¹无用的牧人被弃

¹Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.

²松树啊！哀号吧，因为香柏树已经倒下，雄壮的树木都毁坏了；巴珊的橡树啊！哀号吧，因为茂密的树林被砍下来了。

²Howl, O fir, for fallen hath the cedar, For their honourable ones were destroyed, Howl, ye oaks of Bashan, For come down hath the fenced forest,

³听牧人们哀号的声音，因为他们荣美的草场毁坏了；听少壮狮子吼叫的声音，因为约旦河边的丛林毁坏了。

³A voice of the howling of the shepherds! For destroyed was their robe of honour, A voice of the roaring of young lions! For destroyed was the excellency of Jordan.

⁴耶和华我的　神这样说：“你要牧养这将被宰杀的羊群。

⁴Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter,

⁵那些买了它们的宰杀它们，也不算为有罪；那些卖它们的说：‘耶和华是应当称颂的，因我成了富足的人。’它们的牧人并不怜恤它们。

⁵Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed [is] Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

⁶因此我必不再怜恤这地的居民（这是耶和华的宣告）。看哪！我把他们各人交在他的邻舍和君王的手中。他们必摧毁这地，我必不救这地的居民脱离他们的手。”

⁶For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.`

⁷两根杖的比喻于是，我牧养这将被宰杀的羊群，就是羊群中最困苦的；我取了两根杖，一根我称为“恩宠”，另一根称为“联合”。这样我就牧养了羊群。

⁷And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock.

⁸在一个月之内我除灭了三个牧人。我的心厌烦他们，他们的心也讨厌我。

⁸And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.

⁹我就说：“我不再牧养你们了；那将要死的，让他死吧！那将要被除灭的，让他被除灭吧；那些余剩的，让他们彼此吞食对方的肉吧！”

⁹And I say, `I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.`

¹⁰然后，我拿起我那根称为“恩宠”的杖，把它折断，表示要废除我与万民所立的约；

¹⁰And I take My staff Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to make void My covenant that I had made with all the peoples:

¹¹那约就在当日废除了。这样，那些仰望我的困苦羊群，就知道这是耶和华的话。

¹¹and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it [is] a word of Jehovah.

¹²我对他们说：“你们若看为美，就给我工资；不然，就算了。”于是，他们称了三十块银子作我的工资。

¹²And I say unto them: `If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;` and they weigh out my hire — thirty silverlings.

¹³那时，耶和华对我说：“你要把银子丢给陶匠。”那银子就是他们认为我应得的高价。我就拿了那三十块银子，在耶和华的殿里丢给陶匠了。

¹³And Jehovah saith unto me, `Cast it unto the potter;` the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty silverlings, and cast them [to] the house of Jehovah, unto the potter.

¹⁴我又折断那称为“联合”的另一根杖，表示要废除犹大和以色列之间的手足之情。

¹⁴And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵拋弃羊群的牧人有祸了耶和华又对我说：“你去取愚昧牧人的装备来。

¹⁵And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

¹⁶因为我要在这地兴起一个牧人；那些快要丧亡的他不看顾，失散的他不寻找，受伤的他不医治，强壮的他不喂养，他却要吃肥羊的肉，撕掉它们的蹄子。

¹⁶For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off.

¹⁷“那丢弃羊群的无用牧人有祸了！愿刀剑落在他的膀臂和他的右眼上；愿他的膀臂全然枯槁，愿他的右眼完全失明！”

¹⁷Wo [to] the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword [is] on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!`