Jeremiah 46
1 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
上主傳給耶肋米亞先知論及外邦的話。
2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah.
關於埃及：對於埃及王法郎乃苛，於猶大王約史的兒子約雅金第四年，在幼發拉的河附近的加克米士，被巴比倫王拿步高擊敗的軍隊：
3 Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
你們應準備盾牌鎧甲，衝鋒上陣!
4 Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail!
騎士，你們應裝備戰馬，快騎上，戴上盔，磨快槍，披甲出陣!
5 Why do I see them dismayed, turned away back? And their mighty ones are beaten down, and take to flight, and look not back? Terror [is] on every side, saith Jehovah.
怎麼﹖我看見他們驚惶潰退，他們的勇士遭受襲擊，急速奔逃，不敢回顧，竟然恐怖四起﹖──上主的斷語。
6 Let not the swift flee away, neither let the mighty man escape! — Toward the north, hard by the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.
敏捷的不能逃脫，英勇的不能自救，在靠近幼發拉的河的北岸，瓦解覆滅!
7 Who is this [that] riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
那如尼羅，水波起伏如河流，湧上來的是誰﹖
8 It is Egypt that riseth up as the Nile, and [his] waters toss themselves like the rivers; and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
埃及如尼羅，水波起伏如河流，湧上來說：「我湧上來淹沒大地，掃滅城市和城中的居民。
9 Go up, ye horses, and drive furiously, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Phut that handle the shield, and the Ludim that handle the bow [and] bend it.
戰馬上前，戰車急馳，戰士出陣，持盾的雇士人和普特人，張弓的路丁人!
10 For this is the day of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may be avenged of his adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be sated and made drunk with their blood; for the Lord Jehovah of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country, by the river Euphrates.
這一天正是我主萬軍的上主，報復自己仇敵的復仇日，刀劍必要吞噬、飽嘗、痛飲他們的鮮血；在靠近幼發拉的河北岸，我主萬軍的上主必要執行一場大屠殺。
11 Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.
埃及的處女! 你儘管上基肋阿得去拾取香草，只是徒然增添藥材；你已無法治療!
12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the earth; for the mighty man stumbleth against the mighty, they are both fallen together.
萬民聞知了你的羞辱，大地充滿了你的哀哭；噫! 勇士衝向勇士，雙方同時倒仆。
13 The word that Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, concerning the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:
上主論及巴比倫王拿步高前來攻擊埃及地，對耶肋米亞先知說的話：
14 Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph, and in Tahpanhes; say, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword devoureth round about thee.
你們在埃及宣傳，在米革多耳傳報，在諾夫及塔黑培乃斯傳布說：你起來準備! 刀劍已在你四周撕殺。
15 Why are thy valiants swept away? They stood not, for Jehovah did thrust them down.
怎麼，阿丕斯逃跑了，你的牛神也站立不住﹖原來上主已將牠推倒。
16 He made many to stumble, yea, one fell upon another; and they said, Arise, and let us return to our own people and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
你的混合部隊已離心潰退，各向自己的同僚說：起來，回到我們的民族，我們的生身地去，遠避吞殺的刀劍!
17 There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by.
人應給埃及王法郎起個綽號，叫「時機過後的叫囂。」
18 [As] I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
我永在──那稱謂萬軍上主的君王的斷語──有一位必要前來，勢如群山中的大博爾，又如海濱的加爾默耳。
19 Thou, inhabitress, daughter of Egypt, furnish for thyself a captive's baggage, for Noph shall be a desolation and shall be ruined, so that none shall dwell therein.
寄居在埃及的女兒! 請你自備流徙的行裝，因為諾夫將要變為荒野，被火焚燒，再沒有人居住。
20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
埃及是一頭美麗的小母牛，但是有一隻牛蠅從北方向她撲來。
21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
她的傭兵在她內雖像肥胖的牛犢，也一同轉身逃遁，不能抵抗，因為他們遭殃的日子，受罰的時期，已來到他們身上。
22 Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
她發聲嘶嘶好像蛇行，因為敵人正在率軍前進，好像伐木的樵夫，帶著斧鉞向她衝來：
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
砍伐她的森林──上主的斷語──雖然它稠密得不可侵入，因為他們多於蝗蟲，不可勝數。
24 The daughter of Egypt is put to shame; she is delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
埃及女兒，已被交在北方民族手裏，遭受污辱。
25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith, Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings; yea, Pharaoh and them that confide in him.
萬軍的上主，以色列的天主說：「看，我必懲罰諾地的阿孟，法郎和埃及，埃及的神祇和君王，以及信賴法郎的人，
26 And I will give them into the hand of those that seek their life, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; but afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.
將他們交在圖謀他們性命的巴比倫王拿步高和他臣僕的手中；但是以後，埃及仍如昔日有人居住──上主的斷語。
27 But thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, neither be dismayed, Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.
至於你，我的僕人雅各伯，你不用害怕；以色列，你不必驚慌；因為，看，我必從遠方救出你來；從充軍之地，救出你的後裔；雅各伯必將歸來，居享安寧，無所恐懼。
28 Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and I will not hold thee altogether guiltless.
雅各伯，我的僕人! 你不用害怕──上主的斷語──有我與你同在；誠然，對我使你流徙所至的各民族，我要加以毀滅；但是你，我必不毀滅，只依照正義懲罰你，不讓你全然免罰。
