Jeremiah 7

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

1 耶和华对耶利米说：

2 “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

2 “你站在耶和华殿的门口这样宣告，‘所有从这些门进殿敬拜耶和华的犹大人啊，你们要听耶和华的话。

3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

3 以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说，你们改过自新，我便让你们在这里安居。

4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

4 你们不要相信那些谎言，说这是耶和华的殿，这是耶和华的殿，这是耶和华的殿。

5 For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

5 “‘如果你们真正改过自新，彼此公平相待，

6 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

6 不欺压异乡人和孤儿寡妇，不在这地方滥杀无辜，不拜其他神明自取毁灭，

7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

7 我便让你们在这块我永远赐给你们祖先的土地上安居。

8 But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

8 “‘然而，你们竟相信那些空洞的谎言。

9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

9 难道你们偷盗、谋杀、通奸、起假誓、向巴力献祭、拜不认识的神明，

10 and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

10 然后来到这用来敬拜我的殿，站在我面前说自己安全了，就以为可以继续做可憎之事吗？

11 Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

11 难道这用来敬拜我的殿在你们眼中竟成了贼窝吗？这些事，我都看在眼里。这是耶和华说的。

12 But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

12 “‘你们去我曾选为我名所在之地的示罗，看看我是怎样因我以色列子民的罪而惩罚那地方的。

13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,

13 我对你们的所作所为一再提出警告，你们却充耳不闻；我呼唤你们，你们却不回应。这是耶和华说的。

14 therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

14 因此，我要像对待示罗一样，对待你们所倚靠的这用来敬拜我的殿，对待我赐给你们和你们祖先的地方。

15 And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

15 我要把你们从我面前赶走，好像从前赶走你们的弟兄以法莲 人一样。’

16 As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

16 “耶利米啊，不要为这些百姓祷告，不要替他们呼求祷告，不要为他们向我祈求，因为我必不听。

17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

17 你没有看见他们在犹大各城和耶路撒冷街道上所做的事吗？

18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

18 孩子拾柴，父亲点火，妇人揉面做饼向天后献祭，向其他神明奠酒，惹我发怒。

19 But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

19 难道他们是在惹我发怒吗？难道他们不是自害己身，自取羞辱吗？这是耶和华说的。”

20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

20 因此，主耶和华说：“我要向这地方的人、牲畜、田野的树木和地里的出产发怒，发烈怒，如熊熊怒火，无法熄灭。”

21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

21 以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说：“你们把燔祭和其他祭物都拿去吃吧！

22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

22 因为我把你们祖先带出埃及的时候，并没有吩咐他们献燔祭或其他祭物，

23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

23 只吩咐他们一件事，‘你们要听从我的话，我就做你们的上帝，你们做我的子民；你们遵行我的一切吩咐，就必蒙福。’

24 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

24 他们却掩耳不听，一意孤行，任意行恶，越来越坏。

25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

25 从你们的祖先离开埃及那天起，一直到今天，我日复一日地差遣我的仆人——众先知到你们那里，

26 Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

26 但你们掩耳不听，顽固不化，比你们的祖先更邪恶。

27 When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.

27 “耶利米啊，你将这番话告诉他们，他们也不会听；你向他们呼吁，他们也不会回应。

28 Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

28 你要对他们说，‘这就是不听他们上帝耶和华的话、不肯受管教的国民。忠信丧尽，他们已绝口不提。

29 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

29 “‘你们要剪去头发扔掉， 在光秃的山上唱哀歌， 因为耶和华已弃绝这惹祂发怒的世代。’”

30 For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

30 耶和华说：“犹大人做了我视为邪恶的事，把可憎的偶像放在用来敬拜我的圣殿中，玷污了圣殿。

31 They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

31 他们在欣嫩子谷的陀斐特建造丘坛，焚烧自己的儿女。我从未吩咐他们这样做，连想都没想过。

32 So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

32 因此，看啊，时候将到，那地方必不再叫陀斐特或欣嫩子谷，而要叫杀戮谷。他们要在那里埋葬死人，直到无处可埋。这是耶和华说的。

33 The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

33 飞禽走兽必吃这百姓的尸体，无人驱赶它们。

34 I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

34 我要使犹大各城和耶路撒冷街上的欢乐声、新郎和新娘的欢笑声全部消失，因为大地必荒凉。”