耶利米書 8

Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Traditional)

猶大死骨生人必皆遭禍

8 耶和華說：「到那時，人必將猶大王的骸骨和他首領的骸骨、祭司的骸骨、先知的骸骨並耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都從墳墓中取出來， ²拋散在日頭、月亮和天上眾星之下，就是他們從前所喜愛、所侍奉、所隨從、所求問、所敬拜的。這些骸骨不再收殮，不再葬埋，必在地面上成為糞土。 ³並且這惡族所剩下的民在我所趕他們到的各處，寧可揀死不揀生。」這是萬軍之耶和華說的。

斥其昏庸愚昧怙惡不悛

⁴「你要對他們說：『耶和華如此說：人跌倒，不再起來嗎？人轉去，不再轉來嗎？ ⁵這耶路撒冷的民為何恆久背道呢？他們守定詭詐，不肯回頭。 ⁶我留心聽，聽見他們說不正直的話，無人悔改惡行說：「我做的是什麼呢？」他們各人轉奔己路，如馬直闖戰場。 ⁷空中的鸛鳥知道來去的定期，斑鳩燕子與白鶴也守候當來的時令，我的百姓卻不知道耶和華的法則。

⁸『你們怎麼說「我們有智慧，耶和華的律法在我們這裡」？看哪，文士的假筆舞弄虛假。 ⁹智慧人慚愧，驚惶，被擒拿，他們棄掉耶和華的話，心裡還有什麼智慧呢？ ¹⁰所以我必將他們的妻子給別人，將他們的田地給別人為業。因為他們從最小的到至大的都一味地貪婪，從先知到祭司都行事虛謊。 ¹¹他們輕輕忽忽地醫治我百姓的損傷，說「平安了！平安了！」，其實沒有平安。 ¹²他們行可憎的事知道慚愧嗎？不然！他們毫不慚愧，也不知羞恥。因此，他們必在仆倒的人中仆倒，我向他們討罪的時候，他們必致跌倒。』」這是耶和華說的。

警以必受重災

¹³耶和華說：「我必使他們全然滅絕。葡萄樹上必沒有葡萄，無花果樹上必沒有果子，葉子也必枯乾。我所賜給他們的，必離開他們過去。」 ¹⁴「我們為何靜坐不動呢？我們當聚集，進入堅固城，在那裡靜默不言。因為耶和華我們的神使我們靜默不言，又將苦膽水給我們喝，都因我們得罪了耶和華。 ¹⁵我們指望平安，卻得不著好處；指望痊癒的時候，不料受了驚惶！ ¹⁶聽見從但那裡敵人的馬噴鼻氣，他的壯馬發嘶聲，全地就都震動。因為他們來吞滅這地和其上所有的，吞滅這城與其中的居民。」 ¹⁷「看哪，我必使毒蛇到你們中間，是不服法術的，必咬你們。」這是耶和華說的。

嘆其以虛無之像干主怒

¹⁸我有憂愁，願能自慰，我心在我裡面發昏。 ¹⁹聽啊，是我百姓的哀聲從極遠之地而來，說：「耶和華不在錫安嗎？錫安的王不在其中嗎？」耶和華說：「他們為什麼以雕刻的偶像和外邦虛無的神惹我發怒呢？」 ²⁰「麥秋已過，夏令已完，我們還未得救！」 ²¹先知說：因我百姓的損傷，我也受了損傷；我哀痛，驚惶將我抓住。 ²²在基列豈沒有乳香呢？在那裡豈沒有醫生呢？我百姓為何不得痊癒呢？

Jeremiah 8

English Standard Version

8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. ²And they shall be spread ^(A)before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. ^(B)And they shall not be gathered or buried. ^(C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. ³^(D)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family ^(E)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

Sin and Treachery

⁴“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
^(F)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
⁵Why then has this people ^(G)turned away
    in perpetual ^(H)backsliding?
^(I)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
⁶^(J)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    ^(K)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(L)the turtledove, ^(M)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(N)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.

⁸^(O)“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
    has made it into a lie.
⁹^(P)The wise men shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed ^(Q)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    so what wisdom is in them?
¹⁰^(R)Therefore I will give their wives to others
    and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
    everyone ^(S)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.
¹¹They have healed ^(T)the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
    when there is no peace.
¹²Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
    No, ^(U)they were not at all ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
^(V)Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
    when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.
¹³When I would gather them, declares the Lord,
    there are ^(W)no grapes on the vine,
    ^(X)nor figs on the fig tree;
^(Y)even the leaves are withered,
    and what I gave them has passed away from them.”^[c]

¹⁴Why do we sit still?
^(Z)Gather together; ^(AA)let us go into the fortified cities
    and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and has ^(AB)given us ^(AC)poisoned water to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.
¹⁵^(AD)We looked for peace, but no good came;
    for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

¹⁶^(AE)“The snorting of their horses is heard ^(AF)from Dan;
    at the sound of the neighing ^(AG)of their stallions
    ^(AH)the whole land quakes.
They come ^(AI)and devour the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
¹⁷For behold, I am sending among you ^(AJ)serpents,
    adders ^(AK)that cannot be charmed,
    ^(AL)and they shall bite you,”
declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

¹⁸My joy is gone; grief is upon me;^[d]
    ^(AM)my heart is sick within me.
¹⁹Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from ^(AN)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    ^(AO)Is her King not in her?”
^(AP)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”
²⁰“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
    and we are not saved.”
²¹For the wound of ^(AQ)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    ^(AR)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

²²Is there no ^(AS)balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?

Footnotes

Jeremiah 8:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Jeremiah 8:7 Or just decrees
Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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