4他们必死于致命的疾病，无人哀哭，不得埋葬，在地上如粪土，因刀剑和饥荒而灭绝；他们的尸首必给空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽作食物。They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
5“耶和华如此说：不要进入丧家，不要去哀哭，也不要为他们悲伤，因我已使我的平安、慈爱、怜悯离开这百姓。这是耶和华说的。For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
6他们连大带小，都必在这地死亡，不得埋葬。人必不为他们哀哭，不为他们割划自己，也不剃光头。Both the great and the 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:
7有丧事，人不为他们擘饼☛“有丧事...擘饼”：有古卷是“人不为丧家擘饼”。 ，也不因死人安慰他们；他们丧父丧母，人也不给他们一杯酒安慰他们。Neither shall men tear themselves 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.
8你不可进入宴乐的家，与人同坐又吃又喝，Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
9因为万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：看哪，你们还活着的日子，我必在你们眼前止息这地方欢喜和快乐的声音、新郎和新娘的声音。For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in 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.
10“你将这一切的话指示这百姓，他们若问你说：‘耶和华为什么说，要降这大灾祸攻击我们呢？我们有什么罪孽呢？我们向耶和华－我们的神犯了什么罪呢？’And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
11你就对他们说：‘因为你们祖先离弃了我，随从别神，事奉敬拜它们，却离弃我，不遵守我的律法。这是耶和华说的。Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
12你们行恶比你们祖先更甚，看哪，各人随从自己顽梗的恶心行事，不听从我。And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
13所以我必将你们从这地赶出，直赶到你们和你们祖先素不认识之地。你们在那里昼夜必事奉别神，因为我必不再向你们施恩。’”预告被掳归回
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
14“看哪，日子将到，人必不再指着那领以色列人从埃及地上来的永生耶和华起誓。这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15人却要指着那领以色列人离开北方之地，离开他们被赶到的各国之永生的耶和华起誓；并且我要领他们归回我从前赐给他们祖先之地。”将要临到的惩罚
But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16“看哪，我要差派许多打鱼的捕获他们；以后，我也要派许多打猎的，从各山上、各冈上、各石穴中猎取他们。这是耶和华说的。Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17因我的眼目察看他们一切的行为；他们不能在我面前遮掩，他们的罪孽也不能在我眼前隐藏。For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18我要先加倍报应他们的罪孽和罪恶，因为他们以可憎之偶像的尸首使我的地玷污，使我的产业充斥可厌之物。”耶利米的信心祈祷
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19耶和华啊，你是我的力量， 是我的保障， 在患难之日是我的避难所。 列国的人必从地极来到你这里，说： “我们祖先所承受的， 不过是虚假，是虚空无益之物。O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20人岂可为自己制造神明呢？ 其实它们不是神明。”Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
21“所以，看哪，我要使他们知道，就是这一次使他们知道我的手和我的能力。他们就知道我的名是耶和华了。”Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
犹大的罪和惩罚
犹大的罪是用铁笔、用金刚石记录的，铭刻在他们的心版和祭坛角上。
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2他们的儿女思念他们在高冈上、青翠树旁的祭坛和亚舍拉。Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3我田野的山哪，因你在全境内的丘坛所犯的罪，我必使你的财富和一切的财宝成为掠物。O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4因自己所做的☛“因自己所做的”：原文另译“因自己的手所做的”或没有“因自己所做的”。，你必失去我所赐给你的产业。我也必使你在你所不认识的地服侍你的仇敌；因你们激起了我的怒火，直烧到永远。训诲集
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine 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.
5耶和华如此说： “倚靠人，以血肉为膀臂， 心中离弃耶和华的， 那人该受诅咒！Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
6他必像沙漠里的矮树， 不见福乐来到； 他要住在旷野干旱之处， 无人居住的盐地。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, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7倚靠耶和华、以耶和华为他所仰赖的， 那人有福了！Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8他必像树栽于水旁， 在河边扎根， 炎热来到，毫不察觉☛“察觉”：原文另译“惧怕”。， 叶子仍必青翠； 在干旱之年，一无挂虑， 并且结果不止。For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9“人心比万物都诡诈， 坏到极处， 谁能识透呢？The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10我－耶和华是鉴察人心，考验人肺腑的， 要按各人所行的和他做事的结果报应他。”I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11那不按正道得财富的， 好像鹧鸪孵不是自己生的； 到了中年，财富必离开他， 终久他必成为愚顽人。As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12我们的圣所是荣耀的宝座， 从太初就在高处。A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13耶和华－以色列的盼望啊， 凡离弃你的必蒙羞。 离我而去的， 他们必被写在地里， 因为他们离弃耶和华，这活水的泉源。耶利米求耶和华帮助
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14耶和华啊，求你医治我，我就痊愈， 拯救我，我便得救； 因你是我所赞美的。Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
15看哪，他们对我说： “耶和华的话在哪里呢？ 让它应验吧！”Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16至于我，我并没有逃避作牧人跟随你☛“我并没有...跟随你”：原文另译“我不求你派来灾难”。， 也没有想望那灾殃的日子； 这是你所知道的。 我嘴唇所出的都在你面前。As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
17不要使我因你惊恐； 灾祸来临时，你是我的避难所。Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
18愿那些迫害我的蒙羞， 却不要使我蒙羞； 使他们惊惶， 却不要使我惊惶； 愿灾祸的日子临到他们， 以加倍的毁坏毁坏他们。关于遵守安息日
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19耶和华对我如此说：“你去站在犹大君王出入的平民门，和耶路撒冷的各城门口，Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20对他们说：‘你们这犹大君王、犹大众人和耶路撒冷所有的居民，凡从这些城门进入的，都当听耶和华的话。And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21耶和华如此说：你们要谨慎，不可在安息日挑什么担子进入耶路撒冷的城门，Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22也不可在安息日从家中挑担子出去。无论何工都不可做，只要以安息日为圣日，正如我所吩咐你们祖先的。’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.
23他们却不听从，也不侧耳而听，竟硬着颈项不听，不肯领受训诲。But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
24“你们若留意听从我，在安息日不挑什么担子进入这城的各门，只以安息日为圣日，在那日不做任何工作，这是耶和华说的，And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25就必有坐大卫宝座的君王和领袖，与犹大人，并耶路撒冷的居民，或坐车，或骑马，进入这城的各门，而且这城必存到永远。Then shall there enter into 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.
26也必有人从犹大城镇和耶路撒冷四围的各处，从便雅悯地、谢非拉☛“谢非拉”是音译，意思是“低地”；本卷书下同。、山区，并尼革夫而来，都带燔祭和祭物，素祭和乳香，并感谢祭，到耶和华的殿去。And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27你们若不听从我，不以安息日为圣日，仍在安息日挑担子进入耶路撒冷的各城门，我必在城门中点火；这火必烧毁耶路撒冷的宫殿，不会熄灭。”But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering 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.
耶利米在陶匠的家
耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2“你起来，下到陶匠的家里去，在那里我要使你听见我的话。”Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3我就下到陶匠的家里去，看哪，他在转盘上做器皿。Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4陶匠用泥做的器皿在他手中做坏了，他就用它另做别的器皿，照他看为好的去做。And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5耶和华的话临到我，说：Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6“以色列家啊，我待你们岂不能像这陶匠弄泥吗？以色列家，看哪，泥在陶匠的手中怎样，你们在我的手中也怎样。这是耶和华说的。O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7我何时论到一邦或一国说，要拔出、拆毁、毁坏；At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8我所说的那一邦若回转离开他们的恶，我就改变心意，不将我想要施行的灾祸降与他们。If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9我何时论到一邦或一国说，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;
10他们若行我眼中看为恶的事，不听从我的话，我就改变心意，不将我所说的福气赐给他们。If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11现在你要对犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民说：‘耶和华如此说：看哪，我捏塑灾祸降给你们，定意惩罚你们。你们各人当回转离开所行的恶道，改正你们的所作所为。’Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12“他们却说：‘没有用的，我们要照自己的计谋去行，各人要随自己顽梗的恶心行事。’”百姓忘记耶和华
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13“所以，耶和华如此说： 你们且往各国访问， 有谁听见这样的事？ 少女以色列行了一件极恐怖的事。Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14黎巴嫩的雪岂能从田野☛“田野”：原文另译“西连”（黎巴嫩山顶）或“全能者”（参创17．1）。的磐石上融化呢？ 从远处☛“远处”：原文是“外国”；原文另译“山上”。流下的凉水岂能干涸呢？Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
15我的百姓竟忘记我， 向那虚无的神明☛“虚无的神明”：原文是“虚无”。烧香， 它们使百姓在所行的路上、在古道上绊跌， 去行未修筑的斜路，Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16他们的地就变为荒凉， 长久被人嘲笑； 凡经过这地的必惊骇摇头。To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17在仇敌面前，我必如东风刮散他们， 遭难的日子，我要以背向他们， 不以脸看他们。”谋害耶利米
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18他们说：“来吧！让我们设计谋害耶利米；因为我们有祭司讲律法，有智慧人设谋略，有先知说预言，都未曾断绝。来吧！让我们用舌头攻击他，不要理他一切的话。”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.
19耶和华啊，求你留心听我， 且听那些指控我的人的话。Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20人岂可以恶报善呢？ 他们竟挖坑要害我的性命！ 求你记念我站在你面前为他们说好话， 要使你的愤怒转离他们。Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21因此，愿他们的儿女忍受饥荒， 愿他们死于刀剑之手； 愿他们的妻无子，且作寡妇， 愿他们的男人被死亡所灭， 他们的壮丁在阵上被刀击杀。Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
22你使敌军忽然临到他们的时候， 愿人听见哀声从他们的屋内发出； 因他们挖坑要捉拿我， 暗设罗网要绊我的脚。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.
23耶和华啊，他们要杀我的那一切计谋， 你都知道。 求你不要赦免他们的罪孽， 也不要从你面前涂去他们的罪恶。 愿他们在你面前跌倒， 愿你在发怒的时候对付他们。Yet, LORD, 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 thus with them in the time of thine anger.
破碎的瓶
耶和华如此说：“你去买陶匠的瓷瓶 ，你和☛“你和”：七十士译本和其他古译本是“带着”。百姓中的长老、位尊的祭司
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2出去到欣嫩子谷、哈珥西☛“哈珥西”意思是“瓦片”。的门口，在那里宣告我所吩咐你的话，And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3说：‘犹大君王和耶路撒冷的居民哪，当听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：看哪，我必使灾祸临到这地方，凡听见的人都必耳鸣；And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4因为他们和他们祖先，并犹大君王都离弃我，使这地方与我疏远☛“使这地方与我疏远”：七十士译本是“将这地方看为平常”。，在这里向素不认识的别神烧香，又使这地方遍满无辜人的血。Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5他们建造巴力的丘坛，要在火中焚烧自己的儿女，作为燔祭献给巴力。这不是我命令的，不是我吩咐的，我心里也从来没有想过。They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
6因此，看哪，日子将到，这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒称为杀戮谷。这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7我要在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋落空，也必使他们在仇敌面前倒在刀下，倒在寻索其命的人手下。我要把他们的尸首给空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽作食物。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 hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8我必使这城令人惊骇嘲笑；凡路过的，必因这城所遭的灾难惊骇嘲笑。And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9仇敌和寻索其命的人追逼他们，使他们落在围困窘迫之中，我必使他们各人吃自己儿女的肉和朋友的肉。’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 straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10“你要在跟你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,
11对他们说：‘万军之耶和华如此说：我要打碎这民和这城，正如人打碎陶匠的器皿，不能再使其完整。他们要在陀斐特埋葬，甚至无处可葬。And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD 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 them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
12我必向这地方和其中的居民如此行，使这城与陀斐特一样。这是耶和华说的。Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
13耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大君王的宫殿，就是他们在其上向天上的万象烧香、向别神献浇酒祭的宫殿房屋，都必被玷污，和陀斐特一样。’”And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of 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.
14耶利米从耶和华差他去说预言的陀斐特回来，站在耶和华殿的院中对众百姓说：Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,
15“万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：‘看哪，我必使我所说的一切灾祸临到这城和属它的城镇，因为他们硬着颈项不听我的话。’”Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
耶利米跟巴施户珥的冲突
音麦的儿子巴施户珥祭司作耶和华殿的总管，听见耶利米预言这些事，
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2就打耶利米先知，用耶和华殿里上便雅悯门内的枷锁，把他锁在那里。Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
3次日，巴施户珥开枷释放耶利米。于是耶利米对他说：“耶和华不叫你的名为巴施户珥，而叫你玛歌珥．米撒毕☛“玛歌珥．米撒毕”意思是“四面惊吓”。，And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
4因耶和华如此说：‘看哪，我要使你和你的众朋友惊吓；你们要亲眼看见他们倒在仇敌的刀下。我必将犹大人全都交在巴比伦王的手中，他要把他们掳到巴比伦去，用刀杀他们。For thus saith the LORD, 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 into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
5我要将这城中一切的货财和劳碌得来的，并一切的珍宝，以及犹大君王所有的宝物，都交在仇敌手中。仇敌要抢夺他们，抓住他们，把他们带到巴比伦去。Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
6你，巴施户珥，和所有住在你家中的人都必被掳；你和你的朋友，就是你向他们说假预言的，都要到巴比伦去，死在那里，葬在那里。’”耶利米埋怨耶和华
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
7耶和华啊，你欺哄了我， 我也被你欺哄了。 你比我强，并且得胜。 我终日成为笑柄， 人人都戏弄我。O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
8我每逢讲话的时候，就哀叹， 我喊叫：“有暴力和毁灭！” 因为耶和华的话终日成了我的凌辱和讥刺。For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
9我若说：“我不再提耶和华， 也不再奉他的名讲论”， 我心里便觉得 似乎有烧着的火闷在我骨中， 我忍受不住，不能自禁。Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
10我听见许多的毁谤， 四围都是惊吓； 连我知己朋友都看着我跌倒： “告他吧，我们要告他！ 或者他被引诱， 我们就能胜他， 在他身上报仇。”For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
11然而，耶和华与我同在， 好像可怕的勇士。 因此，迫害我的都绊跌， 不能得胜； 他们大大蒙羞， 由于行事没有智慧， 必永远受那不能忘怀的羞辱。But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12考验义人、察看人肺腑心肠的万军之耶和华啊， 求你使我得见你在他们身上报仇， 因我已将我的案件向你禀明了。But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
13你们要向耶和华唱歌！ 要赞美耶和华！ 因他救了穷人的性命 脱离恶人的手。Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14愿我出生的那日受诅咒！ 愿我母亲生我的那天不蒙福！Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15报信给我父亲说 “你得了儿子”， 使我父亲甚欢喜的， 愿那人受诅咒。Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16愿那人像耶和华所倾覆而不怜惜的城镇； 愿他早晨听见哀声， 中午听见呐喊；And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17因他没有在我未出胎就把我杀了， 以致我母亲成为我的坟墓， 她却一直怀着胎☛“她却一直怀着胎”：七十士译本是“胎儿就不断长大”。。Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
18我为何出胎见劳碌愁苦， 在羞愧中度尽我的年日呢？Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
预言耶路撒冷灭亡
耶和华的话临到耶利米。那时，西底家王差派玛基雅的儿子巴施户珥和玛西雅的儿子西番雅祭司到他那里去，说：
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2“请你为我们求问耶和华，因为巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒前来攻击我们；或者耶和华照他一切奇妙的作为待我们，使巴比伦王离开我们而去。”Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
3耶利米对他们说：“你们当对西底家这样说：Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4‘耶和华－以色列的神如此说：看哪，我要使你们手中的兵器，就是你们与城外围困你们的巴比伦王和迦勒底人打仗所用的兵器转回来，把它们聚集在这城中。Thus saith the LORD 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, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5我要在怒气、愤怒和大恼怒中，用伸出来的手和大能的膀臂，亲自攻击你们；And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6又要击打这城的居民，他们连人带牲畜都必遭遇大瘟疫而死亡。And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
7以后，我要将犹大王西底家和他的臣仆百姓，就是在城内，从瘟疫、刀剑、饥荒中幸存的人，都交在巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒手中，交在仇敌和寻索其命的人手中。巴比伦王必用刀击杀他们，不顾惜，不同情，不怜悯。这是耶和华说的。’And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and 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.
8“你要对这百姓说：‘耶和华如此说：看哪，我将生命的路和死亡的路摆在你们面前。And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9住在这城里的必遭刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫而死；但出去投降围困你们之迦勒底人的必得存活，保全自己的性命。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 falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10我向这城板脸，降祸不降福；这城必交在巴比伦王的手中，他必用火焚烧。这是耶和华说的。’”审判犹大王室
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11“至于犹大王的家，你们当听耶和华的话。And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
12大卫家啊，耶和华如此说： ‘每早晨你们要施行公平， 拯救被抢夺的脱离欺压者的手， 免得我的愤怒因你们的恶行发作， 如火燃起，无人能熄灭。’O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
13住在山谷和平原磐石上的居民啊， 看哪，我与你们为敌， 因为你们说：‘谁能下来攻击我们？ 谁能进入我们的住处呢？’ 这是耶和华说的。Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14我必按你们行事的结果惩罚你们， 也必使火在耶路撒冷的林中燃起， 将四围所有的尽行烧灭。 这是耶和华说的。”But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
耶利米警告犹大王
耶和华如此说：“你要下到犹大王的宫中，在那里说这话，
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
2你要说：‘坐大卫宝座的犹大王啊，你和你的臣仆，并进入这些城门的百姓，都当听耶和华的话。And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
3耶和华如此说：你们要施行公平和公义，拯救被抢夺的脱离欺压者的手，不可亏负寄居的和孤儿寡妇，不可用残暴对待他们，也不可在这地方流无辜人的血。Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
4你们若切实遵行这话，就必有坐大卫宝座的君王和他的臣仆百姓，或坐车或骑马，从这王宫的各门进入。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.
5你们若不听这些话，我指着自己起誓，这王宫必变为废墟。这是耶和华说的。’But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
6耶和华论到犹大王的家如此说： “我看你如基列， 如黎巴嫩的山顶； 然而，我必使你变为旷野， 成为无人居住的城镇。For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house 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.
7我要预备施行毁灭的人， 各人佩带兵器攻击你； 他们要砍伐你佳美的香柏树， 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.
8“许多国的百姓经过这城，就彼此谈论说：‘耶和华为何向这大城这样做呢？’And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
9必有人回答说：‘是因他们离弃了耶和华－他们神的约，事奉敬拜别神。’”关于约哈斯
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
10不要为已死的人哀哭， 也不要为他悲伤， 却要为离家外出的人大大哀哭； 因为他不再回来见自己的出生地。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.
11因为论到离开这地方的约西亚之子犹大王沙龙☛“沙龙”：王下23．30称“约哈斯”。，就是接续他父亲约西亚作王的，耶和华这样说：“他必不再回到这里来，For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
12却要死在被掳去的地方，必不得再见这地。”关于约雅敬
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13祸哉！那以不公义盖房，以不公平造楼， 白白使邻舍做工，却不给工钱的人，Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
14他说：“我要为自己盖宽敞的房，盖高大的楼。” 他为它开窗户， 以香柏木为墙板， 漆上丹红色。That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15难道你作王就是要盖香柏木楼房争胜的吗？ 你的父亲岂不是也吃也喝， 也施行公平和公义吗？ 那时他得了福乐。Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
16他为困苦和贫穷的人伸冤， 那时就得了福乐。 认识我不就在此吗？ 这是耶和华说的。He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
17你的眼和你的心却专顾不义之财， 流无辜人的血， 行欺压和残暴。But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
18所以，耶和华论到约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬如此说： 人必不为他举哀： “哀哉，我的哥哥！ 哀哉，我的姊姊！” 也不为他举哀： “哀哉，我的主！ 哀哉，我主的荣华！”Therefore thus saith the LORD 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!
19他被埋葬好像埋驴子一样， 被拖出去，扔在耶路撒冷城门外。关于耶路撒冷百姓的命运
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20你要上黎巴嫩哀号， 在巴珊扬声， 从亚巴琳哀号， 因为你所亲爱的都毁灭了。Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
21你兴盛的时候，我对你说话； 你却说：“我不听。” 你从年轻时就是这样， 不肯听我的话。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.
22你的牧人要被风吞吃， 你所亲爱的必被掳去； 那时你必因你一切的恶行抱愧蒙羞。The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
23你这住黎巴嫩、在香柏树上搭窝的， 有痛苦临到你， 如疼痛临到临产的妇人， 那时你何等可怜☛“何等可怜”：七十士译本和其他古译本是“就会呻吟”。！神审判哥尼雅
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
24耶和华说：“约雅敬的儿子犹大王哥尼雅☛“哥尼雅”即“耶哥尼雅”，又名“约雅斤”；参王下24．6，耶24．1。，虽是我右手上带印的戒指，我凭我的永生起誓，我必将你从其上摘下来。As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
25我要将你交在寻索你命的人和你所惧怕的人手中，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒和迦勒底人手中。And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26我也要将你和生你的母亲赶到别国，不是你们出生的地方；你们必死在那里，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.
27心中虽然很想归回那地，却不得归回。”But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
28哥尼雅这人是被轻看、遭毁坏的罐子， 是无人喜爱的器皿吗？ 他和他的后裔为何被赶到素不认识之地呢？Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29地啊，地啊，地啊，当听耶和华的话！O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
30耶和华如此说： “要把这人登记为无子， 是平生不得亨通的人； 因为他后裔中再无一人得亨通， 能坐在大卫的宝座上治理犹大。”Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
对将来的希望
耶和华说：“祸哉！那些残害、赶散我草场之羊的牧人！”
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
2耶和华－以色列的神论到那些牧养他百姓的牧人如此说：“你们赶散我的羊群，并未看顾他们；看哪，我必惩罚你们的恶行。这是耶和华说的。Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors 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 the LORD.
3我要从我赶他们到的各国召集我羊群中剩余的，领他们归回本处；他们必生养众多。And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4我必设立牧人照管他们，牧养他们。他们不再惧怕，不再惊惶，没有一个失丧的。这是耶和华说的。And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
5“看哪，日子将到，我要为大卫兴起公义的苗裔； 他必掌王权，行事有智慧，在地上施行公平和公义。这是耶和华说的。Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6在他的日子，犹大必得救，以色列也安然居住。他的名必称为‘耶和华－我们的义’。In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7“看哪，日子将到，人必不再指着那领以色列人从埃及地上来的永生耶和华起誓。这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8人却要指着那领以色列家的后裔离开北方之地，离开我赶他们到的各国的永生耶和华起誓。他们必住在本地。”对先知的警告
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
9论到那些先知， 我心在我里面忧伤， 我的骨头全都发颤； 因耶和华和他的圣言， 我像醉酒的人， 像被酒所胜的人。Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
10全地满了犯奸淫的人！ 因妄自赌咒，地就悲哀， 旷野的草场都枯干了。 他们所行的道是恶的； 他们的权力用得不对。For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11连先知带祭司都是亵渎的， 就是在我殿中，我也看见他们的恶行。 这是耶和华说的。For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
12因此，他们的道路必像黑暗中的滑地， 他们必被追赶，仆倒在其上； 因为在他们受罚之年， 我必使灾祸临到他们。 这是耶和华说的。Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways 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 the LORD.
13我在撒玛利亚的先知中曾见狂妄的事； 他们藉巴力说预言， 使我的百姓以色列走迷了路。And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14我在耶路撒冷的先知中曾见恐怖的事； 他们犯奸淫，行虚谎， 又坚固恶人的手， 无人回转离开自己的恶行。 他们在我面前都像所多玛， 耶路撒冷的居民都像蛾摩拉。I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15因此，万军之耶和华论到先知如此说： “看哪，我必使他们吃茵陈， 喝苦水； 因为亵渎的事出于耶路撒冷的先知，遍及各地。”Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
16万军之耶和华如此说：“你们不要听这些先知向你们所说的预言。他们使你们成为虚无，所说的异象是出于自己的心，不是出于耶和华的口。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17他们常对藐视我的人说：‘耶和华说：你们必享平安’☛“他们常对...平安’”七十士译本是“他们常对藐视主的话的人说：‘你们必享平安’”。又对一切按自己顽梗之心而行的人说：‘灾祸必不临到你们。’”They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18有谁站在耶和华的会中 察看并听见他的话呢？ 有谁留心听他的话呢？For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
19看哪！耶和华的暴风 在震怒中发出， 是旋转的暴风， 必转到恶人头上。Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20耶和华的怒气必不转消， 直到他心中所定的成就了，实现了。 末后的日子，你们要全然明白。The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
21我并未差遣那些先知， 他们竟自奔跑； 我没有对他们说话， 他们竟自预言。I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22他们若站在我的会中， 必使我的百姓听我的话， 又使他们回转离开恶道， 离开他们所行的恶。But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23我是靠近你们的神，不是遥远的神，不是吗？☛“我是...不是吗？”或译“我岂为近处的神呢？不也为远处的神吗？”这是耶和华说的。Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24人岂能在隐密处藏身，使我看不见他呢？这是耶和华说的。我岂不遍满天和地吗？这是耶和华说的。Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
25我已听见那些先知所说的，他们托我的名说假预言：“我做了梦！我做了梦！”I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26所言虚假、心存诡诈的先知，他们这样存心要到几时呢？How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27他们彼此述说所做的梦，想要使我的百姓忘记我的名，正如他们祖先因巴力忘记我的名一样。Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28得梦的先知可以述说那梦；领受我话的人可以诚实讲我的话。糠秕怎能与麦子比较呢？这是耶和华说的。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 chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
29我的话岂不像火，又像能打碎磐石的大锤吗？这是耶和华说的。Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30看哪，那些先知各从邻舍偷窃我的话，因此我必与他们为敌。这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31那些先知用自己的舌头说是耶和华说的；看哪，我必与他们为敌。这是耶和华说的。Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
32那些以假梦为预言，又述说这梦，以谎言和鲁莽使我百姓走迷了路的，看哪，我必与他们为敌。这是耶和华说的。我并未差遣他们，也没有吩咐他们。他们对这百姓毫无益处。这是耶和华说的。耶和华的默示
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
33无论是这百姓、是先知、是祭司，问你说：“耶和华有什么默示呢？”你就对他们说：“什么默示啊？☛“什么默示啊？”：原文另译“你们就是重担。”我已撇弃你们了。这是耶和华说的。”And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
34凡说“耶和华的默示”的，无论是先知、是祭司、是百姓，我必惩罚那人和他的家。And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
35你们各人要对邻舍、对弟兄如此说：“耶和华回答了什么？耶和华说了什么呢？”Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
36你们不可再提“耶和华的默示”，因为各人所说的话必成为自己的重担☛“重担”和“默示”原文相同。；你们错用了永生神、万军之耶和华－我们神的话。And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37你们要对先知如此说：“耶和华回答了你什么？耶和华说了什么呢？”Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
38你们若说“耶和华的默示”，耶和华就必如此说：“我曾差人到你们那里去，告诉你们不可说‘耶和华的默示’这几个字，你们却说‘耶和华的默示’；But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39所以，看哪，我必忘记你们☛“忘记你们”：原文另译“将你们举起来”。，将你们和我所赐给你们并你们祖先的城都撇弃了；Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
40又必使永远的凌辱和长久的羞耻临到你们，是不能忘记的。”And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
两筐无花果
巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒将约雅敬的儿子犹大王耶哥尼雅☛“耶哥尼雅”即“哥尼雅”；参耶22．24。 和犹大的领袖，并工匠、铁匠从耶路撒冷掳去，带到巴比伦。这事以后，耶和华指给我看，看哪，有两筐无花果放在耶和华殿前。
The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, 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 carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2一筐是极好的无花果，像是初熟的；一筐是极坏的无花果，坏得不能吃。One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3耶和华对我说：“耶利米，你看见什么？”我说：“我看见无花果，好的极好，坏的极坏，坏得不能吃。”Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
4于是耶和华的话临到我，说：Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5“耶和华－以色列的神如此说：‘被掳去的犹大人，就是我所打发离开这地到迦勒底人之地去的，我必看顾他们如这好的无花果，使他们得福乐。Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
6我要眷顾他们，使他们得福乐，领他们归回这地。我也要建立他们，必不拆毁；栽植他们，必不拔出。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.
7我要赐给他们认识我的心，认识我是耶和华。他们要作我的子民，我要作他们的神，他们要一心归向我。’”And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
8耶和华如此说：“我必将犹大王西底家和他的众领袖，以及留在这地耶路撒冷剩余的人，并住在埃及地的犹大人都交出来，好像那极坏、坏得不能吃的无花果。And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give 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:
9我必使他们在地上万国中成为恐惧，成为灾祸，在我赶逐他们到的各处成为凌辱、笑柄、讥笑、诅咒的对象。And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
10我必使刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫临到他们，直到他们从我所赐给他们和他们祖先之地灭绝。”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.
从北方来的敌人
约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬第四年，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的元年，耶和华论犹大众百姓的话临到耶利米。
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, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
2耶利米先知就将这些话对犹大众百姓和耶路撒冷所有的居民说：The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3“从亚们的儿子犹大王约西亚十三年直到今日，在这二十三年中，常有耶和华的话临到我；我也一再对你们传讲，只是你们不听从。From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4耶和华也曾一再差遣他的仆人众先知到你们这里来，只是你们不听从，也不侧耳而听，And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5说：‘你们各人当回转离开恶道和恶行，就可居住耶和华从古时所赐给你们和你们祖先之地，直到永远。They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6不可随从别神，事奉敬拜它们，以你们手所做的惹我发怒；这样，我就不会降灾祸给你们。And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7然而你们不听从我，竟以手所做的惹我发怒，害了自己。这是耶和华说的。’”Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8所以万军之耶和华如此说：“因为你们不听我的话，Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
9看哪，我必召北方的众族和我仆人巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒前来攻击这地和这地的居民，并四围所有的国民。我要将他们尽行灭绝，以致他们令人惊骇、嗤笑，并且永久荒凉☛“永久荒凉”：七十士译本是“成了永久的羞辱”。。这是耶和华说的。Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10我又要止息他们欢喜和快乐的声音、新郎和新娘的声音、推磨的声音和灯的亮光。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 candle.
11这全地必然荒凉，令人惊骇。这些国家要服事巴比伦王七十年。And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12七十年满了以后，我必惩罚巴比伦王和那国，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
13我也必使我向那地所说的话，就是所有记在这书上，耶利米向这些国家说的预言，都临到那地。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.
14因为必有许多国家和大君王使迦勒底人作奴仆；我也必照他们的行为，按他们手所做的报应他们。”神审判列国
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
15耶和华－以色列的神对我如此说：“你从我手中拿这杯愤怒的酒，给我所差遣你去的各国的百姓喝。For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
16他们喝了就要东倒西歪，并要发狂，因我使刀剑临到他们中间。”And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17我就从耶和华的手中拿了这杯，给耶和华所差遣我去的各国的百姓喝，Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
18其中有耶路撒冷和犹大的城镇，并耶路撒冷的君王与领袖；因此这城镇荒凉，令人惊骇、嗤笑、诅咒，正如今日一样。To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
19又有埃及王法老和他的臣仆、官长，以及他的众百姓，Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20并混居的各族和乌斯地的诸王，与非利士人之地的诸王，包括亚实基伦、迦萨、以革伦，以及亚实突剩下的人，And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21还有以东、摩押、亚扪人，Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22推罗的诸王、西顿的诸王、海的那边沿海地区的诸王，And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
23底但、提玛、布斯，和所有剃鬓发的人，Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
24阿拉伯的诸王、住旷野混居各族的诸王、And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
25心利的诸王、以拦的诸王、玛代的诸王、And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
26北方远近的诸王，以及天下、地面上的万国也一个一个都喝了，以后示沙克☛“示沙克”就是“巴比伦”。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.
27“你要对他们说：‘万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你们要喝，且要喝醉，要呕吐，且要跌倒，不再起来，都因我使刀剑临到你们中间。’Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28“他们若不肯从你手中拿这杯来喝，你就要对他们说：‘万军之耶和华如此说：你们一定要喝！And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
29看哪，我既从称为我名下的城起首施行灾祸，你们能免去惩罚吗？你们必不能免，因为我要命刀剑临到地上所有的居民。这是万军之耶和华说的。’For, lo, I begin to bring evil on 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 the LORD of hosts.
30“所以你要向他们预言这一切的话，对他们说： ‘耶和华从高天吼叫， 从圣所发出声音， 向自己的羊群大声吼叫； 他要向地上所有的居民呐喊， 像踹葡萄的人一样。Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31必有响声达到地极， 因为耶和华与列国争辩。 凡有血肉之躯的，他必审问； 至于恶人，他必交给刀剑。 这是耶和华说的。’A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
32“万军之耶和华如此说： 看哪，必有灾祸发出，从这国到那国， 并有大暴风从地极刮起。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33“到那日，从地这边到地那边，都有耶和华所杀戮的人。必无人哀哭，不得收殓，不得埋葬，必在地面上成为粪土。And the slain of the LORD 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 ground.
34“牧人哪，你们当哀号，呼喊； 羊群的领导者啊，你们要在灰中翻滚； 因为你们被宰杀、被分散☛“被分散”是根据一些古卷；原文是“我打碎你们”。的日子已经来到。 你们要仆倒，好像珍贵的器皿打碎一样。Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35牧人无路可逃， 羊群的领导者也无法逃脱。And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36听啊，有牧人呼喊， 有羊群领导者哀号的声音， 因为耶和华摧毁他们的草场。A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
37因耶和华猛烈的怒气， 平安的羊圈都被肃清。And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38他像狮子离开洞穴， 他们的地因凶猛的怒气☛“凶猛的怒气”：有古卷和七十士译本是“残暴的刀剑”。 和他强烈的怒气，都变为荒凉。”He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
耶利米受审
约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬登基时，有这话从耶和华临到耶利米，说：
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
2“耶和华如此说：你要站在耶和华殿的院内，对犹大所有城镇的人，就是到耶和华的殿来礼拜的，传讲我所吩咐你的一切话，一字也不可删减。Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
3或者他们肯听从，各人回转离开恶道，我就改变心意，不将我因他们所行的恶、想要施行的灾祸降与他们。If so 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.
4你要对他们说，耶和华如此说：‘你们若不听从我，不遵行我在你们面前所设立的律法，And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
5不听从我一再差遣我仆人众先知到你们那里去所说的话，你们果然没有听从，To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
6我就必使这殿如示罗，使这城成为地上万国所诅咒的。’”Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
7耶利米在耶和华殿中所说的这些话，祭司、先知与众百姓都听见了。So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
8耶利米说完了耶和华吩咐他对众百姓说的一切话，祭司、先知与众百姓都来抓住他，说：“你该死！Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
9你为何假借耶和华的名预言，说这殿必如示罗，这城必荒废无人居住呢？”于是众百姓都聚集在耶和华的殿中围住耶利米。Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
10犹大的官长们听见这些事，就从王宫上到耶和华的殿，坐在耶和华殿新门的入口。When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.
11祭司、先知对官长和众百姓说：“这人该死，因为他说预言攻击这城，正如你们亲耳听见的。”Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
12耶利米就对官长和众百姓说：“耶和华差遣我预言攻击这殿和这城，传讲你们所听见的这一切话。Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
13现在，要改正你们的所作所为，听从耶和华－你们神的话，他就必改变心意，不把所说的灾祸降与你们。Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
14至于我，看哪，我在你们手中，你们眼里看什么是好的，是正确的，就那样待我吧！As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.
15但你们要确实知道，你们若把我处死，就使流无辜人血的罪归给你们和这城，以及城里的居民了；因为耶和华确实差遣我到你们这里来，将这一切话传到你们耳中。”But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
16官长和众百姓对祭司和先知说：“这人是不该死的，因为他奉耶和华－我们神的名向我们说话。”Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
17国中的长老就有几个人起来，对聚集的众百姓说：Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
18“当犹大王希西家的日子，有摩利沙人弥迦对犹大众百姓预言说： ‘万军之耶和华如此说： 锡安要被耕种像一块田地， 耶路撒冷要变为废墟， 这殿的山必像丛林的高处。’Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
19犹大王希西家和犹大人岂是把他处死呢？希西家岂不是敬畏耶和华，恳求耶和华施恩吗？耶和华就改变心意，不把所说的灾祸降与他们。若处死这人，我们就做了大恶，害死自己了。”Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
20有一个人，就是示玛雅的儿子基列．耶琳人乌利亚，也奉耶和华的名说预言；他说预言攻击这城和这地，和耶利米所说的完全一样。And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
21约雅敬王和他所有的勇士、官长听见了乌利亚的话，王想要把他处死。乌利亚听见就惧怕，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 Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
22约雅敬王差亚革波的儿子以利拿单，带领几个人前往埃及。And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
23他们将乌利亚从埃及带出来，解送到约雅敬王那里；王用刀杀了他，把他的尸首抛在平民的坟地中。And they fetched forth Urijah 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.
24然而，沙番的儿子亚希甘保护耶利米，不将他交在百姓手中，以免他们把他处死。Nevertheless 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.
耶利米负轭
约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬☛“约雅敬”：有古卷是“西底家”；参3、12节。登基时，有这话从耶和华临到耶利米，说：
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2“耶和华对我如此说：你要为自己做皮带和木轭，套在你的颈项上，Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
3然后托那些来到耶路撒冷，到犹大王西底家那里的使节，把皮带和木轭送到以东王、摩押王、亚扪王、推罗王、西顿王那里，And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
4且嘱咐他们转达他们的主人。万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说，你们要对你们的主人这样说：And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
5我用大能和伸出来的膀臂创造大地和地上的人民、牲畜。我看给谁合适，就把地给谁。I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
6现在我将全地都交在我仆人巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒手中，也把野地的走兽给他使用。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 have I given him also to serve him.
7列国都要服事他和他的子孙，直到他本国遭报的日期来到；那时，许多国家和大君王要使他作奴隶。And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
8“无论哪一邦、哪一国，不肯服事巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒，不把颈项放在他的轭下，我必用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫惩罚那邦，直到我藉巴比伦王的手毁灭他们。这是耶和华说的。And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
9至于你们，不可听从你们的先知和占卜的、做梦的☛“做梦的”是根据七十士译本和其他古译本；原文是“梦”。、观星象的，以及行邪术的；他们对你们说：‘你们必不致服事巴比伦王。’Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
10他们向你们传的是假预言，要叫你们远离本地，以致我将你们赶出去，使你们灭亡。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.
11但哪一邦肯把颈项放在巴比伦王的轭下服事他，我必使那邦仍在本地存留，在那里耕种居住。这是耶和华说的。”But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
12我就照这一切话对犹大王西底家说：“你们要把颈项放在巴比伦王的轭下，服事他和他的百姓，就得存活。I spake also 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.
13你和你的百姓何必因刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫而死亡，像耶和华所论不肯服事巴比伦王的国家呢？Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14不可听那些先知对你们所说的话，他们说：‘你们必不致服事巴比伦王’，其实他们向你们传的是假预言。Therefore 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.
15耶和华说：‘我并未差遣他们，他们却托我的名传假预言，使我将你们和向你们说预言的那些先知赶出去，一同灭亡。’”For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
16我又对祭司和这众百姓说：“耶和华如此说：你们不可听那先知对你们所说的预言，他们说：‘看哪，耶和华殿中的器皿快要从巴比伦带回来’；其实他们向你们传的是假预言。Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17不可听从他们，只管服事巴比伦王，就得存活。何必使这城变为废墟呢？Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
18他们若真是先知，有耶和华的话临到他们，让他们祈求万军之耶和华，使耶和华殿中和犹大王宫内，并耶路撒冷剩下的器皿，不致被带到巴比伦去。But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
19万军之耶和华这样论柱子、铜海、盆座，并留在这城里剩下的器皿，For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
20就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒掳掠约雅敬的儿子犹大王耶哥尼雅，并犹大、耶路撒冷所有贵族时，没有从耶路撒冷掠去巴比伦的器皿。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;
21论到那在耶和华殿中和犹大王宫内，并耶路撒冷剩下的器皿，万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
22它们必被带到巴比伦，存放在那里，直到我眷顾以色列人，将这些器皿带回归还此地的日子。这是耶和华说的。”They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
耶利米和哈拿尼雅
当年，就是犹大王西底家登基第四年五月，押朔的儿子基遍人哈拿尼雅先知，在耶和华的殿中当着祭司和众百姓的面对我说：
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
2“万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：我已经折断巴比伦王的轭。Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3二年之内，我要将巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒从这地掳掠到巴比伦的器皿，就是耶和华殿中的一切器皿，都带回此地。Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
4我又要将约雅敬的儿子犹大王耶哥尼雅和被掳到巴比伦所有的犹大人带回此地，因为我要折断巴比伦王的轭。这是耶和华说的。”And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
5耶利米先知当着祭司和站在耶和华殿里众百姓的面，对哈拿尼雅先知说：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 the LORD,
6“阿们！愿耶和华如此行，愿耶和华实现你所预言的话，将耶和华殿中的器皿和所有被掳去的人从巴比伦带回此地。Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
7然而我在你和众百姓耳中所要说的话，你应当听。Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
8从古以来，在你我以前的众先知，向多国和大邦说预言，论到战争、灾祸☛“灾祸”：有古卷是“饥荒”。、瘟疫的事。The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
9至于那预言平安的先知，到先知的话应验的时候，人就知道他真是耶和华所差来的。”The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.
10哈拿尼雅先知就取下耶利米先知颈项上的轭，把它折断。Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
11哈拿尼雅又当着众百姓的面说：“耶和华如此说：二年之内我必照样从列国的颈项上折断巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的轭。”耶利米先知就离开了。And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12哈拿尼雅先知折断耶利米先知颈项上的轭以后，耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
13“你去告诉哈拿尼雅说，耶和华如此说：你折断木轭，却换来铁轭！Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
14万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：我已将铁轭加在这些国的颈项上，使他们服事巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒。他们总要服事他，我也把野地的走兽给了他。”For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
15于是耶利米先知对哈拿尼雅先知说：“哈拿尼雅啊，你应当听！耶和华并没有差遣你，你竟使这百姓倚靠谎言。Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
16所以耶和华如此说：看哪，我要把你从地面上除掉，你今年必死，因为你向耶和华说了叛逆的话。”Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
17这样，哈拿尼雅先知当年七月间就死了。So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
耶利米送信给巴比伦的犹大人
耶利米先知从耶路撒冷送信给被掳幸存的长老，以及祭司、先知，和尼布甲尼撒从耶路撒冷掳到巴比伦去的众百姓。
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
2这是在耶哥尼雅王和太后、太监，并犹大和耶路撒冷的领袖，以及工匠、铁匠都离开耶路撒冷之后。(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
3他藉沙番的儿子以利亚萨和希勒家的儿子基玛利的手送去；他们二人是犹大王西底家差往巴比伦去见巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的。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,
4信上说：“万军之耶和华－以色列的神对所有被掳的，就是我使他们从耶路撒冷被掳到巴比伦去的人如此说：Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
5你们要建造房屋，住在其中；要开垦田园，吃园中所出产的；Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
6要娶妻生儿养女，为你们的儿子娶妻，使你们的女儿嫁人，生儿养女。你们要在那里生养众多，不可减少。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; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
7我使你们被掳到的那城，你们要为那城求平安，为那城向耶和华祈求，因为那城得平安，你们也随着得平安。And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
8万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：不要被你们中间的先知和占卜的所诱惑，也不要听信你们☛“你们”：原文另译“他们”。所做的梦，For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
9因为他们托我的名对你们说假预言，我并未差遣他们。这是耶和华说的。For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
10“耶和华如此说：为巴比伦所定的七十年满了以后，我要眷顾你们，向你们实现我的恩言，使你们归回此地。For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11我知道我向你们所怀的意念是赐平安的意念，不是降灾祸的意念，要叫你们末后有指望。这是耶和华说的。For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12你们呼求我，向我祷告，我就应允你们。Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13你们寻求我，若专心寻求我，就必寻见。And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14我必被你们寻见，也必使你们被掳的人归回。这是耶和华说的。我必将你们从各国和我赶你们到的各处召集过来，又将你们带回我使你们被掳离开的地方。这是耶和华说的。And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
15“你们说：‘耶和华已在巴比伦为我们兴起先知。’Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
16所以耶和华如此论坐大卫宝座的君王和住在这城里所有的百姓，就是未曾与你们一同被掳的弟兄，Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
17万军之耶和华如此说：‘看哪，我必使刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫临到他们，使他们像极坏的无花果，坏得不能吃。Thus saith the LORD 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 evil.
18我必用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫追赶他们，使地上万国因他们而惊骇；在我赶他们到的各国，令人诅咒、惊骇、嗤笑、羞辱。And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
19这是因为他们不听从我先前一再差遣我仆人众先知说的话。这是耶和华说的。你们☛“你们”：有古译本是“他们”。也一样不听。这是耶和华说的。’Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
20所以你们所有被掳去的，就是我从耶路撒冷放逐到巴比伦去的，当听耶和华的话。Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
21万军之耶和华－以色列的神论哥赖雅的儿子亚哈和玛西雅的儿子西底家如此说：‘他们托我的名向你们说假预言，看哪，我必把他们交在巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的手中，他要在你们眼前杀害他们。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which 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;
22在巴比伦所有被掳的犹大人必藉这二人赌咒说：愿耶和华使你像巴比伦王在火中焚烧的西底家和亚哈一样。And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
23这二人在以色列中做了丑事，与邻舍的妻行淫，又假托我的名说我未曾吩咐他们的话。我知道这一切，也作见证。这是耶和华说的。’”示玛雅的信件
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
24“你要对尼希兰人示玛雅说：Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
25万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你曾用自己的名送信给耶路撒冷的众百姓和玛西雅的儿子西番雅祭司，并众祭司，说：Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26‘耶和华已经立你西番雅为祭司，代替耶何耶大祭司，使耶和华的殿中有总管，好把所有狂妄自称先知的人用枷枷住，用锁锁住。The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
27现在亚拿突人耶利米向你们自称先知，你为什么不责备他呢？Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
28他送信给我们在巴比伦的人说：被掳的事必长久，你们要建造房屋，住在其中；要开垦田园，吃园中所出产的。’”For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29西番雅祭司就把这信念给耶利米先知听。And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
30于是耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
31“你当送信给所有被掳的人，说：‘耶和华论到尼希兰人示玛雅说：因为示玛雅向你们说预言，使你们倚靠谎言，而我并没有差遣他，Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
32所以耶和华如此说：看哪，我必惩罚尼希兰人示玛雅和他的后裔，他必无一人存留住在这民中，也看不见我所要赏赐给我百姓的福乐，因为他向耶和华说了叛逆的话。这是耶和华说的。’”Therefore thus saith the LORD; 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 for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
耶和华给他子民的应许
耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2“耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你要将我对你说过的一切话都写在书上。Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
3看哪，日子将到，我要使我的百姓以色列和犹大被掳的人归回。这是耶和华说的。耶和华说：我要使他们回到我所赐给他们祖先之地，他们就得这地为业。”For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4以下是耶和华论到以色列和犹大所说的话：And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5耶和华如此说： “我们听见颤抖的声音， 令人惧怕，没有平安。For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6你们且访查看看， 男人会生孩子吗？ 我怎么看见人人都用手撑腰， 像临产的妇人， 脸都发白了呢？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?
7哀哉！☛“脸都...哀哉！”：七十士译本是“脸都变白了。”那日为大， 无日可比； 这是雅各遭难的时刻， 但他必从患难中得拯救。”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.
8万军之耶和华说：“到那日，我必折断你颈项上仇敌的轭，拉断你的皮带。陌生人必不再使他作奴隶。For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9他们却要事奉耶和华－他们的神，事奉我为他们所兴起的大卫王。”But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10我的仆人雅各啊，不要惧怕； 以色列啊，不要惊惶； 因我从远方拯救你， 从被掳之地拯救你的后裔； 雅各必回来得享平静安逸， 无人能使他害怕。 这是耶和华说的。Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; 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 in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11因我与你同在，要拯救你， 也要将那些国灭绝净尽， 就是我赶你去的那些国； 却不将你灭绝净尽， 倒要从宽惩治你， 但绝不能不罚你。 这是耶和华说的。For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
12耶和华如此说： “你的损伤无法医治， 你的伤痕极其重大。For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
13无人为你的伤痛辩护， 也没有可医治你的良药。There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
14你所亲爱的都忘记你， 不来探望你。 我因你罪孽甚大，罪恶众多， 曾藉仇敌加的伤害伤害你， 藉残忍者惩治你。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 multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
15你为何因所受的损伤哀号呢？ 你的痛苦无法医治。 我因你罪孽甚大，罪恶众多， 曾将这些加在你身上。Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
16因此，凡吞吃你的必被吞吃， 你的敌人个个都被掳去； 掳掠你的必成为掳物， 我使抢夺你的成为掠物。Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
17我必使你痊愈， 医好你的伤痕， 都因人称你为被赶散的， 这是锡安，是无人来探望的！ 这是耶和华说的。”For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
18耶和华如此说： “看哪，我必使雅各被掳去的帐棚归回， 也必顾惜他的住处。 城必建造在原有的废墟上， 宫殿也必照样有人居住。Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
19必有感谢和欢乐的声音从其中发出， 我使他们增多，不致减少； 使他们尊荣，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.
20他们的儿女必如往昔； 他们的会众坚立在我面前； 凡欺压他们的，我必惩罚。Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
21他们的君王是他们自己的人， 掌权的必出自他们。 我要使他接近我， 他也要亲近我； 不然，谁敢放胆亲近我呢？ 这是耶和华说的。And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
22你们要作我的子民， 我要作你们的神。”And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23看哪，耶和华的愤怒 如暴风已经发出； 是扫灭的暴风， 必转到恶人的头上。Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24耶和华的烈怒必不转消， 直到他心中所定的成就了，实现了； 末后的日子你们就会明白。The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
以色列人回乡
耶和华说：“那时，我必作以色列各家的神，他们必作我的子民。”
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2耶和华如此说： “从刀剑生还的百姓 在旷野蒙恩； 以色列寻找安歇之处。”Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3耶和华从远方向我显现： “我以永远的爱爱你， 因此，我以慈爱吸引你。”The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
4少女以色列啊， 我要再建立你，你就得以建立； 你必再拿起手鼓， 随着欢乐的舞者而出。Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5你必在撒玛利亚的山上栽葡萄园， 栽种的人栽种，而且享用。Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
6日子将到，守望的人必在以法莲山上呼叫： “起来吧！我们要上锡安， 到耶和华－我们的神那里去。”For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7耶和华如此说： “你们当为雅各欢乐歌唱， 为万国中为首的欢呼。 当传扬，颂赞说： ‘耶和华啊， 求你拯救你的百姓☛“耶和华啊...你的百姓”：七十士译本是“主已拯救他的百姓”。， 拯救以色列的余民。’For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8看哪，我必将他们从北方之地领来， 从地极召集而来； 同他们来的有盲人、瘸子、孕妇、产妇； 他们必成群结队回到这里。Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts 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 return thither.
9他们要哭泣而来。 我要照他们恳求的引导他们， 使他们在河水旁行走正直的路， 他们在其上必不致绊跌； 因为我是以色列的父， 以法莲是我的长子。They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10列国啊，要听耶和华的话， 要在远方的海岛传扬，说： “赶散以色列的必召集他， 看守他，如牧人看守羊群。”Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
11因为耶和华救赎了雅各， 救赎他脱离比他更强之人的手。For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12他们来到锡安的高处歌唱， 因耶和华的宏恩而喜乐洋溢， 就是五谷、新酒和新的油， 并羔羊和牛犊。 他们必像有水浇灌的园子， 一点也不再有愁烦。Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for 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.
13那时，少女必欢乐跳舞； 年轻的、年老的，都一同欢乐； 因为我要使他们的悲哀变为欢喜， 并要安慰他们，使他们的愁烦转为喜乐。Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14我必以肥油使祭司的心满足， 我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。 这是耶和华说的。耶和华怜悯以色列
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
15耶和华如此说： “在拉玛听见号啕痛哭的声音， 是拉结哭她儿女，不肯因她儿女受安慰， 因为他们都不在了。”Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
16耶和华如此说： “不要出声哀哭， 你的眼目也不要流泪； 因你的辛劳必有报偿， 他们必从仇敌之地归回。 这是耶和华说的。Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17你末后必有指望， 你的儿女必回到自己的疆土。 这是耶和华说的。And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
18我听见以法莲为自己悲叹说： ‘你管教我，我便受管教， 我如未驯服的牛犊。 求你使我回转，我便回转， 因为你是耶和华－我的神。I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
19我背离以后就懊悔， 受教以后就捶胸☛“捶胸”：原文直译“拍腿”，表示苦恼和悲伤。； 我因担当年轻时的凌辱就抱愧蒙羞。’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.
20以法莲是我的爱子吗？ 是我喜欢的孩子吗？ 我每逢责备他，仍深顾念他。 因此，我的心肠牵挂着他， 我必要怜悯他。 这是耶和华说的。Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
21少女以色列啊， 当为自己设立路标， 为自己竖起指路牌。 要留心向着大道， 就是你曾走过的路； 你当回转，回到你自己的城镇。Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
22背道的女子啊， 你翻来覆去要到几时呢？ 耶和华在地上造了一件新事， 就是女子护卫男子。”神子民光明的前途
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：“我使被掳之人归回的时候，他们在犹大地和其中的城镇必再这样说： 公义的居所啊，圣山哪， 愿耶和华赐福给你。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24犹大和犹大城镇的人，耕地的和带着群畜游牧的人，都要一同住在其中。And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25疲乏的人，我使他振作；愁烦的人，我使他满足。”For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26于是我醒了，我看到我睡得香甜。Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27“看哪，日子将到，我要使人的后代和牲畜的种，在以色列家和犹大家繁衍。这是耶和华说的。Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28我先前怎样看守他们，为要拔出、拆毁、毁坏、倾覆、苦害，也必照样看守他们，为要建立、栽植。这是耶和华说的。And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
29当那些日子，人不再说： ‘父亲吃了酸葡萄， 儿子牙齿就酸倒。’In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
30但各人要因自己的罪死亡；凡吃酸葡萄的，自己的牙必酸倒。But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31“看哪，日子将到，我要与以色列家和犹大家另立新的约。这是耶和华说的。Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32这约不像我拉着他们祖宗的手，领他们出埃及地的时候与他们所立的约。我虽作他们的丈夫，他们却背了我的约。这是耶和华说的。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 an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33那些日子以后，我与以色列家所立的约是这样：我要将我的律法放在他们里面，写在他们心上。我要作他们的神，他们要作我的子民。这是耶和华说的。But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34他们各人不再教导自己的邻舍和弟兄说：‘你该认识耶和华’，因为他们从最小的到最大的都必认识我。我要赦免他们的罪孽，不再记得他们的罪恶。这是耶和华说的。”And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35耶和华使太阳白昼发光， 按定例使月亮和星辰照耀黑夜， 又搅动大海，使海中波浪澎湃， 万军之耶和华是他的名， 他如此说：Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36“这些定例若能在我面前废掉， 以色列的后裔才会在我面前断绝， 永远不再成国。 这是耶和华说的。”If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37耶和华如此说： “若有人能测量上面的天， 探索下面地的根基， 我才会因以色列后裔所做的一切弃绝他们。 这是耶和华说的。”Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
38看哪，日子将到，这城必为耶和华而造，从哈楠业楼直到角门。这是耶和华说的。Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
39丈量的绳子要往外拉出，直到迦立山，又转到歌亚；And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
40抛尸的全谷和倒灰之处，并一切田地，直到汲沦溪，又到东边马门的角落，都要归耶和华为圣；不再拔出，不再倾覆，直到永远。And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
耶利米购置田地
犹大王西底家第十年，就是尼布甲尼撒十八年，耶和华的话临到耶利米。
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2那时巴比伦王的军队围困耶路撒冷，耶利米先知被囚在犹大王宫中护卫兵的院内；For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
3因为犹大王西底家囚禁他，说：“你为什么预言耶和华如此说：‘看哪，我要把这城交在巴比伦王的手中，他必攻下这城。For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4犹大王西底家必不能逃脱迦勒底人的手，定要交在巴比伦王手中，他要亲眼看到巴比伦王，亲口跟他说话。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;
5巴比伦王要将西底家带到巴比伦；西底家必住在那里，直到我惩罚☛“惩罚”或译“眷顾”。他的时候。你们虽与迦勒底人争战，却不顺利。这是耶和华说的。’”And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
6耶利米说：“耶和华的话临到我，说：And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
7‘看哪，你叔父沙龙的儿子哈拿篾必到你这里来，说：请你买我在亚拿突的那块地，因为你有代赎的责任。’Behold, Hanameel 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.
8我叔父的儿子哈拿篾果然照耶和华的话来到护卫兵的院内，对我说：‘请你买我在便雅悯境内、亚拿突的那块地；因为它应该由你来承受，而且你也有代赎的责任。请你买下它吧！’我就知道这确是耶和华的话。So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country 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 the LORD.
9“我便向我叔父的儿子哈拿篾买了亚拿突的那块地，秤了十七舍客勒银子给他。And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
10我在契上签字，将契封缄，又请证人来，用天平把银子秤给他。And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
11我又将按照法定条例所立的买契，就是封缄的那一张和敞开的那一张，So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
12在我叔父的儿子☛“我叔父的儿子”是根据一些古卷、七十士译本和其他古译本；原文是“我叔父”。哈拿篾和签字作证的人，并坐在护卫兵院内所有犹大人眼前，交给玛西雅的孙子尼利亚的儿子巴录。And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
13我在众人眼前嘱咐巴录说：And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14‘万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你拿着这文件，就是封缄的和敞开的买契，把它们放在瓦器里，以便长久保存。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
15因为万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：将来在这地必有人再购置房屋、田地和葡萄园。’”耶利米的祈祷
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
16“我将买契交给尼利亚的儿子巴录以后，就向耶和华祷告说：Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
17‘唉！主耶和华，看哪，你曾用大能和伸出来的膀臂创造天和地，在你没有难成的事。Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
18你施慈爱给千万人，又将祖先的罪孽报应在他后世子孙身上。至大全能的神啊，万军之耶和华是你的名，Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
19你谋事有大略，行事有大能，注目观看世人一切的举动，为要照各人所做的和他做事的结果报应他。Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine 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:
20你在埃及地显神迹奇事，直到今日在以色列和世人中间也是如此，建立了自己的名声，正如今日一样。Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
21你用神迹奇事、大能的手、伸出来的膀臂和大可畏的事，领你的百姓以色列出了埃及，And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
22把这地赏赐给他们，就是你向他们列祖起誓应许要赐给他们的流奶与蜜之地。And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
23他们进入并取得这地，却不听从你的话，也不遵行你的律法。你吩咐他们所当行的，他们都不去行，因此你使这一切的灾祸临到他们。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:
24看哪，敌人已经来到，用土堆攻取这城；这城也因刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫被交在攻城的迦勒底人手中。你所说的话都应验了，看哪，你也看见了。Behold the mounts, 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.
25主耶和华啊，你却对我说，要用银子为自己买那块地，又请人作证；其实这城已交在迦勒底人的手中了。’”And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
27“看哪，我是耶和华，是凡有血肉之躯者的神，在我岂有难成的事吗？Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
28耶和华如此说：看哪，我必将这城交给迦勒底人的手和巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的手，他必攻取这城。Therefore thus saith the LORD; 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:
29攻城的迦勒底人必来放火焚烧这城和城里的房屋；人曾在这房顶上向巴力烧香，向别神献浇酒祭，惹我发怒。And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, 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.
30以色列人和犹大人从年轻时，就专做我眼中看为恶的事。以色列人尽以手所做的惹我发怒。这是耶和华说的。For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
31这城自从建造的那日直到今日，常惹我的怒气和愤怒，以致我将这城从我面前除掉；For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
32这是因以色列人和犹大人一切的邪恶，就是他们和他们的君王、官长、祭司、先知，并犹大人，以及耶路撒冷居民所做的，惹我发怒。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.
33他们以背向我，不以面向我；我虽然一再教导他们，他们却不听从，不领受训诲，And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
34竟把可憎之偶像设立在称为我名下的殿中，玷污了这殿。But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
35他们在欣嫩子谷建造巴力的丘坛，把自己的儿女经火献给摩洛；他们行这可憎的事，使犹大陷在罪里，这并不是我吩咐的，我心里也从来没有想过。”复国的应许
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.
36现在论到这城，就是你们所说，已经因刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫被交在巴比伦王手中的，耶和华－以色列的神如此说：And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
37“看哪，我曾在怒气、愤怒和大恼怒中，将以色列人赶到各国；我必从那里将他们召集出来，领他们回到此地，使他们安然居住。Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
38他们要作我的子民，我要作他们的神。And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
39我要使他们彼此同心同道，好叫他们永远敬畏我，使他们和他们后世的子孙得享福乐。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:
40我要跟他们立永远的约，要施恩给他们，绝不转离；又要把敬畏我的心放在他们心里，不离弃我。And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
41我必欢喜施恩给他们，尽心尽意、真诚地将他们栽于此地。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.
42“因为耶和华如此说：我怎样使这一切大灾祸临到这百姓，也要照样使我所应许他们的一切福乐都临到他们。For thus saith the LORD; 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.
43你们所说荒凉、无人、无牲畜，已交给迦勒底人手的这地，必有人购置田地。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.
44在便雅悯地、耶路撒冷四围的各处、犹大的城镇、山地的城镇、谢非拉的城镇，并尼革夫的城镇，人必用银子买田地，在契上签字，将契封缄，找人作证，因为我必使被掳的人归回。这是耶和华说的。”Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
重申复国的应许
耶利米还囚在护卫兵的院内，耶和华的话第二次临到他，说：
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
2“成事的耶和华，塑造它为要建立它的耶和华，名为耶和华的那位如此说：Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
3‘你求告我，我就应允你，并将你所不知道、又大又隐密的事指示你。Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
4论到这城中的房屋和犹大君王的宫殿，就是拆毁来挡围城工事和刀剑的，耶和华－以色列的神如此说：For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
5他们与迦勒底人争战，用我在怒气和愤怒中所杀之人的尸首塞满这房屋；我因他们一切的恶，转脸不顾这城。They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
6看哪，我要使这城得以痊愈安舒，我要医治他们，将丰盛的平安与信实显明给他们。Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7我也要使犹大被掳的和以色列被掳的人归回，并要建立他们，如起初一样。And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
8我要洗净他们干犯我的一切罪，赦免他们干犯我、违背我的一切罪。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, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9这城在地上万国面前要因我的缘故，以喜乐得名，得颂赞，得荣耀，因为他们听见我所赏赐的一切福乐。他们因我向这城所施的一切福乐平安，就惧怕战兢。”And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10耶和华如此说：“你们论这地方，说是荒废、无人、无牲畜之地，但在这荒凉、无人、无居民、无牲畜的犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街上，必再听见Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate 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,
11欢喜和快乐的声音、新郎和新娘的声音，并听见有人说： 你们要称谢万军之耶和华， 因耶和华本为善， 他的慈爱永远长存！他们奉感谢祭到耶和华的殿中；因为我必使这地被掳的人归回，如起初一样。这是耶和华说的。”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 shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
12万军之耶和华如此说：“在这荒废、无人、无牲畜之地，并其中所有的城镇，必再有牧人的草场，可让羊群躺卧在那里。Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13在山区的城镇、谢非拉的城镇、尼革夫的城镇、便雅悯地、耶路撒冷四围的各处和犹大的城镇，必再有羊群从数点的人手下经过。这是耶和华说的。In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, 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 pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
14“看哪，日子将到，我应许以色列家和犹大家的恩言必然实现。这是耶和华说的。Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15在那些日子、那时候，我必使大卫公义的苗裔长起来；他必在地上施行公平和公义。In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16在那些日子，犹大必得救，耶路撒冷必安然居住，他的名必称为‘耶和华－我们的义’。In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17“因为耶和华如此说：大卫家必永远不断有人坐在以色列家的宝座上；For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18利未家的祭司也不断有人在我面前献燔祭、烧素祭，时常办理献祭的事。”Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20“耶和华如此说：你们若能废弃我所立白日黑夜的约，使白日黑夜不按时轮转，Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21就能废弃我与我仆人大卫所立的约，使他没有后裔在他的宝座上作王，并能废弃我与事奉我的利未家的祭司所立的约。Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22正如天上的万象不能数算，海边的尘沙不能斗量，我必照样使我仆人大卫的后裔和事奉我的利未人多起来。”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.
23耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24“你没有留意这百姓所说的话吗？他们说：‘耶和华所拣选的二族，他已经弃绝了。’他们这样藐视我的百姓，不把他们当作国来看待。Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25耶和华如此说：除非我没有立白日黑夜之约，也未曾安排天和地的定例，Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26否则我不会弃绝雅各的后裔和我仆人大卫的后裔，使大卫的后裔不再治理亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的后裔。我必使他们被掳的人归回，也必怜悯他们。”Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
给西底家的信息
巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领他的全军和地上他管辖的各国各邦，攻打耶路撒冷和耶路撒冷所有的城镇。那时，耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
2“耶和华－以色列的神说，你去告诉犹大王西底家，耶和华如此说：看哪，我要把这城交在巴比伦王的手中，他必用火焚烧。Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
3你必不能逃脱他的手，定被拿住，交在他手中。你要亲眼看到巴比伦王，他要亲口跟你说话，你也必到巴比伦去。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.
4犹大王西底家啊，你一定要听耶和华的话。耶和华论到你如此说：你必不死于刀下；Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
5必平安而终，人要为你焚烧，好像为你祖先，就是在你以前早先的王焚烧一样。人要为你举哀说：‘哀哉！我主啊。’这话是我说的。这是耶和华说的。”But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
6于是，耶利米先知在耶路撒冷把这一切话告诉犹大王西底家。Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
7那时，巴比伦王的军队正攻打耶路撒冷，又攻打犹大仅存的城镇，就是拉吉和亚西加；原来犹大的坚固城只剩下这两座。违背释放奴隶的约
When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
8西底家王与耶路撒冷的众百姓立约，要他们宣告自由，叫各人释放自己的仆人和婢女，使希伯来的男人和女人得自由，谁也不可使他的犹大弟兄作奴仆。这事以后，耶和华的话临到耶利米。This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
9所有前来立约的领袖和众百姓都顺从，各人释放自己的仆人和婢女，使他们得自由，不再叫他们作奴仆。大家都顺从，将仆婢释放了。That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
10但后来他们又反悔，叫被释放得自由的仆人婢女回来，强迫他们仍为仆婢。Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
11因此耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：But afterward 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.
12“耶和华－以色列的神如此说：我将你们祖先从埃及地为奴之家领出时，与他们立约说：Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
13‘你的一个希伯来弟兄若卖给你，服事你六年，到第七年你们各人就要释放他自由出去。’只是你们祖先不听我，不侧耳而听。Thus saith the LORD, 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 bondmen, saying,
14如今你们回转，行我眼中看为正的事，各人向邻舍宣告自由，并且在我面前、在称为我名下的殿中立约。At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
15你们却反悔，亵渎我的名，各人叫所释放得自由的仆人婢女回来，强迫他们仍为仆婢。And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
16所以耶和华如此说：你们不听从我，各人不向弟兄邻舍宣告自由。看哪！我要向你们宣告自由，把你们自由地交给刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫，并且使地上万国因你们而惊骇。这是耶和华说的。But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
17那些违背我约的人，就是不遵守在我面前立约之话的，我要使他们成了那劈成两半的牛犊，使人从切块中经过：Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
18犹大的领袖、耶路撒冷的领袖、官员、祭司，和从牛犊切块中经过的这地的众百姓，And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
19我必将他们交在仇敌和寻索其命的人手中；他们的尸首必给空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽作食物。The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
20我必将犹大王西底家和他的众领袖交在仇敌和寻索其命的人手中，与那暂时离你们而去的巴比伦王军队的手中。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 meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
21看哪，我要吩咐他们回到这城，攻打这城，将城攻取，用火焚烧；我也要使犹大的城镇变为废墟，无人居住。这是耶和华说的。”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, which are gone up from you.
耶利米和利甲族
当约西亚的儿子约雅敬作犹大王的时候，耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2“你去见利甲族的人，吩咐他们，领他们进入耶和华殿的一个房间，给他们酒喝。”Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
3我就带哈巴洗尼雅的孙子雅利米雅的儿子雅撒尼亚，和他的兄弟，并他所有的儿子，以及利甲全族的人，Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
4领他们到耶和华的殿，进入伊基大利的儿子神人哈难儿子们的房间；那房间靠近官长的房间，在沙龙之子门口的守卫玛西雅的房间上面。And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a 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 door:
5于是我在利甲族的人面前摆设盛满了酒的碗和杯，对他们说：“请喝酒。”And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
6他们却说：“我们不喝酒，因为我们祖先利甲的儿子约拿达曾吩咐我们说：‘你们与你们的子孙永不可喝酒，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:
7不可盖房子，不可撒种，也不可栽葡萄园，连拥有都不可；但一生的年日要住帐棚，使你们的日子在寄居的地面上得以长久。’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 where ye be strangers.
8凡我们祖先利甲的儿子约拿达所吩咐我们的话，我们都听从了。我们和我们的妻子儿女一生的年日都不喝酒，Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
9不盖房子居住，我们也没有葡萄园、田地和种子；Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
10但住在帐棚里，听从并遵行我们祖先约拿达所吩咐我们的一切话。But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒上来攻打这地的时候，我们说：‘来吧，我们到耶路撒冷去，躲避迦勒底的军队和亚兰的军队。’这样，我们才住在耶路撒冷。”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.
12耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
13“万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你去对犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民说，你们不肯领受训诲，听从我的话吗？这是耶和华说的。Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
14利甲的儿子约拿达所吩咐他子孙不可喝酒的话，他们已经遵守了；他们因为听从祖先的吩咐，直到今日都不喝酒。至于我，我一再警戒你们，你们却不肯听从我。The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
15我一再差遣我的仆人众先知到你们那里去，说：‘你们各人当回头离开恶道，改正行为，不再随从事奉别神，如此，就必住在我所赐给你们和你们祖先的地上。’只是你们不侧耳而听，也不听我。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.
16利甲的儿子约拿达的子孙能遵守祖先所吩咐他们的命令，这百姓却不肯听从我！Because 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:
17因此，耶和华－万军之神、以色列的神如此说：看哪，我要使我所说的一切灾祸临到犹大人和耶路撒冷所有的居民。因为我向他们说话，他们不听从；我呼唤他们，他们也没有回应。”Therefore thus saith the LORD 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.
18耶利米对利甲族的人说：“万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：因你们听从你们祖先约拿达的吩咐，谨守他的一切命令，照他所吩咐的去做，And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD 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 hath commanded you:
19所以万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：利甲的儿子约拿达必永远不断有人侍立在我面前。”Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
巴录在圣殿里宣读书卷
约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬第四年，有这话从耶和华临到耶利米，说：
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 the LORD, saying,
2“你要取一书卷，把我对你所说攻击以色列和犹大，并各国的一切话，从我对你说话的那日，就是从约西亚的日子起直到今日，都写在其上；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.
3或者犹大家听见我想要降给他们的一切灾祸，各人就回转离开恶道，我就赦免他们的罪孽和罪恶。”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.
4耶利米召了尼利亚的儿子巴录来；巴录就从耶利米口中，把耶和华对耶利米所说的一切话写在书卷上。Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5耶利米吩咐巴录说：“我被禁止，不能进耶和华的殿。And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6所以你要趁禁食的日子进入耶和华的殿中，把耶和华的话，就是你从我口中写在书卷上的话，念给百姓和所有从各城镇前来的犹大人亲耳听；Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
7或者他们的恳求达到耶和华面前，各人回转离开恶道，因为耶和华向这百姓所说要发的怒气和愤怒实在很大。”It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
8尼利亚的儿子巴录就照耶利米先知所吩咐的一切去做，在耶和华殿中宣读书卷上耶和华的话。And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.
9约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬第五年九月，耶路撒冷的众百姓和那从犹大城镇前来耶路撒冷的众百姓，在耶和华面前宣告禁食，And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10巴录就在耶和华殿的上院，靠近耶和华殿的新门口，沙番的儿子基玛利雅文士的房间里，宣读书卷上耶利米的话给众百姓亲耳听。向官长宣读书卷
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
11沙番的孙子基玛利雅的儿子米该亚听见书卷上耶和华的一切话，When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
12就下到王宫，进入书记的房间。看哪，所有的官长都坐在那里，包括以利沙玛文士、示玛雅的儿子第莱雅、亚革波的儿子以利拿单、沙番的儿子基玛利雅、哈拿尼雅的儿子西底家和其余的官长。Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even 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.
13米该亚向他们述说他所听见的一切话，就是当巴录向众百姓宣读那书卷时亲耳听见的。Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14官长们就派犹底，就是古示的曾孙、示利米雅的孙子、尼探雅的儿子到巴录那里，对他说：“你把你所念给百姓听的书卷拿在手里，到我们这里来。”尼利亚的儿子巴录就手拿书卷到他们那里去。Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine 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.
15他们对他说：“请坐下，念给我们亲耳听。”巴录就念给他们亲耳听。And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
16他们听见这一切话就害怕，面面相觑，对巴录说：“我们必须将这一切话禀告王。”Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
17他们问巴录说：“请你告诉我们，你怎样从他口中写下这一切话呢？”And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
18巴录回答说：“他向我口述这一切话，我就用笔墨把它写在书卷上。”Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19众官长对巴录说：“你和耶利米要去躲起来，不可叫人知道你们躲在哪里。”约雅敬焚烧书卷
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
20众官长把书卷留在以利沙玛文士的房间里，然后进院见王，把这一切话说给王听。And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21王就派犹底去拿这书卷来；他就从以利沙玛文士的房间内取来，念给王和侍立在王左右的众官长亲耳听。So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22那时正是九月，王坐在过冬的房屋里，王前面有燃烧的火盆☛“王前面有燃烧的火盆”：七十士译本是“王前面的火盆中有燃烧的火”。。Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23犹底念了三、四段☛“段”或译“栏”。，王就用文士的刀把书卷割破，丢在火盆里，直到全卷在火中烧尽了。And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24王和听见这一切话的臣仆都不惧怕，也不撕裂衣服。Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25以利拿单和第莱雅，并基玛利雅恳求王不要烧这书卷，王却不听。Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
26王吩咐王☛“王”或译“哈米勒”。的儿子耶拉篾、亚斯列的儿子西莱雅和亚伯叠的儿子示利米雅，去捉拿巴录文士和耶利米先知；耶和华却将他们隐藏起来。耶利米另写一书卷
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
27王烧了有巴录从耶利米口中所写之话的书卷以后，耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28“你再取一书卷，将犹大王约雅敬所烧前一卷书上原有的一切话写在上面。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.
29论到犹大王约雅敬你要说，耶和华如此说：你烧了这书卷，说：‘你为什么在上面写着，巴比伦王必要来毁灭这地，使这地绝了人民和牲畜呢？’And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; 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?
30所以耶和华论到犹大王约雅敬说：他后裔中必没有人坐在大卫的宝座上；他的尸首必被抛弃，白天受炎热，黑夜受寒霜。Therefore thus saith the LORD of 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.
31我必因他和他后裔，并他臣仆的罪孽惩罚他们。我要使我所说的一切灾祸临到他们和耶路撒冷的居民，并犹大人；只是他们不肯听从。”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.
32于是，耶利米又取一书卷交给尼利亚的儿子巴录文士，他就从耶利米的口中写了犹大王约雅敬在火中所烧书卷上的一切话，另外又添了许多相仿的话。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.
西底家求耶利米代祷
约西亚的儿子西底家接续约雅敬的儿子哥尼雅作王，因为巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒立他在犹大地作王。
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
2但西底家、他的臣仆和这地的百姓都不听从耶和华藉耶利米先知所说的话。But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
3西底家王派示利米雅的儿子犹甲和玛西雅的儿子西番雅祭司，去见耶利米先知，说：“求你为我们祈求耶和华－我们的神。”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 the LORD our God for us.
4那时耶利米仍在百姓中进出，因为他们还没有把他囚在监里。Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
5法老的军队已经从埃及出来，那围困耶路撒冷的迦勒底人听见这风声，就拔营离开耶路撒冷去了。Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
6耶和华的话临到耶利米先知，说：Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
7“耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你们要对派你们来求问我的犹大王如此说：‘看哪，那出来帮助你们的法老军队必回埃及本国去。Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
8迦勒底人必再来攻打这城，并要攻下，用火焚烧。And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
9耶和华如此说：你们不要自欺说“迦勒底人必定离开我们”，因为他们必不离开。Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
10你们即使击败与你们争战的迦勒底全军，他们当中剩下受伤的人也必各自从帐棚里起来，用火焚烧这城。’”耶利米被捕入狱
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
11迦勒底的军队因躲避法老的军队，拔营离开耶路撒冷的时候，And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
12耶利米离开耶路撒冷，往便雅悯地去，要在那里从百姓当中取得自己的地产。Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
13他到了便雅悯门，那里的守门官名叫伊利雅，是哈拿尼亚的孙子，示利米雅的儿子，他逮捕耶利米先知，说：“你是去投降迦勒底人的！”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 took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
14耶利米说：“你这是谎话，我并不是去投降迦勒底人。”伊利雅不听耶利米的话，就逮捕他，把他带到官长那里。Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
15官长们恼怒耶利米，打了他，把他囚在约拿单文士的房屋中，因为他们把这屋子当作监牢。Wherefore 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.
16耶利米来到地牢，进入牢房，在那里拘留多日。When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
17西底家王差人提他出来，在自己的宫内私下问他说：“有什么话从耶和华临到没有？”耶利米说：“有！”又说：“你必被交在巴比伦王手中。”Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
18耶利米又对西底家王说：“我在什么事上得罪你，或你的臣仆，或这百姓，你们竟将我囚在监里呢？Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
19对你们预言‘巴比伦王必不来攻击你们和这地’的先知在哪里呢？Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
20主－我的王啊，现在求你垂听，允准我在你面前的恳求：不要把我送回约拿单文士的房屋中，免得我死在那里。”Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
21于是西底家王下令，他们就把耶利米交在护卫兵的院中，每天从饼店街取一个饼给他，直到城中所有的饼都用尽了。这样，耶利米仍逗留在护卫兵的院中。Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
耶利米在井里
玛坦的儿子示法提雅、巴施户珥的儿子基大利、示利米雅的儿子犹甲、玛基雅的儿子巴示户珥听见耶利米对众百姓所说的话，说：
Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
2“耶和华如此说：留在这城里的必遭刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫而死，但归向迦勒底人的必得存活；至少能保全自己的性命，得以存活。Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth 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; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
3耶和华如此说：这城必要交在巴比伦王军队的手中，他必攻下这城。”Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
4于是官长们对王说：“求你把这人处死，因他向城里剩下的士兵和众人说这样的话，使他们的手发软。这人不是为这百姓求平安，而是叫他们受灾祸。”Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus 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.
5西底家王说：“看哪，他在你们手中，王不能反对你们所做的事。”Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
6他们就拿住耶利米，把他丢在王☛“王”或译“哈米勒”。的儿子玛基雅的井里；那口井在护卫兵的院中。他们用绳子把耶利米缒下去，井里没有水，只有淤泥，耶利米就陷在淤泥中。Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
7在王宫里的太监古实人以伯．米勒，听见他们把耶利米丢进井里，那时王坐在便雅悯门前。Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8以伯．米勒从王宫里出来，对王说：Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
9“主－我的王啊，这些人向耶利米先知一味地行恶，把他丢在井里；他在那里必因饥饿而死，因为城里不再有粮食了。”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 for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
10王就吩咐古实人以伯．米勒说：“你从这里带领三十人，趁耶利米先知还没死，把他从井里拉上来。”Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
11于是以伯．米勒带领这些人同去，进入王宫，到库房以下☛“库房以下”：原文另译“库房的衣柜”。，从那里取了些碎布和破衣服，用绳子缒下去，到井里耶利米那里。So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
12古实人以伯．米勒对耶利米说：“你用这些碎布和破衣服放在绳子上，垫你的腋下。”耶利米就照样做。And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
13这样，他们用绳子将耶利米从井里拉上来。耶利米仍在护卫兵的院中。西底家问计于耶利米
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
14西底家王差人将耶利米先知带进耶和华殿的第三个门，到王那里去。王对耶利米说：“我要问你一件事，你一点都不可向我隐瞒。”Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
15耶利米对西底家说：“我若告诉你，你岂不是一定要把我处死吗？我若劝你，你必不听我。”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, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
16西底家王就私下对耶利米说：“我指着那造我们生命之永生的耶和华起誓：我必不把你处死，也不将你交在寻索你命的人手中。”So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD 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.
17耶利米对西底家说：“耶和华－万军之神、以色列的神如此说：你若归顺巴比伦王的官长，你的命就必存活，这城也不致被火焚烧，你和你的全家都必存活。Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly 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 thine house:
18你若不归顺巴比伦王的官长，这城必交在迦勒底人手中。他们必用火焚烧，你也不得脱离他们的手。”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.
19西底家王对耶利米说：“我怕那些投降迦勒底人的犹大人，恐怕迦勒底人把我交在他们手中，他们就戏弄我。”And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
20耶利米说：“迦勒底人必不把你交出。求你听从我对你所说耶和华的话，这样对你有好处，你的命也必存活。But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
21你若不肯归顺，耶和华指示我的话是这样：But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
22看哪，犹大王宫里所留下来的妇女必被带到巴比伦王的官长那里。这些妇女要说： 你知己的朋友引诱你， 他们胜过你； 你的脚陷入淤泥， 他们却离弃你。And, 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 friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
23“人必将你的后妃和你的儿女带到迦勒底人那里；你也不得脱离他们的手，必被巴比伦王的手捉住，这城也必被火焚烧☛“这城...焚烧”是根据一些古卷和七十士译本；原文是“你将使这城焚烧”。。”So 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.
24西底家对耶利米说：“不要让人知道这些对话，你就不至于死。Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
25官长们若听见我跟你说话，到你那里对你说：‘告诉我们，你对王说了什么话，王又向你说了什么；不可向我们隐瞒，否则我们就要杀你。’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:
26你就对他们说：‘我在王面前恳求不要把我送回约拿单的房屋，免得我死在那里。’”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.
27随后官长们到耶利米那里，问他，他就照王所吩咐的一切话回答他们。他们就不再问他，因为事情没有泄漏。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.
28于是耶利米仍在护卫兵的院中，直到耶路撒冷被攻下的日子。当耶路撒冷被攻下时，他仍在那里。 ☛“当...那里。”七十士译本没有此句。So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
耶路撒冷陷落
犹大王西底家第九年十月，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领全军前来围困耶路撒冷。
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 they besieged it.
2西底家十一年四月初九日，城被攻破。And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
3耶路撒冷被攻下的时候，巴比伦王的众官长，尼甲．沙利薛、三甲．尼波、撒西金将军☛“将军”：原文是巴比伦的武将官职“拉伯．撒利”。、尼甲．沙利薛将军☛“将军”：原文是巴比伦的武将官职“拉墨”。，并巴比伦王其余的官长都来坐在中门。And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4犹大王西底家和所有士兵看见他们，就在夜间从靠近王的花园、两城墙中间的门逃跑出城，往亚拉巴逃去。And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
5迦勒底的军队追赶他们，在耶利哥的平原追上西底家，将他逮住，带到哈马地的利比拉、巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒那里；尼布甲尼撒就判他的罪。But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
6在利比拉，巴比伦王在西底家眼前杀了他的儿女；巴比伦王又杀了犹大所有的贵族，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.
7并且挖了西底家的眼睛，用铜链锁住他，要带到巴比伦去。Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
8迦勒底人用火焚烧王宫和百姓的房屋，又拆毁耶路撒冷的城墙。And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
9那时，尼布撒拉旦护卫长把城里所剩下的百姓和投降他的降民，以及其余的百姓都掳到巴比伦去了。Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
10尼布撒拉旦护卫长却把百姓中一无所有的穷人留在犹大地，当时就赏给他们葡萄园和田地☛“赏给...田地”：原文另译“让他们当葡萄园的园丁和田地的工人”。。耶利米被释放
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
11巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒为了耶利米，嘱咐尼布撒拉旦护卫长：Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
12“你领他去，好好地看待他，切不可害他；他对你怎么说，你就向他怎样做。”Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
13尼布撒拉旦护卫长和尼布沙斯班将军☛“将军”：原文是巴比伦的武将官职“拉伯．撒利”。、尼甲．沙利薛将军☛“将军”：原文是巴比伦的武将官职“拉墨”。，并巴比伦王众官长，So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;
14派人把耶利米从护卫兵的院中提出来，交给沙番的孙子，亚希甘的儿子基大利，让他自由进出屋子；于是耶利米住在百姓中间。以伯．米勒的希望
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, 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.
15耶利米还囚在护卫兵院中的时候，耶和华的话临到他，说：Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
16“你去告诉古实人以伯．米勒说，万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：看哪，我说降祸不降福的话必临到这城，到那时必在你面前实现。Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD 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 in that day before thee.
17到那日我必拯救你，你必不致交在你所怕的人手中。这是耶和华说的。But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
18我定要搭救你，你必不致倒在刀下，却要保全自己的性命，因你倚靠我。这是耶和华说的。”For I will surely deliver 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 the LORD.
耶利米跟基大利同住
耶利米被链子锁在耶路撒冷和犹大被掳到巴比伦的人中，尼布撒拉旦护卫长把他从拉玛提出来，释放他以后，耶和华的话临到耶利米。
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, 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 that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
2护卫长提耶利米来，对他说：“耶和华－你的神曾说要降这灾祸给此地。And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
3耶和华照他所说的做了，已使这灾祸临到；因你们得罪耶和华，不听从他的话，所以这事临到你们。Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
4看哪，现在我解开你手上的链子，你若看与我同往巴比伦去好，就可以去，我必厚待你；你若看与我同往巴比伦去不好，就不必去。看哪，全地在你面前，你以为哪里美好，哪里合宜，只管去吧And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine 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 convenient for thee to go, thither go.
5─耶利米尚未回去☛“耶利米...回去”：原文另译“耶利米尚未回答”；有古译本是“如果你留下来的话”。─你可以回到巴比伦王所立管理犹大城镇的沙番的孙子，亚希甘的儿子基大利那里去，在他那里住在百姓当中。不然，你看哪里合宜就可以去。”于是护卫长送他粮食和礼物，释放了他。Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also 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 convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
6耶利米就来到米斯巴，亚希甘的儿子基大利那里去，与他同住，住在留于境内的百姓当中。基大利出任省长
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
7在乡间所有的军官和属他们的人，听见巴比伦王立了亚希甘的儿子基大利作当地的省长，并将没有掳到巴比伦的男人、妇女、孩童和当地极穷的人全交给他，Now when all the captains of the forces which 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 poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
8于是尼探雅的儿子以实玛利，加利亚的两个儿子约哈难和约拿单，单户篾的儿子西莱雅，并尼陀法人以斐的众子，玛迦人的儿子耶撒尼亚☛“耶撒尼亚”：王下25．23称“雅撒尼亚”。，和属他们的人，都来到米斯巴的基大利那里。Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even 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 a Maachathite, they and their men.
9沙番的孙子，亚希甘的儿子基大利向他们和属他们的人起誓说：“不要怕服事迦勒底人，只管住在这地，服事巴比伦王，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.
10至于我，我要住在米斯巴，侍候那些到我们这里来的迦勒底人；只是你们当积蓄酒、油和夏天的果子，收藏在器皿里，并住在你们所占的城镇中。”As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will 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.
11在摩押地和亚扪人当中，在以东地和各国，所有的犹大人听见巴比伦王留下一些犹大人，并立沙番的孙子、亚希甘的儿子基大利管理他们，Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, 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;
12所有的犹大人就从被赶到的各处回来，到犹大地米斯巴的基大利那里。他们积蓄了许多的酒，并夏天的果子。基大利被暗杀
Even 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.
13加利亚的儿子约哈难和在乡间的军官来到米斯巴的基大利那里，Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
14对他说：“亚扪人的王巴利斯派尼探雅的儿子以实玛利来谋害你的命，你知道吗？”亚希甘的儿子基大利却不相信他们的话。And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
15加利亚的儿子约哈难在米斯巴私下对基大利说：“求你容我去杀尼探雅的儿子以实玛利，必无人知道。何必让他害你的命，使聚集到你这里来的犹大人都分散，以致犹大剩余的人都灭亡呢？”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 slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
16亚希甘的儿子基大利对加利亚的儿子约哈难说：“你不可做这事，你所论以实玛利的话是假的。”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.
七月中，王的大臣，就是王室后裔以利沙玛的孙子、尼探雅的儿子以实玛利带着十个人，来到米斯巴，亚希甘的儿子基大利那里；他们在米斯巴一同吃饭。
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
2尼探雅的儿子以实玛利和同他来的那十个人起来，用刀击杀沙番的孙子，亚希甘的儿子基大利，就是巴比伦王所立为当地省长的，把他杀死。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.
3以实玛利把所有在米斯巴与基大利一起的犹大人，以及他们在那里所遇见的迦勒底人和士兵都杀了。Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.
4他杀了基大利的第二天，还没有人知道的时候，And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
5有八十人从示剑、示罗和撒玛利亚前来，胡须剃去，衣服撕裂，身体划破，手拿素祭和乳香，要奉到耶和华的殿。That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
6尼探雅的儿子以实玛利从米斯巴出来迎接他们，随走随哭，遇见了他们，就对他们说：“你们可以到亚希甘的儿子基大利那里。”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.
7他们到了城中，尼探雅的儿子以实玛利和与他一起的人就把他们杀了，丢在坑里。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.
8只是他们中间有十个人对以实玛利说：“不要杀我们，因为我们有许多大麦、小麦、油和蜜藏在田间。”于是他住手，没有在弟兄中间杀他们。But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
9以实玛利把那些因基大利事件所杀之人的尸首都丢在坑里；这坑是从前亚撒王因怕以色列王巴沙所挖的。尼探雅的儿子以实玛利把那些被杀的人填满了坑。Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
10以实玛利把米斯巴剩下的人，就是众公主和仍住在米斯巴所有的百姓都掳去，他们原是尼布撒拉旦护卫长交给亚希甘的儿子基大利的。尼探雅的儿子以实玛利掳了他们，要到亚扪人那里去。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: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
11加利亚的儿子约哈难和与他一起的军官，听见尼探雅的儿子以实玛利所做的一切恶事，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,
12就带领众人前往，要和尼探雅的儿子以实玛利争战，他们在基遍的大水池☛“大水池”：原文是“大水”。旁遇见他。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.
13在以实玛利那里的众人看见加利亚的儿子约哈难和与他一起的军官，就都欢喜。Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
14这样，以实玛利从米斯巴所掳去的众人都转身归向加利亚的儿子约哈难。So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
15尼探雅的儿子以实玛利和八个人脱离约哈难的手，逃到亚扪人那里去。But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
16尼探雅的儿子以实玛利杀了亚希甘的儿子基大利，从米斯巴把所有幸存的百姓、士兵、妇女、孩童、太监掳到基遍之后，加利亚的儿子约哈难和与他一起的军官把他们都抢回来，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, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
17带到靠近伯利恒的基罗特金罕☛“基罗特金罕”或译“金罕的寓所”。住下，要到埃及去，And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
18躲避迦勒底人。他们惧怕迦勒底人，因为尼探雅的儿子以实玛利杀了巴比伦王所立管理那地的亚希甘的儿子基大利。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 in the land.
百姓求耶利米代祷
众军官和加利亚的儿子约哈难，并何沙雅的儿子耶撒尼亚☛“耶撒尼亚”：七十士译本是“亚撒利雅”；参43．2。以及众百姓，从最小的到最大的都进前来，
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,
2对耶利米先知说：“请你准我们在你面前祈求，为我们这幸存的人向耶和华－你的神祷告。我们本来众多，现在剩下的极少，这是你亲眼看见的。And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
3愿耶和华－你的神指示我们当走的路，当做的事。”That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
4耶利米先知对他们说：“我已经听见了，看哪，我必照你们的话向耶和华－你们的神祷告。耶和华无论回答什么，我都必告诉你们，绝不隐瞒。”Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
5于是他们对耶利米说：“我们若不照耶和华－你神差遣你说的一切话去做，愿耶和华在我们中间作真实可靠的见证。Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
6我们请你到耶和华－我们的神面前，他说的无论是好是歹，我们都必听从；因为我们听从耶和华－我们神的话，就可以得福。”耶和华回答耶利米
Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
7过了十天，耶和华的话临到耶利米。And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.
8他就将加利亚的儿子约哈难和与他一起所有的军官和百姓，从最小的到最大的都召来，Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
9对他们说：“你们请我到耶和华－以色列的神面前为你们祈求，他如此说：And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
10‘你们若仍留在这地，我就建立你们，必不拆毁；栽植你们，必不拔出；因我为所降与你们的灾祸感到遗憾。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.
11不要怕你们所惧怕的巴比伦王。不要怕他！因为我与你们同在，要拯救你们脱离他的手。这是耶和华说的。Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12我要向你们施怜悯，他☛“他”：七十士译本是“我”。就怜悯你们，使你们归回本地。’And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
13倘若你们说：‘我们不留在这地’，不听从耶和华－你们神的话，But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
14说：‘我们不留在这地，却要进入埃及地，在那里我们看不见战争，听不见角声，也不致缺食挨饿；我们要住在那里。’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:
15幸存的犹大人哪，你们现在要听耶和华的话；万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：‘你们若定意进入埃及，在那里寄居，And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
16你们所惧怕的刀剑在埃及地必追上你们，你们所惧怕的饥荒在埃及要紧紧跟随你们，你们必死在那里。Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
17凡定意进入埃及在那里寄居的，必遭刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫而死，无一人存留，得以逃脱我所降与他们的灾祸。’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.
18“万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：‘我怎样将我的怒气和愤怒倾倒在耶路撒冷的居民身上，你们进入埃及的时候，我也必照样将我的愤怒倾倒在你们身上，以致你们受辱骂、惊骇、诅咒、羞辱，并且不得再看见这地方。’For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury 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.
19幸存的犹大人哪，耶和华论到你们说：‘不要进入埃及。’你们要确实知道，我今日已警戒你们了。The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
20你们行诡诈害自己；因为你们请我到耶和华－你们神那里，说：‘请你为我们向耶和华－我们的神祷告，你把耶和华－我们神所说的一切告诉我们，我们就必遵行。’For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
21我今日把这话告诉你们，你们却不听耶和华－你们神为这一切事差我到你们那里所说的话。And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.
22现在你们要确实知道，你们在所要去的寄居之地必遭刀剑、饥荒、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 and to sojourn.
耶利米被带到埃及
耶利米向众百姓说完了耶和华－他们神一切的话，就是耶和华－他们神差他去说的这一切话，
And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
2何沙雅的儿子亚撒利雅和加利亚的儿子约哈难，以及所有狂傲的人，就对耶利米说：“你说谎！耶和华－我们的神并没有差遣你说：‘你们不可进入埃及，在那里寄居。’Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
3这是尼利亚的儿子巴录挑唆你害我们，要把我们交在迦勒底人手中，使我们被杀或被掳到巴比伦去。”But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
4加利亚的儿子约哈难和所有的军官、百姓，都不肯听从耶和华的话留在犹大地。So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
5加利亚的儿子约哈难和所有的军官却将幸存的犹大人，就是从被赶到的各国回来，在犹大地寄居的男人、妇女、孩童和众公主，并尼布撒拉旦护卫长留在沙番的孙子，亚希甘的儿子基大利那里的众人，与耶利米先知，以及尼利亚的儿子巴录，But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
6都带入埃及地，到了答比匿；这是因他们不肯听从耶和华的话。Even men, and women, and 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.
7在答比匿，耶和华的话临到耶利米，说：So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
8“你要在犹大人眼前用手拿几块大石头，藏在答比匿法老的宫门砌砖的石墩上，Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9对他们说：‘万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：看哪，我必召我的仆人巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒前来，安置他的宝座在所藏的这些石头上；他要在其上支搭华丽的帐幕。Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
10他要来攻击埃及地： 定为死亡的，必致死亡； 定为掳掠的，必遭掳掠； 定为刀杀的，必被刀杀。And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD 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.
11我要用火点燃埃及众神明的庙宇，巴比伦王要焚烧庙宇，掳去神像；他要围住埃及地，好像牧人披上外衣，从那里安然而去。And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
12他必打碎埃及地伯．示麦的柱像，用火焚烧埃及众神明的庙宇。’”And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: 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.
给流亡埃及以色列人的信息
有话临到耶利米，论到住埃及地所有的犹大人，就是住在密夺、答比匿、挪弗、巴特罗境内的犹大人，说：
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
2“万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：我所降与耶路撒冷和犹大各城的一切灾祸，你们都看见了。看哪，那些城镇今日荒凉，无人居住；Thus saith the LORD 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,
3这是因居民所行的恶，去烧香事奉别神，就是他们和你们，以及你们列祖所不认识的神明，惹我发怒。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, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
4我一再差遣我的仆人众先知去，说：你们切不可行我所厌恶这可憎之事。Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
5他们却不听从，不侧耳而听，也不转离恶事，仍向别神烧香。But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
6因此，我的怒气和愤怒都倾倒出来，在犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街市上燃起，以致它们都荒废凄凉，正如今日一样。Wherefore my fury 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 at this day.
7现在耶和华－万军之神、以色列的神如此说：你们为何做这大恶自害己命，使你们的男人、妇女、孩童和吃奶的都从犹大剪除，不留一人呢？Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
8你们以手所做的，在寄居的埃及地向别神烧香，惹我发怒，使你们被剪除，在天下万国中受诅咒羞辱。In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9你们祖先的恶行，犹大诸王和后妃的恶行，你们自己和你们妻子的恶行，就是在犹大地和耶路撒冷街市上所做的，你们都忘了吗？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 have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10到如今你们还不懊悔，不惧怕，不肯遵行我在你们和你们祖先面前所设立的法度律例。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.
11“所以万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：看哪，我必向你们变脸降灾，剪除犹大众人。Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12我必使那定意进入埃及地、在那里寄居的，就是幸存的犹大人，尽都灭绝。他们必在埃及地仆倒，因刀剑饥荒灭绝，从最小的到最大的都必遭刀剑饥荒而死，甚至受辱骂、惊骇、诅咒、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, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even 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.
13我怎样用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫惩罚耶路撒冷，也必照样惩罚那些住在埃及地的犹大人。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:
14那进入埃及地、在那里寄居的，就是幸存的犹大人，都不得逃脱，也不得归回犹大地。他们心中很想归回，居住在那里；但除了少数逃脱的以外，都不得归回。”So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
15那些知道自己妻子向别神烧香的男人，与站在那里的一大群妇女，就是住埃及地巴特罗所有的百姓，回答耶利米说：Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16“论到你奉耶和华的名向我们所说的话，我们必不听从。As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
17我们定要照我们口中所说的一切话去做，向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，按着我们与我们祖先、君王、官长在犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街市上素常所做的一样；因为那时我们得以吃饱、享福乐，并未遇见灾祸。But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own 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.
18自从我们停止向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，我们倒缺乏这一切，又因刀剑饥荒灭绝。”But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19妇女们说☛“妇女们说”是根据古译本；原文没有。：“我们向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，做天后像的饼供奉它，向它献浇酒祭，难道我们的丈夫没有参与吗？”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 men?
20耶利米对这样回答他的男人和妇女说：Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
21“你们与你们祖先、君王、官长，以及这地的百姓，在犹大城镇和耶路撒冷街市上所烧的香，耶和华岂不记得，放在他心上吗？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 the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
22耶和华因你们所行的恶、所做可憎的事，不能再容忍，所以使你们的地荒凉，受惊骇诅咒，无人居住，正如今日一样。So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
23你们烧香，得罪耶和华，不听耶和华的话，不遵行他的律法、条例、法度，所以你们遭遇这灾祸，正如今日一样。”Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
24耶利米又对众百姓和妇女说：“所有在埃及地的犹大人哪，当听耶和华的话。Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
25万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：你们和你们的妻子口中说过、手里做到，说：‘我们定要向天后还愿，向它烧香，献浇酒祭。’现在你们尽管坚定所许的愿，去还愿吧！Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, 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: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
26所有住埃及地的犹大人哪，当听耶和华的话。耶和华说：看哪，我指着我至大的名起誓，在埃及全地，我的名必不再被犹大任何人的口呼喊：‘我指着主－永生的耶和华起誓。’Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
27看哪，我看守他们，为要降祸不降福；在埃及地的犹大人必因刀剑、饥荒而灭亡，直到灭绝。Behold, I will 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.
28从埃及地能脱离刀剑、归回犹大地的人数很少。那进入埃及地、在那里寄居的，就是幸存的犹大人，必知道是谁的话站得住，是我的话呢，还是他们的话。Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
29我在这地方惩罚你们，必有预兆，使你们知道我降祸给你们的话必站得住。这是耶和华说的。And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
30耶和华如此说：看哪，我必将埃及王合弗拉法老交在他仇敌和寻索其命的人手中，像我将犹大王西底家交在他仇敌和寻索其命的巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒手中一样。”Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra 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, his enemy, and that sought his life.
耶和华给巴录的许诺
约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬第四年，尼利亚的儿子巴录把耶利米先知口中所说的话写在书上；耶利米对巴录说：
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2“巴录啊，耶和华－以色列的神说：Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:
3你曾说：‘哀哉！耶和华使我愁上加愁，我因呻吟而困乏，不得安歇。’Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
4你要这样告诉他，耶和华如此说：看哪，我所建立的，我必拆毁；我所栽植的，我必拔出；在全地我都如此行。Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
5你为自己图谋大事吗？不要图谋！看哪，我必使灾祸临到凡有血肉之躯的。但你无论往哪里去，我要保全你的性命。这是耶和华说的。”And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
埃及在迦基米施受挫
耶和华论列国的话临到耶利米先知。
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
2论到埃及，关于埃及王尼哥法老的军队，这军队安营在幼发拉底河边的迦基米施，是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒在约西亚的儿子犹大王约雅敬第四年所打败的。Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho 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.
3你们要预备大小盾牌， 往前上阵，Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4套上车， 骑上马！ 顶盔站立， 磨枪披甲！Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5我为何看见他们惊惶， 转身退后呢？ 他们的勇士打败仗， 急忙逃跑，并不回头； 四围都有惊吓！ 这是耶和华说的。Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
6不要容快跑的逃避， 也不要容勇士逃脱☛“不要...逃脱”或译“快跑的不能逃避，勇士也不能逃脱”。； 在北方幼发拉底河边， 他们绊跌仆倒。Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
7这是谁，像尼罗河涨溢， 如江河的水翻腾呢？Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8埃及像尼罗河涨溢， 如江河的水翻腾。 它说：“我要涨溢遮盖全地； 我要毁灭城镇和其中的居民。Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9马匹啊，上去吧！ 战车啊，要疾行！ 手拿盾牌的古实和弗☛“弗”是利比亚的一部分。的勇士， 擅长拉弓的路德人，前进吧！”Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
10那日是万军之主耶和华报仇的日子， 要向敌人报仇。 刀剑必吞吃饱足， 饮血满足； 因为在北方幼发拉底河边， 有祭物献给万军之主耶和华。For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11少女埃及☛“少女埃及”：原文直译“少女埃及女子”。啊， 要上基列去取乳香； 你虽服用许多药， 还是徒然，不得治好。Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
12列国听见你的羞辱， 遍地满了你的哀声； 勇士与勇士彼此相撞， 二人一起跌倒。尼布甲尼撒来犯
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13以下是耶和华对耶利米先知说的话，论到巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒要来攻击埃及地。The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14你们要在埃及传扬，在密夺报告， 在挪弗、答比匿宣告说： “要摆好阵势，预备作战， 因为刀剑在你四围施行吞灭。”Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15你的壮士为何被扫除呢？ 他们站立不住，☛“你的...站立不住，”七十士译本是“阿庇斯（挪弗的牛神）为何逃走呢？你精选的牛为何站立不住呢？” 因为耶和华驱逐他们；Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16他使多人绊跌，彼此撞倒。 他们说：“起来，让我们回到自己的同胞、 回到自己的出生地去， 好躲避欺压的刀剑。”He made many to fall, yea, one fell 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.
17他们在那里称埃及王法老☛“他们...法老”：七十士译本是“你们要称埃及王法老尼哥的名字”。为 “错失良机的夸大者”。They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18名为万军之耶和华的君王说： 我指着我的永生起誓： “尼布甲尼撒☛“尼布甲尼撒”：原文是“他”。来的时候， 必像众山之中的他泊， 像海边的迦密。”As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19住在埃及☛“埃及”：原文直译“埃及女子”；本章24节同。的啊， 要预备被掳时需用的物品； 因为挪弗必成为废墟， 被烧毁，无人居住。O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20埃及是肥美的母牛犊； 但来自北方的牛虻来到了！来到了！☛“来到了！来到了！”有古卷和七十士译本是“临到它。”Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21它的佣兵好像圈里的肥牛犊， 他们转身退后， 一齐逃跑，站立不住； 因为他们遭难的日子、 受罚的时刻已经来临。Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22它的声音好像蛇在滑行。 敌人要成队而来，如砍伐树木的人， 手拿斧头攻击它。The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23虽然它的树林不易穿过， 敌人却要砍伐， 因敌人比蝗虫还多，不可胜数。 这是耶和华说的。They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24埃及必然蒙羞， 被交在北方人的手中。The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25万军之耶和华－以色列的神说：“看哪，我要惩罚挪☛“挪”就是埃及的底比斯。的亚扪☛“亚扪”是埃及的主要神明。和法老、埃及和它的神明，以及君王，也要惩罚法老和倚靠他的人。The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26我要将他们交给寻索其命之人的手和巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒与他臣仆的手。但埃及日后必再有人居住，与从前一样。这是耶和华说的。”耶和华要救他的子民
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 afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
27我的仆人雅各啊，不要惧怕！ 以色列啊，不要惊惶！ 因我要从远方拯救你， 从被掳之地拯救你的后裔。 雅各必回来，得享平静安逸， 无人令他害怕。But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28我的仆人雅各啊，不要惧怕！ 因我与你同在。 我要将那些国灭绝净尽， 就是我赶你去的那些国； 却不将你灭绝净尽， 倒要从宽惩治你， 但绝不能不罚你。 这是耶和华说的。Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: 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 correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
有关非利士的话
在法老攻击迦萨之前，耶和华论非利士人的话临到耶利米先知。
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2耶和华如此说： 看哪，有水从北方涨起，成为涨溢的河， 要淹没全地和其中所充满的， 淹没城和城里的居民。 人必呼喊， 境内的居民都必哀号。Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3一听见敌人壮马蹄踏的响声、 战车隆隆、车轮轰轰， 为父的手就发软， 不能回头看顾儿女。At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
4因为日子将到， 耶和华必毁灭所有非利士人， 剪除推罗、西顿仅存的帮助者； 他要毁灭非利士人、 迦斐托海岛剩余的人。Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5迦萨成了光秃， 亚实基伦归于无有。 平原☛“平原”：七十士译本是“亚衲族”。中所剩的啊， 你割划自己，要到几时呢？Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6耶和华的刀剑哪，你要到几时才止息呢？ 要入鞘，安静不动。O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7耶和华吩咐它攻击亚实基伦和海边之地， 既已派定它，你☛“你”：七十士译本是“它”。怎能静止不动呢？How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
有关摩押的话
论摩押。
万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说： 祸哉，尼波！它要变为废墟。 基列亭蒙羞被攻取， 米斯迦☛“米斯迦”或译“碉堡”。蒙羞被毁坏，Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
2摩押不再被称赞。 有人在希实本设计谋害它： “来吧！我们将它剪除，使它不再成国。” 玛得缅哪，你也必静默无声； 刀剑必追赶你。There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
3从何罗念有哀号声： “荒凉！大毁灭！”A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
4“摩押毁灭了！” 它的孩童哀号，使人听见。Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5人上鲁希坡随走随哭， 因为在何罗念的下坡听见毁灭的哀声。For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
6你们要奔逃，自救己命， 使你们的性命如旷野里的矮树☛“矮树”：七十士译本是“野驴”。。Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
7你因倚靠自己所做的☛“自己所做的”：七十士译本是“自己的堡垒”。和自己的财宝，必被攻取。 基抹☛“基抹”为摩押的神明；下同。和属它的祭司、官长也要一同被掳去。For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
8那行毁灭的要来到各城， 并无一城幸免。 山谷必败落， 平原必毁坏， 正如耶和华所说的。And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
9你们要将翅膀给摩押， 使它可以飞去☛“你们要...飞去”：原文另译“你们要为摩押洒盐，因为它一定会灭亡”（参士9．45）七十士译本是“要给摩押竖立墓碑，它不久将被毁灭”。。 它的城镇必荒凉， 无人居住。Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
10懒惰不肯为耶和华做事的，必受诅咒；禁止刀剑不见血的，必受诅咒。摩押的城镇被毁灭
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
11摩押自幼年以来常享安逸， 如沉淀未被搅动的酒☛原文没有“酒”。， 没有从这器皿倒在那器皿， 也未曾被掳掠过。 因此，它的原味尚存， 香气未变。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 remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
12看哪，日子将到，我必差倒酒的到它那里去，将它倒出来；他们要倒空器皿，打碎坛子。这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
13摩押必因基抹羞愧，像以色列家因倚靠伯特利羞愧一样。And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
14你们怎么说： “我们是勇士，是会打仗的壮士”呢？How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
15摩押变为废墟， 敌人上去占它的城镇。 它精良的壮丁都下去遭杀戮； 这是名为万军之耶和华的君王说的。Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
16摩押的灾殃临近， 灾难速速来到。The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
17凡在它四围的和认识它名的， 都要为它悲伤，说： 那结实的杖和美好的棍， 竟然折断了！All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
18底本☛“底本”：原文直译“底本女子”。的居民哪， 要从你荣耀的座位上下来， 坐着忍受干渴； 因毁灭摩押的人上来攻击你， 毁坏了你的堡垒。Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
19住亚罗珥的啊， 要站在道路的边上观望， 问逃跑的男人和逃脱的女人说： “发生了什么事呢”？O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
20摩押因毁坏蒙羞； 你们要哀号呼喊， 要在亚嫩报告： “摩押已成废墟！”Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
21审判临到平原之地的何伦、雅杂、米法押、And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
22底本、尼波、伯．低比拉太音、And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
23基列亭、伯．迦末、伯．米恩、And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
24加略、波斯拉和摩押地远近所有的城镇。And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25摩押的角砍断了，膀臂折断了。这是耶和华说的。摩押受凌辱
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
26你们要使摩押沉醉，因它向耶和华夸大。它要在自己所吐之物中打滚，又要被人嗤笑。Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
27以色列不是你的笑柄吗？它难道是在贼中被逮到，使你每逢提到它就摇头的吗？For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
28摩押的居民哪， 要离开城镇，住在山崖里， 像鸽子在峡谷口上搭窝。O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
29我们听闻摩押人的骄傲， 极其骄傲； 他们自高、自傲、 自我狂妄、居心自大。We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
30我知道他们的愤怒是虚空的， 他们夸大的话一无所成。 这是耶和华说的。I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
31因此，我要为摩押哀号， 为摩押全地呼喊； 人必为吉珥．哈列设人叹息。Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
32西比玛的葡萄树啊，我为你哀哭， 甚于雅谢人的哀哭。 你的枝子蔓延过海， 直伸到雅谢海。 那行毁灭的已经临到你夏天的果子和葡萄。O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
33肥田和摩押地的欢喜快乐都被夺去， 我使酒池不再流出酒来， 无人踹酒欢呼； 呼喊的声音不再是欢呼。And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
34有哀声从希实本达到以利亚利，他们发的哀声达到雅杂；从琐珥达到何罗念，达到伊基拉．施利施亚，因为宁林的水必然干涸。From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
35我必在摩押地使那在丘坛献祭的，和那向他的神明烧香的都灭绝了。这是耶和华说的。Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
36因此，我的心为摩押哀鸣如箫，我的心为吉珥．哈列设人哀哭；摩押人所得的财物都毁灭了。Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
37各人头上光秃，胡须剪短，手有划伤，腰束麻布。For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
38在摩押的各房顶上和街市上到处有人哀哭，因我打碎摩押，好像打碎无人喜爱的器皿。这是耶和华说的。There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
39打得粉碎了！他们要哀号了！摩押要羞愧转背了！这样，摩押必受四围的人嗤笑惊骇。摩押无路可逃
They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
40耶和华如此说： 看哪，仇敌必如鹰展翅快飞， 攻击摩押。For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41加略被攻取，堡垒也被占据。 到那日，摩押的勇士心中疼痛如临产的妇人。Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42摩押必被毁灭，不再成国， 因它向耶和华夸大。And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
43摩押的居民哪， 惊吓、陷阱、罗网都临近你。 这是耶和华说的。Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
44躲过惊吓的必坠入陷阱， 逃离陷阱的又被罗网缠住， 因我必使惩罚之年临到摩押。 这是耶和华说的。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 it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
45逃难的人站在希实本的荫下，筋疲力尽， 因为有火从希实本发出， 有火焰出自西宏☛“西宏”：有古卷是“西宏的家”。， 烧尽摩押的鬓角和闹哄人的头顶。They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
46摩押啊，你有祸了！ 属基抹的百姓灭亡了！ 因你的儿子都被掳去， 你的女儿也被掳去。Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
47到末后，我却要使摩押被掳的人归回。 摩押受审判的话到此为止。 这是耶和华说的。Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
有关亚扪的话
论亚扪人。
耶和华如此说： 以色列没有儿子吗？ 没有后嗣吗？ 米勒公☛“米勒公”是根据七十士译本和其他古译本，亚扪人神明的名字，又名“摩洛”；原文是“他们的王”，音译“玛勒堪”；下同。为何承受迦得为业呢？ 属它的百姓为何住其中的城镇呢？Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
2看哪，日子将到，我必使人听见打仗的喊声， 攻击亚扪人所住的拉巴的喊声。 拉巴要成为废墟， 属它的乡镇☛“乡镇”：原文直译“女子们”；下同。要被火焚烧。 这是耶和华说的。 先前承受以色列为业的， 此时以色列倒要承受他们为业。 这是耶和华说的。Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
3希实本哪，要哀号， 因为爱地已成荒地。 拉巴的乡镇哪，要呼喊， 以麻布束腰； 要哭号，在篱笆中往来奔跑； 因米勒公和它的祭司、 官长要一同被掳去。Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
4背道的民☛“民”：原文直译“女子”。哪， 你为何因有山谷， 因有水流的山谷夸耀呢？ 为何倚靠自己的财宝，说： “谁能来到我们这里呢？”Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
5万军之主耶和华说： 看哪，我要使惊吓从四围的邻邦临到你们； 你们必被赶出， 各人一直往前， 无人收容难民。Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
6但后来，我却要使被掳的亚扪人归回。这是耶和华说的。有关以东的话
And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
7论以东。 万军之耶和华如此说： 提幔不再有智慧了吗？ 聪明人的谋略都用尽了吗？ 他们的智慧尽归无有了吗？Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
8底但的居民哪，要转身逃跑， 住在深密处； 因为我惩罚以扫的时候， 必使灾殃临到他。Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
9摘葡萄的若来到你那里， 岂不留下几串吗？ 贼若夜间来到， 岂不是只毁坏他们要毁坏的吗？If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
10我却使以扫赤裸， 暴露他的藏身处； 他不能隐藏自己。 他的后裔、弟兄、邻舍全都灭绝， 他也归于无有。But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
11你撇下孤儿，我必保全他们的性命； 你的寡妇可以倚靠我。Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
12耶和华如此说：“看哪，既然原不该喝那杯的一定要喝，你能免去惩罚吗？必不能免，一定要喝！For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
13我指着自己起誓，波斯拉必令人惊骇、受羞辱、被诅咒，并且全然荒废。它所有的城镇都要永远成为废墟。这是耶和华说的。”For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
14我从耶和华那里听见消息， 有使者被差往列国去，说： “你们要聚集前来攻击以东， 要起来争战。”I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
15看哪，我使你在列国中为最小， 在世人中被藐视。For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
16住在山穴中盘据山顶的啊， 你被自己的声势与心中的狂傲所蒙蔽； 你虽如大鹰高高搭窝， 我却要从那里拉你下来。 这是耶和华说的。Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, 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 the LORD.
17以东必令人惊骇；凡经过的人都惊骇，又因它一切的灾祸嗤笑。Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
18耶和华说：它要像所多玛、蛾摩拉和邻近的城镇一样倾覆，必无人住在那里，也无人在其中寄居。As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
19看哪，就像狮子从约旦河边的丛林上来，攻击坚固的居所，我要在转眼之间使以东人逃跑，离开这地。我拣选谁，就派谁治理这地。谁能像我呢？谁能召我出庭呢？☛“谁能召我出庭呢？”原文另译“谁能与我相比呢？”有哪一个牧人能在我面前站得住呢？Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
20你们要听耶和华攻击以东所定的计划和他攻击提幔居民所定的旨意。他们羊群当中微弱的定要被拖走，他们的草场定要变为荒凉。Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
21因他们仆倒的声音，地就震动，哀号的声音传到红海☛“红海”是根据七十士译本；原文是“芦苇海”。那里。The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
22看哪，仇敌必如大鹰飞起，展开翅膀攻击波斯拉。到那日，以东的勇士心中疼痛如临产的妇人。有关大马士革的话
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
23论大马士革。 哈马和亚珥拔蒙羞， 因为他们听见凶恶的消息就融化； 焦虑像海浪汹涌，不得平静。Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
24大马士革发软，转身逃跑； 战兢将它捉住， 痛苦忧愁将它抓住， 如临产的妇人一样。Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25我所喜乐受称赞的城， 怎能被撇弃☛“怎能被撇弃”是根据一些古译本；原文是“怎能不被撇弃”。呢？How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26它的壮丁必仆倒在街上， 当那日，战士全都静默无声。 这是万军之耶和华说的。Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27我必用火点燃大马士革的城墙， 烧灭便．哈达的宫殿。有关基达和夏琐的话
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
28论巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒所攻打的基达和夏琐诸国。 耶和华如此说： 迦勒底人哪，起来上基达去， 毁灭东方人。Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
29人要夺去他们的帐棚和羊群， 人要带走他们的幔子、一切器皿，和骆驼，占为己有。 人向他们喊着说： 四围都有惊吓。Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
30夏琐的居民哪，要逃奔远方， 住在深密处； 因为巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒设计谋害你们， 起意攻击你们。 这是耶和华说的。Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
31迦勒底人哪，起来！ 上到安逸无虑的国民那里去， 他们是无门无闩、单独居住的。 这是耶和华说的。Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
32他们的骆驼必成为掠物， 他们众多的牲畜必成为掳物。 我要将剃鬓发的人分散四方☛“方”：原文是“风”；下同。， 使灾殃从四围临到他们。 这是耶和华说的。And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
33夏琐必成为野狗的住处， 永远荒废； 无人住在那里， 也无人在其中寄居。有关以拦的话
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
34犹大王西底家登基的时候，耶和华论以拦的话临到耶利米先知，说：The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35“万军之耶和华如此说：看哪，我必折断以拦人的弓，那是他们战斗的主力。Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36我要使风从天的四方刮来，临到以拦，将他们分散四方。以拦被赶散的人没有一国不到的。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.
37我必使以拦人在仇敌和寻索其命的人面前惊惶；我也必使灾祸，就是我的烈怒临到他们，又必使刀剑追杀他们，直到将他们灭尽。这是耶和华说的。For 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 the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
38我要在以拦设立我的宝座，在那里除灭君王和官长。这是耶和华说的。And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
39“到末后，我却要使被掳的以拦人归回。这是耶和华说的。”But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
巴比伦被占领
以下是耶和华藉耶利米先知论巴比伦和迦勒底人之地所说的话。
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2你们要在万国中传扬，宣告， 竖立大旗； 要宣告，不可隐瞒，说： “巴比伦被攻取， 彼勒☛“彼勒”是巴比伦的主要神明。蒙羞， 米罗达☛“米罗达”是巴比伦的主要神明。惊惶。 巴比伦的神像都蒙羞， 它的偶像都惊惶。”Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3因有一国从北方上来攻击它，使它的地荒凉，无人居住，连人带牲畜都逃走了。以色列人回乡
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4在那日、在那时，以色列人要和犹大人同来，随走随哭，寻求耶和华－他们的神。这是耶和华说的。In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5他们要问到锡安之路，又面向那里，说：“来吧，他们要☛“他们要”：有古译本是“让我们”。在永不被遗忘的约中与耶和华联合。”They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
6我的百姓成了失丧的羊，牧人使他们走迷了路，转入丛山之间。他们从大山走到小山，竟忘了自己安歇之处。My people hath 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 restingplace.
7凡遇见他们的，就把他们吞灭。敌人说：“我们不算有罪；因他们得罪了那可作真正☛“真正”或译“公义”。居所的耶和华，就是他们祖先所仰望的耶和华。”All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
8“你们要逃离巴比伦，要离开迦勒底人之地，像走在羊群前面的公山羊。Remove 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.
9看哪，因我必激起大国联盟，带领他们从北方来攻击巴比伦，他们要摆阵攻击它，它必在那里被攻取。他们的箭好像善射☛“善射”是根据一些古卷；原文是“使人丧子”。勇士的箭，绝不徒然返回。For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly 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 a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
10迦勒底要成为掠物，凡掳掠它的都必心满意足。这是耶和华说的。”巴比伦陷落
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
11抢夺我产业的啊， 你们因欢喜快乐， 像踹谷☛“踹谷”：七十士译本是“在草地上”。嬉戏的母牛犊， 又像发嘶声的壮马。Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
12你们的母亲极其抱愧， 生你们的必然蒙羞。 看哪，她要列在诸国之末， 成为旷野、旱地、沙漠；Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13因耶和华的愤怒，巴比伦必无人居住， 全然荒凉， 凡经过的都要受惊骇， 又因它所遭的灾殃嗤笑。Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14所有拉弓的啊，要在巴比伦的四围摆阵， 射箭攻击它， 不用爱惜箭枝， 因为它得罪了耶和华。Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.
15要在它四围呐喊： “它已经投降， 堡垒坍塌了， 城墙拆毁了！” 这是耶和华所报的仇。 你们要向它报仇； 它怎样待人，你们也要怎样待它。Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
16你们要将巴比伦撒种的 和收割时拿镰刀的全都剪除。 他们各人因躲避欺压的刀剑， 必归回本族，逃到本土。以色列人回乡
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.
17以色列是打散的羊，被狮子赶散。首先是亚述王将他吞灭，末后是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒折断他的骨头。Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18所以万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说：“看哪，我必惩罚巴比伦王和他的地，像我从前惩罚亚述王一样。Therefore thus saith the LORD 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.
19我必领以色列回他自己的草场，他要在迦密和巴珊吃草，又在以法莲山上和基列境内得以饱足。And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20在那日、在那时，你寻找以色列的罪孽，一无所有；寻找犹大的罪恶，也无所得；因为我所留下的人，我必赦免。这是耶和华说的。”神审判巴比伦
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, 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 reserve.
21你要上去攻击米拉大翁之地， 又攻击比割的居民。 将他们追杀灭尽， 照我所吩咐你的一切去做。 这是耶和华说的。Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
22境内有打仗和大毁灭的响声。A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23全地的大锤竟然砍断破坏！ 巴比伦在列国中竟然荒凉！How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24巴比伦哪，我为你设下罗网， 你被缠住，竟不自觉。 你被寻着，也被捉住， 因为你对抗耶和华。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 the LORD.
25耶和华已经打开军械库， 拿出他恼恨的兵器； 这是万军之主耶和华 在迦勒底人之地要做的事。The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26你们要从极远的边界前来攻击它☛“你们要...它”：原文另译“它收割的时候到了”。， 要开它的仓廪， 将它堆起如高堆， 毁灭净尽，丝毫不留。Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27要杀它一切的牛犊， 使它们下去遭杀戮。 他们有祸了， 因为他们的日子，就是他们受罚的时刻已经来到。Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28从巴比伦之地逃出来的难民，在锡安扬声宣告耶和华－我们的神要报仇，为他的圣殿报仇。The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29你们要招集一切弓箭手来攻击巴比伦，在巴比伦四围安营，不容一人逃脱。要照着它所做的报应它；它怎样待人，你们也要怎样待它，因为它向耶和华－以色列的圣者狂傲。Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it 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 the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30所以它的壮丁必仆倒在街上。当那日，它的士兵全都静默无声。这是耶和华说的。Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
31“看哪，你这狂傲的啊，我与你为敌， 因为你的日子， 我惩罚你的时刻已经来到。 这是万军之主耶和华说的。Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
32狂傲的必绊跌仆倒，无人扶起。 我必用火点燃他的城镇， 将他四围所有的尽行烧灭。”And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33万军之耶和华如此说：“以色列人和犹大人一同受欺压；凡掳掠他们的都紧紧抓住他们，不肯释放。Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34他们的救赎主大有能力，万军之耶和华是他的名。他必定为他们伸冤，使全地得享平静；他却要搅扰巴比伦的居民。”Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35有刀剑临到迦勒底人和巴比伦的居民， 临到它的领袖与智慧人。 这是耶和华说的。A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36有刀剑临到矜夸的人， 他们就变为愚昧； 有刀剑临到它的勇士， 他们就惊惶。A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37有刀剑临到它的马匹、战车， 和其中混居的各族， 他们变成与妇女一样； 有刀剑临到它的宝物， 宝物就被抢夺。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.
38有干旱☛“干旱”：原文另译“刀剑”。临到它的众水， 它们就必干涸； 因为这是雕刻偶像之地， 人因偶像颠狂☛“人因偶像颠狂”：有古卷是“人以偶像为荣”。。A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
39所以野兽和土狼必住在那里，鸵鸟也住在其中，永远无人居住，世世代代无人定居。Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40巴比伦要像神所倾覆的所多玛、蛾摩拉和邻近的城镇一样，必无人住在那里，也无人在其中寄居。这是耶和华说的。As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41看哪，有一民族从北方而来， 有一大国和许多君王被激起，从地极来到。Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
42他们拿弓和枪， 性情残忍，毫不留情； 他们的声音像海浪澎湃。 巴比伦☛“ 巴比伦”：原文直译“巴比伦女子”。啊， 他们骑着马， 如上战场的人摆列队伍， 要攻击你。They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43巴比伦王听见他们的风声， 手就发软， 痛苦将他抓住， 仿佛临产的妇人疼痛一般。The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
44“看哪，就像狮子从约旦河边的丛林上来，攻击坚固的居所，我要在转眼之间使迦勒底人逃跑，离开这地。我拣选谁，就派谁治理这地。谁能像我呢？谁能召我出庭呢？有哪一个牧人能在我面前站得住呢？Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
45你们要听耶和华攻击巴比伦所定的计划和他攻击迦勒底人之地所定的旨意。他们羊群当中微弱的定要被拖走，他们的草场定要变为荒凉。Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46因巴比伦被攻下的声音，地就震动，人在列国都听见呼喊的声音。”At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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耶和华如此说：
看哪，我必刮起毁灭的风， 攻击巴比伦和住在立加米的人。Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
2我要差陌生人☛“陌生人”：有古卷和古译本是“簸扬的人”。来到巴比伦， 他们要簸扬它，使它的地空无一物。 在它遭祸的日子， 他们要四围攻击它。And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
3不要叫拉弓的拉弓， 不要叫他佩戴盔甲☛“不要叫拉弓...盔甲”是根据原文的另一读法；原文和七十士译本是“要叫拉弓的拉弓，要叫他佩戴盔甲”。； 不要怜惜巴比伦的壮丁， 要灭尽它的全军。Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
4他们必在迦勒底人之地被杀仆倒， 在巴比伦的街市上被刺透。Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
5以色列和犹大境内虽然充满违背以色列圣者的罪， 却没有被他的神－万军之耶和华所遗弃。For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
6你们要奔逃，离开巴比伦， 各救自己的性命！ 不要陷在它的罪孽中一同灭亡， 因为这是耶和华报仇的时刻， 他必向巴比伦施行报应。Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
7巴比伦素来是耶和华手中的金杯， 使全地沉醉， 列国喝了它的酒就颠狂。Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
8巴比伦忽然倾覆毁坏； 要为它哀号， 拿乳香来止它的疼痛， 或者可以治好。Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
9我们想医治巴比伦， 它却未获痊愈。 离开它吧！让我们各人归回本国， 因为它受的审判通于上天，达到穹苍。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.
10耶和华已经彰显出我们的义。 来吧！我们要在锡安 传扬耶和华－我们神的作为。The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
11你们要磨尖箭头， 抓住盾牌。论到巴比伦，耶和华定意要毁灭它，所以激起玛代君王的心；这是耶和华报仇，为他的圣殿报仇。Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
12你们要竖立大旗， 攻击巴比伦的城墙； 要坚固瞭望台， 派定守望的设下埋伏； 因为耶和华指着巴比伦居民所说的， 他不但这样定意，也已成就。Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13住在众水之上多有财宝的啊， 你的结局已到！ 你贪婪之量已满盈☛“你贪婪之量已满盈”或译“你生命的线被剪断”。！O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
14万军之耶和华指着自己起誓说： 我必使人遍满各处像蝗虫一样， 他们必呐喊攻击你。颂赞神的诗歌
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
15耶和华以能力创造大地， 以智慧建立世界， 以聪明铺张穹苍。He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
16他一出声，天上就有众水澎湃； 他使云雾从地极上腾， 造电随雨而闪， 从仓库中吹出风来。When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
17人人都如同畜牲，毫无知识； 银匠都因偶像羞愧， 他所铸的偶像本为虚假， 它们里面并无气息。Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18它们都是虚无的， 是迷惑人的东西， 到它们受罚的时刻必被除灭。They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19雅各所得的福分不是这样， 因主☛“主”：原文是“他”。是那创造万有的， 以色列☛“以色列”是根据一些古卷；原文是“他”。是他产业的支派， 万军之耶和华是他的名。耶和华的大锤
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
20你是我争战的斧子和打仗的兵器。 我要用你打碎列邦， 毁灭列国；Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
21用你打碎马和骑马的， 打碎战车和坐在其上的；And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
22用你打碎男人和女人， 打碎老人和少年， 打碎壮丁和少女；With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
23用你打碎牧人和他的羊群， 打碎农夫和他的一对耕牛， 打碎省长和官员。惩罚巴比伦
I will also break in pieces with thee 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 captains and rulers.
24我必在你们眼前报复巴比伦人和迦勒底居民在锡安所做的一切恶事。这是耶和华说的。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 the LORD.
25行毁灭的山，看哪，我与你为敌， 你毁灭全地， 我必伸手攻击你， 将你从山岩滚下去， 使你成为烧毁了的山。 这是耶和华说的。Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
26人必不从你那里取石头为房角石， 也不取石头来作根基， 因为你必永远荒废。 这是耶和华说的。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 the LORD.
27你们要在境内竖立大旗， 在列邦中吹角， 使列邦预备攻击巴比伦。 要招集亚拉腊、米尼、亚实基拿各国前来攻击它， 派将军攻击它， 使马匹上来如粗暴的蝗虫；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 Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
28使列邦和玛代君王，省长和官员， 他们所管的全地，都预备攻击它。Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29地必震动而移转； 因耶和华向巴比伦旨意已确定， 要使巴比伦土地荒凉，无人居住。And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30巴比伦的勇士停止争战， 躲在堡垒之中。 他们的力气耗尽， 他们变成与妇女一样。 巴比伦的住处焚烧， 门闩都折断了。The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31通报的彼此相遇， 送信的彼此相遇， 报告巴比伦王， 城的四方都被攻下了，One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32渡口被占据了， 芦苇被火焚烧， 战士都惊慌。And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33万军之耶和华－以色列的神如此说： 巴比伦☛“巴比伦”：原文直译“巴比伦女子”。好像踹谷的禾场； 再过片时，它收割的时候就到了。For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒吞灭我，压碎我， 使我成为空器皿。 他如大鱼将我吞下， 以我的美物充满他的肚腹， 又把我赶出去。Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
35锡安的居民要说： 愿我和我骨肉之亲所受的残暴 归给巴比伦。 耶路撒冷人要说： 愿我们所流的血 归给迦勒底的居民。耶和华要帮助以色列
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36所以，耶和华如此说： 看哪，我必为你伸冤，为你报仇； 我必使巴比伦的海枯竭， 使它的泉源干涸。Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37巴比伦必成为废墟， 为野狗的住处， 令人惊骇、嗤笑， 并且无人居住。And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38他们要像少壮狮子一同咆哮， 像小狮子吼叫。They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
39他们食欲一来的时候， 我必为他们摆设酒席， 使他们沉醉，好叫他们快乐； 他们睡了长觉，永不醒起。 这是耶和华说的。In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
40我必使他们像羔羊、 像公绵羊和公山羊被牵去宰杀。巴比伦的命运
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41示沙克☛“示沙克”就是巴比伦。竟然被攻取！ 全地所称赞的被占据！ 巴比伦在列国中竟然变为荒凉！How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42海水涨起，漫过巴比伦； 澎湃的海浪遮盖了它。The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43它的城镇变废墟， 地变干旱，成为沙漠， 成为无人居住、 无人经过之地。Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44我要惩罚巴比伦的彼勒☛“彼勒”是巴比伦的主要神明。， 使它吐出所吞之物。 列国必不再流归到它那里， 巴比伦的城墙也必坍塌。And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45我的子民哪，你们要离开巴比伦！ 各人逃命，躲避耶和华的烈怒。My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46不要因境内所听见的风声 心惊胆怯或惧怕； 因为这年有风声传来， 那年也有风声传来； 境内有残暴的事， 官长攻击官长。And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47所以，看哪，日子将到， 我必惩罚巴比伦雕刻的偶像。 它的全地必然抱愧， 它被杀的人必仆倒在其上。Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do 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.
48那时，天地和其中所有的， 必因巴比伦欢呼， 因为行毁灭的要从北方来到它那里。 这是耶和华说的。Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
49巴比伦要因以色列被杀的人而仆倒， 正如全地被刺杀的人是因巴比伦仆倒一般。给在巴比伦以色列人的信息
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50你们躲避刀剑的要快走， 不要站住！ 要在远方怀念耶和华， 心中追想耶路撒冷。Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51我们听见辱骂就蒙羞，满面惭愧， 因为外邦人进入耶和华殿的圣所。We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
52所以，看哪，日子将到， 我必惩罚巴比伦雕刻的偶像， 在全境内到处都有刺伤的人在呻吟。 这是耶和华说的。Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
53巴比伦虽升到天上， 虽使它坚固的高处更坚固， 我也要差毁灭者到它那里。 这是耶和华说的。巴比伦灭亡
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
54有哀号的声音从巴比伦出来， 有大毁灭从迦勒底人之地而来。A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
55耶和华使巴比伦变为废墟， 使其中喧哗的大声灭绝。 仇敌仿佛众水， 波浪澎湃，发出响声；Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
56这是行毁灭的临到巴比伦。 巴比伦的勇士被捉住， 他们的弓折断了； 因为耶和华是施行报应的神， 他必施行报应。Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
57我必使巴比伦的领袖、 智慧人、省长、官员和勇士都喝醉， 使他们永远沉睡，不再醒起。 这是名为万军之耶和华的君王说的。And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
58万军之耶和华如此说： 巴比伦宽阔的城墙要夷为平地， 它高大的城门必被火焚烧。 万民所劳碌的必致虚空， 万族所劳碌的被火焚烧， 他们都必困乏。耶利米的信息传到巴比伦
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
59犹大王西底家在位第四年，玛西雅的孙子，尼利亚的儿子西莱雅与王同去巴比伦，西莱雅是王宫的大臣，耶利米先知有话吩咐他。The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
60耶利米把一切要临到巴比伦的灾祸，就是论到巴比伦的这一切话，写在一书卷上。So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
61耶利米对西莱雅说：“你到了巴比伦，务要宣读这一切话，And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
62说：‘耶和华啊，你曾论到这地方说：要剪除它，不再有人与牲畜居住此地，必永远荒凉。’Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
63你读完这书卷，就要把一块石头拴在其上，投入幼发拉底河中，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 Euphrates:
64说：‘巴比伦因耶和华所要降与它的灾祸，必如此沉下去，不再浮起来，百姓也必困乏。’” 耶利米的话到此为止。And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
耶路撒冷的陷落
（王下24．18－25．7）
西底家登基的时候年二十一岁，在耶路撒冷作王十一年。他母亲名叫哈慕她，是立拿人耶利米的女儿。
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.
2西底家行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，像约雅敬所做的一切。And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3因此，耶和华向耶路撒冷和犹大发怒，以致把他们从自己面前赶出去。西底家背叛巴比伦王，
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4他作王第九年十月初十，巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领全军前来攻击耶路撒冷，对着城安营，四围筑堡垒攻城，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 pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
5城被围困，直到西底家王十一年。So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6四月初九，城里的饥荒非常严重，当地的百姓都没有粮食。And 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.
7城被攻破，士兵全都在夜间从靠近王园两城墙中间的门逃跑出城；迦勒底人正在四围攻城，他们就往亚拉巴逃去。Then the city was broken up, 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 by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8迦勒底的军队追赶西底家王，在耶利哥的平原追上他。他的全军都离开他溃散了。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.
9迦勒底人就拿住王，带他到哈马地利比拉的巴比伦王那里；巴比伦王就判他的罪。Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
10巴比伦王在西底家眼前杀了他的儿女，又在利比拉杀了犹大全体的官长，And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11并且挖了西底家的眼睛，用铜链锁着他，带到巴比伦去，将他囚在监里，直到他死的日子。圣殿毁灭
（王下25．8－17）
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒十九年五月初十，在巴比伦王面前侍立的尼布撒拉旦护卫长进入耶路撒冷，Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13他焚烧了耶和华的殿、王宫和耶路撒冷的房屋；用火焚烧所有大户人家的房屋。And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
14跟随护卫长的迦勒底全军拆毁了耶路撒冷四围的城墙。And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15那时尼布撒拉旦护卫长将百姓中最穷的和城里所剩下的百姓，并那些投降巴比伦王的人，以及剩下的工匠，都掳去了。Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16但尼布撒拉旦护卫长留下一些当地最穷的人，叫他们修整葡萄园，耕种田地。But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
17耶和华殿的铜柱并殿内的盆座和铜海，迦勒底人都打碎了，把那些铜运到巴比伦去；Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18他们又带走锅、铲子、钳子、盘子、勺子，和供奉用的一切铜器；The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
19杯、火盆、碗、锅、灯台、勺子、酒杯，无论金的银的，护卫长都带走了；And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.
20还有所罗门为耶和华殿所造的两根铜柱、一面铜海，并座下的十二只铜牛，这些器皿的铜多得无法可秤。The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21至于柱子，这一根柱子高十八肘，厚四指，周围十二肘，中间是空的；And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
22柱上有铜顶，每个铜顶高五肘；铜顶的周围有网子和石榴，也都是铜的。另一根柱子与此相同，也有石榴。And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
23柱子四面有九十六个石榴，在网子周围，总共有一百个石榴。犹大人被掳到巴比伦
（王下25．18－21）
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
24护卫长拿住西莱雅大祭司、西番亚副祭司和门口的三个守卫，And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25又从城中拿住一个管理士兵的官☛“官”或译“太监”。，并在城里找到王面前的七个亲信，和召募当地百姓之将军的书记官，以及在城中找到的六十个当地百姓。He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe 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.
26尼布撒拉旦护卫长把这些人带到利比拉的巴比伦王那里。So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27巴比伦王击杀他们，在哈马地的利比拉把他们处死。这样，犹大人就被掳去离开本地。And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
28这是尼布甲尼撒所掳百姓的数目：他在位第七年掳去犹大人三千零二十三人；This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29尼布甲尼撒十八年从耶路撒冷掳去八百三十二人；In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
30尼布甲尼撒二十三年，尼布撒拉旦护卫长掳去犹大人七百四十五人；共有四千六百人。约雅斤被释放
（王下25．27－30）
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.
31巴比伦王以未．米罗达作王的元年，就是犹大王约雅斤被掳后三十七年十二月二十五日，他使犹大王约雅斤抬起头来，提他出监，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 Evilmerodach 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,
32对他说好话，使他的位高过与他一同被掳、在巴比伦众王的位；And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
33又给他脱了囚服，使他终身常在巴比伦王面前吃饭。And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
34巴比伦王赐给他日常需用的食物，日日一份，终身都是这样，直到他死的日子。And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.