Jeremiah 48
1 To Moab, Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this, “Woe to Nebo, for it has been devastated. Kiriathaim has been humiliated and captured. Her fortress has been disgraced and crushed.
關於摩阿布：萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：「禍哉，乃波! 因為她遭受了浩劫；克黎雅塔殷蒙受了羞辱，被人攻佔；城堡被人侮辱，飽受驚恐。
2 The honor of Moab is no more. Their enemies in Heshbon plotted disaster against her. They said, 'Come and let us destroy her as a nation. Madmen will also perish—a sword will go after you.'
摩阿布的誇耀不再存在，在赫市朋就有人對她蓄意謀害：「來，我們將她剷除，使她不再是個民族! 」連你瑪德門，也要遭受蹂躪，在你後面緊隨著刀劍。
3 Listen! A sound of screaming is coming from Horonaim, where there is ruin and great destruction.
由曷洛納因傳來哀號的聲音：蹂躪! 絕大的蹂躪!
4 Moab has been destroyed. Her children have made their cries heard.
摩阿布遭受了蹂躪，哀號之聲直達祚阿爾。
5 They go up the hill of Luhith weeping, for on the way down to Horonaim, screams are heard because of the destruction.
他們哭泣著攀登路希特山坡；在曷洛納因斜坡上，人們可聽到悽慘的悲號：
6 Flee! Save your lives and become like a juniper bush in the wilderness.
請你們逃跑，拯救你們的性命! 願你們有如曠野中的楊柳!
7 For because of your trust in your practices and your wealth, you also will be captured. Then Chemosh will go away into captivity, together with his priests and leaders.
正因你信賴你的工作和財富，你也要被佔領；革摩士與自己的司祭和執事，也要一同充軍。
8 For the destroyer will come to every city; no city will escape. So the valley will perish and the plain will be devastated, as Yahweh has said.
正如上主說了：蹂躪者必踏遍所有的城市，無一可以幸免；山谷必遭破壞，平原必摧殘。
9 Give wings to Moab, for she must certainly fly away. Her cities will become a wasteland, where there is no one to live in them.
你們給摩阿布立墓碑，因為她已全被消滅，她的城邑全化為無人居住的荒野。──
10 May anyone who is lazy in doing Yahweh's work be cursed! May anyone who keeps his sword back from shedding blood be cursed!
那怠慢執行上主工作的，是可咒罵的；那制止自己的刀劍見血的，也是可咒罵的。──
11 Moab has felt secure since he was young. He is like his wine that has never been poured from pot to pot. He has never gone into captivity. Therefore he tastes as good as ever; his flavor remains unchanged.
摩阿布自少年就享安逸，安息在自己的糟粕上，從沒有由一缸內，也從沒有被擄充軍，為此她的滋味仍然存在，她的香味還未改變。
12 So see, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will send him those who will tip him over and pour out all his pots and shatter his jars.
惟其如此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──我必給她派傾倒的人來將她倒空，倒乾她的酒缸，打碎她的酒瓶；
13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their object of trust.
那時，摩阿布必因革摩士而受辱，就如以色列家因他們信賴的貝特耳而受辱一樣。
14 How can you say, 'We are soldiers, powerful fighting men'?
你們怎能說：「我們是勇士，善戰的力士﹖」
15 Moab will be devastated and its cities attacked. For its finest young men have gone down to the place of slaughter. This is the king's declaration! Yahweh of hosts is his name.
蹂躪摩阿布者上來進攻她的城市，精銳的少年，下去遭受殺戮─名叫「萬軍上主」的君王的斷語──
16 Moab's disaster is soon to happen; calamity is hurrying quickly.
摩阿布的災難已逼近前來，她的禍患加速進行。
17 All you who are around Moab, wail; and all you who know its fame, shout this, 'Woe, the strong staff, the honored rod, has been broken.'
你們四鄰，凡認識她聲名的，都應對她惋惜說：「怎麼，威能的權杖，光榮的柄杖，也被折斷! 」
18 Come down from your honored place and sit on the dry ground, you daughter living in Dibon. For the one who will destroy Moab is attacking you, the one who will destroy your strongholds.
住在狄朋的女兒! 你該由榮耀中下來，坐在乾地上，因為蹂躪摩阿布者已前來攻擊你，摧毀你的要塞。
19 Stand on the road and watch, you people who live in Aroer. Ask the ones who are fleeing and escaping. Say, 'What has happened?'
阿洛厄爾的居民! 請你站在路旁觀望，向在逃亡出走的男女探問說：「發生了什麼事﹖」
20 Moab has been shamed, for it has been shattered. Howl and lament; shout for help. Tell it to people by the Arnon River that Moab has been devastated.
摩阿布已羞愧無地，因為已經瓦解；你們應悲哭哀號，在阿爾農宣布：「摩阿布遭受了蹂躪! 」
21 Now punishment has come to the hill country, to Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
懲罰已來到了平原之地，到了曷隆、雅哈茲和默法阿特；
22 to Dibon, Nebo, and Beth Diblathaim,
到了狄朋、乃波和貝特狄貝拉塔因；
23 to Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon,
到了克黎雅塔殷、貝特加慕耳和貝特默紅；
24 To Kerioth and Bozrah, and to all the cities in the land of Moab— the farthest and the closest cities.
到了克黎約特、波責辣和摩阿布地遠近的各城市。
25 The horn of Moab has been hacked off; its arm has been broken—this is Yahweh's declaration.
摩阿布的角已被砍下，她的手臂已被折斷──上主斷語。
26 Make him drunk, because he acted proudly against Yahweh. Let Moab wallow in his vomit, and let him be an object of ridicule.
請你們灌醉她，因為她自高自大，反抗上主；摩阿布必要在自己的嘔吐中輾轉，連她自己也要成為笑柄。
27 For did not Israel become an object for laughter to you? Was he found among thieves, so that you shook your head at him as often as you spoke about him?
以色列為你豈不是一個笑柄﹖難道她是被人發現在盜賊之中，為什麼你一提到她，就只有搖頭﹖
28 Abandon the cities and camp on the cliffs, inhabitants of Moab. Become like a dove that is nesting over the mouth of a hole in the rocks.
摩阿布的居民! 你們該離棄城市，住在巖石間，彷彿在深谷懸崖邊緣結巢鵓鴿。
29 We have heard of Moab's pride—his arrogance, his haughtiness, his pride, his self-glory and the conceit in his heart.
我們聽說過摩阿布的驕傲，她的確驕傲無比；我們也聽說過她的強橫、矜誇、自大和心中的傲慢。
30 This is Yahweh's declaration—I myself know his defiant speech, which amounts to nothing, like his deeds.
我知道她狂妄，好事空談，舉動輕率──上主的斷語──
31 So I will howl a lament for Moab, and I will shout in sorrow for all of Moab. I will lament for the people of Kir Hareseth.
為此，我為摩阿布哀哭，為整個摩阿布悲號，為克爾赫勒斯人嘆息。
32 I will weep for you more than I did for Jazer, vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed across the Salt Sea and reached as far as Jazer. The destroyers have attacked your summer fruit and your wine.
息貝瑪葡萄園! 我為雅則爾痛哭，更為你痛哭；你的枝葉曾越過海洋，伸展到雅則爾；現在蹂躪者竟突然來摧殘你夏季的果實和秋季的收穫。
33 So celebration and rejoicing have been taken away from the fruit trees and the land of Moab. I have put an end to the wine from their winepresses. They will not tread with joyful shouts. Any shouts will not be shouts of joy.
摩阿布的田園已再沒有歡欣喜樂；我已使槽中無酒可榨；榨酒的不再榨酒，再也聽不見歡呼。
34 From the shouts at Heshbon as far as Elealeh, their sound is heard at Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, since even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
赫市朋和厄肋阿肋的哀號遠達雅哈茲，由祚阿爾發出的呼聲，直達曷洛納因和厄革拉舍里史雅，因為尼默凌的水業已枯竭。
35 For I will put an end to anyone in Moab who makes sacrifices on the high places and burns incense to his gods—this is Yahweh's declaration.
如此，我要給摩阿布滅絕上高丘向神祇獻香的人──上主的斷語──
36 So my heart is lamenting for Moab like a flute. My heart is lamenting like flutes for the people of Kir Hareseth. The riches they gained are gone.
為此我的心像笛蕭一般為摩阿布鳴咽，我的心像笛簫一般為克爾赫勒斯人鳴咽，因為他們獲得的積蓄，都已喪失。
37 For every head is bald and every beard shaved. Incisions are on every hand, and sackcloth is around their waists.
人人剃光頭髮，人人剪去鬍鬚，手上帶有割傷，腰間繫有苦衣；
38 There is mourning everywhere, on every flat roof of Moab and in Moab's plazas. For I have destroyed Moab like pots that no one wants—this is Yahweh's declaration.
摩阿布所有的屋頂和廣場上，處處可聽到哀聲，因為我擊碎了摩阿布，有如擊碎一不中人意的器皿──上主的斷語──
39 How it has been shattered! How they howl in their lamenting! Moab turns its back in shame! So Moab will become an object of derision and a terror to all those who are around him.”
摩阿布崩潰得多麼悽慘! 你們真該嚎啕! 她是多麼含羞轉過背來! 摩阿布竟成了她四鄰的笑柄和恐怖。
40 For Yahweh says this, “See, the enemy will come flying like an eagle, spreading out his wings over Moab.
因為上主這樣說：「看，敵人好像老鷹飛翔，向摩阿布展開自已的翅膀，
41 Kerioth has been captured, and its strongholds have been seized. For in that day the hearts of Moab's soldiers will be like the hearts of women in birth labor.
攻取了城池，佔領了要塞；在那一日，摩阿布的勇士必心志頹喪有如臨產的婦人。
42 So Moab will be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he made himself to be great against Yahweh.
摩阿布必要消滅，不再成為一個民族，因為她自高自大，反抗上主。
43 Terror and the pit, and a trap are coming on you, inhabitant of Moab—this is Yahweh's declaration.
摩阿布的居民! 恐怖、陷阱和羅網齊來襲擊你──上主的斷語──
44 Anyone who flees because of terror will fall into the pit, and anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap, for I will bring this on them in the year of my vengeance against them—this is Yahweh's declaration.
逃脫了恐怖的，必落在陷阱裏；爬出了陷阱的，必為羅網纏住；在懲罰她的那年，我要給摩阿布召來這一切──上主的斷語──
45 The ones who flee will stand in the shadow of Heshbon without any strength, for fire will go out from Heshbon, flame from the middle of Sihon. It will devour the forehead of Moab and the top of the heads of the boastful people.
逃命的人，筋疲力盡，站在赫市朋的陰影下；但是從赫市朋發出了火，從息紅宮中冒出了火焰，吞滅了摩阿布的首領，和騷動子民的頭目。
46 Woe to you, Moab! Chemosh's people are destroyed, For your sons are taken as captives and your daughters into captivity.
禍哉，摩阿布! 革摩士的人民! 你算完了，因為你的兒子已被擄去充軍，你的女兒流為囚徒；
47 But I will restore the fortunes of Moab in later days—this is Yahweh's declaration.” The judgment on Moab ends here.
雖然如此，在末日我仍要轉變摩阿布的命運──上主的斷語。至此是關於摩阿布的判決。
