Jeremiah 6
1 Take your goods into safety, ye sons of Benjamin out of the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa, blow ye a horn, And on Beth-haccherem, raise a fire-signal, —For calamity, hath looked out from the North, Even a great destruction.
便雅悯人哪，你们要逃出耶路撒冷， 在提哥亚吹角， 在伯·哈基琳立号旗； 因为有灾祸与大毁灭从北方张望。
2 To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:
那秀美娇嫩的锡安女子， 我必剪除。
3 Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.
牧人必引他们的羊群到她那里， 在她周围支搭帐棚， 各在自己所占之地使羊吃草。
4 Hallow ye against her a war, Arise! and let us go up in broad noon. Woe to us, for the day, hath turned, for the shadows of evening, stretch along.
你们要准备攻击她。 起来吧，我们可以趁午时上去。 哀哉！日已渐斜， 晚影拖长了。
5 Arise! and let us go up in the night, And let us destroy her palaces.
起来吧，我们夜间上去， 毁坏她的宫殿。
6 For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Cut ye down timber, And cast up, against Jerusalem a mound, —That, is the city to be punished! There is, nothing, but oppression in her midst;
因为万军之耶和华如此说： 你们要砍伐树木， 筑垒攻打耶路撒冷。 这就是那该罚的城， 其中尽是欺压。
7 Like the casting forth by a well of its waters, So, hath she cast forth her wickedness, —Violence and destruction, are heard in her, Before my face, continually, are suffering and smiting.
井怎样涌出水来， 这城也照样涌出恶来； 在其间常听见有强暴毁灭的事， 病患损伤也常在我面前。
8 Receive thou correction O Jerusalem, Lest my soul be torn from thee, —Lest I make thee A desolation, A land not habitable.
耶路撒冷啊，你当受教， 免得我心与你生疏， 免得我使你荒凉， 成为无人居住之地。
9 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel—Turn back thy hand, as a grape gatherer over the tendrils.
万军之耶和华曾如此说： 敌人必掳尽以色列剩下的民， 如同摘净葡萄一样。 你要像摘葡萄的人摘了又摘，回手放在筐子里。
10 Unto whom, can I speak—and bear witness, that they may hear? Lo! uncircumcised, is their ear, that they cannot attend, —Lo! the word of Yahweh, hath become to them a reproach, they take no delight therein.
现在我可以向谁说话作见证，使他们听呢？ 他们的耳朵未受割礼，不能听见。 看哪，耶和华的话他们以为羞辱， 不以为喜悦。
11 So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and upon the circle of young men, together, —For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days;
因此我被耶和华的忿怒充满，难以含忍。 我要倾在街中的孩童和聚会的少年人身上， 连夫带妻， 并年老的与日子满足的都必被擒拿。
12 And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together, —For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, Declareth Yahweh.
他们的房屋、田地， 和妻子都必转归别人； 我要伸手攻击这地的居民。 这是耶和华说的。
13 For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed, —And from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely;
因为他们从最小的到至大的都一味地贪婪， 从先知到祭司都行事虚谎。
14 And so they have healed the grievous wound of my people, slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, when there was no peace,
他们轻轻忽忽地医治我百姓的损伤， 说：平安了！平安了！ 其实没有平安。
15 Were they led to turn pale because an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.
他们行可憎的事知道惭愧吗？ 不然，他们毫不惭愧， 也不知羞耻。 因此，他们必在仆倒的人中仆倒； 我向他们讨罪的时候， 他们必致跌倒。 这是耶和华说的。
16 Thus saith Yahweh—Stand ye at the ways—and see, And ask for the paths of age-past times, Where is the good way? And walk therein, And ye shall find rest to your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein]!
耶和华如此说： 你们当站在路上察看， 访问古道， 哪是善道，便行在其间； 这样，你们心里必得安息。 他们却说：我们不行在其间。
17 Therefore will I raise up over you, watchmen, Give ye heed to the sound of a horn, —But they said, We will not give heed!
我设立守望的人照管你们， 说：要听角声。 他们却说：我们不听。
18 Therefore, hear O ye nations, —And take knowledge O assembly, Of that which befalleth them:
列国啊，因此你们当听！ 会众啊，要知道他们必遭遇的事。
19 Hear thou—O earth, Lo! I, am bringing in Calamity against this people the fruit of their own devices, —For unto my words, have they not given heed, And as for my law, they have rejected it.
地啊，当听！ 我必使灾祸临到这百姓， 就是他们意念所结的果子； 因为他们不听从我的言语， 至于我的训诲，他们也厌弃了。
20 What then is it to me that—Frankincense from Shebah come in, or Sweet cane from a land afar off? Your own ascending-offerings, are not acceptable, Nor are, your sacrifices, pleasing to me.
从示巴出的乳香， 从远方出的菖蒲 奉来给我有何益呢？ 你们的燔祭不蒙悦纳； 你们的平安祭，我也不喜悦。
21 Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! laying before this people, stumblingblocks, —And fathers and sons together, shall stumble against them, The neighbour and his friend, shall perish.
所以耶和华如此说： 我要将绊脚石放在这百姓前面。 父亲和儿子要一同跌在其上； 邻舍与朋友也都灭亡。
22 Thus, saith Yahweh, Lo! a people coming in from the land of the North, —Yea a great nation, shall be stirred up out of the remote parts of the earth:
耶和华如此说： 看哪，有一种民从北方而来， 并有一大国被激动，从地极来到。
23 Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, is he! So they will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And on horses, will they ride, —Arrayed each one, like a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Zion!
他们拿弓和枪， 性情残忍，不施怜悯； 他们的声音像海浪匉訇。 锡安城啊， 他们骑马都摆队伍， 如上战场的人要攻击你。
24 We have heard the report thereof, Relaxed are our hands, —Anguish, hath taken hold on us, Pangs, as on her that is giving birth.
我们听见他们的风声，手就发软； 痛苦将我们抓住， 疼痛仿佛产难的妇人。
25 Do not go out into the field, And in the road, do not walk, -Because a sword, hath the foe, —Terror round about!
你们不要往田野去， 也不要行在路上， 因四围有仇敌的刀剑和惊吓。
26 O daughter of my people Gird thee with sackcloth and roll thyself in ashes, —The mourning for an only son, make thou for thyself, Most bitter lamentation! For suddenly, shall the destroyer come upon us.
我民哪，应当腰束麻布，滚在灰中。 你要悲伤，如丧独生子痛痛哭号， 因为灭命的要忽然临到我们。
27 An assayer, have I set thee amongst my people, of gold-ore, —That thou mayest note and try their way:
我使你在我民中为高台，为保障， 使你知道试验他们的行动。
28 They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander-walkers [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!
他们都是极悖逆的， 往来谗谤人。 他们是铜是铁， 都行坏事。
29 Scorched are the bellows, By fire, is lead wont to be, consumed, —In vain, hath he gone on refining, For the wicked, have not been drawn out:
风箱吹火，铅被烧毁； 他们炼而又炼，终是徒然； 因为恶劣的还未除掉。
30 Rejected silver, are they called, For, Yahweh, hath rejected them.
人必称他们为被弃的银渣， 因为耶和华已经弃掉他们。
