耶利米書 49
1 論亞捫人。耶和華如此說： 以色列沒有兒子嗎？ 沒有後嗣嗎？ 瑪勒堪為何得迦得之地為業呢？ 屬他的民為何住其中的城邑呢？
Of the people of Ammon. "Thus says the LORD: 'Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Milcom possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?
2 耶和華說： 日子將到，我必使人聽見打仗的喊聲， 是攻擊亞捫人拉巴的喊聲。 拉巴要成為亂堆； 屬她的鄉村要被火焚燒。 先前得以色列地為業的， 此時以色列倒要得他們的地為業。 這是耶和華說的。
Therefore look, the days come,' says the LORD, 'that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the people of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who possessed him,' says the LORD.
3 希實本哪，你要哀號， 因為愛地變為荒場。 拉巴的居民哪，要呼喊， 以麻布束腰； 要哭號，在籬笆中跑來跑去； 因瑪勒堪和屬他的祭司、 首領要一同被擄去。
'Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Milcom shall go into captivity, his priests and his officials together.
4 背道的民哪， 你們為何因有山谷， 就是水流的山谷誇張呢？ 為何倚靠財寶說： 誰能來到我們這裏呢？
Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You who trusted in her treasures, saying, "Who shall come to me?"
5 主－萬軍之耶和華說： 我要使恐嚇從四圍的人中臨到你們； 你們必被趕出， 各人一直前往， 沒有人收聚逃民。
Look, I will bring a fear on you,' says the LORD of hosts, 'from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.
6 後來我還要使被擄的亞捫人歸回。 這是耶和華說的。
But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the people of Ammon,' says the LORD."
7 論以東。萬軍之耶和華如此說： 提幔中再沒有智慧嗎？ 明哲人不再有謀略嗎？ 他們的智慧盡歸無有嗎？
Of Edom. "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Is their wisdom vanished?
8 底但的居民哪，要轉身逃跑， 住在深密處； 因為我向以掃追討的時候， 必使災殃臨到他。
Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.
9 摘葡萄的若來到他那裏， 豈不剩下些葡萄呢？ 盜賊若夜間而來， 豈不毀壞直到夠了呢？
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?
10 我卻使以掃赤露， 顯出他的隱密處； 他不能自藏。 他的後裔、弟兄、鄰舍盡都滅絕； 他也歸於無有。
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
11 你撇下孤兒，我必保全他們的命； 你的寡婦可以倚靠我。
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.'
12 耶和華如此說：「原不該喝那杯的一定要喝。你能盡免刑罰嗎？你必不能免，一定要喝！」
For thus says the LORD: 'Look, they to whom it did not pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
13 耶和華說：「我指着自己起誓，波斯拉必令人驚駭、羞辱、咒詛，並且荒涼。她的一切城邑必變為永遠的荒場。」
For I have sworn by myself,' says the LORD, 'that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.'"
14 我從耶和華那裏聽見信息， 並有使者被差往列國去，說： 你們聚集來攻擊以東， 要起來爭戰。
I have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle."
15 我使你在列國中為最小， 在世人中被藐視。
"For, look, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.
16 住在山穴中據守山頂的啊， 論到你的威嚇， 你因心中的狂傲自欺； 你雖如大鷹高高搭窩， 我卻從那裏拉下你來。 這是耶和華說的。
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there," says the LORD.
17 「以東必令人驚駭；凡經過的人就受驚駭，又因她一切的災禍嗤笑。
"Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
18 耶和華說：必無人住在那裏，也無人在其中寄居，要像所多瑪、蛾摩拉，和鄰近的城邑傾覆的時候一樣。
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it," says the LORD, "no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live in it.
19 仇敵必像獅子從約旦河邊的叢林上來，攻擊堅固的居所。轉眼之間，我要使以東人逃跑，離開這地。誰蒙揀選，我就派誰治理這地。誰能比我呢？誰能給我定規日期呢？有何牧人能在我面前站立得住呢？
Look, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? And who will appoint me a time? And who is the shepherd who will stand before me?
20 你們要聽耶和華攻擊以東所說的謀略和他攻擊提幔居民所定的旨意。仇敵定要將他們群眾微弱的拉去，定要使他們的居所荒涼。
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
21 因他們仆倒的聲音，地就震動。人在紅海那裏必聽見呼喊的聲音。
The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
22 仇敵必如大鷹飛起，展開翅膀攻擊波斯拉。到那日，以東的勇士心中疼痛如臨產的婦人。」
Look, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."
23 論大馬士革。 哈馬和亞珥拔蒙羞， 因他們聽見凶惡的信息就消化了。 海上有憂愁，不得平靜。
Of Damascus. "Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
24 大馬士革發軟，轉身逃跑。 戰兢將她捉住； 痛苦憂愁將她抓住， 如產難的婦人一樣。
Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
25 我所喜樂可稱讚的城， 為何被撇棄了呢？
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
26 她的少年人必仆倒在街上； 當那日，一切兵丁必默默無聲。 這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day," says the LORD of hosts.
27 我必在大馬士革城中使火着起， 燒滅便‧哈達的宮殿。
"I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad."
28 論巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒所攻打的基達和夏瑣的諸國。耶和華如此說： 迦勒底人哪，起來上基達去， 毀滅東方人。
Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. "Thus says the LORD: 'Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the people of the east.'
29 他們的帳棚和羊群都要奪去， 將幔子和一切器皿，並駱駝為自己掠去。 人向他們喊着說： 四圍都有驚嚇。
Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, 'Terror on every side.'
30 耶和華說： 夏瑣的居民哪，要逃奔遠方， 住在深密處； 因為巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒設計謀害你們， 起意攻擊你們。
Flee, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor," says the LORD; "for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you."
31 耶和華說： 迦勒底人哪，起來！ 上安逸無慮的居民那裏去； 他們是無門無閂、獨自居住的。
"Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says the LORD; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.
32 他們的駱駝必成為掠物； 他們眾多的牲畜必成為擄物。 我必將剃周圍頭髮的人分散四方， 使災殃從四圍臨到他們。 這是耶和華說的。
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them," says the LORD.
33 夏瑣必成為野狗的住處， 永遠淒涼； 必無人住在那裏， 也無人在其中寄居。
"Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live in it."
34 猶大王西底家登基的時候，耶和華論以攔的話臨到先知耶利米說：
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 「萬軍之耶和華如此說：我必折斷以攔人的弓，就是他們為首的權力。
"Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Look, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36 我要使四風從天的四方颳來，臨到以攔人，將他們分散四方。這被趕散的人沒有一國不到的。」
On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37 耶和華說：「我必使以攔人在仇敵和尋索其命的人面前驚惶；我也必使災禍，就是我的烈怒臨到他們，又必使刀劍追殺他們，直到將他們滅盡。
I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,' says the LORD; 'and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
38 我要在以攔設立我的寶座，從那裏除滅君王和首領。這是耶和華說的。
and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and officials,' says the LORD.
39 「到末後，我還要使被擄的以攔人歸回。這是耶和華說的。」
'But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,' says the LORD."
