耶利米书 19
1 耶和华如此说,你去买窑匠的瓦瓶,又带百姓中的长老和祭司中的长老,
This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
2 出去到欣嫩子谷,哈珥西(哈珥西就是瓦片的意思)的门口那里,宣告我所吩咐你的话,
and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,
3 说,犹大君王和耶路撒冷的居民哪,当听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说,我必使灾祸临到这地方,凡听见的人都必耳鸣。
and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.
4 因为他们和他们列祖,并犹大君王离弃我,将这地方看为平常,在这里向素不认识的别神烧香,又使这地方满了无辜人的血,
For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned sacrifices in it to gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
5 又建筑巴力的丘坛,好在火中焚烧自己的儿子,作为燔祭献给巴力。这不是我所吩咐的,不是我所提说的,也不是我心所起的意。
They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal--something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.
6 耶和华说,因此,日子将到,这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷,反倒称为杀戮谷。
So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
7 我必在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋落空,也必使他们在仇敌面前倒于刀下,并寻索其命的人手下。他们的尸首,我必给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物。
"'In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
8 我必使这城令人惊骇嗤笑。凡经过的人,必因这城所遭的灾惊骇嗤笑。
I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
9 我必使他们在围困窘迫之中,就是仇敌和寻索其命的人窘迫他们的时候,各人吃自己儿女的肉和朋友的肉。
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.'
10 你要在同去的人眼前打碎那瓶,
"Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,
11 对他们说,万军之耶和华如此说,我要照样打碎这民和这城,正如人打碎窑匠的瓦器,以致不能再囫囵。并且人要在陀斐特葬埋尸首,甚至无处可葬。
and say to them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
12 耶和华说,我必向这地方和其中的居民如此行,使这城与陀斐特一样。
This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
13 耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大君王的宫殿是已经被玷污的,就是他们在其上向天上的万象烧香,向别神浇奠祭的宫殿房屋,都必与陀斐特一样。
The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth--all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.'"
14 耶利米从陀斐特就是耶和华差他去说预言的地方回来,站在耶和华殿的院中,对众人说,
Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD'S temple and said to all the people,
15 万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说,我必使我所说的一切灾祸临到这城和属城的一切城邑,因为他们硬着颈项不听我的话。
"This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'Listen! I am going to bring on this city and the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.'"