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 is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
2 設立了祭壇和神木。
Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
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。
My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout 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。
You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”
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!
The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs 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 bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
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, and whose confidence is in the LORD.
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。
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
9 人心最狡滑欺詐，已不可救藥；誰能透識﹖
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. 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, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
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。
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
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 glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
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。
LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring 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 ask me, “Where is the LORD’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”
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。
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
17 請你不要成為我的恐怖，你原是我患難之日的避難所。
Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.
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。
Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with 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，
The LORD said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in 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!
Tell them, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by 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。
The LORD says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by 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。
Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded 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 didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
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；
It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says the LORD, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
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 in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain 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。
They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD’s house.
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 make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”
