¹斥责崇拜偶像的罪

¹And come in unto me do certain of the elders of Israel, and sit before me.

²耶和华的话就临到我说：

²And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

³“人子啊！这些人已经把他们的偶像接到心里去，把那陷他们在罪孽中的绊脚石放在自己面前，我怎能让他们向我求问呢？

³`Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?

⁴因此，你要告诉他们，对他们说：‘主耶和华这样说：以色列家的人中，凡把他的偶像接到心里去，把那陷自己在罪孽中的绊脚石放在自己面前，却又来见先知的，我耶和华必按他拜众多偶像的罪报应他，

⁴`Therefore, speak with them, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Every one of the house of Israel who causeth his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath gone in unto the prophet — I Jehovah have given an answer to him for this, for the abundance of his idols,

⁵好夺回以色列家的心。他们众人因自己的偶像，与我疏远。’

⁵in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols — all of them.

⁶劝人民离弃偶像归向真神“因此，你要对以色列家说：‘主耶和华这样说：回转吧！转离你们的偶像！转脸离弃你们一切可憎之物吧！

⁶`Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn ye back, yea, turn ye back from your idols, and from all your abominations turn back your faces,

⁷因为以色列家的人中，或是在以色列寄居的外族人中，凡与我疏远，把他们的偶像接到心里去，把那陷自己在罪孽中的绊脚石放在自己面前，却又来见先知，要为自己求问我的，我耶和华必亲自报应他；

⁷for every one of the house of Israel, and of the sojourners who doth sojourn in Israel, who is separated from after Me, and doth cause his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath come in unto the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, have answered him for Myself;

⁸我必向那人变脸，使他成为别人的鉴戒和讥笑的对象；我要把他从我子民中剪除；你们就知道我是耶和华。

⁸and I have set My face against that man, and made him for a sign, and for similes, and I have cut him off from the midst of My people, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

⁹如果有先知被欺骗说一句话，是我耶和华任那先知受欺骗的；我必伸手攻击他，把他从我子民以色列中除灭。

⁹`And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word — I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel.

¹⁰他们必担当自己的罪孽；求问的人的罪孽怎样，先知的罪孽也必怎样。

¹⁰And they have borne their iniquity: as the iniquity of the inquirer, so is the iniquity of the prophet;

¹¹这样，以色列家必不再走迷路离开我，也不再因他们的一切过犯玷污自己；他们要作我的子民，我要作他们的　神。这是主耶和华的宣告。’”

¹¹so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.`

¹²义人得救恶人灭亡耶和华的话又临到我说：

¹²And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

¹³“人子啊！如果一国行了不忠的事得罪我，我就必伸手攻击那国，断绝那地的粮食，使饥荒临到那地，使人和牲畜都从那地剪除，

¹³`Son of man, the land — when it sinneth against Me to commit a trespass, and I have stretched out My hand against it, and broken for it the staff of bread, and sent into it famine, and cut off from it man and beast —

¹⁴即使有挪亚、但以理和约伯这三个人，他们也只能因自己的义救自己的性命。这是主耶和华的宣告。

¹⁴and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job — they by their righteousness deliver their own soul — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁵如果我使猛兽经过那地，蹂躏那地，使它荒凉，以致因为这些兽的缘故，没有人敢经过；

¹⁵`If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast —

¹⁶即使有这三个人在其中，我指着我的永生起誓，他们只能救自己，连儿女也不能救，那地却仍然荒凉。这是主耶和华的宣告。

¹⁶these three men in its midst: I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah — neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation.

¹⁷如果我使刀剑临到那地，说：‘愿刀剑经过那地，好让我把人和牲畜从那地剪除。’

¹⁷`Or — a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast —

¹⁸即使有这三个人在其中，我指着我的永生起誓，他们只能救自己，连儿女也不能救。

¹⁸and these three men in its midst: I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah — they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered.

¹⁹如果我使瘟疫流行那地，借着流血的事把我的烈怒倾倒在那地上，使人和牲畜都从那地剪除；

¹⁹`Or — pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast —

²⁰即使当中有挪亚、但以理和约伯，我指着我的永生起誓，他们只能因自己的义救自己的性命，连儿女也不能救。这是主耶和华的宣告。”

²⁰and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah — neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.

²¹主耶和华这样说：“我打发刀剑、饥荒、猛兽和瘟疫这四样可怕的刑罚临到耶路撒冷，要把人和牲畜从那里剪除的时候，那情况岂不更严重吗？

²¹`For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Although My four sore judgments — sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence — I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast,

²²其中将有剩下逃脱的人，连同儿女被带出来，他们来到你们那里，你们看见他们的所行所为，就会因我降给耶路撒冷的一切灾祸，得了安慰。

²²yet, lo, there hath been left in it an escape, who are brought forth, sons and daughters, lo, they are coming forth unto you, and ye have seen their way, and their doings, and have been comforted concerning the evil that I have brought in against Jerusalem, all that which I have brought in against it.

²³你们看见了他们的所行所为，就必得安慰，因为你们知道我在耶路撒冷所行的一切，并不是无缘无故的。这是耶和华的宣告。”

²³And they have comforted you, for ye see their way and their doings, and ye have known that not for nought have I done all that which I have done in her — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.`