耶利米書 7
1 上主有話給耶肋米亞說：
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, 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。
“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”
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；
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause 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!
Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
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 you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you 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 you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk 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 I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
8 可惜! 你們竟信賴虛偽無益的話。
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t 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，
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
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﹖
then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may 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。
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
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
“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for 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；
Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t 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 I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did 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。
I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring 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。
“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
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﹖
Don’t you see what they do 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 the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may 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?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion 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 the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will 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；
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
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 didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
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 I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with 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。
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and 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 out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
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 didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. 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。
“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
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。
You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off 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 your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected 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 that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile 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。
They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come 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, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
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。
The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten 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。
Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”
