1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2 "Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’"
3 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’ 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, 7 then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more. 8 Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations? 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it," says Yahweh.
12 "But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 Now, because you have done all these works," says Yahweh, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer; 14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
16 "Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you. 17 Don’t you see 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 the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me to anger?" says Yahweh. "Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"
20 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: "Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched."
21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. 22 For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. 26 Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
27 "You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’ 29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 "For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says Yahweh. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind. 32 Therefore behold, the days come", says Yahweh, "that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury. 33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away. 34 Then I will 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 will become a waste."
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。"