¹众人求耶利米祷告　神

¹And they come nigh — all the heads of the forces, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest —

²对耶利米先知说：“求你容我们向你恳求，请为我们这余剩的民向耶和华你的　神祷告；因为我们从前人数众多，现在剩下的极少，就像你现在亲眼所见的一样。

²and they say unto Jeremiah the prophet, `Let, we pray thee, our supplication fall before thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant; for we have been left a few out of many, as thine eyes do see us;

³请为我们求耶和华你的　神指示我们当走的路和该作的事。”

³and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.`

⁴耶利米先知对他们说：“我听见了！我必照着你们的话祷告耶和华你们的　神。耶和华回答你们所说的一切话，我必告诉你们，一句也不会向你们隐瞒。”

⁴And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto them, `I have heard: lo, I am praying unto Jehovah your God according to your words, and it hath come to pass, the whole word that Jehovah answereth you, I declare to you — I do not withhold from you a word.`

⁵于是他们对耶利米说：“我们若不照着耶和华你的　神差遣你到我们这里来所说的一切话去作，愿耶和华作真实和诚信的见证，指控我们。

⁵And they have said to Jeremiah, `Jehovah is against us for a witness true and faithful, if — according to all the word with which Jehovah thy God doth send thee unto us — we do not so.

⁶不论是甜是苦，我们都愿听从耶和华我们　神的话，因为是我们委派你向他祈求的；我们听从耶和华我们　神的话，就必凡事亨通。”

⁶Whether good or evil, to the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we are sending thee, we do hearken; because it is good for us when we hearken to the voice of Jehovah our God.`

⁷耶和华要他们仍居犹大过了十天，耶和华的话临到耶利米。

⁷And it cometh to pass, at the end of ten days, that there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah,

⁸耶利米就把加利亚的儿子约哈难，和所有与他一起的将领，以及全体人民，从最小的到最大的，都叫了来，

⁸and he calleth unto Johanan son of Kareah, and unto all the heads of the forces that [are] with him, and to all the people, from the least even unto the greatest,

⁹对他们说：“耶和华以色列的　神，就是你们委派我去为你们向他恳求的那位，这样说：

⁹and he saith unto them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me, to cause your supplication to fall before Him:

¹⁰‘你们若决意住在这地，我就建立你们，必不拆毁；栽植你们，必不拔除；因我为那已经降在你们身上的灾祸回心转意。

¹⁰`If ye do certainly dwell in this land, then I have builded you up, and I throw not down; and I have planted you, and I pluck not up; for I have repented concerning the evil that I have done to you.

¹¹你们所怕的巴比伦王，你们不要惧怕他；你们不要惧怕他（这是耶和华的宣告），因为我与你们同在，要拯救你们，要搭救你们脱离他的手。

¹¹Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, whom ye are afraid of; be not afraid of him — an affirmation of Jehovah — for with you [am] I, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

¹²我要向你们施怜悯，他也会怜悯你们，使你们归回自己的土地。’

¹²And I give to you mercies, and he hath pitied you, and caused you to turn back unto your own ground.

¹³但是，你们若说：‘我们不住在这地’，不听从耶和华你们的　神的话，

¹³`And if ye are saying, We do not dwell in this land — not to hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God,

¹⁴或说：‘不！我们要去埃及地，在那里看不到战争，听不见号角的声音，也不会因缺乏粮食而饥饿；我们要留在那里。’

¹⁴saying, No; but the land of Egypt we enter, that we see no war, and the sound of a trumpet do not hear, and for bread be not hungry; and there do we dwell.

¹⁵这样，犹大余剩的人哪，你们现在要听耶和华的话！万军之耶和华以色列的　神这样说：‘你们若决意去埃及，到那里寄居，

¹⁵And now, therefore, hear ye a word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: If ye really set your faces to enter Egypt, and have gone in to sojourn there,

¹⁶你们惧怕的刀剑必在埃及地追上你们；你们恐惧的饥荒必在埃及紧随着你们；你们必死在那里。

¹⁶then it hath come to pass, the sword that ye are afraid of, doth there overtake you, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which ye are sorrowful, doth there cleave after you in Egypt, and there ye die.

¹⁷所有决意去埃及，在那里寄居的人，必因刀剑、饥荒和瘟疫而死；他们没有一人能幸存，或避过我降在他们身上的灾祸。’

¹⁷`Thus are all the men who have set their faces to enter Egypt to sojourn there; they die — by sword, by hunger, and by pestilence, and there is not to them a remnant and an escaped one, because of the evil that I am bringing in upon them;

¹⁸责备他们不听警告“因为万军之耶和华以色列的　神这样说：‘我从前怎样把我的怒气和烈怒倾倒在耶路撒冷的居民身上，现在你们进入埃及的时候，我也必照样把我的烈怒倾倒在你们身上。你们就必成为令人惊骇、被人咒骂、咒诅和羞辱的对象。你们必不能再看见这地方。

¹⁸for thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: As poured out hath been Mine anger and My fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so poured out is My fury upon you in your entering Egypt, and ye have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and ye do not see any more this place.

¹⁹犹大余剩的人哪，耶和华曾对你们说：‘你们不要去埃及。’你们要确实知道，我今天已经警告你们了。

¹⁹`Jehovah hath spoken against you, O remnant of Judah, do not enter Egypt: know certainly that I have testified against you to-day;

²⁰你们实在自己欺骗自己，因为是你们委派我去见耶和华你们的　神，你们说：‘请为我们向耶和华我们的　神祷告；无论耶和华我们的　神说什么，你都要告诉我们，我们就必照着去作。’

²⁰for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done [it];

²¹我今天告诉了你们，你们却不听从耶和华你们的　神派我来告诉你们的一切话。

²¹and I declare to you to-day, and ye have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah your God, and to anything with which He hath sent me unto you.

²²现在你们要确实知道，在你们想去寄居的那地方，你们必因刀剑、饥荒和瘟疫而死。”

²²And now, know ye certainly that by sword, by famine, and by pestilence ye die, in the place that ye have desired to go in to sojourn there.`