耶利米書 46
1 耶和華論列國的話臨到先知耶利米。
This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
2 論到關乎埃及王法老尼哥的軍隊：這軍隊安營在幼發拉底河邊的迦基米施，是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒在猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年所打敗的。
For Egypt: “This is about the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt that was at Carchemish by the Euphrates river. This was the army that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
3 你們要預備大小盾牌， 往前上陣。
Get the small shields and the large shields ready, and go forward to fight.
4 你們套上車， 騎上馬！ 頂盔站立， 磨槍貫甲！
Put the harness on the horses; mount up on the horses and take your stand with your helmets on; polish the spears and put on your armor.
5 我為何看見他們驚惶轉身退後呢？ 他們的勇士打敗了， 急忙逃跑，並不回頭； 驚嚇四圍都有！ 這是耶和華說的。
What am I seeing here? They are filled with terror and are running away, for their soldiers are defeated. They are running for safety and are not looking back. Terror is all around—this is Yahweh's declaration—
6 不要容快跑的逃避； 不要容勇士逃脫； 他們在北方幼發拉底河邊絆跌仆倒。
the swift cannot run away, and the soldiers cannot escape. They stumble in the north and fall beside the Euphrates River.
7 像尼羅河漲發， 像江河之水翻騰的是誰呢？
Who is this who rises like the Nile, whose waters toss up and down like the rivers?
8 埃及像尼羅河漲發， 像江河的水翻騰。 他說：我要漲發遮蓋遍地； 我要毀滅城邑和其中的居民。
Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers of water that rise and fall. Egypt says, 'I will go up and I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
9 馬匹上去吧！ 車輛急行吧！ 勇士，就是手拿盾牌的古實人和弗人， 並拉弓的路德族，都出去吧！
Go up, horses. Be angry, you chariots. Let the soldiers go out, Cush and Put, men skillful with a shield, and Ludim, men skillful at bending their bows.'
10 那日是主－萬軍之耶和華報仇的日子， 要向敵人報仇。 刀劍必吞吃得飽， 飲血飲足； 因為主－萬軍之耶和華 在北方幼發拉底河邊有獻祭的事。
That day will be the day of vengeance for the Lord Yahweh of hosts, and he will avenge himself on his foes. The sword will devour and be satisfied. It will drink its fill of their blood. For there will be a sacrifice to the Yahweh Lord of hosts in the northern land by the Euphrates River.
11 埃及的民哪， 可以上基列取乳香去； 你雖多服良藥， 總是徒然，不得治好。
Go up to Gilead and obtain medicine, virgin daughter of Egypt. It is useless that you put much medicine on yourself. There is no cure for you.
12 列國聽見你的羞辱， 遍地滿了你的哀聲； 勇士與勇士彼此相碰， 一齊跌倒。
The nations have heard of your disgrace. The earth is filled with your laments, for soldier stumbles against soldier; both of them fall together.”
13 耶和華對先知耶利米所說的話，論到巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒要來攻擊埃及地：
This is the word that Yahweh told Jeremiah the prophet when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came and attacked the land of Egypt:
14 你們要傳揚在埃及，宣告在密奪， 報告在挪弗、答比匿說： 要站起出隊，自作準備， 因為刀劍在你四圍施行吞滅的事。
“Announce in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. 'Take your station and prepare yourself, for the sword will devour those around you.'
15 你的壯士為何被沖去呢？ 他們站立不住； 因為耶和華驅逐他們，
Why are your mighty ones face-down on the ground? They will not stand, because I, Yahweh, have pushed them to the ground.
16 使多人絆跌； 他們也彼此撞倒，說： 起來吧！我們再往本民本地去， 好躲避欺壓的刀劍。
He increases the numbers of those who stumble. Each soldier falls against the next one. They are saying, 'Get up. Let us go home. Let us go back to our own people, to our native land. Let us leave this sword that is beating us down.'
17 他們在那裏喊叫說： 埃及王法老不過是個聲音； 他已錯過所定的時候了。
They proclaimed there, 'Pharaoh the king of Egypt is only a noise, one who has let his opportunity slip away.'
18 君王－名為萬軍之耶和華的說： 我指着我的永生起誓： 尼布甲尼撒來的勢派 必像他泊在眾山之中， 像迦密在海邊一樣。
As I live—declares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts— someone will come like Mount Tabor and Mount Carmel by the sea.
19 住在埃及的民哪， 要預備擄去時所用的物件； 因為挪弗必成為荒場， 且被燒毀，無人居住。
Pack for yourselves baggage to carry into exile, you who live in Egypt. For Memphis will become a waste, it will lie in ruins and no one will live there.
20 埃及是肥美的母牛犢； 但出於北方的毀滅來到了！來到了！
Egypt is a very beautiful young cow, but a stinging insect is coming from the north. It is coming.
21 其中的雇勇好像圈裏的肥牛犢， 他們轉身退後， 一齊逃跑，站立不住； 因為他們遭難的日子、 追討的時候已經臨到。
The hired soldiers in her midst are like a fattened bull, but they will also turn away and run away. They will not stand together, for the day of their disaster is coming against them, the time of their punishment.
22 其中的聲音好像蛇行一樣。 敵人要成隊而來，如砍伐樹木的手拿斧子攻擊他。
Egypt hisses like a snake and crawls away, for her enemies are marching against her. They are going toward her like woodcutters with axes.
23 耶和華說： 埃及的樹林雖然不能尋察， 敵人卻要砍伐， 因他們多於蝗蟲，不可勝數。
They will cut down the forests—this is Yahweh's declaration—although it is very dense. For the enemies will be more numerous than locusts, unable to be counted.
24 埃及的民必然蒙羞， 必交在北方人的手中。
The daughter of Egypt will be made ashamed. She will be given into the hand of people from the north.”
25 萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝說：「我必刑罰挪的亞捫和法老，並埃及與埃及的神，以及君王，也必刑罰法老和倚靠他的人。
Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “See, I am about to punish Amon of Thebes, Pharaoh, Egypt and her gods, her kings the Pharaohs, and those who trust in them.
26 我要將他們交付尋索其命之人的手和巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒與他臣僕的手；以後埃及必再有人居住，與從前一樣。這是耶和華說的。」
I am giving them into the hand of the ones seeking their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his servants. Then after this Egypt will be inhabited as in previous days—this is Yahweh's declaration.
27 我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕！ 以色列啊，不要驚惶！ 因我要從遠方拯救你， 從被擄到之地拯救你的後裔。 雅各必回來，得享平靖安逸， 無人使他害怕。
But you, my servant Jacob, do not fear. Do not be dismayed, Israel, for see, I am about to bring you back from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Then Jacob will return, find peace, and be secure, and there will be no one to terrify him.
28 我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕！ 因我與你同在。 我要將我所趕你到的那些國滅絕淨盡， 卻不將你滅絕淨盡， 倒要從寬懲治你， 萬不能不罰你。 這是耶和華說的。
You, my servant Jacob, do not fear—this is Yahweh's declaration—for I am with you, so I will bring complete destruction against all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not destroy you completely. Yet I will discipline you justly and will certainly not leave you unpunished.”
