耶利米书 14
1 耶和华论到干旱之灾的话临到耶利米：
This is a message from the Lord that came to Jeremiah regarding the drought:
2 犹大悲哀，城门衰败。 众人披上黑衣坐在地上； 耶路撒冷的哀声上达。
Judah is in mourning; her towns are wasting away. Her people are weeping for the land, and a cry for help comes from Jerusalem.
3 他们的贵胄打发家僮打水； 他们来到水池， 见没有水，就拿着空器皿， 蒙羞惭愧，抱头而回。
Rich people send their servants to get water. They go to the cisterns, but don't find any water. They return with empty jars, disappointed and ashamed, covering their heads.
4 耕地的也蒙羞抱头； 因为无雨降在地上， 地都干裂。
The ground has dried up because there hasn't been any rain in the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
5 田野的母鹿生下小鹿，就撇弃， 因为无草。
Even the deer abandons her newborn fawn because there's no grass.
6 野驴站在净光的高处，喘气好像野狗； 因为无草，眼目失明。
Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills, panting like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have nothing to eat.
7 耶和华啊，我们的罪孽虽然作见证告我们， 还求你为你名的缘故行事。 我们本是多次背道，得罪了你。
Even though our sins give evidence against us, Lord, please do something for us because of your good nature. Yes, we have rebelled against you so often; we have sinned against you.
8 以色列所盼望、在患难时作他救主的啊， 你为何在这地像寄居的， 又像行路的只住一宵呢？
You are the hope of Israel, our Savior in times of trouble. Why do you act like a foreigner in our country, like a traveler who only stays a night?
9 你为何像受惊的人， 像不能救人的勇士呢？ 耶和华啊，你仍在我们中间； 我们也称为你名下的人， 求你不要离开我们。
Why do you act like someone caught unawares, like a powerful warrior who can't help? You are here among us, Lord, and we are known as your people. Please don't give up on us!
10 耶和华对这百姓如此说： 这百姓喜爱妄行， 不禁止脚步， 所以耶和华不悦纳他们。 现今要记念他们的罪孽， 追讨他们的罪恶。
This is what the Lord says about his people: They really love to wander away from me—they don't even try to stop themselves. So the Lord refuses to accept them. Now he'll remember their guilty actions and punish them for their sins.
11 耶和华又对我说：“不要为这百姓祈祷求好处。
The Lord told me, Don't pray for the welfare of this people.
12 他们禁食的时候，我不听他们的呼求；他们献燔祭和素祭，我也不悦纳；我却要用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫灭绝他们。”
Even if they fast, I won't listen to their cry. Even though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I won't accept them. On the contrary I will wipe them out by sword and famine and plague.
13 我就说：“唉！主耶和华啊，那些先知常对他们说：‘你们必不看见刀剑，也不遭遇饥荒；耶和华要在这地方赐你们长久的平安。’”
“Oh Lord God!” I answered, “Look what prophets are telling them, claiming to be speaking for you: ‘You won't see war or suffer from famine, but I will give you peace that lasts here in this place.’”
14 耶和华对我说：“那些先知托我的名说假预言，我并没有打发他们，没有吩咐他们，也没有对他们说话；他们向你们预言的，乃是虚假的异象和占卜，并虚无的事，以及本心的诡诈。
The prophets are prophesying lies in my name, replied the Lord. I didn't send them or choose them or speak to them. It's a lying vision, an empty prediction, a deluded, deceitful product of their own minds that they are prophesying to you.
15 所以耶和华如此说：论到托我名说预言的那些先知，我并没有打发他们；他们还说这地不能有刀剑饥荒，其实那些先知必被刀剑饥荒灭绝。
So this is what the Lord says about such prophets who prophesy in my name: I didn't send them, but even so they say, “This country won't suffer war or famine.” These same prophets will die from war or famine!
16 听他们说预言的百姓必因饥荒刀剑抛在耶路撒冷的街道上，无人葬埋。他们连妻子带儿女，都是如此。我必将他们的恶倒在他们身上。”
The bodies of the people they prophesied to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and war. There won't be anyone to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.
17 你要将这话对他们说： 愿我眼泪汪汪， 昼夜不息， 因为我百姓受了裂口破坏的大伤。
This is what you are to tell them: Tears flow from my eyes without stopping day or night, because my people have been crushed by a heavy blow, a really serious wound.
18 我若出往田间， 就见有被刀杀的； 我若进入城内， 就见有因饥荒患病的； 连先知带祭司在国中往来， 也是毫无知识。
If I go out to the countryside, I see those killed by the sword; if I go into the city, I see those dying by famine. Both prophets and priests wander around the country—they don't know what they're doing.
19 你全然弃掉犹大吗？ 你心厌恶锡安吗？ 为何击打我们，以致无法医治呢？ 我们指望平安，却得不着好处； 指望痊愈，不料，受了惊惶。
Have you really rejected Judah? Do you hate Zion so much? Why have you wounded us so badly that we can't be healed? We hoped for peace, but instead nothing good has come; we hoped for a time of healing, but instead there was only sudden terror.
20 耶和华啊，我们承认自己的罪恶， 和我们列祖的罪孽， 因我们得罪了你。
Lord, we admit our wickedness, the guilt of our forefathers as well as our own sins against you.
21 求你为你名的缘故， 不厌恶我们， 不辱没你荣耀的宝座。 求你追念， 不要背了与我们所立的约。
Because of your own reputation please don't hate us; don't bring dishonor on your glorious throne. Please remember your agreement with us; don't break it.
22 外邦人虚无的神中有能降雨的吗？ 天能自降甘霖吗？ 耶和华—我们的 神啊， 能如此的不是你吗？ 所以，我们仍要等候你， 因为这一切都是你所造的。
Can the false gods of the other nations bring rain? Can the skies themselves send showers? No, it's you, Lord our God. So we put our hope in you, because only you can do all this.
