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 children of Ammon. The LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam 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 behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and it will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burnt with fire; then Israel will 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 amongst the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes 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 boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will 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。
Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, GOD of Hosts, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one 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 reverse the captivity of the children 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, the LORD of Hosts says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has 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 when I 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 came by night, wouldn’t they steal 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 will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbours; 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. 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 the LORD says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will 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 will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will 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 amongst the nations, saying, “Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!”
15 我使你在列國中為最小， 在世人中被藐視。
“For, behold, I have made you small amongst the nations, and despised amongst 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 will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will 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 its neighbour cities,” says the LORD, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.
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？
“Behold, he will 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, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? 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 will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will 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 Sea of Suf.
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。」
Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will 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 and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil news. They have 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 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 will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will 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 will 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, The LORD says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children 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。
They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will 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 has neither gates nor bars, that dwells 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 will be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a plunder. 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 will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.”
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 LORD’s word 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。
“The LORD of Hosts says: ‘Behold, 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。」
I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them towards all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will 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. 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。
I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ 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 will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says the LORD.”
