Jeremiah 6
1 “Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem, And blow a horn in Tekoa, And lift up a flame over Beth-Haccerem, For evil has been seen from the north, And great destruction.
本雅明子民，請你們逃出耶路撒冷，在特科亞吹號，在貝特革楞豎立旗幟! 因為有一個災禍，即一個巨大的毀滅，已由北方隱約出現。
2 I have cut off the lovely and delicate one, The daughter of Zion.
熙雍女郎仿佛美麗的草場，
3 Shepherds and their droves come to her, They have struck tents by her all around, They have each fed [in] his own station.”
牧童領著自己的羊群坰她進發，在她四週張設帳幕，各據一方牧放。
4 “Sanctify the battle against her, Rise, and we go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day has turned, For the shades of evening are stretched out,
「請你們備戰，向她進攻；來，讓我們在正午就上前進攻! 我們真不幸! 因為日已偏西，暮影已長!
5 Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.”
不妨! 就趁夜上去，破壞她的閭闕。」
6 For thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Cut down her wood, And pour out a mound against Jerusalem, She [is] the city to be inspected, She [is] full of oppression in her midst.
因為萬軍的上主這樣說：6.「他們該砍伐她的樹木，雀起壁壘，圍攻耶路撒冷，這該受罰的城市，因為在那裏充滿了壓榨。
7 As the digging of a well, is [for] its waters, So she has dug [for] her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Sickness and striking [are] continually before My face.
泉源怎樣湧出泉水，她就怎樣湧出邪惡；從那裏只可聽到強暴和迫害，我金看見疾病和瘡痍。
8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from you, Lest I make you a desolation, A land [that is] not inhabited.”
耶路撒冷! 你應接受訓戒，免得我的心疏遠你，使你荒涼，成為沒有人居住的地方。」
9 Thus said YHWH of Hosts: “They surely glean, as a vine, the remnant of Israel, Put your hand back, as a gatherer to the baskets.”
萬軍的上主這樣說：「你應像收拾葡萄，把以色列的遺民收拾淨盡；又如收割的人 向枝條再伸出你的手來。」
10 To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Behold, a word of YHWH has been to them for a reproach, They do not delight in it.
我應對誰說，應警告誰，使他們聽信我呢﹖看，他們的耳朵遲鈍不靈，不能留心細聽；看，上主的話對他們已成了笑柄，一點也不感興趣
11 And I have been filled with the fury of YHWH (I have been weary of containing), “To pour [it] on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, [The] elderly with one full of days,
為此，我滿懷上主火憤怒，我已無法再控制：「只得將憤怒發洩在街上的孩童和青年的隊伍身上，因為男人和女人，年長和年老的人，都要被擄去；
12 And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” A declaration of YHWH.
他們的住它、莊田和妻室，都要歸他人，因為我要向本地的居民伸出我的手──上主的斷語。」
13 “For from their least to their greatest, Everyone is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even to priest, Everyone is dealing falsely,
實在，從最小的到最的，都貪財圖利；從先知到司祭，都欺詐行事，
14 And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! And there is no peace.
草率治療我人民的瘡痍說：「好了，好了! 」其實卻沒有好。
15 They were ashamed when they did abomination! Indeed, they are not at all ashamed, Indeed, they have not known blushing, Therefore they fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble,” said YHWH.
他們既彿事可憎，就應當知恥；可是，他們不但毫不知恥，反而連羞愧也不知道是什麼；為此，他們要與倒斃者一同倒斃，在我降罰他們時，都要一厥不振──上主說。
16 Thus said YHWH: “Stand by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where [is] this—the good way? And go in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, We do not go.
上主這樣說：「你們應站在交叉路口，觀察探問舊路；那一條是好路，就在那路上走，你們的的心靈必獲安寧。」他們卻答說：「我們偏不走。」
17 And I have raised up watchmen for you, Attend to the voice of the horn. And they say, We do not attend.
我給你們派駐哨兵，你們連注意號聲! 」他們卻答說：「我們偏不注意。
18 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, That which [is] on them.
為此，萬民! 你們必需細聽；群眾! 你們應知道他們的遭遇。
19 Hear, O earth, behold, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their plans, For they gave no attention to My words, And My law—they kick against it.
大地注意：看，我必給這百姓帶來災禍，作他們失節的的苦果，因為他們沒有聽從我的言辭，拋棄了卜法律。
20 Why [is] this to Me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, And the sweet cane from a far-off land, Your burnt-offerings [are] not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.”
那些來自舍巴的乳香，出自遠方的香蒲，於我有何用﹖你們的全燔祭不受悅納，你的犧牲不樂我意。
21 Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Behold, I give stumbling blocks to this people, And fathers and sons have stumbled against them together, The neighbor and his friend perish.”
為此，上主這樣說：「看，我將這人民設下絆腳石，使父子一起絆倒，使鄰居和朋友同趨滅亡。」
22 Thus said YHWH: “Behold, a people has come from a north country, And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.
上主這樣說：「看，有一個民族從北方前來，有一個強大的異邦從地極興起，
23 They take hold of bow and javelin, It [is] fierce, and they have no mercy, Their voice sounds as a sea, And they ride on horses, Set in array as a man of war, Against you, O daughter of Zion.”
緊握弓戈，殘忍無情，像海嘯一般喧嚷，騎著戰馬，萬眾一心，嚴陣準備向你進攻，熙雍女郎! 」
24 We have heard its sound, our hands have been feeble, Distress has seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.
我們聽到了這消息，束手無策，不勝憂慮，痛苦得有如臨產的婦女。
25 Do not go forth to the field, And do not walk in the way, For the enemy has a sword, Fear [is] all around.
你們不要到田間去，不要在路上徘徊，因為敵人正在撕殺，四處令人恐怖。
26 O daughter of my people, Gird on sackcloth, And roll yourself in ashes, Make mourning [as for] an only one, A most bitter lamentation, For the spoiler suddenly comes against us.
我的女兒──人民──你該穿上麻衣，輾轉於灰塵，悲哀傷心痛哭，如喪獨子，因為劫奪者要突然來襲擊我們!
27 “I have given you a watchtower, A fortress among My people, And you know, and have tried their way.
我立了你作我人民的查察員，原是為叫你認識並考察他們的行徑。
28 All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously—bronze and iron, All of them are corrupters.
他們盡是極頑固的叛徒，往來散播流言，確是壞透了的破銅爛鐵。
29 The bellows have been burned, The lead has been consumed by fire, A refiner has refined in vain, And the wicked have not been drawn away.
風箱猛吹，雖有烈火，但鉛仍不溶化；煉工徒然鍛煉，渣滓總煉不掉。
30 They have called them rejected silver, For YHWH has kicked against them!”
人都稱他們為「拋棄的銀渣，」因為上主已將他們拋棄。
