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。
“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again 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 the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with 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。
Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.
4 从今以后，你岂不向我呼叫说： 我父啊，你是我幼年的恩主。
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
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 he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”
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。
Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute 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。
I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
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。
I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute.
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。
Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
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。”
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretence,” says the LORD.
11 耶和华对我说：“背道的以色列比奸诈的犹大还显为义。
The LORD said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
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 proclaim these words towards the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says the LORD. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
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。
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed 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。
“Return, backsliding children,” says the LORD, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
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。”
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
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。
It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of the LORD’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.
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。
At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The LORD’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the LORD’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness 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 Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
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。
“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you amongst the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following 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。
“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” 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 is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
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。
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; 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 help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
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 the shameful thing has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, 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。
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the LORD our God’s voice.”
