耶利米书 3
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
3 耶和华说:“如果丈夫休掉妻子,
妻子离去另嫁别人,
前夫怎会再娶她呢?
那样做岂不完全玷污了土地吗?
你曾与许多情人苟合,
现在要归向我吗?
2 “你举目看看那些光秃的高山,
哪里没有被你玷污过呢?
你坐在路旁等候情郎,
就像旷野的游牧者,
你的淫乱恶行玷污了土地。
3 因此,秋雨不降,
春雨不来。
你却仍然不知羞耻,
一副娼妓的嘴脸。
4 你不是刚对我说,
‘我父啊!你从我年幼时就做我的朋友。
5 难道你会永远发怒、
怀恨到底吗?’
你虽然这样说,
却仍大肆作恶。”
呼吁不忠的以色列悔改
6 在约西亚王执政期间,耶和华对我说:“你看见以色列的不忠不贞了吗?她在高山上、在绿荫下放纵情欲。 7 我以为她放纵之后会回到我身边,她却执迷不悟。她不忠的妹妹犹大也看见了这事。 8 因为以色列不忠贞,我给她休书,把她休掉。她不忠的妹妹犹大却不害怕,竟也去淫乱。 9 以色列肆意淫乱,拜石头木头,玷污了土地。 10 尽管如此,她不忠的妹妹犹大只是假装归向我,并不诚心。这是耶和华说的。”
11 耶和华对我说:“不忠贞的以色列比奸诈的犹大罪过还轻。 12 你去向北方宣告,
“‘耶和华说,
不忠贞的以色列啊,回转吧!
我必不向你们发怒,
因为我充满慈爱,
不会永远怀怒。’
这是耶和华说的。
13 ‘你必须要承认自己的罪,
承认背叛了你的上帝耶和华,
在绿荫树下祭拜各种外邦的神明,
不听从我的话。’
这是耶和华说的。
14 “‘不忠贞的子民啊,回转吧!
因为我是你们的主人[a]。
我要从你们中间选些人带回锡安,
每座城邑或每个宗族选一两个人。’
这是耶和华说的。
15 “我要赐给你们合我心意的牧人,让他们用知识与智慧牧养你们。 16 你们在地上繁衍昌盛的时候,人们不会再提及耶和华的约柜,不会再把它放在心上,不会再感到需要它,也不会再造一个。这是耶和华说的。 17 那时,耶路撒冷会被称为‘耶和华的宝座’,万国都要聚集在耶路撒冷敬拜耶和华,不再执迷不悟地作恶。 18 那时,犹大人必与以色列人一同从北方来到我赐给你们祖先作基业的地方。
19 “我曾想,我多么愿意把你们当成我的儿女,
赐给你们万国中最肥美的土地。
我原以为你们会叫我‘父亲’,
再不离弃我。
20 然而,以色列人啊!
你们竟对我不忠,
就像妻子不忠于丈夫。
这是耶和华说的。”
21 从光秃的山头传来声音,
是以色列子民哭泣呼求的声音,
因为他们走入歧途,
忘掉了他们的上帝耶和华。
22 耶和华说:“不忠贞的子民啊,
归来吧!
我要医治你们不忠贞的病。”
他们说:“是的,我们要到你面前,
因为你是我们的上帝耶和华。
23 在高山丘陵上狂欢、
拜偶像真是枉然,
唯有我们的上帝耶和华才能拯救以色列。
24 “从我们年幼时,那些可耻的神像就吞噬了我们祖先辛苦得来的牛羊和儿女。 25 我们躺在自己的羞耻中,让我们的耻辱遮盖我们吧!因为我们和我们的祖先都得罪了我们的上帝耶和华,我们自幼至今一直没有顺服我们的上帝耶和华。”
Footnotes
- 3:14 “主人”或译作“丈夫”。
耶利米書 3
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
3 耶和華說:「如果丈夫休掉妻子,
妻子離去另嫁別人,
前夫怎會再娶她呢?
那樣做豈不完全玷污了土地嗎?
你曾與許多情人苟合,
現在要歸向我嗎?
2 「你舉目看看那些光禿的高山,
哪裡沒有被你玷污過呢?
你坐在路旁等候情郎,
就像曠野的遊牧者,
你的淫亂惡行玷污了土地。
3 因此,秋雨不降,
春雨不來。
你卻仍然不知羞恥,
一副娼妓的嘴臉。
4 你不是剛對我說,
『我父啊!你從我年幼時就做我的朋友。
5 難道你會永遠發怒、
懷恨到底嗎?』
你雖然這樣說,
卻仍大肆作惡。」
呼籲不忠的以色列悔改
6 在約西亞王執政期間,耶和華對我說:「你看見以色列的不忠不貞了嗎?她在高山上、在綠蔭下放縱情慾。 7 我以為她放縱之後會回到我身邊,她卻執迷不悟。她不忠的妹妹猶大也看見了這事。 8 因為以色列不忠貞,我給她休書,把她休掉。她不忠的妹妹猶大卻不害怕,竟也去淫亂。 9 以色列肆意淫亂,拜石頭木頭,玷污了土地。 10 儘管如此,她不忠的妹妹猶大只是假裝歸向我,並不誠心。這是耶和華說的。」
11 耶和華對我說:「不忠貞的以色列比奸詐的猶大罪過還輕。 12 你去向北方宣告,
『耶和華說,
不忠貞的以色列啊,回轉吧!
我必不向你們發怒,
因為我充滿慈愛,
不會永遠懷怒。』
這是耶和華說的。
13 『你必須要承認自己的罪,
承認背叛了你的上帝耶和華,
在綠蔭樹下祭拜各種外邦的神明,
不聽從我的話。』
這是耶和華說的。
14 『不忠貞的子民啊,回轉吧!
因為我是你們的主人[a]。
我要從你們中間選些人帶回錫安,
每座城邑或每個宗族選一兩個人。』
這是耶和華說的。
15 「我要賜給你們合我心意的牧人,讓他們用知識與智慧牧養你們。 16 你們在地上繁衍昌盛的時候,人們不會再提及耶和華的約櫃,不會再把它放在心上,不會再感到需要它,也不會再造一個。這是耶和華說的。 17 那時,耶路撒冷會被稱為『耶和華的寶座』,萬國都要聚集在耶路撒冷敬拜耶和華,不再執迷不悟地作惡。 18 那時,猶大人必與以色列人一同從北方來到我賜給你們祖先作基業的地方。
19 「我曾想,我多麼願意把你們當成我的兒女,
賜給你們萬國中最肥美的土地。
我原以為你們會叫我『父親』,
再不離棄我。
20 然而,以色列人啊!
你們竟對我不忠,
就像妻子不忠於丈夫。
這是耶和華說的。」
21 從光禿的山頭傳來聲音,
是以色列子民哭泣呼求的聲音,
因為他們走入歧途,
忘掉了他們的上帝耶和華。
22 耶和華說:「不忠貞的子民啊,
歸來吧!
我要醫治你們不忠貞的病。」
他們說:「是的,我們要到你面前,
因為你是我們的上帝耶和華。
23 在高山丘陵上狂歡、
拜偶像真是枉然,
唯有我們的上帝耶和華才能拯救以色列。
24 「從我們年幼時,那些可恥的神像就吞噬了我們祖先辛苦得來的牛羊和兒女。 25 我們躺在自己的羞恥中,讓我們的恥辱遮蓋我們吧!因為我們和我們的祖先都得罪了我們的上帝耶和華,我們自幼至今一直沒有順服我們的上帝耶和華。」
Footnotes
- 3·14 「主人」或譯作「丈夫」。
Jeremiah 3
Christian Standard Bible
Wages of Apostasy
3 If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?(A)
Wouldn’t such a land[b] become totally defiled?
But you!
You have prostituted yourself with many partners(B)—
can you return to me?(C)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
2 Look to the barren heights(D) and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways(E)
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.(F)
3 This is why the showers haven’t come(G)—
why there has been no spring rain.
You have the brazen look(H) of a prostitute[c]
and refuse to be ashamed.(I)
4 Haven’t you recently called to me, “My Father!(J)
You were my friend in my youth.(K)
5 Will he bear a grudge forever?(L)
Will he be endlessly infuriated?”
This is what you have said,
but you have done the evil things
you are capable of.
Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah
6 In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.(M) 7 I thought, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to me.’(N) But she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah(O) saw it. 8 I[d] observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce.(P) Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.(Q) 9 Indifferent to[e] her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones(R) and trees.(S) 10 Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart(T)—only in pretense.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
11 The Lord announced to me, “Unfaithful Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.(U) 12 Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say,
‘Return, unfaithful Israel.(V)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not look on you with anger,[f]
for I am unfailing in my love.(W)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not be angry forever.(X)
13 Only acknowledge your guilt(Y)—
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.(Z)
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree(AA)
and have not obeyed me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
14 “‘Return, you faithless children(AB)—this is the Lord’s declaration—for I am your master,[g](AC) and I will take you,(AD) one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. 15 I will give you shepherds who are loyal to me,[h](AE) and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill. 16 When you multiply and increase in the land,(AF) in those days—this is the Lord’s declaration—no one will say again, “The ark of the Lord’s covenant.”(AG) It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. Another one will not be made.[i] 17 At that time Jerusalem will be called The Lord’s Throne,(AH) and all the nations will be gathered to it,(AI) to the name of the Lord in Jerusalem.(AJ) They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. 18 In those days the house of Judah will join with the house of Israel,(AK) and they will come together from the land of the north to the land I have given your ancestors to inherit.’”(AL)
True Repentance
19 I thought, “How I long to make you my sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance(AM) of all the nations.”
I thought, “You will call me ‘My Father’
and never turn away from me.”
20 However, as a woman may betray her lover,[j]
so you have betrayed(AN) me, house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
21 A sound is heard on the barren heights:
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
for they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.(AO)
22 Return, you faithless children.
I will heal your unfaithfulness.(AP)
“Here we are, coming to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
23 Surely, falsehood comes from the hills,
commotion from the mountains,(AQ)
but the salvation of Israel
is only in the Lord our God.(AR)
24 From the time of our youth
the shameful one[k] has consumed
what our ancestors have worked for—
their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame;
let our disgrace cover us.(AS)
We have sinned against the Lord our God,(AT)
both we and our ancestors,
from the time of our youth even to this day.(AU)
We have not obeyed the Lord our God.”
Footnotes
- 3:1 One Hb ms, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read Saying: If
- 3:1 LXX reads woman
- 3:3 Lit have a prostitute’s forehead
- 3:8 One Hb ms, Syr read She
- 3:9 Lit From the lightness of
- 3:12 Lit not cause my face to fall on you
- 3:14 Or husband
- 3:15 Lit shepherds according to my heart
- 3:16 Or It will no longer be done
- 3:20 Lit friend
- 3:24 = Baal
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