(每日读经 9/17) 耶利米书 Jeremiah 8.18–9.11 /附音频

8:18 我有忧愁，愿得安慰！我心在我里面发昏。

Oh, that there were comforting to me in sorrow! My heart within me is faint.

8:19 听阿，是我百姓的哀声，从极远之地而来，说，耶和华不在锡安么？锡安的王不在其中么？耶和华说，他们为什么以雕制的偶像，和外邦的偶像，惹我发怒呢？

It is the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people From a land very far away: Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not in her? Why have they provoked Me to anger With their graven images and with strange idols?

8:20 收割已过，夏日已完，我们还未得救。

The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, And we are not saved.

8:21 申言者说，因我百姓的损伤，我也受了损伤。我哀痛；惊恐将我抓住。

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken. I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

8:22 在基列岂没有乳香么？在那里岂没有医生么？我百姓为何不得痊愈呢？

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the recovery of the daughter of my people Not occurred?

9:1 但愿我的头为众水，我的眼为泪的泉源，我好为我百姓中被杀的人，昼夜哭泣！

Oh, that my head were waters, And my eye a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!

9:2 惟愿我在旷野有行路人住宿之处，使我可以离开我的民出去，因他们都是行奸淫的，是行诡诈的会众。

Oh, that I had a traveler's lodging place in the wilderness That I might leave my people and go away from them, For all of them are adulterers and an assembly of treacherous men.

9:3 他们弯起舌头像弓一样；在这地得势的，是谎言而非真理；他们乃是恶上加恶，并不认识我；这是耶和华说的。

They bend their tongue like their bow; Falsehood, and not truth, Prevails in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me, declares Jehovah.

9:4 你们各人当谨防邻舍，不可信靠弟兄；因为弟兄尽行抓夺，邻舍都往来谗谤人。

Let each man be on guard against his neighbor And not confide in any brother; For every brother only supplants, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

9:5 他们各人欺哄邻舍，不说真话；他们教导舌头说谎，劳劳碌碌的作孽。

And everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth; They teach their tongue to speak falsehood; They weary themselves committing iniquity.

9:6 你的住处在诡诈之中；他们因行诡诈不肯认识我；这是耶和华说的。

Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me, Declares Jehovah.

9:7 所以万军之耶和华如此说，我要熬炼、试验他们；不然，我因我百姓的罪该怎样行呢？

Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, Indeed, I will refine them and test them; For what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

9:8 他们的舌头是致命的箭，说话诡诈。人与邻舍口说和平话，心却谋害他。

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit. Each speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, But in his heart he lays an ambush for him.

9:9 耶和华说，我岂不因这些事讨他们的罪么？我魂岂不报复这样的国么？

Shall I not punish them for these things? Declares Jehovah; And on a nation such as this Shall My soul not avenge itself?

9:10 我要为山岭哭泣举哀，为旷野的草场扬声哀号，因为都已烧尽，甚至无人经过，人也听不见牲畜鸣叫；空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽，都已逃去。

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; Because they have been burned up so that no one passes through, And the sound of cattle is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beasts Have fled and have gone.

9:11 我必使耶路撒冷变为乱堆，为野狗的住处；也必使犹大的城邑变为荒场，无人居住。

And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A habitation of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah A desolation without inhabitant.

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