Jeremiah 10
1 Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.
以色列家! 請聽上主對你們所說的話。
2 Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.
上主這樣說：「你們不要學：不要畏懼天上的異兆：這是異民所畏懼的。
3 For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;
因為這些民族所敬畏的是「虛無」，是由森林所砍來的樹木，是匠人用斧製作的作品，
4 they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
裝飾上金銀，用鐵釘鎚釘住，叫它不動搖；
5 They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
像胡瓜園裏的草木，不能言語；常需要人搬運，不能行走；你們不要害怕，因為它不能害人，也不能施救。
6 There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
上主，沒有誰相似你；你是偉大的，你的名大有德能。
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
萬民的君王! 誰能不敬畏你﹖這是你應得的，因為萬民中所有的智者和他們所有的王國中，沒有誰與你相似；
8 But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
你們全是愚昧無知。他們的教義全是虛偽不實，他們只不過是木偶；
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men].
是由塔爾士採來的銀打成的薄片，是由敖非爾採來的黃金，是藝人和銀匠的製造品；穿的紫錦紅衣，都是工匠的作品。
10 But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.
只有上主是真天主，是生活的天主，永遠的君王；衪一震怒，大志便戰慄，萬民都不能抵受衪的憤怒。
11 Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
[關於他們，你們應這樣說：那未能創造天地火神祗，只有從天上地消滅。]
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
上主的才智展佈了諸天地。
13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
衪一聲號令，使天上的水怒號，使雲彩從地極上騰，使雷電霹靂造成豪雨，使暴風從他的倉庫出發疾駛。
14 Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
人都要自覺愚昧無知；每個銀匠必因自己的彫像感到羞愧，因為所鑄的像，只是「虛無」，沒有氣息；
15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
是「虛無」，是愚人的作品；懲罰時期一到，它們都要滅亡。
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
那位作雅各伯產業的，與他們迴然不同，因為衪是萬物的造主，以色列是作衪產業的支派，衪的名字叫「萬軍火上主」。
17 Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.
你這被圍困的城池，快從地上拾起你的行囊!
18 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.
因為上主這樣說：「看，這一次我必要遠遠拋棄這地的居民磨難他們，使他們覺悟。」
19 Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.
唉! 我已遭破壞，我的創傷已不可治療，但我仍想：這只不過是疾病，我還能忍受。
20 My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
我的帳幕已破壞，我的繩索都已裂斷，我的孩子都已離去，不復存在；再沒有人支搭我的帳幕，張設我的帷帳。
21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.
為民牧者既然愚蠢，不尋求上主，為此他們一事無成，羊群都已四散，
22 The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
聽有個音訊傳來：將有大騷動從北方而來，要使猶大的城邑荒涼，成為豺狼的巢穴。
23 I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
上主，我知道，人的道路不尸由人的，行走的人也不能隨便操縱自己的步伐。
24 Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
上主，你懲戒我，只好按照正義，不要隨你的憤怒，免得我歸於烏有。
25 Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.
願你對不認識你的異民，和不呼求你名的宗族，發洩你的憤怒，因為他們併吞了雅各伯，毀滅破壞，蹂躝了她的住所。
