Jeremiah 51
1 “Yahweh says this: See, I am about to stir up a wind of destruction against Babylon and against those who live in Leb Kamai.
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 foreigners to Babylon. They will scatter her and devastate her land, for they will come against her from all around on the day of disaster.
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 Do not let the archers bend their bows; do not let them put on armor. Do not spare her young men; set her whole army apart 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 For the wounded people will fall in the land of the Chaldeans; those who are killed will fall in her streets.
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 For Israel and Judah are not forsaken by their God, by Yahweh of hosts, although their land is filled with offenses committed against the Holy One of Israel.
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 Flee from the midst of Babylon; let each man save himself. Do not perish in her iniquity. For it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance. He will repay all of it to her.
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 Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of Yahweh that made all the world drunk; nations drank her wine and became insane.
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 Babylon will fall suddenly and be destroyed. Wail for her! Give her medicine for her pain; perhaps 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 wished to heal Babylon, but she is not healed. Let us all leave her and go away, to our own land. For her guilt reaches up to the heavens; it is piled up to the clouds.
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 Yahweh has declared our innocence. Come, let us tell in Zion the deeds of Yahweh our God.'
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 and take up the shields. Yahweh is stirring up the spirit of the king of the Medes in a plan to destroy Babylon. This is for Yahweh's vengeance, vengeance for the destruction of 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 Lift up a banner over Babylon's walls; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD will do what he has said concerning the inhabitants 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 by many streams of water, you people who are rich with treasures, your end has come. The thread of your life is now 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 Yahweh of hosts has sworn by his own life, 'I will fill you with men, like a swarm of locusts, and they will raise a battle cry against 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 He has made the earth by his power; he set in place the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
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 When he thunders, there is the roar of waters in the heavens, for he brings up the mist from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for rain and sends out 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 Every man has become ignorant, without knowledge. Every metalworker is put to shame by his idols. For his cast images are frauds, and there is no life in them.
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, the work of mockers; they will perish 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 But God, the portion of Jacob, is not like these, for he is the molder of all things. Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; Yahweh of hosts 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 hammer, my weapon for battle. With you I will smash nations and 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 With you I will smash horses and their riders; with you I will smash 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 With you I will smash each man and woman; with you I will smash the old and the young. With you I will smash the young men and the virgin 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 With you I will smash the shepherds and their flocks; with you I will smash the plowmen and their teams. With you I will smash the governors and 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 For in your sight I will pay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all of the evil that they did in Zion—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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 See, I am against you, mountain of destruction—this is Yahweh's declaration—which destroys the whole earth. I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.
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 So they will not take from you any stone to construct a building's corner or foundation; for you will become an everlasting devastation—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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 Lift up a banner over the earth. Blow the trumpet over the nations. Call the nations to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander to attack her; bring up horses like swarming 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 Prepare the nations to attack her: The kings of the Medes and his governors, all of his officials and all the lands under his 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 For the land will shake and be in anguish, since Yahweh's plans continue against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a wasteland where there is no inhabitant.
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 The soldiers in Babylon have stopped fighting; they stay in their strongholds. Their strength has failed; they have become women—her homes are on fire, the bars of her gates are broken.
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 messenger runs to proclaim to another messenger, and a runner tells another runner to report to the king of Babylon that his city has been taken from end to end.
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 So the fords over the river are seized; the enemy is burning the reed marshes, and Babylon's fighting men are confused.
渡口被占据了， 苇塘被火烧了， 兵丁也惊慌了。
33 For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor. It is time to trample her down. In a little while the time of harvest will come to her.
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 has devoured me, he has driven me into confusion and has made me an empty pot. Like a monster he has swallowed me, he has filled his stomach with my delicious foods, and then he has spit me out.'
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 The one who lives in Zion will say, 'May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon.' Jerusalem will say, 'May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea.'
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 Therefore Yahweh says this: See, I am about to plead your case and bring about vengeance for you. For I will dry up Babylon's waters and make her springs run dry.
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 become heaps of rubble, a den of jackals, a horror, an object of hissing, where there are no inhabitants.
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 young lions. They will growl like lion cubs.
他们要像少壮狮子咆哮， 像小狮子吼叫。
39 When they become hot with greed, I will make a feast for them; I will make them drunk so they become happy, and then sleep an unending sleep and not wake up—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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 send them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male 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 Babylon has been captured! So the praise of all the earth is seized. How Babylon has become a ruined place among the nations.
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 The sea has come up over Babylon! She is covered with its roaring waves.
海水涨起，漫过巴比伦； 她被许多海浪遮盖。
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land that no one inhabits, and no human being passes through.
她的城邑变为荒场、旱地、沙漠， 无人居住，无人经过之地。
44 So I will punish Bel in Babylon; I will bring out from his mouth what he swallowed, and the nations will no longer flow to him with their offerings. The walls of Babylon will fall.
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 Go out from her midst, my people. Let each of you save his own life from the fury of my wrath.
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 Do not let your hearts be timid or fear the news that is heard in the land, for the news will come one year. After it in the next year there will be news, and violence will be in the land. Ruler will be against ruler.
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 Therefore, see, days are coming when I will punish the carved idols of Babylon. All of her land will be ashamed, and all of her slaughtered ones will fall in her midst.
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 the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them will rejoice over Babylon. For destroyers will come for her from the north—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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 As Babylon has made the killed of Israel fall, so the killed of all her land will fall in Babylon.
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 Survivors of the sword, go away! Do not stay still. Call Yahweh to mind from far away; let Jerusalem come to mind.
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 ashamed, for we have heard insults; reproach has covered our faces, for foreigners have entered the holy places of Yahweh's house.
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 Therefore, see, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish her carved idols, and the wounded people will groan in all of her land.
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 For even if Babylon went up to the heavens or fortified her highest fortresses, destroyers would come from me to her—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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 shout of distress came from Babylon, a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans.
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 Yahweh is destroying Babylon. He is causing her loud voice to perish. Their enemies roar like the waves of many waters; their noise becomes very strong.
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 For the destroyers have come against her—against Babylon!—and her warriors have been captured. Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is the God of vengeance; he will surely carry out this repayment.
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 For I will make her princes, her sages, her officials, and her soldiers drunk, and they will sleep in an unending sleep and never wake up —this is the King's declaration: Yahweh of hosts is his name.
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 Yahweh of hosts says this: The thick walls of Babylon will be completely demolished, and her high gates will be burned. Then the peoples coming to her aid will labor uselessly; everything that the nations try to do for her will be burned up.”
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 word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was a chief officer.
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 For Jeremiah had written in a scroll about all the disaster that was going to come on Babylon—all these words that were written 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 said to Seraiah, “When you go to Babylon, then you will see and you will read these words aloud.
耶利米对西莱雅说：“你到了巴比伦务要念这书上的话；
62 Then you will say, 'Yahweh, you yourself have declared that you would destroy this place, and that no man or animal will live in it, and it will be desolate 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 Then when you have finished reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of 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 Say, 'Babylon will sink like this. It will not arise because of the disaster that I am sending against it, and they will fall.'” Jeremiah's words end here.
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。
