耶利米书 8
1 耶和华说：“到那时，人必将犹大王的骸骨和他首领的骸骨、祭司的骸骨、先知的骸骨，并耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都从坟墓中取出来，
“At that time,” says the LORD, “they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
2 抛散在日头、月亮，和天上众星之下，就是他们从前所喜爱、所事奉、所随从、所求问、所敬拜的。这些骸骨不再收殓，不再葬埋，必在地面上成为粪土；
They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.
3 并且这恶族所剩下的民在我所赶他们到的各处，宁可拣死不拣生。这是万军之耶和华说的。”
Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the LORD of Armies.
4 你要对他们说，耶和华如此说： 人跌倒，不再起来吗？ 人转去，不再转来吗？
“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘The LORD says: “‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?
5 这耶路撒冷的民，为何恒久背道呢？ 他们守定诡诈，不肯回头。
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
6 我留心听，听见他们说不正直的话。 无人悔改恶行，说： 我做的是什么呢？ 他们各人转奔己路， 如马直闯战场。
I listened and heard, but they did not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
7 空中的鹳鸟知道来去的定期； 斑鸠燕子与白鹤也守候当来的时令； 我的百姓却不知道耶和华的法则。
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the LORD’s law.
8 你们怎么说：我们有智慧， 耶和华的律法在我们这里？ 看哪，文士的假笔舞弄虚假。
“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and the LORD’s law is with us”? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.
9 智慧人惭愧，惊惶，被擒拿； 他们弃掉耶和华的话， 心里还有什么智慧呢？
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the LORD’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
10 所以我必将他们的妻子给别人， 将他们的田地给别人为业； 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。
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
11 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 the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
12 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。
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They could not blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says the LORD.
13 耶和华说：我必使他们全然灭绝； 葡萄树上必没有葡萄， 无花果树上必没有果子， 叶子也必枯干。 我所赐给他们的， 必离开他们过去。
“‘I will utterly consume them, says the LORD. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’”
14 我们为何静坐不动呢？ 我们当聚集，进入坚固城， 在那里静默不言； 因为耶和华—我们的 神使我们静默不言， 又将苦胆水给我们喝， 都因我们得罪了耶和华。
“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 我们指望平安， 却得不着好处； 指望痊愈的时候， 不料，受了惊惶。
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
16 听见从但那里敌人的马喷鼻气， 他的壮马发嘶声， 全地就都震动； 因为他们来吞灭这地和其上所有的， 吞灭这城与其中的居民。
The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”
17 看哪，我必使毒蛇到你们中间， 是不服法术的， 必咬你们。 这是耶和华说的。
“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
18 我有忧愁，愿能自慰； 我心在我里面发昏。
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
19 听啊，是我百姓的哀声从极远之地而来， 说：耶和华不在锡安吗？ 锡安的王不在其中吗？ 耶和华说：他们为什么以雕刻的偶像 和外邦虚无的神惹我发怒呢？
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”
20 麦秋已过，夏令已完， 我们还未得救！
“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
21 先知说：因我百姓的损伤， 我也受了损伤。 我哀痛，惊惶将我抓住。
For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
22 在基列岂没有乳香呢？ 在那里岂没有医生呢？ 我百姓为何不得痊愈呢？
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
