Jeremiah:Chapter 9

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Jeremiah:Chapter 9

耶肋米亞	Jeremiah
¹誰能在曠野給我找一個旅棧，叫我好離開我的人民，離他們而遠去？因為他們都是些淫亂之徒，是一群反叛；	¹Who will give me a lodging, in the desert, that I may leave my people and go far from them? For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.
²他們彎起像弓的舌頭，使在地上得勢的，是虛偽而不是誠實，因為他們變本加厲作惡，全不理睬我──上主的斷語。	²They bend their tongue like bows. Deceit and not truth prevail in the land. They commit one crime after another and do not know me.
³你們應各自提防自己的近人，不要信任何弟兄，因為所有的弟兄都愛好欺詐，一般的近人都好說讒言；	³Each one is suspicious of his friend and no one trusts his brother, brother deceives brother, friend slanders friend.
⁴人都欺騙自己的近人，不講實話，使自己的舌頭慣於說謊，竭力行惡，	⁴They deceive each other; no one speaks the truth. Their tongues are addicted to lying; they are perverse and too hardened to repent.
⁵不願悔悟，卻強暴上又加強暴，欺詐上又加欺詐，全不理睬我──上主的斷語。	⁵They live amidst deceitfulness and deceitfulness prevents them from knowing me.
⁶為此萬軍的上主這樣說：「看，我要將他們凈化，提煉；否則，我將怎樣處理我的女兒──人民──的邪惡？	⁶That is why - word of Yahweh God of hosts - I will refine and test them, for what else can I do for my people?
⁷他們的舌頭像根毒箭，好出詐言；嘴上對鄰友說話溫和，心中卻設計陷害。	⁷Their tongues are like deadly arrows, uttering deceitful words. With their friend they speak of peace but in their heart they set a trap for him.
⁸為這些事我豈能不懲罰？──上主的斷語──像這樣的一個民族，我豈能不圖報復？	⁸Isn't it reason enough for me to punish them? Shall I not avenge myself on such a nation?
⁹我要為群山號咷痛哭，為原野高唱哀歌，因為全都被焚毀，再沒有人往來，再聽不到牲畜的聲音；自天空的飛鳥至地上的走獸，都逃去無蹤。	⁹On the mountains there will be weeping and wailing, and on the prairies of the wilderness a dirge, because they have been burnt and deserted, and the sound of flock is heard no more. The birds of the sky and the beasts have all fled and are gone.
¹⁰我要使耶路撒冷成為廢墟，成為豺狼的巢穴；使猶大的城市荒涼，無人居住。	¹⁰I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a wasteland without inhabitants."
¹¹誰夠聰明，能明白這事？上主親口吩咐誰公布這事？「為什麼這地遭受毀滅，荒蕪得有如無人經過的曠野？」	¹¹Who is wise enough to understand these events? And who is the one Yahweh has chosen to reveal them? Why has the land perished and been laid waste like a desert where no one passes?
¹²上主說：「因為他們離棄了我給他們立定的法律，沒有聽從我的聲音，沒有按照法律而行；	¹²Yahweh answered, "It is because they have forsaken the Law that I gave them. They have not listened to me
¹³反去順從自己頑固的心，追隨祖先教給他們的巴耳神。	¹³but in the stubbornness of their heart they have followed the Baals as they were instructed by their fathers."
¹⁴為此萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：看，我必使這人民吃毒艾，飲毒水；	¹⁴That is why Yahweh, the God of hosts and the God of Israel says, "I will make this people eat bitter food and I will give them poisoned water.
¹⁵使他們流離到他們和他們祖先素不相識的民族中；派刀劍追擊他們，直至將他們完全消滅。」	¹⁵I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers knew and I will send the sword after them until I have finished with them."
¹⁶萬軍的上主這樣說：「你們應該明白，快召哀悼的婦女來，派人去叫擅長哭泣的女人來，	¹⁶Listen! Call for the wailing women to come, send for the most skillful!
¹⁷叫她們迅速前來，對我們啼哭，使我們的眼睛流下眼淚，使我們的睫毛湧出淚水，	¹⁷Let them hasten to intone a funeral song, and let us weep, our eyes running with tears.
¹⁸因為從熙雍那裏可以聽到哭聲：我們怎樣崩潰了，受了多大的恥辱！竟要離開本國，拋棄我們的家園！	¹⁸The sound of wailing is heard in Zion. A terrible disaster has befallen us! How great our shame to leave the land, to see our homes broken down!
¹⁹你們婦女！都應聽清上主的話，親耳聆聽他口授的言詞；教你們的女兒痛哭，彼此互相學唱哀歌：	¹⁹You women, take heed of what Yahweh says, let your ears pay attention to his words. Teach this lament to your daughters and each of them to their friends:
²⁰因為死亡已從我們的窗戶爬進來，進入了我們的宮殿，殲滅了街上的孩童，和廣場上的青年。	²⁰"Death has come through our windows and invaded our palaces, cutting down the children in the street and young men in the squares!
²¹你應這樣說──上主的斷語──人的屍體僵臥着，好像在田野裏的糞堆；又像遺留在收割者後面無人拾取的麥束。」	²¹The corpes are scattered in the fields like dung; like sheaves cut by the reaper with no one to gather them!"
²²上主這樣說：智者不應誇耀自己的智慧，力士不應誇耀自己的力量，富人不應誇耀自己的財富。	²²It is Yahweh who speaks: "Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the valiant of his valor nor the wealthy of his wealth!
²³凡要誇耀的，只應在「知道和認識我」這件事上誇耀，因為在地上是我，上主，施行仁慈、公道和正義，因為我喜愛這些事──上主的斷語。	²³But if someone wants to boast, let him boast of this: of understanding and knowing me. I am Yahweh, the merciful; I implement justice and rule the world with righteousness. "For in these things I delight," - this is Yahweh's word.
²⁴看時日將到──上主的斷語──我要懲罰所有受過割損而仍存有包皮的人：	²⁴"The time is coming," Yahweh says, "when I will ask to account both those who are circumcised and those who are not:
²⁵即埃及、猶大、厄東、阿孟子民，摩阿布和所有住在曠野剃除鬢髮的人，因為這一切民族都未受過割損，至於以色列全家卻是未受過內心的割損。	²⁵Egypt, Juda, the Amonites and the Moabites with all the Arabs of the desert, for all these nations are not circumcised, and the people of Israel are not circumcised in their heart."

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