1 犹大王西底家第十年， 就是尼布甲尼撒第十八年， 从耶和华那里有话临到耶利米。 2 那时， 巴比伦王的军队正在围困耶路撒冷， 耶利米先知被囚禁在犹大王宫中卫兵的院子里。 3 因为犹大王西底家把他囚禁起来， 说： "你为什么预言： ‘耶和华这样说： 看哪！ 我必把这城交在巴比伦王的手中， 他必攻取这城； 4 犹大王西底家必不能逃脱迦勒底人的手， 他必交在巴比伦王的手中； 他们必面对面彼此说话， 眼对眼互相对看。 5 巴比伦王必把西底家带到巴比伦去； 西底家必留在那里， 直到我眷顾他的时候（这是耶和华的宣告）。即使你们和迦勒底人作战， 你们必不能战胜’？" 6 耶利米说： "耶和华的话临到我， 说： 7 ‘看哪！ 你叔叔沙龙的儿子哈拿篾必来见你， 说： 请你买下我在亚拿突的那块田地， 因为你有近亲的权利和义务去买那田地。’ 8 我叔叔的儿子哈拿篾果然照着耶和华的话， 到卫兵的院子里来见我， 对我说： ‘请你买下我在便雅悯境内亚拿突的那块田地， 因为你有那产业的继承权， 以及近亲的权利和义务； 请你把它买下吧。’于是我知道这是耶和华的话。 9 我就向我叔叔的儿子哈拿篾， 买下了在亚拿突的那块田地， 称了一百九十三克银子给他。 10 "我在契约上签了名， 把契封好了， 又请了证人作证， 就用天平把银子称给他。 11 然后我取了买卖契约， 一份是封好的， 一份是没有加封的， 上面都有各种细则和条件。 12 当着我叔叔的儿子哈拿篾眼前， 当着那些在买卖契约上签名作证的人眼前， 以及当着所有坐在卫兵院子里的犹大人眼前， 我把买卖契约交给了玛西雅的孙子、尼利亚的儿子巴录。 13 我当着这些人眼前吩咐巴录说： 14 ‘万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： 你要拿这两份买卖契约， 就是那封好的和没有加封的， 放在一个瓦器里， 使它们可以长久保存。 15 因为万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： 将来在这地必再有人买房屋、田地和葡萄园。’ 16 "我把买卖契约交给尼利亚的儿子巴录以后， 就向耶和华祷告， 说： 17 ‘主耶和华啊！ 你看， 你曾用大能和伸出来的膀臂创造了天地； 在你并没有难成的事。 18 你向千万人施慈爱， 又把父亲的罪孽都报应在他们的儿女身上。你是伟大、有能力的 神， 万军之耶和华是你（"你"原文作"他"）的名。 19 你的计划伟大， 你的作为满有能力； 你的眼睛睁开， 察看世人一切所行的， 要照着各人的行为， 和各人所作的事应得的结果来报应各人。 20 你曾在埃及地行神迹奇事， 你在以色列和全人类中间直到今日也是这样， 使你自己得了名声， 好像今日一样。 21 你曾用神迹奇事、有力的手、伸出来的膀臂， 和大而可畏的事， 把你的子民以色列从埃及地领出来。 22 你把这地赐给他们， 就是你向他们列祖起誓， 要赐给他们的流奶与蜜之地。 23 他们进去， 得到这地为业， 却不听从你的话， 也不遵行你的律法； 你吩咐他们行的一切事， 他们都没有行， 因此你使这一切灾祸临到他们身上。 24 看哪！ 敌人已经迫近， 筑垒攻取这城。这城要因刀剑、饥荒和瘟疫的缘故， 交在攻击他们的迦勒底人手中； 你所说的都实现了， 你也亲眼看见了。 25 但主耶和华啊！ 是你对我说： "你要用银子买下那块田地， 请证人作证。"其实这城已经交在迦勒底人的手中了。’" 26 耶和华的话临到耶利米， 说： 27 "看哪！ 我是耶和华， 是全人类的 神； 在我有难成的事吗？ 28 因此耶和华这样说： ‘看哪！ 我必把这城交在迦勒底人的手中， 交在巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的手中， 他必攻取这城。 29 攻打这城的迦勒底人必进来， 放火烧城， 城中的房屋都必烧光， 因为这城的居民曾在那些房屋的屋顶上向巴力烧香， 向别神浇奠祭， 惹我发怒。 30 事实上， 以色列人和犹大人自幼以来， 就专行我眼中看为恶的事； 以色列人的手所作的， 无不惹我发怒。’这是耶和华的宣告。 31 ‘因为这城自从建造的那天， 直到今日， 都不断惹起我的怒气和烈怒， 以致我要把她从我面前除掉。 32 这是因为以色列人和犹大人的一切恶行， 就是他们和他们的君王、领袖、祭司、先知， 以及犹大每一个人和耶路撒冷居民所行的， 都惹我发怒。 33 他们以背向我， 不以脸向我； 我不断教导他们， 他们却不肯听从， 不接受管教； 34 竟把他们可憎的偶像安放在称为我名下的殿中， 污秽了这殿。 35 他们在欣嫩子谷中， 建造了巴力的邱坛， 使自己的儿女经火献给摩洛。这不是我吩咐的， 也没有在我心里想过； 他们竟行了这可憎恶的事， 使犹大犯罪。’ 36 "论到这城， 就是你们说： ‘因为刀剑、饥荒和瘟疫的缘故， 交在巴比伦王手中的’， 现在耶和华以色列的 神却这样说： 37 ‘看哪！ 我曾在怒气、烈怒和大忿怒中， 把以色列人赶逐到各地， 将来我必从那里把他们招聚出来， 领他们回到这地方， 使他们安然居住。 38 他们必作我的子民， 我也必作他们的 神。 39 我要使他们有同一的心志和同一的行为， 终生敬畏我， 使他们和他们的子孙都得到福乐。 40 我要和他们立永远的约， 我必不离开他们， 必使他们得到福乐； 我也必把敬畏我的心赐给他们， 使他们不会离开我。 41 我必喜欢他们， 使他们得到福乐； 我必全心全意、真诚地把他们栽种在这地上。’ 42 "因为耶和华这样说： ‘我怎样使这一切大灾祸临到这人民， 我也必照样使我应许他们的福乐临到他们。 43 你们说： "这地荒凉， 没有人烟， 也没有牲畜， 是交在迦勒底人手中的。"但将来在这地上， 必有人买卖田地。 44 在便雅悯地， 在耶路撒冷周围的各处， 在犹大各城， 以及在山地、高地和南地的各城， 人必用银子买卖田地， 在地契上签名， 把契封好， 又请证人作证； 因为我必使他们被掳的人归回。’"这是耶和华的宣告。

1 The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah -- it [is] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar,2 And then the forces of the king of Babylon are laying siege against Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet hath been shut up in the court of the prison that [is] in the house of the king of Judah,3 Where Zedekiah king of Judah hath shut him up, saying, `Wherefore art thou prophesying, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it;4 And Zedekiah king of Judah doth not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but is certainly given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth hath spoken with his mouth, and his eyes see his eyes,5 And [to] Babylon he leadeth Zedekiah, and there he is till My inspecting him, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- because ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye do not prosper.`6 And Jeremiah saith, `A word of Jehovah hath been unto me saying,7 Lo, Hanameel son of Shallum, thine uncle, is coming unto thee, saying, Buy for thee my field that [is] in Anathoth, for thine [is] the right of redemption -- to buy.8 And Hanameel, my uncle`s son, cometh in unto me, according to the word of Jehovah, unto the court of the prison, and saith unto me, `Buy, I pray thee, my field that [is] in Anathoth, that [is] in the land of Benjamin, for thine [is] the right of possession, and thine of redemption -- buy for thee.` And I know that it [is] the word of Jehovah,9 And I buy the field, that [is] in Anathoth, from Hanameel, my uncle`s son, and I weigh to him the money -- seventeen shekels of silver.10 And I write in a book, and seal, and cause witnesses to testify, and weigh the silver in balances;11 And I take the purchase-book, the sealed one, according to law and custom, and the open one.12 And I give the purchase-book unto Baruch son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel, my uncle`s son, and before the eyes of the witnesses, those writing in the purchase-book, before the eyes of all the Jews who are sitting in the court of the prison.13 And I charge Baruch before their eyes, saying,14 `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Take these books, this purchase-book, both the sealed one and the open one, and thou hast put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain many days;15 For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Again are houses and fields and vineyards bought in this land.`16 And I pray unto Jehovah -- after my giving the purchase-book unto Baruch son of Neriah -- saying,17 `Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm; there is nothing too wonderful for Thee:18 Doing kindness to thousands, and recompensing iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their sons after them; God, the great, the mighty, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name,19 Great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Thine eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:20 In that thou hast done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day, and in Israel, and among men, and Thou dost make for Thee a name as [at] this day.21 `And Thou bringest forth Thy people Israel from the land of Egypt, with signs and with wonders, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear,22 And thou givest to them this land that thou didst swear to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey,23 And they come in, and possess it, and they have not hearkened to Thy voice, and in Thy law have not walked, all that which Thou didst lay a charge on them to do they have not done, and Thou dost proclaim [to] them all this evil.24 `Lo, the mounts -- they have come in to the city to capture it, and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence; and that which Thou hast spoken hath come to pass, and lo, Thou art seeing;25 Yet Thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy for thee the field with money, and cause witnesses to testify -- and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans!`26 And the word of Jehovah is unto Jeremiah, saying:27 `Lo, I [am] Jehovah, God of all flesh: For Me is anything too wonderful?28 `Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he hath captured it;29 And come in have the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city, and they have set this city on fire, and have burned it, and the houses on whose roofs they made perfume to Baal, and poured out libations to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger.30 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in Mine eyes, from their youth; for the sons of Israel are only provoking Me with the work of their hands -- an affirmation of Jehovah.31 `For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day -- to turn it aside from before My face,32 Because of all the evil of the sons of Israel, and of the sons of Judah that they have done, so as to provoke Me -- they, their kings, their heads, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.33 And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.34 `And they set their abominations in the house over which My name is called, so as to defile it;35 And they build the high places of Baal, that [are] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.36 `And now, therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye are saying, It hath been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence,37 Lo, I am gathering them out of all the lands whither I have driven them in Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought them back unto this place, and have caused them to dwell confidently;38 and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;39 and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:40 and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;41 and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.42 `For thus said Jehovah: As I brought in unto this people all this great evil, so I am bringing in on them all the good that I am speaking concerning them;43 and bought hath been the field in this land of which ye are saying, A desolation it [is], without man and beast, it hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.44 Fields with money they buy, so as to write in a book, and to seal, and to cause witnesses to testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in suburbs of Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, and in cities of the hill-country, and in cities of the low country, and in cities of the south, for I turn back their captivity -- an affirmation of Jehovah.`