1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. 33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. 34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
1 耶和华有话临到耶利米， 说：
2 "你要站在耶和华的殿门口， 在那里宣告这话， 说： ‘所有进这些门来敬拜耶和华的犹大人哪！ 你们都要听耶和华的话。’"
3 万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： "你们要改正自己的所作所为， 我就让你们在这地方居住。
4 你们不要倚靠虚谎的话， 说： ‘这是耶和华的殿， 是耶和华的殿， 是耶和华的殿。’
5 如果你们实在改正自己的所作所为， 人与人之间认真施行公正；
6 如果你们不欺压寄居的， 不欺压孤儿寡妇， 不在这地方流无辜人的血， 也不跟从别的神， 自招祸患；
7 我就让你们在赐给你们列祖直到永远的这地方居住。
8 "可是， 你们竟然倚靠虚谎无益的话。
9 你们怎可偷盗、凶杀、奸淫、起假誓、向巴力烧香， 跟从你们素不认识的别神，
10 然后来到这称为我名下的殿， 站在我面前， 说： ‘我们安全啦！ ’你们这样就可以行这一切可憎的事吗？
11 这称为我名下的殿， 难道在你们眼中看为贼窝吗？但我都看见了。"这是耶和华的宣告。
12 "你们可以到示罗我的地方去， 就是先前我名的居所， 看看我因我子民以色列的邪恶， 对那地方所行的。
13 现在， 因你们行了这一切事， 我不断恳切告诫你们， 你们却不听； 我呼唤你们， 你们却不答话。"这是耶和华的宣告。
14 "所以我从前怎样对待示罗， 将来也怎样对待你们所倚靠的那称为我名下的殿， 以及我赐给你们和你们列祖的地方。
15 我必把你们从我面前赶出， 像我从前赶出你们的众兄弟， 以法莲所有的后裔一样。
16 "至于你， 不要为这人民祈祷， 不要为他们呼求祷告， 也不要为他们向我恳求， 因为我不会听你。
17 他们在犹大的各城中， 在耶路撒冷的街道上所行的， 你没有看见吗？
18 儿子捡柴， 父亲生火， 妇女抟面， 为天后做饼， 又向别的神浇奠祭， 惹我发怒。
19 他们害的是我吗？岂不是他们自己， 以致脸上蒙羞吗？"这是耶和华的宣告。
20 因此， 主耶和华这样说： "看哪！ 我的怒气和忿怒， 必倒在这地方， 也必倒在人口、牲畜、田野的树木和地的出产上； 怒火烧起， 不能熄灭。"
21 万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： "你们尽管把燔祭加在平安祭上， 自己吃祭肉吧！
22 因为我把你们列祖从埃及地领出来的那日， 燔祭和平安祭的事， 我并没有向他们提说， 也没有吩咐他们。
23 我只吩咐他们这一件事， 说： ‘你们要听从我的话， 我就作你们的 神， 你们也作我的子民； 你们要遵行我所吩咐的一切道， 好使你们蒙福。’
24 他们却没有听从， 也不留心， 反倒按着他们的计谋， 随从自己顽梗的恶心行事， 向后不向前。
25 自从你们列祖出埃及地的那日直到今日， 我差遣我的仆人众先知到你们那里去， 而且是每日不断差遣。
26 你们（"你们"原文作"他们"）却没有听从， 毫不留心， 反倒硬着颈项行恶， 比你们（"你们"原文作"他们"）的列祖还厉害。
27 "你要把这一切话告诉他们， 他们却不听从你； 你呼叫他们， 他们也不回应。
28 然而， 你要对他们说： ‘这就是不听从耶和华他们 神的话， 不受管教的国； 诚实丧尽， 并已从他们的口中断绝了。
29 "‘你要剪去头发， 并且把它拋掉， 上到光秃的高冈举哀， 因为耶和华摈斥、弃绝了他所憎恨的世代。’"
30 "因为犹大人行了我看为恶的事， 把他们可憎的偶像安放在称为我名下的殿中， 污渎了这殿。"这是耶和华的宣告。
31 "他们在欣嫩子谷中， 建造了陀斐特的邱坛， 用火焚烧自己的儿女； 这不是我吩咐的， 我也没有在心里想过。
32 因此， 看哪！ 日子快到， 人必不再称这地方为陀斐特或欣嫩子谷， 却要称它为‘杀戮谷’； 人必在陀斐特埋葬尸体， 甚至无处可容。"这是耶和华的宣告。
33 "这人民的尸体， 也必给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物， 没有人来驱赶。
34 那时， 我必在犹大的城市中和耶路撒冷的街道上， 使欢欣和快乐的声音、新郎和新妇的声音止息， 因为这地必要变为荒场。"