¹耶利米为犹大悲伤

¹Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

²但愿我在旷野有一个旅客住宿的地方，好使我离开我的同胞，可以离他们而去；因为他们都是行奸淫的，是行诡诈之徒。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为9:1）

²Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.

³“他们弯曲舌头，像弯弓一样；在这地得势的是虚谎，不是诚实；因为他们变本加厉地作恶，连我也不认识。”这是耶和华的宣告。

³And they bend their tongue, their bow [is] a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

⁴“你们各人要提防自己的邻舍，不要信靠兄弟；因为每一个兄弟都在欺骗人，每一个邻舍都搬弄是非。

⁴Each of his friend — beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

⁵他们各人都欺骗自己的邻舍，不说诚实话。他们训练自己的舌头说谎话，竭力作孽，以致他们不能回转（本句按照《马索拉抄本》意思难确定；现参照《七十士译本》翻译）。

⁵And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

⁶欺凌加上欺凌，诡诈加上诡诈，他们不肯认识我。”这是耶和华的宣告。

⁶thy dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁷因此，万军之耶和华这样说：“看哪！我要熬炼他们，试验他们；因我子民（“我子民”原文作“我子民的女子”）的罪恶，我还可以作什么呢？

⁷Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

⁸他们的舌头是杀人的利箭，嘴里说的是诡诈；跟邻舍说话满口甜言蜜语，心底里却设计陷害他。

⁸A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

⁹我因这些事怎能不惩罚他们呢？像这样的国家，我怎能不亲自报复呢？”这是耶和华的宣告。

⁹For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?

¹⁰我要为众山哭泣哀号，为旷野的草场唱哀歌；因为都已成为荒凉，无人经过，也听不到牲畜的叫声；无论空中的飞鸟，地上的走兽，都逃走跑掉了。

¹⁰For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone.

¹¹“我要使耶路撒冷变成乱堆，成为野狗的巢穴；我要使犹大的城市荒凉，无人居住。”

¹¹And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

¹²谁是智慧人可以解明这事？耶和华的口向谁说过，以致他可以传讲这事？为什么这地被毁坏，像旷野般荒凉，无人经过呢？

¹²Who [is] the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he doth declare it, For what hath the land perished? It hath been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through.

¹³耶和华说：“这是因为他们离弃了我摆在他们面前的律法，不听从我的话，没有遵行我的律法；

¹³And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

¹⁴反而随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的，随从众巴力。”

¹⁴And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

¹⁵因此，万军之耶和华以色列的　神这样说：“看哪！我要使这人民吃苦堇，喝毒水。

¹⁵Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them — this people — to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

¹⁶我要把他们分散在列国中，就是他们和他们的列祖都不认识的列国；我要使刀剑追杀他们，直到把他们灭绝。”

¹⁶And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.

¹⁷万军之耶和华这样说：“你们要思想，要把唱哀歌的妇女召来，把那些擅长哀哭的妇女请来；

¹⁷Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

¹⁸叫他们赶快为我们举哀，使我们的眼流下眼泪，使我们的眼皮涌出泪水。

¹⁸And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

¹⁹因为从锡安可以听到哀声，说：‘我们何等衰败！我们多么羞耻！因我们丢弃了这地，我们的家园被拆毁了。’”

¹⁹For — a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

²⁰妇女们哪！你们要听耶和华的话，你们的耳朵要领受他口中的话；要教导你们的女儿举哀，各人要彼此学习哀歌。

²⁰But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.

²¹因为死亡从窗户上来，进入我们的堡垒；要从街上剪除孩童，从广场上剪除年轻人。

²¹For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.

²²你要这样说（这是耶和华的宣告）：“人的尸体横卧着，像田野上的粪肥，又像遗留在收割者后面的麦穗，无人拾取。”

²²Speak thus — an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.

²³什么是值得夸口的事耶和华这样说：“智慧人不可夸耀自己的智慧，勇士不可夸耀自己的勇力，财主不可夸耀自己的财富。

²³Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

²⁴夸口的却要因了解我，认识我而夸口；认识我是耶和华，我在地上施行慈爱、公正、公义；因为我喜悦这些事。”这是耶和华的宣告。

²⁴But — in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I [am] Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

²⁵“看哪！日子快到（这是耶和华的宣告），我必惩罚所有只在身体受过割礼，内心却未受割礼的人，

²⁵Lo, days are coming — an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin,

²⁶就是埃及、犹大、以东、亚扪、摩押和所有剃除鬓发，住在旷野的人；因为列国的人都没有受过割礼，甚至以色列全家的内心也没有受过割礼。”

²⁶On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner [of the beard], Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations [are] uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in heart!