耶利米书 51
1 耶和华如此说： 我必使毁灭的风刮起， 攻击巴比伦和住在立加米的人。
Thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb, My withstanders, A destroying wind,
2 我要打发外邦人来到巴比伦， 簸扬她，使她的地空虚。 在她遭祸的日子， 他们要周围攻击她。
And I have sent fanners to Babylon, And they have fanned her, and they empty her land, For they have been against her, All around—in the day of evil.
3 拉弓的，要向拉弓的和贯甲挺身的射箭。 不要怜惜她的少年人； 要灭尽她的全军。
Do not let the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have pity on her young men, Devote all her host to destruction.
4 他们必在迦勒底人之地被杀仆倒， 在巴比伦的街上被刺透。
And the wounded have fallen in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.
5 以色列和犹大虽然境内充满违背以色列圣者的罪， 却没有被他的 神—万军之耶和华丢弃。
For Israel and Judah are not forsaken By his God—by YHWH of Hosts, For their land has been full of guilt, Against the Holy One of Israel.
6 你们要从巴比伦中逃奔， 各救自己的性命！ 不要陷在她的罪孽中一同灭亡； 因为这是耶和华报仇的时候， 他必向巴比伦施行报应。
Flee from the midst of Babylon, And let each deliver his soul, Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For it [is] a time of vengeance for YHWH—His, He is rendering repayment to her.
7 巴比伦素来是耶和华手中的金杯， 使天下沉醉； 万国喝了她的酒就颠狂了。
Babylon [is] a golden cup in the hand of YHWH, Making all the earth drunk, Nations have drunk of her wine, Therefore nations boast themselves.
8 巴比伦忽然倾覆毁坏； 要为她哀号； 为止她的疼痛， 拿乳香或者可以治好。
Babylon has suddenly fallen, Indeed, she is broken, howl for her, Take balm for her pain, perhaps she may be healed.
9 我们想医治巴比伦， 她却没有治好。 离开她吧！我们各人归回本国； 因为她受的审判通于上天，达到穹苍。
We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For her judgment has come to the heavens, And it has been lifted up to the clouds.
10 耶和华已经彰显我们的公义。 来吧！我们可以在锡安 报告耶和华—我们 神的作为。
YHWH has brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of our God YHWH.
11 你们要磨尖了箭头， 抓住盾牌。 耶和华定意攻击巴比伦，将她毁灭，所以激动了米底亚君王的心；因这是耶和华报仇，就是为自己的殿报仇。
Cleanse the arrows, fill the shields, YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of Media, For His purpose [is] against Babylon to destroy her, For it [is] the vengeance of YHWH, The vengeance of His temple.
12 你们要竖立大旗， 攻击巴比伦的城墙； 要坚固了望台， 派定守望的设下埋伏； 因为耶和华指着巴比伦居民所说的话、 所定的意，他已经作成。
Lift up an ensign to the walls of Babylon, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For YHWH has both devised and done that which He spoke, Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 住在众水之上多有财宝的啊， 你的结局到了！ 你贪婪之量满了！
O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Your end has come—the measure of your dishonest gain.
14 万军之耶和华指着自己起誓说： 我必使敌人充满你，像蚂蚱一样； 他们必呐喊攻击你。
YHWH of Hosts has sworn by Himself, That, Surely I have filled you [with] men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against you—shouting.
15 耶和华用能力创造大地， 用智慧建立世界， 用聪明铺张穹苍。
Making [the] earth by His power, Establishing [the] world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,
16 他一发声，空中便有多水激动； 他使云雾从地极上腾。 他造电随雨而闪， 从他府库中带出风来。
At the voice He gives forth, A multitude of waters [are] in the heavens, And He causes vapors to come up from the end of the earth, He has made lightnings for rain, And He brings out wind from His treasures.
17 各人都成了畜类，毫无知识。 各银匠都因他的偶像羞愧； 他所铸的偶像本是虚假的， 其中并无气息，
Every man has been brutish by knowledge, Everyone has been put to shame—from refining a carved image, For his molten image [is] falsehood, And there is no breath in them.
18 都是虚无的，是迷惑人的工作， 到追讨的时候，必被除灭。
They [are] vanity—a work of errors, They perish in the time of their inspection.
19 雅各的分不像这些， 因他是造作万有的主； 以色列也是他产业的支派。 万军之耶和华是他的名。
The Portion of Jacob [is] not like these, For He is forming the whole, And [Israel is] the tribe of His inheritance, YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name.
20 你是我争战的斧子和打仗的兵器； 我要用你打碎列国， 用你毁灭列邦；
You [are] My shatterer—weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces nations by you, And I have destroyed kingdoms by you,
21 用你打碎马和骑马的； 用你打碎战车和坐在其上的；
And I have broken in pieces horse and its rider by you, And I have broken in pieces chariot and its charioteer by you,
22 用你打碎男人和女人； 用你打碎老年人和少年人； 用你打碎壮丁和处女；
And I have broken in pieces man and woman by you, And I have broken in pieces old and young by you, And I have broken in pieces young man and virgin by you,
23 用你打碎牧人和他的群畜； 用你打碎农夫和他一对牛； 用你打碎省长和副省长。
And I have broken in pieces shepherd and his drove by you, And I have broken in pieces farmer and his team by you, And I have broken in pieces governors and prefects by you.
24 耶和华说：“我必在你们眼前报复巴比伦人和迦勒底居民在锡安所行的诸恶。”
And I have repaid to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have done in Zion, Before your eyes,” a declaration of YHWH.
25 耶和华说： 你这行毁灭的山哪， 就是毁灭天下的山， 我与你反对。 我必向你伸手， 将你从山岩滚下去， 使你成为烧毁的山。
“Behold, I [am] against you, O destroying mountain,” A declaration of YHWH, “That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against you, And I have rolled you from the rocks, And given you for a burnt mountain.
26 人必不从你那里取石头为房角石， 也不取石头为根基石； 你必永远荒凉。 这是耶和华说的。
And they do not take out of you a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For you are continuous desolations,” A declaration of YHWH.
27 要在境内竖立大旗， 在各国中吹角， 使列国预备攻击巴比伦， 将亚拉腊、米尼、亚实基拿各国招来攻击她； 又派军长来攻击她， 使马匹上来如蚂蚱，
“Lift up an ensign in the land, Blow a horn among nations, Sanctify nations against it, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint an infant head against it, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.
28 使列国和米底亚君王，与省长和副省长， 并他们所管全地之人，都预备攻击她。
Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.
29 地必震动而瘠苦； 因耶和华向巴比伦所定的旨意成立了， 使巴比伦之地荒凉，无人居住。
And the land shakes, and it is pained, For the purposes of YHWH have stood against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
30 巴比伦的勇士止息争战， 藏在坚垒之中。 他们的勇力衰尽，好像妇女一样。 巴比伦的住处有火着起， 门闩都折断了。
The mighty of Babylon have ceased to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Their might has failed, they have become [as] women, They have burned her dwelling places, Her bars have been broken.
31 跑报的要彼此相遇， 送信的要互相迎接， 报告巴比伦王说： 城的四方被攻取了，
Runner runs to meet runner, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For his city has been captured—at the extremity.
32 渡口被占据了， 苇塘被火烧了， 兵丁也惊慌了。
And the passages have been captured, And they have burned the reeds with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.
33 万军之耶和华—以色列的 神如此说： 巴比伦城好像踹谷的禾场； 再过片时，收割她的时候就到了。
For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon [is] as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing—yet a little [while], And the time of her harvest has come.
34 以色列人说： 巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒吞灭我，压碎我， 使我成为空虚的器皿。 他像大鱼将我吞下， 用我的美物充满他的肚腹， 又将我赶出去。
Devoured us, crushed us, has Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, He has set us [as] an empty vessel, He has swallowed us as a dragon, He has filled his belly with my delicacies, He has driven us away.
35 锡安的居民要说： 巴比伦以强暴待我， 损害我的身体， 愿这罪归给她。 耶路撒冷人要说： 愿流我们血的罪归到迦勒底的居民。
My wrong, and [that of] my flesh, [is] on Babylon—The inhabitant of Zion says; And my blood [is] on the inhabitants of Chaldea—Jerusalem says.
36 所以，耶和华如此说： 我必为你伸冤，为你报仇； 我必使巴比伦的海枯竭，使她的泉源干涸。
Therefore, thus said YHWH: Behold, I am pleading your cause, And I have avenged your vengeance, And dried up her sea, and made her fountains dry.
37 巴比伦必成为乱堆，为野狗的住处， 令人惊骇、嗤笑， 并且无人居住。
And Babylon has been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38 他们要像少壮狮子咆哮， 像小狮子吼叫。
They roar together as young lions, They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.
39 他们火热的时候， 我必为他们设摆酒席， 使他们沉醉，好叫他们快乐， 睡了长觉，永不醒起。 这是耶和华说的。
In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a continuous sleep, And do not awaken,” a declaration of YHWH.
40 我必使他们像羊羔、 像公绵羊和公山羊下到宰杀之地。
“I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with male goats.
41 示沙克何竟被攻取？ 天下所称赞的何竟被占据？ 巴比伦在列国中何竟变为荒场？
How Sheshach has been captured, Indeed, the praise of the whole earth is caught, How Babylon has been for an astonishment among nations.
42 海水涨起，漫过巴比伦； 她被许多海浪遮盖。
The sea has come up over Babylon, She has been covered with a multitude of its billows.
43 她的城邑变为荒场、旱地、沙漠， 无人居住，无人经过之地。
Her cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land—none dwell in them, Nor does a son of man pass over into them.
44 我必刑罚巴比伦的彼勒， 使他吐出所吞的。 万民必不再流归他那里； 巴比伦的城墙也必坍塌了。
And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed—from his mouth, And nations no longer flow to him, Also the wall of Babylon has fallen.
45 我的民哪，你们要从其中出去！ 各人拯救自己，躲避耶和华的烈怒。
Go forth from her midst, O My people, And let each deliver his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of YHWH,
46 你们不要心惊胆怯， 也不要因境内所听见的风声惧怕； 因为这年有风声传来； 那年也有风声传来， 境内有强暴的事， 官长攻击官长。
And lest your heart be tender, And you are afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And the report has come in [one] year, And after it [another] report in [another] year, And violence [is] in the land, ruler against ruler;
47 日子将到，我必刑罚巴比伦雕刻的偶像。 她全地必然抱愧； 她被杀的人必在其中仆倒。
Therefore, behold, days are coming, And I have seen after the carved images of Babylon. And all its land is ashamed, And all its pierced ones fall in its midst.
48 那时，天地和其中所有的， 必因巴比伦欢呼， 因为行毁灭的要从北方来到她那里。 这是耶和华说的。
And heavens and earth and all that [is] in them Have cried aloud against Babylon, For the spoilers come to her from the north,” A declaration of YHWH.
49 巴比伦怎样使以色列被杀的人仆倒， 照样她全地被杀的人也必在巴比伦仆倒。
“As Babylon [has caused the] pierced of Israel to fall, So they of Babylon have fallen, You pierced of all the earth.
50 你们躲避刀剑的要快走， 不要站住！ 要在远方记念耶和华， 心中追想耶路撒冷。
You escaped of the sword, go on, do not stand, Remember YHWH from afar, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.
51 我们听见辱骂就蒙羞，满面惭愧， 因为外邦人进入耶和华殿的圣所。
We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Shame has covered our faces, For strangers have come in against the sanctuaries of the house of YHWH.
52 耶和华说： 日子将到，我必刑罚巴比伦雕刻的偶像， 通国受伤的人必唉哼。
Therefore, behold, days are coming,” A declaration of YHWH, “And I have seen after her carved images, And the wounded groan in all her land.
53 巴比伦虽升到天上， 虽使她坚固的高处更坚固， 还有行毁灭的从我这里到她那里。 这是耶和华说的。
Because Babylon goes up to the heavens, And because she fortifies the high place of her strength, Spoilers come into her from Me,” A declaration of YHWH.
54 有哀号的声音从巴比伦出来； 有大毁灭的响声从迦勒底人之地发出。
“A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
55 因耶和华使巴比伦变为荒场， 使其中的大声灭绝。 仇敌仿佛众水， 波浪匉訇，响声已经发出。
For YHWH is spoiling Babylon, And has destroyed her great voice, And her billows have sounded as many waters, Their voice has given forth a noise.
56 这是行毁灭的临到巴比伦。 巴比伦的勇士被捉住， 他们的弓折断了； 因为耶和华是施行报应的 神， 必定施行报应。
For a spoiler has come in against her—against Babylon, And her mighty ones have been captured, Their bows have been broken, For the God of recompenses—YHWH—certainly repays.
57 君王—名为万军之耶和华的说： 我必使巴比伦的首领、 智慧人、省长、副省长，和勇士都沉醉， 使他们睡了长觉，永不醒起。
And I have caused her princes to drink, And her wise men, her governors, And her prefects, and her mighty ones, And they have slept a continuous sleep, And they do not awaken—an affirmation of the King, YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name.
58 万军之耶和华如此说： 巴比伦宽阔的城墙必全然倾倒； 她高大的城门必被火焚烧。 众民所劳碌的必致虚空； 列国所劳碌的被火焚烧， 他们都必困乏。
Thus said YHWH of Hosts: The wall of Babylon—The broad one—is made utterly bare, And her high gates are burned with fire, And peoples labor in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!”
59 犹大王西底家在位第四年，上巴比伦去的时候，玛西雅的孙子、尼利亚的儿子西莱雅与王同去（西莱雅是王宫的大臣），先知耶利米有话吩咐他。
The word that Jeremiah the prophet has commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, in his going with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign—and Seraiah [is] a quiet prince;
60 耶利米将一切要临到巴比伦的灾祸，就是论到巴比伦的一切话，写在书上。
and Jeremiah writes all the calamity that comes to Babylon on one scroll—all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
61 耶利米对西莱雅说：“你到了巴比伦务要念这书上的话；
And Jeremiah says to Seraiah, “When you enter Babylon, then you have seen, and have read all these words,
62 又说：‘耶和华啊，你曾论到这地方说：要剪除，甚至连人带牲畜没有在这里居住的，必永远荒凉。’
and have said: YHWH, You have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even to livestock, for it is a continuous desolation.
63 你念完了这书，就把一块石头拴在书上，扔在幼发拉底河中，
And it has come to pass, when you finish reading this scroll, you bind a stone to it, and have cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,
64 说：‘巴比伦因耶和华所要降与她的灾祸，必如此沉下去，不再兴起，人民也必困乏。’” 耶利米的话到此为止。
and said, Thus Babylon sinks, and she does not arise, because of the calamity that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.” Until now [are the] words of Jeremiah.
