耶利米書 9
1 但願我的頭為水， 我的眼為淚的泉源， 我好為我百姓中被殺的人晝夜哭泣。
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
2 惟願我在曠野有行路人住宿之處， 使我可以離開我的民出去； 因他們都是行姦淫的， 是行詭詐的一黨。
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them. For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."
3 他們彎起舌頭像弓一樣， 為要說謊話。 他們在國中增長勢力， 不是為行誠實， 乃是惡上加惡， 並不認識我。 這是耶和華說的。
"They bend their tongue as a bow. Falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me," says the LORD.
4 你們各人當謹防鄰舍， 不可信靠弟兄； 因為弟兄盡行欺騙， 鄰舍都往來讒謗人。
"Everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust any brother; for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
5 他們各人欺哄鄰舍，不說真話； 他們教舌頭學習說謊， 勞勞碌碌地作孽。
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; they do evil, they do not cease so as to return.
6 你的住處在詭詐的人中； 他們因行詭詐，不肯認識我。 這是耶和華說的。
Oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit. They refuse to know me," says the LORD.
7 所以萬軍之耶和華如此說： 看哪，我要將他們鎔化熬煉； 不然，我因我百姓的罪該怎樣行呢？
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, "Look, I will melt them, and try them; for how should I deal with the wickedness of the daughter of my people?
8 他們的舌頭是毒箭，說話詭詐； 人與鄰舍口說和平話， 心卻謀害他。
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait for him.
9 耶和華說：我豈不因這些事討他們的罪呢？ 豈不報復這樣的國民呢？
Shall I not visit them for these things?" says the LORD; "shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
10 我要為山嶺哭泣悲哀， 為曠野的草場揚聲哀號； 因為都已乾焦，甚至無人經過。 人也聽不見牲畜鳴叫， 空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸都已逃去。
"For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled, they are gone."
11 我必使耶路撒冷變為亂堆，為野狗的住處， 也必使猶大的城邑變為荒場，無人居住。
"I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
12 誰是智慧人，可以明白這事？耶和華的口向誰說過，使他可以傳說？遍地為何滅亡，乾焦好像曠野，甚至無人經過呢？
"Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?"
13 耶和華說：「因為這百姓離棄我在他們面前所設立的律法，沒有遵行，也沒有聽從我的話；
The LORD says, "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked in it,
14 只隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們列祖所教訓的隨從眾巴力。」
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;
15 所以萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：「看哪，我必將茵蔯給這百姓吃，又將苦膽水給他們喝。
therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Look, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 我要把他們散在列邦中，就是他們和他們列祖素不認識的列邦。我也要使刀劍追殺他們，直到將他們滅盡。」
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.'"
17 萬軍之耶和華如此說： 你們應當思想， 將善唱哀歌的婦女召來， 又打發人召善哭的婦女來，
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:"
18 叫她們速速為我們舉哀， 使我們眼淚汪汪， 使我們的眼皮湧出水來。
"and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 因為聽見哀聲出於錫安，說： 我們怎樣敗落了！ 我們大大地慚愧！ 我們撇下地土； 人也拆毀了我們的房屋。
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined. We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
20 婦女們哪，你們當聽耶和華的話， 領受他口中的言語； 又當教導你們的兒女舉哀， 各人教導鄰舍唱哀歌。
"Yet hear the word of the LORD, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21 因為死亡上來， 進了我們的窗戶， 入了我們的宮殿； 要從外邊剪除孩童， 從街上剪除少年人。
'For death has come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.'
22 你當說，耶和華如此說： 人的屍首必倒在田野像糞土， 又像收割的人遺落的一把禾稼， 無人收取。
Speak, 'Thus says the LORD, "The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather them."'"
23 耶和華如此說：「智慧人不要因他的智慧誇口，勇士不要因他的勇力誇口，財主不要因他的財物誇口。
Thus says the LORD, "Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, do not let the rich man glory in his riches;
24 誇口的卻因他有聰明，認識我是耶和華，又知道我喜悅在世上施行慈愛、公平，和公義，以此誇口。這是耶和華說的。」
but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight," says the LORD.
25 耶和華說：「看哪，日子將到，我要刑罰一切受過割禮、心卻未受割禮的，
"Look, the days come," says the LORD, "that I will punish all those who are circumcised in uncircumcision:
26 就是埃及、猶大、以東、亞捫人、摩押人，和一切住在曠野剃周圍頭髮的；因為列國人都沒有受割禮，以色列人心中也沒有受割禮。」
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the people of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."
