| 耶肋米亞 |
Jeremiah |
| 1本雅明子民，請你們逃出耶路撒冷，在特科亞吹號，在貝特革楞豎立旗幟！因為有一個災禍，即一個巨大的毀滅，已由北方隱約出現。 |
1Flee, sons of Benjamin, out of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, raise a signal over Beth-haccherem; For evil threatens from the north, and mighty destruction. |
| 2熙雍女郎彷彿美麗的草場， |
2O lovely and delicate daughter Zion, you are ruined! |
| 3牧童領着自己的羊群向她進發，在她四周張設帳幕，各據一方牧放。 |
3 Against her, shepherds come with their flocks; all around, they pitch their tents, each one grazes his portion. |
| 4「請你們備戰，向她進攻；來，讓我們在正午就上前進攻！我們真不幸！因為日已偏西，暮影已長！ |
4"Prepare for war against her, Up! let us rush upon her at midday! Alas! the day is waning, evening shadows lengthen; |
| 5不妨！就趁夜間上去，破壞她的宮闕。」 |
5Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!" |
| 6因為萬軍的上主這樣說：「你們該砍伐她的樹木，堆起壁壘，圍攻耶路撒冷，這該受罰的城市，因為在那裡充滿了壓榨。 |
6For thus says the LORD of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for punishment; nought but oppression within her! |
| 7泉源怎樣湧出水，她就怎樣湧出邪惡；從那裡只可聽到強暴和迫害，我只看見疾病和瘡痍。 |
7As the well gushes out its waters, so she gushes out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows. |
| 8耶路撒冷！你應接受訓戒，免得我的心疏遠你，使你荒涼，成為沒有人居住的地方。」 |
8Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be estranged from you; Lest I turn you into a desert, a land where no man dwells. |
| 9萬軍的上主這樣說：「你應像收拾葡萄，把以色列的遺民收拾淨盡；又如收割的人向枝條再伸出你的手來。」 |
9Thus says the LORD of hosts: Glean, glean like a vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand, like a vintager, repeatedly over the tendrils. |
| 10我應對誰說，應警告誰，使他們聽信我呢？看，他們的耳朵遲鈍不靈，不能留心細聽；看，上主的話對他們已成了笑柄，一點也不感興趣。 |
10To whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be heard? See! their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot give heed; See, the word of the LORD has become for them an object of scorn, which they will not have. |
| 11為此，我滿懷上主的忿怒，我已無法再控制：「只得將忿怒洩在街上的孩童和青年的隊伍身上，因為男人和女人，年長和年老的人，都要被擄去； |
11Therefore my wrath brims up within me, I am weary of holding it in; I will pour it out upon the child in the street, upon the young men gathered together. Yes, all will be taken, husband and wife, graybeard with ancient. |
| 12他們的住宅、莊田和妻室，都要歸於他人，因為我要向本地的居民伸出我的手──上主的斷語。」 |
12Their houses will fall to strangers, their fields and their wives as well; For I will stretch forth my hand against those who dwell in this land, says the LORD. |
| 13實在，從最小的到最大的，都貪財圖利；從先知到司祭，都欺詐行事， |
13Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud. |
| 14草率治療我人民的瘡痍說：「好了，好了！」其實卻沒有好。 |
14 They would repair, as though it were nought, the injury to my people: "Peace, peace!" they say, though there is no peace. |
| 15他們既行事可憎，就理當知恥；可是，他們不但毫不知恥，反而連羞愧也不知是什麼；為此，他們要與倒斃者一同倒斃，在我降罰他們時，都要一蹶不振──上主說。 |
15They are odious; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they know not how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall go down, says the LORD. |
| 16上主這樣說：「你們應站在交叉路口，觀察探問舊路；那一條是好路，就在那路上走，你們的心靈必獲安寧。」他們卻答說：「我們偏不走。」 |
16 Thus says the LORD: Stand beside the earliest roads, ask the pathways of old Which is the way to good, and walk it; thus you will find rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not walk it." |
| 17「我給你們派駐哨兵，你們應注意號聲！」他們卻答說：「他們偏不注意。」 |
17 When I raised up watchmen for them: "Hearken to the sound of the trumpet!" they said, "We will not hearken." |
| 18為此，萬民！你們應該細聽；群眾！你們應知道他們的遭遇。 |
18Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O earth, what I will do with them: |
| 19大地！注意：看，我必給這百姓帶來災禍，作他們失節的苦果，因為他們沒有聽從我的言辭，拋棄了我的法律。 |
19See, I bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their own schemes, Because they heeded not my words, because they despised my law. |
| 20那些來自舍巴的乳香，出自遠方的香蒲，於我有何用？你們的全燔祭不受悅納，你們的犧牲不樂我意。 |
20Of what use to me incense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from far-off lands? Your holocausts find no favor with me, your sacrifices please me not. |
| 21為此，上主這樣說，「看，我將給這人民設下絆腳石，使父子一起絆倒，使鄰居和朋友同趨滅亡。」 |
21Therefore, thus says the LORD: See, I will place before this people obstacles to bring them down; Fathers and sons alike, neighbors and friends shall perish. |
| 22上主這樣說：「看，有一個民族從北方前來，有一個強大的異邦從地極興起， |
22Thus says the LORD: See, a people comes from the land of the north, a great nation, roused from the ends of the earth. |
| 23緊握弓戈，殘忍無情，像海嘯一般喧嚷，騎着戰馬，萬眾一心，嚴陣準備向你進攻，熙雍女郎！」 |
23Bow and javelin they wield; cruel and pitiless are they. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on steeds, Each in his place, for battle against you, daughter Zion. |
| 24我們聽到了這消息，束手無策，不勝憂慮，痛苦得有如臨產的婦女。 |
24We hear the report of them; helpless fall our hands, Anguish takes hold of us, throes like a mother's in childbirth. |
| 25你們不要到田間去，不要在路上徘徊，因為敵人正在廝殺，四處令人恐怖。 |
25Go not forth into the field, step not into the street, Beware of the enemy's sword; terror on every side! |
| 26我的女兒──人民──你該穿上麻衣，輾轉於灰麈，悲哀傷心痛哭，如喪獨子，因為劫奪者要突然來襲擊我們！ |
26O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing, For sudden upon us comes the destroyer. |
| 27我立了你作我人民的考察員，原是為叫你認識並考察他們的行徑。 |
27A tester among my people I have appointed you, to search and test their way. |
| 28他們盡是極頑固的叛徒，往來播散流言，確是壞透了的破銅爛鐵。 |
28Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, all of them corrupt. |
| 29風箱猛吹，雖有烈火，但鉛仍不溶化；煉工徒然鍛鍊，渣滓總煉不掉。 |
29The bellows roars, the lead is consumed by the fire; In vain has the smelter refined, the wicked are not drawn off. |
| 30人都稱他們為「拋棄的銀渣，」因為上主已將他們拋棄。 |
30"Silver rejected" they shall be called, for the LORD has rejected them. |
