耶利米书 4 – CCB & NIVUK

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

耶利米书 4:1-31

1耶和华说:“以色列啊,

如果你回转归向我,

回转归向我,

从我眼前除掉可憎的神像,

不再离开我;

2如果你本着诚实、正直、公义,

凭永活的耶和华起誓,

你必成为万国的祝福,

得到他们的尊敬4:2 你必成为万国的祝福,得到他们的尊敬”或译“万国必得到耶和华的祝福,并以祂为荣”。。”

3耶和华对犹大人和耶路撒冷人说:

“要开垦你们的荒地,

不要在荆棘中撒种。

4你们要自行割礼,

除掉心中的污垢,归向耶和华。

不然,我必因你们的恶行而发烈怒,如火燃烧,

无人能够扑灭。

5“你们要在犹大耶路撒冷宣告,

‘要在全国吹起号角’,高声呼喊,

‘要集合起来,

我们要逃进坚城。’

6你们要向锡安举起旗帜,

赶快逃亡,不要迟延,

因为我要从北方降下灾祸,

大肆毁灭。”

7毁灭列国者已发起攻击,

如狮子冲出巢穴,

要使你们的土地荒凉,

城邑沦为废墟,无人居住。

8为此,你们要腰束麻布,

嚎啕大哭,

因为耶和华向我们发的烈怒还没有止息。

9耶和华说:“到那天,君王和官长必丧胆,祭司和先知必惊骇。” 10我说:“唉!主耶和华啊,你完全欺骗了这群百姓和耶路撒冷人,因为你说,‘你们会安享太平。’其实剑锋已指着他们的咽喉了。”

11那时,耶和华必对这群百姓和耶路撒冷人说:“一阵热风从荒野光秃的山头吹向我的子民,不是为扬场、吹净糠秕。 12那是我发出的一阵强风。现在我要宣告我对他们的审判。”

13看啊,仇敌必如云涌来,

他的战车快如旋风,

他的战马比飞鹰还快。

我们有祸了!

我们灭亡了!

14耶路撒冷啊,

要洗去你内心的邪恶,

这样你才能得救。

你心怀恶念要到何时呢?

15传来消息,

以法莲山区报出恶讯。

16耶和华说:“你们去通知列国,

耶路撒冷宣告,

‘围攻的人从远方来,

犹大的城邑高声喊杀,

17像看守田园一样包围耶路撒冷

因为耶路撒冷背叛了我。’

这是耶和华说的。

18你的所作所为给你招致这灾祸,

是你自食恶果,你会痛彻心肺!”

19我的心啊,我的心啊!

我伤心欲绝,烦躁不安。

我无法保持缄默,

因为我听见了号角声和呐喊声。

20恶讯频传,山河破碎,

我的帐篷忽然倒塌,

幔子顷刻破裂。

21我还要看这旌旗、

听这号声到何时呢?

22耶和华说:“我的子民愚顽,

不认识我,

是蒙昧无知的儿女,

只知行恶,不知行善。”

23我俯瞰大地,

一片空虚混沌;

我仰望天空,毫无亮光。

24我眺望群山,大山在颤抖,

小山在摇晃。

25我四下观看,只见杳无人烟,

飞鸟绝迹。

26我四下观看,只见良田变荒野,

城邑都在耶和华的烈怒下沦为废墟。

27耶和华说:“遍地将要荒凉,

然而不会被我彻底毁灭。

28因此,地要悲哀,

天要昏暗,

因为我言出必行,

决不反悔。”

29各城的人听到骑兵和弓箭手的呐喊,

都纷纷逃命。

有的跑入丛林,有的爬进岩洞。

各城荒弃,无人居住。

30你这荒凉的城啊!

你在做什么?

纵然你穿上红袍,

戴上金饰,

描眉画眼,

又有什么用呢?

你的情人藐视你,

要杀害你。

31我听见好像妇人分娩时的喊叫声,

好像妇人生头胎时的痛苦呻吟。

那是锡安4:31 ”希伯来文是“女子”,可能是对锡安的昵称,下同6:223的喊叫声,

她在喘息,伸出双手说:

“噢!我有祸了,

我要死在杀戮者手上了。”

New International Version – UK

Jeremiah 4:1-31

1‘If you, Israel, will return,’ declares the Lord,

‘then return to me.’

‘If you put your detestable idols out of my sight

and no longer go astray,

2and if in a truthful, just and righteous way

you swear, “As surely as the Lord lives,”

then the nations will invoke blessings by him

and in him they will boast.’

3This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:

‘Break up your unploughed ground

and do not sow among thorns.

4Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,

circumcise your hearts,

you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire

because of the evil you have done –

burn with no-one to quench it.

Disaster from the North

5‘Announce in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say:

“Sound the trumpet throughout the land!”

Cry aloud and say:

“Gather together!

Let us flee to the fortified cities!”

6Raise the signal to go to Zion!

Flee for safety without delay!

For I am bringing disaster from the north,

even terrible destruction.’

7A lion has come out of his lair;

a destroyer of nations has set out.

He has left his place

to lay waste your land.

Your towns will lie in ruins

without inhabitant.

8So put on sackcloth,

lament and wail,

for the fierce anger of the Lord

has not turned away from us.

9‘In that day,’ declares the Lord,

‘the king and the officials will lose heart,

the priests will be horrified,

and the prophets will be appalled.’

10Then I said, ‘Alas, Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, “You will have peace,” when the sword is at our throats!’

11At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, ‘A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows towards my people, but not to winnow or cleanse; 12a wind too strong for that comes from me. Now I pronounce my judgments against them.’

13Look! He advances like the clouds,

his chariots come like a whirlwind,

his horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe to us! We are ruined!

14Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved.

How long will you harbour wicked thoughts?

15A voice is announcing from Dan,

proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.

16‘Tell this to the nations,

proclaim concerning Jerusalem:

“A besieging army is coming from a distant land,

raising a war cry against the cities of Judah.

17They surround her like men guarding a field,

because she has rebelled against me,” ’

declares the Lord.

18‘Your own conduct and actions

have brought this on you.

This is your punishment.

How bitter it is!

How it pierces to the heart!’

19Oh, my anguish, my anguish!

I writhe in pain.

Oh, the agony of my heart!

My heart pounds within me,

I cannot keep silent.

For I have heard the sound of the trumpet;

I have heard the battle cry.

20Disaster follows disaster;

the whole land lies in ruins.

In an instant my tents are destroyed,

my shelter in a moment.

21How long must I see the battle standard

and hear the sound of the trumpet?

22‘My people are fools;

they do not know me.

They are senseless children;

they have no understanding.

They are skilled in doing evil;

they know not how to do good.’

23I looked at the earth,

and it was formless and empty;

and at the heavens,

and their light was gone.

24I looked at the mountains,

and they were quaking;

all the hills were swaying.

25I looked, and there were no people;

every bird in the sky had flown away.

26I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;

all its towns lay in ruins

before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

27This is what the Lord says:

‘The whole land will be ruined,

though I will not destroy it completely.

28Therefore the earth will mourn

and the heavens above grow dark,

because I have spoken and will not relent,

I have decided and will not turn back.’

29At the sound of horsemen and archers

every town takes to flight.

Some go into the thickets;

some climb up among the rocks.

All the towns are deserted;

no-one lives in them.

30What are you doing, you devastated one?

Why dress yourself in scarlet

and put on jewels of gold?

Why highlight your eyes with makeup?

You adorn yourself in vain.

Your lovers despise you;

they want to kill you.

31I hear a cry as of a woman in labour,

a groan as of one bearing her first child –

the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,

stretching out her hands and saying,

‘Alas! I am fainting;

my life is given over to murderers.’