Jeremiah 17
1 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Engraved on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
猶大的罪是用鐵筆記下來的，用鑽石尖刻在他們的心坎上和他們的祭壇上，好叫他們的子孫記得他們在高崗上，青綠樹下和平原的山上，
2 As their sons remember their altars and their Asherim, By the green tree, by the high hills.
設立了祭壇和神木。
3 O My mountain in the field—your strength, All your treasures—I give for a prey, Your high places for sin in all your borders.
你的財產和所有的寶藏，我必使人掠奪，以抵償你在全境內犯過的一切罪惡。
4 And you have let go—even through yourself, Of your inheritance that I gave to you, And I have caused you to serve your enemies, In a land that you have not known, For you have kindled a fire in My anger, It burns for all time.”
我必由你手中撤回我賜與你的產業，叫你在不相識的地方給你敵人為奴，因為我的怒火已燃起，將永遠不熄。
5 Thus said YHWH: “Cursed [is] the man who trusts in man, And has made flesh his arm, And whose heart turns from YHWH.
上主這樣說：「凡信賴世人，以血肉的人為自己的臂膊，決心遠離上主的人，是可咒罵的!
6 And he has been as a naked thing in a desert, And does not see when good comes, And has inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.
他必像在曠野中的檉柳，即使來到，一點也不覺察，只住在乾燥處，滿含鹽質無人居住之地。
7 Blessed [is] the man who trusts in YHWH, And whose confidence has been YHWH.
凡信賴上主，以上主作倚靠的人，是可祝福的；
8 And has been as a tree planted by waters, And he sends forth his roots by a stream, And he does not see when heat comes, And his leaf has been green, And he is not sorrowful in a year of scarcity, Nor does he cease from making fruit.
他必像一株栽在水邊的樹木，生根河畔，不怕災熱的侵擊，枝葉茂盛，不愁旱年，不斷結實。
9 The heart [is] deceitful above all things, And it [is] incurable—who knows it?
人心最狡滑欺詐，已不可救藥；誰能透識﹖
10 I, YHWH, search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
我上主透察人心，考驗肺腑，依照各人的行徑和作為的結果，給人酬報。
11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, [Is] one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he forsakes it, And in his latter end—he is a fool.”
誰不以正義積聚財物，就像一隻鷓鴣孵化不是自己產的卵，中途必要拋棄；結果，還是自己糊塗。
12 A throne of glory on high from the beginning, The place of our sanctuary,
我們聖所的地方，從起初就是設在崇高之處的光榮實座。
13 The hope of Israel [is] YHWH, All forsaking You are ashamed. “And My apostates are written in the earth, For they have forsaken YHWH, A fountain of living waters.”
上主，以色列的希望! 凡離棄你的，必要蒙羞；上主，凡離棄你的，必被記錄在地上，因為他們離棄了活水的泉源。
14 Heal me, O YHWH, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, For You [are] my praise.
上主，求你醫治我，我必能痊愈；你拯救我，我必能獲救，因為你是我的榮耀。
15 Behold, they are saying to me: “Where [is] the word of YHWH? Pray, let it come.”
看，世人對我說：上主的話在哪裏﹖讓它來吧!
16 And I did not hurry from feeding after You, And I have not desired the desperate day, You have known the produce of my lips, It has been before Your face,
我沒有強迫你加害，也沒有期望災禍的日子；你知道：凡出自我口的，都先向你面陳過。
17 Do not be to me for a terror, You [are] my hope in a day of calamity.
請你不要成為我的恐怖，你原是我患難之日的避難所。
18 Let my pursuers be ashamed, And do not let me be ashamed—me! Let them be frightened, And do not let me be frightened—me! Bring in on them a day of calamity, And destroy them a second time [with] destruction.
願迫害我的人蒙羞；而不是我驚慌；請你給他們招來災禍的日子，以雙倍的毀滅，消滅他們。
19 Thus said YHWH to me: “Go, and you have stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem,
上主這樣對我說：「你去立在猶大出入的本雅明門前，立在耶路撒冷各門前，
20 and you have said to them: Hear a word of YHWH, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates,”
向他們說：猶大的君王、全體猶大人和耶路撒冷居民，即由這門進來的，他們聆聽上主的話!
21 Thus said YHWH: “Take heed to yourselves, And you do not bear a burden on the day of rest, Nor have you brought [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem.
上主這樣說：你們應該小心，不要在安息日擔運重載，進入耶路撒冷的城門。
22 Nor do you take out a burden from your houses on the day of rest, Indeed, you do not do any work, And you have sanctified the day of rest, As I have commanded your fathers.
不要在安息日從你們的家裏擔運重載；不要做任何工作，卻要按照我給你們祖先所吩咐的，聖化安息日。
23 And they have not listened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.
他們不但不側耳傾聽，反而硬著頭頸，不願依從，不願受教。
24 And it has been, if you certainly listen to Me,” A declaration of YHWH, “So as not to bring in a burden by the gates of this city on the day of rest, And to sanctify the day of rest, So as not to do any work in it—
設若你們認真聽從我──上主的斷語──在安息日，不將重擔搬進這城門，卻聖化安息日，不做任何工作；
25 Then kings and princes have entered by the gates of this city, Sitting on the throne of David, Riding in a chariot, and on horses, They, and their princes, the man of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem, And this city has remained for all time.
那麼，坐在達味實座上的君王和王侯，便會乘車騎馬，與自己的公卿、猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民，從這槷的門進來；這城必永遠有人居住；
26 And they have come in from cities of Judah, And from outskirts of Jerusalem, And from the land of Benjamin, And from the low country, And from the hill-country, And from the south, Bringing in burnt-offering, and sacrifice, And present, and frankincense, And bringing praise [to] the house of YHWH.
人們從猶大各城、耶路撒冷四週、本雅明地、平原、山地和南方前來，帶著全燔祭。犧牲、素祭和乳香，在上主的殿裏奉獻感恩祭。
27 And if you do not listen to Me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it has consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!”
但是，我不聖化安息日，反在安息日擔運重載，進入耶路撒冷的城門，我必在城門口放火，吞滅耶路撒冷的宮殿，決不熄滅。
