Jeremiah 16

1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

1 耶和华对我说：

2 “You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

2 “你不可在这地方娶妻，也不可生儿育女。

3 For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

3 至于在这地方出生的孩子和他们的父母，耶和华说，

4 “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”

4 ‘他们必死于恶疾，无人哀悼，无人埋葬，他们好像地上的粪便。他们必死于战争和饥荒，尸首必成为飞禽走兽的食物。’”

5 Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

5 耶和华对我说：“你不要进入丧家，也不要为他们哀悼悲伤，因为我已收回我赐给这些百姓的平安、慈爱和怜悯。这是耶和华说的。

6 “Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

6 他们无论尊卑都要死在这里，无人埋葬，无人哀悼，也无人为他们的死而割伤身体、剃光头发。

7 No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

7 无人用食物安慰哀悼者，也无人给丧父或丧母者一杯安慰酒。

8 You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

8 你不可进入宴乐之家与他们同坐吃喝。”

9 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

9 因为以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说：“在他们有生之年，我要使这地方的欢乐声和新郎新娘的欢笑声从他们眼前消失。

10 When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

10 “当你把这些话告诉他们的时候，他们会质问你，‘耶和华为什么给我们降这大灾难？我们有什么罪？我们哪里得罪了我们的上帝耶和华？’

11 Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

11 你要对他们说，‘耶和华说，这是因为你们的祖先背弃我，去跟随、供奉、祭拜其他神明；他们背弃我，不遵守我的律法。

12 And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

12 可是，你们的行为比他们更邪恶。看啊，你们心存恶念，一意孤行，不听从我。

13 So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

13 所以，我要把你们从这里驱逐到你们和你们祖先都不认识的地方，你们在那里要日夜供奉其他神明，因为我不再恩待你们。’”

14 Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’

14 耶和华说：“时候将到，那时人不再凭把以色列人带出埃及的耶和华起誓，

15 Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

15 而是凭把他们从北方之地和流亡的列国领回来的永活的耶和华起誓。因为我必领他们回到我赐给他们祖先的地方。”

16 But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

16 耶和华说：“看啊，我要召来许多渔夫把他们捕捞上来，然后我要召来许多猎人去各山岭和岩穴猎取他们。

17 For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

17 因为我鉴察他们的一切行为，他们在我面前无法隐藏，他们的罪恶逃不过我的眼晴。

18 And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

18 首先，我要让他们因自己的罪与恶而受加倍的报应，因为他们用没有生命气息的可憎偶像玷污我的土地，使可憎之物充满我的产业。”

19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

19 耶和华啊，你是我的力量， 是我的堡垒， 是我患难时的避难所。 万国都要从地极来朝见你， 说：“我们祖先所拜的神像虚假无用，一无是处。

20 Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”

20 难道人可以为自己制造神明吗？ 其实那些神明并不是真神。”

21 “Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.

21 耶和华说：“所以，看啊，这一次我要让他们知道我的权柄和能力，他们就知道我名叫耶和华。”