Jeremiah 13
1 Yahweh said this to me, “Go and buy a linen undergarment and put it on around your waist, but do not put it in water first.”
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 So I bought an undergarment as Yahweh directed, and I put in on around my waist.
我就照着耶和华的话，买了一根带子束腰。
3 Then the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying,
耶和华的话第二次临到我说：
4 “Take the undergarment that you purchased that is around your waist, get up and go now to Perath. Hide it there in a rock crevice.”
“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 So I went and hid it in Perath, just as Yahweh had 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 After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Get up and go back to Perath. Take from there the undergarment that I had told you to hide.”
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 So I went back to Perath and dug out the undergarment where I had hid it, and behold, it was destroyed and completely useless.
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 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
耶和华的话临到我说：
9 “Yahweh says this: In the same way I will destroy the great arrogance of Judah and 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 wicked people who refuses to listen to my word, who walk in the hardness of their heart, who go after other gods to worship them and bow down to them—they will be like this undergarment that is good for nothing.
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 just as an undergarment clings to someone's hips, so I have made all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah cling to me—this is Yahweh's declaration—to be my people, to bring me fame, praise, and honor. But they would not listen to me.
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 So you must speak this word to them, 'Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this: Every jar will be filled with wine.' They will say to you, 'Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with 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 So say to them, 'Yahweh says this: See, I am about to fill with drunkenness every inhabitant of this land, the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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 Then I will smash each man against the other, fathers and children together—this is Yahweh's declaration—I will not pity them or have compassion, and I will not spare them from destruction.'”
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 Listen and pay attention. Do not be arrogant, for Yahweh had 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 honor to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness, and before he causes your feet to stumble on the mountains at twilight. For you are hoping for light, but he will turn the place into a deep darkness, into a dark cloud.
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 So if you will not listen, I will weep alone because of your arrogance. My eyes will certainly weep and flow with tears, for Yahweh's flock 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 queen mother, 'Come down from your thrones, for your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.'
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 in the Negev will be shut up, with no one to open them. All Judah will be taken captive, completely taken captive.
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 look at the ones coming from the north. Where is the flock he gave to you, the flock that was so beautiful to you?
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 will you say when God sets over you those you had trained to be your special allies? Are these not the beginnings of the labor pains that will seize you just like a woman in childbirth?
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 Then you might say in your heart, 'Why are these things happening to me?' It will be for the multitude of your iniquities that your skirts are raised up and you have been violated.
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 Can the people of Cush change their skin color, or a leopard change its spots? If so, then you yourself, although accustomed to wickedness, would be able to do good.
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 So I will scatter them like chaff that perishes in the desert wind.
所以我必用旷野的风吹散他们， 像吹过的碎秸一样。
25 This is what I have given to you, the portion I have decreed for you—this is Yahweh's declaration— because you have forgotten me and trusted in deceit.
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 So also I myself will strip your skirts off you, and your private parts will be seen.
所以我要揭起你的衣襟， 蒙在你脸上， 显出你的丑陋。
27 I have seen your adultery and neighing, the wickedness of your prostitution on the hills and in the fields, and I have seen these detestable things! Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long until you are made clean 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？
