耶利米书 23
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
预言四散之群必复集旋返
23 耶和华说：“那些残害、赶散我草场之羊的牧人有祸了！” 2 耶和华以色列的神斥责那些牧养他百姓的牧人，如此说：“你们赶散我的羊群，并没有看顾他们，我必讨你们这行恶的罪。”这是耶和华说的。 3 “我要将我羊群中所余剩的，从我赶他们到的各国内招聚出来，领他们归回本圈，他们也必生养众多。 4 我必设立照管他们的牧人牧养他们，他们不再惧怕，不再惊惶，也不缺少一个。”这是耶和华说的。
大卫后裔中必兴起义者为王
5 耶和华说：“日子将到，我要给大卫兴起一个公义的苗裔。他必掌王权，行事有智慧，在地上施行公平和公义。 6 在他的日子，犹大必得救，以色列也安然居住，他的名必称为‘耶和华我们的义’。” 7 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永生的耶和华起誓， 8 却要指着那领以色列家的后裔从北方和赶他们到的各国中上来永生的耶和华起誓。他们必住在本地。”
论伪先知之恶及所受之报
9 论到那些先知，我心在我里面忧伤，我骨头都发颤。因耶和华和他的圣言，我像醉酒的人，像被酒所胜的人。 10 地满了行淫的人。因妄自赌咒，地就悲哀，旷野的草场都枯干了。他们所行的道乃是恶的，他们的勇力使得不正。 11 “连先知带祭司都是亵渎的，就是在我殿中我也看见他们的恶。”这是耶和华说的。 12 “因此，他们的道路必像黑暗中的滑地，他们必被追赶在这路中仆倒。因为当追讨之年，我必使灾祸临到他们。”这是耶和华说的。
13 “我在撒马利亚的先知中曾见愚妄，他们借巴力说预言，使我的百姓以色列走错了路。 14 我在耶路撒冷的先知中曾见可憎恶的事，他们行奸淫，做事虚妄，又坚固恶人的手，甚至无人回头离开他的恶。他们在我面前都像所多玛，耶路撒冷的居民都像蛾摩拉。” 15 所以万军之耶和华论到先知如此说：“我必将茵陈给他们吃，又将苦胆水给他们喝，因为亵渎的事出于耶路撒冷的先知，流行遍地。”
16 万军之耶和华如此说：“这些先知向你们说预言，你们不要听他们的话。他们以虚空教训你们，所说的异象是出于自己的心，不是出于耶和华的口。 17 他们常对藐视我的人说：‘耶和华说，你们必享平安。’又对一切按自己顽梗之心而行的人说：‘必没有灾祸临到你们。’” 18 有谁站在耶和华的会中得以听见并会悟他的话呢？有谁留心听他的话呢？ 19 看哪，耶和华的愤怒好像暴风，已经发出，是暴烈的旋风，必转到恶人的头上。 20 耶和华的怒气必不转消，直到他心中所拟定的成就了，末后的日子你们要全然明白。 21 “我没有打发那些先知，他们竟自奔跑；我没有对他们说话，他们竟自预言。 22 他们若是站在我的会中，就必使我的百姓听我的话，又使他们回头离开恶道和他们所行的恶。”
23 耶和华说：“我岂为近处的神呢？不也为远处的神吗？” 24 耶和华说：“人岂能在隐密处藏身，使我看不见他呢？”耶和华说：“我岂不充满天地吗？ 25 我已听见那些先知所说的，就是托我名说的假预言，他们说：‘我做了梦！我做了梦！’ 26 说假预言的先知，就是预言本心诡诈的先知，他们这样存心要到几时呢？ 27 他们各人将所做的梦对邻舍述说，想要使我的百姓忘记我的名，正如他们列祖因巴力忘记我的名一样。 28 得梦的先知可以述说那梦，得我话的人可以诚实讲说我的话！糠秕怎能与麦子比较呢？”这是耶和华说的。 29 耶和华说：“我的话岂不像火，又像能打碎磐石的大锤吗？” 30 耶和华说：“那些先知各从邻舍偷窃我的言语，因此我必与他们反对。” 31 耶和华说：“那些先知用舌头说‘是耶和华说的’，我必与他们反对。” 32 耶和华说：“那些以幻梦为预言，又述说这梦，以谎言和矜夸使我百姓走错了路的，我必与他们反对。我没有打发他们，也没有吩咐他们，他们与这百姓毫无益处。”这是耶和华说的。
讥真先知者必受罚
33 “无论是百姓，是先知，是祭司，问你说：‘耶和华有什么默示呢？’你就对他们说：‘什么默示啊？耶和华说：我要撇弃你们！’ 34 无论是先知，是祭司，是百姓，说‘耶和华的默示’，我必刑罚那人和他的家。 35 你们各人要对邻舍，各人要对弟兄如此说：‘耶和华回答什么？耶和华说了什么呢？’ 36 ‘耶和华的默示’你们不可再提，各人所说的话必做自己的重担[a]，因为你们谬用永生神万军之耶和华我们神的言语。 37 你们要对先知如此说：‘耶和华回答你什么？耶和华说了什么呢？’ 38 你们若说‘耶和华的默示’，耶和华就如此说：因你们说‘耶和华的默示’这句话，我也打发人到你们那里去，告诉你们不可说‘耶和华的默示’， 39 所以我必全然忘记你们，将你们和我所赐给你们并你们列祖的城撇弃了。 40 又必使永远的凌辱和长久的羞耻临到你们，是不能忘记的。”
Footnotes
- 耶利米书 23:36 “重担”和“默示”原文同。
耶利米书 23
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
将来的盼望
23 耶和华说：“那些本应像牧人照顾羊群一样统治我子民的人有祸了！因为他们残害、驱散我的子民。” 2 以色列的上帝耶和华这样斥责那些统治祂子民的首领：“你们驱散我的子民，没有照顾他们。看啊，我必因你们的恶行而惩罚你们。这是耶和华说的。 3 我要把我幸存的子民从我流放他们去的各地召集起来，领他们回到故土，使他们子孙兴旺。 4 我要派首领照顾他们，使他们不再担惊受怕，也不再有一人迷失。这是耶和华说的。”
5 耶和华说：“看啊，时候将到，我要为大卫选立一个公义的苗裔，使他执掌王权。他必秉公行义，治国有方。 6 在他掌权的日子，犹大必得拯救，以色列必国泰民安。他将被称为‘耶和华是我们的公义’。”
7 耶和华说：“看啊，时候将到，那时人不再凭把以色列人带出埃及的耶和华起誓， 8 而是凭把他们从流放之地——北方和列国领回来的永活耶和华起誓。他们必在自己的国土上安居乐业。”
9 论到那些先知，
我的心都碎了，
我的骨头都颤抖。
因为耶和华和祂圣言的缘故，
我好像不胜酒力的醉汉。
10 这里到处是拜偶像的人，
他们行为邪恶，滥用权力。
大地因受咒诅而悲哀，
旷野的草场都枯干了。
11 耶和华说：“先知和祭司都不敬虔，
我甚至看见他们在我的圣殿里行恶。
12 因此，他们必被赶到黑暗中，
在湿滑的路上跌倒，
因为我必在报应的日子降灾祸给他们。
这是耶和华说的。
13 我看见撒玛利亚的先知行为可憎，
他们靠巴力说预言，
引诱我的子民走入歧途。
14 我也看见耶路撒冷的先知行为可恶，
他们通奸，谎话连篇，
怂恿恶人，
以致无人悔过自新。
在我眼中，耶路撒冷人就像 所多玛人和蛾摩拉人一样败坏。
15 因此，论到这些先知，
万军之耶和华说，
‘看啊，我要使他们吃苦艾，
喝毒药，因为亵渎之风从耶路撒冷的先知那里蔓延，
遍及全境。’”
16 万军之耶和华对祂的子民说：“你们不要听信这些先知的预言，他们使你们充满虚假的盼望，他们的预言是自己编的，不是耶和华说的。 17 他们不断对藐视我的人说，‘耶和华说你们必安享太平。’他们对那些执迷不悟的人说，‘灾祸不会降到你们身上。’
18 “然而，他们谁曾站在耶和华面前看见并听见祂说话呢？
他们谁曾留心听祂的话呢？
19 看啊，耶和华的怒气像暴风一样袭来，
像旋风一样吹到恶人头上。
20 耶和华不完成祂心中的计划决不息怒。
将来你们会清楚地明白这一切。
21 “我没有差遣这些先知，
他们却妄自行动；
我没有对他们说话，
他们却乱发预言。
22 他们若曾站在我面前听我说话，
早就向我的子民宣告我的话，
使他们改邪归正了。”
23 耶和华说：“我是无处不在的上帝。” 24 耶和华说：“难道人藏起来我就看不见了吗？我岂不是充满天地之间吗？这是耶和华说的。 25 我听见假先知奉我的名说，‘上帝托梦给我了！上帝托梦给我了！’ 26 这些先知谎话连篇，凭空预言要到何时呢？ 27 他们彼此传讲所做的梦，想借此使我的子民忘记我，正如他们的祖先因祭拜巴力而忘记了我。 28 让做梦的先知尽管宣扬他们的梦吧，但得到我话语的先知要忠心地传达我的话。糠秕怎能与麦子相比呢！这是耶和华说的。” 29 耶和华说：“难道我的话不像火吗？不像击碎岩石的铁锤吗？” 30 耶和华说：“看啊，我要对付那些假先知，他们盗用同伙的话，却妄称是我的话。” 31 耶和华说：“看啊，我要对付那些假先知，他们妄自说预言，却谎称是耶和华的话。” 32 耶和华说：“看啊，我要对付那些假先知，他们谎称我托梦给他们，四处宣扬，用弥天大谎把我的子民引入歧途。其实我并没有差遣他们，也没有委派他们，他们对我的子民毫无益处。这是耶和华说的。”
33 耶和华说：“耶利米啊，如果有百姓、先知或祭司问你，‘耶和华有什么启示？’你要对他们说，‘你们就是耶和华的重担[a]，耶和华说要丢弃你们。’ 34 如果有先知、祭司或百姓宣称有耶和华的启示，我必惩罚他和他全家。 35 你们各人要问自己的亲友，‘耶和华有什么答复？’或‘耶和华说了什么？’ 36 你们不可再说有耶和华的启示，因为你们把自己的话当成祂的启示，曲解你们永活的上帝——万军之耶和华的话。 37 耶利米啊，你要这样问先知，‘耶和华有什么答复？耶和华说了什么？’ 38 如果他们说，‘这是耶和华的启示。’你就说，‘耶和华说，你们无视我的警告，宣称有我的启示， 39 我必彻底忘记你们，把你们和我赐给你们及你们祖先的城邑抛弃。 40 我要使你们永远蒙羞受辱、遗臭万年。’”
Footnotes
- 23:33 “重担”希伯来文也有“启示”的意思。
Jeremiah 23
Complete Jewish Bible
23 “Oh no! The shepherds are destroying and scattering the sheep in my pasture!” says Adonai. 2 Therefore this is what Adonai, the God of Isra’el, says against the shepherds who shepherd my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away and not taken care of them. So I will ‘take care of’ you because of your evil deeds,” says Adonai. 3 “I myself will gather what remains of my flock from all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their homes, and they will be fruitful and increase their numbers. 4 I will appoint shepherds over them who will shepherd them; then they will no longer be afraid or disgraced; and none will be missing,” says Adonai.
5 “The days are coming,” says Adonai
when I will raise a righteous Branch for David.
He will reign as king and succeed,
he will do what is just and right in the land.
6 In his days Y’hudah will be saved,
Isra’el will live in safety,
and the name given to him will be
Adonai Tzidkenu [Adonai our righteousness].
7 “Therefore,” says Adonai, “the day will come when people no longer swear, ‘As Adonai lives, who brought the people of Isra’el out of the land of Egypt,’ 8 but, ‘As Adonai lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Isra’el up from the land to the north’ and from all the countries where I drove them. Then they will live in their own land.”
9 Concerning the prophets:
My heart within me is broken,
all my bones are shaking;
I am like a drunk,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of Adonai,
because of his holy words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers;
because of a curse the land is in mourning —
the desert pastures have dried up.
Their course is evil, their power misused.
11 “Both prophet and cohen are godless;
In my own house I find their wickedness,” says Adonai.
12 “Therefore their way will be slippery for them;
they will be driven into darkness and fall there.
For I will bring disaster upon them,
their year of punishment,” says Adonai.
13 “I have seen inappropriate conduct
in the prophets of Shomron —
they prophesied by Ba‘al
and led my people Isra’el astray.
14 But in the prophets of Yerushalayim
I have seen a horrible thing —
they commit adultery, live in lies,
so encouraging evildoers
that none returns from his sin.
For me they have all become like S’dom,
its inhabitants like ‘Amora.”
15 Therefore, this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says concerning the prophets:
“I will feed them bitter wormwood
and make them drink poisonous water,
for ungodliness has spread through all the land
from the prophets of Yerushalayim.”
16 Adonai-Tzva’ot says:
“Don’t listen to the words of the prophets
who are prophesying to you.
They are making you act foolishly,
telling you visions from their own minds
and not from the mouth of Adonai.
17 They keep reassuring those who despise me,
‘Adonai says you will be safe and secure,’
and saying to all living by their own stubborn hearts,
‘Nothing bad will happen to you.’
18 But which of them has been present at the council
of Adonai to see and hear his word?
Who has paid attention to
his word enough to hear it?”
19 Look! The storm of Adonai,
bursting out in fury,
a whirling storm, whirling down
upon the heads of the wicked!
20 Adonai’s anger will not abate
till he fully accomplishes the purpose in his heart.
In the acharit-hayamim,
you will understand everything.
21 “I did not send these prophets; yet they ran.
I did not speak to them; yet they prophesied.
22 If they have been present at my council,
they should let my people hear my words
and turn them from their evil way
and the evil of their actions.
23 Am I God only when near,” asks Adonai,
“and not when far away?
24 Can anyone hide in a place so secret
that I won’t see him?” asks Adonai.
Adonai says, “Do I not
fill heaven and earth?
25 “I have heard what these prophets prophesying lies in my name are saying: ‘I’ve had a dream! I’ve had a dream!’ 26 How long will this go on? Is [my word] in the hearts of prophets who are prophesying lies, who are prophesying the deceit of their own minds? 27 With their dreams that they keep telling each other, they hope to cause my people to forget my name; just as their ancestors forgot my name when they worshipped Ba‘al.
28 “If a prophet has a dream,
let him tell it as a dream.
But someone who has my word
should speak my word faithfully.
What do chaff and wheat
have in common?” asks Adonai.
29 “Isn’t my word like fire,” asks Adonai,
“like a hammer shattering rocks?
30 So, I am against the prophets,” says Adonai,
“who steal my words from each other.
31 Yes, I am against the prophets,” says Adonai,
“who speak their own words, then add, ‘He says.’
32 “I am against those who concoct prophecies out of fake dreams,” says Adonai. “They tell them, and by their lies and arrogance they lead my people astray. I didn’t send them, I didn’t commission them, and they don’t do this people any good at all,” says Adonai.
33 “When [someone from] this people, a prophet or a cohen asks you, ‘What is the burden of Adonai?’ you are to answer them, ‘What burden? I am throwing you off,’ says Adonai. 34 As for a prophet, cohen or [someone else from] this people who speaks about ‘the burden of Adonai,’ I will punish him and his household.”
35 So, when you speak with your neighbor or brother, ask, “What answer has Adonai given?” or “What has Adonai said?” 36 Don’t use the expression, “burden of Adonai” any more; for every person’s own word will be his burden. Must you twist the words of the living God, of Adonai-Tzva’ot, our God? 37 So, when speaking to a prophet, ask, “What answer has Adonai given you?” or “What did Adonai say?” 38 But if you talk about “the burden of Adonai,” then here is what Adonai says: “Because you use this expression, ‘the burden of Adonai,’ after I have already sent you the order not to say, ‘the burden of Adonai,’ 39 I will lift you up, burden that you are, and throw you off, away from my presence — you and the city I gave you and your ancestors. 40 Then I will subject you to everlasting disgrace — eternal, unforgettable shame.”
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