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.
1预言巴比伦的罪恶与审判
2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
2你要拿石磨去磨面，你要揭开你的帕子，脱去长裙，露出大腿，渡过江河。
3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.”
3你的下体必暴露出来，你的羞耻要被人看见；我必报仇，不顾惜任何人。
4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
4我们的救赎主，他的名字是万军之耶和华、以色列的圣者，他说：
5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
5“迦勒底的女子啊！你要静静坐下，进到黑暗中去，因为人不再称你为列国之后了。
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.
6我曾对我的子民发怒，使我的产业被亵渎，我把他们交在你的手里，你却对他们毫无怜悯。你竟把你的轭，重重压在老年人的身上。
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.
7你曾说：‘我必永远作王后！’所以你不把这些事放在心上，也不思想这事的结局。
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:’
8因此，你这淫逸、安居的，现在要听这话。你曾心里说：‘只有我，除我以外再没有别的；我必不会寡居，也不会经历丧子的事。’
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.
9不料丧子和寡居这两件事，竟在忽然之间，一日之内，要临到你身上！正在你多行邪术，竭力施符咒的时候，这两件事就必都临到你身上。
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.
10你向来倚靠自己的邪恶，说：‘没有人看见我’；你的智慧和知识把你引入了歧途。你心里说：‘只有我，除了我以外，再没有别的。’
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.
11但灾祸必临到你身上，你却不知道它的来源；祸患必落在你身上，你却不能把它除去；毁灭必忽然临到你身上，你却不知道。
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.
12继续使用你从幼年时就劳碌施行的符咒和许多的邪术吧！或者你可以得到益处，也许你能叫人战栗。
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.
13你因你许多的计划而劳累；现在让那些划分天象的，观看星辰的，在月朔时说预言的，都站起来，拯救你脱离要临到你身上的事。
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.
14看哪！他们必像碎秸，火必要焚烧他们；他们不能救自己脱离火焰的威力；这不是可以烤火取暖的火炭，也不是可以坐在它面前的火。
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.
15你所劳碌的事，都要这样与你无益；从你年幼时与你交易的，也都必各奔各方，四处飘流，没有人拯救你。”