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。
Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
2 那秀美娇嫩的锡安女子， 我必剪除。
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
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。
Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at 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 noon!' 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out!'
5 起来吧，我们夜间上去， 毁坏她的宫殿。
'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'
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 hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression 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 welleth with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and wounds.
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 corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
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 thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer upon the shoots.
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 give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is dull, and they cannot attend; behold, the word of the LORD is become unto them a reproach, they have no delight in 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 I am full of the fury of the LORD, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the babes in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him 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 unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out 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 unto the greatest of them every one is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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。
They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is 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 shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall, at the time that I punish them they shall stumble, 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 in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk therein.'
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 set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'
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 is against 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 evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.
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 is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto 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 lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them, the neighbour and his friend, and they 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 north country, and a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts 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 lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have no compassion; their voice is like the roaring sea, and they ride upon horses; set in array, as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Zion.
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 wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.'
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 forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror 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。
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the spoiler 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 made thee a tower and a fortress among My people; that thou mayest know and try 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。
They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.
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 blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated.
30 人必称他们为被弃的银渣， 因为耶和华已经弃掉他们。
Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
