1 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 "You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place." 3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land: 4 "They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth."

5 For Yahweh says, "Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," says Yahweh, "even loving kindness and tender mercies. 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them. 7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

8 "You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink." 9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. 10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’ 11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. 12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me. 13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

14 "Therefore behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ 15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

16 "Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says Yahweh, "and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. 18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."

19 Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold,

and my refuge in the day of affliction,

the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth,

and will say,

"Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,

vanity and things in which there is no profit.

20 Should a man make to himself gods

which yet are no gods?"

21 "Therefore behold, I will cause them to know,

this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might.

Then they will know that my name is Yahweh."

1 耶和华的话临到我， 说：

2 "在这地方你不可娶妻， 不可生儿育女。"

3 因为论到这地方出生的儿女， 和在这地生养他们的父母， 耶和华这样说：

4 "他们都必死于致命的疫症， 没有人为他们哀哭， 他们的尸体也没有人埋葬， 必在地面上成为粪肥。他们必被刀剑和饥荒所灭， 他们的尸体成了空中飞鸟和地上走兽的食物。"

5 耶和华这样说： "你不可进入丧家， 也不可去为他们哀哭悲伤； 因为我已经从这人民身上收回我的平安、慈爱和怜悯。"这是耶和华的宣告。

6 "尊大的和卑微的都必死在这地； 没有人埋葬他们， 没有人为他们哀哭， 也没有人为他们割伤自己， 剃光头发。

7 没有人为哀悼的人擘饼， 为死者安慰他们； 丧父或丧母的人， 都没有人给他们喝一杯安慰酒。

8 你也不可进入欢宴之家， 跟他们同坐， 一起吃喝。

9 因为万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： ‘看哪！ 我必在你们眼前， 在你们还活着的日子， 使欢笑和快乐的声音， 新郎和新娘的声音， 都从这地方止息了。’"

10 "你向这人民传讲这一切时， 如果他们问你： ‘耶和华为什么宣告这一切严重的灾祸对付我们呢？我们有什么罪孽？我们犯了什么罪， 得罪了耶和华我们的 神呢？’

11 你就要回答他们： ‘因为你们的列祖离弃了我（这是耶和华的宣告）， 他们随从别的神， 事奉敬拜他们； 他们离弃了我， 不遵守我的律法。

12 至于你们， 你们作坏事比你们的列祖更厉害； 看哪！ 你们各人都随从自己顽梗的恶心行事， 不听从我。

13 因此， 我要把你们从这地赶出去， 去到你们和你们列祖所不认识的地； 你们在那里必昼夜事奉别的神， 因为我不再向你们施恩。’

14 "看哪！ 日子快到， 人必不再指着那领以色列人从埃及地上来的永活的耶和华起誓。"这是耶和华的宣告。

15 "他们却要指着那领以色列人从北方之地， 从他们被赶逐到的各国上来的永活的耶和华起誓。因我要领他们回到自己的土地， 就是我从前赐给他们列祖的。

16 "看哪！ 我要差人去叫许多渔夫来， 捕捉以色列人； 然后我要差人去叫许多猎人来， 从各大山、小山和岩石的裂缝里， 猎取他们。"这是耶和华的宣告。

17 "因为我的眼察看他们所行的一切； 在我面前这一切都无法隐藏， 他们的罪孽不能从我眼前遮掩起来。

18 首先我要加倍报应他们的罪孽和罪恶， 因为他们用自己那些毫无生气、可憎的偶像（"毫无生气、可憎的偶像"原文作"可憎的偶像的尸体"）玷污了我的土地， 他们那些可厌之物充满了我的产业。"

19 耶和华， 我的力量、我的堡垒、我遭难时的避难所啊！ 万国要从地极前来朝见你， 说： "我们列祖所承受的只是虚假的偶像， 是虚空、一无用处的。

20 人岂能为自己制造神呢？其实这些偶像并不是神。"

21 "因此， 看哪！ 我要使他们知道， 这一次我必叫他们认识我的手和我的能力， 他们就知道我的名是耶和华。"