Jeremiah 14
1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.
耶和华论到干旱之灾的话临到耶利米：
2 Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
犹大悲哀，城门衰败。 众人披上黑衣坐在地上； 耶路撒冷的哀声上达。
3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
他们的贵胄打发家僮打水； 他们来到水池， 见没有水，就拿着空器皿， 蒙羞惭愧，抱头而回。
4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
耕地的也蒙羞抱头； 因为无雨降在地上， 地都干裂。
5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.
田野的母鹿生下小鹿，就撇弃， 因为无草。
6 And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
野驴站在净光的高处，喘气好像野狗； 因为无草，眼目失明。
7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
耶和华啊，我们的罪孽虽然作见证告我们， 还求你为你名的缘故行事。 我们本是多次背道，得罪了你。
8 O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
以色列所盼望、在患难时作他救主的啊， 你为何在这地像寄居的， 又像行路的只住一宵呢？
9 Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.
你为何像受惊的人， 像不能救人的勇士呢？ 耶和华啊，你仍在我们中间； 我们也称为你名下的人， 求你不要离开我们。
10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
耶和华对这百姓如此说： 这百姓喜爱妄行， 不禁止脚步， 所以耶和华不悦纳他们。 现今要记念他们的罪孽， 追讨他们的罪恶。
11 And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
耶和华又对我说：“不要为这百姓祈祷求好处。
12 When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
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。”
13 Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
我就说：“唉！主耶和华啊，那些先知常对他们说：‘你们必不看见刀剑，也不遭遇饥荒；耶和华要在这地方赐你们长久的平安。’”
14 Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
耶和华对我说：“那些先知托我的名说假预言，我并没有打发他们，没有吩咐他们，也没有对他们说话；他们向你们预言的，乃是虚假的异象和占卜，并虚无的事，以及本心的诡诈。
15 So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.
所以耶和华如此说：论到托我名说预言的那些先知，我并没有打发他们；他们还说这地不能有刀剑饥荒，其实那些先知必被刀剑饥荒灭绝。
16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.
听他们说预言的百姓必因饥荒刀剑抛在耶路撒冷的街道上，无人葬埋。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。”
17 And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.
你要将这话对他们说： 愿我眼泪汪汪， 昼夜不息， 因为我百姓受了裂口破坏的大伤。
18 If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
我若出往田间， 就见有被刀杀的； 我若进入城内， 就见有因饥荒患病的； 连先知带祭司在国中往来， 也是毫无知识。
19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
你全然弃掉犹大吗？ 你心厌恶锡安吗？ 为何击打我们，以致无法医治呢？ 我们指望平安，却得不着好处； 指望痊愈，不料，受了惊惶。
20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
耶和华啊，我们承认自己的罪恶， 和我们列祖的罪孽， 因我们得罪了你。
21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
求你为你名的缘故， 不厌恶我们， 不辱没你荣耀的宝座。 求你追念， 不要背了与我们所立的约。
22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
外邦人虚无的神中有能降雨的吗？ 天能自降甘霖吗？ 耶和华—我们的 神啊， 能如此的不是你吗？ 所以，我们仍要等候你， 因为这一切都是你所造的。
