耶利米书 48
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
关于摩押的预言
48 论到摩押,以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说:
“尼波大祸临头了!
它必被毁灭;
基列亭必蒙羞沦陷,
堡垒必蒙羞被毁。
2 摩押不再受称赞,
敌人在希实本图谋害她,说,
‘来吧!我们铲除这个国家。’
玛得缅啊,你也将被敌人追杀,
变得死寂无声。
3 “从何罗念传来呼喊声,
‘荒凉了!毁灭了!’
4 摩押灭亡了,
她的孩童放声哀哭。
5 摩押人痛哭着走上鲁希坡,
他们在何罗念的山坡下听见悲惨的哀号。
6 逃命吧!藏到旷野去吧!
7 摩押啊,你要被攻占,
因为你倚仗自己的成就和财富。
你的神明基抹及供奉它的祭司和官长都要被掳去。
8 所有的城邑必被毁灭,
无一幸免;
山谷遭践踏,
平原被蹂躏。
这是耶和华说的。
9 “给摩押翅膀让她飞走吧[a],
因为她的城邑将沦为废墟,
杳无人迹。
10 不殷勤地为耶和华做工,
不挥刀斩杀摩押人的必受咒诅。
11 “摩押自幼常享安逸,
从未被掳到别处,
好像沉淀的酒没有被从这缸倒到那缸,
味道依旧,香气未变。
12 “不过,看啊,时候将到,我要派倒酒的人去把她倒出来,倒空酒缸,把缸打碎。这是耶和华说的。 13 摩押人必因他们的神明基抹而羞愧,就像以色列人因信靠伯特利的神像而羞愧一样。
14 “摩押人啊,
你们怎能自称为骁勇善战的英雄呢?
15 摩押要灭亡了,
她的城邑要被摧毁,
她最勇敢的青年将被杀戮。
这是名叫万军之耶和华的君王说的。
16 摩押快要被毁灭了,
灾难就要来临。
17 她的近邻和知道她名望的人啊,
你们都要为她哀悼,
‘那强大、辉煌的权势竟然崩溃了!’
18 “底本的居民啊,
你们要从荣耀的位子上下来,
坐在干旱的地上,
因为毁灭摩押的要来攻击你们,
摧毁你们的堡垒。
19 亚罗珥的居民啊!
你们要站在路旁观望,
询问逃难的男女究竟发生了什么事。
20 你们会得知摩押沦陷了,
她羞愧难当。
你们哀伤痛哭吧!
你们要在亚嫩河边宣告,
‘摩押灭亡了!’
21 “审判降临在平原上的何伦、雅杂、米法押、 22 底本、尼波、伯·低比拉太音、 23 基列亭、伯·迦末、伯·米恩、 24 加略、波斯拉等摩押各地的城邑。 25 摩押的权势被粉碎了,她的力量被摧毁了。这是耶和华说的。
26 “你们要灌醉她,因为她藐视耶和华。她必在自己的呕吐物中打滚,被人耻笑。 27 摩押啊,你不是曾经嘲笑以色列吗?以色列难道是强盗吗?你每次谈到她总是不屑地摇头。
28 “摩押人啊,
你们要离开城邑,住到岩洞里,
像鸽子在岩缝里筑巢一样。
29 我们听说摩押人傲气冲天,
他们狂妄自大、心中高傲。
30 我知道狂傲的摩押不过是外强中干,
她的夸耀不过是虚张声势。
这是耶和华说的。
31 因此,我要为她哀号,
为摩押人痛哭,
为吉珥·哈列设人悲伤。
32 西比玛的葡萄树啊,
我为你们比为雅谢人哭得更悲痛!
你们的枝条虽然延伸到大海,
一直到雅谢,
但毁灭者已在蹂躏你们夏日的果子了!
33 摩押的沃土上再没有欢喜快乐的声音。
我使榨酒池不出酒,
再没有踩踏葡萄的欢呼声,
欢呼被呐喊取代。
34 “哀哭声从希实本传到以利亚利和雅杂,又从琐珥传到何罗念和伊基拉·施利施亚,因为连宁林的水也干涸了。” 35 耶和华说:“我要灭绝摩押那些在丘坛献祭和向假神烧香的人。 36 我的心为摩押悲鸣,好像凄凉的箫声;我的心为吉珥·哈列设人悲鸣,他们的一切财富都消失了。 37 他们都悲哀地剃去发须,割伤双手,腰束麻布。 38 在摩押境内的屋顶和街头巷尾,哀声处处可闻,因为我已把摩押打得粉碎,好像打碎没人要的器皿。这是耶和华说的。 39 摩押破碎不堪!她嚎啕痛哭,羞愧难当,令四围的人嗤笑、惊惧。”
40 耶和华说:
“看啊,敌人必像展翅疾飞的大鹰一样来攻击摩押。
41 他们要攻取城池,占领堡垒。
那时,摩押的勇士像临盆的妇人一样心惊胆战。
42 摩押必被摧毁,彻底灭亡,
因为她藐视耶和华。
43 摩押人啊!
你们要充满恐惧,
陷入深坑和网罗。
这是耶和华说的。
44 逃过惊恐的必落入深坑,
爬出深坑的必陷入网罗,
因为我惩罚摩押的时候到了。
这是耶和华说的。
45 “逃难的人来到希实本,
无助地站着,
因为希实本烈焰熊熊,
西宏的城火光冲天,
烧毁了摩押和其中的叛逆之人。
46 拜基抹神明的摩押人啊,
你们有祸了!
你们灭亡了!
你们的儿女都被掳去了。
47 但将来,我要使你们重整家园。
这是耶和华说的。”
对摩押的审判到此为止。
Footnotes
- 48:9 “给摩押翅膀让她飞走吧,”或译作“给摩押竖起墓碑吧,因为她将被毁灭”或“在摩押撒盐吧,因为她将被毁灭”。
Jeremiah 48
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 48
Against Moab.[a] 1 Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Ah, Nebo! it is ravaged;
Kiriathaim is disgraced, captured;
Disgraced and overthrown is the stronghold:
2 Moab’s glory is no more.
In Heshbon they plot evil against her:
“Come! We will put an end to her as a nation.”
You, too, Madmen,[b] shall be silenced;
you the sword stalks!
3 Listen! an outcry from Horonaim,(A)
“Ruin and great destruction!”
4 “Moab is crushed!”
their outcry is heard in Zoar.
5 Up the ascent of Luhith
they go weeping;
At the descent to Horonaim
they hear cries of anguish:
6 “Flee, save your lives!
Be like a wild donkey in the wilderness!”
7 Because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
you also shall be captured.
Chemosh[c] shall go into exile,
his priests and princes with him.(B)
8 The destroyer comes upon every city,
not a city escapes;
Ruined is the valley,
wasted the plateau—oracle of the Lord.
9 Set up a tombstone for Moab;
it will soon become a complete wasteland,
Its cities turned into ruins
where no one dwells.
10 Cursed are they who do the Lord’s work carelessly,
cursed those who keep their sword from shedding blood.
11 [d]Moab has been resting from its youth,
suspended above its dregs,
Never poured from flask to flask,
never driven into exile.
Thus it retained its flavor,
its bouquet is not lost.(C)
12 Be assured! The days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when I will send him wine-makers to decant the wine; they shall empty its flasks and smash its jars. 13 Chemosh shall disappoint Moab, just as the house of Israel was disappointed by Bethel, in which they trusted.(D)
14 How can you say, “We are heroes,
mighty warriors”?
15 The one who ravages Moab and its cities comes up,
the best of its youth go down to slaughter—
oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.
16 Moab’s ruin is near at hand,
its disaster approaches swiftly.
17 Mourn, all you neighbors,
all you who know its name!
Say: How the mighty scepter is broken,
the glorious staff!
18 Come down from glory, sit on the parched ground,
enthroned daughter Dibon;[e]
Moab’s destroyer has fallen upon you,
has shattered your strongholds.(E)
19 Stand along the road, keep watch,
enthroned Aroer;
Ask the fleeing man, the escaping woman:
ask them what has happened.(F)
20 “Moab is put to shame, destroyed.”
Wail and cry out,
Proclaim it at the Arnon:
“Moab is destroyed!”(G)
21 Judgment has come upon the plateau: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,(H) 22 on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, 23 on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon, 24 on Kerioth and on Bozrah: on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off,
its arm is broken—oracle of the Lord.
26 Make him drunk because he set himself over against the Lord; let Moab swim in his vomit and become a laughingstock. 27 Has Israel not been a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves that you wag your heads whenever you speak of him?(I)
28 Abandon the cities, take shelter in the crags,
inhabitants of Moab.
Be like the dove that nests
in the walls of a gorge.
29 We have heard of the pride of Moab,(J)
pride beyond bounds:
His loftiness, his pride, his scorn,
his insolent heart.
30 I myself know his arrogance—oracle of the Lord—
liar in word, liar in deed.
31 And so I wail over Moab,
over all Moab I cry,
over the people of Kir-heres I moan.(K)
32 More than for Jazer I weep for you,
vine of Sibmah.
Your tendrils trailed down to the sea,
as far as Jazer they stretched.
Upon your summer harvest and your vintage,
the destroyer has fallen.(L)
33 Joy and gladness are taken away
from the garden land, the land of Moab.
I dry up the wine from the wine vats,
the treader treads no more,
the vintage shout is stilled.
34 The cry of Heshbon and Elealeh is heard as far as Jahaz; they call from Zoar to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; even the waters of Nimrim turn into a wasteland.(M) 35 I will leave no one in Moab—oracle of the Lord—to offer burnt offerings on the high place or to make sacrifices to their gods. 36 Hence my heart wails like a flute for Moab; my heart wails like a flute for the people of Kir-heres: the wealth they accumulated has perished.(N) 37 Every head has been shaved bald, every beard cut off; every hand gashed, and all their loins are draped in sackcloth.(O) 38 On all the rooftops of Moab and in all its squares there is mourning. I have shattered Moab like a pot that no one wants—oracle of the Lord. 39 How terrified they are, how they wail! How Moab turns its back in shame! Moab has become a laughingstock and a horror to all its neighbors!
40 For thus says the Lord:
Look there! Like an eagle he swoops,
spreading his wings over Moab.(P)
41 Cities are captured,
strongholds seized:
On that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors
become like the heart of a woman in labor.(Q)
42 Moab shall be wiped out, a people no more,
because it set itself over against the Lord.(R)
43 Terror, pit, and trap be upon you,
enthroned Moab—oracle of the Lord.(S)
44 Those fleeing the terror
fall into the pit;
Those climbing out of the pit
are caught in the trap;
Ah, yes! I will bring these things upon Moab
in the year of their punishment—oracle of the Lord.
45 In Heshbon’s shadow the fugitives
stop short, exhausted;
For fire blazes up from Heshbon,
and flames up from the house of Sihon:
It consumes the forehead of Moab,
the scalp of the noisemakers.(T)
46 Woe to you, Moab!
You are finished, people of Chemosh!
Your sons are taken into exile,
your daughters into captivity.
47 Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
in the days to come—oracle of the Lord.(U)
Thus far the judgment on Moab.
Footnotes
- 48:1–47 Moab, located east of the Dead Sea, was one of Israel’s bitter enemies (cf., e.g., Is 15–16; Am 2:1–3). According to Flavius Josephus, Nebuchadnezzar conquered Moab and Ammon in his twenty-third year (582 B.C.), five years after the destruction of Jerusalem. This chapter is full of local place names in Moab.
- 48:2 Madmen: a place name, not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament.
- 48:7 Chemosh: chief god of Moab (cf. Nm 21:29).
- 48:11–12 Moabite wine was known for its high quality. Here the wine is a metaphor for Moab’s complacency.
- 48:18 Dibon, the capital of Moab at that time, is situated on a height. The prophet here offers a personification of the city, pictured as a confident ruler.
Jeremiah 48
New International Version
A Message About Moab(A)
48 Concerning Moab:(B)
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
“Woe to Nebo,(C) for it will be ruined.
Kiriathaim(D) will be disgraced and captured;
the stronghold[a] will be disgraced and shattered.
2 Moab will be praised(E) no more;
in Heshbon[b](F) people will plot her downfall:
‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’(G)
You, the people of Madmen,[c] will also be silenced;
the sword will pursue you.
3 Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,(H)
cries of great havoc and destruction.
4 Moab will be broken;
her little ones will cry out.[d]
5 They go up the hill to Luhith,(I)
weeping bitterly as they go;
on the road down to Horonaim(J)
anguished cries over the destruction are heard.
6 Flee!(K) Run for your lives;
become like a bush[e] in the desert.(L)
7 Since you trust in your deeds and riches,(M)
you too will be taken captive,
and Chemosh(N) will go into exile,(O)
together with his priests and officials.(P)
8 The destroyer(Q) will come against every town,
and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
and the plateau(R) destroyed,
because the Lord has spoken.
9 Put salt(S) on Moab,
for she will be laid waste[f];(T)
her towns will become desolate,
with no one to live in them.
10 “A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work!
A curse on anyone who keeps their sword(U) from bloodshed!(V)
11 “Moab has been at rest(W) from youth,
like wine left on its dregs,(X)
not poured from one jar to another—
she has not gone into exile.
So she tastes as she did,
and her aroma is unchanged.
12 But days are coming,”
declares the Lord,
“when I will send men who pour from pitchers,
and they will pour her out;
they will empty her pitchers
and smash her jars.
13 Then Moab will be ashamed(Y) of Chemosh,(Z)
as Israel was ashamed
when they trusted in Bethel.(AA)
14 “How can you say, ‘We are warriors,(AB)
men valiant in battle’?
15 Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded;
her finest young men(AC) will go down in the slaughter,(AD)”
declares the King,(AE) whose name is the Lord Almighty.(AF)
16 “The fall of Moab is at hand;(AG)
her calamity will come quickly.
17 Mourn for her, all who live around her,
all who know her fame;(AH)
say, ‘How broken is the mighty scepter,(AI)
how broken the glorious staff!’
18 “Come down from your glory
and sit on the parched ground,(AJ)
you inhabitants of Daughter Dibon,(AK)
for the one who destroys Moab
will come up against you
and ruin your fortified cities.(AL)
19 Stand by the road and watch,
you who live in Aroer.(AM)
Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping,
ask them, ‘What has happened?’
20 Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered.
Wail(AN) and cry out!
Announce by the Arnon(AO)
that Moab is destroyed.
21 Judgment has come to the plateau(AP)—
to Holon,(AQ) Jahzah(AR) and Mephaath,(AS)
22 to Dibon,(AT) Nebo(AU) and Beth Diblathaim,
23 to Kiriathaim,(AV) Beth Gamul and Beth Meon,(AW)
24 to Kerioth(AX) and Bozrah(AY)—
to all the towns(AZ) of Moab, far and near.
25 Moab’s horn[g](BA) is cut off;
her arm(BB) is broken,”
declares the Lord.
26 “Make her drunk,(BC)
for she has defied(BD) the Lord.
Let Moab wallow in her vomit;(BE)
let her be an object of ridicule.(BF)
27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?(BG)
Was she caught among thieves,(BH)
that you shake your head(BI) in scorn(BJ)
whenever you speak of her?
28 Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks,
you who live in Moab.
Be like a dove(BK) that makes its nest
at the mouth of a cave.(BL)
29 “We have heard of Moab’s pride(BM)—
how great is her arrogance!—
of her insolence, her pride, her conceit
and the haughtiness(BN) of her heart.
30 I know her insolence but it is futile,”
declares the Lord,
“and her boasts(BO) accomplish nothing.
31 Therefore I wail(BP) over Moab,
for all Moab I cry out,
I moan for the people of Kir Hareseth.(BQ)
32 I weep for you, as Jazer(BR) weeps,
you vines of Sibmah.(BS)
Your branches spread as far as the sea[h];
they reached as far as[i] Jazer.
The destroyer has fallen
on your ripened fruit and grapes.
33 Joy and gladness are gone
from the orchards and fields of Moab.
I have stopped the flow of wine(BT) from the presses;
no one treads them with shouts of joy.(BU)
Although there are shouts,
they are not shouts of joy.
34 “The sound of their cry rises
from Heshbon(BV) to Elealeh(BW) and Jahaz,(BX)
from Zoar(BY) as far as Horonaim(BZ) and Eglath Shelishiyah,
for even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.(CA)
35 In Moab I will put an end
to those who make offerings on the high places(CB)
and burn incense(CC) to their gods,”
declares the Lord.
36 “So my heart laments(CD) for Moab like the music of a pipe;
it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth.(CE)
The wealth they acquired(CF) is gone.
37 Every head is shaved(CG)
and every beard(CH) cut off;
every hand is slashed
and every waist is covered with sackcloth.(CI)
38 On all the roofs in Moab
and in the public squares(CJ)
there is nothing but mourning,
for I have broken Moab
like a jar(CK) that no one wants,”
declares the Lord.
39 “How shattered(CL) she is! How they wail!
How Moab turns her back in shame!
Moab has become an object of ridicule,(CM)
an object of horror to all those around her.”
40 This is what the Lord says:
“Look! An eagle is swooping(CN) down,
spreading its wings(CO) over Moab.
41 Kerioth[j](CP) will be captured
and the strongholds taken.
In that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors(CQ)
will be like the heart of a woman in labor.(CR)
42 Moab will be destroyed(CS) as a nation(CT)
because she defied(CU) the Lord.
43 Terror(CV) and pit and snare(CW) await you,
you people of Moab,”
declares the Lord.
44 “Whoever flees(CX) from the terror
will fall into a pit,
whoever climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a snare;
for I will bring on Moab
the year(CY) of her punishment,”
declares the Lord.
45 “In the shadow of Heshbon
the fugitives stand helpless,
for a fire has gone out from Heshbon,
a blaze from the midst of Sihon;(CZ)
it burns the foreheads of Moab,
the skulls(DA) of the noisy boasters.
46 Woe to you, Moab!(DB)
The people of Chemosh are destroyed;
your sons are taken into exile
and your daughters into captivity.
47 “Yet I will restore(DC) the fortunes of Moab
in days to come,”
declares the Lord.
Here ends the judgment on Moab.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 48:1 Or captured; / Misgab
- Jeremiah 48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
- Jeremiah 48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.
- Jeremiah 48:4 Hebrew; Septuagint / proclaim it to Zoar
- Jeremiah 48:6 Or like Aroer
- Jeremiah 48:9 Or Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away
- Jeremiah 48:25 Horn here symbolizes strength.
- Jeremiah 48:32 Probably the Dead Sea
- Jeremiah 48:32 Two Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts as far as the Sea of
- Jeremiah 48:41 Or The cities
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