< 耶利米書 20 >
1 祭司音麥的兒子巴施戶珥作耶和華殿的總管,聽見耶利米預言這些事,
Pashhur, the son of Immer, was a priest who supervised the temple guards. He heard those things that I had prophesied.
2 他就打先知耶利米,用耶和華殿裏便雅憫高門內的枷,將他枷在那裏。
[So he arrested me]. Then he [commanded guards to] whip me and fasten my feet in (stocks/a wooden frame) at the Benjamin Gate of Yahweh’s temple.
3 次日,巴施戶珥將耶利米開枷釋放。於是耶利米對他說:「耶和華不是叫你的名為巴施戶珥,乃是叫你瑪歌珥‧米撒畢,
The next day, when Pashhur released me, I said to him, “Pashhur, Yahweh is giving you a new name. From now on, your name will be ‘Surrounded by Terror’,
4 因耶和華如此說:『我必使你自覺驚嚇,你也必使眾朋友驚嚇;他們必倒在仇敵的刀下,你也必親眼看見;我必將猶大人全交在巴比倫王的手中,他要將他們擄到巴比倫去,也要用刀將他們殺戮。
because Yahweh says this [to you]: ‘I will cause you and your friends to be terrified. You will watch them being killed by your enemies’ swords. I will enable the [army of the] king of Babylon to capture the people of Judah. Those soldiers will take some of the people to Babylon, and they will kill others with their swords.
5 並且我要將這城中的一切貨財和勞碌得來的,並一切珍寶,以及猶大君王所有的寶物,都交在他們仇敵的手中;仇敵要當作掠物帶到巴比倫去。
And I will enable their soldiers to take away [other things in] Jerusalem. They will take to Babylon all the very valuable things that belonged to your kings.
6 你這巴施戶珥和一切住在你家中的人都必被擄去;你和你的眾朋友,就是你向他們說假預言的,都必到巴比倫去,要死在那裏,葬在那裏。』」
And [as for] you, Pashhur, they will take you and all your family to Babylon. You and your family and all your friends who have prophesied things that are lies will die there and be buried there.’”
7 耶和華啊,你曾勸導我, 我也聽了你的勸導。 你比我有力量,且勝了我。 我終日成為笑話, 人人都戲弄我。
[One day I said this to Yahweh]: “Yahweh, [when you chose me to be a prophet, ] deceived me, and I allowed you to deceive me. You insisted that I [become a prophet] and you are stronger than I am. And now everyone [HYP] ridicules me. They make fun of me all the day.
8 我每逢講論的時候,就發出哀聲, 我喊叫說:有強暴和毀滅! 因為耶和華的話終日成了我的凌辱、譏刺。
When I tell [people your messages], I shout saying, ‘[Yahweh is going to cause you to experience] violence and destruction!’ So because I tell them those messages from you, they insult me and scoff at me all day long.
9 我若說:我不再提耶和華, 也不再奉他的名講論, 我便心裏覺得 似乎有燒着的火閉塞在我骨中, 我就含忍不住,不能自禁。
But if I would say, ‘I will never mention Yahweh or say anything about him, [MTY]’ [it would be as though] your message would burn in my inner being like [SIM] a fire; it would be like a fire in my bones. Sometimes I try to remain silent and not proclaim your messages, but I am not able to do that.
10 我聽見了許多人的讒謗, 四圍都是驚嚇; 就是我知己的朋友也都窺探我, 願我跌倒,說: 告他吧,我們也要告他! 或者他被引誘, 我們就能勝他, 在他身上報仇。
I hear many people whispering [about me], saying ‘[He is the man who proclaims that there will be things that cause us to] be terrified everywhere. We must tell [the authorities what he is saying]! We must denounce him!’ [Even] my best friends are waiting for me to say something that is wrong. [They are saying], ‘Perhaps we can cause him to say something wrong, and if he does, we will be able to discredit him.’
11 然而,耶和華與我同在, 好像甚可怕的勇士。 因此,逼迫我的必都絆跌, 不能得勝; 他們必大大蒙羞, 就是受永不忘記的羞辱, 因為他們行事沒有智慧。
But [you], Yahweh, are helping me like [SIM] a strong warrior, so [it is as though] you will cause those who persecute me to stumble, and they will not defeat me. They will be completely disgraced because of being unable to defeat me; and other people will never forget that they were disgraced.
12 試驗義人、察看人肺腑心腸的萬軍之耶和華啊, 求你容我見你在他們身上報仇, 因我將我的案件向你稟明了。
Commander of the armies of angels, you examine [all] those who are righteous; you know [all that is in] their inner beings and what they think. Allow me to see you getting revenge on those [who want to harm me], because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”
13 你們要向耶和華唱歌; 讚美耶和華! 因他救了窮人的性命脫離惡人的手。
Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! He rescues [poor and] needy people, from those [SYN] who are wicked.
14 願我生的那日受咒詛; 願我母親產我的那日不蒙福!
But I hope/desire that the day that I was born will be cursed. I do not want [anyone to] celebrate that day.
15 給我父親報信說「你得了兒子」, 使我父親甚歡喜的, 願那人受咒詛。
And [as for] that man who brought to my father the news, and caused him to be very happy, by saying “[You wife] has given birth to a son for you”, I hope/desire that he [also] will be cursed.
16 願那人像耶和華所傾覆而不後悔的城邑; 願他早晨聽見哀聲, 晌午聽見吶喊;
Allow him to be destroyed like the cities that Yahweh destroyed [long ago], without acting mercifully [toward them]. Cause that man to hear the people wailing in the morning, and [to hear the enemy soldiers shout their] battle cries at noon.
17 因他在我未出胎的時候不殺我, 使我母親成了我的墳墓, 胎就時常重大。
[I want that to happen to him] because he did not kill me before I was born. I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb, and that my mother’s body would have been [like] [MET] my grave.
18 我為何出胎見勞碌愁苦, 使我的年日因羞愧消滅呢?
I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow, and I am disgraced now when I am about to die; why was it necessary [RHQ] for me to me born?