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1 我要站在守望所, 立在望楼上观看, 看耶和华对我说什么话, 我可用什么话向他诉冤。
[After I said that, I said to myself, ] “I will climb up into my watchtower, and stand there at my guard post. I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say, what he will reply to what I have complained about.”
2 他对我说:将这默示明明地写在版上, 使读的人容易读。
Then Yahweh replied to me, “Write plainly on tablets [what I am revealing to you in] this vision, [and then read it to a messenger] in order that he can run with it [to tell it to] other people.
3 因为这默示有一定的日期, 快要应验,并不虚谎。 虽然迟延,还要等候; 因为必然临到,不再迟延。
In this vision [I will be talking about things that will happen] in the future. Now is not the time when those things will happen, but they certainly will happen, and when they occur, they will occur quickly, and they will not be delayed. Now you [want those things to happen immediately, but] they are not happening. But wait patiently for them [to happen]!
4 迦勒底人自高自大,心不正直; 惟义人因信得生。
Think about the proud [people of Babylonia]! They are certainly not doing what is righteous. But people who are righteous will live because they faithfully [do what I want them to do].
5 迦勒底人因酒诡诈,狂傲, 不住在家中, 扩充心欲,好像阴间。 他如死不能知足, 聚集万国,堆积万民都归自己。 (Sheol h7585)
If people [trust in their wealth], they will deceive themselves, and proud people are never able to rest. [It is as though] the greedy people [of Babylonia open their mouths] as wide as the place where dead people are, and they never have enough, like [the place where] dead people go never has enough dead people [PRS]. The [armies of Babylonia] conquer many nations for themselves, and capture all their people. (Sheol h7585)
6 这些国的民岂不都要提起诗歌并俗语讥刺他说: 祸哉!迦勒底人,你增添不属自己的财物, 多多取人的当头,要到几时为止呢?
But [soon] all those [whom they have captured] will ridicule [the soldiers from Babylonia]! They will make fun of them, saying, ‘Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things [from other countries]! You got many things by forcing people to give them to you. [But you certainly will not keep those things] for a long time [RHQ]!’
7 咬伤你的岂不忽然起来, 扰害你的岂不兴起, 你就作他们的掳物吗?
Suddenly those whom you (oppressed/treated cruelly) will cause you to tremble, and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
8 因你抢夺许多的国,杀人流血, 向国内的城并城中一切居民施行强暴, 所以各国剩下的民都必抢夺你。
You stole things from the people of many nations. You murdered [MTY] people of many people-groups, and you destroyed their land and their cities. So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
9 为本家积蓄不义之财、 在高处搭窝、指望免灾的有祸了!
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who build big houses with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you. You are proud and you think that your houses will be safe because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
10 你图谋剪除多国的民,犯了罪, 使你的家蒙羞,自害己命。
But because you have destroyed others, you have caused your family [MTY] to be shamed/disgraced, and you yourselves will be killed.
11 墙里的石头必呼叫; 房内的栋梁必应声。
[It is as though] the stones in the walls [of your houses] cry out to accuse you, and [it is as though] the beams [in your ceilings] also say the same things.
12 以人血建城、 以罪孽立邑的有祸了!
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who kill people [MTY] in order to build cities, cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
13 众民所劳碌得来的被火焚烧, 列国由劳乏而得的归于虚空, 不都是出于万军之耶和华吗?
But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that [will be destroyed by] fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.
14 认识耶和华荣耀的知识要充满遍地, 好像水充满洋海一般。
But [in contrast], like [SIM] the oceans are filled with water, the earth will be filled with [people who] know that Yahweh is very great.
15 给人酒喝、又加上毒物、 使他喝醉、好看见他下体的有祸了!
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk. You force them to drink a lot of wine from wineskins [until they are drunk and then they walk around] naked, in order that you can see that.
16 你满受羞辱,不得荣耀; 你也喝吧,显出是未受割礼的! 耶和华右手的杯必传到你那里; 你的荣耀就变为大大地羞辱。
But you are the ones who [soon] will be disgraced instead of being honored. [It will be as though you are forced to] drink [a lot of wine] in order that you will also stagger [around, drunk]. You will drink the wine [that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you], and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected [any more].
17 你向黎巴嫩行强暴与残害 惊吓野兽的事必遮盖你; 因你杀人流血, 向国内的城并城中一切居民施行强暴。
You did violent [PRS] things to [the people in] Lebanon, and you killed the wild animals [there], but you will be punished severely for doing that. You have killed [MTY] many people and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
18 雕刻的偶像,人将它刻出来, 有什么益处呢? 铸造的偶像就是虚谎的师傅。 制造者倚靠这哑巴偶像有什么益处呢?
[You people of Babylonia need to know that your] idols are completely [RHQ] useless, because it is people who made them. Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you. Those who trust in idols are trusting in things that they themselves created, things that cannot speak!
19 对木偶说:醒起! 对哑巴石像说:起来!那人有祸了! 这个还能教训人吗? 看哪,是包裹金银的,其中毫无气息。
Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood, ‘Wake up!’ Idols certainly cannot [RHQ] tell you what you should do; they [look nice/beautiful because] they are covered with silver and gold, but they are not alive.
20 惟耶和华在他的圣殿中; 全地的人都当在他面前肃敬静默。
But Yahweh is in his holy temple; everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence.”

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