耶利米书 4
1 耶和华说：以色列啊， 你若回来归向我， 若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像， 你就不被迁移。
If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.
2 你必凭诚实、公平、公义， 指着永生的耶和华起誓； 列国必因耶和华称自己为有福， 也必因他夸耀。
And thou hast sworn — Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.
3 耶和华对犹大和耶路撒冷人如此说： 要开垦你们的荒地， 不要撒种在荆棘中。
For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.
4 犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民哪， 你们当自行割礼，归耶和华， 将心里的污秽除掉； 恐怕我的忿怒因你们的恶行发作， 如火着起， 甚至无人能以熄灭！
Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
5 你们当传扬在犹大， 宣告在耶路撒冷说： 你们当在国中吹角，高声呼叫说： 你们当聚集！ 我们好进入坚固城！
Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, 'Blow a trumpet in the land,' Call ye fully, and say ye: 'Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.'
6 应当向锡安竖立大旗。 要逃避，不要迟延， 因我必使灾祸与大毁灭从北方来到。
Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
7 有狮子从密林中上来， 是毁坏列国的。 它已经动身出离本处， 要使你的地荒凉， 使你的城邑变为荒场无人居住。
Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.
8 因此，你们当腰束麻布，大声哀号， 因为耶和华的烈怒没有向我们转消。
For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
9 耶和华说：“到那时，君王和首领的心都要消灭；祭司都要惊奇，先知都要诧异。”
And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: 'Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.'
10 我说：“哀哉！主耶和华啊，你真是大大地欺哄这百姓和耶路撒冷，说：‘你们必得平安。’其实刀剑害及性命了。”
And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!'
11 那时，必有话对这百姓和耶路撒冷说：“有一阵热风从旷野净光的高处向我的众民刮来，不是为簸扬，也不是为扬净。
At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: 'A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing, )
12 必有一阵更大的风从这些地方为我刮来；现在我又必发出判语，攻击他们。”
A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.
13 看哪，仇敌必如云上来； 他的战车如旋风， 他的马匹比鹰更快。 我们有祸了！ 我们败落了！
Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Woe to us, for we have been spoiled.
14 耶路撒冷啊，你当洗去心中的恶， 使你可以得救。 恶念存在你心里要到几时呢？
Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
15 有声音从但传扬， 从以法莲山报祸患。
For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.
16 你们当传给列国， 报告攻击耶路撒冷的事说： 有探望的人从远方来到， 向犹大的城邑大声呐喊。
Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: 'Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.
17 他们周围攻击耶路撒冷， 好像看守田园的， 因为她背叛了我。 这是耶和华说的。
As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'
18 你的行动，你的作为，招惹这事； 这是你罪恶的结果， 实在是苦， 是害及你心了！
Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This [is] thy vexation, for [it is] bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.
19 我的肺腑啊，我的肺腑啊，我心疼痛！ 我心在我里面烦躁不安。 我不能静默不言， 因为我已经听见角声和打仗的喊声。
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained [at] the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul — a shout of battle!
20 毁坏的信息连络不绝， 因为全地荒废。 我的帐棚忽然毁坏； 我的幔子顷刻破裂。
Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment — my curtains.
21 我看见大旗，听见角声， 要到几时呢？
Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?
22 耶和华说：我的百姓愚顽，不认识我； 他们是愚昧无知的儿女， 有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。
For my people [are] foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons [are] they, yea, they [are] not intelligent, Wise [are] they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
23 先知说：我观看地， 不料，地是空虚混沌； 我观看天，天也无光。
I looked [to] the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
24 我观看大山，不料，尽都震动， 小山也都摇来摇去。
I have looked [to] the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
25 我观看，不料，无人； 空中的飞鸟也都躲避。
I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.
26 我观看，不料，肥田变为荒地； 一切城邑在耶和华面前， 因他的烈怒都被拆毁。
I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place [is] a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.
27 耶和华如此说：全地必然荒凉， 我却不毁灭净尽。
For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.
28 因此，地要悲哀， 在上的天也必黑暗； 因为我言已出，我意已定， 必不后悔，也不转意不做。
For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken — I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.
29 各城的人因马兵和弓箭手的响声就都逃跑， 进入密林，爬上磐石； 各城被撇下， 无人住在其中。
From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.
30 你凄凉的时候要怎样行呢？ 你虽穿上朱红衣服， 佩戴黄金装饰， 用颜料修饰眼目， 这样标致是枉然的！ 恋爱你的藐视你， 并且寻索你的性命。
And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself [with] ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.
31 我听见有声音，仿佛妇人产难的声音， 好像生头胎疼痛的声音， 是锡安女子的声音； 她喘着气、挓挲手， 说：我有祸了！ 在杀人的跟前，我的心发昏了。
For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, 'Woe to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'
