Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah She came from Libnah.
西底家登基的時候年二十一歲，在耶路撒冷作王十一年。他母親名叫哈慕她，是立拿人耶利米的女兒。
2 He did evil in the Lord's sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.
西底家行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，是照約雅敬一切所行的。
3 All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, because of the Lord's anger, until he eventually banished them from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
因此耶和華的怒氣在耶路撒冷和猶大發作，以致將人民從自己的面前趕出。
4 In the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. He set up camp around the city and built siege ramps against the walls.
西底家背叛巴比倫王。他作王第九年十月初十日，巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒率領全軍來攻擊耶路撒冷，對城安營，四圍築壘攻城。
5 The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
於是城被圍困直到西底家王十一年。
6 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.
四月初九日，城裏有大饑荒，甚至百姓都沒有糧食。
7 Then the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers ran away, escaping at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, even though the Babylonians had the city surrounded. They went in the direction of the Arabah,
城被攻破，一切兵丁就在夜間從靠近王園兩城中間的門，出城逃跑；迦勒底人正在四圍攻城。他們就往亞拉巴逃去。
8 but the Babylonian army chased after the king and caught up with him on the plains of Jericho. His whole army had scattered and left him.
迦勒底的軍隊追趕西底家王，在耶利哥的平原追上他。他的全軍都離開他四散了。
9 They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he sentenced him.
迦勒底人就拿住王，帶他到在哈馬地利比拉的巴比倫王那裏；巴比倫王便審判他。
10 The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons while he watched, and also killed the officials of Judah there at Riblah.
巴比倫王在西底家眼前殺了他的眾子，又在利比拉殺了猶大的一切首領，
11 Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and imprisoned him there until the day he died.
並且剜了西底家的眼睛，用銅鍊鎖着他，帶到巴比倫去，將他囚在監裏，直到他死的日子。
12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, an officer of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒十九年五月初十日，在巴比倫王面前侍立的護衛長尼布撒拉旦進入耶路撒冷，
13 He burned down the Lord's Temple, the royal palace, and all the large buildings of Jerusalem.
用火焚燒耶和華的殿和王宮，又焚燒耶路撒冷的房屋，就是各大戶家的房屋。
14 The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the guard knocked down all the walls around Jerusalem.
跟從護衛長迦勒底的全軍就拆毀耶路撒冷四圍的城牆。
15 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, deported some of the poor people and those who were left in the city, even those who had gone over to the side of the king of Babylon, as well as the rest of the craftsmen.
那時護衛長尼布撒拉旦將民中最窮的和城裏所剩下的百姓，並已經投降巴比倫王的人，以及大眾所剩下的人，都擄去了。
16 But Nebuzaradan allowed others of the poor people who were left in the country to stay and take care of the vineyards and the fields.
但護衛長尼布撒拉旦留下些民中最窮的，使他們修理葡萄園，耕種田地。
17 The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the movable carts, and the bronze Sea that belonged to the Lord's Temple, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
耶和華殿的銅柱並殿內的盆座和銅海，迦勒底人都打碎了，將那銅運到巴比倫去了，
18 They also took all the pots, shovels, lamp snuffers, sprinkling bowls, and all the other bronze items used in the Temple service.
又帶去鍋、鏟子、蠟剪、盤子、調羹，並所用的一切銅器、
19 The commander of the guard removed the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls, anything that was made of pure gold or silver.
杯、火鼎、碗、盆、燈臺、調羹、爵，無論金的銀的，護衛長也都帶去了。
20 The amount of bronze that came from the two columns, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable carts, which Solomon had made for the Lord's Temple, all of this weighed more than could be measured.
所羅門為耶和華殿所造的兩根銅柱、一個銅海，並座下的十二隻銅牛，這一切的銅多得無法可稱。
21 Each column was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits around. They were hollow with walls four fingers thick.
這一根柱子高十八肘，厚四指，是空的，圍十二肘。
22 The bronze capital on top of one column was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates around it. The second column was the same, and also had a decorative network.
柱上有銅頂，高五肘；銅頂的周圍有網子和石榴，都是銅的。那一根柱子照此一樣，也有石榴。
23 There were ninety-six bronze pomegranates around each column. Above the network were a total of one hundred pomegranates.
柱子四面有九十六個石榴，在網子周圍，共有一百石榴。
24 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest, second in rank, and the three Temple doorkeepers.
護衛長拿住大祭司西萊雅、副祭司西番亞，和三個把門的，
25 From those left in the city he took the officer in charge of the soldiers, and seven of the king's advisors. He also took the secretary to the army commander who was in charge of calling up the people for military service, and sixty other men who were present in the city.
又從城中拿住一個管理兵丁的官，並在城裏所遇常見王面的七個人和檢點國民軍長的書記，以及城裏所遇見的國民六十個人。
26 Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took them and brought them before the king of Babylon at Riblah.
護衛長尼布撒拉旦將這些人帶到利比拉的巴比倫王那裏。
27 The king of Babylon had them executed at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So the people of Judah had to leave their land.
巴比倫王就把他們擊殺在哈馬地的利比拉。這樣，猶大人被擄去離開本地。
28 This is a record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar took into exile. In the seventh year of his reign he took 3,023 Judeans.
尼布甲尼撒所擄的民數記在下面：在他第七年擄去猶大人三千零二十三名；
29 In his eighteenth year Nebuchadnezzar took another 832 from Jerusalem.
尼布甲尼撒十八年從耶路撒冷擄去八百三十二人；
30 In his twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, took another 745 Judeans, making a total of 4,600.
尼布甲尼撒二十三年，護衛長尼布撒拉旦擄去猶大人七百四十五名；共有四千六百人。
31 In the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison. This happened on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah.
猶大王約雅斤被擄後三十七年，巴比倫王以未‧米羅達元年十二月二十五日，使猶大王約雅斤抬頭，提他出監，
32 The king of Babylon treated him well him and gave him a position of honor higher than the other kings there with him in Babylon.
又對他說恩言，使他的位高過與他一同在巴比倫眾王的位，
33 So Jehoiachin was able to remove his prison clothes, and he ate frequently at the king's table for the rest of his life.
給他脫了囚服。他終身在巴比倫王面前吃飯。
34 The king provided Jehoiachin with a daily allowance for the rest of his life until he died.
巴比倫王賜他所需用的食物，日日賜他一分，終身是這樣，直到他死的日子。
