Jeremias 5
1 Run you about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is any one that does judgement, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.
你们当在耶路撒冷的街上跑来跑去， 在宽阔处寻找， 看看有一人行公义求诚实没有？ 若有，我就赦免这城。
2 The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
其中的人虽然指着永生的耶和华起誓， 所起的誓实在是假的。
3 O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
耶和华啊，你的眼目不是看顾诚实吗？ 你击打他们，他们却不伤恸； 你毁灭他们，他们仍不受惩治。 他们使脸刚硬过于磐石， 不肯回头。
4 Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgement of God.
我说：这些人实在是贫穷的，是愚昧的， 因为不晓得耶和华的作为 和他们 神的法则。
5 I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgement of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
我要去见尊大的人，对他们说话， 因为他们晓得耶和华的作为 和他们 神的法则。 哪知，这些人齐心将轭折断， 挣开绳索。
6 Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
因此，林中的狮子必害死他们； 晚上的豺狼必灭绝他们； 豹子要在城外窥伺他们。 凡出城的必被撕碎； 因为他们的罪过极多， 背道的事也加增了。
7 In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.
我怎能赦免你呢？ 你的儿女离弃我， 又指着那不是神的起誓。 我使他们饱足， 他们就行奸淫， 成群地聚集在娼妓家里。
8 They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife.
他们像喂饱的马到处乱跑， 各向他邻舍的妻发嘶声。
9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.
耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
10 Go up upon her battlements, and break [them] down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.
你们要上她葡萄园的墙施行毁坏， 但不可毁坏净尽， 只可除掉她的枝子， 因为不属耶和华。
11 For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord: the house of Juda also
原来以色列家和犹大家大行诡诈攻击我。 这是耶和华说的。
12 have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
他们不认耶和华，说： 这并不是他， 灾祸必不临到我们； 刀剑和饥荒，我们也看不见。
13 Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.
先知的话必成为风； 道也不在他们里面。 这灾必临到他们身上。
14 Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because you have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
所以耶和华—万军之 神如此说： 因为百姓说这话， 我必使我的话在你口中为火，使他们为柴； 这火便将他们烧灭。
15 Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.
耶和华说：以色列家啊， 我必使一国的民从远方来攻击你， 是强盛的国， 是从古而有的国。 他们的言语你不晓得， 他们的话你不明白。
16 [They are] all mighty men:
他们的箭袋是敞开的坟墓； 他们都是勇士。
17 and they shall devour your harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.
他们必吃尽你的庄稼和你的粮食， 是你儿女该吃的； 必吃尽你的牛羊， 吃尽你的葡萄和无花果； 又必用刀毁坏你所倚靠的坚固城。
18 And it shall come to pass in those days, says the Lord your God, that I will not utterly destroy you.
耶和华说：“就是到那时，我也不将你们毁灭净尽。
19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Therefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
百姓若说：‘耶和华—我们的 神为什么向我们行这一切事呢？’你就对他们说：‘你们怎样离弃耶和华，在你们的地上事奉外邦神，也必照样在不属你们的地上事奉外邦人。’”
20 Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Juda.
当传扬在雅各家， 报告在犹大说：
21 Hear you now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:
愚昧无知的百姓啊， 你们有眼不看， 有耳不听， 现在当听这话。
22 will you not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.
耶和华说：你们怎么不惧怕我呢？ 我以永远的定例， 用沙为海的界限， 水不得越过。 因此，你们在我面前还不战兢吗？ 波浪虽然翻腾，却不能逾越； 虽然匉訇，却不能过去。
23 But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:
但这百姓有背叛忤逆的心； 他们叛我而去，
24 and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfilment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.
心内也不说： 我们应当敬畏耶和华—我们的 神； 他按时赐雨，就是秋雨春雨， 又为我们定收割的节令，永存不废。
25 Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
你们的罪孽使这些事转离你们； 你们的罪恶使你们不能得福。
26 For amongst my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].
因为在我民中有恶人。 他们埋伏窥探，好像捕鸟的人； 他们设立圈套陷害人。
27 As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:
笼内怎样满了雀鸟， 他们的房中也照样充满诡诈； 所以他们得成为大，而且富足。
28 and they have transgressed [the rule of] judgement; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
他们肥胖光润， 作恶过甚，不为人伸冤！ 就是不为孤儿伸冤， 不使他亨通， 也不为穷人辨屈。
29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
30 Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;
国中有可惊骇、可憎恶的事：
31 the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved [to have it] thus: and what will you do for the future.
就是先知说假预言， 祭司借他们把持权柄； 我的百姓也喜爱这些事， 到了结局你们怎样行呢？
