Jeremiah 43
1 [So] I finished telling to the people that message from Yahweh our God.
耶肋米亞向全體人民說完上主他們的天主的一切話，即上主他們的天主派遣他來向他們轉告的這一切話以後，
2 But then Johanan and Azariah and some other insolent/arrogant men said to me, “You are lying! Yahweh our God has not told [us] that we should not go to Egypt!
瑪阿色雅的兒子阿匝黎雅和卡勒亞的兒子約哈南，以及一切傲慢反叛的人，就肋米亞說：「你說謊；上主我們的天主並沒有派你說：你們不要去寄居埃及；
3 [We think that] Baruch has urged/persuaded you to say this, in order that [if we stay here], the soldiers from Babylonia will seize us and kill us or take us to Babylonia.”
只是乃黎雅的兒子巴路克挑唆你反對我們，好將我交在加色丁人手中，或殺或擄到巴比倫去。」
4 So Johanan and the other leaders of the [Israeli] soldiers and [many of] [HYP] the other people [who were there] refused to obey Yahweh’s command to stay in Judah.
卡勒亞的兒子約哈南和眾部隊首領以及全體人民，沒有聽從上主的勸告，住在猶大地內。
5 Johanan and all the [other] leaders gathered together all the people who had returned from the other countries to which they had been scattered.
卡勒亞的兒子約哈南和眾部隊首領，反而率領全體猶大遣民，即那些四到各民族間，又回來住在猶大境內的人：
6 [They included] men, women, children, the king’s daughters, and all those whom Nebuzaradan had left with Gedaliah, and they also took Baruch and me.
男子和婦女，幼童和王家閨秀，以及衛隊長乃步匝辣當給沙番的孫子，阿希甘的兒子留下的人，連同先知耶肋米亞和乃黎雅的兒子巴路克，
7 They refused to obey Yahweh, and they took us all [to Egypt], as far as Tahpenes [city].
到埃及地去了；沒有聽從上主的勸告，而來到塔黑培乃斯。
8 [While we were] at Tahpenes, Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
在塔黑培乃斯上主有話傳給耶肋米亞說：「
9 “While the people of Judah are watching you, take some large rocks and bury them under the brick pavement at the entrance to the king’s palace there at Tahpenes.
你用手拿一些大石頭，當著猶大人眼前，藏在塔黑培乃斯法郎王宮前石鋪地道下面，
10 Then say to the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [you] Israelis [say you belong to], says: “I will summon Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, who does my work, to come [with his army] to Egypt. I will set up his throne over these stones that I told Jeremiah to bury. And Nebuchadnezzar will set up his tent there [to show that he has become] the King [of Egypt].
然後對他們說：萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必派人去領我的僕人巴比倫王拿步高來，在你藏的這些石頭上安置他的寶座，張設他的華蓋。
11 When his [army] comes, they will attack Egypt. Then those will die who [I have determined] must die, those who [I have determined] must be captured will be captured, and those who [I have determined] must be killed by swords will be killed by swords.
他必來攻打埃及地，叫那該死的死，該擄的擄，該殺的殺；
12 Nebuchadnezzar’s [soldiers] will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt. [But before they burn the temples], they will take away their idols [as souvenirs]. His [troops] will clean Egypt like a shepherd cleans lice from his cloak. They will tear down the sacred pillars that are in the temple of their sun god. And then Nebuchadnezzar’s [troops] will leave there, without having been harmed.”’”
必來放火焚燒埃及的神廟，燒毀或擄走廟內的神像；必來收取埃及地，如同牧人收取自己的外衣；最後安然離去。
此外他還要粉碎埃及地太陽神廟的石柱，放火焚燒埃及的神廟。」
