Jeremiah 13
1 Thus said YHWH to me: “Go, and you have acquired a girdle of linen for yourself, and have placed it on your loins, and you do not cause it to enter into water.”
耶和华对我如此说：“你去买一根麻布带子束腰，不可放在水中。”
2 And I get the girdle, according to the word of YHWH, and I place [it] on my loins.
我就照着耶和华的话，买了一根带子束腰。
3 And there is a word of YHWH to me a second time, saying,
耶和华的话第二次临到我说：
4 “Take the girdle that you have acquired, that [is] on your loins, and rise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock”;
“要拿着你所买的腰带，就是你腰上的带子，起来往幼发拉底河去，将腰带藏在那里的磐石穴中。”
5 and I go and hide it by the Euphrates, as YHWH commanded me.
我就去，照着耶和华所吩咐我的，将腰带藏在幼发拉底河边。
6 And it comes to pass, at the end of many days, that YHWH says to me, “Rise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle there, that I commanded you to hide there”;
过了多日，耶和华对我说：“你起来往幼发拉底河去，将我吩咐你藏在那里的腰带取出来。”
7 and I go to the Euphrates, and dig, and take the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and behold, the girdle has been marred, it is not profitable for anything.
我就往幼发拉底河去，将腰带从我所藏的地方刨出来，见腰带已经变坏，毫无用了。
8 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, “Thus said YHWH:
耶和华的话临到我说：
9 Thus I mar the excellence of Judah, And the great excellence of Jerusalem.
“耶和华如此说：我必照样败坏犹大的骄傲和耶路撒冷的大骄傲。
10 This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Indeed it is—as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.
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，他们也必像这腰带变为无用。”
11 For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, So I caused to cleave to Me The whole house of Israel, And the whole house of Judah,” A declaration of YHWH, “To be to Me for a people, and for a name, And for praise, and for beauty, And they have not listened.
耶和华说：“腰带怎样紧贴人腰，照样，我也使以色列全家和犹大全家紧贴我，好叫他们属我为子民，使我得名声，得颂赞，得荣耀；他们却不肯听。”
12 And you have said this word to them, Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Every bottle is full of wine, And they have said to you: Do we not certainly know that every bottle is full of wine?
“所以你要对他们说：‘耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：各坛都要盛满了酒。’他们必对你说：‘我们岂不确知各坛都要盛满了酒呢？’
13 And you have said to them, Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [With] drunkenness,
你就要对他们说：‘耶和华如此说：我必使这地的一切居民，就是坐大卫宝座的君王和祭司，与先知，并耶路撒冷的一切居民，都酩酊大醉。’”
14 And have dashed them against one another, And the fathers and the sons together,” A declaration of YHWH, “I do not pity, nor spare, nor do I have mercy, So as not to destroy them.”
耶和华说：“我要使他们彼此相碰，就是父与子彼此相碰；我必不可怜，不顾惜，不怜悯，以致灭绝他们。”
15 Hear, and give ear—do not be haughty, For YHWH has spoken.
你们当听，当侧耳而听。 不要骄傲，因为耶和华已经说了。
16 Give glory to your God YHWH, Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And you have waited for light, And He has made it for death-shade, And has appointed [it] for thick darkness.
耶和华—你们的 神未使黑暗来到， 你们的脚未在昏暗山上绊跌之先， 当将荣耀归给他； 免得你们盼望光明， 他使光明变为死荫， 成为幽暗。
17 And if you do not hear it, My soul weeps in secret places, because of pride, Indeed, it weeps and wails, And the tear comes down my eyes, For the flock of YHWH has been taken captive.
你们若不听这话， 我必因你们的骄傲在暗地哭泣； 我眼必痛哭流泪， 因为耶和华的群众被掳去了。
18 Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low—sit still, For your principalities have come down, The crown of your beauty.
你要对君王和太后说： 你们当自卑，坐在下边； 因你们的头巾， 就是你们的华冠，已经脱落了。
19 The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah has been removed—all of her, She has been completely removed—
南方的城尽都关闭， 无人开放； 犹大全被掳掠， 且掳掠净尽。
20 Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where [is] the drove given to you, your beautiful flock?
你们要举目观看从北方来的人。 先前赐给你的群众， 就是你佳美的群众， 如今在哪里呢？
21 What do you say when He looks after you? And you have taught them [to be] over you—leaders for head? Do pangs not seize you as a travailing woman?
耶和华立你自己所交的朋友为首，辖制你， 那时你还有什么话说呢？ 痛苦岂不将你抓住像产难的妇人吗？
22 And when you say in your heart, “Why have these met me?” For the abundance of your iniquity Have your skirts been uncovered, Have your heels suffered violence.
你若心里说：这一切事为何临到我呢？ 你的衣襟揭起， 你的脚跟受伤， 是因你的罪孽甚多。
23 “Does a Cushite change his skin? And a leopard his spots? Can you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil?
古实人岂能改变皮肤呢？ 豹岂能改变斑点呢？ 若能，你们这习惯行恶的便能行善了。
24 And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
所以我必用旷野的风吹散他们， 像吹过的碎秸一样。
25 This [is] your lot, the portion of your measures from Me,” A declaration of YHWH, “Because you have forgotten Me, And trust in falsehood.
耶和华说：这是你所当得的， 是我量给你的分； 因为你忘记我， 倚靠虚假。
26 I have also made your skirts bare before your face, And your shame has been seen.
所以我要揭起你的衣襟， 蒙在你脸上， 显出你的丑陋。
27 Your adulteries, and your neighings, The wickedness of your whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem, You are not [yet] made clean—after when [will you be] again?”
你那些可憎恶之事— 就是在田野的山上行奸淫， 发嘶声，做淫乱的事— 我都看见了。 耶路撒冷啊，你有祸了！ 你不肯洁净，还要到几时呢？
