Jeremiah 3
1 He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.
有话说：人若休妻， 妻离他而去，作了别人的妻， 前夫岂能再收回她来？ 若收回她来，那地岂不是大大玷污了吗？ 但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫， 还可以归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights and see—where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian in the desert, —and hast defiled the land with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness.
你向净光的高处举目观看， 你在何处没有淫行呢？ 你坐在道旁等候， 好像阿拉伯人在旷野埋伏一样， 并且你的淫行邪恶玷污了全地。
3 Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come, —Yet the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.
因此甘霖停止， 春雨不降。 你还是有娼妓之脸， 不顾羞耻。
4 Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
从今以后，你岂不向我呼叫说： 我父啊，你是我幼年的恩主。
5 Will he maintain his anger to times age-abiding? Will he keep it perpetually? Lo! thou hast spoken thus but hast done wicked things and had thy way!
耶和华岂永远怀怒，存留到底吗？ 看哪，你又发恶言又行坏事， 随自己的私意而行。”
6 And Yahweh said unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what apostate Israel, did? She used to go upon every high mountain and beneath every green tree, and commit unchastity there.
约西亚王在位的时候，耶和华又对我说：“背道的以色列所行的，你看见没有？她上各高山，在各青翠树下行淫。
7 And I said, after she had been doing all these things, Unto me, shall thou return? and she returned not, —and her treacherous sister Judah saw it!
她行这些事以后，我说她必归向我，她却不归向我。她奸诈的妹妹犹大也看见了。
8 Though she saw that for all this, apostate Israel having committed adultery, I had sent her away, and had given a scroll of divorcement unto her, yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but, she also, went and committed unchastity.
背道的以色列行淫，我为这缘故给她休书休她；我看见她奸诈的妹妹犹大，还不惧怕，也去行淫。
9 Yea though it had come to pass that through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land, —and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,
因以色列轻忽了她的淫乱，和石头木头行淫，地就被玷污了。
10 yet, in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah returned not unto me, with all her heart, —but, falsely, Declareth Yahweh.
虽有这一切的事，她奸诈的妹妹犹大还不一心归向我，不过是假意归我。这是耶和华说的。”
11 Then said Yahweh unto me, —Apostate Israel, hath justified herself, —more than treacherous Judah.
耶和华对我说：“背道的以色列比奸诈的犹大还显为义。
12 Go, and proclaim these words, towards the North and say—Return! thou apostate—Israel, Urgeth Yahweh, I will not lower my face against you, —for full of lovingkindness, I am, Declareth Yahweh, I will not maintain [mine anger] unto times age-abiding.
你去向北方宣告说： 耶和华说：背道的以色列啊，回来吧！ 我必不怒目看你们； 因为我是慈爱的， 我必不永远存怒。 这是耶和华说的。
13 Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed, —and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and unto my voice, ye have not hearkened Declareth Yahweh.
只要承认你的罪孽， 就是你违背耶和华—你的 神， 在各青翠树下向别神东奔西跑， 没有听从我的话。 这是耶和华说的。
14 Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband, —therefore will I take you one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;
耶和华说：背道的儿女啊，回来吧！ 因为我作你们的丈夫， 并且我必将你们从一城取一人， 从一族取两人，带到锡安。
15 and will give you shepherds according to mine own heart, —who will feed you with knowledge and discretion.
我也必将合我心的牧者赐给你们。他们必以知识和智慧牧养你们。”
16 And it shall come to pass when ye shall be multiplied and become fruitful in the land, in those days, Declareth Yahweh, They shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Neither shall it come up on the heart, Neither shall they remember it, Neither shall they miss it, Neither shall it be made any more.
耶和华说：“你们在国中生养众多；当那些日子，人必不再提说耶和华的约柜，不追想，不记念，不觉缺少，也不再制造。
17 At that time, shall they call Jerusalem, The throne of Yahweh, and there shall be gathered unto her all the nations—to the Name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem; and they shall walk no more after the stubbornness of their own wicked heart.
那时，人必称耶路撒冷为耶和华的宝座；万国必到耶路撒冷，在耶和华立名的地方聚集。他们必不再随从自己顽梗的恶心行事。
18 In those days, shall the house of Judah go unto the house of Israel, —that they may enter together out of the land of the North, upon the land which I gave as an inheritance unto your fathers.
当那些日子，犹大家要和以色列家同行，从北方之地一同来到我赐给你们列祖为业之地。”
19 Though, I myself, had said, —How can I put thee among the sons, And give thee a land to be coveted, An inheritance of beauty, of the hosts of nations? Yet I said, My father, shalt thou call me, And away from me, shalt thou not turn.
我说：我怎样将你安置在儿女之中， 赐给你美地， 就是万国中肥美的产业。 我又说：你们必称我为父， 也不再转去不跟从我。
20 But indeed [as] a wife goeth treacherously from her husband, so, have ye acted treacherously with me, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh.
以色列家，你们向我行诡诈， 真像妻子行诡诈离开她丈夫一样。 这是耶和华说的。
21 A voice on the bare heights, is heard, The weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel, —Because they have perverted their way, Have forgotten Yahweh their God.
在净光的高处听见人声， 就是以色列人哭泣恳求之声， 乃因他们走弯曲之道， 忘记耶和华—他们的 神。
22 Return ye apostate sons, I will heal your apostasies! Behold us! we have come unto thee, For thou, art Yahweh our God.
你们这背道的儿女啊，回来吧！ 我要医治你们背道的病。 看哪，我们来到你这里， 因你是耶和华—我们的 神。
23 Surely, to falsehood, pertain the hills The noisy throng on the mountains, —Surely, in Yahweh our God, is the salvation of Israel!
仰望从小山或从大山的喧嚷中得帮助， 真是枉然的。 以色列得救，诚然在乎耶和华—我们的 神。
24 But, the Shameful thing, hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth: Their flocks, and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
从我们幼年以来，那可耻的偶像将我们列祖所劳碌得来的羊群、牛群，和他们的儿女都吞吃了。
25 We must lie down in our shame And our reproach, be our covering, For, against Yahweh our God, have we sinned, We and our fathers, from our youth even until this day, —Neither have we hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God.
我们在羞耻中躺卧吧！愿惭愧将我们遮盖；因为从立国以来，我们和我们的列祖常常得罪耶和华—我们的 神，没有听从耶和华—我们 神的话。
