¹The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

¹Aßan aßin li quixye li Kâcuaß re li profeta Jeremías chirix li naßajej Babilonia joß eb ajcuiß li cuanqueb aran.

²Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

²Quixye re: —Yehomak resil nak eb laj Babilonia teßchapekß. Taksihomak li bandera ut yehomak resilal saß chixjunileb li xnînkal ru tenamit. Mâcßaß têmuk chiruheb. Têye: “Li naßajej Babilonia tâchapekß. Li yîbanbil dios Bel tâcßutekß xxutân ut li yîbanbil dios Merodac tâjorekß. Chixjunileb li jalam ûch li cuanqueb Babilonia telajeßsachekß.

³For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

³Jun li nimla tenamit tâchâlk chak saß li norte chi pletic riqßuineb laj Babilonia ut tixsach ruheb. Mâcßaß chic tâcuânk aran, chi moco cristian, chi moco xul.”

⁴In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

⁴Tâcuulak xkßehil nak eb li ralal xcßajol laj Israel, ut eb li ralal xcßajol laj Judá teßchâlk chinsicßbal lâin lix Dioseb. Yôkeb chi yâbac nak teßchâlk chinsicßbal.

⁵They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

⁵Teßxpatzß bar cuan li be li naxic Sión ut aran teßxic. Ut teßxye, “Châlkex ut takacßam cuißchic kib saß usilal riqßuin li Kâcuaß. Takabânu jun li contrato riqßuin li Kâcuaß chi junelic re nak incßaß tâsachk saß kachßôl,” chaßakeb.

⁶My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

⁶Eb lin tenamit chanchaneb li carner li queßbalakßîc xbaneb laj ilol reheb ut queßxchaßchaßi ribeb yalak bar saß xyânkeb li cocß bol ut eb li tzûl. Quisach chiruheb lix naßajeb li teßhilânk raj cuiß.

⁷All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

⁷Chixjunileb li teßtaßok reheb teßxsach ruheb. Ut eb li xicß nequeßiloc reheb teßxye, “Lâo mâcßaß kamâc. Eb aßan ban queßmâcob chiru li Kâcuaß li narakoc âtin saß tîquilal. Queßmâcob chiru li Kâcuaß Dios li xyoßoneb lix xeßtônil yucuaßeb.”

⁸Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

⁸Elenkex Babilonia. Canabomak lix naßajeb. Chanchanakex li chibât li nequeßcßamoc be chiruheb li jun chßol chic chibât.

⁹For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

⁹Lâin tinqßue saß xchßôleb li xnînkal ru tenamit li cuanqueb saß li norte nak teßxjunaji ribeb ut teßchâlk chi pletic riqßuineb laj Babilonia. Saß li norte teßchâlk li teßnumtâk saß xbêneb. Teßxnau chi us cutuc riqßuin tzimaj ut tîcak rukßeb.

¹⁰And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

¹⁰Joßcan nak tâelkßâk li cßaßru reheb laj Babilonia. Chixjunileb li xicß nequeßiloc reheb teßxcßam nabal li cßaßru teßraj toj tâcßojlâk xchßôleb, chan li Kâcuaß.

¹¹Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

¹¹Li Kâcuaß quixye: —Lâex aj Babilonia, lâex xerecßa xsahil nak xexnumta saß xbêneb lin tenamit ut xemakß chiruheb li cßaßru reheb ut sa saß êchßôl. Chanchanex li cuacax li napiscßoc saß pachßayaß, malaj ut chanchanex li cacuây li naxjap re xban xsahil xchßôl.

¹²Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

¹²Abanan lê tenamit lâex tâisîk xlokßal. Li tenamit li xexyoßla cuiß tâcßutekß xxutân usta kßaxal lokß nak quicuan. Aßanak li kßaxal caßchßin xcuanquil saß xyânkeb chixjunileb li tenamit. Tâsukßisîk chokß chaki chßochß ut mâcßaßak cuan chi saß.

¹³Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

¹³Xban nak yô injoskßil saß xbêneb mâ ani tâcanâk Babilonia. Tâcanabâk chi juqßuinbil chixjunil ut chixjunileb li teßnumekß aran teßsach xchßôleb chirilbal ut teßxhob xban li raylal xcßul.

¹⁴Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

¹⁴Lâex li nequenau cutuc riqßuin tzimaj xaklinkex saß lê naßaj. Têsut rix li naßajej Babilonia ut cutumak lê tzimaj. Mâ jun têcol xban nak eb aßan xeßmâcob chiru li Kâcuaß.

¹⁵Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

¹⁵Japomak êre chi xjun sutam li tenamit xban nak eb laj Babilonia teßxkßaxtesi ribeb saß êrukß. Yôqueb chi tßanecß li cab li najt xteram ut teßtßanekß li tzßac li sutsu cuiß li tenamit. Xcuulac li hônal nak li Kâcuaß tixqßue rêkaj li raylal li queßxbânu eb aßan.

¹⁶Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

¹⁶Mêcanabeb chi âuc eb laj Babilonia chi moco têcanabeb chi kßoloc saß xkßehil li kßoloc. Xban li plêt eb li jalaneb xtenamit teßêlelik ut teßxic saß lix tenamiteb.

¹⁷Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

¹⁷Eb laj Israel chanchaneb li quetômk li queßxjeqßui ribeb nak li cakcoj quichal chirâlinanquileb. Li xbên li quichal chi sachoc reheb, aßan lix reyeb laj Asiria. Ut li xcab li quichal chi sachoc reheb, aßan laj Nabucodonosor lix reyeb laj Babilonia.

¹⁸Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

¹⁸Joßcaßin naxye li Kâcuaß li nimajcual Dios, lix Dioseb laj Israel: —Lâin tinqßue chixtojbal xmâc lix reyeb laj Babilonia ut lix naßajeb joß nak xinqßue chixtojbal xmâc lix reyeb laj Asiria.

¹⁹And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

¹⁹Lâin tinqßueheb cuißchic laj Israel saß lix naßajeb. Chanchanakeb li carner li nequeßichajib aran Carmelo ut Basán. Ut teßxtzaca ajcuiß li ru li acuîmk li na-el saß lix naßajeb li ralal xcßajol laj Efraín ut Galaad toj retal tâcßojlâk xchßôleb.

²⁰In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

²⁰Saß eb li cutan aßan eb laj Israel ut eb laj Judá mâcßaßak xmâqueb xban nak lâin tincuy tinsach lix mâqueb li joß qßuial chic xeßcana, chan li Kâcuaß.

²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

²¹Li Kâcuaß quixye: —Ayukex chi pletic riqßuineb li cuanqueb Merataim ut Pecod, ut camsihomakeb. Bânuhomak li cßaßru xexintakla cuiß, chan li Kâcuaß.

²²A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

²²Yô chi abîc li chokînc nak yôqueb chi pletic. Yô chi abîc resil li nimla raylal li yôqueb chixcßulbal.

²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

²³Ilomak chanru nak xeßosoß eb laj Babilonia. Ilomak chanru nak xsacheß lix cuanquil. Aßan li cau nataklan saß xbêneb li tenamit junxil. Chanchan li martillo. Abanan anakcuan xeßsacheß ru saß xyânkeb li xnînkal tenamit.

²⁴I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

²⁴Chanchan nak lâin xinqßue jun li raßal re êchapbal, lâex aj Babilonia. Ut chi mâcßaß saß êchßôl xextßaneß saß li raßal. Xextaßeß ut xexchapeß xban nak xekßetkßeti êrib chicuu lâin li Kâcuaß.

²⁵The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

²⁵Chanchan nak li Kâcuaß quixte li ochoch li xocxo cuiß lix chßîchß re pletic. Quirisi chak lix cßanjelebâl xban nak yô xjoskßil. Quixbânu chi joßcan xban nak cuan li cßaßru tixbânu aran Babilonia li Kâcuaß li nimajcual Dios.

²⁶Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

²⁶Lâex aj najtil tenamit, quimkex chi pletic riqßuineb laj Babilonia. Tehomak li naßajej li xocxo cuiß li ru li trigo. Têsach ruheb chi junaj cua ut têcanabeb chi tûbtu. Mâ ani tâcanabâk chi yoßyo saß xyânkeb.

²⁷Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

²⁷Camsihomakeb chixjunil li cuînk li toj sâjeb. Chanchanakeb li cuacax li yôqueb chi xic chi camsîc. Raylal tâchâlk saß xbêneb laj Babilonia xban nak xcuulac xkßehil nak teßqßuehekß chi xtojbal rix lix mâqueb.

²⁸The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

²⁸Cuanqueb li queßêlelic Babilonia ut queßcôeb Jerusalén ut yôqueb chixserakßinquil chanru nak li Kâcuaß li kaDios quixqßue rêkaj li incßaß us li queßxbânu eb laj Babilonia re lix templo li Kâcuaß.

²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁹Bokomakeb li nequeßxnau cutuc riqßuin tzimaj re teßpletik riqßuineb laj Babilonia. Ut teßxyîb lix muhebâleb chi xjun sutam li tenamit ut mâ ani teßxcanab chi êlelic. Qßuehomak rêkaj li mâusilal li queßxbânu xban nak queßxkßetkßeti ribeb chiru li Kâcuaß, lix santil Dioseb laj Israel.

³⁰Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

³⁰Joßcan nak eb li cuînk li toj sâjeb teßcamsîk saß eb li be ut eb lix soldados teßsachekß ru saß li plêt saß li cutan aßan, chan li Kâcuaß.

³¹Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

³¹Lâin li nimajcual Dios tinsach êru lâex aj Babilonia, xban nak xekßetkßeti êrib chicuu. Xcuulac xkßehil nak lâin texinqßue chixtojbal rix li mâc xebânu.

³²And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

³²Eb laj Babilonia li kßetkßeteb teßxtich li rokeb ut teßtßanekß ut mâ ani tixtenkßaheb chi cuaclic. Lâin tinqßue xxamlel li tenamit ut tâcßatekß chixjunil li cuan chi xjun sutam, chan.

³³Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

³³Joßcaßin naxye li Kâcuaß li nimajcual Dios: —Eb li ralal xcßajol laj Israel ut eb li ralal xcßajol laj Judá rahobtesinbileb xbaneb li tenamit li queßcßamoc reheb chi prêxil ut incßaß nequeßxcanabeb chi xic.

³⁴Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³⁴Abanan li ani tâcolok reheb, aßan cau rib. “Nimajcual Dios” xcßabaß. Relic chi yâl aßan tâoquênk chirixeb re nak naru teßcuânk saß tuktûquil usilal saß lix naßajeb. Abanan eb laj Babilonia tâchâlk raylal saß xbêneb.

³⁵A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

³⁵Li Kâcuaß naxye: —Eb laj Babilonia teßcamsîk saß li plêt. Teßcamsîk chixjunileb li tenamit li cuanqueb Babilonia joß eb ajcuiß li nequeßtaklan ut eb li cuanqueb xnaßleb.

³⁶A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

³⁶Tâchâlk li plêt saß xbêneb laj kße ut teßsachk xnaßlebeb. Tâchâlk li plêt saß xbêneb li cauheb rib ut teßxucuak.

³⁷A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

³⁷Teßcamsîk saß li plêt eb li cacuây ut teßsachekß ru li carruajes. Ut teßcamsîk li jalaneb xtenamiteb li cuanqueb saß xyânkeb. Chanchanakeb chic ixk. Teßsachekß ru li raro xbaneb ut tâcßamekß lix biomaleb.

³⁸A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

³⁸Telajeßchakik chixjunil li haß li cuan aran xban nak li tenamit aßan xnaßajeb li jalanil dios. Xban lix dioseb xeßtontoß xjolomeb laj Babilonia.

³⁹Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

³⁹Joßcan nak li nimla tenamit Babilonia tâsukßîk chokß chaki chßochß. Eb laj xoj ut eb li avestruz, ut eb li joskß aj xul re li chaki chßochß teßcuânk aran. Mâ jaruj chic teßcuânk cristian aran chalen anakcuan.

⁴⁰As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

⁴⁰Joß quinbânu reheb li tenamit Sodoma ut Gomorra ut eb li tenamit li cuanqueb chi xjun sutam, joßcan ajcuiß tinbânu re li tenamit Babilonia ut eb li cuanqueb chi xjun sutam. Mâ ani chic tâcuânk saß li naßajej aßan, chan li Kâcuaß.

⁴¹Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

⁴¹Qßuehomak retal. Yôqueb chak chi châlc eb li soldado saß li nimla tenamit li cuan saß li norte. Rochbeneb aßan cuanqueb nabaleb li rey li teßchâlk saß chixjunil li ruchichßochß.

⁴²They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

⁴²Cuanqueb xtzimaj ut cuanqueb xlâns. Kßaxal joskßeb. Mâ ani nequeßril xtokßobâl ru. Nak nequeßxjap re chanchaneb li palau li cau na-ecßan. Yôqueb chi châlc chirix cacuây. Ac cauresinbileb re teßchâlk chi pletic êriqßuin lâex aj Babilonia.

⁴³The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

⁴³Lix reyeb laj Babilonia quirabi resil li plêt li xchal saß xbêneb. Mâcßaß chic xmetzßêu quicana xban xcßaßux. Cßajoß xrahil saß xchßôl. Chanchan li raylal li naxcßul li ixk nak oc re chi qßuirâc.

⁴⁴Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

⁴⁴Lâin tincuisiheb laj Babilonia saß lix naßajeb chi junpât. Chanchanakin jun li cakcoj li na-el saß li qßuicheß chire li nimaß Jordán chixsicßbal xtzacaêmk. Lâin tinsicß ru junak ut aßan tinqßue chi cßanjelac saß li naßajej aßan. ¿Ma mâcuaß ta biß lâin yâl cue? ¿Ma cuan ta biß junak tânumtâk chicuu lâin? ¿Ma cuan ta biß junak târûk tixxakab rib chicuu? chan li Dios.

⁴⁵Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

⁴⁵Abihomak li cßaßru quixcßûb ru xbânunquil reheb laj Babilonia li Kâcuaß. Abihomak li cßaßru tixbânu reheb li cuanqueb Babilonia. Quelonbil nak teßisîk li cocßal saß li tenamit aßan ut tâsachekß ru lix naßajeb.Nak teßrabi nak quichapeß li tenamit Babilonia, chixjunileb li cuanqueb saß ruchichßochß sicsotkeb xbaneb xxiu. Ut lix yâbeb tâabîk saß lix nînkal tenamit.

⁴⁶At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

⁴⁶Nak teßrabi nak quichapeß li tenamit Babilonia, chixjunileb li cuanqueb saß ruchichßochß sicsotkeb xbaneb xxiu. Ut lix yâbeb tâabîk saß lix nînkal tenamit.