Jeremiah 18

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

1 耶和华对耶利米说：

2 “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”

2 “你去陶匠家，在那里我有话告诉你。”

3 So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

3 我便下到陶匠家，见他正用轮盘做器皿。

4 But 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.

4 他手中陶造的器皿做坏了，他就用那块泥做成别的器皿，想怎么做就怎么做。

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

5 这时，耶和华对我说：

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.

6 “以色列人啊，难道我不能像陶匠对待陶泥一样对待你们吗？以色列人啊，你们在我手中就像陶泥在陶匠手中一样。这是耶和华说的。

7 At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

7 当我宣布要铲除、推翻、毁灭哪一邦或哪一国的时候，

8 But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

8 如果他们悔过自新，我必施怜悯，取消我原本要降给他们的灾祸。

9 And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

9 当我宣布要建造和栽培哪一邦或哪一国的时候，

10 and 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.

10 如果他们做我视为恶的事，不听从我的话，我必改变心意，取消我原本要赐给他们的福气。

11 Now 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.’

11 因此，你去告诉犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民，‘耶和华说，我正计划降灾祸惩罚你们。你们要离开罪恶，改邪归正。’

12 But 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.’”

12 他们却说，‘没用！我们要随心所欲，为所欲为。’”

13 Therefore 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.

13 因此耶和华说： “你们问问列国， 看看谁曾听过这样的事？ 少女以色列竟做了一件极可怕的事。

14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

14 黎巴嫩山岭上的积雪会融化吗？ 从远方流来的冰凉溪水会停止吗？

15 Yet 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.

15 然而，我的子民却把我忘记， 向虚无的神明烧香， 以致他们跌倒，偏离古道，走入僻陋的小路。

16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

16 因此，他们的土地必荒凉， 永远遭人嗤笑， 经过此地的人无不惊惧， 摇头叹息。

17 I 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.”

17 我要在敌人面前驱散他们， 就像东风吹散尘土一样。 在他们遭难的时候， 我必以背相向， 不理睬他们。”

18 Then 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.”

18 他们说：“来！我们设计对付耶利米吧，反正我们一直有祭司教导律法，有智者出谋划策，有先知传讲预言。来吧！我们抨击他，不要理会他的话。”

19 Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

19 耶和华啊，求你眷顾我， 听听敌人对我的指控。

20 Should 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.

20 人岂能以恶报善？ 他们竟设陷阱谋害我， 求你顾念我怎样站在你面前为他们求情， 怎样求你不要向他们发烈怒。

21 Therefore, 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.

21 因此，求你让他们丧身刀下， 儿女饿死， 妻子丧夫亡子， 男人被杀， 青年死于战场！

22 Let 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.

22 当你使敌军突袭他们时， 愿他们家中传出哭喊声， 因为他们挖陷阱要捕捉我， 设圈套要绊我的脚。

23 But 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.

23 耶和华啊，你知道他们害我的各种诡计， 求你不要赦免他们的罪过， 不要从你眼前涂抹他们的罪恶。 求你使他们倒在你面前， 求你在烈怒中惩罚他们。