Jeremiah 51
1 Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will awaken against Babylon, and against those that dwell in the midst of my opponents, 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 out unto Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall empty out her land; for they shall be against her round about on the day of trouble.
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 Let the archer come against any one that bendeth his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his armor: and spare ye not her young men: destroy ye 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 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 not widowed are Israel and Judah of their God, of the Lord of hosts; for the land of those was filled with guiltiness 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 ye out of the midst of Babylon, and save ye every man his life: perish not for her iniquity; for this is a time of vengeance unto the Lord; a recompense is he paying out unto 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 A golden cup hath Babylon been in the hand of the Lord, that made drunken all the earth: of her wine have nations drunk; therefore are the nations rendered 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 Suddenly is Babylon fallen and broken: wail ye for her; fetch balm for her wound, 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 would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one unto his own country; for her punishment reacheth unto the heavens, and it is lifted up even 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 The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us relate in Zion the work of the Lord 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 Make bright the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord hath awakened the spirit of the kings of Media; for against Babylon is his intention, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for 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 Against the walls of Babylon lift up the standard, strengthen the watch, set up the watchmen, make ready the ambushes; for the Lord hath both intended and done what he had spoken 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 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, great in treasures, thy end is come, the full measure of thy selfish robbery.
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 Sworn hath the Lord of hosts by himself, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with locusts: and they shall lift up the battle-cry 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 made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he 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 sound when he giveth a multitude of waters in the heavens, and causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; when he maketh lightnings with 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 Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.
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, the work of deception: in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.
都是虛無的，是迷惑人的工作， 到追討的時候，必被除滅。
19 Not like these is the portion of Jacob; for He is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord 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 a hammer unto me, weapons of war; and I strike down with thee nations, and I destroy with thee 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 I strike down with thee the horse and his rider; and I strike down with thee the chariot and its rider;
用你打碎馬和騎馬的； 用你打碎戰車和坐在其上的；
22 And I strike down with thee man and woman; and I strike down with thee the aged and the lad; and I strike down with thee the young man and the virgin:
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 strike down with thee the shepherd and his flock; and I strike down with thee the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and I strike down with thee 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 But [now] will I repay unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes, saith the Lord.
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, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand over thee, and I will roll thee down from the rocks, and will render thee 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 shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but everlasting ruins shalt thou be, saith the Lord.
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 ye up a standard in the land, blow ye the cornet among the nations, make ready against her nations, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint against her a commander; cause the horses to come up like the hairy locusts.
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 Make ready against her the nations with the kings of Media, its governors, and all its rulers, and 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 earth quaketh and trembleth; for every one of the purposes of the Lord is fulfilled against Babylon, to change the land of Babylon into a desolate country without an 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 sit still in [their] strongholds; their might is vanished; they are become as women: they have burnt her dwelling-places; 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 One runner shall run to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell unto the king of Babylon that his city is captured at all ends,
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 that the passages have been seized, and that they have burnt the reeds with fire, and that 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 hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time they thresh therein; but yet a little while more, when 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 devoured me, he crushed me, he set me down as an empty vessel, he swallowed me up like a huge serpent, he filled his belly with my delicacies: he drove 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,” will the inhabitress of Zion say; and “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” will 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 hath said the Lord, Behold, I will contend in thy cause, and execute vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and cause her springs to fail.
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 ruinous heaps, a dwelling-place for monsters, an astonishment, and a derision, without an 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 Together like lions shall they roar: they shall yell like the lions' whelps.
他們要像少壯獅子咆哮， 像小獅子吼叫。
39 When they are heated will I prepare their drinking-feasts, and I will make them drunken, in order that they may be joyful, and [then] sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake again, saith the Lord.
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 wethers 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 captured! and how is conquered the praise of the whole earth! 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 over Babylon: with the multitude of its waves is she covered.
海水漲起，漫過巴比倫； 她被許多海浪遮蓋。
43 Her cities are become desolate places, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein not any man shall dwell, and through which no son of man shall pass along.
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 inflict punishment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth what he hath swallowed up out of his mouth; and nations shall not assemble together like a stream unto him any more; yea, the wall of Babylon also 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 save ye every man his life from the fierceness of the anger of the Lord.
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 so that your heart may not faint, and ye fear at the report that is heard in the land: when the report cometh in one year, and after that in another year cometh another report, and when violence [be done] in the land, [by] 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 inflict punishment on the graven images of Babylon, and her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fail 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 then shall the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, sing because of Babylon; for from the north shall come unto her the destroyers, saith the Lord.
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 Also Babylon is destined to fall, O ye slain ones of Israel, also at Babylon fall the slain of all the land.
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 [But] ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember afar off the Lord, and let Jerusalem rise up in 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 had been made ashamed, because we had heard reproach: confusion had covered our faces; because strangers were come into the sanctuaries of the Lord'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 are coming, saith the Lord, when I will inflict punishment on her graven images: and through all her land shall groan the deadly wounded.
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 heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength; yet from me should destroyers come unto her, saith the Lord.
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 sound of a painful cry cometh from Babylon, and of a great breach 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 Because the Lord wasteth Babylon, and destroyeth out of her the loud noise; but their waves roar like great waters, the noise of their voice is sent forth;
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 Because the destroyer is come over her, over Babylon, and her mighty men are caught, every one of their bows is broken; for the God of recompenses, the Lord, will surely 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 drunken her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake again, saith the King, The Lord 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 hath said the Lord of hosts, Every one of the broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; so that nations shall have labored in vain, and the people for the fire, and so shall they have wearied themselves.
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 which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Serayah the son of Neriyah, the son of Machseyah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah unto Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Serayah 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 down all the evil that should come upon Babylon in one book, namely, 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 said to Serayah, As thou comest to Babylon, see to it, 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 thou shalt say, O Lord, thou thyself hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, so that there shall not be in it an inhabitant, either man or beast; but that it shall become a desolate place 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 finished reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and throw 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 thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again from the evil that I will bring upon her: and her people shall be wearied. Thus far 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。
