Jeremiah 19
1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
上主這樣對耶肋米亞說：「你去向陶工買一個瓦瓶，那麼帶些民間長老和司祭首長，
2 and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
到陶業門進口處的本希農山谷去，在那裏宣佈我要對你說的話。
3 saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
你要說：猶大王和耶路撒冷的居民! 請聆聽上主的話。萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必給這地方招來災禍，凡聽見的，必要耳鳴，
4 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
因為他們離棄了我，使這地方成了異地，在這裏向他們和他們的祖先猶大王都不認識的外邦神祗獻香，使這地方充滿無辜的血，
5 They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
給巴耳建了高丘，向巴耳火焚自己的兒子作全燔祭：這都是我從沒有吩咐，沒有說過，沒有想到的事。
6 So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
因此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──這地方不再叫作托斐特或本希農山谷，卻要叫做「屠殺谷」。
7 And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
在這地方，我必使猶大和耶路撒冷的計劃落空，使他們在敵人面前喪身刀下，死在圖謀他們性命者的手中，將他們的屍首丟棄給天上的飛鳥，和地上的走獸作食物。
8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
我必使這城成為驚愕的緣因和譏誚的目標；使凡從這裏經過的人，沒有不因她所受的一切打擊，而感到驚異和嗟嘆的!
9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
我必使他們吞食自己子女的肉：在敵人和圖謀他們的性命的人圍攻他們，處於困危之時，必食自己道近人的肉。
10 Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
以後，你就在與你同來的 眼前將那瓶打破，
11 and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
對他們說：萬軍的上主這樣說：我要這樣破壞這人民和這城市，就如人打破這陶工的器皿，再也無法補救；人必將托斐特充作墳埸，因為再沒有地方可供埋葬。
12 This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
我必這樣對待這地方和這地的居民──上主的斷語──使這城市像托斐特一樣；
13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
耶路撒冷的房屋和判斷的宮殿，即他們在樓頂上向天上的萬象獻香，並給外方的神祗行奠禮的一切房屋，都必像托斐特一樣，成為不潔的地方。
14 Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
耶肋米亞奉上主派遺到托斐特宣講預言回來以後，站在上主殿宇的庭院裏，向全體人民說：
15 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
「萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必給這城市和她所屬的一切市鎮，招來我對她說過的災禍，因為她硬著頭頸，不肯聽從我的話」。
