耶利米书 12
1 耶和华啊，我与你争辩的时候， 你显为义； 但有一件，我还要与你理论： 恶人的道路为何亨通呢？ 大行诡诈的为何得安逸呢？
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
2 你栽培了他们， 他们也扎了根， 长大，而且结果。 他们的口是与你相近， 心却与你远离。
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
3 耶和华啊，你晓得我，看见我， 察验我向你是怎样的心。 求你将他们拉出来， 好像将宰的羊， 叫他们等候杀戮的日子。
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
4 这地悲哀， 通国的青草枯干，要到几时呢？ 因其上居民的恶行， 牲畜和飞鸟都灭绝了。 他们曾说：他看不见我们的结局。
How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
5 耶和华说：你若与步行的人同跑， 尚且觉累， 怎能与马赛跑呢？ 你在平安之地，虽然安稳， 在约旦河边的丛林要怎样行呢？
If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?
6 因为连你弟兄和你父家都用奸诈待你。 他们也在你后边大声喊叫， 虽向你说好话， 你也不要信他们。
For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.
7 我离了我的殿宇， 撇弃我的产业， 将我心里所亲爱的交在她仇敌的手中。
I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
8 我的产业向我如林中的狮子， 她发声攻击我， 因此我恨恶她。
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
9 我的产业向我岂如斑点的鸷鸟呢？ 鸷鸟岂在她四围攻击她呢？ 你们要去聚集田野的百兽， 带来吞吃吧！
My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
10 许多牧人毁坏我的葡萄园， 践踏我的分， 使我美好的分变为荒凉的旷野。
The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
11 他们使地荒凉； 地既荒凉，便向我悲哀。 全地荒凉，因无人介意。
They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
12 灭命的都来到旷野中一切净光的高处； 耶和华的刀从地这边直到地那边尽行杀灭。 凡有血气的都不得平安。
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
13 他们种的是麦子， 收的是荆棘； 劳劳苦苦却毫无益处。 因耶和华的烈怒， 你们必为自己的土产羞愧。
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
14 耶和华如此说：“一切恶邻，就是占据我使百姓以色列所承受产业的，我要将他们拔出本地，又要将犹大家从他们中间拔出来。
This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.
15 我拔出他们以后，我必转过来怜悯他们，把他们再带回来，各归本业，各归故土。
And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.
16 他们若殷勤学习我百姓的道，指着我的名起誓说：‘我指着永生的耶和华起誓’，正如他们从前教我百姓指着巴力起誓，他们就必建立在我百姓中间。
And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.
17 他们若是不听，我必拔出那国，拔出而且毁灭。这是耶和华说的。”
But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.
