Jeremiah 8
1 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
到那時──上主的斸語──人必從墳墓中拖出猶大君王的遺骸，司祭的遺骸，先知的遺骸，和耶路撒冷居民的遺骸，
2 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
陳列在他們曾愛戀、事奉、追隨、求問和朝拜過的太陽、月亮和天上群星，前再沒有人收殮埋葬，任其留在地面充作肥料。
3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
這可惡種族剩下的全體遺民，在我驅逐他們所到的任何地，方都願意死，而不願意生──萬軍上主斷語。
4 So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
你應對他們說：上主這樣說：人跌倒了，豈能不再起來﹖人離去了，豈能不再回來﹖
5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
為什麼這人民一墮落，便永久墮落，執迷不悟而不肯反悔呢﹖
6 I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
我留心細聽，他們都言談不軌，沒有一個人悔恨自己的邪惡說：「可憐! 我做是什麼事﹖」反倒各自一再任性奔馳，有如衝入戰場的戰馬。
7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
天空的鸛鳥也知道自己的時令；斑鳩、燕子和雁，都固守自己的歸期；但是我的人民卻不知道上主法令。
8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
你怎麼能說：我們是智者，我們有上主的法律﹖的確，但已為書記們以荒謬的筆鋒把乇編成了謊言。
9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
智慧人必要蒙羞驚慌，而至被捕；的確，他們即拋棄了上主話，還能有什麼智慧﹖
10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
為此，我必將他們的妻室交給外人，將他們的莊田交與別的地主，因為從最小的到最大的，都貪財圖利；從先知到司祭，都欺詐行事，
11 They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
草率治愈我的瘡痍說：「好了! 好了! 」其實卻沒有好。
12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
他們既行事可憎，就理當知恥；可是，他們不但不知恥，反而連羞愧也不知是什麼；為此，他們要與倒斃者倒斃，在我降罰他們時，都要一厥不振──上主說。
13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
我要徹底消滅他們──上主的斷語──葡萄樹上沒有葡萄，無花果樹上沒有無花果，樹葉都已凋零；我要派人來蹂躝。
14 Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
為什麼我們還坐著﹖集合起來吧! 讓我們進入堅城，死在那裏，因為上主我們的天主要消滅我們，我們喝苦膽，因為我們得罪了上主。
15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
我們原期待和平，卻不見好轉；原期待復興的時機，反而只見恐怖!
16 The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
從丹就可聽到敵人戰馬的喘息聲，戰馬嘶鳴，聲震全地；前來併吞土地和地上的一切，吞食城邑和城中的居民。
17 “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,”
看，我必給你們派來不伯符咒的毒蛇，咬傷你們──上主的斷語──
18 My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
無法療愈。我戚戚憂傷，我心已憔悴。
19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
由遠方傳來我女兒──人民──哀號的呼聲：「上主已不在熙雍﹖或者衪君王已不在那裏嗎﹖──為什麼他們以自己的偶像和外邦的「虛無」激怒我﹖──
20 “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
收割期已經過去，夏天已經完結，我們仍沒有獲救! 」
21 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
我的女兒──人民──的創傷使我心痛欲裂，鬱鬱不安，不勝感傷。
22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
難道在基肋阿得沒有膏藥，或在那裏沒有醫生嗎﹖究竟為了什麼，我的女兒──人民──的創傷還沒有痊愈﹖
