Jeremias 7
耶和華的話臨到耶利米說：
2 Hear you the word of the Lord, all Judea.
「你當站在耶和華殿的門口，在那裏宣傳這話說：你們進這些門敬拜耶和華的一切猶大人，當聽耶和華的話。
3 Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：你們改正行動作為，我就使你們在這地方仍然居住。
4 Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
你們不要倚靠虛謊的話，說：『這些是耶和華的殿，是耶和華的殿，是耶和華的殿！』
5 For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgement between a man and his neighbour;
「你們若實在改正行動作為，在人和鄰舍中間誠然施行公平，
6 and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:
不欺壓寄居的和孤兒寡婦，在這地方不流無辜人的血，也不隨從別神陷害自己，
7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and for ever.
我就使你們在這地方仍然居住，就是我古時所賜給你們列祖的地，直到永遠。
8 But whereas you have trusted in lying words, whereby you shall not be profited;
「看哪，你們倚靠虛謊無益的話。
9 and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom you know not,
你們偷盜，殺害，姦淫，起假誓，向巴力燒香，並隨從素不認識的別神，
10 so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.
且來到這稱為我名下的殿，在我面前敬拜；又說：『我們可以自由了。』你們這樣的舉動是要行那些可憎的事嗎？
11 Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.
這稱為我名下的殿在你們眼中豈可看為賊窩嗎？我都看見了。這是耶和華說的。
12 For go you to my place with is in Selo, where I caused my name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
你們且往示羅去，就是我先前立為我名的居所，察看我因這百姓以色列的罪惡向那地所行的如何。」
13 And now, because you have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but you listened not to me; and I called you, but you answered not;
耶和華說：「現在因你們行了這一切的事，我也從早起來警戒你們，你們卻不聽從；呼喚你們，你們卻不答應。
14 therefore I also will do to the house whereon my name is called, wherein you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Selo.
所以我要向這稱為我名下、你們所倚靠的殿，與我所賜給你們和你們列祖的地施行，照我從前向示羅所行的一樣。
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
我必將你們從我眼前趕出，正如趕出你們的眾弟兄，就是以法蓮的一切後裔。」
16 Therefore pray not you for this people, and intercede not for them to be pitied, yes, pray not, and approach me not for them: for I will not listen [to you].
「所以，你不要為這百姓祈禱；不要為他們呼求禱告，也不要向我為他們祈求，因我不聽允你。
17 Seest you not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
他們在猶大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上所行的，你沒有看見嗎？
18 Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to anger.
孩子撿柴，父親燒火，婦女摶麵做餅，獻給天后，又向別神澆奠祭，惹我發怒。」
19 Do they provoke me to anger? says the Lord: do they not [provoke] themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?
耶和華說：「他們豈是惹我發怒呢？不是自己惹禍，以致臉上慚愧嗎？」
20 Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, my anger and wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon every tree of their field, and upon the fruits of the land; and it shall burn, and not be quenched.
所以主耶和華如此說：「看哪，我必將我的怒氣和忿怒傾在這地方的人和牲畜身上，並田野的樹木和地裏的出產上，必如火着起，不能熄滅。」
21 Thus says the Lord, Gather your whole burnt offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh.
萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：「你們將燔祭加在平安祭上，吃肉吧！
22 For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice:
因為我將你們列祖從埃及地領出來的那日，燔祭平安祭的事我並沒有提說，也沒有吩咐他們。
23 but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear you my voice, and I will be to you a God, and you shall be to me a people: and walk you in all my ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.
我只吩咐他們這一件說：『你們當聽從我的話，我就作你們的上帝，你們也作我的子民。你們行我所吩咐的一切道，就可以得福。』
24 But they listened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;
他們卻不聽從，不側耳而聽，竟隨從自己的計謀和頑梗的惡心，向後不向前。
25 from the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even until this day. And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, by day and early in the morning: yes, I sent [them],
自從你們列祖出埃及地的那日，直到今日，我差遣我的僕人眾先知到你們那裏去，每日從早起來差遣他們。
26 but they listened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.
你們卻不聽從，不側耳而聽，竟硬着頸項行惡，比你們列祖更甚。
27 Therefore you shall speak this word to them;
「你要將這一切的話告訴他們，他們卻不聽從；呼喚他們，他們卻不答應。
28 This is the nation which has not listened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.
你要對他們說：這就是不聽從耶和華－他們上帝的話、不受教訓的國民；從他們的口中，誠實滅絕了。」
29 Cut off your hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on your lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.
耶路撒冷啊，要剪髮拋棄， 在淨光的高處舉哀； 因為耶和華丟掉離棄了惹他忿怒的世代。
30 For the children of Juda have wrought evil before me, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.
耶和華說：「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事，將可憎之物設立在稱為我名下的殿中，污穢這殿。
31 And they have built the altar of Taphes, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them [to do], neither did I design it in my heart.
他們在欣嫩子谷建築陀斐特的邱壇，好在火中焚燒自己的兒女。這並不是我所吩咐的，也不是我心所起的意。」
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Taphes, and the valley of the son of Ennom, but, The valley of the slain; and they shall bury in Taphes, for lack of room.
耶和華說：「因此，日子將到，這地方不再稱為陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒稱為殺戮谷。因為要在陀斐特葬埋屍首，甚至無處可葬；
33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive [them] away.
並且這百姓的屍首必給空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸作食物，並無人鬨趕。
34 And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.
那時，我必使猶大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上，歡喜和快樂的聲音，新郎和新婦的聲音，都止息了，因為地必成為荒場。」
