Jeremias 10
1 Hear you the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
以色列家啊，要聽耶和華對你們所說的話。
2 Thus says the Lord, Learn you not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, [falling] on their faces.
耶和華如此說： 你們不要效法列國的行為， 也不要為天象驚惶， 因列國為此事驚惶。
3 For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
眾民的風俗是虛空的； 他們在樹林中用斧子砍伐一棵樹， 匠人用手工造成偶像。
4 [They are] beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
他們用金銀妝飾它， 用釘子和錘子釘穩， 使它不動搖。
5 they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver They must certainly be borne, for they can’t ride [of themselves]. Fear them not; for they can’t do any evil, and there is no good in them.
它好像棕樹，是鏇成的， 不能說話，不能行走， 必須有人抬着。 你們不要怕它； 它不能降禍， 也無力降福。
耶和華啊，沒有能比你的！ 你本為大，有大能大力的名。
萬國的王啊，誰不敬畏你？ 敬畏你本是合宜的； 因為在列國的智慧人中， 雖有政權的尊榮， 也不能比你。
他們盡都是畜類，是愚昧的。 偶像的訓誨算甚麼呢？ 偶像不過是木頭。
有銀子打成片，是從他施帶來的， 並有從烏法來的金子， 都是匠人和銀匠的手工， 又有藍色紫色料的衣服， 都是巧匠的工作。
惟耶和華是真上帝， 是活上帝，是永遠的王。 他一發怒，大地震動； 他一惱恨，列國都擔當不起。 （
11 Thus shall you say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
你們要對他們如此說：不是那創造天地的神，必從地上從天下被除滅！）
12 It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,
耶和華用能力創造大地， 用智慧建立世界， 用聰明鋪張穹蒼。
13 and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.
他一發聲，空中便有多水激動； 他使雲霧從地極上騰； 他造電隨雨而閃， 從他府庫中帶出風來。
14 Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
各人都成了畜類，毫無知識； 各銀匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧。 他所鑄的偶像本是虛假的， 其中並無氣息，
15 They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
都是虛無的， 是迷惑人的工作； 到追討的時候必被除滅。
16 Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
雅各的分不像這些， 因他是造作萬有的主。 以色列也是他產業的支派， 萬軍之耶和華是他的名。
17 He has gathered your substance from without the lodged in choice [vessels].
受圍困的人哪，當收拾你的財物， 從國中帶出去。
18 For thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that your plague may be discovered.
因為耶和華如此說： 這時候，我必將此地的居民， 好像用機弦甩出去， 又必加害在他們身上， 使他們覺悟。
19 Alas for your ruin! your plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you.
民說：禍哉！我受損傷； 我的傷痕極其重大。 我卻說：這真是我的痛苦， 必須忍受。
20 Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, [nor] place for my curtains.
我的帳棚毀壞； 我的繩索折斷。 我的兒女離我出去，沒有了。 無人再支搭我的帳棚，掛起我的幔子。
21 For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.
因為牧人都成為畜類， 沒有求問耶和華， 所以不得順利； 他們的羊群也都分散。
22 Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.
有風聲！看哪，敵人來了！ 有大擾亂從北方出來， 要使猶大城邑變為荒涼， 成為野狗的住處。
23 I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.
耶和華啊，我曉得人的道路不由自己， 行路的人也不能定自己的腳步。
24 Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgement; and not in wrath, lest you make us few.
耶和華啊，求你從寬懲治我， 不要在你的怒中懲治我， 恐怕使我歸於無有。
25 Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the families that have not called upon your name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.
願你將忿怒傾在不認識你的列國中， 和不求告你名的各族上； 因為他們吞了雅各，不但吞了，而且滅絕， 把他的住處變為荒場。
