列国阿,要听耶和华的话,传扬在远处的海岛说,赶散以色列的必招聚他,又看守他,好像牧人看守羊群。
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
耶和华如此说,在拉玛听见号??痛哭的声音,是拉结哭她儿女,不肯受安慰,因为他们都不在了。
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
我听见以法莲为自己悲叹说,你责罚我,我便受责罚,像不惯负轭的牛犊一样。求你使我回转,我便回转,因为你是耶和华我的神。
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
背道的民(原文作女子)哪,你反来覆去要到几时呢。耶和华在地上造了一件新事,就是女子护卫男子。
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说,我使被掳之人归回的时候,他们在犹大地和其中的城邑必再这样说,公义的居所阿,圣山哪,愿耶和华赐福给你。
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
疲乏的人,我使他饱饫。愁烦的人,我使他知足。
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
我先前怎样留意将他们拔出,拆毁,毁坏,倾覆,苦害,也必照样留意将他们建立,栽植。这是耶和华说的。
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
那使太阳白日发光,使星月有定例,黑夜发亮,又搅动大海,使海中波浪??訇的,万军之耶和华是他的名。他如此说,
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
这些定例若能在我面前废掉,以色列的后裔也就在我面前断绝,永远不再成国。这是耶和华说的。
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
耶和华如此说,若能量度上天,寻察下地的根基,我就因以色列后裔一切所行的弃绝他们。这是耶和华说的。
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.