耶利米书 31
1 耶和华说：“那时，我必作以色列各家的 神；他们必作我的子民。”
Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
2 耶和华如此说： 脱离刀剑的就是以色列人。 我使他享安息的时候， 他曾在旷野蒙恩。
There is no longer any healing for Moab, [nor] glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from [being] a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;
3 古时耶和华向以色列显现，说： 我以永远的爱爱你， 因此我以慈爱吸引你。
for [there is] a voice of [men] crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.
4 以色列的民哪， 我要再建立你，你就被建立； 你必再以击鼓为美， 与欢乐的人一同跳舞而出；
Moab is ruined, proclaim [it] to Zogora:
5 又必在撒马利亚的山上栽种葡萄园， 栽种的人要享用所结的果子。
for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.
6 日子必到，以法莲山上守望的人必呼叫说： 起来吧！我们可以上锡安， 到耶和华—我们的 神那里去。
Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.
7 耶和华如此说： 你们当为雅各欢乐歌唱， 因万国中为首的欢呼。 当传扬颂赞说： 耶和华啊， 求你拯救你的百姓以色列所剩下的人。
Since thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.
8 我必将他们从北方领来， 从地极招聚； 同着他们来的有瞎子、瘸子、孕妇、产妇； 他们必成为大帮回到这里来。
And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.
9 他们要哭泣而来。 我要照他们恳求的引导他们， 使他们在河水旁走正直的路， 在其上不致绊跌； 因为我是以色列的父， 以法莲是我的长子。
Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence [shall there be] an inhabitant for her?
10 列国啊，要听耶和华的话， 传扬在远处的海岛说： 赶散以色列的必招聚他， 又看守他，好像牧人看守羊群。
Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.
11 因耶和华救赎了雅各， 救赎他脱离比他更强之人的手。
Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.
12 他们要来到锡安的高处歌唱， 又流归耶和华施恩之地， 就是有五谷、新酒，和油， 并羊羔、牛犊之地。 他们的心必像浇灌的园子； 他们也不再有一点愁烦。
Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder.
13 那时，处女必欢乐跳舞； 年少的、年老的，也必一同欢乐； 因为我要使他们的悲哀变为欢喜， 并要安慰他们，使他们的愁烦转为快乐。
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.
14 我必以肥油使祭司的心满足； 我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。 这是耶和华说的。
How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
15 耶和华如此说： 在拉玛听见号咷痛哭的声音， 是拉结哭她儿女，不肯受安慰， 因为他们都不在了。
Moab is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
16 耶和华如此说： 你禁止声音不要哀哭， 禁止眼目不要流泪， 因你所做之工必有赏赐； 他们必从敌国归回。 这是耶和华说的。
The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly [to vengeance].
17 耶和华说：你末后必有指望； 你的儿女必回到自己的境界。
Shake [the head] at him, all ye that are round about him; all [of you] utter his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!
18 我听见以法莲为自己悲叹说： 你责罚我，我便受责罚， 像不惯负轭的牛犊一样。 求你使我回转，我便回转， 因为你是耶和华—我的 神。
Come down from [thy] glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one to ravage thy strong-hold.
19 我回转以后就真正懊悔； 受教以后就拍腿叹息； 我因担当幼年的凌辱就抱愧蒙羞。
Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?
20 耶和华说：以法莲是我的爱子吗？ 是可喜悦的孩子吗？ 我每逢责备他，仍深顾念他； 所以我的心肠恋慕他； 我必要怜悯他。
Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.
21 以色列民哪， 你当为自己设立指路碑， 竖起引路柱。 你要留心向大路， 就是你所去的原路； 你当回转，回转到你这些城邑。
And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,
22 背道的民哪， 你反来复去要到几时呢？ 耶和华在地上造了一件新事， 就是女子护卫男子。
and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,
23 万军之耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：“我使被掳之人归回的时候，他们在犹大地和其中的城邑必再这样说： 公义的居所啊， 圣山哪，愿耶和华赐福给你。
and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon,
24 犹大和属犹大城邑的人，农夫和放羊的人，要一同住在其中。
and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.
25 疲乏的人，我使他饱饫；愁烦的人，我使他知足。”
The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
26 先知说：“我醒了，觉着睡得香甜！”
Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.
27 耶和华说：“日子将到，我要把人的种和牲畜的种播种在以色列家和犹大家。
For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.
28 我先前怎样留意将他们拔出、拆毁、毁坏、倾覆、苦害，也必照样留意将他们建立、栽植。这是耶和华说的。
The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.
29 当那些日子，人不再说： 父亲吃了酸葡萄， 儿子的牙酸倒了。
And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.
30 但各人必因自己的罪死亡；凡吃酸葡萄的，自己的牙必酸倒。”
But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?
31 耶和华说：“日子将到，我要与以色列家和犹大家另立新约，
Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men [in] a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,
32 不像我拉着他们祖宗的手，领他们出埃及地的时候，与他们所立的约。我虽作他们的丈夫，他们却背了我的约。这是耶和华说的。”
O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, [and] upon thy grape-gatherers.
33 耶和华说：“那些日子以后，我与以色列家所立的约乃是这样：我要将我的律法放在他们里面，写在他们心上。我要作他们的 神，他们要作我的子民。
Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and [though] there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.
34 他们各人不再教导自己的邻舍和自己的弟兄说：‘你该认识耶和华’，因为他们从最小的到至大的都必认识我。我要赦免他们的罪孽，不再记念他们的罪恶。这是耶和华说的。”
From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings [as] a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up.
35 那使太阳白日发光， 使星月有定例，黑夜发亮， 又搅动大海，使海中波浪匉訇的， 万军之耶和华是他的名。 他如此说：
And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.
36 这些定例若能在我面前废掉， 以色列的后裔也就在我面前断绝， 永远不再成国。 这是耶和华说的。
Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what [every] man has gained has perished from him.
37 耶和华如此说： 若能量度上天， 寻察下地的根基， 我就因以色列后裔一切所行的弃绝他们。 这是耶和华说的。
They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat [the breasts], and on all loins shall be sackcloth.
38 耶和华说：“日子将到，这城必为耶和华建造，从哈楠业楼直到角门。
And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets [shall be mourning]: for I have broken [him], saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.
39 准绳要往外量出，直到迦立山，又转到歌亚。
How has he changed! how has Moab turned [his] back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing-stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.
40 抛尸的全谷和倒灰之处，并一切田地，直到汲沦溪，又直到东方马门的拐角，都要归耶和华为圣，不再拔出，不再倾覆，直到永远。”
For thus said the Lord;
Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.
And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab.
He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.
