Jeremiah 20
1 Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
依默爾的兒子帕市胡爾司祭，上主殿宇的總監督，聽見了耶肋米亞預言這些事，
2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of the LORD.
帕市胡爾便打了耶肋米亞先知，給他加上腳鐐，把他囚在上主殿內本雅明上門的監牢裏。
3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him: 'The LORD hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
次日，帕市胡爾給耶肋米亞去了腳鐐；耶肋米亞便對他說：「上主不再稱你為「帕市胡爾」，卻稱你為「驚慌四起」。
4 For thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
因為上主這樣說：看，我必使你和你的一切友人遭受慌；他們必倒在敵人的刀下，而且你要親眼看見這事；我將全猶大人交在巴比倫王的手中，他要將他們擄到巴比倫去，用刀擊殺。
5 Moreover I will give all the store of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the wealth thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, who shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
這城的一切財物，一切積蓄，一切珍寶，以及猶大列王的一切寶藏，我都要交在他們敵人的手中，讓他們搶劫掠奪，運到巴比倫去。
6 And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.'
至於你，帕市胡爾! 以及凡住在你家中的人，都要被擄去充軍；你和你向他們講假預言的一切友人，都要到巴比倫去，死在那裏，埋在那裏。」
7 O LORD, Thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed, Thou hast overcome me, and hast prevailed; I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.
上主，你引誘了我，我讓我自己受了你的引誘；你確實比我強，你戰勝了。我終日成為笑柄，人都嘲笑我。
8 For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.
因為我每次發言，必得叫喊，必得高呼：「暴虐! 破壞! 」實在，上主的話，為我日日成為受侮辱和譏笑的因由。
9 And if I say: 'I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name', then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I weary myself to hold it in, but cannot.
假使我說：我不再想念他，不再以他的名發言；在我心中就像有火在焚燒，蘊藏在我的骨髓內；我竭力抑制，亦不可能。
10 For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side: 'Denounce, and we will denounce him'; even of all my familiar friends, them that watch for my halting: 'Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.'
實在，我聽到了多少人私相耳語：「驚慌四起! 你們揭發，我們就必對他提出控訴。」甚至我一切的友好都在偵察我的破綻：「也許他會入彀，那我們必能制勝他，對他施行報復。」
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty warrior; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed, because they have not prospered, even with an everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.
但是與我同在的上主，好像是一位孔武有力的戰士，為此迫害我的人只有失敗，決不能制勝；由於謀事不成，必蒙受極大的恥辱，永不可磨滅的羞辱。
12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the reins and the heart, let me see Thy vengeance on them; for unto Thee have I revealed my cause.
噫萬軍的上主! 你考驗義人，洞察人的肝膽肺腑；我既給你訴說了我的案情，你使我見到你對他們的報復。
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD; for He hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.
你們應歌頌上主，讚揚上主，因為他從惡人的手中，救出了窮苦人的性命。
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.
願我誕生的那一天，是可咒罵的；願我母親生我的那一天，不蒙受祝福!
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.
願那給我父親報信說：「給你生了一個男孩，」叫他異常高興的人，是可詛咒的!
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide;
願這人像上主不顧惜消滅的城市：早晨聽到哀號，正午聽到警報；
17 Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
因為他沒有叫我死在母胎，使我的母親成為我的墳墓，叫她永遠不分娩生我!
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
為什麼我要從母胎裏出來，眼見辛酸痛苦，在羞辱中消磨我的歲月﹖
