Jeremiah 15
1 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
上主對我說：「縱使梅瑟和撒慕爾立在我面前，我的的心仍不轉向這人民；你由我面前將他們驅逐，叫他們離去。
2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
假如人對你說：我們往哪裏去﹖你就對他們說：上主這樣說：「該死的就死，該殺的就殺，該挨餓的就挨餓，該被擄去的，就被擄去。
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
我必用四種型罰來懲罰他們──上主的斷語──用刀劍來殺，用野狗來拖，用天空的飛鳥和地上的野獸來吞食，來消滅。
4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
我為了猶大王希則克雅的兒子默納舍在耶路撒冷所行的事，必使他們成為地上萬國所恐怖的對象。
5 For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan you? or who shall go aside to ask how you do?
耶路撒冷! 誰還憐恤你，誰還同情你，誰還轉身向你安﹖
6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
你既離棄了我──上主的斷語──轉身背著我，我就只有對你伸出我的手，將你消滅；我對寬恕已感厭倦：
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
我要在這地的城門口，用簸箕將他們簸散，使他們喪失子女；我要消滅我的人民，因為他們不離開自己的行徑。
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall on it suddenly, and terrors on the city.
他們的寡婦已多過海邊的沙粒；我要給他們招來午間的破壞者，襲擊英俊勇士的母親，使痛苦和恐怖突然降到她身上。
9 She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.
生過七個子女的母親，現已身衰氣絕，還是白天，她的太陽已經西落，她只有絕望惆悵；至於他們的遺民，我必使他們在敵人面前死於刀下──上主的斷語。
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them does curse me.
我的母親! 我真不幸! 你竟生了我這與普世對抗相的人。我沒有向人借貸，人也沒有向我借貸，人卻都辱罵我。
11 The LORD said, Truly it shall be well with your remnant; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
實在，上主，我豈沒有盡力事奉你﹖我豈沒有在災難禍患時向你懇求﹖
12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
人豈能折斷北方的鐵和銅﹖
13 Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
[我必使你的財產和寶藏，任人搶奪，為補償你在你全境內犯的罪惡，
14 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you know not: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.
叫你在你不認識的地方，給你的仇敵為奴，因為我的怒火已燃起，必對你們發作] 。
15 O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your long-suffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
上主，你都知道，求你回念我，眷顧我，為我報復迫害我的人，不要因你太忍耐，就讓我死去；你該知道：正是為了你，我才受人侮辱。
16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.
你的話一來到，我就去吞下去；你的話成了我的喜悅，我心中的歡樂，上主，萬軍的天主! 因為我是歸於你名下的，
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.
我從沒有坐在歡笑者的集會中一同取樂；我卻依你的指示獨自靜坐，因為你使我憤怒填胸。
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
為什麼我的痛苦如此久長，我的創傷不可醫治，痊愈無望﹖你於我好像是一條不常有水，而變化無常的溪流!
19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them.
為此上主這樣說：「你若回來，我必讓你回來，使你能在立在我面前；若能發表高尚而非荒謬的思想，你就可作我的口舌，使他們轉向你，而不是你轉向他們。
20 And I will make you to this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
這樣，我必使你這人民成為一設防的銅牆，他們能攻打擊你，卻不能制勝你，因為有我與你同在，援助你，解救你──上主的斷語──
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
我必解救你脫離惡人的手，由強暴人的掌握中將你贖回」。
