Jeremiah 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
上主有話給耶肋米亞說：
2 “Stand at the gate to the house of the Lord, and preach this word there, and say: Listen to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who enter through these gates to adore the Lord.
「你站在上主殿字的門口，宣佈這話說：你們凡由這些門進來，朝拜上主的猶大人，請聽上主的話。
3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Make your ways and your intentions good, and I will live with you in this place.
萬軍的上主，以色列的這樣說：改善你們的生活和行為，我就讓你們住在這地方；
4 Do not choose to trust in lying words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord!’
不要信賴虛偽的話說：「這是上主的聖殿，上主的聖殿，上主的聖殿!
5 For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor,
只有他們徹底改善你的生活和行為，在人與人之間行事公道，
6 if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,
不虐待旅客、孤兒、寡婦，不在這地方傾流無辜者的血，不自招禍患去跟隨外邦的神祗，
7 then I will live with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from the beginning and even forever.
我才讓你們住在這地方，即我自開始便永遠賜給你們祖先的土地。
8 Behold, you trust in false words, which will not benefit you,
可惜! 你們竟信賴虛偽無益的話。
9 so as to steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer libations to Baal, and to go after strange gods, which you do not know.
怎麼﹖你們竟偷盜，兇殺，通姦，發虛誓，向巴耳獻香，跟隨素不相識的外方神祗，
10 And you arrived and stood before me in this house, where my name is invoked, and you said: ‘We have been freed because we carried out all these abominations.’
然後來到這歸我名下的殿裏，立在我面前說：「我們有了保障! 」好再去行這一切可惡的事﹖
11 So then, has this house, where my name has been invoked, become a den of robbers in your eyes? It is I, I am, I have seen, says the Lord.
難道這座歸我名下的殿宇，在你們眼中竟成了賊窩了嗎﹖哎! 我看實在是這樣──上主的斷語。
12 Go to my place in Shiloh, where my name has lived from the beginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
那麼，請你們到我昔日在史羅立我名的地方去，察看我因我人名以色列的邪惡對她行了的事
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and because I have spoken to you from your morning rising, and because I was speaking, but you were not listening, and because I have called you, but you have not responded:
現在因為你們做了這一切事──上主的斷語──我再三懇切勸你們，你們又不聽；我呼喚你們，你們也不答應；
14 I will do to this house, in which my name is invoked, and in which you have confidence, even to this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, just as I have done to Shiloh.
為此，我要對付你們依恃的這座歸於我名下的殿宇，並對付我給你們及你們祖先的地域，向對付史羅一樣；
15 And I will cast you away from my face, just as I have cast away all your brothers, the entire offspring of Ephraim.
我必將你們由我面前拋棄，如同拋棄了你們所的有，厄弗辣因全體後裔一樣。
16 Therefore, you should not pray for this people, nor take up praise and supplication on their behalf. And you should not stand in opposition to me. For then I will not heed you.
至於你，你你不必為這人民祈禱，不必為他們呼籲哀求，也不必向我懇求，因為我不會俯聽你。
17 Have you not seen what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
他們在猶大各城和耶路撒冷街上做的是什麼事，難道你沒有看見﹖
18 The sons gather the wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the wives spread the grease, so as to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to offer libations to strange gods, and so as to provoke me to anger.
兒子拾柴，父親燒火，母女揉麵給天后做餅，向外方神祗行奠祭，來觸怒我。
19 But are they provoking me to anger, says the Lord? Are they not provoking themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
他們果真觸怒我嗎﹖──上主的斷語──豈不是觸犯自己，使自己滿面慚愧﹖
20 Therefore, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my fury and my indignation is kindled against this place, over men and over beasts, and over the trees of the countryside and over the fruits of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.”
為此我上主這樣說：看，我的憤怒和怒火，必要傾注在這地方的人和走獸身上，田間的樹木和土地的出產上，燃燒不熄。
21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your holocausts to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：「你們獻祭後，儘管飽悢祭肉；
22 For concerning the matter of holocausts and sacrifices, I did not speak with your fathers, and I did not instruct them, in the day when I led them away from the land of Egypt.
可是，關於全燔祭和獻祭的事情，我在領你們祖先出離埃及那一天，並沒有對他們談及或吩咐什麼，
23 But on this matter I did instruct them, saying: Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. And walk in the entire way that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.
只吩咐了他們這事說：你們應聽從我的聲音，那麼我必作你們的天主，你們也必作我的人民；你們應走我吩咐你們的一切道路，好使你們獲得幸福。
24 But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear. Instead, they walked by their own will and in the depravity of their own wicked heart. And so, they went backward, and not forward,
他們不但不側耳細聽，反倒依照自己的計劃，隨自己邪惡的心生活，頑固不化；不以面向我，卻以背向我。
25 from the day when their fathers went forth from the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent all my servants, the prophets, to you, throughout the day, rising at first light and sending them.
從你們祖先出離埃及那一天起，直到今日，我給你們派遺了我所有的僕人先知，而且每天清早給你們派遺，
26 But they have not listened to me, nor have they inclined their ear. Instead, they have stiffened their neck, and they have behaved worse than their fathers did.
但他們不但不側耳聽從我，反而更硬起自己的頸項，比自己的祖先還要乖戾。
27 And so, you will speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you. And you will call to them, but they will not respond to you.
縱使你將這一切話告訴他們，他們也不會聽從你；任憑你怎樣呼喚，他們也不會答應你。
28 And you will say to them: This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor accepted discipline. Faith has perished and been taken away from their mouth.
為此你對他們說：這個民族，不聽上主自己天主的聲音，不肯接受訓；忠實已喪失，已絕於他們口中。
29 Cut off your hair, and cast it away. And take up a lamentation on high. For the Lord has cast aside and abandoned this generation of his fury.
你該剪去你的一綹頭髮，把它拋掉，在高丘上唱哀歌，因為上主擯斥，且拋棄了衪憎恨的時代。
30 For the sons of Judah have done evil in my eyes, says the Lord. They have stationed their abominations in the house where my name is invoked, so that they may defile it.
的確，猶大子民作了我視為惡的──上主的斷語──將他們可惡之物，安置在歸我名下的殿宇裏，使殿宇受玷污；
31 And they have built the exalted places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the son of Hinnom, so that they may burn their sons and their daughters with fire, something I neither instructed, nor thought in my heart.
又本希農山谷的托斐特建築了丘壇，為火焚自己的子女；這是我從沒有吩咐，也從沒有想到的事。
32 For this reason, behold, the days will arrive, says the Lord, when it will no longer be called Topheth, nor the Valley of the son of Hinnom, but instead the Valley of Slaughter. Yet they will bury in Topheth, because there will be no other place.
為此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──人王再稱這地方為「托斐特」，或「本希農谷」，卻要稱它為「屠殺谷」；由於墳地不夠，連斐特也將充作墳場。
33 And the corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the wild beasts of the land, and there will be no one to drive them away.
這人民的屍體將成為天空飛鳥和地上走獸的食物，而沒有人來驅逐。
34 And from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, I will cause the cessation of the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be in utter desolation.”
我必猶大城內和耶路撒冷街上，再也聽到歡愉和喜樂的音，新郎和新娘的音，因為這地要變為荒野。
