예레미야 9장 Contemporary English Version (2006)

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1	I wish that my eyes were fountains of tears, so I could cry day and night for my people who were killed.	Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2	I wish I could go into the desert and find a hiding place from all who are treacherous and unfaithful to God.	Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3	The Answers Jeremiah The Lord replied: Lies come from the mouths of my people, like arrows from a bow. With each dishonest deed their power increases, and not one of them will admit that I am God.	And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.
4	Jeremiah, all your friends and relatives tell lies about you, so don't trust them.	Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5	They wear themselves out, always looking for a new way to cheat their friends.	And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6	Everyone takes advantage of everyone else, and no one will admit that I am God.	Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
7	And so I will purify the hearts of my people just as gold is purified in a furnace. I have no other choice.	Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8	They say they want peace, but this lie is deadly, like an arrow that strikes when you least expect it.	Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9	Give me one good reason not to punish them as they deserve. I, the Lord All-Powerful, have spoken.	Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10	Jeremiah Weeps for His People I weep for the pastureland in the hill country. It's so barren and scorched that no one travels there. No cattle can be found there, and birds and wild animals have all disappeared.	For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11	I heard the Lord reply, “When I am finished, Jerusalem and the towns of Judah will be piles of ruins where only jackals live.”	And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12	Why the Land Was Destroyed I said to the Lord, “None of us can understand why the land has become like an uncrossable desert. Won't you explain why?”	Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13	The Lord said: I destroyed the land because the people disobeyed me and rejected my laws and teachings.	And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14	They were stubborn and worshiped Baal, just as their ancestors did.	But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15	So I, the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, promise them poison to eat and drink.	Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16	I'll scatter them in foreign countries that they and their ancestors have never even heard of. Finally, I will send enemy soldiers to kill every last one of them.	I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17	The Women Who Are Paid To Weep The Lord All-Powerful said, “Make arrangements now for the women who are paid to weep at funerals, especially the women who can cry the loudest.”	Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18	The people answered, “Let them come quickly and cry for us, until our own eyes are flooded with tears.	And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19	Now those of us on Zion cry, ‘We are ruined! We can't stand the shame. Our homes have been destroyed, and we must leave our land.’	For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20	“We ask you women to pay attention to what the Lord says. We will teach you a funeral song that you can teach your daughters and friends:	Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21	‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’	For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22	“The Lord has told us the ground will be covered with dead bodies, like ungathered stalks of grain or manure in a field.”	Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23	What the Likes Best The Lord says: Don't brag about your wisdom or strength or wealth.	Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24	If you feel you must brag, then have enough sense to brag about worshiping me, the Lord. What I like best is showing kindness, justice, and mercy to everyone on earth.	But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
25	—	Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26	Someday I will punish the nations of Egypt, Edom, Ammon, and Moab, and the tribes of the desert. The men of these nations are circumcised, but they don't worship me. And it's the same with you people of Judah. Your bodies are circumcised, but your hearts are unchanged.	Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.