耶利米书 6
1 便雅悯人哪，你们要逃出耶路撒冷， 在提哥亚吹角， 在伯·哈基琳立号旗； 因为有灾祸与大毁灭从北方张望。
“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the shofar in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.
2 那秀美娇嫩的锡安女子， 我必剪除。
I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
3 牧人必引他们的羊群到她那里， 在她周围支搭帐棚， 各在自己所占之地使羊吃草。
Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”
4 你们要准备攻击她。 起来吧，我们可以趁午时上去。 哀哉！日已渐斜， 晚影拖长了。
“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 起来吧，我们夜间上去， 毁坏她的宫殿。
Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
6 因为万军之耶和华如此说： 你们要砍伐树木， 筑垒攻打耶路撒冷。 这就是那该罚的城， 其中尽是欺压。
For the LORD of Hosts said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself.
7 井怎样涌出水来， 这城也照样涌出恶来； 在其间常听见有强暴毁灭的事， 病患损伤也常在我面前。
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
8 耶路撒冷啊，你当受教， 免得我心与你生疏， 免得我使你荒凉， 成为无人居住之地。
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
9 万军之耶和华曾如此说： 敌人必掳尽以色列剩下的民， 如同摘净葡萄一样。 你要像摘葡萄的人摘了又摘，回手放在筐子里。
The LORD of Hosts says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”
10 现在我可以向谁说话作见证，使他们听呢？ 他们的耳朵未受割礼，不能听见。 看哪，耶和华的话他们以为羞辱， 不以为喜悦。
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
11 因此我被耶和华的忿怒充满，难以含忍。 我要倾在街中的孩童和聚会的少年人身上， 连夫带妻， 并年老的与日子满足的都必被擒拿。
Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
12 他们的房屋、田地， 和妻子都必转归别人； 我要伸手攻击这地的居民。 这是耶和华说的。
Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.”
13 因为他们从最小的到至大的都一味地贪婪， 从先知到祭司都行事虚谎。
“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
14 他们轻轻忽忽地医治我百姓的损伤， 说：平安了！平安了！ 其实没有平安。
They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
15 他们行可憎的事知道惭愧吗？ 不然，他们毫不惭愧， 也不知羞耻。 因此，他们必在仆倒的人中仆倒； 我向他们讨罪的时候， 他们必致跌倒。 这是耶和华说的。
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall amongst those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says the LORD.
16 耶和华如此说： 你们当站在路上察看， 访问古道， 哪是善道，便行在其间； 这样，你们心里必得安息。 他们却说：我们不行在其间。
The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 我设立守望的人照管你们， 说：要听角声。 他们却说：我们不听。
I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the shofar!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’
18 列国啊，因此你们当听！ 会众啊，要知道他们必遭遇的事。
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is amongst them.
19 地啊，当听！ 我必使灾祸临到这百姓， 就是他们意念所结的果子； 因为他们不听从我的言语， 至于我的训诲，他们也厌弃了。
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
20 从示巴出的乳香， 从远方出的菖蒲 奉来给我有何益呢？ 你们的燔祭不蒙悦纳； 你们的平安祭，我也不喜悦。
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
21 所以耶和华如此说： 我要将绊脚石放在这百姓前面。 父亲和儿子要一同跌在其上； 邻舍与朋友也都灭亡。
Therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbour and his friend will perish.”
22 耶和华如此说： 看哪，有一种民从北方而来， 并有一大国被激动，从地极来到。
The LORD says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
23 他们拿弓和枪， 性情残忍，不施怜悯； 他们的声音像海浪匉訇。 锡安城啊， 他们骑马都摆队伍， 如上战场的人要攻击你。
They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”
24 我们听见他们的风声，手就发软； 痛苦将我们抓住， 疼痛仿佛产难的妇人。
We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labour.
25 你们不要往田野去， 也不要行在路上， 因四围有仇敌的刀剑和惊吓。
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.
26 我民哪，应当腰束麻布，滚在灰中。 你要悲伤，如丧独生子痛痛哭号， 因为灭命的要忽然临到我们。
Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
27 我使你在我民中为高台，为保障， 使你知道试验他们的行动。
“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress amongst my people, that you may know and try their way.
28 他们都是极悖逆的， 往来谗谤人。 他们是铜是铁， 都行坏事。
They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
29 风箱吹火，铅被烧毁； 他们炼而又炼，终是徒然； 因为恶劣的还未除掉。
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 人必称他们为被弃的银渣， 因为耶和华已经弃掉他们。
Men will call them rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
