Jeremiah 5
1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
你们当在耶路撒冷的街上跑来跑去， 在宽阔处寻找， 看看有一人行公义求诚实没有？ 若有，我就赦免这城。
2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
其中的人虽然指着永生的耶和华起誓， 所起的誓实在是假的。
3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
耶和华啊，你的眼目不是看顾诚实吗？ 你击打他们，他们却不伤恸； 你毁灭他们，他们仍不受惩治。 他们使脸刚硬过于磐石， 不肯回头。
4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
我说：这些人实在是贫穷的，是愚昧的， 因为不晓得耶和华的作为 和他们 神的法则。
5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
我要去见尊大的人，对他们说话， 因为他们晓得耶和华的作为 和他们 神的法则。 哪知，这些人齐心将轭折断， 挣开绳索。
6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
因此，林中的狮子必害死他们； 晚上的豺狼必灭绝他们； 豹子要在城外窥伺他们。 凡出城的必被撕碎； 因为他们的罪过极多， 背道的事也加增了。
7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
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， 成群地聚集在娼妓家里。
8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
他们像喂饱的马到处乱跑， 各向他邻舍的妻发嘶声。
9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
你们要上她葡萄园的墙施行毁坏， 但不可毁坏净尽， 只可除掉她的枝子， 因为不属耶和华。
11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.
原来以色列家和犹大家大行诡诈攻击我。 这是耶和华说的。
12 They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
他们不认耶和华，说： 这并不是他， 灾祸必不临到我们； 刀剑和饥荒，我们也看不见。
13 And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.
先知的话必成为风； 道也不在他们里面。 这灾必临到他们身上。
14 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.
所以耶和华—万军之 神如此说： 因为百姓说这话， 我必使我的话在你口中为火，使他们为柴； 这火便将他们烧灭。
15 See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
耶和华说：以色列家啊， 我必使一国的民从远方来攻击你， 是强盛的国， 是从古而有的国。 他们的言语你不晓得， 他们的话你不明白。
16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
他们的箭袋是敞开的坟墓； 他们都是勇士。
17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
他们必吃尽你的庄稼和你的粮食， 是你儿女该吃的； 必吃尽你的牛羊， 吃尽你的葡萄和无花果； 又必用刀毁坏你所倚靠的坚固城。
18 But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.
耶和华说：“就是到那时，我也不将你们毁灭净尽。
19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
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：‘你们怎样离弃耶和华，在你们的地上事奉外邦神，也必照样在不属你们的地上事奉外邦人。’”
20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,
当传扬在雅各家， 报告在犹大说：
21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
愚昧无知的百姓啊， 你们有眼不看， 有耳不听， 现在当听这话。
22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
耶和华说：你们怎么不惧怕我呢？ 我以永远的定例， 用沙为海的界限， 水不得越过。 因此，你们在我面前还不战兢吗？ 波浪虽然翻腾，却不能逾越； 虽然匉訇，却不能过去。
23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
但这百姓有背叛忤逆的心； 他们叛我而去，
24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
心内也不说： 我们应当敬畏耶和华—我们的 神； 他按时赐雨，就是秋雨春雨， 又为我们定收割的节令，永存不废。
25 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
你们的罪孽使这些事转离你们； 你们的罪恶使你们不能得福。
26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
因为在我民中有恶人。 他们埋伏窥探，好像捕鸟的人； 他们设立圈套陷害人。
27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
笼内怎样满了雀鸟， 他们的房中也照样充满诡诈； 所以他们得成为大，而且富足。
28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
他们肥胖光润， 作恶过甚，不为人伸冤！ 就是不为孤儿伸冤， 不使他亨通， 也不为穷人辨屈。
29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
30 A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
国中有可惊骇、可憎恶的事：
31 The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
就是先知说假预言， 祭司借他们把持权柄； 我的百姓也喜爱这些事， 到了结局你们怎样行呢？
