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Jeremiah 29 Introduction
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Appended to this history of the struggle with the false prophets at home is a letter addressed to the exiles at Babylon Jeremiah 29. There was at Babylon as at Jerusalem the same determination of the Jews never to submit quietly to a foreign rule. This Jeremiah sought to quell. His words found credence, but not without resistance on the part of the false prophets.
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Jeremiah 29:1
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「剩餘的長老」——即仍然在世的那些長老。
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The residue of the ciders - i. e., such of the elders as were still alive.
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Jeremiah 29:2
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「太后」——即王太后（王的母親）。
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The queen - The queen-mother.
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Jeremiah 29:3
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「以利亞薩」——大概是亞希甘的兄弟（Jeremiah 26:24），因此在迦勒底王廷是個受接納的人。由於西底家在位第四年須親自前往巴比倫（Jeremiah 51:59），這次使團大概是在那之前兩三年派出的。不過，其日期晚於 Jeremiah 24:1-10 的異象；因此它接在 Jeremiah 28 之後，不是因為時間更晚，而是因為主題相似。
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Elasah - Probably brother of Ahikam Jeremiah 26:24, and therefore an acceptable person at the Chaldaean court. As Zedekiah had to go in person to Babylon in his fourth year Jeremiah 51:59, this embassy was probably sent two or three years earlier. Its date, however, was subsequent to the vision in Jeremiah 24:1-10. It is appended therefore to Jeremiah 28, not as later in point of time, but because of the similarity of subject.
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Jeremiah 29:4
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既然這被擄是神為他們的好處而行的，他們就當善處眼前的境況，積聚財富、建立影響力；反之，他們若總是焦躁不安地等候歸回故土的機會，就會迅速陷於貧窮，日漸衰微。
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As the exile was God's doing for their good, they were to make the best of their position, and acquire wealth and influence; whereas if they were always restlessly looking out for the opportunity of returning home, they would rapidly fall into poverty and dwindle away.
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Jeremiah 29:7
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「為那城求平安……」——這不僅因為他們七十年的福祉與巴比倫的福祉緊密相連，也因為他們若結黨密謀、同心抵擋那暫時作為家園之國而活，就必敗壞他們整體的道德本性。
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Seek the peace of the city ... - Not only because their welfare for seventy years was bound up with that of Babylon, but because it would have degraded their whole moral nature to have lived as conspirators, banded together against the country that was for the time their home.
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Jeremiah 29:8
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「你們的先知和你們的占卜的」——百姓在本地所慘受的禍害，在被擄之地也追隨著他們。
「你們所作的夢」——只要有夢的市場存在，就必有充足的騙子來供應。
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Your prophets and your diviners - The evils from which the people had suffered so cruelly at home followed them in their exile.
Dreams which ye cause to be dreamed - As long as there was a market for dreams, so long there would be plenty of impostors to supply them.
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Jeremiah 29:10
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「七十年滿了」——直譯為：「按巴比倫七十年滿足的數目」。這七十年（見 Jeremiah 25:11 註釋）首先是指巴比倫帝國的年數，只在次要的意義上指猶太人被擄的年數。
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After seventy years - literally, according to the measure of the fulfillment of 70 years for Babylon. The 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11 note) are primarily the length of the Babylonian empire, and only in a secondary sense that of the Jewish exile.
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Jeremiah 29:11
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「指望的結局」——更佳的譯法是：「將來和盼望」。這民族不會終結；被擄之後必有復興隨之而來。
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An expected end - Rather, a future and a hope. The nation shall not come to an end; the exile shall be followed by a restoration.
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Jeremiah 29:14
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「使你們被擄的人歸回」——或作「恢復你們的昌盛」。
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Turn away your captivity - Or, "restore your prosperity."
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Jeremiah 29:16
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這幾節不見於七十士譯本。但七十士譯本在這部分的經文整體上過於簡略混亂，只能這樣解釋：它代表耶利米去世時留在埃及的資料，大概是在極度倉促中抄成的，事後也無機會仔細校勘。另一方面，希伯來文本並非匆忙的抄本，而是原稿，特別在這些寄往巴比倫的信件上尤為可信（另見 Jeremiah 51），因為信件的原件可用來與耶利米自己保存的文本核對。這幾節的目的，大概是要平息巴比倫因得知諸王的代表正於當時聚集耶路撒冷、要結盟對抗巴比倫（Jeremiah 27:3）而引起的騷動。
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These verses are not in the Septuagint. But the text of the Septuagint is here throughout so brief and confused as to be explicable only on the supposition, that it represents what was left behind in Egypt when Jeremiah died, copied probably with extreme haste, and with no opportunity of careful collation afterward. On the other hand the Hebrew text represents no hurried transcript, but the original manuscript, and is especially trustworthy in the case of these letters sent to Babylon (see also Jeremiah 51), because the originals of them would be available for collation with the text preserved by Jeremiah himself. The verses were probably intended to allay excitement in Babylon consequent upon the knowledge that the representatives of various kings were assembled at that very time at Jerusalem to form a coalition against Babylon Jeremiah 27:3.
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Jeremiah 29:17
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「極壞的」——這詞不見於別處，但出自意為「戰兢」的字根，故含義強烈。
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Vile - The word does not occur elsewhere, but comes from a root signifying to shudder, and thus has an intense meaning.
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Jeremiah 29:22
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「咒詛」——這裏有雙關的戲語，大概正因如此，這兩人的死才成了俗語。其中一人名叫便哥萊雅（ben-Kolaiah）；他們要成為咒詛（קללה qelâlâh），因為尼布甲尼撒曾把他們燒烤（קלה qâlâh）。比較旁註參照的註釋。
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A curse - There is a play here of words. which probably was the cause why the death of these men passed into a proverb. One of them was named ben-Kolaiah; and they are to be made a curse (קללה qelâlâh), because Nebuchadnezzar had roasted (קלה qâlâh) them. Compare the marginal reference note.
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Jeremiah 29:23
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「愚妄的事」——在別處譯作「醜事」，意即淫亂（Judges 20:6）、不貞。
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Villany - Elsewhere folly, in the sense of lewdness Judges 20:6, unchastity.
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Jeremiah 29:24
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這段記述顯明耶利米書信所生的影響。假先知的首領示瑪雅寫信給西番雅，敦促他用監禁和枷鎖遏制那先知的熱心。
耶利米書 29:24
「示瑪雅」——宜作「論到示瑪雅」。
「尼希蘭人」——不是旁註的意思；而是指屬於尼希蘭村（地點不詳）的人。
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A narrative showing the effects of Jeremiah's letter. Shemaiah the leader of the false prophets wrote to Zephaniah, urging him to restrain the prophet's zeal with the prison and the stocks.
Jeremiah 29:24
To Shemaiah - Rather, concerning.
The Nehelamite - Not as in the margin; but one belonging to the village of Nehlam (unknown).
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Jeremiah 29:26
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「官員」——監管聖殿的代理大祭司們。
「瘋癲的」——見 2 Kings 9:11 的註釋。先知們許多象徵性的舉動，如耶利米頸上負軛行走，會被不敬虔的人嘲笑為越過了預言與瘋狂的界線。
「監裏」——宜作「枷」（Jeremiah 20:2）。
「枷」——宜作「頸枷」。
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Officers - Deputy high priests who had the oversight of the temple.
Mad - See 2 Kings 9:11 note. Many of the symbolic actions of the prophets, such as that of Jeremiah going about with a yoke on his neck, would be mocked at by the irreverent as passing the line between prophecy and madness.
Prisons - Rather, the stocks Jeremiah 20:2.
The stocks - Rather, collar.
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Jeremiah 29:28
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「這被擄的事長久」——宜作「它是長久的」。神的忿怒、他們的刑罰、被擄、他們悔改所需的時間——對那些永不能再見故土的人，一切都是漫長的。
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This captivity is long - Rather, It is long. God's anger, their punishment, the exile, the time necessary for their repentance - all is long to men who will never live to see their country again.
附在這段與本地假先知抗爭的歷史之後的，是一封寫給巴比倫被擄之民的信（Jeremiah 29）。在巴比倫，正如在耶路撒冷一樣，猶太人懷著同一種決心——決不甘心順服外邦的統治。耶利米設法平息這種情緒。他的話得到了相信，但並非沒有遭遇假先知們的抵制。