¹关于巴比伦的预言

¹The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land.

²我被指示去看一个惨酷的异象：那行诡诈的仍然行诡诈，那行破坏的仍然行破坏。以拦哪，上去吧！玛代啊，围攻吧！我要使一切叹息止住。

²A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.

³因此，我满腰疼痛，痛苦抓住我，好像产妇的痛苦一样；我绞痛弯腰至听不见，我惊惶至看不到。

³Therefore filled have been my loins [with] great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.

⁴我的心迷糊，惊恐威吓着我；我所爱慕的黄昏，竟使我战兢。

⁴Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,

⁵他们摆设筵席，铺张地毡，又吃又喝。领袖们，起来吧！用油抹净盾牌。

⁵Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,

⁶因为主这样对我说：“你去设立守望的，叫他把所看见的报告出来。

⁶For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.`

⁷他一看见骑兵一对一对而来，又有驴队和骆驼队，他就要留意，非常留意。”

⁷And he hath seen a chariot — a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention — He hath increased attention!

⁸后来，守望者像狮子般吼叫着说：“主啊！我每日不断站在守望楼上，每夜立在我守望的岗位中。

⁸And he crieth — a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights.

⁹看哪！有一队骑兵来了，马兵一对一对而来。”又有人答话说：“倾倒了，巴比伦倾倒了！它所有雕刻的神像都被打碎在地上了。”

⁹And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.` And he answereth and saith: `Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth.

¹⁰我那被打的禾稼啊！我禾场上的谷啊！我从万军之耶和华，以色列的　神那里听见的，都告诉你们了。

¹⁰O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!`

¹¹关于以东的预言关于以东（“以东”原文作“度玛”，意即寂静，在这里暗示以东的困境）的默示：有人从西珥呼叫我说：“守望的啊！黑夜还有多长？守望的啊！黑夜还有多长？”

¹¹The burden of Dumah. Unto me is [one] calling from Seir `Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?`

¹²守望的说：“早晨到了，黑夜也会再来；你们若要问，就尽管问；也可以回头再来问。”

¹²The watchman hath said, `Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.`

¹³关于阿拉伯的预言关于阿拉伯的默示：底但的商队啊！你们必在阿拉伯的森林中住宿。

¹³The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O travellers of Dedanim.

¹⁴提玛地的居民哪！要拿水来给那些口渴的，拿饼来接待那些逃难的。

¹⁴To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.

¹⁵因为他们逃避了刀剑、已出鞘的刀剑和上了弦的弓，以及严重的战祸。

¹⁵For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.

¹⁶主对我这样说：“按照雇工的年数，一年之内，基达的一切光荣都必化为乌有。

¹⁶For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

¹⁷弓箭手剩余的人数，就是基达人的勇士，必定很少；这是耶和华以色列的　神说的。”

¹⁷And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!`