耶利米书 16
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
主示耶利米斯土必灭
16 耶和华的话又临到我说： 2 “你在这地方不可娶妻，生儿养女。 3 因为论到在这地方所生的儿女，又论到在这国中生养他们的父母，耶和华如此说： 4 他们必死得甚苦，无人哀哭，必不得葬埋，必在地上像粪土，必被刀剑和饥荒灭绝。他们的尸首必给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽做食物。
5 “耶和华如此说：不要进入丧家，不要去哀哭，也不要为他们悲伤，因我已将我的平安、慈爱、怜悯从这百姓夺去了。这是耶和华说的。 6 连大带小，都必在这地死亡，不得葬埋。人必不为他们哀哭，不用刀划身，也不使头光秃。 7 他们有丧事，人必不为他们擘饼，因死人安慰他们。他们丧父丧母，人也不给他们一杯酒安慰他们。 8 你不可进入宴乐的家，与他们同坐吃喝。 9 因为万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说：你们还活着的日子，在你们眼前，我必使欢喜和快乐的声音、新郎和新妇的声音，从这地方止息了。
斯民较其列祖尤恶
10 “你将这一切的话指示这百姓，他们问你说：‘耶和华为什么说要降这大灾祸攻击我们呢？我们有什么罪孽呢？我们向耶和华我们的神犯了什么罪呢？’ 11 你就对他们说：‘耶和华说：因为你们列祖离弃我，随从别神，侍奉敬拜，不遵守我的律法。 12 而且你们行恶比你们列祖更甚，因为各人随从自己顽梗的恶心行事，甚至不听从我。 13 所以我必将你们从这地赶出，直赶到你们和你们列祖素不认识的地，你们在那里必昼夜侍奉别神，因为我必不向你们施恩。’”
许以色列人仍归故土
14 耶和华说：“日子将到，人必不再指着那领以色列人从埃及地上来之永生的耶和华起誓， 15 却要指着那领以色列人从北方之地，并赶他们到的各国上来之永生的耶和华起誓。并且我要领他们再入我从前赐给他们列祖之地。”
16 耶和华说：“我要召许多打鱼的把以色列人打上来，然后我要召许多打猎的，从各山上、各冈上、各石穴中猎取他们。 17 因我的眼目察看他们的一切行为，他们不能在我面前遮掩，他们的罪孽也不能在我眼前隐藏。 18 我先要加倍报应他们的罪孽和罪恶，因为他们用可憎之尸玷污我的地土，又用可厌之物充满我的产业。”
偶像虚伪诞妄无益
19 耶和华啊，你是我的力量，是我的保障，在苦难之日是我的避难所。列国人必从地极来到你这里，说：“我们列祖所承受的不过是虚假，是虚空无益之物。 20 人岂可为自己制造神呢？其实这不是神！”
21 耶和华说：“我要使他们知道，就是这一次使他们知道我的手和我的能力，他们就知道我的名是耶和华了。”
耶利米书 16
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
耶和华指示耶利米犹大必灭
16 耶和华的话临到我，说： 2 “在这地方你不可娶妻，不可生儿育女。” 3 因为论到这地方出生的儿女，和在这地生养他们的父母，耶和华这样说： 4 “他们都必死于致命的疫症，没有人为他们哀哭，他们的尸体也没有人埋葬，必在地面上成为粪肥。他们必被刀剑和饥荒所灭，他们的尸体成了空中飞鸟和地上走兽的食物。”
5 耶和华这样说：“你不可进入丧家，也不可去为他们哀哭悲伤；因为我已经从这人民身上收回我的平安、慈爱和怜悯。”这是耶和华的宣告。 6 “尊大的和卑微的都必死在这地；没有人埋葬他们，没有人为他们哀哭，也没有人为他们割伤自己，剃光头发。 7 没有人为哀悼的人擘饼，为死者安慰他们；丧父或丧母的人，都没有人给他们喝一杯安慰酒。 8 你也不可进入欢宴之家，跟他们同坐，一起吃喝。 9 因为万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说：‘看哪！我必在你们眼前，在你们还活着的日子，使欢笑和快乐的声音，新郎和新娘的声音，都从这地方止息了。’”
10 “你向这人民传讲这一切时，如果他们问你：‘耶和华为甚么宣告这一切严重的灾祸对付我们呢？我们有甚么罪孽？我们犯了甚么罪，得罪了耶和华我们的 神呢？’ 11 你就要回答他们：‘因为你们的列祖离弃了我（这是耶和华的宣告），他们随从别的神，事奉敬拜他们；他们离弃了我，不遵守我的律法。 12 至于你们，你们作坏事比你们的列祖更厉害；看哪！你们各人都随从自己顽梗的恶心行事，不听从我。 13 因此，我要把你们从这地赶出去，去到你们和你们列祖所不认识的地；你们在那里必昼夜事奉别的神，因为我不再向你们施恩。’
预言以色列人回归
14 “看哪！日子快到，人必不再指着那领以色列人从埃及地上来的永活的耶和华起誓。”这是耶和华的宣告。 15 “他们却要指着那领以色列人从北方之地，从他们被赶逐到的各国上来的永活的耶和华起誓。因我要领他们回到自己的土地，就是我从前赐给他们列祖的。
16 “看哪！我要差人去叫许多渔夫来，捕捉以色列人；然后我要差人去叫许多猎人来，从各大山、小山和岩石的裂缝里，猎取他们。”这是耶和华的宣告。 17 “因为我的眼察看他们所行的一切；在我面前这一切都无法隐藏，他们的罪孽不能从我眼前遮掩起来。 18 首先我要加倍报应他们的罪孽和罪恶，因为他们用自己那些毫无生气、可憎的偶像（“毫无生气，可憎的偶像”原文作“可憎的偶像的尸体”）玷污了我的土地，他们那些可厌之物充满了我的产业。”
耶和华是真神
19 耶和华，我的力量、我的堡垒、
我遭难时的避难所啊！
万国要从地极前来朝见你，说：
“我们列祖所承受的只是虚假的偶像，
是虚空、一无用处的。
20 人岂能为自己制造神呢？
其实这些偶像并不是神。”
21 “因此，看哪！我要使他们知道，
这一次我必叫他们认识
我的手和我的能力，
他们就知道我的名是耶和华。”
Jeremiah 16
King James Version
16 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19 O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.
Jeremiah 16
Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah Must Live His Message
16 The Lord said to me:
2 Jeremiah, don't get married and have children—Judah is no place to raise a family. 3 I'll tell you what's going to happen to children and their parents here. 4 They will die of horrible diseases and of war and starvation. No one will give them a funeral or bury them, and their bodies will be food for the birds and wild animals. And what's left will lie on the ground like manure.
5 When someone dies, don't visit the family or show any sorrow. I will no longer love or bless or have any pity on the people of Judah. 6 Rich and poor alike will die and be left unburied. No one will mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads.[a] 7 No one will bring food and wine to help comfort those who are mourning the death of their father or mother.
8 Don't even set foot in a house where there is eating and drinking and celebrating. 9 (A) Warn the people of Judah that I, the Lord All-Powerful, will put an end to all their parties and wedding celebrations. 10 They will ask, “Why has the Lord our God threatened us with so many disasters? Have we done something wrong or sinned against him?”
11 Then tell them I have said:
People of Judah, your ancestors turned away from me; they rejected my laws and teachings and started worshiping other gods. 12 And you have done even worse! You are stubborn, and instead of obeying me, you do whatever evil comes to your mind. 13 So I will throw you into a land that you and your ancestors know nothing about, a place where you will have to worship other gods both day and night. And I won't feel the least bit sorry for you.
14 A time will come when you will again worship me. But you will no longer call me the Living Lord who rescued Israel from Egypt. 15 Instead, you will call me the Living Lord who rescued you from that country in the north and from the other countries where I had forced you to go.
Someday I will bring you back to this land that I gave your ancestors. 16 But for now, I am sending enemies who will catch you like fish and hunt you down like wild animals in the hills and the caves.
17 I can see everything you are doing, even if you try to hide your sins from me. 18 I will punish you double for your sins, because you have polluted my own land. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.
The Lord Gives Strength
I prayed to the Lord:
19 Our Lord, you are the one
who gives me strength
and protects me like a fortress
when I am in trouble.
People will come to you
from distant nations and say,
“Our ancestors worshiped
false and useless gods,
20 worthless idols
made by human hands.”
21 Then the Lord replied,
“That's why I will teach them
about my power,
and they will know that I
truly am the Lord.”
Footnotes
- 16.6 mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads: A custom in some Canaanite religions.
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