耶利米書 7
1 上主有話給耶肋米亞說：
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2 「你站在上主殿字的門口，宣佈這話說：你們凡由這些門進來，朝拜上主的猶大人，請聽上主的話。
Place thyself in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in by these gates to bow down before the Lord.
3 萬軍的上主，以色列的這樣說：改善你們的生活和行為，我就讓你們住在這地方；
Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will permit you to dwell in this place.
4 不要信賴虛偽的話說：「這是上主的聖殿，上主的聖殿，上主的聖殿!
[But] do not rely on the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, [as] they [say].
5 只有他們徹底改善你的生活和行為，在人與人之間行事公道，
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
6 不虐待旅客、孤兒、寡婦，不在這地方傾流無辜者的血，不自招禍患去跟隨外邦的神祗，
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after other gods to your own hurt:
7 我才讓你們住在這地方，即我自開始便永遠賜給你們祖先的土地。
Then will I permit you to dwell in this place, in the land that I have given to your fathers, from eternity to eternity.
8 可惜! 你們竟信賴虛偽無益的話。
Behold, ye rely on the words of falsehood, that cannot profit.
9 怎麼﹖你們竟偷盜，兇殺，通姦，發虛誓，向巴耳獻香，跟隨素不相識的外方神祗，
How? will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Ba'al, and walk after other gods of which ye have no knowledge;
10 然後來到這歸我名下的殿裏，立在我面前說：「我們有了保障! 」好再去行這一切可惡的事﹖
And [then] come and stand before my presence in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are delivered;” in order to do all these abominations?
11 難道這座歸我名下的殿宇，在你們眼中竟成了賊窩了嗎﹖哎! 我看實在是這樣──上主的斷語。
Is then this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? [But] I also, behold, I have seen it, saith the Lord.
12 那麼，請你們到我昔日在史羅立我名的地方去，察看我因我人名以色列的邪惡對她行了的事
For go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did unto it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 現在因為你們做了這一切事──上主的斷語──我再三懇切勸你們，你們又不聽；我呼喚你們，你們也不答應；
And now, whereas ye have done all these acts, saith the Lord, and I spoke unto you, causing [the prophets] to rise up early and speaking, while ye would not hear; and I called you, but ye would not answer:
14 為此，我要對付你們依恃的這座歸於我名下的殿宇，並對付我給你們及你們祖先的地域，向對付史羅一樣；
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, whereon ye rely, and unto the place which I have given to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 我必將你們由我面前拋棄，如同拋棄了你們所的有，厄弗辣因全體後裔一樣。
And I will cast you out of my presence, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
16 至於你，你你不必為這人民祈禱，不必為他們呼籲哀求，也不必向我懇求，因為我不會俯聽你。
But thou—pray not thou in behalf of this people, nor lift up in their behalf entreaty or prayer, nor make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.
17 他們在猶大各城和耶路撒冷街上做的是什麼事，難道你沒有看見﹖
Dost thou not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 兒子拾柴，父親燒火，母女揉麵給天后做餅，向外方神祗行奠祭，來觸怒我。
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.
19 他們果真觸怒我嗎﹖──上主的斷語──豈不是觸犯自己，使自己滿面慚愧﹖
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord, [and] not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?
20 為此我上主這樣說：看，我的憤怒和怒火，必要傾注在這地方的人和走獸身上，田間的樹木和土地的出產上，燃燒不熄。
Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, over man, and over beast, and over the trees of the field, and over the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and it shall not be quenched.
21 萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：「你們獻祭後，儘管飽悢祭肉；
Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings unto your peace-sacrifices, and eat the flesh thereof.
22 可是，關於全燔祭和獻祭的事情，我在領你們祖先出離埃及那一天，並沒有對他們談及或吩咐什麼，
For I spoke not with your fathers, and I commanded them not on the day of my bringing them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering or sacrifice;
23 只吩咐了他們這事說：你們應聽從我的聲音，那麼我必作你們的天主，你們也必作我的人民；你們應走我吩咐你們的一切道路，好使你們獲得幸福。
But this thing did I command them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be unto you for a God, and ye shall be unto me for a people; and walk ye altogether on the way which I may command you, in order that it may be well unto you.
24 他們不但不側耳細聽，反倒依照自己的計劃，隨自己邪惡的心生活，頑固不化；不以面向我，卻以背向我。
Yet they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear; but they walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart; and they went backward, and not forward:
25 從你們祖先出離埃及那一天起，直到今日，我給你們派遺了我所有的僕人先知，而且每天清早給你們派遺，
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt until this day; and I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, sending them daily in the morning early;
26 但他們不但不側耳聽從我，反而更硬起自己的頸項，比自己的祖先還要乖戾。
Yet they hearkened not unto me, and inclined not their ear; but they hardened their neck; they did worse than their fathers.
27 縱使你將這一切話告訴他們，他們也不會聽從你；任憑你怎樣呼喚，他們也不會答應你。
And if thou speak unto them all these words, and they will not hearken to thee; and if thou call unto them, and they will not answer thee:
28 為此你對他們說：這個民族，不聽上主自己天主的聲音，不肯接受訓；忠實已喪失，已絕於他們口中。
Then shalt thou say unto them, This is the nation that hearken not to the voice of the Lord their God, and accept not correction; lost is the truth, and is obliterated from their mouth.
29 你該剪去你的一綹頭髮，把它拋掉，在高丘上唱哀歌，因為上主擯斥，且拋棄了衪憎恨的時代。
Cut off thy flowing hair, and cast it away, and take up on mountain-tops a lamentation; for rejected hath the Lord and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 的確，猶大子民作了我視為惡的──上主的斷語──將他們可惡之物，安置在歸我名下的殿宇裏，使殿宇受玷污；
For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, saith the Lord: they have set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 又本希農山谷的托斐特建築了丘壇，為火焚自己的子女；這是我從沒有吩咐，也從沒有想到的事。
And they have built the high-places of Thophet, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I had not commanded, and which never came into my mind.
32 為此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──人王再稱這地方為「托斐特」，或「本希農谷」，卻要稱它為「屠殺谷」；由於墳地不夠，連斐特也將充作墳場。
Therefore, behold days are coming, saith the Lord, that it shall not be called any more Thophet, or The valley of Ben-hinnom, but The valley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Thophet, for want of room.
33 這人民的屍體將成為天空飛鳥和地上走獸的食物，而沒有人來驅逐。
And the carcasses of this people shall become food unto the fowls of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth, with none to chase them away.
34 我必猶大城內和耶路撒冷街上，再也聽到歡愉和喜樂的音，新郎和新娘的音，因為這地要變為荒野。
And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for a desert shall the land become.
