耶利米书 8
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
犹大死骨生人必皆遭祸
8 耶和华说：“到那时，人必将犹大王的骸骨和他首领的骸骨、祭司的骸骨、先知的骸骨并耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都从坟墓中取出来， 2 抛散在日头、月亮和天上众星之下，就是他们从前所喜爱、所侍奉、所随从、所求问、所敬拜的。这些骸骨不再收殓，不再葬埋，必在地面上成为粪土。 3 并且这恶族所剩下的民在我所赶他们到的各处，宁可拣死不拣生。”这是万军之耶和华说的。
斥其昏庸愚昧怙恶不悛
4 “你要对他们说：‘耶和华如此说：人跌倒，不再起来吗？人转去，不再转来吗？ 5 这耶路撒冷的民为何恒久背道呢？他们守定诡诈，不肯回头。 6 我留心听，听见他们说不正直的话，无人悔改恶行说：“我做的是什么呢？”他们各人转奔己路，如马直闯战场。 7 空中的鹳鸟知道来去的定期，斑鸠燕子与白鹤也守候当来的时令，我的百姓却不知道耶和华的法则。
8 ‘你们怎么说“我们有智慧，耶和华的律法在我们这里”？看哪，文士的假笔舞弄虚假。 9 智慧人惭愧，惊惶，被擒拿，他们弃掉耶和华的话，心里还有什么智慧呢？ 10 所以我必将他们的妻子给别人，将他们的田地给别人为业。因为他们从最小的到至大的都一味地贪婪，从先知到祭司都行事虚谎。 11 他们轻轻忽忽地医治我百姓的损伤，说“平安了！平安了！”，其实没有平安。 12 他们行可憎的事知道惭愧吗？不然！他们毫不惭愧，也不知羞耻。因此，他们必在仆倒的人中仆倒，我向他们讨罪的时候，他们必致跌倒。’”这是耶和华说的。
警以必受重灾
13 耶和华说：“我必使他们全然灭绝。葡萄树上必没有葡萄，无花果树上必没有果子，叶子也必枯干。我所赐给他们的，必离开他们过去。” 14 “我们为何静坐不动呢？我们当聚集，进入坚固城，在那里静默不言。因为耶和华我们的神使我们静默不言，又将苦胆水给我们喝，都因我们得罪了耶和华。 15 我们指望平安，却得不着好处；指望痊愈的时候，不料受了惊惶！ 16 听见从但那里敌人的马喷鼻气，他的壮马发嘶声，全地就都震动。因为他们来吞灭这地和其上所有的，吞灭这城与其中的居民。” 17 “看哪，我必使毒蛇到你们中间，是不服法术的，必咬你们。”这是耶和华说的。
叹其以虚无之像干主怒
18 我有忧愁，愿能自慰，我心在我里面发昏。 19 听啊，是我百姓的哀声从极远之地而来，说：“耶和华不在锡安吗？锡安的王不在其中吗？”耶和华说：“他们为什么以雕刻的偶像和外邦虚无的神惹我发怒呢？” 20 “麦秋已过，夏令已完，我们还未得救！” 21 先知说：因我百姓的损伤，我也受了损伤；我哀痛，惊惶将我抓住。 22 在基列岂没有乳香呢？在那里岂没有医生呢？我百姓为何不得痊愈呢？
耶利米书 8
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
犹大全国昏庸必遭灾祸
8 “到那一天（这是耶和华的宣告），敌人要把犹大列王、首领、祭司、先知和耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都从他们的坟墓里取出来， 2 拋散在太阳、月亮和天上的万象之下，就是他们从前所爱慕、服事、跟随、求问、敬拜的。这些骸骨必不再被收殓埋葬，必在地面上成为粪肥。 3 这邪恶的家族剩下的余民，在我驱逐他们到的各地，宁可选择死，也不要存活。”这是万军之耶和华的宣告。
4 “你要对他们说：‘耶和华这样说：
人跌倒了，不再起来吗？
人偏离了，不再回转吗？
5 这人民为甚么背道，
耶路撒冷为甚么长久偏离？
他们定意行诡诈，
不肯回转。
6 我留心听，
但他们都不说真实的话。
没有人为自己的恶行后悔，
说：“我究竟作了甚么？”
他们各人继续走自己偏差的路，
像战马直冲入战场。
7 连空中的鹳鸟也知道自己来去的季候；
斑鸠、燕子和白鹤也谨守迁移的时令；
我的子民却不晓得耶和华的法则。
8 你们怎可以说：“我们是智慧人，
我们有耶和华的律法”呢？
事实上，经学家虚假的笔
已把律法变成谎言了。
9 智慧人必蒙羞，
惊惶失措。
看哪！他们弃绝了耶和华的话，
他们还有甚么智慧呢？
10 因此，我必把他们的妻子给别人，
把他们的田地给别的主人，
因为他们从最小的到最大的，
个个都贪图不义之财；
从先知到祭司，
全都行事诡诈。
11 他们草率地医治我子民（“我子民”原文作“我子民的女子”）的损伤，
说：“平安了！平安了！”
其实没有平安。’
12 耶和华说：
‘他们行了可憎的事，本应觉得羞愧，
可是他们一点羞愧都没有，
恬不知耻。
因此他们必仆倒在倒下的人中间；
我惩罚他们的时候，他们必倒下来。
13 我要彻底除掉他们的庄稼；
葡萄树上必没有葡萄，
无花果树上必没有无花果，
叶子也必枯干。
我赐给他们的，都离开他们过去了。’”
这是耶和华的宣告。
14 我们为甚么坐着不动呢？
你们要集合起来，我们要进入坚固的城里去，
在那里灭亡吧！
因为耶和华我们的 神要我们灭亡，
又把毒水给我们喝，
因我们得罪了耶和华。
15 我们期待平安，却得不到好处；
期待得医治的时候，不料，只有惊慌。
16 从但那里听见敌人战马的喷气声，
全地因听见壮马的嘶鸣声震动。
他们来是要吞灭土地和地上所有的，
要吞灭城和城中的居民。
17 “看哪！我要打发毒蛇到你们中间，
是没有法术能制伏的，
牠们必咬你们。”
这是耶和华的宣告。
18 我的愁苦无法医治（按照《马索拉文本》，本句意思难确定；现参照《七十士译本》翻译），
我的心在我里面悲痛欲绝。
19 听啊！我同胞（“同胞”原文作“人民的女子”）的呼救声，
从遥远之地传来：
“耶和华不在锡安吗？
锡安的王不在其中吗？”
“他们为甚么以自己雕刻的偶像，
和列国虚无的偶像，来惹我发怒呢？”
20 “收割期已过，夏天也结束；
但我们仍未获救。”
21 因着我的同胞（“同胞”原文作“人民的女子”）被压碎，我的心破碎了；
我悲伤痛哭，惊慌抓住了我。
22 难道基列没有乳香吗？
难道那里没有医生吗？
我的同胞（“同胞”原文作“人民的女子”）为甚么总不痊愈呢？
Jeremiah 8
King James Version
8 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 8
Contemporary English Version
8 Then the bones of the dead kings of Judah and their officials will be dug up, along with the bones of the priests, the prophets, and everyone else in Jerusalem 2 who loved and worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. These bones will be scattered and left lying on the ground like trash, where the sun and moon and stars can shine on them.
3 Some of you people of Judah will be left alive, but I will force you to go to foreign countries, and you will wish you were dead. I, the Lord God All-Powerful, have spoken.
The People Took the Wrong Road
4 The Lord said:
People of Jerusalem,
when you stumble and fall,
you get back up,
and if you take a wrong road,
you turn around and go back.[a]
5 So why do you refuse
to come back to me?
Why do you hold so tightly
to your false gods?
6 I listen carefully,
but none of you admit
that you've done wrong.
Without a second thought,
you run down the wrong road[b]
like horses running blindly
into battle.
7 Storks, doves, swallows,
and thrushes
all know when it's time
to fly away for the winter
and when to come back.
But you, my people,
don't know what I demand.
8 You say, “We are wise
because we have the teachings
and laws of the Lord.”
But I say that your teachers
have turned my words
into lies!
9 Your wise men
have rejected what I say,
and so they have no wisdom.
Now they will be trapped
and put to shame;
they won't know what to do.
10 (A) I'll give their wives and fields
to strangers.
Everyone is greedy and dishonest,
whether poor or rich.
Even the prophets and priests
cannot be trusted.
11 (B) All they ever offer
to my deeply wounded people
are empty hopes for peace.
12 They should be ashamed
of the way they live,
but they don't even blush.
And so, when I punish Judah,
they will end up on the ground,
dead like everyone else.
13 I will wipe them out.[c]
They are vines without grapes;
fig trees without figs or leaves.
They have not done a thing
that I told them![d]
I, the Lord, have spoken.
The People and Their Punishment
14 The people of Judah
say to each other,
“What are we waiting for?
Let's run to a town with walls
and die there.
We rebelled against the Lord,
and we were sentenced to die
by drinking poison.
15 We had hoped for peace
and a time of healing,
but all we got was terror.
16 Our enemies have reached
the town of Dan in the north,
and the snorting of their horses
makes us tremble with fear.
The enemy will destroy Jerusalem
and our entire nation.
No one will survive.”
17 “Watch out!” the Lord says.
“I'm sending poisonous snakes
to attack you,
and no one can stop them.”
Jeremiah Mourns for His People
18 I'm burdened with sorrow
and feel like giving up.
19 In a foreign land
my people are crying.
Listen! You'll hear them say,
“Has the Lord deserted Zion?
Is he no longer its king?”
I hear the Lord reply,
“Why did you make me angry
by worshiping useless idols?”
20 The people complain,
“Spring and summer
have come and gone,
but still the Lord
hasn't rescued us.”
21 My people are crushed,
and so is my heart.
I am horrified and mourn.
22 If medicine and doctors
may be found in Gilead,
why aren't my people healed?
Footnotes
- 8.4 if you take … go back: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 8.6 you run down the wrong road: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 8.13 I will wipe them out: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 8.13 They have not … them: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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