耶利米書 18
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Berean Standard Bible
1耶和華的話臨到 耶利米 說：
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2「你起來，下到窯匠的家裏去，我在那裏要使你聽我的話。」
2“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
3我就下到窯匠的家裏去，正遇他轉輪做器皿。
3So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
4窯匠用泥做的器皿，在他手中做壞了，他又用這泥另做別的器皿；窯匠看怎樣好，就怎樣做。
4But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
5耶和華的話就臨到我說：
5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6「耶和華說： 以色列 家啊，我待你們，豈不能照這窯匠弄泥嗎？ 以色列 家啊，泥在窯匠的手中怎樣，你們在我的手中也怎樣。
6“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
7我何時論到一邦或一國說，要拔出、拆毀、毀壞；
7At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
8我所說的那一邦，若是轉意離開他們的惡，我就必後悔，不將我想要施行的災禍降與他們。
8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
9我何時論到一邦或一國說，要建立、栽植；
9And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
10他們若行我眼中看為惡的事，不聽從我的話，我就必後悔，不將我所說的福氣賜給他們。
10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
11現在你要對 猶大 人和 耶路撒冷 的居民說：『耶和華如此說：我造出災禍攻擊你們，定意刑罰你們。你們各人當回頭離開所行的惡道，改正你們的行動作為。』
11Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
12「他們卻說：『這是枉然。我們要照自己的計謀去行。』各人隨自己頑梗的惡心做事。」
12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
13所以，耶和華如此說： 你們且往各國訪問， 有誰聽見這樣的事？ 以色列 民行了一件極可憎惡的事。
13Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
14黎巴嫩 的雪從田野的磐石上豈能斷絕呢？ 從遠處流下的涼水豈能乾涸呢？
14Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
15我的百姓竟忘記我， 向假 神 燒香， 使他們在所行的路上，在古道上絆跌， 使他們行沒有修築的斜路，
15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
16以致他們的地令人驚駭， 常常嗤笑； 凡經過這地的必驚駭搖頭。
16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
17我必在仇敵面前分散他們， 好像用東風吹散一樣。 遭難的日子，我必以背向他們， 不以面向他們。
17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
18他們就說：「來吧！我們可以設計謀害 耶利米 ；因為我們有祭司講律法，智慧人設謀略，先知說預言，都不能斷絕。來吧！我們可以用舌頭擊打他，不要理會他的一切話。」
18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
19耶和華啊，求你理會我， 且聽那些與我爭競之人的話。
19Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
20豈可以惡報善呢？ 他們竟挖坑要害我的性命！ 求你記念我怎樣站在你面前為他們代求， 要使你的忿怒向他們轉消。
20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
21故此，願你將他們的兒女交與饑荒和刀劍； 願他們的妻無子，且作寡婦； 又願他們的男人被死亡所滅， 他們的少年人在陣上被刀擊殺。
21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
22你使敵軍忽然臨到他們的時候， 願人聽見哀聲從他們的屋內發出； 因他們挖坑要捉拿我， 暗設網羅要絆我的腳。
22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
23耶和華啊，他們要殺我的那一切計謀， 你都知道。 不要赦免他們的罪孽， 也不要從你面前塗抹他們的罪惡， 要叫他們在你面前跌倒； 願你發怒的時候罰辦他們。
23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
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