The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
耶和华论到干旱之灾的话，临到耶利米：

Judah mourns, / And her gates languish; / In black they mourn on the ground, / And the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
犹大悲哀，城门衰败；众人披着黑衣坐在地上悲哀，耶路撒冷的哀声上扬。

And their nobles send their servants for water; / They come to cisterns, / And they find no water; / They return with their vessels empty; / They are ashamed and confounded / And cover their heads.
他们的贵胄打发家僮打水；他们来到水池，见没有水，就拿着空器皿，蒙羞惭愧，抱头而回。

Because the ground is cracked, / For there has been no rain on the earth, / The farmers are ashamed; / They cover their heads.
耕地的也蒙羞抱头；因为无雨降在地上，地就干裂。

For even the hind in the field gives birth and abandons its young / Because there is no grass.
田野的母鹿，生下小鹿就撇弃，因为无草。

And the wild asses stand on the bare heights; / They pant after the wind like jackals; / Their eyes fail, / For there is no herbage.
野驴站在光秃的高处，喘气好像野狗；因为无草，眼目失明。

Although our iniquities testify against us, / O Jehovah, act for Your name's sake, / For our apostasies have become many; / We have sinned against You.
耶和华啊，虽然我们的罪孽作见证告我们，还求你为你名的缘故行事；我们本是多次背道，得罪了你。

O Hope of Israel, / Its Savior in a time of distress, / Why should You be like a sojourner in the land, / Like a traveler who turns aside to lodge for the night?
以色列的盼望，在患难时作他救主的啊，你为何在这地像寄居的，又像行路的只转来住一宵呢？

Why should You be like an astonished man, / Like a mighty man who is unable to save? / Yet You are in our midst, O Jehovah, / And we are called by Your name; / Do not leave us.
你为何像受惊的人，像不能救人的勇士呢？耶和华啊，你仍在我们中间，我们是称为你名下的人；求你不要离开我们。

Thus says Jehovah to this people, Even so they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore Jehovah has no delight in them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
耶和华对这百姓如此说，这百姓喜爱飘流，不约束自己的脚步；所以耶和华不喜悦他们，现今要记念他们的罪孽，追讨他们的罪。

And Jehovah said to me, Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
耶和华又对我说，不要为这百姓祷告求好处。

When they fast, I will not listen to their cry; when they offer up a burnt offering and a meal offering, I will not accept them; but by sword and by famine and by pestilence I will consume them.
他们禁食的时候，我不听他们的呼求；他们献上燔祭和素祭，我也不悦纳；我却要用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫，灭绝他们。

And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Indeed, the prophets say to them, You will not see sword, nor will you have famine, for I will give you assured peace in this place.
我就说，唉，主耶和华啊，那些申言者常对他们说，你们必不看见刀剑，也不会有饥荒；因为我耶和华要在这地方赐你们确实的平安。

And Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy falsehood in My name; I did not send them or command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision and divination and a worthless thing and the deceit of their own heart.
耶和华对我说，那些申言者托我的名说假预言；我并没有打发他们，没有吩咐他们，也没有对他们说话。他们向你们预言的，乃是虚假的异象、占卜和虚无的事，以及自己心中的诡诈。

Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, although I did not send them, yet they say, A sword and famine will not be in this land: By sword and by famine those prophets will be consumed.
所以耶和华如此说，论到托我名说预言的那些申言者，我并没有打发他们，他们还说这地不至有刀剑饥荒；其实那些申言者必被刀剑饥荒灭绝。

And the people to whom they prophesy will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them — them, their wives, and their sons and their daughters — and I will pour out their own wickedness on them.
听他们说预言的百姓，必因饥荒刀剑被抛在耶路撒冷的街道上，无人葬埋；他们连妻子带儿女，都是如此；我必将他们的恶，倒在他们身上。

And you shall speak this word to them, / Let my eyes run down with tears / Night and day, and let them not cease; / For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with great brokenness, / A very grievous wound.
你要将这话对他们说，愿我眼流泪，昼夜不息；因为我民的处女受了极大的损伤，受了严重的创伤。

If I go forth into the field — / Look, those slain by the sword; / And if I come into the city — / Look, those diseased with famine. / For both the prophet and the priest / Will go about in a land that they do not know.
我若出往田间，就见有被刀杀的；我若进入城内，就见有因饥荒患病的；因为连申言者带祭司都必飘泊到他们素不认识的地去。

Have You utterly rejected Judah? / Or does Your soul loathe Zion? / Why have You stricken us / So that there is no healing for us? / We looked for peace, but no good came; / And for a time of healing, but there was terror.
你全然弃绝犹大么？你厌恶锡安么？你为何击打我们，以致我们无法得医治呢？我们指望平安，却得不着好处；指望得医治的时候，却受了惊惶。

We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, / The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.
耶和华啊，我们承认自己的恶，和我们列祖的罪孽；因我们得罪了你。

Do not hold us in contempt, for Your name's sake; / Do not dishonor Your throne of glory; / Remember and do not break Your covenant with us.
求你为你名的缘故，不藐视我们，不辱没你荣耀的宝座；求你追念，不背弃你与我们所立的约。

Are there among the vanities of the nations any that can bring rain, / Or in the heavens any that can give showers? / Are You not He, O Jehovah our God? / Therefore we wait for You, / For You have made all these things.
外邦人虚无的神中，有能降雨的么？天上有能赐下甘霖的么？耶和华我们的神啊，能如此的不是你么？所以我们仍要等候你，因为这一切都是你所造的。