耶利米书 22
1 耶和华如此说：“你下到犹大王的宫中，在那里说这话，
This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:
2 说：‘坐大卫宝座的犹大王啊，你和你的臣仆，并进入城门的百姓，都当听耶和华的话。
‘You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler [MTY], like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen
3 耶和华如此说：你们要施行公平和公义，拯救被抢夺的脱离欺压人的手，不可亏负寄居的和孤儿寡妇，不可以强暴待他们，在这地方也不可流无辜人的血。
to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here [in Jerusalem] [MTY] those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong).
4 你们若认真行这事，就必有坐大卫宝座的君王和他的臣仆百姓，或坐车或骑马，从这城的各门进入。
If you obey those commands carefully, there will [always] be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here [MTY] [in Jerusalem]. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.
5 你们若不听这些话，耶和华说：我指着自己起誓，这城必变为荒场。’
But if you refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself [MTY] as a witness, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.”’”
6 耶和华论到犹大王的家如此说： 我看你如基列， 如黎巴嫩顶； 然而，我必使你变为旷野， 为无人居住的城邑。
And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace: “[I like] this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead [region] and the mountains in Lebanon. But I will cause this palace to become a desert, a place that no one lives in.
7 我要预备行毁灭的人， 各拿器械攻击你； 他们要砍下你佳美的香柏树， 扔在火中。
I will summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace; each of their soldiers will use his own tools [to wreck the building]. They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar [beams] and throw them into a fire.”
8 “许多国的民要经过这城，各人对邻舍说：‘耶和华为何向这大城如此行呢？’
People from many nations will walk past [the ruins of] this city and say to each other, “Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was [very] great?”
9 他们必回答说：‘是因离弃了耶和华—他们 神的约，事奉敬拜别神。’”
And [other] people will reply, “[He did it] because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped [DOU] other gods.”
10 不要为死人哭号； 不要为他悲伤， 却要为离家出外的人大大哭号； 因为他不得再回来， 也不得再见他的本国。
[Yahweh also says, ] “Do not mourn for King [Josiah]; do not cry because he has died. Instead, mourn for [King Jehoahaz, his son], [because] he will be captured and taken to another country, and he will never return to see his own country, [Judah], again.”
11 因为耶和华论到从这地方出去的犹大王约西亚的儿子沙龙，就是接续他父亲约西亚作王的，这样说：“他必不得再回到这里来，
Jehoahaz became king after his father, King Josiah, [died], but Jehoahaz indeed was captured and taken [to Babylonia]. And this is what Yahweh says about him: “He also will never return [to Judah].
12 却要死在被掳去的地方，必不得再见这地。”
He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country again.”
13 那行不义盖房、行不公造楼、 白白使用人的手工不给工价的有祸了！
[And Yahweh said to me], “Terrible things will happen to [King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim]. He unjustly [forced men to] build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built [by men who were forced] unjustly [to do that work]; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.
14 他说：我要为自己盖广大的房、宽敞的楼， 为自己开窗户。 这楼房的护墙板是香柏木的， 楼房是丹色油漆的。
He said, ‘I will [force my workers to] build a huge beautiful palace with very large rooms and [many] windows. They will cover the walls with [fragrant] cedar panels/timber and paint them bright red.’”
15 难道你作王是在乎造香柏木楼房争胜吗？ 你的父亲岂不是也吃也喝、 也施行公平和公义吗？ 那时他得了福乐。
But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.
16 他为困苦和穷乏人伸冤， 那时就得了福乐。 认识我不在乎此吗？ 这是耶和华说的。
Josiah acted justly/fairly and helped poor and needy people, so things went well for him. Yahweh says, “That is [RHQ] the way a person should behave who knows me.
17 惟有你的眼和你的心专顾贪婪， 流无辜人的血， 行欺压和强暴。
But [Jehoiakim], you [MTY] are greedy and desire only to obtain things by acting dishonestly. You murder [MTY] innocent people, you oppress poor people, and you treat people cruelly and violently.”
18 所以，耶和华论到犹大王约西亚的儿子约雅敬如此说： 人必不为他举哀说： 哀哉！我的哥哥； 或说：哀哉！我的姐姐； 也不为他举哀说： 哀哉！我的主； 或说：哀哉！我主的荣华。
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says about Jehoiakim, the son of King Josiah: “[When he dies], people will not mourn for him. They will not say to each other, ‘It is very sad; we are so sorry!’ The people whom he ruled will not mourn for him, saying, ‘We are sad that our king is dead; we are so sorry that the wonderful things [that happened while he was king are ended].’
19 他被埋葬，好像埋驴一样， 要拉出去扔在耶路撒冷的城门之外。
[When he dies, people will do to] his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; his [corpse] will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates!
20 你要上黎巴嫩哀号， 在巴珊扬声， 从亚巴琳哀号， 因为你所亲爱的都毁灭了。
[You people of Judah], go to [the mountains in] Lebanon and weep, shout in the [mountains of the] Bashan [region], cry out in [the mountains of] Moab, because all your friends [in those areas] have been destroyed.
21 你兴盛的时候，我对你说话； 你却说：我不听。 你自幼年以来总是这样， 不听从我的话。
When you were prosperous, I warned you, but you replied, ‘We will not pay attention [to what you say].’ You have been acting like that since you were young; you have never obeyed me.
22 你的牧人要被风吞吃， 你所亲爱的必被掳去； 那时你必因你一切的恶抱愧蒙羞。
[So, now I will punish] all your leaders; [it will be as though] they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured [by your enemies] and taken to another country. When that happens, you will [truly] be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things [that you have done].
23 你这住黎巴嫩、在香柏树上搭窝的， 有痛苦临到你， 好像疼痛临到产难的妇人， 那时你何等可怜！
[Now, your king] enjoys living in the cedar rooms in his palace, but [soon] he will be punished, and then he will groan like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby.”
24 耶和华说：“犹大王约雅敬的儿子哥尼雅，虽是我右手上带印的戒指，我凭我的永生起誓，也必将你从其上摘下来，
Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, [I will punish you]. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, I would pull you off.
25 并且我必将你交给寻索你命的人和你所惧怕的人手中，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒和迦勒底人的手中。
You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, [because] they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you.
26 我也必将你和生你的母亲赶到别国，并不是你们生的地方；你们必死在那里，
I will expel you and your mother [from this land], and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there.
27 但心中甚想归回之地，必不得归回。”
You will never return to this land that you will very much desire to return to.”
28 哥尼雅这人是被轻看、破坏的器皿吗？ 是无人喜爱的器皿吗？ 他和他的后裔为何被赶到不认识之地呢？
[Someone said, ] “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot that is despised and which no one wants. He and his children will be (exiled/forced to go) to a foreign land.
29 地啊，地啊，地啊，当听耶和华的话！
[I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”
30 耶和华如此说： 要写明这人算为无子， 是平生不得亨通的； 因为他后裔中再无一人得亨通， 能坐在大卫的宝座上治理犹大。
This is what Yahweh says: “[In the record about the kings of Judah, ] write down that [it will be as though] this man [Jehoiachin] had no children, and that he has not been successful during his life, because none of his children/descendants will [ever] become king to rule over [the people of] Judah.”
