1肉锅的比喻
1Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2“人子啊！你要记下今天的日子，因为巴比伦王就是在这一天围困耶路撒冷。
2Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
3你要向这叛逆的民族设比喻，对他们说：‘主耶和华这样说：把锅放在火上，放好了，就把水倒在锅里；
3Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
4把肉块，就是所有肥美的肉块，腿肉和肩肉，都放进锅里；用上好的骨头把锅装满。
4gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
5要选用羊群中最好的，把柴堆放在锅底下，使锅沸腾，把骨头煮在锅中。
5Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the caldron; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst.
6预言耶路撒冷必遭毁灭“‘因此，主耶和华这样说：流人血的城，就是长锈的锅，有祸了！它的锈未曾除掉，要把锅里的东西一块一块取出来，不必为它们抽签。
6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
7因为她所流的血还在城中；她把血泼在光滑的磐石上，不是倒在地上，被尘土掩盖。
7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
8我为了发烈怒，好施行报应，就把她的血倒在光滑的磐石上，以致不得掩盖。
8That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
9因此，主耶和华这样说：流人血的城，有祸了！我也必把柴堆加大。
9Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
10你要多加柴枝，点上火，混和香料，把肉煮烂，使骨头烧焦；
10Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
11然后把空锅放在炭火上，使锅烧热，使铜烧红，使其中的污秽熔化，使它的锈得以除净。
11Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed.
12这锅真叫人疲累！它厚厚的锈总没法除掉，就是用火也不能除掉。
12She has wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust doesn’t go forth out of her; her rust doesn’t go forth by fire.
13你的污秽就是淫荡。我想要洁净你，你却不愿意洁净，所以你的污秽再不能得到洁净，直等到我向你发的烈怒止息。
13In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
14我耶和华已经说了。时候到了，我必成就；我必不退缩，必不顾惜，也不改变心意；我必照着你的所作所为审判你。这是主耶和华的宣告。’”
14I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
15妻死勿哀的比喻耶和华的话又临到我说：
15Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
16“人子啊！我要打击你，把你眼中所喜爱的夺去，你却不可悲哀，不可哭泣，也不可流泪。
16Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
17只可静默地叹息，不可为死人哀悼；你的头上仍要缠着头巾，脚上仍要穿着鞋子；你不可蒙着脸，也不可吃为丧家预备的食物。”
17Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.
18于是我在早上对众人说了这事，晚上我的妻子就死了；次日早晨我就照着所吩咐我的行了。
18So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19众人问我：“你不告诉我们你这样行与我们有什么关系吗？”
19The people said to me, Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
20我回答他们：“耶和华的话临到我说：
20Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
21‘你要告诉以色列家，主耶和华这样说：看哪！我必使我的圣所被亵渎，这圣所就是你们所夸耀的势力，眼所喜爱的，心中所爱惜的。你们遗下的儿女，都必倒在刀下。
21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
22那时你们要照着我所行的去行；你们不可蒙着脸，也不可吃为丧家预备的食物。
22You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
23你们的头上仍要缠着头巾，脚上仍要穿着鞋子；你们不可悲哀，不可哭泣；但你们必因自己的罪孽相对叹息，衰弱而死。
23Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
24以西结必成为你们的一个兆头；凡他所行的，将来你们也要照样行。这事来到，你们就知道我是主耶和华。’
24Thus Ezekiel shall be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
25“人子啊！我从他们中间夺去他们的堡垒、他们所喜欢的荣耀、他们眼所喜爱的、心所崇尚的和他们的儿女的时候，
25You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
26岂没有逃脱的人来到你那里，使你听见这事吗？
26that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
27那时，你要向逃脱的人开口说话，不再作哑巴。你必成为他们的一个兆头。他们就知道我是耶和华。”
27In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.