耶利米书 36 – CCB & NIVUK

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

耶利米书 36:1-32

耶利米的书卷被焚毁

1犹大约西亚的儿子约雅敬执政第四年,耶和华对耶利米说: 2“你拿一个卷轴来,把从约西亚登基直到现在我告诉你有关以色列犹大和各国的事都写在上面。 3或许犹大人听了我打算要降给他们的灾祸,便改邪归正,我就赦免他们的过犯和罪恶。” 4耶利米就叫来尼利亚的儿子巴录巴录耶利米的口述把耶和华的话写在卷轴上, 5耶利米对他说:“我被囚禁,不能进入耶和华的殿, 6所以你要在禁食的日子,在耶和华的殿中向犹大各城来的人宣读卷轴上耶和华的话。 7或许他们会改邪归正,恳求耶和华赦罪,因为耶和华说要向他们发烈怒。” 8尼利亚的儿子巴录耶利米先知的吩咐,在耶和华的殿中宣读卷轴上耶和华的话。

9犹大约西亚的儿子约雅敬执政第五年九月,耶路撒冷犹大各城的人都在耶和华面前宣告禁食。 10巴录来到耶和华殿新门入口处的上院,在沙番的儿子书记基玛利雅的房间,向众人宣读耶利米写在卷轴上的话。 11沙番的孙子、基玛利雅的儿子米该亚听了卷轴上耶和华的话, 12就下到王宫,进入书记的房间。房间内坐着所有官长,即书记以利沙玛示玛雅的儿子第莱雅亚革波的儿子以利拿单沙番的儿子基玛利雅哈拿尼雅的儿子西底迦等人。 13米该亚巴录向众人宣读的话都告诉了他们。 14众官长就派古示的曾孙、示利米雅的孙子、尼探雅的儿子犹底去请巴录把当众宣读的卷轴拿来。巴录拿着卷轴到他们那里, 15他们请他坐下,把卷轴读给他们听。巴录就读给他们听。 16他们听后吓得面面相觑,对巴录说:“我们必须把这些话禀告王! 17请告诉我们,你是怎么写下这些话的?是耶利米口授的吗?” 18巴录说:“是耶利米口授、我记录在卷轴上的。” 19他们说:“你和耶利米都要藏起来,不可让人知道你们在哪里。”

20他们把卷轴存放在书记以利沙玛的房间,然后进宫把这件事禀告王。 21王就派犹底去把卷轴取来,犹底便从书记以利沙玛的房间取来卷轴,读给王和侍立在王周围的官长听。 22那时正是九月,王坐在冬宫,面前摆着一盆炭火。 23-24王和臣仆听了这些话,既不惧怕,也没有撕裂衣服。犹底每读三四段,王就用书记的小刀把那几段割下来扔进火盆里,直到全卷被烧毁。 25虽然以利拿单第莱雅基玛利雅恳求王不要把卷轴烧掉,王却不听, 26还命令自己的儿子耶拉篾亚斯列的儿子西莱雅亚伯德的儿子示利米雅去拘捕书记巴录耶利米先知。但耶和华把他们藏了起来。

27王把耶利米口述、巴录记录的卷轴烧掉后,耶和华对耶利米说: 28“你再拿一卷轴,把犹大约雅敬先前烧毁的卷轴上的话写下来。 29论到犹大约雅敬,你要这样写,‘耶和华说,你把卷轴烧掉,还说为什么上面写着巴比伦王必来毁灭这地方和其中的人畜。 30所以耶和华说,犹大约雅敬啊,你的子孙没有一人能登大卫的宝座,你的尸体必被弃之荒野,遭受烈日的暴晒和夜霜的侵袭。 31我要因你、你后裔和你臣仆的罪恶而惩罚你们。因为你们不听我的警告,我要给你们以及耶路撒冷犹大的居民降下我说过的灾祸。’”

32于是,耶利米又拿了一个卷轴,交给尼利亚的儿子书记巴录,他按耶利米的口述,把犹大约雅敬烧毁的那卷轴上的话都记下来,还增添了许多类似的话。

New International Version – UK

Jeremiah 36:1-32

Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll

1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2‘Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now. 3Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked ways; then I will forgive their wickedness and their sin.’

4So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the Lord had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll. 5Then Jeremiah told Baruch, ‘I am restricted; I am not allowed to go to the Lord’s temple. 6So you go to the house of the Lord on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the Lord that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns. 7Perhaps they will bring their petition before the Lord and will each turn from their wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the Lord are great.’

8Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do; at the Lord’s temple he read the words of the Lord from the scroll. 9In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the Lord was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah. 10From the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the Lord’s temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll.

11When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Lord from the scroll, 12he went down to the secretary’s room in the royal palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. 13After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll, 14all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, ‘Bring the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.’ So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his hand. 15They said to him, ‘Sit down, please, and read it to us.’

So Baruch read it to them. 16When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, ‘We must report all these words to the king.’ 17Then they asked Baruch, ‘Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?’

18‘Yes,’ Baruch replied, ‘he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.’

19Then the officials said to Baruch, ‘You and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.’

20After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him. 21The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing beside him. 22It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the brazier in front of him. 23Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the brazier, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire. 24The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes. 25Even though Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. 26Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them.

27After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 28‘Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up. 29Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, “This is what the Lord says: you burned that scroll and said, ‘Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it both man and beast?’ 30Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: he will have no-one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night. 31I will punish him and his children and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.” ’

32So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.