耶利米書 51
1 上主這樣說：「看，我必要興起毀滅的颶風，襲擊巴比倫和加色丁的居民，
Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I wil raise vp against Babel, and against the inhabitants that lift vp their heart against me, a destroying wind,
2 給巴比倫派簸手來簸揚她，掃空她的國土，因為在禍患之日，人必四面向她進攻。」
And wil send vnto Babel fanners that shall fanne her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shalbe against her on euery side.
3 弓手不要放下自己的弓箭，戰士不要卸下自己的鎧甲，不要憐恤她的青年，卻要殲滅她所有的部隊，
Also to the bender that bendeth his bowe, and to him that lifteth himselfe vp in his brigandine, will I say, Spare not her yong men, but destroy all her hoste.
4 使他們倒斃在加色丁境內，沿途被人刺殺，
Thus the slaine shall fall in the lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
5 因為他們的國土，充滿了反抗以色列聖者的罪惡；可是以色列和猶大並未成為寡婦，也未喪失自己的天主，萬軍的上主。
For Israel hath bene no widowe, nor Iudah from his God, from the Lord of hostes, though their lande was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.
6 你們逃離巴比倫，各救自己的性命，不要因了她的罪過而自遭喪亡，因為現在是上主復仇的時候，上主要對她報復。
Flee out of the middes of Babel, and deliuer euery man his soule: be not destroyed in her iniquitie: for this is the time of the Lordes vengeance he will render vnto her a recompence.
7 巴比倫在上主手中，曾是個灌醉大地的金爵，萬民飲了她的酒，萬民纔如此狂亂。
Babel hath bene as a golden cuppe in the Lordes hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations haue drunken of her wine, therefore do the nations rage.
8 霎時間，巴比倫傾覆瓦解，你們為她舉哀，拿香料來醫治她的創傷，也許她會痊癒。
Babel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howle for her, bring balme for her sore, if she may be healed.
9 我們本願治癒巴比倫，但是她卻不痊癒；我們放下她，各自回歸故鄉，因為她罪惡滔天，直達雲霄。
We would haue cured Babel, but she could not be healed: forsake her, and let vs go euery one into his owne countrey: for her iudgement is come vp vnto heauen, and is lifted vp to ye cloudes.
10 上主表彰了我們的正義，來，我們在熙雍稱揚上主我們的天主的偉業。
The Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse: come and let vs declare in Zion the worke of the Lord our God.
11 磨尖箭矢，裝滿箭囊! 上主已激起瑪待王的銳氣，因為他對巴比倫的計劃，是要將她消滅；是上主報復，為自己的殿宇復仇。
Make bright the arrowes: gather the shieldes: the Lord hath raised vp the spirit of the King of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babel to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, and the vengeance of his Temple.
12 你們向巴比倫城牆樹立旗幟，加緊防衛，派駐防哨，預設埋伏，因為上主怎樣計劃了，就怎樣實踐他對巴比倫居民所下的斷語。
Set vp the standart vpon the walles of Babel, make the watch strong: set vp the watchmen: prepare the skoutes: for the Lord hath both deuised, and done that which he spake against the inhabitantes of Babel.
13 啊，你住在多水之旁，富有寶藏；現在到了你的結局，到了切斷你尺度的時刻。
O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine ende is come, euen the ende of thy couetousnes.
14 萬軍的上主指著自己起誓說：「我必用像蝗蟲那麼多的人群填塞你，對你高唱凱歌。」
The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.
15 上主以自己的能力創造了大地，自己的智慧奠定了寰宇，以自己的才智展布了諸天。
He hath made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
16 他一聲號令使天上的水怒號，使雲彩地極上騰，使雷聲霹靂，造成豪雨，使暴風從他的倉庫出發。
Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to raine, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.
17 人都要自覺愚昧無知；每個銀匠必因自己的刻像感到羞慚，因為所鑄的像，只是「虛無」，沒有息；
Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
18 是「虛幻」，是愚弄人的作品；懲罰時期一到，必要盡歸滅亡。
They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19 那位作雅各伯產業的，與它們卻完全不同，因為他是萬物的造主，以色列是作他產業的支派；他的名字叫「萬軍的上主」。
The portion of Iaakob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
20 巴比倫! 你曾是我的鎚子，作戰的武器；我曾用你粉碎萬民，用你毀滅邦國，
Thou art mine hammer, and weapons of warre: for with thee will I breake the nations, and with thee wil I destroy kingdomes,
21 用你粉碎戰馬和騎士，用你粉碎戰車和後夫，
And by thee wil I breake horse and horseman, and by thee will I breake the charet and him that rideth therein.
22 用你粉碎男子和婦女，用你粉碎老翁和幼童，用你粉少男和少女，
By thee also will I breake man and woman, and by thee wil I breake olde and yong, and by thee wil I breake the yong man and the mayde.
23 用你粉碎牧人和牲畜，用你粉碎農夫和耕牛，用你粉碎州牧和監督。
I wil also breake by thee the shepheard and his flocke, and by thee will I breake the husband man and his yoke of oxen, and by thee will I breake the dukes and princes.
24 但是，如今我要在你們眼前，報復巴比倫和所有的加色丁居民，對熙雍作的一切惡事──上主的斷語──
And I will render vnto Babel, and to all the inhabitants of the Caldeans all their euil, that they haue done in Zion, euen in your sight, sayth the Lord.
25 好事毀滅的山嶺! 看，我要攻擊你──上主的斷語──是你毀滅了整個大地，我要向你伸出我的手，使你從崖石上滾下，使你成為烈火焚毀的山嶺。
Beholde, I come vnto thee, O destroying mountaine, sayth the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand vpon thee, and rolle thee downe from the rockes, and wil make thee a burnt mountaine.
26 人們不再從你那裏鑿取角石或基石，因為你將永遠為荒丘──上主的斷語。
They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for euer, sayth the Lord.
27 你們在地上樹立旗幟，在萬民間吹起號角，祝聖萬民向她進攻，召集阿辣辣特和明尼及阿市革納次王國向她進攻，派遣一員大將向他進攻；衝鋒的馬隊，好像刺毛直豎的蚱蜢。
Set vp a standard in the lande: blowe the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call vp the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz against her: appoynt the prince against her: cause horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.
28 祝聖萬民：瑪待的君王和他的州牧，他所有的監督以及他整個版圖的民眾，向她進攻。
Prepare against her the nations with the Kings of the Medes, the dukes thereof, and the princes thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29 大地戰慄惶悚，因為上主正在進行攻巴比倫的計劃，使巴比倫地成為無人居住的荒野。
And the land shall tremble and sorow: for the deuise of the Lord shalbe performed against Babel, to make the lande of Babel waste without an inhabitant.
30 巴比倫的兵士放棄作戰，留在堡壘中，失去了勇氣，有如婦人；她的房屋已為火焚毀，她的門閂已被折斷。
The strong men of Babel haue ceased to fight: they haue remayned in their holdes: their strength hath fayled, and they were like women: they haue burnt her dwelling places, and her barres are broken.
31 跑差的，傳信的，都相繼跑去通報巴比倫王，京城四周已被佔領，
A post shall runne to meete the post, and a messenger to meete the messenger, to shew the King of Babel, that his citie is taken on a side thereof,
32 口已被攻陷，要塞已遭火焚；戰士都十分恐惶。
And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes burnt with fire, and the me of war troubled.
33 因為萬軍的上主，以色列的天主這樣說：「巴比倫女郎有如到了該踐踏的禾場；還有片刻就到收割她的時期。
For thus sayth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, the daughter of Babel is like a threshing floore: the time of her threshing is come: yet a litle while, and the time of her haruest shall come.
34 巴比倫王拿步高把我吞食毀滅，使我變成了空器皿；他彷復一條龍，併吞了我，以我的美味滿足了自己的肚腹，然後將我驅逐。
Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel hath deuoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an emptie vessel: he swallowed mee vp like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out.
35 熙雍的居民說：「要對巴比倫報復我身受的凌辱! 」耶路撒冷說：「要對加色丁居民報復我的血債! 」
The spoyle of me, and that which was left of me, is brought vnto Babel, shall the inhabitant of Zion say: and my blood vnto the inhabitantes of Caldea, shall Ierusalem say.
36 為此，上主這樣說：「看，我必為你辯護，報復你的冤仇，乾涸她的河川，枯竭她的泉源。
Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will maintayne thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp the sea, and drie vp her springes.
37 巴比倫必成為一堆瓦礫，豺狼的巢穴；令人恐怖嘲笑，無人居住。
And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 巴比倫人像壯獅一樣，一起怒號，像母獅的幼雛一樣，一起咆哮。
They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.
39 在他們激昂時，我必給他們擺設盛宴，使他們酣醉昏迷，長眠不醒──上主的斷語──
In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and not wake, sayth the Lord.
40 我必使他們下到屠場，無異羔羊綿羊和山羊。
I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.
41 怎麼，沙客竟陷落了，全地的光榮竟遭受了劫掠﹖怎麼，連巴比倫在萬民中也變得如此悽涼﹖
How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!
42 海洋衝擊巴比倫，使她全被驚濤怒浪所淹沒；
The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
43 她的城市盡化為野，乾旱淒涼之地，再沒有人居住，再沒有過客。
Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the sonne of man passe thereby.
44 我必懲罰巴比倫的貝耳，由他口裏奪出他所吞滅的，萬民必不再向他湧來，因為巴比倫的城牆已倒塌。
I wil also visite Bel in Babel, and I wil bring out of his mouth, that which he hath swallowed vp, and the nations shall runne no more vnto him, and the wall of Babel shall fall.
45 我的人民! 你們從她那裏出來，各救自己的性命脫免上主忿怒的烈火。
My people, go out of the middes of her, and deliuer yee euery man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord,
46 你們不要膽怯，不要害怕地方上流傳的謠言；因為今年傳來這謠言，明年又另有謠言；地方上常有暴亂，暴君互相傾軋。
Least your heart euen faynt, and ye feare the rumour, that shalbe heard in the land: the rumour shall come this yeere, and after that in the other yeere shall come a rumour, and crueltie in the land, and ruler against ruler.
47 看，時日將到，我必懲罰巴比倫的偶像；使她全國飽受恥辱，國內死傷遍地。
Therefore beholde, the dayes come, that I will visite the images of Babel, and the whole land shalbe confounded, and all her slayne shall fall in the middes of her.
48 上天下地和其中所有的一切，必對巴比倫吶喊歡呼，因為從北方必有破壞者來向她進襲──上主的斷語──
Then the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, shall reioyce for Babel: for the destroyers shall come vnto her from the North, saith the Lord.
49 為了以色列被剌殺的人，巴比倫也該傾覆，就如全地被刺殺的人，曾為了巴比倫而倒斃。
As Babel caused the slaine of Israel to fal, so by Babel the slaine of all the earth did fall.
50 你們逃脫了刀劍的人! 快走，不要停留；從遠方懷念上主，思戀耶路撒冷。
Ye that haue escaped the sworde, goe away, stand not still: remember the Lord a farre of, and let Ierusalem come into your minde.
51 我們聽到了侮辱，感到恥辱，滿面羞慚，因為外方人闖進了上主殿宇的聖所。
Wee are confounded because wee haue heard reproch: shame hath couered our faces, for straungers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lordes House.
52 為此，看，時日將到──上主斷語──我必懲罰她的偶像，使她國內的人都負傷呻吟；
Wherefore behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that I will visite her grauen images, and through all her land the wounded shall grone.
53 即使巴比倫爬上諸天，即使她盤據高處不可侵犯，我仍要派破壞者來自她進襲──上主的斷語。
Though Babel should mount vp to heauen, and though shee should defend her strength on hye, yet from mee shall her destroyers come, sayth the Lord.
54 聽從巴比倫發出的喧嚷，從加色丁人地發生的絕大破壞!
A sound of a cry commeth from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans,
55 是上主在毀滅巴比倫，消弭其中嘈雜的聲音；敵人洶湧而來，有如汪洋怒濤，揚聲吶喊。
Because the Lord hath layde Babel waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, and her waues shall roare like great waters, and a sounde was made by their noyse:
56 果然，破壞者已來到巴比倫，她的勇士都已被擒，她的弓弩盡被折斷，因為上主是報復的天主，他必嚴厲加以報復。
Because the destroyer is come vpon her, euen vpon Babel, and her strong men are taken, their bowes are broken: for the Lord God that recompenceth, shall surely recompence.
57 我必使她的諸侯和謀士，州牧和監督以及勇士飲醉，長眠不醒──名為萬軍上主君王的斷語。
And I will make drunke her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
58 萬軍的上主這樣說：「巴比倫廣闊的城牆要被夷為平地，她高大的城門要被火焚盡：這樣百姓只有白白徒勞，萬民的辛苦，也只有付之一炬。」
Thus saith the Lord of hostes, The thicke wall of Babel shalbe broken, and her hie gates shall be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in ye fire, for they shalbe weary.
59 以下是瑪赫色雅的孫子，乃黎雅的兒子色辣雅同猶大王漆德克雅，在他為王第四年，同往巴比倫去時，耶肋米亞先知對他吩咐的話，那時辣雅身為行營總督。
The worde which Ieremiah the Prophet commanded Sheraiah the sonne of Neriiah, the sonne of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the King of Iudah into Babel, in the fourth yeere of his reigne: and this Sheraiah was a peaceable prince.
60 耶肋米亞在一本書上記錄了要降在巴比倫的一切災禍，所記錄的全是於巴比倫的事。
So Ieremiah wrote in a booke all the euill that should come vpon Babel: euen al these things, that are written against Babel.
61 耶肋米亞對色辣雅說：「你一到了巴比倫，就應設法宣讀這一切話，
And Ieremiah sayd to Sheraiah, Whe thou commest vnto Babel, and shalt see, and shalt reade all these wordes,
62 然後說：上主，關於這地你親自說過，要將它消滅，使這地無人居住，成為人和走獸絕跡的荒野。
Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate for euer.
63 你朗誦完了這本書以後，在書上繫上一塊石頭，把書拋在幼發拉的河中，
And when thou hast made an ende of reading this booke, thou shalt binde a stone to it, and cast it in the middes of Euphrates,
64 然後說：巴比倫也要如此沉沒，再也不能由我給她招來的災禍中復興。」耶肋米亞的話至此為止。
And shalt say, Thus shall Babel be drowned, and shall not rise from the euil, that I will bring vpon her: and they shall be weary. Thus farre are the wordes of Ieremiah.
