耶利米書 46
1 耶和華論列國的話臨到先知耶利米。
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.
2 論到關乎埃及王法老尼哥的軍隊：這軍隊安營在幼發拉底河邊的迦基米施，是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒在猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年所打敗的。
Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
3 你們要預備大小盾牌， 往前上陣。
Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.
4 你們套上車， 騎上馬！ 頂盔站立， 磨槍貫甲！
Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.
5 我為何看見他們驚惶轉身退後呢？ 他們的勇士打敗了， 急忙逃跑，並不回頭； 驚嚇四圍都有！ 這是耶和華說的。
What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.
6 不要容快跑的逃避； 不要容勇士逃脫； 他們在北方幼發拉底河邊絆跌仆倒。
Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.
7 像尼羅河漲發， 像江河之水翻騰的是誰呢？
Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
8 埃及像尼羅河漲發， 像江河的水翻騰。 他說：我要漲發遮蓋遍地； 我要毀滅城邑和其中的居民。
Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.
9 馬匹上去吧！ 車輛急行吧！ 勇士，就是手拿盾牌的古實人和弗人， 並拉弓的路德族，都出去吧！
Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.
10 那日是主－萬軍之耶和華報仇的日子， 要向敵人報仇。 刀劍必吞吃得飽， 飲血飲足； 因為主－萬軍之耶和華 在北方幼發拉底河邊有獻祭的事。
But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 埃及的民哪， 可以上基列取乳香去； 你雖多服良藥， 總是徒然，不得治好。
Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.
12 列國聽見你的羞辱， 遍地滿了你的哀聲； 勇士與勇士彼此相碰， 一齊跌倒。
Your shame has come to the ears of the nations, and the earth is full of your cry: for the strong man is falling against the strong, they have come down together.
13 耶和華對先知耶利米所說的話，論到巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒要來攻擊埃及地：
The word which the Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, of how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, would come and make war on the land of Egypt.
14 你們要傳揚在埃及，宣告在密奪， 報告在挪弗、答比匿說： 要站起出隊，自作準備， 因為刀劍在你四圍施行吞滅的事。
Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.
15 你的壯士為何被沖去呢？ 他們站立不住； 因為耶和華驅逐他們，
Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.
16 使多人絆跌； 他們也彼此撞倒，說： 起來吧！我們再往本民本地去， 好躲避欺壓的刀劍。
... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.
17 他們在那裏喊叫說： 埃及王法老不過是個聲音； 他已錯過所定的時候了。
Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.
18 君王－名為萬軍之耶和華的說： 我指着我的永生起誓： 尼布甲尼撒來的勢派 必像他泊在眾山之中， 像迦密在海邊一樣。
By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.
19 住在埃及的民哪， 要預備擄去時所用的物件； 因為挪弗必成為荒場， 且被燒毀，無人居住。
O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.
20 埃及是肥美的母牛犢； 但出於北方的毀滅來到了！來到了！
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
21 其中的雇勇好像圈裏的肥牛犢， 他們轉身退後， 一齊逃跑，站立不住； 因為他們遭難的日子、 追討的時候已經臨到。
And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.
22 其中的聲音好像蛇行一樣。 敵人要成隊而來，如砍伐樹木的手拿斧子攻擊他。
She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.
23 耶和華說： 埃及的樹林雖然不能尋察， 敵人卻要砍伐， 因他們多於蝗蟲，不可勝數。
They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
24 埃及的民必然蒙羞， 必交在北方人的手中。
The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.
25 萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝說：「我必刑罰挪的亞捫和法老，並埃及與埃及的神，以及君王，也必刑罰法老和倚靠他的人。
The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;
26 我要將他們交付尋索其命之人的手和巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒與他臣僕的手；以後埃及必再有人居住，與從前一樣。這是耶和華說的。」
And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.
27 我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕！ 以色列啊，不要驚惶！ 因我要從遠方拯救你， 從被擄到之地拯救你的後裔。 雅各必回來，得享平靖安逸， 無人使他害怕。
But have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and in peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.
28 我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕！ 因我與你同在。 我要將我所趕你到的那些國滅絕淨盡， 卻不將你滅絕淨盡， 倒要從寬懲治你， 萬不能不罰你。 這是耶和華說的。
Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
