耶利米书 6
1 便雅悯人哪，你们要逃出耶路撒冷， 在提哥亚吹角， 在伯·哈基琳立号旗； 因为有灾祸与大毁灭从北方张望。
Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction.
2 那秀美娇嫩的锡安女子， 我必剪除。
I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
3 牧人必引他们的羊群到她那里， 在她周围支搭帐棚， 各在自己所占之地使羊吃草。
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.
4 你们要准备攻击她。 起来吧，我们可以趁午时上去。 哀哉！日已渐斜， 晚影拖长了。
Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.
5 起来吧，我们夜间上去， 毁坏她的宫殿。
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
6 因为万军之耶和华如此说： 你们要砍伐树木， 筑垒攻打耶路撒冷。 这就是那该罚的城， 其中尽是欺压。
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.
7 井怎样涌出水来， 这城也照样涌出恶来； 在其间常听见有强暴毁灭的事， 病患损伤也常在我面前。
As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.
8 耶路撒冷啊，你当受教， 免得我心与你生疏， 免得我使你荒凉， 成为无人居住之地。
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
9 万军之耶和华曾如此说： 敌人必掳尽以色列剩下的民， 如同摘净葡萄一样。 你要像摘葡萄的人摘了又摘，回手放在筐子里。
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grape gatherer into the basket.
10 现在我可以向谁说话作见证，使他们听呢？ 他们的耳朵未受割礼，不能听见。 看哪，耶和华的话他们以为羞辱， 不以为喜悦。
To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and and they will not receive it.
11 因此我被耶和华的忿怒充满，难以含忍。 我要倾在街中的孩童和聚会的少年人身上， 连夫带妻， 并年老的与日子满足的都必被擒拿。
Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.
12 他们的房屋、田地， 和妻子都必转归别人； 我要伸手攻击这地的居民。 这是耶和华说的。
And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
13 因为他们从最小的到至大的都一味地贪婪， 从先知到祭司都行事虚谎。
For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.
14 他们轻轻忽忽地医治我百姓的损伤， 说：平安了！平安了！ 其实没有平安。
And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.
15 他们行可憎的事知道惭愧吗？ 不然，他们毫不惭愧， 也不知羞耻。 因此，他们必在仆倒的人中仆倒； 我向他们讨罪的时候， 他们必致跌倒。 这是耶和华说的。
They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
16 耶和华如此说： 你们当站在路上察看， 访问古道， 哪是善道，便行在其间； 这样，你们心里必得安息。 他们却说：我们不行在其间。
Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see and ask for the old paths which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: we will not walk.
17 我设立守望的人照管你们， 说：要听角声。 他们却说：我们不听。
And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.
18 列国啊，因此你们当听！ 会众啊，要知道他们必遭遇的事。
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.
19 地啊，当听！ 我必使灾祸临到这百姓， 就是他们意念所结的果子； 因为他们不听从我的言语， 至于我的训诲，他们也厌弃了。
Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
20 从示巴出的乳香， 从远方出的菖蒲 奉来给我有何益呢？ 你们的燔祭不蒙悦纳； 你们的平安祭，我也不喜悦。
To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.
21 所以耶和华如此说： 我要将绊脚石放在这百姓前面。 父亲和儿子要一同跌在其上； 邻舍与朋友也都灭亡。
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbor and kinsman shall perish.
22 耶和华如此说： 看哪，有一种民从北方而来， 并有一大国被激动，从地极来到。
Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.
23 他们拿弓和枪， 性情残忍，不施怜悯； 他们的声音像海浪匉訇。 锡安城啊， 他们骑马都摆队伍， 如上战场的人要攻击你。
They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.
24 我们听见他们的风声，手就发软； 痛苦将我们抓住， 疼痛仿佛产难的妇人。
We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.
25 你们不要往田野去， 也不要行在路上， 因四围有仇敌的刀剑和惊吓。
Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.
26 我民哪，应当腰束麻布，滚在灰中。 你要悲伤，如丧独生子痛痛哭号， 因为灭命的要忽然临到我们。
Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
27 我使你在我民中为高台，为保障， 使你知道试验他们的行动。
I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know and prove their way.
28 他们都是极悖逆的， 往来谗谤人。 他们是铜是铁， 都行坏事。
All of these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.
29 风箱吹火，铅被烧毁； 他们炼而又炼，终是徒然； 因为恶劣的还未除掉。
The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.
30 人必称他们为被弃的银渣， 因为耶和华已经弃掉他们。
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
