耶利米书 5
1 你们当在耶路撒冷的街上跑来跑去， 在宽阔处寻找， 看看有一人行公义求诚实没有？ 若有，我就赦免这城。
Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.
2 其中的人虽然指着永生的耶和华起誓， 所起的誓实在是假的。
And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.
3 耶和华啊，你的眼目不是看顾诚实吗？ 你击打他们，他们却不伤恸； 你毁灭他们，他们仍不受惩治。 他们使脸刚硬过于磐石， 不肯回头。
O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.
4 我说：这些人实在是贫穷的，是愚昧的， 因为不晓得耶和华的作为 和他们 神的法则。
But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
5 我要去见尊大的人，对他们说话， 因为他们晓得耶和华的作为 和他们 神的法则。 哪知，这些人齐心将轭折断， 挣开绳索。
I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.
6 因此，林中的狮子必害死他们； 晚上的豺狼必灭绝他们； 豹子要在城外窥伺他们。 凡出城的必被撕碎； 因为他们的罪过极多， 背道的事也加增了。
Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.
7 我怎能赦免你呢？ 你的儿女离弃我， 又指着那不是神的起誓。 我使他们饱足， 他们就行奸淫， 成群地聚集在娼妓家里。
How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot’s house.
8 他们像喂饱的马到处乱跑， 各向他邻舍的妻发嘶声。
They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
10 你们要上她葡萄园的墙施行毁坏， 但不可毁坏净尽， 只可除掉她的枝子， 因为不属耶和华。
Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord’s.
11 原来以色列家和犹大家大行诡诈攻击我。 这是耶和华说的。
For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
12 他们不认耶和华，说： 这并不是他， 灾祸必不临到我们； 刀剑和饥荒，我们也看不见。
They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.
13 先知的话必成为风； 道也不在他们里面。 这灾必临到他们身上。
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.
14 所以耶和华—万军之 神如此说： 因为百姓说这话， 我必使我的话在你口中为火，使他们为柴； 这火便将他们烧灭。
Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
15 耶和华说：以色列家啊， 我必使一国的民从远方来攻击你， 是强盛的国， 是从古而有的国。 他们的言语你不晓得， 他们的话你不明白。
Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
16 他们的箭袋是敞开的坟墓； 他们都是勇士。
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
17 他们必吃尽你的庄稼和你的粮食， 是你儿女该吃的； 必吃尽你的牛羊， 吃尽你的葡萄和无花果； 又必用刀毁坏你所倚靠的坚固城。
And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
18 耶和华说：“就是到那时，我也不将你们毁灭净尽。
Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
19 百姓若说：‘耶和华—我们的 神为什么向我们行这一切事呢？’你就对他们说：‘你们怎样离弃耶和华，在你们的地上事奉外邦神，也必照样在不属你们的地上事奉外邦人。’”
And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
20 当传扬在雅各家， 报告在犹大说：
Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
21 愚昧无知的百姓啊， 你们有眼不看， 有耳不听， 现在当听这话。
Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22 耶和华说：你们怎么不惧怕我呢？ 我以永远的定例， 用沙为海的界限， 水不得越过。 因此，你们在我面前还不战兢吗？ 波浪虽然翻腾，却不能逾越； 虽然匉訇，却不能过去。
Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
23 但这百姓有背叛忤逆的心； 他们叛我而去，
But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24 心内也不说： 我们应当敬畏耶和华—我们的 神； 他按时赐雨，就是秋雨春雨， 又为我们定收割的节令，永存不废。
And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.
25 你们的罪孽使这些事转离你们； 你们的罪恶使你们不能得福。
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 因为在我民中有恶人。 他们埋伏窥探，好像捕鸟的人； 他们设立圈套陷害人。
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27 笼内怎样满了雀鸟， 他们的房中也照样充满诡诈； 所以他们得成为大，而且富足。
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
28 他们肥胖光润， 作恶过甚，不为人伸冤！ 就是不为孤儿伸冤， 不使他亨通， 也不为穷人辨屈。
They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the poor.
29 耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
30 国中有可惊骇、可憎恶的事：
Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.
31 就是先知说假预言， 祭司借他们把持权柄； 我的百姓也喜爱这些事， 到了结局你们怎样行呢？
The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?
