¹众人求耶利米祷告　神

¹Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,

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 said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your 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。”

³that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should 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。”

⁴Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.

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。

⁵Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.

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 it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh 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。

⁷It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh came to 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，

⁸Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to 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 said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication 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。

¹⁰If you will still live in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on 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。

¹¹Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don’t be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you 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。’

¹²I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

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，

¹³But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don’t obey the voice of Yahweh 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 we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will 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，

¹⁵now therefore hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live 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 shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall 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。’

¹⁷So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on 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 says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

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。

¹⁹Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don’t you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this 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 you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do 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 have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent me to 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。”

²²Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.