Jeremiah:Chapter 18
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| 耶肋米亞 | Jeremiah |
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| 1上主有話傳給耶肋米亞說： | 1The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: |
| 2「起來，下到陶工家裏去，在那裏我要讓你聽到我的話。」 | 2Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words. |
| 3我便下到陶工家裏，見他正在輪盤上工作。 | 3And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel. |
| 4陶工用泥做的器皿，若在他手中壞了，他便再做，或另做成一個器皿，全隨陶工的意思去做。 | 4And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it. |
| 5於是上主的話傳給我說： | 5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: |
| 6「以色列家！我豈不能像這陶工一樣對待你們？──上主的斷語──以色列家！看，你們在我手中，就像泥土在陶工手中一樣。 | 6Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. |
| 7我一時可對一個民族，或一個國家，決意要拔除，要毀壞，要消滅； | 7I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. |
| 8但是我要打擊的民族，若離棄自己的邪惡，我也反悔，不再給她降原定的災禍。 | 8If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. |
| 9或者，我一時想對一個民族或一個國家，決意要建設，要栽培， | 9And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it. |
| 10但若她行我不喜歡的事，不聽從我的聲音，我也要反悔，不再給她所許過的恩惠。 | 10If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it. |
| 11現在你可告訴猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民說：上主這樣說：看，我已給你們安排了災禍，定了懲罰你們的計劃，希望你們每人離棄自己的邪道，改善自己的途徑和作為。」 | 11Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good. |
| 12他們反倒答說：「已沒有希望了！因為我們願隨從自己的計謀，各按自己頑固的惡意行事。」 | 12And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart. |
| 13為此上主這樣說：「你們可到各民族去詢問：有誰聽到了像這樣的事？以色列處女做出了極可憎的事。 | 13Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess? |
| 14黎巴嫩山巔的巖石豈能缺少積雪？叢山間湧流的冰泉，豈能涸竭？ | 14Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away? |
| 15但我的人民卻忘掉了我，向『虛無』獻香，滑出了自己的正道，離開舊日的行徑，而走上了小道，不平坦的路， | 15Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden: |
| 16使自己的地域變為驚愕的原因，取笑的目標；凡經過這地方的人，莫不驚異搖首。 | 16That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head. |
| 17我必像一陣東風在敵人面前將他們吹散；在他們滅亡之日，我必使他們只見我背，不見我面。」 | 17As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction. |
| 18他們說：「來，我們合謀陷害耶肋米亞！因為沒有司祭，法律不會因此廢止；沒有智者，計謀不會因此缺乏；沒有先知，神諭不會因此斷絕。來，我們用舌頭抨擊他，不注意他的一切勸告。」 | 18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. |
| 19上主，願你俯聽我，請聽我敵人的聲明。 | 19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. |
| 20難道該以怨報德嗎？他們竟掘下陷阱來陷害我的性命！望你記憶：我曾站在你面前為他們求情，替他們挽回你的盛怒。 | 20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them. |
| 21為此，你應使他們的子孫遭受饑荒，任人屠殺；使他們的婦女喪子居寡，使他們的男人死於瘟疫，使他們的青年在戰場上死於刀下。 | 21Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle. |
| 22當你引匪隊突襲他們時，願從他們的屋裏可聽到哭聲，因為他們掘了陷阱捕捉我，在我腳下設下羅網。 | 22Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet. |
| 23至於你，上主，你知道他們對我的一切計劃是要殺害我；請你不要寬恕他們的過惡，不要由你面前抹去他們的罪過，務使他們倒仆在你面前；在你發怒時，求你報復他們。 | 23But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them. |
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