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, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and 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；
and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face 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。”
because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.
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？
For thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?
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。
Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused 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。
Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.
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。
Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.
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 will ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.
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 ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there 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 will I give their wives to others, and their fields to [new] inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord.
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。
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。
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。
There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and the leaves have fallen off.
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, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.
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 assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.
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。
We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
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 send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
18 我有忧愁，愿能自慰； 我心在我里面发昏。
mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
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, [there is] a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven [images], and with strange vanities.
20 麦秋已过，夏令已完， 我们还未得救！
The summer is gone, the harvest is past, 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 breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
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？
And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?
