| 耶肋米亞 |
Jeremiah |
| 1以下是耶肋米亞先知對乃黎雅的兒子巴路克說的話：他在猶大王約史雅的兒子約雅金第四年，由耶肋米亞口授，在卷冊上記錄了這些話： |
1 This is the message that the prophet Jeremiah gave to Baruch, son of Neriah, when he wrote in a book the prophecies that Jeremiah dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah: |
| 2「上主，以色列的天主論及你，巴路克，這樣說： |
2Thus says the LORD, God of Israel, to you, Baruch, |
| 3你曾說：我多麼可憐！因為上主在我的愁苦上還加添痛苦，我呻吟憔悴，得不到安寧！」 |
3because you said, "Alas! the LORD adds grief to my pain; I am weary from groaning, and can find no rest": |
| 4你應這樣對他說：上主這樣說：看！我拆毀的，是我所建造的；我拔除的，是我所栽培的；我要打擊全地， |
4say this to him, says the LORD: What I have built, I am tearing down; what I have planted, I am uprooting: even the whole land. |
| 5你還有什麼大事可為自己請求；不必請求了。看，我給一切血肉招來災禍──上主的斷語──至於你，不論你到什麼地方去，我必賜你獲得性命，如獲勝利品。」 |
5And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not! I am bringing evil on all mankind, says the LORD, but your life I will leave you as booty, wherever you may go. |
