耶34:1 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒率领他的全军，以及他统治的地上各国各族，攻打耶路撒冷和周围一切城镇的时候，从耶和华那里有话临到耶利米，说：
耶34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,
耶34:2 “耶和华以色列的 神这样说：‘你去告诉犹大王西底家说：耶和华这样说：看哪！我要把这城交在巴比伦王的手中，他要用火烧城。
耶34:2 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:
耶34:3 你必逃不出他的手，必被拿住，交在他的手中。你必亲眼看见巴比伦王，他必亲口和你说话；你也必到巴比伦去。’
耶34:3 And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.
耶34:4 但犹大王西底家啊，你还要听耶和华的话！耶和华论到你这样说：‘你必不会死在刀下；
耶34:4 But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:
耶34:5 你必平平安安死去。人怎样为你的列祖，就是在你以前的君王，焚烧香料，也必照样为你焚烧香料；人必为你哀悼，说：“哀哉，主上！”’这话是我说的。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶34:5 You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.
耶34:6 于是耶利米先知在耶路撒冷把这一切话都告诉了犹大王西底家。
耶34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
耶34:7 那时，巴比伦王的军队正在攻打耶路撒冷和犹大剩下的城镇，就是拉吉和亚西加，因为在犹大的各城中，只剩下这两座坚固的城了。
耶34:7 When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.
耶34:8 西底家王和在耶路撒冷的众民立了约，要向奴仆宣告自由。人人都要释放自己的希伯来奴婢；谁也不可使自己的一位犹大兄弟作奴仆。（这事以后，从耶和华那里有话临到耶利米。）
耶34:8 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;
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耶34:9 That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
耶34:10 所有立了约的领袖和众民都同意释放各人自己的奴婢，谁也不再使他们作奴仆。他们都同意了，并且把奴婢释放了。
耶34:10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
耶34:11 但后来他们反悔，把他们释放了的奴婢叫回来，强迫他们再作奴婢。
耶34:11 But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.
耶34:12 于是耶和华有话临到耶利米，说：
耶34:12 For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
耶34:13 “耶和华以色列的 神这样说：‘我把你们的列祖从埃及地为奴之家领出来的那日子，就和他们立了约，说：
耶34:13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,
耶34:14 “一个希伯来兄弟卖了身给你，服事了你六年，到第七年，你们各人就应释放他，容他自由离去。”但你们的列祖不听从我，毫不在意。
耶34:14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.
耶34:15 现今你们悔改，行我眼中看为正的事，各人向自己的同胞宣告自由，并且在称为我名下的殿中，在我面前立了约。
耶34:15 And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:
耶34:16 你们却又反悔，亵渎我的名；各人把得了释放随意离去的奴婢叫回来，强迫他们再作奴婢。’
耶34:16 But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.
耶34:17 “所以，耶和华这样说：‘你们各人没有听从我，向兄弟、同胞宣告自由；看哪！我现在向你们宣告自由，容让你们遭受刀剑、瘟疫和饥荒，使你们成为地上万国所惊惧的。’这是耶和华的宣告。
耶34:17 And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.
耶34:18 ‘我必把那些违犯我的约的人交出去；他们没有履行在我面前和我立约的誓言，就是他们把牛犊劈开两半，并且从两半中间走过去时立下的。
耶34:18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,
耶34:19 那些从牛犊两半中间走过去的人，就是犹大的领袖、耶路撒冷的领袖、宫中的臣宰、祭司和这地的众民。
耶34:19 The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,
耶34:20 我必把他们交在他们仇敌的手中，和那些寻索他们性命的人的手中；他们的尸体必给空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽作食物。
耶34:20 Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
耶34:21 我也必把犹大王西底家和众领袖交在他们仇敌的手中，和那些寻索他们性命的人的手中，以及那些从你们面前暂时撤退的巴比伦王的军队的手中。
耶34:21 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.
耶34:22 看哪！我必下令，使他们回到这城来；他们必攻打、夺取这城，用火焚烧；我必使犹大的城镇都荒凉，没有人居住。’”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶34:22 See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.