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¹亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示，论巴比伦。This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

²应当在净光的山竖立大旗，向群众扬声招手，使他们进入贵胄的门。Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

³我吩咐我所挑出来的人；我招呼我的勇士—就是那矜夸高傲之辈，为要成就我怒中所定的。I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

⁴山间有多人的声音，好像是大国人民。有许多国的民聚集哄嚷的声音；这是万军之耶和华点齐军队，预备打仗。Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

⁵他们从远方来，从天边来，就是耶和华并他恼恨的兵器要毁灭这全地。They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

⁶你们要哀号，因为耶和华的日子临近了！这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷所以，人手都必软弱；人心都必消化。Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

⁸他们必惊惶悲痛；愁苦必将他们抓住。他们疼痛，好像产难的妇人一样，彼此惊奇相看，脸如火焰。Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

⁹耶和华的日子临到，必有残忍、忿恨、烈怒，使这地荒凉，从其中除灭罪人。Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

¹⁰天上的众星群宿都不发光；日头一出就变黑暗；月亮也不放光。For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

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¹¹我必因邪恶刑罚世界，因罪孽刑罚恶人，使骄傲人的狂妄止息，制伏强暴人的狂傲。I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

¹²我必使人比精金还少，使人比俄斐纯金更少。I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

¹³我—万军之耶和华在忿恨中发烈怒的日子，必使天震动，使地摇撼，离其本位。Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

¹⁴人必像被追赶的鹿，像无人收聚的羊，各归回本族，各逃到本土。Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

¹⁵凡被仇敌追上的必被刺死；凡被捉住的必被刀杀。Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

¹⁶他们的婴孩必在他们眼前摔碎；他们的房屋必被抢夺；他们的妻子必被玷污。Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

¹⁷我必激动米底亚人来攻击他们。米底亚人不注重银子，也不喜爱金子。Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

¹⁸他们必用弓击碎少年人，不怜悯妇人所生的，眼也不顾惜孩子。Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

¹⁹巴比伦素来为列国的荣耀，为迦勒底人所矜夸的华美，必像　神所倾覆的所多玛、蛾摩拉一样。And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰其内必永无人烟，世世代代无人居住。阿拉伯人也不在那里支搭帐棚；牧羊的人也不使羊群卧在那里。She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

²¹只有旷野的走兽卧在那里；咆哮的兽满了房屋。鸵鸟住在那里；野山羊在那里跳舞。But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

²²豺狼必在它宫中呼号；野狗必在它华美殿内吼叫。巴比伦受罚的时候临近；它的日子必不长久。Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.