1.“‘这样，耶和华坚立了他对我们、对审判以色列的官长、对我们的君王、对我们的首领和对以色列和犹大的人所说的话。“‘So the Lord confirmed his word, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged Israel, and against our kings and against our princes and against the men of Israel and Judah.
2.在天下所有的地方，从来没有像他在耶路撒冷所做的那样的事情，这都是照着摩西律法上所写的Under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what he has done in Jerusalem, in accordance with what is written in the law of Moses,
3.我们应该吃掉，一个是他儿子的肉，另一个是他女儿的肉。that we should eat, one the flesh of his son and another the flesh of his daughter.
4.他将他们交给了我们四周所有的王国，成为邻近各国的羞辱和荒凉，在那里，耶和华将他们散播于此。And he gave them into subjection to all the kingdoms around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.
5.他们被降卑，不得升高，是因为我们得罪了耶和华我们的神，不听从他的话。They were brought low and not raised up, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.
6.“‘公义属于我们的神耶和华，惭愧的面容却属于我们和我们的祖先，直到今日。“‘Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face to us and our fathers, as at this day.
7.上帝所警告我们的所有灾祸都降临在我们身上了。All those calamities with which the Lord threatened us have come upon us.
8.我们仍未以各人离弃自己恶心的意念为条件，祈求耶和华的恩惠。Yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord by turning away, each of us, from the thoughts of his wicked heart.
9.主已经预备了这些灾祸，主也将它们降于我们，因为主在他吩咐我们所做的所有事上都是公义的。And the Lord has kept the calamities ready, and the Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us to do.
10.然而我们没有听从他的声音，遵行他为我们所定的主的律例。Yet we have not obeyed his voice, to walk in the statutes of the Lord which he set before us.
11.求救的祷告 “现在，耶和华以色列的神啊，你曾用大能和神迹奇事，并伸出来的有力的手臂，从埃及地将你的百姓领出来，你便为自己得了名，直到今日，Prayer for Deliverance “‘And now, O Lord God of Israel, who didst bring thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and with signs and wonders and with great power and outstretched arm, and hast made thee a name, as at this day,
12.我们犯了罪，我们行为不虔，我们做了错事，主我们的神，违背了你一切的命令。we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have done wrong, O Lord our God, against all thy ordinances.
13.求你使怒气转离我们，因为我们只剩下极少数人，在你将我们散布在其中的各国中。Let thy anger turn away from us, for we are left, few in number, among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
14.求主听我们的祷告和我们的恳求，为了你自己的缘故拯救我们，在掳我们到这里的王面前给我们得恩典；Hear, O Lord, our prayer and our supplication, and for thy own sake deliver us, and grant us favor in the sight of those who have carried us into exile;
15.使全地都知道你是我们的主我们的神，因为以色列和他的后代都是称你的名。that all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, for Israel and his descendants are called by thy name.
16.主啊，从你的圣所俯看我们，顾念我们。主啊，侧耳而听，O Lord, look down from thy holy habitation, and consider us. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear;
17.求你睁开眼，耶和华啊，观看；因为在阴间、被取去灵性的死人，不将神的荣耀和公义归于主，open thy eyes, O Lord, and see; for the dead who are in Hades, whose spirit has been taken from their bodies, will not ascribe glory or justice to the Lord,
18.但那极其困苦的人，弯腰屈身无力，眼目昏花，饥饿不堪的人，都要将荣耀和公义归于你，主啊。but the person that is greatly distressed, that goes about bent over and feeble, and the eyes that are failing, and the person that hungers, will ascribe to thee glory and righteousness, O Lord.
19.因为我们列祖和列王所行的公义事，并不因这些我们向你祷告求怜悯，耶和华我们的神。For it is not because of any righteous deeds of our fathers or our kings that we bring before thee our prayer for mercy, O Lord our God.
20.因为你曾将你的愤怒和忿怒降于我们身上，正如你藉着你所差的仆人众先知所说：For thou hast sent thy anger and thy wrath upon us, as thou didst declare by thy servants the prophets, saying:
21.主这样说：要屈服，侍奉巴比伦王，你们就可以在我赐给你们祖先的土地上居住。“Thus says the Lord: Bend your shoulders and serve the king of Babylon, and you will remain in the land which I gave to your fathers.
22.但如果你们不听从耶和华的言语，不侍奉巴比伦王，But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord and will not serve the king of Babylon,
23.我要使犹大城邑和耶路撒冷四围的欢乐和喜乐的声音，新郎和新娘的声音都止息，遍地成为荒凉，没有居民。I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the region about Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and the whole land will be a desolation without inhabitants.”
24.“‘但我们不听从你的话，服侍巴比伦王，你所藉仆人众先知说的话都应验了，就是我们的君王和列祖的骸骨必从坟墓中被挪出来；“‘But we did not obey thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon; and thou hast confirmed thy words, which thou didst speak by thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be brought out of their graves;
25.他们被抛在白天的酷热和夜晚的严寒中，他们在极大的痛苦中因饥荒、刀剑和瘟疫而灭亡。and behold, they have been cast out to the heat of day and the frost of night. They perished in great misery, by famine and sword and pestilence.
26.你所命名的殿宇，因以色列家和犹大家所行的恶，你使它成为今日的景况。And the house which is called by thy name thou hast made as it is today, because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
27.上帝的应许被记起 “‘然而，主我们的神啊，你以一切的慈爱和一切的丰大怜悯待我们，God’s Promise Recalled “‘Yet thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God, in all thy kindness and in all thy great compassion,
28.当你通过你的仆人摩西说话，在你命令他在以色列人面前写下你的律法的那一天，说as thou didst speak by thy servant Moses on the day when thou didst command him to write thy law in the presence of the people of Israel, saying,
29.“你们若不听从我的话，这极大的众民必少于列国之中，我要将他们散在各国。“If you will not obey my voice, this very great multitude will surely turn into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30.因为我知道他们不会听从我，因为他们是顽梗不化的百姓。但是他们在被掳之地必会醒悟过来，For I know that they will not obey me, for they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they will come to themselves,
31.他们将知道我是他们的主神。我将赐予他们顺从的心和听从的耳朵；and they will know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart that obeys and ears that hear;
32.他们将在被掳之地夸赞我，并且会记念我的名and they will praise me in the land of their exile, and will remember my name,
33.并且会转离他们的顽固和邪恶行为，因为他们会记得他们的祖先在耶和华面前所犯的罪。and will turn from their stubbornness and their wicked deeds; for they will remember the ways of their fathers, who sinned before the Lord.
34.我要把他们带回我向他们的祖宗亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所起誓要赐给他们的那地，他们要占有那地，我也要使他们人数众多，不再减少。I will bring them again into the land which I swore to give to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, and they will rule over it; and I will increase them, and they will not be diminished.
35.我要与他们立永远的约，作他们的神，他们要作我的子民。我再也不至将我赐给他们的地从我子民以色列面前夺回。I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God and they shall be my people; and I will never again remove my people Israel from the land which I have given them.”