< Jeremiah 24 >

1 YHWH has showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, appointed before the temple of YHWH—after the removing by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the heads of Judah, and the artisan, and the smith, from Jerusalem, when he brings them into Babylon—
巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒將猶大王約雅敬的兒子耶哥尼雅和猶大的首領,並工匠、鐵匠從耶路撒冷擄去,帶到巴比倫。這事以後,耶和華指給我看,有兩筐無花果放在耶和華的殿前。
2 In one basket [are] very good figs, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket [are] very bad figs that are not eaten because of badness.
一筐是極好的無花果,好像是初熟的;一筐是極壞的無花果,壞得不可吃。
3 And YHWH says to me, “What are you seeing, Jeremiah?” And I say, “Figs, the good figs [are] very good, and the bad [are] very bad, that are not eaten because of badness.”
於是耶和華問我說:「耶利米你看見甚麼?」我說:「我看見無花果,好的極好,壞的極壞,壞得不可吃。」
4 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
耶和華的話臨到我說:「
5 “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Like these good figs so I acknowledge The expulsion of Judah that I sent from this place, [To] the land of the Chaldeans—for good.
耶和華-以色列的上帝如此說:被擄去的猶大人,就是我打發離開這地到迦勒底人之地去的,我必看顧他們如這好無花果,使他們得好處。
6 And I have set My eyes on them for good, And have brought them back to this land, And built them up, and I do not throw down, And have planted them, and do not pluck up.
我要眷顧他們,使他們得好處,領他們歸回這地。我也要建立他們,必不拆毀;栽植他們,並不拔出。
7 And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I [am] YHWH, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back to Me with all their heart.
我要賜他們認識我的心,知道我是耶和華。他們要作我的子民,我要作他們的上帝,因為他們要一心歸向我。」
8 And like the bad figs that are not eaten for badness, Surely thus said YHWH: So I make Zedekiah king of Judah, And his heads, and the remnant of Jerusalem, Who are left in this land, And who are dwelling in the land of Egypt,
耶和華如此說:「我必將猶大王西底家和他的首領,以及剩在這地耶路撒冷的餘民,並住在埃及地的猶大人都交出來,好像那極壞、壞得不可吃的無花果。
9 And I have given them for a trembling, For evil—to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for an allegory, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places to where I drive them.
我必使他們交出來,在天下萬國中拋來拋去,遭遇災禍;在我趕逐他們到的各處成為凌辱、笑談、譏刺、咒詛。
10 And I have sent the sword against them, The famine and the pestilence, Until their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!”
我必使刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫臨到他們,直到他們從我所賜給他們和他們列祖之地滅絕。」

< Jeremiah 24 >