¹碎瓶的比喻

¹Thus said Jehovah, `Go, and thou hast got a potter`s earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,

²出到欣嫩子谷，哈珥西（“哈珥西”意即“瓦片”）门的入口，在那里你要宣告我将对你说的话。

²and thou hast gone forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, that [is] at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and hast proclaimed there the words that I speak unto thee,

³你要说：‘犹大列王和耶路撒冷的居民哪！你们要听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华以色列的　神这样说：看哪！我必使灾祸临到这地方；凡听见的，都必耳鸣。

³and hast said, Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: `Lo, I am bringing in evil on this place, at which the ears of every one who is hearing it do tingle,

⁴因为他们离弃了我，把这地方玷污了，在这地方向列神烧香。这些神是他们和他们的列祖，以及犹大列王所不认识的；他们又使这地方洒满无辜人的血。

⁴because that they have forsaken Me, and make known this place, and make perfume in it to other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place [with] innocent blood,

⁵他们筑了巴力的邱坛，好用火焚烧自己的儿女，作燔祭献给巴力。这不是我吩咐的，我没有提说过，也没有在我心里想过。

⁵and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, that I commanded not, nor spake of, nor did it come up on My heart.

⁶因此，看哪！日子快到，这地方必不再称为陀斐特或欣嫩子谷，而要称为杀戮谷。’这是耶和华的宣告。

⁶`Therefore, lo, days are coming — an affirmation of Jehovah — and this place is not called any more, Tophet, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but, Valley of slaughter.

⁷‘我要在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋失败，也必使他们在仇敌面前倒毙于刀下，死在寻索他们性命的人手中。我要把他们的尸体给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物。

⁷And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

⁸我要使这城变为荒凉，成为被人嗤笑的对象；每一个经过这里的，都必因这城所遭受的一切创伤而惊骇，并且嗤笑她。

⁸and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

⁹在他们被围困和受压迫之中，就是在仇敌和寻索他们性命的人压迫他们的时候，我必使他们吞吃自己的儿女的肉，各人也彼此吃对方的肉。’

⁹And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

¹⁰“然后你要在跟你同去的人眼前，把那瓶子打碎，

¹⁰`And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee,

¹¹并对他们说：‘万军之耶和华这样说：我必照样打碎这人民和这城，好像人打碎陶匠的瓦器一样，不能再修补。人必在陀斐特埋葬尸体，甚至无处可埋葬。

¹¹and hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Thus do I break this people and this city, as one breaketh the potter`s vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury — without place to bury;

¹²我必照样对待这地方和这地方的居民，使这城像陀斐特一样。’这是耶和华的宣告。

¹²so I do to this place — an affirmation of Jehovah — and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;

¹³‘耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大列王的宫殿，都要像陀斐特一样成为不洁；人曾在这一切房屋宫殿的屋顶上，向天上的万象烧香，向别神浇奠祭。’”

¹³and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been — as the place of Tophet — defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made perfume to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other gods.`

¹⁴耶利米从陀斐特，就是从耶和华差遣他去说预言的地方回来，他站在耶和华殿的院中，对众民说：

¹⁴And Jeremiah cometh in from Tophet, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, and he standeth in the court of the house of Jehovah, and he saith unto all the people:

¹⁵“万军之耶和华以色列的　神这样说：‘看哪！我必使我宣告攻击这城的一切灾祸，临到这城和她附近的一切城镇，因为他们硬着颈项，不听从我的话。’”

¹⁵`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck — not to hear My words!`