< Jeremiah 32 >

1 The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah—it [is] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar—
猶大王漆德克雅第十年,拿步高在位第十八年,由上主傳給耶肋米亞先知的話:
2 And then the forces of the king of Babylon are laying siege against Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet has been shut up in the court of the prison that [is] in the house of the king of Judah,
那時巴比倫王的軍在隊正在圍攻耶路撒冷,耶肋米亞先知被幽禁在猶大王室監獄的庭院裏。
3 where Zedekiah king of Judah has shut him up, saying, “Why are you prophesying, saying, Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he has captured it;
猶大王漆德克雅幽禁了先知,對他說:「你為什麼預言說:上主這樣說:看,我必將這城交在巴比倫王手中,他要佔領這座城;
4 and Zedekiah king of Judah does not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but is certainly given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth has spoken with his mouth, and his eyes see his eyes,
猶大王漆德克雅必逃不出加色丁人的手,因為他必被交在巴比倫王的手中,與他面對面相談,眼對眼相視;
5 and he leads Zedekiah [to] Babylon, and there he is until My inspecting him—a declaration of YHWH—because you fight with the Chaldeans, you do not prosper.”
他必帶漆德克雅到巴比倫去,住在那裏,我再來看顧他──上主的斷語──你們若抵擋加色丁人,決不會成功﹖」
6 And Jeremiah says, “A word of YHWH has been to me, saying,
耶肋米亞說:「有上主的話傳給我說:
7 Behold, Hanameel son of Shallum, your uncle, is coming to you, saying, Buy my field that [is] in Anathoth for yourself, for the right of redemption [is] yours to buy.”
看,你叔父沙隆的兒子哈納默耳要到你這裏來說:你購買我在阿納托特的那塊田吧! 因為你有買回的權利,應把它買回來」。
8 And Hanameel, my uncle’s son, comes to me, according to the word of YHWH, to the court of the prison, and says to me, “Please buy my field that [is] in Anathoth, that [is] in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession [is] yours, and redemption yours—buy [it] for yourself.” And I know that it [is] the word of YHWH,
我叔父的兒子哈納默耳,正如上主所說,到監獄庭院裏來找我,對我說:「請你購買我在本雅明地內阿納托特木那塊田吧! 因為你有繼承權,和有權買回你為你自己買下吧! 」於是我知道,這是上主的話。
9 and I buy the field that [is] in Anathoth from Hanameel, my uncle’s son, and I weigh the money to him—seventeen shekels of silver.
便買了我叔父的兒子哈納默刀在阿納托特的那塊地,秤給他十七「協刻耳」銀子,
10 And I write in a scroll, and seal, and cause witnesses to testify, and weigh the silver in balances;
寫了契約,封上,請人作證,在天秤上秤了銀子;
11 and I take the purchase scroll, the sealed one, according to law and custom, and the open one;
然後按照法定條例,拿著加封和未加封的購買契約,
12 and I give the purchase scroll to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel, my uncle’s son, and before the eyes of the witnesses, those writing in the purchase scroll, before the eyes of all the Jews who are sitting in the court of the prison.
當著我叔父的兒子哈納默耳,和在購買契約上簽名的見證人,以及監獄庭院裏在座的眾猶大人眼前,將這購買的契約交給了乃黎雅的兒子,瑪赫色雅的孫子巴路克,
13 And I charge Baruch before their eyes, saying,
並當著左營眼前吩咐巴路克說:
14 “Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Take these scrolls, this purchase scroll, both the sealed one and the open one, and you have put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain many days.
「萬軍的上主,以色列的天主這將這些加封和未加封的文件,購買的契約拿去,放在一瓦器內,長久保存,
15 For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards are bought in this land again.”
因為萬軍的上主以色列的天主這樣說:在這地方,人還要購買房屋、莊田和葡萄園」。
16 And I pray to YHWH after my giving the purchase scroll to Baruch son of Neriah, saying,
我將購買的契約交給乃黎雅的兒子巴路克以後,便祈求上主說:
17 “Aah! Lord YHWH, behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power, and by Your outstretched arm; there is nothing too wonderful for You:
「啊! 我主上主! 看,你以你的大能和伸展的手臂創造了天地;為你是沒有困難的事。
18 doing kindness to thousands, and repaying iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their sons after them; God, the great, the mighty, YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name;
你對千萬人施行仁慈,但也血後世的子孫本人,追討他們祖先的罪債;你們是偉大有力的天主,「萬軍的天主」是你的名號。
19 great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
你有偉大的計謀,行大事的能力;雙目注視人類子孫所有的行徑,依照各人的行徑和行事的結果,給予酬報。
20 in that you have done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day, and in Israel, and among men, and You make for Yourself a name as [at] this day.
你直到今日在埃及地,在以色列和人世間,施行奇蹟和異事,使你自己成名,有如今日;
21 And You bring forth Your people Israel from the land of Egypt, with signs and with wonders, and by a strong hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great fear,
你以靈蹟奇事,有力的手腕和伸展的臂膊,巨大恐嚇,從埃及地出了你的人民以色列,
22 and you give to them this land that you swore to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey,
給他們的祖先起誓,要給他們的這塊流奶流蜜的土地。
23 and they come in, and possess it, and they have not listened to Your voice, and have not walked in Your law, all that which You laid a charge on them to do they have not done, and You proclaim all this calamity [to] them.
他們來了,佔領了這地,郤沒有聽從你的聲音,沒有履行你的法律,沒有做你命他們應做的一切事,為此你給他們招來了這一切災禍。
24 Behold, the [siege] mounds have come to the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence; and that which You have spoken has come to pass, and behold, You are seeing.
看,圍攻的工程已逼近城市,劫勢必攻陷;這個已面臨兵刀飢荒和瘟疫的城市,必落在進攻的加色丁人手中;你所說的,現已實現,你已目睹;
25 Yet You have said to me, O Lord YHWH, Buy the field for yourself with money, and cause witnesses to testify—and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans!”
然而,我主上主! 正當這城交在加色丁人手中之際,你卻對我說:你要請人作證,用銀子購買田地」。
26 And the word of YHWH is to Jeremiah, saying,
於是有上主的話通過給我說:
27 “Behold, I [am] YHWH, God of all flesh: is anything too wonderful for Me?”
「看,我是上主,是一切有血肉者的天主:難道我有做不到的事嗎﹖
28 Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he has captured it.
為此,上主這樣說:看,我將這城交在加色丁人和巴比倫拿步高的手中,他必佔領這座城。
29 And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city have come in, and they have set this city on fire, and have burned it—and the houses on whose roofs they made incense to Ba‘al, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger.
進攻這城的加色丁人要來放火焚燒,把這座城和在屋頂上給巴耳焚香,向外神行奠禮,惹我動怒的房屋,燒得乾乾淨淨,
30 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only evil in My eyes from their youth; for the sons of Israel are surely provoking Me with the work of their hands,” a declaration of YHWH.
因為以色列和猶大子民自幼在我眼前只知作惡;實在,以色列子民雙手所行的,無不使我動怒──上主的斷語──
31 “For this city has been a cause of My anger and a cause of My fury, even from the day that they built it, and to this day—to turn it aside from before My face,
實在,這座城,自從他們開始建築那一天,直到今日,常惹我動怒生氣,致使我不得不從我面前將她消滅。
32 because of all the evil of the sons of Israel, and of the sons of Judah that they have done, so as to provoke Me—they, their kings, their heads, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
這全是出於以色列和猶大子民,即他們、他們的君王、朝臣、司祭、先知,以及猶大人和耶路撒冷和居民,所行的一切使我動怒的惡事。
33 And they turn the neck to Me, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not listening to accept instruction.
他們對我轉過背來,卻不對我轉過臉來;我雖不斷懇切施教,他們仍不願聽從,接受勸告;
34 And they set their abominations in the house over which My Name is called, so as to defile it.
反將可惡之物安置在歸我名下的殿裏,使我殿宇受到了玷污;
35 And they build the high places of Ba‘al that [are] in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on My heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.
又在本希農山谷給巴耳建造了一些祭壇,給摩肋客人火祭自己的子女:這是我從來沒有吩咐,也從來沒有想到過的事;他們竟做出這些可惡的事,來引誘猶大犯罪。
36 And now, therefore, thus said YHWH, God of Israel, concerning this city, of which you are saying, It has been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence:
現在,上主以色列的天主,對這座城你要說因兵戈饑荒瘟疫,而被交在巴比倫王手中的,卻這樣說:
37 Behold, I am gathering them out of all the lands to where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought them back to this place, and have caused them to dwell confidently;
看,我必從我生氣憤恨發怒時逐他們所到的各地,召集他們,領他們回到這地方來,安然居住,
38 and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;
作我的,我作他們的天主,
39 and I have given to them one heart and one way, to fear Me all the days, for the good of them and their sons after them:
且使他們一心一德,終生敬畏我,造福自己和自己後代的子孫;
40 and I have made a perpetual covenant for them, in that I do not turn back from after them for My doing them good, and I put My fear in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;
與他們訂立一永久的盟約,再不離棄他們,為他們謀幸福,將敬長我之情賦於他們心內,使他們不再離開;
41 and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.”
我樂意好待他們,專心致志將他們安頓在這城裏。
42 For thus said YHWH: “As I brought to this people all this great calamity, so I am bringing on them all the good that I am speaking concerning them;
因為上主這樣說:我怎樣給這人民招來了這一切大災禍,也要同樣給他們招來我預許的一切幸福。
43 and the field has been bought in this land of which you are saying, It [is] a desolation, without man and beast, it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
在這個你們說成已成荒野,已人獸絕跡,已交在加色丁人手中的地域裏,還有田地的交易;
44 They buy fields with money, so as to write in a scroll, and to seal, and to cause witnesses to testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in outskirts of Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, and in cities of the hill-country, and in cities of the low country, and in cities of the south, for I return their captivity,” a declaration of YHWH.
在本雅明地,在耶路撒冷城郊,在猶大、山地、平原和南部的城裏,人們還要花錢買田,寫契蓋章,請人作證,因為我要轉變他們的命運──上主的斷語」。

< Jeremiah 32 >