Jeremiah 9
1 If only my head could produce water, and my eyes be a fountain of tears! For I wish to weep day and night for those among the daughter of my people who have been killed.
但愿我的头为水， 我的眼为泪的泉源， 我好为我百姓中被杀的人昼夜哭泣。
2 If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors!
惟愿我在旷野有行路人住宿之处， 使我可以离开我的民出去； 因他们都是行奸淫的， 是行诡诈的一党。
3 Yahweh declares, “They tread on their bows of lies with their tongues, but it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth. They go from one wicked act to another. They do not know me.”
他们弯起舌头像弓一样， 为要说谎话。 他们在国中增长势力， 不是为行诚实， 乃是恶上加恶， 并不认识我。 这是耶和华说的。
4 Each of you, be on guard against your neighbor and do not trust in any brother. For every brother is certainly a deceiver, and every neighbor walks in slander.
你们各人当谨防邻舍， 不可信靠弟兄； 因为弟兄尽行欺骗， 邻舍都往来谗谤人。
5 Each man mocks his neighbor and does not speak the truth. Their tongues teach deceitful things. They are exhausted from committing iniquity.
他们各人欺哄邻舍，不说真话； 他们教舌头学习说谎， 劳劳碌碌地作孽。
6 Your dwelling is in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
你的住处在诡诈的人中； 他们因行诡诈，不肯认识我。 这是耶和华说的。
7 Yahweh of hosts says this, “See, I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of what my people have done?
所以万军之耶和华如此说： 看哪，我要将他们熔化熬炼； 不然，我因我百姓的罪该怎样行呢？
8 Their tongues are sharpened arrows; they speak unfaithful things. With their mouths they proclaim peace with their neighbors, but with their hearts they lie in wait for them.
他们的舌头是毒箭，说话诡诈； 人与邻舍口说和平话， 心却谋害他。
9 Should I not punish them because of these things—this is Yahweh's declaration— and should I not avenge myself on a nation that is like this?
耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨他们的罪呢？ 岂不报复这样的国民呢？
10 I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away.
我要为山岭哭泣悲哀， 为旷野的草场扬声哀号； 因为都已干焦，甚至无人经过。 人也听不见牲畜鸣叫， 空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽都已逃去。
11 So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.”
我必使耶路撒冷变为乱堆，为野狗的住处， 也必使犹大的城邑变为荒场，无人居住。
12 What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass through?
谁是智慧人，可以明白这事？耶和华的口向谁说过，使他可以传说？遍地为何灭亡，干焦好像旷野，甚至无人经过呢？
13 Yahweh says, “It is because they have abandoned my law that I set before them, because they do not listen to my voice or walk by it.
耶和华说：“因为这百姓离弃我在他们面前所设立的律法，没有遵行，也没有听从我的话；
14 It is because they have walked by their stubborn hearts and have followed the Baals as their fathers taught them to do.
只随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的随从众巴力。”
15 Therefore Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says this, 'See, I am about to make this people eat wormwood and drink poisonous water.
所以万军之耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：“看哪，我必将茵 给这百姓吃，又将苦胆水给他们喝。
16 Then I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, neither they nor their ancestors. I will send out a sword after them until I have completely destroyed them.'”
我要把他们散在列邦中，就是他们和他们列祖素不认识的列邦。我也要使刀剑追杀他们，直到将他们灭尽。”
17 Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come.
万军之耶和华如此说： 你们应当思想， 将善唱哀歌的妇女召来， 又打发人召善哭的妇女来，
18 Let them hurry and sing a mournful song over us, so our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids flow with water.
叫她们速速为我们举哀， 使我们眼泪汪汪， 使我们的眼皮涌出水来。
19 For the sound of wailing is heard in Zion, 'How we are devastated. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land since they tore down our houses.'
因为听见哀声出于锡安，说： 我们怎样败落了！ 我们大大地惭愧！ 我们撇下地土； 人也拆毁了我们的房屋。
20 So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth. Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a funeral song.
妇女们哪，你们当听耶和华的话， 领受他口中的言语； 又当教导你们的儿女举哀， 各人教导邻舍唱哀歌。
21 For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares.
因为死亡上来， 进了我们的窗户， 入了我们的宫殿； 要从外边剪除孩童， 从街上剪除少年人。
22 Declare this, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields, and like grain stalks after the reapers, and there will be no one to gather them.'”
你当说，耶和华如此说： 人的尸首必倒在田野像粪土， 又像收割的人遗落的一把禾稼， 无人收取。
23 Yahweh says this, “Do not let the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the warrior in his might. Do not let the wealthy man take pride in his riches.
耶和华如此说：“智慧人不要因他的智慧夸口，勇士不要因他的勇力夸口，财主不要因他的财物夸口。
24 For if a man takes pride in anything, let it be in this, that he has insight and knows me. For I am Yahweh, who acts with covenant loyalty, justice and righteousness on earth. For it is in these that I take pleasure —this is Yahweh's declaration.”
夸口的却因他有聪明，认识我是耶和华，又知道我喜悦在世上施行慈爱、公平，和公义，以此夸口。这是耶和华说的。”
25 “See, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised who are such only in their body.
耶和华说：“看哪，日子将到，我要刑罚一切受过割礼、心却未受割礼的，
26 I will punish Egypt and Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all the people who cut the hair on their heads very short. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel has an uncircumcised heart.”
就是埃及、犹大、以东、亚扪人、摩押人，和一切住在旷野剃周围头发的；因为列国人都没有受割礼，以色列人心中也没有受割礼。”
