耶利米书 7
1 耶和华的话临到耶利米说：
This is the Lord's message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
2 “你当站在耶和华殿的门口，在那里宣传这话说：你们进这些门敬拜耶和华的一切犹大人，当听耶和华的话。
Go and stand in the entrance to the Lord's Temple, and deliver this message: Listen to what Lord has to say, all of you from Judah who are coming in through these gates to worship the Lord.
3 万军之耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：你们改正行动作为，我就使你们在这地方仍然居住。
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says: Change your ways and do what's right, and I'll let you go on living here.
4 你们不要倚靠虚谎的话，说：‘这些是耶和华的殿，是耶和华的殿，是耶和华的殿！’
Don't believe in those who try and deceive you by repeating, “The Temple of the Lord is here, the Temple of the Lord is here, the Temple of the Lord is here.”
5 “你们若实在改正行动作为，在人和邻舍中间诚然施行公平，
If you sincerely change your ways and do what's right, if you treat each other fairly,
6 不欺压寄居的和孤儿寡妇，在这地方不流无辜人的血，也不随从别神陷害自己，
if you stop mistreating foreigners and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering innocent people and stop hurting yourselves by worshiping,
7 我就使你们在这地方仍然居住，就是我古时所赐给你们列祖的地，直到永远。
then I'll let you go on living here in the country that I gave to your forefathers forever and ever.
8 “看哪，你们倚靠虚谎无益的话。
But look at you! You go on believing in these deceptions, these worthless words.
9 你们偷盗，杀害，奸淫，起假誓，向巴力烧香，并随从素不认识的别神，
Are you really going to continue stealing, murdering, committing adultery, and lying, burning incense to Baal, and worshiping other gods that you know nothing about,
10 且来到这称为我名下的殿，在我面前敬拜；又说：‘我们可以自由了。’你们这样的举动是要行那些可憎的事吗？
and then come and stand before me in my own Temple and say, “We're safe, so we can continue doing all these offensive things”?
11 这称为我名下的殿在你们眼中岂可看为贼窝吗？我都看见了。这是耶和华说的。
Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too, declares the Lord.
12 你们且往示罗去，就是我先前立为我名的居所，察看我因这百姓以色列的罪恶向那地所行的如何。”
So why don't you go to Shiloh where I first made myself a place for me to live with you, and see what I did to it because of the evil my people Israel did?
13 耶和华说：“现在因你们行了这一切的事，我也从早起来警戒你们，你们却不听从；呼唤你们，你们却不答应。
I've warned you time and again about all these things you've done but you've refused to listen, declares the Lord. I've called out to you but you didn't want to answer me.
14 所以我要向这称为我名下、你们所倚靠的殿，与我所赐给你们和你们列祖的地施行，照我从前向示罗所行的一样。
So now I'm going to do to my Temple, what I did to Shiloh. This is the Temple your put your faith in, the place I gave to you and your forefathers.
15 我必将你们从我眼前赶出，正如赶出你们的众弟兄，就是以法莲的一切后裔。”
I will throw you out of my presence, just as I expelled all your Israelite relatives, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16 “所以，你不要为这百姓祈祷；不要为他们呼求祷告；也不要向我为他们祈求，因我不听允你。
You, Jeremiah, are not to pray for these people. Don't cry out to me in prayer for them, don't plead with me on their behalf, because I won't listen to you.
17 他们在犹大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上所行的，你没有看见吗？
Can't you see how they're behaving in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 孩子捡柴，父亲烧火，妇女抟面做饼，献给天后，又向别神浇奠祭，惹我发怒。”
The children collect the firewood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry and hurt.
19 耶和华说：“他们岂是惹我发怒呢？不是自己惹祸，以致脸上惭愧吗？”
But is it really me they're hurting? declares the Lord. Aren't they really hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves?
20 所以主耶和华如此说：“看哪，我必将我的怒气和忿怒倾在这地方的人和牲畜身上，并田野的树木和地里的出产上，必如火着起，不能熄灭。”
So this is what the Lord God says: Watch! My furious anger and will be poured out on this country, on people and animals, on the orchards and the crops in the field. It will burn and nobody will be able to put it out.
21 万军之耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：“你们将燔祭加在平安祭上，吃肉吧！
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You can add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat all the meat yourselves!
22 因为我将你们列祖从埃及地领出来的那日，燔祭平安祭的事我并没有提说，也没有吩咐他们。
When I led your forefathers out of Egypt I didn't just give them instructions about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
23 我只吩咐他们这一件说：‘你们当听从我的话，我就作你们的 神，你们也作我的子民。你们行我所吩咐的一切道，就可以得福。’
This is the commandment I gave them: Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow everything I have commanded you to do, so that all will go well for you.
24 他们却不听从，不侧耳而听，竟随从自己的计谋和顽梗的恶心，向后不向前。
But they refused to listen or pay attention. Instead they followed the desires of their own stubborn and evil thinking, so they ended up going backward and not forward.
25 自从你们列祖出埃及地的那日，直到今日，我差遣我的仆人众先知到你们那里去，每日从早起来差遣他们。
From the time your forefathers left Egypt until now, I have sent you time after time my servants the prophets.
26 你们却不听从，不侧耳而听，竟硬着颈项行恶，比你们列祖更甚。
But you refused to listen or pay them attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your forefathers!
27 “你要将这一切的话告诉他们，他们却不听从；呼唤他们，他们却不答应。
When you tell them all this, they won't listen to you. When you call out to them, they won't answer.
28 你要对他们说：这就是不听从耶和华—他们 神的话、不受教训的国民；从他们的口中，诚实灭绝了。”
So you have to tell them, “This is the nation that refused to listen to what the Lord their God said, and would not accept the Lord's discipline. Truth has died out; people don't even talk about it.
29 耶路撒冷啊，要剪发抛弃， 在净光的高处举哀； 因为耶和华丢掉离弃了惹他忿怒的世代。
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation who made him angry.”
30 耶和华说：“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事，将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中，污秽这殿。
For the people of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have placed their offensive idols in my own Temple, making it unclean.
31 他们在欣嫩子谷建筑陀斐特的邱坛，好在火中焚烧自己的儿女。这并不是我所吩咐的，也不是我心所起的意。”
They have built pagan shrines at Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could sacrifice their sons and daughters by burning them in the fire. This is something I never commanded. I never even thought of such a thing!
32 耶和华说：“因此，日子将到，这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒称为杀戮谷。因为要在陀斐特葬埋尸首，甚至无处可葬；
So watch out! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when instead of Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom this place will be called the Valley of Killing. People will bury their dead in Topheth until it's full.
33 并且这百姓的尸首必给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物，并无人哄赶。
The dead bodies of these people will be food for birds of prey and wild animals, and there won't be anyone to scare them away.
34 那时，我必使犹大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上，欢喜和快乐的声音，新郎和新妇的声音，都止息了，因为地必成为荒场。”
I will put a stop to the cheerful sounds of celebration and the happy voices of the bride and bridegroom from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the country will be turned into a wasteland.
