| 耶肋米亞 |
Jeremiah |
| 1上主對我說：「縱使梅瑟和撒慕爾立在我面前，我的心仍不轉向這人民；你由我面前將他們驅逐，叫他們離去。 |
1The LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them away from me. |
| 2假如人對你說：我們往那裏去？你就對他們說：上主這樣說：該死的就死，該殺的就殺，該挨餓的就挨餓，該被擄去的就被擄去。 |
2If they ask you where they should go, tell them, Thus says the LORD: Whoever is marked for death, to death; whoever is marked for the sword, to the sword; whoever is marked for famine, to famine; whoever is marked for captivity, to captivity. |
| 3我必用四種刑罰來懲罰他們──上主的斷語──用刀劍來殺，用野狗來拖，用天空的飛鳥和地上的野獸來吞食，來消滅。 |
3Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them, says the LORD: the sword to slay them; dogs to drag them about; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them. |
| 4我為了猶大王希則克雅的兒子默納舍在耶路撒冷所行的事，必使他們成為地上萬國恐怖的對象。 |
4And I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem. |
| 5耶路撒冷！誰還憐恤你，誰還同情你，誰還轉身向你問安？ |
5Who will pity you, Jerusalem, who will console you? Who will stop to ask about your welfare? |
| 6你既離棄了我──上主的斷語──轉身背着我，我就只有對你伸出我的手，將你消滅；我對寬恕已感厭倦： |
6You have disowned me, says the LORD, turned your back upon me; And so I stretched out my hand to destroy you, I was weary of sparing you. |
| 7我要在這地的城門口，用簸箕將他們簸散，使他們喪失子女；我要消滅我的人民，因為他們不離開自己的行徑。 |
7I winnowed them with the fan in every city gate. I destroyed my people through bereavement; they returned not from their evil ways. |
| 8他們的寡婦已多過海邊的沙粒；我要給他們招來午間的破壞者，襲擊英俊勇士的母親，使痛苦和恐怖突然降到她身上。 |
8Their widows were more numerous before me than the sands of the sea. I brought against the mother of youths the spoiler at midday; Suddenly I struck her with anguish and terror. |
| 9生過七個子女的母親，現已身衰氣絕，還是白天，她的太陽已經西落，她只有絕望惆悵；至於他們的遺民，我必使他們在敵人面前死於刀下──上主的斷語。」 |
9The mother of seven swoons away, gasping out her life; Her sun sets in full day, she is disgraced, despairing. Their survivors I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD. |
| 10我的母親！我真不幸，你竟生了我這個與普世對抗相爭的人。我沒有向人借貸，人也沒有向我借貸，人卻都辱罵我。 |
10Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet all curse me. |
| 11實在，上主，我豈沒有盡力事奉你？我豈沒有在災難禍患時為仇人向你懇求？ |
11Tell me, LORD, have I not served you for their good? Have I not interceded with you in the time of misfortune and anguish? |
| 12人豈能折斷北方的鐵和銅？ |
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| 13【我必使你的財產和寶藏，任人搶劫，為賠補你在你全境內犯的罪惡， |
13You know I have. Remember me, LORD, visit me, and avenge me on my persecutors. Because of your long-suffering banish me not; know that for you I have borne insult. |
| 14叫你在你不認識的地方，給你的仇敵為奴，因為我的怒火已燃起，必對你們發作。】 |
14When I found your words, I devoured them; they became my joy and the happiness of my heart, Because I bore your name, O LORD, God of hosts. |
| 15上主，你都知道，求你回念我，眷顧我，為我報復迫害我的人，不要因你太忍耐，就讓我死去；你該知道：正是為了你，我纔受人侮辱。 |
15I did not sit celebrating in the circle of merrymakers; Under the weight of your hand I sat alone because you filled me with indignation. |
| 16你的話一來到，我就吞下去；你的話便成了我的喜悅，我心中的歡樂，上主，萬軍的天主！因為我是歸於你名下的， |
16 Why is my pain continuous, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become for me a treacherous brook, whose waters do not abide! |
| 17我從沒有坐在歡笑者的集會中一同取樂；我卻依你的指示獨自靜坐，因為你使我忿怒填胸。 |
17Thus the LORD answered me: If you repent, so that I restore you, in my presence you shall stand; If you bring forth the precious without the vile, you shall be my mouthpiece. Then it shall be they who turn to you, and you shall not turn to them; |
| 18為什麼我的痛苦如此久長，我的創傷不可醫治，痊癒無望？你於我好像是一條不常有水，而變化無常的溪流！ |
18And I will make you toward this people a solid wall of brass. Though they fight against you, they shall not prevail, For I am with you, to deliver and rescue you, says the LORD. |
| 19為此上主這樣說：「你若回來，我必讓你回來，使你能再立在我面前；你若能發表高尚而非荒謬的思想，你就可作我的口舌，使他們轉向你，而不是你轉向他們。 |
19I will free you from the hand of the wicked, and rescue you from the grasp of the violent. |
| 20這樣，我必使你對這人民成為一設防的銅牆，他們能攻擊你，卻不能制勝你，因為有我與你同在，援助你，解救你──上主的斷語── |
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| 21我必解救你脫離惡人的手，由強暴人的掌握中將你贖回。」 |
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