Jeremiah 16
1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:
上主的話傳給說：
2 Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.
「在這地方，你不要取妻，不要有兒女，
3 For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers — those bearing them, And of their fathers — those begetting them in this land:
因為上主關於生在這地方的子女，和這境內生育他們的母親，以及生養他們的父親這樣說：
4 Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.
「他們必死於死症，沒有人哀悼，沒有人掩埋，有如地面上的糞土。他們反為戰爭和饑荒所毀滅，他們的屍首，必成為天上飛鳥和地上野獸的食物」。
5 For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies.
因為上主這樣說：「你不要進入居喪者之家，去舉哀弔唁，因為我已由這人民撤回了我的平安、慈愛和憐憫──上主的斷語──
6 And died have great and small in this land, They are not buried, and none lament for them, Nor doth any cut himself, nor become bald for them.
無論大小都要死在這地方，無人掩埋，
7 Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.
沒有人為他們舉喪，沒有人與居喪者分食喪餅，以相弔慰；沒有人與居喪或父母者飲一杯慰唁酒。
8 A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,
有宴會的家，你 也不要進去，與他們一同坐下吃喝，
9 For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.
因為萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必在你們眼前，在你們的時日內，使這地方再也聽不到歡和喜樂的聲音，新郎和新娘的聲音。
10 And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words, and they have said unto thee, 'For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil? yea, what [is] our iniquity, and what our sin, that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?'
當你把這一切話告訴這人民，他們必問你說：為什麼上主對我們宣佈了這一切大災禍﹖我們有什麼過犯，我們有什麼罪惡干犯了上主我們的天主﹖
11 Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,
你就答應說：是因為你的祖先離棄了我──上主的斷語──跟隨了別的神祗，事奉朝拜，而背棄了我，沒有遵守我的法律。
12 Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.
至於你們，你們作惡更甚於你的祖先；看，你們各人隨從自己頑固的惡意生活，不聽從我；
13 And I have cast you from off this land, On to a land that ye have not known, Ye and your fathers, And ye have served there other gods by day and by night, Where I do not give to you grace.
所以我必從這地上將你們驅逐，到你們和你的祖先從不認識的地方去，讓你們在那裏日夜事奉別的神祗；我再也不對你們表示憐愛。
14 Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more: 'Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'
[為此，看，時日必將來臨──上主的斷語──人不再發誓說：領以色列子民由埃及地上來的「上主永在」，
15 But, 'Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of the north, And out of all the lands whither He drove them,' And I have brought them back to their land, That I gave to their fathers.
卻要說：領以色列子民由北方，並由衪驅逐他們所至的各地回來的「上主永在」；因為我必領他們回到我已賜給他們祖先的地方]。
16 Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.
看，我必派許多漁夫上主的斷語──來捕捉他們；以後，我又派許多獵人來， 8各山上，各丘陵和岩石的裂縫間，獵取他們，
17 For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.
因為我的眼注視他們的一切行徑，他們不能由我面前隱藏，他們的過犯在我眼前也不能隱藏。
18 And I have recompensed a first — A second time — their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance.
我首先先要加倍報復他們的過犯和罪惡，因為他們以死屍般的偶像玷污了我的土地，使我的的基業上滿是醜惡的神像」。
19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.
上主，我的力量，我的保障，我憂患之日的避難所，萬民必從地極來到你面前說：「我們的祖先承受的只是虛假、空虛和毫無益處的事」。
20 Doth man make for himself gods, And they — no gods?
人豈能為自己製造神祗﹖凡製造的，絕不是神!
21 Therefore, lo, I am causing them to know at this time, I cause them to know My hand and My might, And they have known that My name [is] Jehovah!
為此，看，我必叫他們知道，這此我必叫他們體驗我的手和我的能力，使他們知道我的名字是「上主」。
