耶利米書 17
1 猶大的罪是用鐵筆記下來的，用鑽石尖刻在他們的心坎上和他們的祭壇上，好叫他們的子孫記得他們在高崗上，青綠樹下和平原的山上，
“The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron and a point of diamond. It has been engraved upon the breadth of their heart and upon the horns of their shrines.
2 設立了祭壇和神木。
And their sons make a remembrance of their shrines, and their sacred groves, and their leafy trees on high mountains,
3 你的財產和所有的寶藏，我必使人掠奪，以抵償你在全境內犯過的一切罪惡。
by sacrificing in the field. And so, I will give over your strength and all your treasures to be despoiled, along with your exalted places of sin, within all your borders.
4 我必由你手中撤回我賜與你的產業，叫你在不相識的地方給你敵人為奴，因為我的怒火已燃起，將永遠不熄。
And you will be left behind without your inheritance, which I gave to you. And I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land that you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in my fury; it shall burn, even unto eternity.”
5 上主這樣說：「凡信賴世人，以血肉的人為自己的臂膊，決心遠離上主的人，是可咒罵的!
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord.
6 他必像在曠野中的檉柳，即使來到，一點也不覺察，只住在乾燥處，滿含鹽質無人居住之地。
For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable.
7 凡信賴上主，以上主作倚靠的人，是可祝福的；
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, for the Lord will be his confidence.
8 他必像一株栽在水邊的樹木，生根河畔，不怕災熱的侵擊，枝葉茂盛，不愁旱年，不斷結實。
And he will be like a tree planted beside waters, which sends out its roots to moist soil. And it will not fear when the heat arrives. And its leaves will be green. And in the time of drought, it will not be anxious, nor will it cease at any time to bear fruit.
9 人心最狡滑欺詐，已不可救藥；誰能透識﹖
The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?
10 我上主透察人心，考驗肺腑，依照各人的行徑和作為的結果，給人酬報。
I am the Lord, who examines the heart and tests the temperament, who gives to each one according to his way and according to the fruit of his own decisions.
11 誰不以正義積聚財物，就像一隻鷓鴣孵化不是自己產的卵，中途必要拋棄；結果，還是自己糊塗。
A partridge has hatched eggs that she did not lay; a man has gathered riches, but without judgment. In the midst of his days, he will leave it all behind, and he will be foolish concerning his very end.”
12 我們聖所的地方，從起初就是設在崇高之處的光榮實座。
“A high and glorious throne is the place of our sanctification from the beginning.
13 上主，以色列的希望! 凡離棄你的，必要蒙羞；上主，凡離棄你的，必被記錄在地上，因為他們離棄了活水的泉源。
O Lord, Hope of Israel: all who forsake you will be confounded. Those who withdraw from you will be written into the earth. For they have abandoned the Lord, the Source of living waters.
14 上主，求你醫治我，我必能痊愈；你拯救我，我必能獲救，因為你是我的榮耀。
Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved. For you are my praise.
15 看，世人對我說：上主的話在哪裏﹖讓它來吧!
Behold, they themselves are saying to me: ‘Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come.’
16 我沒有強迫你加害，也沒有期望災禍的日子；你知道：凡出自我口的，都先向你面陳過。
But I am not troubled; I am following you as my shepherd. And I have not desired the day of man, as you know. That which has gone forth from my lips has been right in your sight.
17 請你不要成為我的恐怖，你原是我患難之日的避難所。
May you not be a dread to me. You are my hope in the day of affliction.
18 願迫害我的人蒙羞；而不是我驚慌；請你給他們招來災禍的日子，以雙倍的毀滅，消滅他們。
May those who persecute me be confounded, but may I not be confounded. May they be fearful, and may I not be fearful. Lead over them the day of affliction, and crush them with a double destruction.”
19 上主這樣對我說：「你去立在猶大出入的本雅明門前，立在耶路撒冷各門前，
Thus says the Lord to me: “Go, and stand at the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah enter and depart, and at all the gates of Jerusalem.
20 向他們說：猶大的君王、全體猶大人和耶路撒冷居民，即由這門進來的，他們聆聽上主的話!
And you shall say to them: Listen to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and all of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter through these gates.”
21 上主這樣說：你們應該小心，不要在安息日擔運重載，進入耶路撒冷的城門。
Thus says the Lord: “Guard your souls, and do not choose to carry heavy things on the day of the Sabbath, nor should you carry these things through the gates of Jerusalem.
22 不要在安息日從你們的家裏擔運重載；不要做任何工作，卻要按照我給你們祖先所吩咐的，聖化安息日。
And do not be willing to cast burdens out of your houses on the day of the Sabbath, nor should you do any work. Sanctify the day of the Sabbath, just as I instructed your fathers.
23 他們不但不側耳傾聽，反而硬著頭頸，不願依從，不願受教。
But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear. Instead, they hardened their neck, lest they listen to me and receive discipline.
24 設若你們認真聽從我──上主的斷語──在安息日，不將重擔搬進這城門，卻聖化安息日，不做任何工作；
And this shall be: If you listen to me, says the Lord, so that you do not carry in burdens through the gates of this city on the day of the Sabbath, and if you sanctify the day of the Sabbath, so that you do not do work in it,
25 那麼，坐在達味實座上的君王和王侯，便會乘車騎馬，與自己的公卿、猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民，從這槷的門進來；這城必永遠有人居住；
then there will enter through the gates of this city: kings and princes, sitting on the throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city will be inhabited forever.
26 人們從猶大各城、耶路撒冷四週、本雅明地、平原、山地和南方前來，帶著全燔祭。犧牲、素祭和乳香，在上主的殿裏奉獻感恩祭。
And they will arrive from the cities of Judah and from all around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plains, and from the mountainous regions, and from the south, carrying holocausts, and victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense. And they will carry an oblation into the house of the Lord.
27 但是，我不聖化安息日，反在安息日擔運重載，進入耶路撒冷的城門，我必在城門口放火，吞滅耶路撒冷的宮殿，決不熄滅。
But if you will not listen to me, to sanctify the day of the Sabbath, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring these things through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire at its gates, and it will devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it will not be extinguished.”
