耶利米书 8
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition
8 耶和华说：“那时，人必将犹大诸王和领袖的骸骨、祭司和先知的骸骨，以及耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都从坟墓中取出来， 2 散布在太阳、月亮和天上众星之下，就是他们从前所喜爱、所事奉、所随从、所求问、所敬拜的。这些骸骨不被收殓，不被埋葬，必在地面上成为粪土。 3 这邪恶家族所幸存的余民，就是在我赶他们到的各处所剩下的[a]，全都宁可选死不选活。这是万军之耶和华说的。”
罪与罚
4 “你要对他们说，耶和华如此说：
人跌倒，不再起来吗？
人转去，不再转回来吗？
5 这耶路撒冷的百姓为何永久背道呢？
他们抓住诡诈，不肯回头。
6 我留心听，听见他们说不诚实的话。
无人懊悔自己的恶行，说：
‘我做的是什么呢？’
他们全都转奔己路，
如马直闯战场。
7 空中的鹳鸟知道自己的季节，
斑鸠、燕子与白鹤也守候当来的时令；
我的百姓却不知道耶和华的法则。
8 “你们怎么说：‘我们有智慧，
耶和华的律法在我们这里’？
看哪，其实文士的假笔舞弄虚假。
9 智慧人惭愧，惊惶，被擒拿；
看哪，他们背弃耶和华的话，
还会有什么智慧呢？
10 因此，我必将他们的妻子给别人，
将他们的田地给别人为业；
因为他们从最小的到最大的都贪图不义之财，
从先知到祭司全都行事虚假。
11 他们轻忽地医治我百姓的损伤，说：
‘平安了！平安了！’
其实没有平安。
12 他们行可憎之事，应当羞愧；
然而他们却一点也不觉得羞愧，
又不知羞耻。
因此，他们必与仆倒的人一样仆倒；
我惩罚他们的时候，
他们必跌倒。
这是耶和华说的。
13 我必使他们全然灭绝；
葡萄树上必没有葡萄[b]，
无花果树上没有果子，
叶子也必枯干。
我所赐给他们的，
必离他们而去。
这是耶和华说的。”
14 我们为何静坐不动呢？
我们当聚集，进入坚固城，
在那里静默不言；
因为耶和华—我们的 神使我们静默不言，
又将苦水给我们喝，
都因我们得罪了耶和华。
15 我们指望平安，
却得不着福气；
指望痊愈时刻，
看哪，受了惊惶。
16 “从但那里传来敌人的马喷气的声音，
壮马发出嘶声，
全地就都震动；
因为他们来吞灭这地和其上所有的，
吞灭这城与其中的居民。
17 看哪，我必派蛇进到你们中间，
就是法术无法驱除的毒蛇，
它们必咬你们。
这是耶和华说的。”
耶利米为同胞悲伤
18 忧愁时我寻找安慰[c]，
我心在我里面发昏。
19 听啊，是我百姓呼救的声音从远地传来：
“耶和华不是在锡安吗？
锡安的王不是在其中吗？”
“他们为什么以自己雕刻的偶像
和外邦虚无的神明[d]惹我发怒呢？”
20 “秋收已过，夏季已完，
我们还未得救！”
21 因我百姓的损伤，
我也受了损伤。
我哀恸，惊惶将我抓住。
22 在基列岂没有乳香呢？
在那里岂没有医生呢？
我百姓[e]为何得不着医治呢？
Jeremiah 8
New King James Version
Jeremiah Mourns for His People
8 “At that time,” says the Lord, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. 2 They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and (A)which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered (B)nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. 3 Then (C)death shall be chosen rather than life by all the [a]residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.
The Peril of False Teaching
4 “Moreover you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Will they fall and not rise?
Will one turn away and not return?
5 Why has this people (D)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(E)They hold fast to deceit,
(F)They refuse to return.
6 (G)I listened and heard,
But they do not speak aright.
(H)No man repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his own course,
As the horse rushes into the battle.
7 “Even (I)the stork in the heavens
Knows her appointed times;
And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming.
But (J)My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise,
(K)And the law of the Lord is with us’?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
9 (L)The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;
So (M)what wisdom do they have?
10 Therefore (N)I will give their wives to others,
And their fields to those who will inherit them;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is given to (O)covetousness;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.
11 For they have (P)healed the hurt of the daughter of My people [b]slightly,
Saying, (Q)‘Peace, peace!’
When there is no peace.
12 Were they (R)ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No! They were not at all ashamed,
Nor did they know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
In the time of their punishment
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.
13 “I will surely [c]consume them,” says the Lord.
“No grapes shall be (S)on the vine,
Nor figs on the (T)fig tree,
And the leaf shall fade;
And the things I have given them shall (U)pass away from them.” ’ ”
14 “Why do we sit still?
(V)Assemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the Lord our God has put us to silence
And given us (W)water[d] of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
15 “We (X)looked for peace, but no good came;
And for a time of health, and there was trouble!
16 The snorting of His horses was heard from (Y)Dan.
The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His (Z)strong ones;
For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who dwell in it.”
17 “For behold, I will send serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be (AA)charmed,
And they shall bite you,” says the Lord.
The Prophet Mourns for the People
18 I would comfort myself in sorrow;
My heart is faint in me.
19 Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people
From (AB)a far country:
“Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
With their carved images—
With foreign idols?”
20 “The harvest is past,
The summer is ended,
And we are not saved!”
21 (AC)For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt.
I am (AD)mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.
22 Is there no (AE)balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:3 remnant
- Jeremiah 8:11 Superficially
- Jeremiah 8:13 Or take them away
- Jeremiah 8:14 Bitter or poisonous water
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