1預言巴比倫傾覆亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得到關於巴比倫的默示：
1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
2你要在光禿的山上豎起旗幟，向眾人揚聲揮手，叫他們進入權貴的門。
2Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3我向我特選的軍兵下了命令；我也呼召了我的勇士，就是那些驕傲自誇的人，去執行我在怒氣中所要作的。
3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4聽啊！山上有喧嘩的聲音，好像是眾多的人民；聽啊！有多國的人的嘈雜聲，好像是列國聚集在一起。萬軍之耶和華正在數點軍兵，預備打仗。
4The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
5他們從遠地而來，從天邊而來。就是耶和華和他惱怒的工具，要毀滅這全地。
5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6哀號吧！因為耶和華的日子近了，這日子來到，好像毀滅從全能者那裡來到一樣。
6Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7因此，各人的手都必發軟，各人也必心驚膽戰。
7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
8他們都要驚惶失措，疼痛與痛苦必抓住他們；他們必絞痛，像生產中的婦人一樣。他們在驚愕中彼此對望，面色像火燄一般。
8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
9看哪！耶和華的日子快來到，必有殘忍、憤恨與烈怒，使這地荒涼，使其中的罪人滅絕。
9Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
10天上的星星和眾星座不再發光；太陽剛出來就變為黑暗，月亮也不再發光。
10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11我必因世界的邪惡施行刑罰，也必因惡人的罪孽懲罰他們；我要使狂妄人的驕傲止息，使強暴人的狂傲降卑。
11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
12我必使人比精金還少，使人比俄斐的金更稀罕。
12I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
13在萬軍之耶和華發怒的時候，就是我大發烈怒的日子，我要使天震動，大地必搖撼，離開本位。
13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14人必像被追獵的羚羊，又像無人招聚的羊群，各自歸向本族，各自逃回本地。
14It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
15凡被追上的，必被刺死；凡被捉住的，必倒在刀下。
15Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16他們的嬰孩必在他們眼前被摔死；他們的房屋必被搶掠，他們的妻子必被污辱。
16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
17看哪！我要激動瑪代人來攻擊他們。瑪代人不重視銀子，也不喜愛金子。
17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18他們的弓箭必射倒年輕人，他們不憐憫婦人腹中的嬰兒；他們的眼也不顧惜小孩。
18Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
19巴比倫本是列國中的華美，是迦勒底人引以為傲的榮耀，必像 神傾覆的所多瑪、蛾摩拉一樣。
19Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20那地必永遠沒有居民，世世代代無人居住；阿拉伯人不在那裡搭帳幕；牧羊人也不領羊群躺臥在那裡。
20It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21躺臥在那裡的，只有曠野的走獸；充滿著他們房屋的，只有吼叫著的野獸；鴕鳥住在那裡，野山羊在那裡跳躍。
21But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22豺狼必在巴比倫的宮中呼號，野狗必在他們華美的殿裡吠叫。巴比倫受罰的時候臨近了，它的日子必不長久。
22Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.