Jeremiah 51
1 Thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb, My withstanders, 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 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.
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 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.
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 wounded have fallen in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-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 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.
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 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.
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 [is] a golden cup in the hand of YHWH, Making all the earth drunk, Nations have drunk of her wine, Therefore nations boast themselves.
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 has suddenly fallen, Indeed, she is broken, howl for her, Take balm for her pain, perhaps 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 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.
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 YHWH has brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of our God YHWH.
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 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.
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 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.
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 O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Your end has come—the measure of your dishonest gain.
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 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.
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 Making [the] earth by His power, Establishing [the] world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,
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 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.
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 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.
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 errors, They perish in the time of their inspection.
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 these, For He is forming the whole, And [Israel is] the tribe of His inheritance, YHWH 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 You [are] My shatterer—weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces nations by you, And I have destroyed kingdoms by you,
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 I have broken in pieces horse and its rider by you, And I have broken in pieces chariot and its charioteer by you,
用你打碎馬和騎馬的； 用你打碎戰車和坐在其上的；
22 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,
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its 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 shakes, and it is pained, For the purposes of YHWH have stood against Babylon, 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 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.
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 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.
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 have been captured, And they have burned the reeds with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.
渡口被佔據了， 葦塘被火燒了， 兵丁也驚慌了。
33 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 said YHWH: Behold, I am pleading your cause, And I have avenged your vengeance, And dried up her sea, and made her fountains 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 has been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, 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 roar together as young lions, They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.
他們要像少壯獅子咆哮， 像小獅子吼叫。
39 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.
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 cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with male 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 Sheshach has been captured, Indeed, the praise of the whole earth is caught, How Babylon has been for an astonishment among 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 has come up over Babylon, She has been covered with a multitude of its billows.
海水漲起，漫過巴比倫； 她被許多海浪遮蓋。
43 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.
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 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.
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 forth from her midst, O My people, And let each deliver his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of YHWH,
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 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;
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, 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.
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 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.
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 [has caused the] pierced of Israel to fall, So they of Babylon have fallen, You pierced 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 You escaped of the sword, go on, do not stand, Remember YHWH from afar, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.
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 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.
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 are coming,” A declaration of YHWH, “And I have seen after her carved images, And the wounded groan in all her land.
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 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.
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 “A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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!”
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 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;
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 writes all the calamity that comes to Babylon on one scroll—all these words that are written concerning 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 says to Seraiah, “When you enter Babylon, then you have seen, and have 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 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.
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 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,
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 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.
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。
