Jeremiah 51
1 This is what the Lord says: Look! I'm going to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon and against the people of Babylonia.
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。
2 I will send foreign soldiers to attack Babylon to winnow her and turn her country into a wasteland—they will attack her from all directions when her time of trouble comes.
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。
3 The archer doesn't need to use his bow; the infantryman doesn't need to put on his armor. Don't spare her young soldiers; set apart her whole army for destruction!
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。
4 They will fall down wounded in her streets, killed in the country of Babylonia.
他们必在迦勒底人之地被杀仆倒， 在巴比伦的街上被刺透。
5 Israel and Judah have not been deserted by their God, the Lord Almighty, even though they sinned against the Holy One of Israel everywhere in their country.
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。
6 Escape from Babylon! Run for your lives! Don't get caught up in her punishment and die, for this is the time when the Lord pays her back for her sins.
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。
7 Once Babylon was a golden cup the Lord held in his hand. She made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine which is why they went mad.
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。
8 Now, all of a sudden, Babylon has fallen. She has been smashed to pieces. Weep for her; get her some treatment for her pain. Maybe she can be healed.
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。
9 “We tried to heal her, but she couldn't be helped. So give up on her! All of us should go home to where we came from. The news of her punishment has reached everywhere, all the way to heaven.
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。
10 The Lord has encouraged and supported us. Come on, let's tell people here in Jerusalem what the Lord has done for us!”
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。
11 Sharpen the arrows! Pick up the shields! The Lord has encouraged the kings of the Medes, because his plan is directed at the destruction of Babylon. The Lord is paying them back for what happened to his Temple.
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。
12 Raise the signal flag to attack the walls of Babylon; strengthen the guard; have the watchmen take their places; get the ambush ready. The Lord planned and carried out his threats against the people of Babylon.
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。
13 You people who live beside by many waters, and have so much wealth, this is the time of your end—your life will be cut short.
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！
14 The Lord Almighty vowed by his own life, saying, I'm going to make sure to fill you with so many enemy soldiers they'll be like locusts. They will shout as they celebrate their victory over you.
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。
15 It was God who made the earth by his power. He created the world by his wisdom and by his understanding he put the heavens in place.
耶和华用能力创造大地， 用智慧建立世界， 用聪明铺张穹苍。
16 The waters of the heavens rain down with a roar at his command. He makes the clouds to rise all over the earth. He makes lightning to accompany rain, and sends the wind from his storehouses.
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。
17 Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!
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，
18 They are useless, an object to be laughed at. They will be destroyed at the time of their punishment.
都是虚无的，是迷惑人的工作， 到追讨的时候，必被除灭。
19 The God of Jacob is not like these idols, for he is the creator of everything, including his own people that are special to him. The Lord Almighty is his name.
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。
20 You are my war club, the weapon I use in battle. I use you to destroy nations; I use you to destroy kingdoms.
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；
21 I use you to destroy horses and their riders; I use you to destroy chariots and their drivers.
用你打碎马和骑马的； 用你打碎战车和坐在其上的；
22 I use you to destroy men and women; I use you to destroy old men and youths; I use you to destroy young men and girls.
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；
23 I use you to destroy shepherds and their flocks; I use you to destroy farmers and their cattle; I use you to destroy rulers and state officials.
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。
24 Right in front of you I'm going to pay back Babylon and everyone who live in Babylonia for all the evil they did to Jerusalem, declares the Lord.
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。”
25 Watch out, because I am against you, you destructive monster who devastates the whole world, declares the Lord. I will reach out to attack you; I will roll you down the cliffs; I will turn you into a mountain of ash.
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。
26 Nobody will be even able to find themselves a cornerstone or a foundation stone among your ruins, because you will be so utterly destroyed, declares the Lord.
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。
27 Raise a signal flag in the country! Blow the trumpet call to war among the nations! Get the nations ready to attack her; Summon the kingdoms to march against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Choose a commander to lead the armies to attack her; send into battle cavalry like a swarm of locusts.
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，
28 Have the armies of the nations prepare for battle against her. This applies to the kings of the Medes, their leaders and all their officers, and every country they rule.
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。
29 The earth quakes and trembles because the Lord is determined to carry out what he threatened against Babylon—to turn Babylonia into a wasteland where no one lives.
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。
30 Babylon's defenders have given up fighting—they're just sitting in their fortresses. They're worn out; they've become like frightened women. Babylon's houses are burning; the bars securing her gates have been smashed.
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。
31 A runner hands his message over to another to carry; one messenger follows another messenger, all of them alerting the king of Babylon to the news that his city has been completely conquered,
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，
32 the river crossings have been captured, the marshlands set on fire and his soldiers are panicking.
渡口被占据了， 苇塘被火烧了， 兵丁也惊慌了。
33 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: The people of Babylon are like a threshing floor when the grain is trampled out. Her time of harvest will come very soon.
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。
34 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon chewed me up and sucked me dry, making me as empty as a jar with nothing in it. He swallowed me down as if he were some monster, filling himself with the tastiest parts of me and throwing the rest away.
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。
35 “Babylon must bear the responsibility for the violent attacks on us,” say the inhabitants of Zion. “The people of Babylonia must bear the responsibility for the blood shed in my city,” says Jerusalem.
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。
36 This is what the Lord says: Watch as I present your case for you and make your enemies pay for what they did to you. I'm going to dry up her river and her springs.
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。
37 Babylon will be turned into a pile of rubble, a home for jackals, a place that horrifies people, a place they jeer at, a place where no one lives.
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。
38 The Babylonians will roar together like powerful lions and growl like lion cubs.
他们要像少壮狮子咆哮， 像小狮子吼叫。
39 But while their passions are aroused, I will serve them a banquet and get them drunk. They'll celebrate so much that they'll pass out and won't ever wake up, declares the Lord.
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。
40 I will take them down like lambs to be slaughtered, like rams and goats.
我必使他们像羊羔、 像公绵羊和公山羊下到宰杀之地。
41 How could it be? Babylon has fallen! The most famous city in the world has been conquered! What a horrible sight Babylon has become to everyone watching!
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？
42 It's as if the sea has flooded over Babylon, covering her in crashing waves.
海水涨起，漫过巴比伦； 她被许多海浪遮盖。
43 The towns of Babylonia are in ruins, turned into a dry desert wasteland where no one lives—no one even passes by.
她的城邑变为荒场、旱地、沙漠， 无人居住，无人经过之地。
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will force him to spit out what he swallowed. People of other nations won't run to worship him anymore. Even Babylon's wall has fallen.
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。
45 My people, come out of her! Each one of you, save yourselves from the Lord's furious anger.
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。
46 Don't lose courage, and don't be afraid when you hear different rumors going around the country. There'll be one rumor one year, and another one the next, talking about violent revolution, of one ruler fighting against another.
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。
47 Look, the time is coming when I will punish Babylon's idols. The whole country will be humiliated; it will be full of the dead bodies of those who have been killed.
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。
48 Then everyone in heaven and on earth will celebrate with shouts of joy at what's happened to Babylon, because the destroyers from the north will come and attack her, declares the Lord.
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。
49 Babylon has to fall because of the Israelites and people of other nations she killed.
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。
50 Those of you who have managed to escape being killed, leave now! Don't delay! Remember the Lord in this far away place; think about Jerusalem.
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。
51 “We are embarrassed because we've been mocked, and we held our heads in shame because foreigners went into the holy places of the Lord's Temple,”
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。
52 So keep watching, declares the Lord, because the time is coming when I will punish her for worshiping idols, and the sound of wounded people moaning will be heard throughout the country.
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。
53 Even if Babylon could climb up into the sky to strengthen her high fortresses, those I send to attack her will destroy her, declares the Lord.
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。
54 A cry comes from Babylon; the noise of terrible destruction comes from the country of Babylonia.
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。
55 For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon; he will put an end to her boastful talk. The waves of attacking army will roar like the crashing sea; the noise of their shouts will echo all around.
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。
56 A destroyer is coming to attack Babylon. Her soldiers will be taken prisoner, and their bows will be smashed, for the Lord is a God who punishes fairly; he will definitely pay them back.
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。
57 I will make her leaders and wise men drunk, along with her commanders, officers, and soldiers. Then they will pass out, and won't ever wake up, declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
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。
58 This is what the Lord Almighty says: Babylon's massive walls will be knocked down to the ground and her high gates burned. All that the people worked for will be for nothing; other nations who came to help will wear themselves out, only to see what they've done go up in flames.
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。
59 This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he accompanied King Zedekiah of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign. Seraiah was the king's personal assistant.
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。
60 Jeremiah had written on a scroll a description of all the disasters that would come to Babylon—all these words written here about Babylon.
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。
61 Jeremiah told Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read out loud everything written here,
耶利米对西莱雅说：“你到了巴比伦务要念这书上的话；
62 and announce, ‘Lord, you have promised to destroy this place so that none will be left—no people or animals. In fact it will be deserted forever.’
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。’
63 After you finish reading this scroll out loud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.
你念完了这书，就把一块石头拴在书上，扔在幼发拉底河中，
64 Then say, ‘This is how Babylon will sink and won't ever rise again, because of the disaster I'm bringing down on her. Her people will grow tired.’” This is the end of Jeremiah's messages.
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。
