| | 1 | 巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒、將猶大王約雅敬的兒子耶哥尼雅、和猶大的首領、並工匠、鐵匠、從耶路撒冷擄去、帶到巴比倫．這事以後、耶和華指給我看、有兩筐無花果、放在耶和華的殿前。
After Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the craftsmen and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD. | |
| | 2 | 一筐是極好的無花果、好像是初熟的．一筐是極壞的無花果、壞得不可喫。
One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten. | |
| | 3 | 於是耶和華問我說、耶利米你看見甚麼、我說、我看見無花果、好的極好、壞的極壞、壞得不可喫。
Then the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" "Figs," I answered. "The good ones are very good, but the poor ones are so bad they cannot be eaten." | |
| | 4 | 耶和華的話臨到我說、
Then the word of the LORD came to me: | |
| | 5 | 耶和華以色列的 神如此說、被擄去的猶大人、就是我打發離開這地到迦勒底人之地去的、我必看顧他們如這好無花果、使他們得好處。
"This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians. | |
| | 6 | 我要眷顧他們、使他們得好處、領他們歸回這地、我也要建立他們、必不拆毀、栽植他們、並不拔出。
My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. | |
| | 7 | 我要賜他們認識我的心、知道我是耶和華．他們要作我的子民、我要作他們的 神、因為他們要一心歸向我。
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. | |
| | 8 | 耶和華如此說、我必將猶大王西底家、和他的首領、以及剩在這地耶路撒冷的餘民、並住在埃及地的猶大人、都交出來、好像那極壞、壞得不可喫的無花果。
"'But like the poor figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,' says the LORD, 'so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt. | |
| | 9 | 我必使他們交出來、在天下萬國中拋來拋去、遭遇災禍、在我趕逐他們到的各處、成為凌辱、笑談、譏刺、咒詛。
I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, an object of ridicule and cursing, wherever I banish them. | |
| | 10 | 我必使刀劍、飢荒、瘟疫、臨到他們、直到他們從我所賜給他們和他們列祖之地滅絕。
I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their fathers.'" | |
