< Jeremiah 19 >

1 Thus said YHWH: “Go, and you have acquired a potter’s earthen vessel, and from [the] elderly of the people, and from [the] elderly of the priests,
上主這樣對耶肋米亞說:「你去向陶工買一個瓦瓶,那麼帶些民間長老和司祭首長,
2 and you have gone forth to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that [is] at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and have proclaimed there the words that I speak to you,
到陶業門進口處的本希農山谷去,在那裏宣佈我要對你說的話。
3 and have said, Hear a word of YHWH, you kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem!” Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am bringing in evil on this place, at which the ears of everyone who is hearing it tingles,
你要說:猶大王和耶路撒冷的居民! 請聆聽上主的話。萬軍的上主,以色列的天主這樣說:看,我必給這地方招來災禍,凡聽見的,必要耳鳴,
4 because that they have forsaken Me, and make known this place, and make incense in it to other gods, that they did not know, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place [with] innocent blood,
因為他們離棄了我,使這地方成了異地,在這裏向他們和他們的祖先猶大王都不認識的外邦神祗獻香,使這地方充滿無辜的血,
5 and have built the high places of Ba‘al to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Ba‘al, that I did not command, nor spoke of, nor did it come up on My heart.
給巴耳建了高丘,向巴耳火焚自己的兒子作全燔祭:這都是我從沒有吩咐,沒有說過,沒有想到的事。
6 Therefore, behold, days are coming,” a declaration of YHWH, “and this place is no longer called The Tophet and Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but Valley of the Slaughter.
因此,看,時日將到──上主的斷語──這地方不再叫作托斐特或本希農山谷,卻要叫做「屠殺谷」。
7 And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcass for food to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,
在這地方,我必使猶大和耶路撒冷的計劃落空,使他們在敵人面前喪身刀下,死在圖謀他們性命者的手中,將他們的屍首丟棄給天上的飛鳥,和地上的走獸作食物。
8 and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, everyone passing by it is astonished, and hisses for all its plagues.
我必使這城成為驚愕的緣因和譏誚的目標;使凡從這裏經過的人,沒有不因她所受的一切打擊,而感到驚異和嗟嘆的!
9 And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and they each eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the constriction with which their enemies constrict them, and those seeking their life.”
我必使他們吞食自己子女的肉:在敵人和圖謀他們的性命的人圍攻他們,處於困危之時,必食自己道近人的肉。
10 “And you have broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with you,
以後,你就在與你同來的 眼前將那瓶打破,
11 and have said to them, Thus said YHWH of Hosts: Thus I break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter’s vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury—without place to bury;
對他們說:萬軍的上主這樣說:我要這樣破壞這人民和這城市,就如人打破這陶工的器皿,再也無法補救;人必將托斐特充作墳埸,因為再沒有地方可供埋葬。
12 so I do to this place—a declaration of YHWH—and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;
我必這樣對待這地方和這地的居民──上主的斷語──使這城市像托斐特一樣;
13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been as the place of Tophet—defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made incense to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other gods.”
耶路撒冷的房屋和判斷的宮殿,即他們在樓頂上向天上的萬象獻香,並給外方的神祗行奠禮的一切房屋,都必像托斐特一樣,成為不潔的地方。
14 And Jeremiah comes in from Tophet, to where YHWH had sent him to prophesy, and he stands in the court of the house of YHWH, and he says to all the people:
耶肋米亞奉上主派遺到托斐特宣講預言回來以後,站在上主殿宇的庭院裏,向全體人民說:
15 “Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing to this city, and on all its cities, all the calamity that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck to not hear My words!”
「萬軍的上主,以色列的天主這樣說:看,我必給這城市和她所屬的一切市鎮,招來我對她說過的災禍,因為她硬著頭頸,不肯聽從我的話」。

< Jeremiah 19 >