耶利米書 19
1 上主這樣對耶肋米亞說：「你去向陶工買一個瓦瓶，那麼帶些民間長老和司祭首長，
Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
2 到陶業門進口處的本希農山谷去，在那裏宣佈我要對你說的話。
and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee;
3 你要說：猶大王和耶路撒冷的居民! 請聆聽上主的話。萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必給這地方招來災禍，凡聽見的，必要耳鳴，
and say: Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle;
4 因為他們離棄了我，使這地方成了異地，在這裏向他們和他們的祖先猶大王都不認識的外邦神祗獻香，使這地方充滿無辜的血，
because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have offered in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 給巴耳建了高丘，向巴耳火焚自己的兒子作全燔祭：這都是我從沒有吩咐，沒有說過，沒有想到的事。
and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into My mind.
6 因此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──這地方不再叫作托斐特或本希農山谷，卻要叫做「屠殺谷」。
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter;
7 在這地方，我必使猶大和耶路撒冷的計劃落空，使他們在敵人面前喪身刀下，死在圖謀他們性命者的手中，將他們的屍首丟棄給天上的飛鳥，和地上的走獸作食物。
and I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth;
8 我必使這城成為驚愕的緣因和譏誚的目標；使凡從這裏經過的人，沒有不因她所受的一切打擊，而感到驚異和嗟嘆的!
and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;
9 我必使他們吞食自己子女的肉：在敵人和圖謀他們的性命的人圍攻他們，處於困危之時，必食自己道近人的肉。
and I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall straiten them.
10 以後，你就在與你同來的 眼前將那瓶打破，
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 對他們說：萬軍的上主這樣說：我要這樣破壞這人民和這城市，就如人打破這陶工的器皿，再也無法補救；人必將托斐特充作墳埸，因為再沒有地方可供埋葬。
and shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, for want of room to bury.
12 我必這樣對待這地方和這地的居民──上主的斷語──使這城市像托斐特一樣；
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth;
13 耶路撒冷的房屋和判斷的宮殿，即他們在樓頂上向天上的萬象獻香，並給外方的神祗行奠禮的一切房屋，都必像托斐特一樣，成為不潔的地方。
and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have offered unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.
14 耶肋米亞奉上主派遺到托斐特宣講預言回來以後，站在上主殿宇的庭院裏，向全體人民說：
Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house, and said to all the people:
15 「萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必給這城市和她所屬的一切市鎮，招來我對她說過的災禍，因為她硬著頭頸，不肯聽從我的話」。
'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they might not hear My words.'
