耶利米书 15
1 耶和华对我说：“虽有摩西和撒母耳站在我面前代求，我的心也不顾惜这百姓。你将他们从我眼前赶出，叫他们去吧！
Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
2 他们问你说：‘我们往哪里去呢？’你便告诉他们，耶和华如此说： 定为死亡的，必致死亡； 定为刀杀的，必交刀杀； 定为饥荒的，必遭饥荒； 定为掳掠的，必被掳掠。”
It will happen when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘The LORD says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.”’
3 耶和华说：“我命定四样害他们，就是刀剑杀戮、狗类撕裂、空中的飞鸟，和地上的野兽吞吃毁灭；
“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says the LORD: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
4 又必使他们在天下万国中抛来抛去，都因犹大王希西家的儿子玛拿西在耶路撒冷所行的事。”
I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
5 耶路撒冷啊，谁可怜你呢？ 谁为你悲伤呢？ 谁转身问你的安呢？
For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?
6 耶和华说：你弃绝了我， 转身退后； 因此我伸手攻击你，毁坏你。 我后悔甚不耐烦。
You have rejected me,” says the LORD. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.
7 我在境内各城门口， 用簸箕簸了我的百姓， 使他们丧掉儿女。 我毁灭他们， 他们仍不转离所行的道。
I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways.
8 他们的寡妇在我面前比海沙更多； 我使灭命的午间来， 攻击少年人的母亲， 使痛苦惊吓忽然临到她身上。
Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
9 生过七子的妇人力衰气绝； 尚在白昼，日头忽落； 她抱愧蒙羞。 其余的人， 我必在他们敌人跟前，交与刀剑。 这是耶和华说的。
She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says the LORD.
10 我的母亲哪，我有祸了！因你生我作为遍地相争相竞的人。我素来没有借贷与人，人也没有借贷与我，人人却都咒骂我。
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
11 耶和华说：“我必要坚固你，使你得好处。灾祸苦难临到的时候，我必要使仇敌央求你。（
The LORD said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
12 人岂能将铜与铁，就是北方的铁折断呢？）
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?
13 “我必因你在四境之内所犯的一切罪，把你的货物财宝当掠物，白白地交给仇敌。
I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
14 我也必使仇敌带这掠物到你所不认识的地去，因我怒中起的火要将你们焚烧。”
I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”
15 耶和华啊，你是知道的； 求你记念我，眷顾我， 向逼迫我的人为我报仇； 不要向他们忍怒取我的命， 要知道我为你的缘故受了凌辱。
LORD, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
16 耶和华—万军之 神啊， 我得着你的言语就当食物吃了； 你的言语是我心中的欢喜快乐， 因我是称为你名下的人。
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Hosts.
17 我没有坐在宴乐人的会中， 也没有欢乐； 我因你的感动独自静坐， 因你使我满心愤恨。
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.
18 我的痛苦为何长久不止呢？ 我的伤痕为何无法医治、不能痊愈呢？ 难道你待我有诡诈，像流干的河道吗？
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
19 耶和华如此说：你若归回， 我就将你再带来， 使你站在我面前； 你若将宝贵的和下贱的分别出来， 你就可以当作我的口。 他们必归向你， 你却不可归向他们。
Therefore the LORD says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.
20 我必使你向这百姓成为坚固的铜墙； 他们必攻击你，却不能胜你； 因我与你同在，要拯救你，搭救你。 这是耶和华说的。
I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says the LORD.
21 我必搭救你脱离恶人的手， 救赎你脱离强暴人的手。
“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”
