Jeremiah 51
1 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the heart of those that rise against me, a destroying wind;
耶和華如此說： 我必使毀滅的風颳起， 攻擊巴比倫和住在立加米的人。
2 and I will send unto Babylon strangers, who shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
我要打發外邦人來到巴比倫， 簸揚她，使她的地空虛。 在她遭禍的日子， 他們要周圍攻擊她。
3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail; and spare not her young men: destroy utterly all her host.
拉弓的，要向拉弓的和貫甲挺身的射箭。 不要憐惜她的少年人； 要滅盡她的全軍。
4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
他們必在迦勒底人之地被殺仆倒， 在巴比倫的街上被刺透。
5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
以色列和猶大雖然境內充滿違背以色列聖者的罪， 卻沒有被他的上帝－萬軍之耶和華丟棄。
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence.
你們要從巴比倫中逃奔， 各救自己的性命！ 不要陷在她的罪孽中一同滅亡； 因為這是耶和華報仇的時候， 他必向巴比倫施行報應。
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore have the nations become mad.
巴比倫素來是耶和華手中的金杯， 使天下沉醉； 萬國喝了她的酒就顛狂了。
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
巴比倫忽然傾覆毀壞； 要為她哀號； 為止她的疼痛， 拿乳香或者可以治好。
9 We have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.
我們想醫治巴比倫， 她卻沒有治好。 離開她吧！我們各人歸回本國； 因為她受的審判通於上天，達到穹蒼。
10 Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.
耶和華已經彰顯我們的公義。 來吧！我們可以在錫安 報告耶和華－我們上帝的作為。
11 Sharpen the arrows; take the shields. Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for this is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.
你們要磨尖了箭頭， 抓住盾牌。 耶和華定意攻擊巴比倫，將她毀滅，所以激動了米底亞君王的心；因這是耶和華報仇，就是為自己的殿報仇。
12 Lift up a banner towards the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
你們要豎立大旗， 攻擊巴比倫的城牆； 要堅固瞭望臺， 派定守望的設下埋伏； 因為耶和華指着巴比倫居民所說的話、 所定的意，他已經作成。
13 Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity.
住在眾水之上多有財寶的啊， 你的結局到了！ 你貪婪之量滿了！
14 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, I will assuredly fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall raise a shout against thee.
萬軍之耶和華指着自己起誓說： 我必使敵人充滿你，像螞蚱一樣； 他們必吶喊攻擊你。
15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
耶和華用能力創造大地， 用智慧建立世界， 用聰明鋪張穹蒼。
16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
他一發聲，空中便有多水激動； 他使雲霧從地極上騰。 他造電隨雨而閃， 從他府庫中帶出風來。
17 Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
各人都成了畜類，毫無知識。 各銀匠都因他的偶像羞愧； 他所鑄的偶像本是虛假的， 其中並無氣息，
18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
都是虛無的，是迷惑人的工作， 到追討的時候，必被除滅。
19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all things: and [Israel] is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
雅各的分不像這些， 因他是造作萬有的主； 以色列也是他產業的支派。 萬軍之耶和華是他的名。
20 Thou art my maul, [my] weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;
你是我爭戰的斧子和打仗的兵器； 我要用你打碎列國， 用你毀滅列邦；
21 and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and its driver;
用你打碎馬和騎馬的； 用你打碎戰車和坐在其上的；
22 and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
用你打碎男人和女人； 用你打碎老年人和少年人； 用你打碎壯丁和處女；
23 and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and rulers.
用你打碎牧人和他的群畜； 用你打碎農夫和他一對牛； 用你打碎省長和副省長。
24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, in your sight, all their evil which they have done in Zion, saith Jehovah.
耶和華說：「我必在你們眼前報復巴比倫人和迦勒底居民在錫安所行的諸惡。」
25 Behold, I am against thee, mount of destruction, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burning mountain.
耶和華說： 你這行毀滅的山哪， 就是毀滅天下的山， 我與你反對。 我必向你伸手， 將你從山巖滾下去， 使你成為燒毀的山。
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; for thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.
人必不從你那裏取石頭為房角石， 也不取石頭為根基石； 你必永遠荒涼。 這是耶和華說的。
27 Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly caterpillars.
要在境內豎立大旗， 在各國中吹角， 使列國預備攻擊巴比倫， 將亞拉臘、米尼、亞實基拿各國招來攻擊她； 又派軍長來攻擊她， 使馬匹上來如螞蚱，
28 Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion.
使列國和米底亞君王，與省長和副省長， 並他們所管全地之人，都預備攻擊她。
29 And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
地必震動而瘠苦； 因耶和華向巴比倫所定的旨意成立了， 使巴比倫之地荒涼，無人居住。
30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they are sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; her bars are broken.
巴比倫的勇士止息爭戰， 藏在堅壘之中。 他們的勇力衰盡，好像婦女一樣。 巴比倫的住處有火着起， 門閂都折斷了。
31 Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;
跑報的要彼此相遇， 送信的要互相迎接， 報告巴比倫王說： 城的四方被攻取了，
32 and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
渡口被佔據了， 葦塘被火燒了， 兵丁也驚慌了。
33 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說： 巴比倫城好像踹穀的禾場； 再過片時，收割她的時候就到了。
34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
以色列人說： 巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒吞滅我，壓碎我， 使我成為空虛的器皿。 他像大魚將我吞下， 用我的美物充滿他的肚腹， 又將我趕出去。
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitress of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
錫安的居民要說： 巴比倫以強暴待我， 損害我的身體， 願這罪歸給她。 耶路撒冷人要說： 願流我們血的罪歸到迦勒底的居民。
36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her spring dry.
所以，耶和華如此說： 我必為你伸冤，為你報仇； 我必使巴比倫的海枯竭，使她的泉源乾涸。
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
巴比倫必成為亂堆，為野狗的住處， 令人驚駭、嗤笑， 並且無人居住。
38 They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.
他們要像少壯獅子咆哮， 像小獅子吼叫。
39 When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
他們火熱的時候， 我必為他們設擺酒席， 使他們沉醉，好叫他們快樂， 睡了長覺，永不醒起。 這是耶和華說的。
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
我必使他們像羊羔、 像公綿羊和公山羊下到宰殺之地。
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
示沙克何竟被攻取？ 天下所稱讚的何竟被佔據？ 巴比倫在列國中何竟變為荒場？
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
海水漲起，漫過巴比倫； 她被許多海浪遮蓋。
43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.
她的城邑變為荒場、旱地、沙漠， 無人居住，無人經過之地。
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.
我必刑罰巴比倫的彼勒， 使他吐出所吞的。 萬民必不再流歸他那裏； 巴比倫的城牆也必坍塌了。
45 Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah!
我的民哪，你們要從其中出去！ 各人拯救自己，躲避耶和華的烈怒。
46 lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; for a rumour shall come [one] year, and after that a rumour in [another] year, and violence in the earth, ruler against ruler.
你們不要心驚膽怯， 也不要因境內所聽見的風聲懼怕； 因為這年有風聲傳來； 那年也有風聲傳來， 境內有強暴的事， 官長攻擊官長。
47 Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
日子將到，我必刑罰巴比倫雕刻的偶像。 她全地必然抱愧； 她被殺的人必在其中仆倒。
48 And the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall shout aloud over Babylon; for out of the north the spoilers shall come against her, saith Jehovah.
那時，天地和其中所有的， 必因巴比倫歡呼， 因為行毀滅的要從北方來到她那裏。 這是耶和華說的。
49 As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
巴比倫怎樣使以色列被殺的人仆倒， 照樣她全地被殺的人也必在巴比倫仆倒。
50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
你們躲避刀劍的要快走， 不要站住！ 要在遠方記念耶和華， 心中追想耶路撒冷。
51 — We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our face: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.
我們聽見辱罵就蒙羞，滿面慚愧， 因為外邦人進入耶和華殿的聖所。
52 — Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish her graven images; and throughout her land the wounded shall groan.
耶和華說： 日子將到，我必刑罰巴比倫雕刻的偶像， 通國受傷的人必唉哼。
53 Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith Jehovah.
巴比倫雖升到天上， 雖使她堅固的高處更堅固， 還有行毀滅的從我這裏到她那裏。 這是耶和華說的。
54 The sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
有哀號的聲音從巴比倫出來； 有大毀滅的響聲從迦勒底人之地發出。
55 for Jehovah spoileth Babylon, and he will destroy out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like great waters, the noise of their voice resoundeth.
因耶和華使巴比倫變為荒場， 使其中的大聲滅絕。 仇敵彷彿眾水， 波浪匉訇，響聲已經發出。
56 For the spoiler is come against her, against Babylon, and her mighty men are taken; their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah, the God of recompences, will certainly requite.
這是行毀滅的臨到巴比倫。 巴比倫的勇士被捉住， 他們的弓折斷了； 因為耶和華是施行報應的上帝， 必定施行報應。
57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
君王－名為萬軍之耶和華的說： 我必使巴比倫的首領、 智慧人、省長、副省長，和勇士都沉醉， 使他們睡了長覺，永不醒起。
58 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary.
萬軍之耶和華如此說： 巴比倫寬闊的城牆必全然傾倒； 她高大的城門必被火焚燒。 眾民所勞碌的必致虛空； 列國所勞碌的被火焚燒， 他們都必困乏。
59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Nerijah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.
猶大王西底家在位第四年，上巴比倫去的時候，瑪西雅的孫子、尼利亞的兒子西萊雅與王同去（西萊雅是王宮的大臣），先知耶利米有話吩咐他。
60 And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.
耶利米將一切要臨到巴比倫的災禍，就是論到巴比倫的一切話，寫在書上。
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, see that thou read all these words;
耶利米對西萊雅說：「你到了巴比倫務要念這書上的話；
62 and say, Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, that thou wilt cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
又說：『耶和華啊，你曾論到這地方說：要剪除，甚至連人帶牲畜沒有在這裏居住的，必永遠荒涼。』
63 And it shall be, when thou hast ended reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates;
你念完了這書，就把一塊石頭拴在書上，扔在幼發拉底河中，
64 and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise, because of the evil that I will bring upon it: and they shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.
說：『巴比倫因耶和華所要降與她的災禍，必如此沉下去，不再興起，人民也必困乏。』」 耶利米的話到此為止。
