¹耶和华指示耶利米犹大必灭

¹And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

²“在这地方你不可娶妻，不可生儿育女。”

²Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.

³因为论到这地方出生的儿女，和在这地生养他们的父母，耶和华这样说：

³For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers — those bearing them, And of their fathers — those begetting them in this land:

⁴“他们都必死于致命的疫症，没有人为他们哀哭，他们的尸体也没有人埋葬，必在地面上成为粪肥。他们必被刀剑和饥荒所灭，他们的尸体成了空中飞鸟和地上走兽的食物。”

⁴Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.

⁵耶和华这样说：“你不可进入丧家，也不可去为他们哀哭悲伤；因为我已经从这人民身上收回我的平安、慈爱和怜悯。”这是耶和华的宣告。

⁵For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies.

⁶“尊大的和卑微的都必死在这地；没有人埋葬他们，没有人为他们哀哭，也没有人为他们割伤自己，剃光头发。

⁶And died have great and small in this land, They are not buried, and none lament for them, Nor doth any cut himself, nor become bald for them.

⁷没有人为哀悼的人擘饼，为死者安慰他们；丧父或丧母的人，都没有人给他们喝一杯安慰酒。

⁷Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.

⁸你也不可进入欢宴之家，跟他们同坐，一起吃喝。

⁸A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,

⁹因为万军之耶和华以色列的　神这样说：‘看哪！我必在你们眼前，在你们还活着的日子，使欢笑和快乐的声音，新郎和新娘的声音，都从这地方止息了。’”

⁹For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.

¹⁰“你向这人民传讲这一切时，如果他们问你：‘耶和华为什么宣告这一切严重的灾祸对付我们呢？我们有什么罪孽？我们犯了什么罪，得罪了耶和华我们的　神呢？’

¹⁰And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words, and they have said unto thee, `For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil? yea, what [is] our iniquity, and what our sin, that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?`

¹¹你就要回答他们：‘因为你们的列祖离弃了我（这是耶和华的宣告），他们随从别的神，事奉敬拜他们；他们离弃了我，不遵守我的律法。

¹¹Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,

¹²至于你们，你们作坏事比你们的列祖更厉害；看哪！你们各人都随从自己顽梗的恶心行事，不听从我。

¹²Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.

¹³因此，我要把你们从这地赶出去，去到你们和你们列祖所不认识的地；你们在那里必昼夜事奉别的神，因为我不再向你们施恩。’

¹³And I have cast you from off this land, On to a land that ye have not known, Ye and your fathers, And ye have served there other gods by day and by night, Where I do not give to you grace.

¹⁴预言以色列人回归“看哪！日子快到，人必不再指着那领以色列人从埃及地上来的永活的耶和华起誓。”这是耶和华的宣告。

¹⁴Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more: `Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,`

¹⁵“他们却要指着那领以色列人从北方之地，从他们被赶逐到的各国上来的永活的耶和华起誓。因我要领他们回到自己的土地，就是我从前赐给他们列祖的。

¹⁵But, `Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of the north, And out of all the lands whither He drove them,` And I have brought them back to their land, That I gave to their fathers.

¹⁶“看哪！我要差人去叫许多渔夫来，捕捉以色列人；然后我要差人去叫许多猎人来，从各大山、小山和岩石的裂缝里，猎取他们。”这是耶和华的宣告。

¹⁶Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.

¹⁷“因为我的眼察看他们所行的一切；在我面前这一切都无法隐藏，他们的罪孽不能从我眼前遮掩起来。

¹⁷For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

¹⁸首先我要加倍报应他们的罪孽和罪恶，因为他们用自己那些毫无生气、可憎的偶像（“毫无生气、可憎的偶像”原文作“可憎的偶像的尸体”）玷污了我的土地，他们那些可厌之物充满了我的产业。”

¹⁸And I have recompensed a first — A second time — their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance.

¹⁹耶和华是真神耶和华，我的力量、我的堡垒、我遭难时的避难所啊！万国要从地极前来朝见你，说：“我们列祖所承受的只是虚假的偶像，是虚空、一无用处的。

¹⁹O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

²⁰人岂能为自己制造神呢？其实这些偶像并不是神。”

²⁰Doth man make for himself gods, And they — no gods?

²¹“因此，看哪！我要使他们知道，这一次我必叫他们认识我的手和我的能力，他们就知道我的名是耶和华。”

²¹Therefore, lo, I am causing them to know at this time, I cause them to know My hand and My might, And they have known that My name [is] Jehovah!