¹耶和華的回答我要站在哨崗，立在城樓，留心看耶和華在我裡面說甚麼，怎樣使我答覆自己的怨訴。

¹I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

²耶和華回答我說：“把異象寫下，記在泥版上，使讀的人容易明白，

²And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

³因這異象關乎一定的日期，很快就要實現，決不徒然；縱有遲延，仍當等候，因為它一定會來到，絕不耽誤。”

³For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

⁴迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直；然而義人必因信得生（“必因信得生”或譯：“必因他的信實得生”）。

⁴Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

⁵財富（傳統作“酒”，今照死海古卷譯作“財富”）使人奸詐狂傲，不得安寧；擴張慾望，如同陰間；又像死亡，永不滿足。他們招聚萬國，集合萬民，都歸自己。

⁵Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

⁶第一禍這些國民豈不都用譬喻、諷刺、暗語指著他們說：“那些濫得他人財物的，滿載別人抵押品的，有禍了！他們這樣要到幾時呢？”

⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!

⁷你的債主（“你的債主”或譯：“咬你的”）豈不忽然起來？擾亂你的豈不醒起？你就成了他們的擄物。

⁷Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?

⁸因你搶掠多國，殺人流血，向全地各城施行暴力，所以剩下的人也必搶掠你。

⁸Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

⁹第二禍你這為自己的家積聚不義之財，在高處搭窩，以逃避災害的，有禍了！

⁹Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

¹⁰你剪除多國的民，反害了自己；你所謀算的，使你的家蒙羞。

¹⁰Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.

¹¹石頭必從牆裡呼叫，梁木必在樹中應聲。

¹¹For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

¹²第三禍你這用人血做城，憑邪惡立鎮的，有禍了！

¹²Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

¹³眾民勞碌得來的，被火焚燒；列國辛勞而得的，終歸無有。這不都出於萬軍之耶和華嗎？

¹³Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

¹⁴認識耶和華之榮耀的知識，必充滿全地，好像眾水遮蓋海洋一樣。

¹⁴For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵第四禍你這請鄰舍喝酒，卻把毒物混入，使他醉倒，為要見他赤裸的，有禍了！

¹⁵Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to thee] that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

¹⁶你滿有羞辱，沒有尊榮，你也喝到露出下體來吧！耶和華右手的杯必傳回來給你，使極大的羞辱取代你的尊榮。

¹⁶Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah's right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.

¹⁷因你向黎巴嫩使用暴力，殺滅驚嚇野獸；又殺人流血，向全地各城居民施行暴力，就必受到報應（“報應”原文作“遮蓋”）。

¹⁷For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

¹⁸第五禍雕刻的像有甚麼用處呢？不過是匠人雕刻出來的；鑄造的像、虛假的教師，有甚麼用處呢？匠人竟倚靠自己所做，那不能說話的假神。

¹⁸What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

¹⁹你這對木頭說“起來”，對啞石說“醒吧”的人，有禍了！它怎能教導你呢？看哪！它包金鑲銀，裡面卻全無氣息。

¹⁹Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

²⁰然而耶和華在他的聖殿裡，全地當在他面前肅靜。

²⁰But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.