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1巴比倫的處女啊,下來坐在塵埃;的閨女啊,沒有寶座,要坐在地上;因為你不再稱為柔弱嬌嫩的。“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
2要用磨磨麵,揭去帕子,脫去長衣,露腿。Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
3你的下體必被露出;你的醜陋必被看見。我要報仇,誰也不寬容。Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
4我們救贖主的名是萬軍之耶和華─以色列的聖者。Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.
5迦勒底的閨女啊,你要默然靜坐,進入暗中,因為你不再稱為列國的。“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
6我向我的百姓發怒,使我的產業被褻瀆,將他們交在你手中,你毫不憐憫他們,把極重的軛加在老年人身上。I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
7你自己說:我必永為主母,所以你不將這事放在心上,也不思想這事的結局。You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
8你這專好宴樂、安然居住的,現在當聽這話。你心中說:惟有我,除我以外再沒有別的。我必不致寡居,也不遭喪子之事。So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
9哪知,喪子、寡居這兩件事在一日轉眼之間必臨到你;正在你多行邪術、廣施符咒的時候,這兩件事必全然臨到你身上。These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
10你素來倚仗自己的惡行,說:無人看見我。你的智慧聰明使你偏邪,並且你心裡說:惟有我,除我以外再沒有別的。You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
11因此,禍患要臨到你身,你不知何時發現(或譯:如何驅逐);災害落在你身上,你也不能除掉;所不知道的毀滅也必忽然臨到你身。But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
12站起來吧!用你從幼年勞神施行的符咒和你許多的邪術;或者可得益處,或者可得強勝。So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
13你籌劃太多,以致疲倦。讓那些,看星宿的,在說預言的,都站起來,救你脫離所要臨到你的事。You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
14他們要像被火焚燒,不能救自己脫離火焰之力;這火並非可烤的炭火,也不是可以坐在其前的火。Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
15你所勞神的事都要這樣與你無益;從幼年與你貿易的也都各奔各鄉,無人救你。This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.