1關於巴比倫的預言關於海旁曠野的默示：有敵人從曠野，從可怕之地而來，好像南地的暴風猛烈掃過一般。
1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
2我被指示去看一個慘酷的異象：那行詭詐的仍然行詭詐，那行破壞的仍然行破壞。以攔哪，上去吧！瑪代啊，圍攻吧！我要使一切歎息止住。
2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
3因此，我滿腰疼痛，痛苦抓住我，好像產婦的痛苦一樣；我絞痛彎腰至聽不見，我驚惶至看不到。
3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
4我的心迷糊，驚恐威嚇著我；我所愛慕的黃昏，竟使我戰兢。
4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
5他們擺設筵席，鋪張地氈，又吃又喝。領袖們，起來吧！用油抹淨盾牌。
5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
6因為主這樣對我說：“你去設立守望的，叫他把所看見的報告出來。
6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
7他一看見騎兵一對一對而來，又有驢隊和駱駝隊，他就要留意，非常留意。”
7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
8後來，守望者像獅子般吼叫著說：“主啊！我每日不斷站在守望樓上，每夜立在我守望的崗位中。
8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
9看哪！有一隊騎兵來了，馬兵一對一對而來。”又有人答話說：“傾倒了，巴比倫傾倒了！它所有雕刻的神像都被打碎在地上了。”
9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
10我那被打的禾稼啊！我禾場上的穀啊！我從萬軍之耶和華，以色列的 神那裡聽見的，都告訴你們了。
10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
11關於以東的預言關於以東（“以東”原文作“度瑪”，意即寂靜，在這裡暗示以東的困境）的默示：有人從西珥呼叫我說：“守望的啊！黑夜還有多長？守望的啊！黑夜還有多長？”
11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
12守望的說：“早晨到了，黑夜也會再來；你們若要問，就儘管問；也可以回頭再來問。”
12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
13關於阿拉伯的預言關於阿拉伯的默示：底但的商隊啊！你們必在阿拉伯的森林中住宿。
13The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
14提瑪地的居民哪！要拿水來給那些口渴的，拿餅來接待那些逃難的。
14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
15因為他們逃避了刀劍、已出鞘的刀劍和上了弦的弓，以及嚴重的戰禍。
15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
16主對我這樣說：“按照雇工的年數，一年之內，基達的一切光榮都必化為烏有。
16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
17弓箭手剩餘的人數，就是基達人的勇士，必定很少；這是耶和華以色列的 神說的。”
17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”