| 耶肋米亞 |
Jeremiah |
| 1關於阿孟子民：上主這樣說：「難道以色列沒有子孫，沒有後嗣？為什麼米耳公佔據了加得，而他的人民竟住在加得的城中？ |
1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the LORD: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? Why then has Milcom disinherited Gad, why have his people settled in Gad's cities? |
| 2為此，看，時日將到──上主的斷語──我必使阿孟子民的辣巴聽到戰爭的吶喊；她要成為一堆廢墟，她的附屬城市要為火燒盡；以色列終歸要繼承自己的產業──上主說。 |
2 But the days are coming, says the LORD, when against Rabbah of the Ammonites I will sound the battle alarm; She shall become a mound of ruins, and her daughter cities shall be destroyed by fire. Israel shall inherit those who disinherited her, says the LORD. |
| 3赫市朋，哀號罷！因為破壞者已來近了；辣巴的女郎！你們該哭泣，穿上苦衣哀傷，割傷自己的身體，因為米耳公要與自己的司祭和公卿，同去充軍。 |
3Howl, Heshbon, for the ravager approaches, shriek, daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn, run to and fro, gashing yourselves; For Milcom goes into exile along with his priests and captains. |
| 4失節的女郎！你為什麼要誇耀你的山谷是富裕的山谷，仗恃你的寶藏說：「有誰敢來與我對抗？ |
4Why do you glory in your strength, your ebbing strength, rebellious daughter? You who trust in your treasures, saying, "Who can come against me?" |
| 5看，我從各方給你召來恐怖──我主萬軍上主的斷語──你們必被驅逐，各自奔逃，再沒有人來聚集逃散的人。 |
5I am bringing terror upon you, says the Lord GOD of hosts, from all round about you; You shall be scattered, each man in headlong flight, with no one to rally the fugitives. |
| 6雖然如此，日後我仍要轉變阿孟子民的命運──上主的斷語。」 |
6But afterward I will change the lot of the Ammonites, says the LORD. |
| 7關於厄東，萬軍的上主這樣說：「難道在特曼已沒有智慧，聰敏的人已計窮才盡了嗎？ |
7 Concerning Edom, thus says the LORD of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman, has counsel perished from the prudent, has their wisdom become corrupt? |
| 8德丹的居民！你們該轉身逃遁，藏居深處，因為我要給厄撒烏招來災禍到了已懲罰他的時候。 |
8 Flee, retreat, hide in deep holes, you who live in Dedan: For I will bring destruction upon Esau when I come to punish him. |
| 9如果收葡萄的人來到你這裏，決不會留下殘餘；如果盜賊夜間來襲，必要盡力搶取； |
9If vintagers came upon you, they would leave no gleanings; If thieves by night, they would destroy as they pleased. |
| 10我就要這樣暴露厄撒烏，揭發他的隱處，使他無法躲藏；他的後裔，必被消滅，不再存於自己的鄰邦中。 |
10So I myself will strip Esau; I will uncover his retreats so that he cannot hide. He is ruined: sons, and brothers, and neighbors, so that he is no more. |
| 11請留下你的孤兒，我必使他們生存，你的寡婦也可託付給我。 |
11Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; your widows, let them trust in me. |
| 12因為上主這樣說：看，那原來不該飲苦爵的，一定要飲，你要想完全免罰嗎？你決不致於免罰，你也該痛飲！ |
12For thus says the LORD: Even those not sentenced to drink the cup must drink it! Shall you then go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished; you shall surely drink it. |
| 13因為，我曾指自己起誓──上主的斷語──波責辣必成為一片荒涼，受人憎恨、侮辱和詛咒；她所有的城市，必要永遠變為荒野。 |
13 By my own self I have sworn, says the LORD: Bozrah shall become an object of horror and a disgrace, a desolation and a curse; she and all her cities shall become ruins forever. |
| 14我從上主聽得了一個消息，在萬民間傳開了一個號令：「你們該聯盟向她進攻！你們該起來交戰！」 |
14I have heard a report from the LORD, a herald has been sent among the nations: Gather together, move against her, rise up for battle. |
| 15因為，看，我已使你成為萬民中最小的，成為人間最可輕賤的。 |
15Small will I make you among the nations, despised among men! |
| 16你高居在石縫的隱處，盤據在峻嶺的山巔。你自以為驚異，你心內的驕傲欺騙了你。即使你像老鷹一樣高結你的巢穴，我也要從那裏將你推下──上主的斷語。 |
16The terror you spread beguiled you, and your presumption of heart; You that live in rocky crags, that hold the heights of the hill: Though you build your nest high as the eagle, from there I will drag you down, says the LORD. |
| 17厄東必變成荒野，凡由她那裏經過的人，見了她的種種慘狀，必要唏噓嗟嘆。 |
17Edom shall become an object of horror. Every passer-by shall be appalled and catch his breath at all her wounds. |
| 18她必要像毀滅的索多瑪，哈摩辣及附近的城市一樣──上主說──再沒有人居住，再沒有人在那裏寄宿。 |
18As when Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbors were overthrown, says the LORD, not a man shall dwell there: no one shall visit there. |
| 19看，好像一隻雄獅，從約但的叢林上來，走向常綠的牧場；同樣，我也要突然將他們趕走，派我選定的人民來統治。誠然，誰是我的對手？誰敢向我提出質問？誰是能對抗我的牧人？ |
19As when a lion comes up from the thicket of Jordan to the permanent feeding grounds, So I, in an instant, will drive men off; and whom I choose I will establish there! For who is like me? who can call me to account? What shepherd can stand against me? |
| 20為此，請你們聽上主對厄東設計的計謀，對特曼居民策劃的策略：連最弱小的羊也要被人牽去，他們的牧場也必陷於戰慄中。 |
20Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD, which he has taken against Edom; Hear the plans he has made against those that live in Teman: They shall be dragged away, even the smallest sheep, their own pasture shall be aghast because of them. |
| 21他們倒塌的響聲，震撼大地；哀號之聲，直達紅海。 |
21At the noise of their fall the earth quakes, to the Red Sea the outcry is heard! |
| 22看，他好像老鷹飛升翱翔，在波責辣上展開自己的翅膀；在那一日，厄東的勇士必心志頹喪，有如臨產的婦女。 |
22See! like an eagle he soars aloft, and spreads his wings over Bozrah; On that day the hearts of Edom's heroes shall be like the heart of a woman in travail.Concerning Damascus: |
| 23關於大馬士革：哈瑪特和阿爾帕得聽到了不好的消息，大起恐慌，像海洋一樣動盪，愁苦得不能安寧。 |
23 Hamath and Arpad are covered with shame, they have heard bad news; Worried, they toss like the sea which cannot rest. |
| 24大馬士革失去勇氣，轉身逃遁，極感戰慄，備受憂慮痛苦，好像一臨產的婦女。 |
24Damascus is weakened, she turns to flee, panic has seized her. Distress and pangs take hold of her, like those of a woman in travail. |
| 25哀哉，有名的城邑，享樂的都市，已被摒棄！ |
25How can the city of glory be forsaken, the town of delight! |
| 26她的少年將倒斃在廣場，她的戰士在那一日內要悉數滅亡──萬軍上主的斷語── |
26But now her young men shall fall in her streets, and all her warriors shall be stilled. On that day, says the LORD of hosts, |
| 27我必在大馬士革城牆上放火，吞滅本哈達得的宮闕。 |
27 I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. |
| 28關於刻達爾和巴比倫王拿步高克服了的哈祚爾諸國，上主這樣說：「起來！進攻刻達爾，蹂躝東方子民！ |
28Of Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, thus says the LORD: Rise up, attack Kedar, ravage the Easterners. |
| 29奪取他們的帳幕和牲畜，惟幔和所有的器具；牽走他們的駱駝，向他們吶喊：四面恐怖。 |
29Their tents and herds shall be taken away, their tent curtains and all their goods; Their camels they shall carry off for themselves, and shout from upon them, "Terror on every side!" |
| 30哈祚爾的居民！你們應逃遁遠去，藏匿深處──上主的斷語──因為巴比倫王拿步高已設計謀害你們，已策畫攻擊你們。 |
30Flee! leave your homes, hide in deep holes, you that live in Hazor, says the LORD; For counsel has been taken against you, a plan has been formed against you (Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon). |
| 31起來，進攻優游閒居，不設門閂，孑然獨居的民族──上主的斷語── |
31Rise up! set out against a nation that is at peace, that lives secure, says the LORD, That has no gates or bars, and dwells alone. |
| 32搶奪他們的駱駝，劫掠他們成群的牲畜；凡剃去鬢髮的，我必叫他們隨風飄散，由四面八方給他們招來災禍──上主的斷語── |
32Their camels shall be your booty, their many herds your spoil; I will scatter to the winds those who shave their temples, from all sides I will bring ruin upon them, says the LORD. |
| 33哈祚爾要變為豺狼的巢穴，永遠荒涼，不會留下一人，不會再有人居住。 |
33Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, a desert forever, Where no man lives, no human being stays. |
| 34猶大王漆德克雅初年，關於厄藍有上主的話傳給耶肋米亞先知說： |
34 The following word of the LORD against Elam came to the prophet Jeremiah at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah: |
| 35「萬軍的上主這樣說：看，我要折斷厄藍的弓弩，稱雄的勢力； |
35Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. |
| 36我要從天下四面八方，給厄藍召來四方的風，使他們隨風飄散，以致沒有一個民族，沒有厄藍的難民。 |
36I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four ends of the heavens: I will scatter them to all these winds, till there is no nation to which the outcasts of Elam shall not come. |
| 37我必使厄藍在自己的仇敵，和圖謀自己性命的人前，驚惶失措；給他們招來災禍，我忿怒的火焰──上主的斷語──派出刀劍追迫他們，直至將他們完全消滅。 |
37I will break Elam before their foes, before those who seek their life; I will bring evil upon them, my burning wrath, says the LORD. I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely made an end of them; |
| 38我必在厄藍設立我的寶座，殲滅其中的君王將帥──上主的斷語── |
38My throne I will set up in Elam and destroy from there king and princes, says the LORD. |
| 39雖然如此，在末日我仍要轉變厄藍的命運──上主的斷語。」 |
39But in the days to come I will change the lot of Elam, says the LORD. |
