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.
便雅憫人哪，你們要逃出耶路撒冷， 在提哥亞吹角， 在伯‧哈基琳立號旗； 因為有災禍與大毀滅從北方張望。
2 I have cut off the lovely and delicate one, The daughter of Zion.
那秀美嬌嫩的錫安女子， 我必剪除。
3 Shepherds and their droves come to her, They have struck tents by her all around, They have each fed [in] his own station.”
牧人必引他們的羊群到她那裏， 在她周圍支搭帳棚， 各在自己所佔之地使羊吃草。
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,
你們要準備攻擊她。 起來吧，我們可以趁午時上去。 哀哉！日已漸斜， 晚影拖長了。
5 Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.”
起來吧，我們夜間上去， 毀壞她的宮殿。
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.
因為萬軍之耶和華如此說： 你們要砍伐樹木， 築壘攻打耶路撒冷。 這就是那該罰的城， 其中盡是欺壓。
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.
井怎樣湧出水來， 這城也照樣湧出惡來； 在其間常聽見有強暴毀滅的事， 病患損傷也常在我面前。
8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from you, Lest I make you a desolation, A land [that is] not inhabited.”
耶路撒冷啊，你當受教， 免得我心與你生疏， 免得我使你荒涼， 成為無人居住之地。
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.”
萬軍之耶和華曾如此說： 敵人必擄盡以色列剩下的民， 如同摘淨葡萄一樣。 你要像摘葡萄的人摘了又摘，回手放在筐子裏。
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.
現在我可以向誰說話作見證，使他們聽呢？ 他們的耳朵未受割禮，不能聽見。 看哪，耶和華的話他們以為羞辱， 不以為喜悅。
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,
因此我被耶和華的忿怒充滿，難以含忍。 我要傾在街中的孩童和聚會的少年人身上， 連夫帶妻， 並年老的與日子滿足的都必被擒拿。
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.
他們的房屋、田地， 和妻子都必轉歸別人； 我要伸手攻擊這地的居民。 這是耶和華說的。
13 “For from their least to their greatest, Everyone is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even to priest, Everyone is dealing falsely,
因為他們從最小的到至大的都一味地貪婪， 從先知到祭司都行事虛謊。
14 And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! And there is no peace.
他們輕輕忽忽地醫治我百姓的損傷， 說：平安了！平安了！ 其實沒有平安。
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.
他們行可憎的事知道慚愧嗎？ 不然，他們毫不慚愧， 也不知羞恥。 因此，他們必在仆倒的人中仆倒； 我向他們討罪的時候， 他們必致跌倒。 這是耶和華說的。
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.
耶和華如此說： 你們當站在路上察看， 訪問古道， 哪是善道，便行在其間； 這樣，你們心裏必得安息。 他們卻說：我們不行在其間。
17 And I have raised up watchmen for you, Attend to the voice of the horn. And they say, We do not attend.
我設立守望的人照管你們， 說：要聽角聲。 他們卻說：我們不聽。
18 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, That which [is] on them.
列國啊，因此你們當聽！ 會眾啊，要知道他們必遭遇的事。
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.
地啊，當聽！ 我必使災禍臨到這百姓， 就是他們意念所結的果子； 因為他們不聽從我的言語， 至於我的訓誨，他們也厭棄了。
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.”
從示巴出的乳香， 從遠方出的菖蒲 奉來給我有何益呢？ 你們的燔祭不蒙悅納； 你們的平安祭，我也不喜悅。
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.”
所以耶和華如此說： 我要將絆腳石放在這百姓前面。 父親和兒子要一同跌在其上； 鄰舍與朋友也都滅亡。
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.
耶和華如此說： 看哪，有一種民從北方而來， 並有一大國被激動，從地極來到。
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.”
他們拿弓和槍， 性情殘忍，不施憐憫； 他們的聲音像海浪匉訇。 錫安城啊， 他們騎馬都擺隊伍， 如上戰場的人要攻擊你。
24 We have heard its sound, our hands have been feeble, Distress has seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.
我們聽見他們的風聲，手就發軟； 痛苦將我們抓住， 疼痛彷彿產難的婦人。
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.
你們不要往田野去， 也不要行在路上， 因四圍有仇敵的刀劍和驚嚇。
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.
我民哪，應當腰束麻布，滾在灰中。 你要悲傷，如喪獨生子痛痛哭號， 因為滅命的要忽然臨到我們。
27 “I have given you a watchtower, A fortress among My people, And you know, and have tried their way.
我使你在我民中為高臺，為保障， 使你知道試驗他們的行動。
28 All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously—bronze and iron, All of them are corrupters.
他們都是極悖逆的， 往來讒謗人。 他們是銅是鐵， 都行壞事。
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.
風箱吹火，鉛被燒毀； 他們煉而又煉，終是徒然； 因為惡劣的還未除掉。
30 They have called them rejected silver, For YHWH has kicked against them!”
人必稱他們為被棄的銀渣， 因為耶和華已經棄掉他們。
