耶利米书 3
1 有话说：人若休妻， 妻离他而去，作了别人的妻， 前夫岂能再收回她来？ 若收回她来，那地岂不是大大玷污了吗？ 但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫， 还可以归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? you you have gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and have returned to me, says the Lord.
2 你向净光的高处举目观看， 你在何处没有淫行呢？ 你坐在道旁等候， 好像阿拉伯人在旷野埋伏一样， 并且你的淫行邪恶玷污了全地。
Lift up your eyes [to look] straight forward, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.
3 因此甘霖停止， 春雨不降。 你还是有娼妓之脸， 不顾羞耻。
And you did retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself: you had a whore's face, you did become shameless toward all.
4 从今以后，你岂不向我呼叫说： 我父啊，你是我幼年的恩主。
Hast you not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your virgin-time?
5 耶和华岂永远怀怒，存留到底吗？ 看哪，你又发恶言又行坏事， 随自己的私意而行。”
Will [God's anger] continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, and had power [to do them].
6 约西亚王在位的时候，耶和华又对我说：“背道的以色列所行的，你看见没有？她上各高山，在各青翠树下行淫。
And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast you seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.
7 她行这些事以后，我说她必归向我，她却不归向我。她奸诈的妹妹犹大也看见了。
And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Juda saw her faithlessness.
8 背道的以色列行淫，我为这缘故给她休书休她；我看见她奸诈的妹妹犹大，还不惧怕，也去行淫。
And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement, ) yet faithless Juda feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.
9 因以色列轻忽了她的淫乱，和石头木头行淫，地就被玷污了。
And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
10 虽有这一切的事，她奸诈的妹妹犹大还不一心归向我，不过是假意归我。这是耶和华说的。”
And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.
11 耶和华对我说：“背道的以色列比奸诈的犹大还显为义。
And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Juda.
12 你去向北方宣告说： 耶和华说：背道的以色列啊，回来吧！ 我必不怒目看你们； 因为我是慈爱的， 我必不永远存怒。 这是耶和华说的。
Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever.
13 只要承认你的罪孽， 就是你违背耶和华—你的 神， 在各青翠树下向别神东奔西跑， 没有听从我的话。 这是耶和华说的。
Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord.
14 耶和华说：背道的儿女啊，回来吧！ 因为我作你们的丈夫， 并且我必将你们从一城取一人， 从一族取两人，带到锡安。
Turn, you children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:
15 我也必将合我心的牧者赐给你们。他们必以知识和智慧牧养你们。”
and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.
16 耶和华说：“你们在国中生养众多；当那些日子，人必不再提说耶和华的约柜，不追想，不记念，不觉缺少，也不再制造。
And it shall come to pass that when you are multiplied and increased upon the land, says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Holy One of Israel: it shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall [this] be done any more.
17 那时，人必称耶路撒冷为耶和华的宝座；万国必到耶路撒冷，在耶和华立名的地方聚集。他们必不再随从自己顽梗的恶心行事。
In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.
18 当那些日子，犹大家要和以色列家同行，从北方之地一同来到我赐给你们列祖为业之地。”
In those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.
19 我说：我怎样将你安置在儿女之中， 赐给你美地， 就是万国中肥美的产业。 我又说：你们必称我为父， 也不再转去不跟从我。
And I said, So be it, Lord, for [you said] I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, You shall call me Father; and you shall not turn away from me.
20 以色列家，你们向我行诡诈， 真像妻子行诡诈离开她丈夫一样。 这是耶和华说的。
But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord.
21 在净光的高处听见人声， 就是以色列人哭泣恳求之声， 乃因他们走弯曲之道， 忘记耶和华—他们的 神。
A voice from the lips was heard, [even] of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel: for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One.
22 你们这背道的儿女啊，回来吧！ 我要医治你们背道的病。 看哪，我们来到你这里， 因你是耶和华—我们的 神。
Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be your servants; for you are the Lord our God.
23 仰望从小山或从大山的喧嚷中得帮助， 真是枉然的。 以色列得救，诚然在乎耶和华—我们的 神。
Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 从我们幼年以来，那可耻的偶像将我们列祖所劳碌得来的羊群、牛群，和他们的儿女都吞吃了。
But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.
25 我们在羞耻中躺卧吧！愿惭愧将我们遮盖；因为从立国以来，我们和我们的列祖常常得罪耶和华—我们的 神，没有听从耶和华—我们 神的话。
We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.
