Jeremiah 49
1 Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?
關於阿孟子民：上主這樣說：「難道以色列沒有子孫，沒有後嗣﹖為什麼米耳公佔據了加得，而他的人民竟住在加得的城中﹖
2 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will cause the noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and it shall be destroyed into a heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire, and Israel shall possess them that have possessed him, saith the Lord.
為此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──我必使阿孟子民的辣巴聽到戰爭的吶喊；她要成為一堆廢墟，她的附屬城市要為火燒盡；以色列終歸要繼承自己的產業──上主說。
3 Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for Melchom shall be carried into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
赫市朋，哀號罷! 因為破壞者已來近了；辣巴的女郎! 你們該哭泣，穿上苦衣哀傷，割傷自己的身體，因為米耳公要與自己的司祭和公卿，同去充軍。
4 Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: Who shall come to me?
失節的女郎! 你為什麼要誇耀你的山谷是富裕的山谷，仗恃你的寶藏說：「有誰敢來與我對抗﹖
5 Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, from all that are round about thee: and you shall be scattered every one out of one another’s sight, neither shall there be any to gather together them that flee.
看，我從各方給你召來恐怖──我主萬軍上主的斷語──你們必被驅逐，各自奔逃，再沒人來聚集逃散的人。
6 And afterwards I will cause the captives of the children of Ammon to return, saith the Lord.
雖然如此，日後我仍要轉變阿孟子民的命運──上主的斷語。」
7 Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.
關於厄東，萬軍的上主這樣說：「難道在特曼已沒有智慧，聰敏的人已計窮才盡了嗎﹖
8 Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye inhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon him, the time of his visitation.
德丹的居民! 你們該轉身逃遁，藏居深處，因為我要給厄撒烏招來災禍，已到了懲罰他的時候。
9 If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough for them.
如果收葡萄的人來到你這裏，決不會留下殘餘；如果盜賊夜間來襲，必要盡力搶取；
10 But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he cannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he shall not be.
我就要這樣暴露厄撒烏，揭發他的隱處，使他無法躲藏；他的後裔，必被消滅，不再存於自己的鄰邦中。
11 Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.
請留下你的孤兒，我必使他們生存，你的寡婦也可託付給我。
12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as innocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.
因為上主這樣說：看，那原來不該飲苦爵的，一定要飲，你要想完全免罰嗎﹖你決不致於免罰，你也該痛飲!
13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes.
因為，我曾指自己起誓──上主的斷語──波責辣必成為一片荒涼，受人憎恨、侮辱和詛咒；她所有的城市，必要永遠變為荒野。
14 I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.
我從上主聽得了一個消息，在萬民間傳開了一個號令：「你們該聯盟向她進攻! 你們該起來交戰! 」
15 For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations, despicable among men.
因為，看，我已使你成為萬民中最小的，成為人間最可輕賤的。
16 Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
你高居在石縫的隱處，盤據在峻嶺的山巔。你自以為驚異，你心卷的驕傲欺騙了你。即使你像老鷹一樣高結你的巢穴，我也要從那裏將你推下──上主的斷語。
17 And Edom shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
厄東必變成荒野，凡由她那裏經過的人，見了她的種種慘狀，必要唏噓嘆。
18 As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no son of man inhabit it.
她必要像毀滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣及附近的城市一樣──上主說──再沒有人居住，再沒有人在那裏寄宿。
19 Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?
看，好像一隻雄獅，從約但的叢林上來，走向常綠的牧場；同樣，我也要突然將他們趕走，派我選定的人民來統治。誠然，誰是我的對手﹖誰敢向我提出質問﹖誰是能對抗我的牧人﹖
20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.
為此，請你們聽上主對厄東設計的計謀，對特曼居民策劃的策略：連最弱小的羊也要被人牽去，他們的牧楊也必陷於戰慄中。
21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their voice is heard in the Red Sea.
他們倒塌的響聲，震撼大地；哀號之聲，直達紅海。
22 Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall spread his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.
看，他好像老鷹飛升翱翔，在波責辣上展開自己的翅膀；在那一日，厄東的勇士必心志頹喪，有如臨產的婦女。
23 Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.
關於大馬士革：哈瑪特和阿爾帕得聽到了不好的消息，大起恐慌，像海洋一樣動盪，愁苦得不能安寧。
24 Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour.
大馬士革失去勇氣，轉身逃遁，極感戰慄，備受憂慮痛苦，好像一臨產的婦女。
25 How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy!
哀哉，有的城邑，享樂的都市，已被摒棄!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.
她的少年將倒斃在廣場，她的戰士在那一日內要悉數滅亡──萬軍上主的斷語──
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, rind it shall devour the strong holds of Benadad.
我必在大馬士革城牆上放火，吞滅本哈達得的宮闕。
28 Against Cedar and against the kingdoms of Asor, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the Lord: Arise, and go ye up to Cedar, and waste the children of the east.
關於刻達爾和巴比倫王拿步高克服了的哈祚爾諸國，上主這樣說：「起來! 進攻刻達爾，蹂躪東方子民!
29 They shall take their tents, and their flocks: and shall carry off for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels: and they shall call fear upon them round about.
奪取他們的帳幕和牲畜，帷幔和所有的器具；牽走他們的駱駝，向他們吶喊：四面恐怖。
30 Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes, you that inhabit Asur, saith the Lord: for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived designs against you.
哈祚爾的居民! 你們應逃遁遠去，藏匿深處──上主的斷語──因為巴比倫王拿步高已設計謀害你們，已策畫攻擊你們。
31 Arise, and so up to a nation that is at ease, and that dwelleth securely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell alone.
起來，進攻優游閒居，不設門閂，孑然獨居的民族──上主的斷語──
32 And their camels shall be for a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle for a booty, and I will scatter into every wind them that have their hair cut round, and I will bring destruction upon them from I all their confines, saith the Lord.
因為搶奪他們的駱駝，劫掠他們成群的牲畜；凡剃去鬢髮的，我必叫他們隨風飄散，由四面八方給他們招來災禍──上主的斷語──
33 And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.
哈祚爾要變為豺狼的巢穴，永遠荒涼，留下一人，不會再有人居住。」
34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, saying:
猶大王漆德克雅初年，關於厄藍有上主的話傳給耶肋米亞先知說：「
35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of Elam, and their chief strength.
萬軍的上主這樣說：看，我要折斷厄藍的弓弩，稱雄的勢力；
36 And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the fear quarters of heaven: and I will scatter them into all these winds: and there shall be no nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall not come.
我要從天下四面八方，給厄藍召來四方的風，使他們隨風飄散，以致沒有一個民族，沒有厄藍的難民。
37 And I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and in the sight of them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, my fierce wrath, saith the Lord: and will send the sword after them, till I consume them.
我必使厄藍在自己性命的人前，驚惶失措；給他們招來災禍，我忿怒的火焰──上主的斷語──派出刀劍追迫他們，直至將他們完全消滅。
38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and princes from thence, saith the Lord.
我必在厄藍設立我的寶座，殲滅其中的君王將帥──上主的斷語──
39 But in the latter days I will cause the captives of Elam, to return, saith the Lord.
雖然如此，在末日我仍要轉變厄藍的命運──上主的斷語。」
