耶利米書

第22章

1 耶和華告耶利米曰、詣猶大王宮告之、

2 爾繼大闢爲王於猶大、及爾臣民、凡入邑門者、宜聽耶和華之言。

3 耶和華曰、爾居斯土、當秉公義、凡受暴者、爾其拯救、賓旅孤寡、爾無虐遇、勿殺無辜、

4 如爾行是、則繼大闢爲王者、將乘車服馬、與厥臣民、俱入殿門。

5 如爾不聽、我耶和華指己而誓、此殿必致荒蕪。

6 耶和華又告猶大王宗室曰、昔我視爾若基列地、利巴嫩巔、今我使爾荒蕪、若無人居處之邑、

7 使殘暴者、各執具械、斫爾柏香木之佳者、委之於火、

8 凡鄰國衆庶、經過是邑、互相告語、曰、耶和華罰此大邑、何爲至於若斯。

9 人必曰、斯民背其上帝耶和華之約、崇拜服事他上帝、故有此罰。

10 勿爲死者哀哭、當爲擄者號泣、蓋彼不返國、不復見故土。

11 耶和華曰、猶大王、約西亞子沙龍、繼父爲王、旣出斯土、必不返國、

12 乃死於被擄之地、不復見故土。

13 人以非義之利、建造宅第、用人之力、不償其工者、禍必不遠、

14 彼曰、廣廈崇室、余必搆造、啟其窗牗、以柏香木爲板、塗以丹艧。

15 耶和華曰、爾雖以柏香木爲板、以示華美、豈得恒居王位。爾父日用飲食、躬行仁義、而享福祉、彼爲貧乏伸寃、旣識我道、遂得亨通。

16 併於上節

17 惟爾縱心目之欲、貪婪不已、強據虐遇、而殺無辜。

18 耶和華曰、猶大王、約西亞次子約雅金、旣死之時、民不舉哀哭泣、曰、哀哉兄弟姊妹乎、惜哉我主、顯榮安在乎。

19 乃人拽其尸、棄之耶路撒冷邑外、無異葬驢。

20 必登利巴嫩而大呼、在巴山舉哀、在亞巴林呼號、蓋爾良朋已喪。

21 平康之時、我曾語爾、惟爾不聽、自肇造邦國、以迄於今、爾不從我言、所爲若是。

22 故爾之牧者、隨風飄沒、爾之良朋、爲人俘囚、爾作惡衆多、必蒙羞抱愧。

23 居利巴嫩人巢於柏香木、爾旣臨難、若婦劬勞、豈不哀慘。

24 耶和華曰、我指己而誓、爾猶大王、約雅金子約雅斤、雖爲我掌中之印、亦必棄之如遺。

25 付爾於爾所懼之敵、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、及迦勒底人手。

26 我必驅爾、爰及爾母、至於異邦、非爾故土、在彼必死、

27 惟爾雖欲歸而弗得。

28 約雅斤若已毀之偶像、爲人所藐視、又若器皿、不爲民所娛玩、彼及子孫、已遭驅逐、至於素所未識之地曷故。

29 耶和華三呼斯土之人、告之曰、爾衆宜聽我言、約雅斤畢生、不獲亨通、當錄其名於冊、雖有子孫、不得繼大闢之位、爲王於猶大。

30 併於上節

Jeremiah

Chapter 22

1 THUS says the LORD: GO down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, and say,

2 Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter by these gates;

3 Thus says the LORD: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the strangers, the fatherless, and the widows, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

4 For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David and princes who ride in chariots and on horses, a king and his servants and his people.

5 But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

6 For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead, like the head of Lebanon; but I will surely make you a desert, like an uninhabited city.

7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his axe in his hand; and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.

8 And many people shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?

9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and served them.

10 Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him that goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.

11 For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father and who went away from this country: He shall not return here any more;

12 But he shall die in the country where they have carried him captive, and shall see this land no more.

13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor work for him without wages, and does not give him his hire;

14 Who says, I will build for myself wide houses with spacious upper rooms; and cuts out windows for them and covers them with cedar and paints them with vermilion.

15 Shall you reign and rejoice by living in palaces built with cedar? Indeed, your father did eat and drink, but he also did justice and righteousness, therefore I did good to him.

16 He did justice to the cause of the poor and needy; and he did well; he who does these things, knows me, says the LORD.

17 But your eyes and your hearts are set for nothing else but for your wealth and for the shedding of innocent blood, and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

18 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah: They shall not mourn for him, nor shall they say, Ah my brother! Ah my brother! They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! Ah lord!

19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

20 Go up to Lebanon and cry; and lift up your voice in Mathnin and cry from the other side of the sea; for all your lovers are defeated.

21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not listen. This has been your way from your youth, you did not obey my voice.

22 All of your shepherds shall be smitten by the east wind, and your lovers shall go into captivity; surely then you shall be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes her nest in the cedars, how you shall groan when pangs come upon you and the pain as of a woman in travail!

24 As I live, says the LORD God, though Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet I would pull you off;

25 And I will deliver you into the hand of the men who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose presence you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 And I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another land, where you were not born; and there shall you die.

27 But to the land to which you hope to return, thither you shall not come back.

28 this Jecaniah is a little man and a fool, he is like a useless vessel; this is why he is carried away, he and his children, and cast into a land which he knows not.

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD!

30 Thus says the LORD: Write this man down despised and childless, for none of his offspring shall prosper in his days, sitting upon the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.

耶利米書

第22章

Jeremiah

Chapter 22

1 耶和華告耶利米曰、詣猶大王宮告之、

1 THUS says the LORD: GO down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, and say,

2 爾繼大闢爲王於猶大、及爾臣民、凡入邑門者、宜聽耶和華之言。

2 Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter by these gates;

3 耶和華曰、爾居斯土、當秉公義、凡受暴者、爾其拯救、賓旅孤寡、爾無虐遇、勿殺無辜、

3 Thus says the LORD: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the strangers, the fatherless, and the widows, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

4 如爾行是、則繼大闢爲王者、將乘車服馬、與厥臣民、俱入殿門。

4 For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David and princes who ride in chariots and on horses, a king and his servants and his people.

5 如爾不聽、我耶和華指己而誓、此殿必致荒蕪。

5 But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

6 耶和華又告猶大王宗室曰、昔我視爾若基列地、利巴嫩巔、今我使爾荒蕪、若無人居處之邑、

6 For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead, like the head of Lebanon; but I will surely make you a desert, like an uninhabited city.

7 使殘暴者、各執具械、斫爾柏香木之佳者、委之於火、

7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his axe in his hand; and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.

8 凡鄰國衆庶、經過是邑、互相告語、曰、耶和華罰此大邑、何爲至於若斯。

8 And many people shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?

9 人必曰、斯民背其上帝耶和華之約、崇拜服事他上帝、故有此罰。

9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and served them.

10 勿爲死者哀哭、當爲擄者號泣、蓋彼不返國、不復見故土。

10 Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him that goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.

11 耶和華曰、猶大王、約西亞子沙龍、繼父爲王、旣出斯土、必不返國、

11 For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father and who went away from this country: He shall not return here any more;

12 乃死於被擄之地、不復見故土。

12 But he shall die in the country where they have carried him captive, and shall see this land no more.

13 人以非義之利、建造宅第、用人之力、不償其工者、禍必不遠、

13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor work for him without wages, and does not give him his hire;

14 彼曰、廣廈崇室、余必搆造、啟其窗牗、以柏香木爲板、塗以丹艧。

14 Who says, I will build for myself wide houses with spacious upper rooms; and cuts out windows for them and covers them with cedar and paints them with vermilion.

15 耶和華曰、爾雖以柏香木爲板、以示華美、豈得恒居王位。爾父日用飲食、躬行仁義、而享福祉、彼爲貧乏伸寃、旣識我道、遂得亨通。

15 Shall you reign and rejoice by living in palaces built with cedar? Indeed, your father did eat and drink, but he also did justice and righteousness, therefore I did good to him.

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16 He did justice to the cause of the poor and needy; and he did well; he who does these things, knows me, says the LORD.

17 惟爾縱心目之欲、貪婪不已、強據虐遇、而殺無辜。

17 But your eyes and your hearts are set for nothing else but for your wealth and for the shedding of innocent blood, and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

18 耶和華曰、猶大王、約西亞次子約雅金、旣死之時、民不舉哀哭泣、曰、哀哉兄弟姊妹乎、惜哉我主、顯榮安在乎。

18 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah: They shall not mourn for him, nor shall they say, Ah my brother! Ah my brother! They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! Ah lord!

19 乃人拽其尸、棄之耶路撒冷邑外、無異葬驢。

19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

20 必登利巴嫩而大呼、在巴山舉哀、在亞巴林呼號、蓋爾良朋已喪。

20 Go up to Lebanon and cry; and lift up your voice in Mathnin and cry from the other side of the sea; for all your lovers are defeated.

21 平康之時、我曾語爾、惟爾不聽、自肇造邦國、以迄於今、爾不從我言、所爲若是。

21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not listen. This has been your way from your youth, you did not obey my voice.

22 故爾之牧者、隨風飄沒、爾之良朋、爲人俘囚、爾作惡衆多、必蒙羞抱愧。

22 All of your shepherds shall be smitten by the east wind, and your lovers shall go into captivity; surely then you shall be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

23 居利巴嫩人巢於柏香木、爾旣臨難、若婦劬勞、豈不哀慘。

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes her nest in the cedars, how you shall groan when pangs come upon you and the pain as of a woman in travail!

24 耶和華曰、我指己而誓、爾猶大王、約雅金子約雅斤、雖爲我掌中之印、亦必棄之如遺。

24 As I live, says the LORD God, though Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet I would pull you off;

25 付爾於爾所懼之敵、巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、及迦勒底人手。

25 And I will deliver you into the hand of the men who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose presence you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 我必驅爾、爰及爾母、至於異邦、非爾故土、在彼必死、

26 And I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another land, where you were not born; and there shall you die.

27 惟爾雖欲歸而弗得。

27 But to the land to which you hope to return, thither you shall not come back.

28 約雅斤若已毀之偶像、爲人所藐視、又若器皿、不爲民所娛玩、彼及子孫、已遭驅逐、至於素所未識之地曷故。

28 this Jecaniah is a little man and a fool, he is like a useless vessel; this is why he is carried away, he and his children, and cast into a land which he knows not.

29 耶和華三呼斯土之人、告之曰、爾衆宜聽我言、約雅斤畢生、不獲亨通、當錄其名於冊、雖有子孫、不得繼大闢之位、爲王於猶大。

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD!

30 併於上節

30 Thus says the LORD: Write this man down despised and childless, for none of his offspring shall prosper in his days, sitting upon the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.