Jeremiah 32
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
猶大王漆德克雅第十年，拿步高在位第十八年，由上主傳給耶肋米亞先知的話：
2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
那時巴比倫王的軍在隊正在圍攻耶路撒冷，耶肋米亞先知被幽禁在猶大王室監獄的庭院裏。
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
猶大王漆德克雅幽禁了先知，對他說：「你為什麼預言說：上主這樣說：看，我必將這城交在巴比倫王手中，他要佔領這座城；
4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.
猶大王漆德克雅必逃不出加色丁人的手，因為他必被交在巴比倫王的手中，與他面對面相談，眼對眼相視；
5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
他必帶漆德克雅到巴比倫去，住在那裏，我再來看顧他──上主的斷語──你們若抵擋加色丁人，決不會成功﹖」
6 Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
耶肋米亞說：「有上主的話傳給我說：
7 Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
看，你叔父沙隆的兒子哈納默耳要到你這裏來說：你購買我在阿納托特的那塊田吧! 因為你有買回的權利，應把它買回來」。
8 Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
我叔父的兒子哈納默耳，正如上主所說，到監獄庭院裏來找我，對我說：「請你購買我在本雅明地內阿納托特木那塊田吧! 因為你有繼承權，和有權買回你為你自己買下吧! 」於是我知道，這是上主的話。
9 So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
便買了我叔父的兒子哈納默刀在阿納托特的那塊地，秤給他十七「協刻耳」銀子，
10 I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
寫了契約，封上，請人作證，在天秤上秤了銀子；
11 Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—
然後按照法定條例，拿著加封和未加封的購買契約，
12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
當著我叔父的兒子哈納默耳，和在購買契約上簽名的見證人，以及監獄庭院裏在座的眾猶大人眼前，將這購買的契約交給了乃黎雅的兒子，瑪赫色雅的孫子巴路克，
13 In their sight I instructed Baruch,
並當著左營眼前吩咐巴路克說：
14 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
「萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這將這些加封和未加封的文件，購買的契約拿去，放在一瓦器內，長久保存，
15 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
因為萬軍的上主以色列的天主這樣說：在這地方，人還要購買房屋、莊田和葡萄園」。
16 After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
我將購買的契約交給乃黎雅的兒子巴路克以後，便祈求上主說：
17 “Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
「啊! 我主上主! 看，你以你的大能和伸展的手臂創造了天地；為你是沒有困難的事。
18 You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
你對千萬人施行仁慈，但也血後世的子孫本人，追討他們祖先的罪債；你們是偉大有力的天主，「萬軍的天主」是你的名號。
19 the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
你有偉大的計謀，行大事的能力；雙目注視人類子孫所有的行徑，依照各人的行徑和行事的結果，給予酬報。
20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
你直到今日在埃及地，在以色列和人世間，施行奇蹟和異事，使你自己成名，有如今日；
21 You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.
你以靈蹟奇事，有力的手腕和伸展的臂膊，巨大恐嚇，從埃及地出了你的人民以色列，
22 You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
給他們的祖先起誓，要給他們的這塊流奶流蜜的土地。
23 They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
他們來了，佔領了這地，郤沒有聽從你的聲音，沒有履行你的法律，沒有做你命他們應做的一切事，為此你給他們招來了這一切災禍。
24 See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
看，圍攻的工程已逼近城市，劫勢必攻陷；這個已面臨兵刀飢荒和瘟疫的城市，必落在進攻的加色丁人手中；你所說的，現已實現，你已目睹；
25 Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
然而，我主上主! 正當這城交在加色丁人手中之際，你卻對我說：你要請人作證，用銀子購買田地」。
26 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
於是有上主的話通過給我說：
27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
「看，我是上主，是一切有血肉者的天主：難道我有做不到的事嗎﹖
28 Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
為此，上主這樣說：看，我將這城交在加色丁人和巴比倫拿步高的手中，他必佔領這座城。
29 And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
進攻這城的加色丁人要來放火焚燒，把這座城和在屋頂上給巴耳焚香，向外神行奠禮，惹我動怒的房屋，燒得乾乾淨淨，
30 For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
因為以色列和猶大子民自幼在我眼前只知作惡；實在，以色列子民雙手所行的，無不使我動怒──上主的斷語──
31 For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presence
實在，這座城，自從他們開始建築那一天，直到今日，常惹我動怒生氣，致使我不得不從我面前將她消滅。
32 because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
這全是出於以色列和猶大子民，即他們、他們的君王、朝臣、司祭、先知，以及猶大人和耶路撒冷和居民，所行的一切使我動怒的惡事。
33 They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
他們對我轉過背來，卻不對我轉過臉來；我雖不斷懇切施教，他們仍不願聽從，接受勸告；
34 They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
反將可惡之物安置在歸我名下的殿裏，使我殿宇受到了玷污；
35 They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
又在本希農山谷給巴耳建造了一些祭壇，給摩肋客人火祭自己的子女：這是我從來沒有吩咐，也從來沒有想到過的事；他們竟做出這些可惡的事，來引誘猶大犯罪。
36 Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
現在，上主以色列的天主，對這座城你要說因兵戈饑荒瘟疫，而被交在巴比倫王手中的，卻這樣說：
37 I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
看，我必從我生氣憤恨發怒時逐他們所到的各地，召集他們，領他們回到這地方來，安然居住，
38 They will be My people, and I will be their God.
作我的，我作他們的天主，
39 I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
且使他們一心一德，終生敬畏我，造福自己和自己後代的子孫；
40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
與他們訂立一永久的盟約，再不離棄他們，為他們謀幸福，將敬長我之情賦於他們心內，使他們不再離開；
41 Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
我樂意好待他們，專心致志將他們安頓在這城裏。
42 For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
因為上主這樣說：我怎樣給這人民招來了這一切大災禍，也要同樣給他們招來我預許的一切幸福。
43 And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
在這個你們說成已成荒野，已人獸絕跡，已交在加色丁人手中的地域裏，還有田地的交易；
44 Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
在本雅明地，在耶路撒冷城郊，在猶大、山地、平原和南部的城裏，人們還要花錢買田，寫契蓋章，請人作證，因為我要轉變他們的命運──上主的斷語」。
