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Jeremiah
Chapter 29

1 This is the contents of the letter which the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, to the priests, the prophets, and all the people who were exiled by Nebuchadnezzar from Jerusalem to Babylon.

以下是先知耶肋米亚从耶路撒冷给被掳去的长老、司祭和先知，以及拿步高从耶路撒冷掳往巴比伦的其余民众寄送的书信全文──

2 This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the courtiers, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the artisans and the skilled workmen had left Jerusalem.

耶苛尼雅王与太后和太监，犹大和耶路撒冷的政要、技工及铁匠，离开耶路撒冷之后，

3 ¹ Delivered in Babylon by Elasah, son of Shaphan, and by Gemariah, son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to the king of Babylon, the letter read:

犹大王漆德克雅派沙番的儿子厄拉撒和希则克雅的儿子革玛黎雅去巴比伦见巴比伦王拿步高，耶肋米亚便托他们带去──信上说：＂

4 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon:

万军的上主，以色列的天主，向由耶路撒冷被掳往巴比伦的全体俘虏这样说：

5 Build houses to dwell in; plant gardens, and eat their fruits.

你们应建筑房屋居住，种植田园，吃田园的出产；

6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters. There you must increase in number, not decrease.

自己娶妻，生养儿女，也给自己的子女娶妻择夫，生养儿女；在那里繁殖，不要减少。

7 Promote the welfare of the city to which I have exiled you; pray for it to the LORD, for upon its welfare depends your own.

在我令你们流徙所到的城里，你们应寻求当地的平安，为当地祈祷上主，因为你们的幸福是有赖于当地的安宁。

8 thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let yourselves be deceived by the prophets and diviners who are among you; do not listen to those among you who dream dreams.

为此万军的上主，以色列的天主这样说：不要让你们中间的先知和卜卦师欺骗你们，不要听信他们所作的幻梦，

9 For they prophesy lies to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD.

因为这些人奉我名给你们预言谎话，我并没有派遣他们──上主的断语──

10 Thus says the LORD: Only after seventy years have elapsed for Babylon will I visit you and fulfill for you my promise to bring you back to this place.

上主只这样说：巴比伦的七十年期限一满，我必看顾你们，给你们履行我的诺言，领你们回到这地方。

11 For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare, not for woe! plans to give you a future full of hope.

诚然，我知道我对你们所怀的计划──上主的断语──是和平而不是灾祸的计划，令你们有前途，有希望。

12 When you call me, when you go to pray to me, I will listen to you.

那时你呼求我，前来恳求我，我必俯听；

13 When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart,

寻找我，必找到我，因为你们是全心寻求我。

14 you will find me with you, says the LORD, and I will change your lot; I will gather you together from all the nations and all the places to which I have banished you, says the LORD, and bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.

我必将我自己显示给你们──上主的断语──转变你们的命运：从我驱逐你们所至的各国各地召集你们──上主的断语──领你们回到我以前使你们从那里被掳去的地方。

15 As for your saying, ＂The LORD has raised up for us prophets here in Babylon＂—

因为上主论及坐在达味宝座上的君王，和住在这城里的全体人民，即没有与你们同去充军的兄弟，这样说：

16 Thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on David's throne, and all the people who remain in this city, your brethren who did not go with you into exile;

万军的上主这样说：看，我必给他们招来战争、饥馑和瘟疫，使他们有如坏得不可吃的烂无花果，

17 thus says the LORD of hosts: I am sending against them sword, famine and pestilence. I will make them like rotten figs, too bad to be eaten.

以战争、饥馑和瘟疫穷迫他们，使他们在地上各国遭受虐待，在我驱逐他们所到的各民族中，成为咒骂、惊恐、嘲笑、诅咒的对象，

18 I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, of malediction, astonishment, ridicule, and reproach to all the nations among which I will banish them.

因为他们没有听从我的话──上主的断语──我不断给他们派遣我的仆人先知，他们却没有听从──上主的断语──

19 For they did not listen to my words, says the LORD, though I kept sending them my servants the prophets, only to have them go unheeded, says the LORD.

至于你们，这些我由耶路撒冷迁往巴比伦的全体俘虏，你们应该听从上主的话。

20 You, now, listen to the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

也许你们要说：上主在巴比伦给我们兴起了一些先知。

21 This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, has to say about those who prophesy lies to you in my name, Ahab, son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah: I am handing them over to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who will slay them before your eyes.

但万军的上主，以色列的天主，论及奉我名给你们预言谎话的科拉雅的儿子阿哈布，和玛阿色雅的儿子漆德克雅这样说：看，我必将他们交在巴比伦王拿步高的手中，在你们面前将他们处决；

22 All the exiles of Judah in Babylon will pattern a curse after them: ＂May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the flames.＂

在巴比伦的一切犹大俘虏，必拿他们当诅咒说：愿上主使你象巴比伦王用火烙死的漆德克雅和阿哈布！

23 For they are criminals in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors' wives, and alleging in my name things I did not command. I know, I am witness, says the LORD.

因为他们在以色列中间行了败德的事：奸污人的妻子，妄用我的名字，说我没有吩咐的话；这是我知道的，我就是见证──上主的断语。＂

24 Say this to Shemaiah, the Nehelamite:

你应对乃赫蓝人舍玛雅这样说：

25 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you sent letters on your own authority to all the people of Jerusalem, to all the priests and to Zephaniah, the priest, son of Maaseiah, with this message:

万军的上主，以色列的天主这样说：因为你以自己的名义，给在耶路撒冷的全体人民，和司祭玛阿色雅的儿子责法尼雅，及所有的司祭致书说：＂

26 ² ＂The LORD has appointed you priest in place of the priest Jehoiada, so that there may be police officers in the house of the LORD, to take action against all madmen and those who pose as prophets, by putting them into the stocks or the pillory.

上主立你代替司祭约雅达为司祭，作上主殿宇的监督，为拘捕一切自充先知的狂妄之徒，给他带上脚镣铁枷。

27 Why, then, do you not rebuke Jeremiah of Anathoth who poses as a prophet among you?

为什么你至今还不责斥向你自称为先知的阿纳托特人耶肋米亚？

28 For he sent us in Babylon this message: It will be a long time; build houses to live in; plant gardens and eat their fruits. . . .＂

他竟派人到巴比伦对我们说：为期尚远；不如建屋居住，种植田园，吃田园的出产！＂

29 When the priest Zephaniah read this letter to the prophet,

司祭责法尼雅当面将这书信念给先知耶肋米亚听了。

30 the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

于是有上主的话传给耶肋米亚说：＂

31 Send the message to all the exiles: Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah, the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah prophesies to you without a mission from me, and raises false confidence,

你派人对全体俘虏说：论及乃赫蓝人舍玛雅，上主这样说：因为舍玛雅没有我的委派，竟向你们说预言，叫你们相信谎言，

32 says the LORD, I will therefore punish Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, and his offspring. None of them shall survive among this people to see the good I will do to this people, says the LORD, because he preached rebellion against the LORD.

为此上主这样说：看，我必惩罚乃赫蓝人舍玛雅和他的后裔：他的後代必没有一个人住在这民族中，能见到我赐给我人民的幸福——上主的断语——因为他说了叛上主的话。＂

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Footnotes(注解)

¹ [3] Elasah: possibly the brother of Ahikam (cf Jeremiah 26:24). Gemariah: perhaps the son of the high priest Hilkiah; cf 2 Kings 22:4. Zedekiah had dispatched these men to Nebuchadnezzar for some other purpose, possibly the payment of tribute, but Jeremiah took advantage of their mission to send his letter by them.

² [26-29] The words of Jeremiah to the false prophet Shemaiah are not fully preserved in the current Hebrew text, as is seen in the incomplete sentence of this translation (Jeremiah 29:25-28). In his letter to Zephaniah Shemaiah reminds him of his authority, as Pashhur's successor, to imprison Jeremiah. Zephaniah, however, merely reads the letter to Jeremiah but does not imprison him.