1預言巴比倫的罪惡與審判巴比倫的處女啊！你下來，坐在塵土中吧！迦勒底的女兒啊！你坐在地上吧！沒有寶座了，因為你必不再被稱為柔弱嬌嫩的了。
1“Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2你要拿石磨去磨麵，你要揭開你的帕子，脫去長裙，露出大腿，渡過江河。
2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
3你的下體必暴露出來，你的羞恥要被人看見；我必報仇，不顧惜任何人。
3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.”
4我們的救贖主，他的名字是萬軍之耶和華、以色列的聖者，他說：
4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5“迦勒底的女子啊！你要靜靜坐下，進到黑暗中去，因為人不再稱你為列國之后了。
5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
6我曾對我的子民發怒，使我的產業被褻瀆，我把他們交在你的手裡，你卻對他們毫無憐憫。你竟把你的軛，重重壓在老年人的身上。
6I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
7你曾說：‘我必永遠作王后！’所以你不把這些事放在心上，也不思想這事的結局。
7You said, ‘I shall be a mistress forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the latter end of it.
8因此，你這淫逸、安居的，現在要聽這話。你曾心裡說：‘只有我，除我以外再沒有別的；我必不會寡居，也不會經歷喪子的事。’
8“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:’
9不料喪子和寡居這兩件事，竟在忽然之間，一日之內，要臨到你身上！正在你多行邪術，竭力施符咒的時候，這兩件事就必都臨到你身上。
9but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
10你向來倚靠自己的邪惡，說：‘沒有人看見我’；你的智慧和知識把你引入了歧途。你心裡說：‘只有我，除了我以外，再沒有別的。’
10For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
11但災禍必臨到你身上，你卻不知道它的來源；禍患必落在你身上，你卻不能把它除去；毀滅必忽然臨到你身上，你卻不知道。
11Therefore evil will come on you; you won’t know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don’t know.
12繼續使用你從幼年時就勞碌施行的符咒和許多的邪術吧！或者你可以得到益處，也許你能叫人戰慄。
12“Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
13你因你許多的計劃而勞累；現在讓那些劃分天象的，觀看星辰的，在月朔時說預言的，都站起來，拯救你脫離要臨到你身上的事。
13You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
14看哪！他們必像碎秸，火必要焚燒他們；他們不能救自己脫離火燄的威力；這不是可以烤火取暖的火炭，也不是可以坐在它面前的火。
14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
15你所勞碌的事，都要這樣與你無益；從你年幼時與你交易的，也都必各奔各方，四處飄流，沒有人拯救你。”
15Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.