10母親啊，我真不幸，因為你生了我這個跟全猶大爭論、激辯的人。我沒有向人借貸，也沒有借貸給人，然而人人都咒罵我。11耶和華說：「我必拯救你，我必使仇敵在災禍、困難來臨時哀求你。12誰能折斷來自北方之敵的鐵拳銅臂呢？13因為你們境內罪惡氾濫，我要使敵人任意搶掠你們的財寶，14把你們擄到陌生的地方。我的怒火要燒滅你們。」15耶和華啊，你知道我的遭遇。 求你顧念我，眷顧我， 報應迫害我的人。 求你不要取我的性命， 因為你不輕易發怒， 你知道我為了你忍受辱罵。16萬軍之上帝耶和華啊， 我把你的話視為甘飴， 它們是我心中的快樂和喜悅， 因為我屬於你的名下。17我沒有與作樂的人為伍， 沒有與他們同樂。 你要我獨坐一處， 他們的罪惡使我怒氣填胸。18為什麼我的痛楚無休無止？ 為什麼我的創傷無法醫治？ 難道你要像一條時斷時流的小溪讓我無法依靠嗎？19耶和華對我說： 「如果你回心轉意， 我就讓你重新事奉我。 如果你說有益的話， 不說無益的話， 就可以做我的發言人， 百姓便會歸向你， 但你不可受他們的影響。20我要使你成為堅固的銅牆， 他們要攻擊你，卻不能勝過你， 因為我與你同在，我會保護你， 拯救你。 這是耶和華說的。21我要把你從惡人手中救出， 從殘暴之徒的權勢下贖回。」
English Standard Version
The Lord Will Not Relent
1Then the Lord said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!2And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.4And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.5“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?6You have rejected me, declares the Lord; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.8I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.9She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah’s Complaint
10Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.11The Lord said, “Have I not* set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?12Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?13“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”15O Lord, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.16Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.17I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.18Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?19Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.20And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the Lord.21I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
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