耶50:1 以下是耶和华藉耶利米先知论到巴比伦，就是迦勒底人的地所说的话。
耶50:1 The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
耶50:2 “你们要在列国中传扬和宣告，要竖起旗帜宣扬，不可隐瞒，说：‘巴比伦被攻取了！彼勒蒙羞，米罗达惊慌；巴比伦的神像都蒙羞，它的偶像都惊慌。’
耶50:2 Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.
耶50:3 因为有一个国家从北方来攻击它，使它的地荒凉；没有人在那里居住，人畜都逃跑无踪。
耶50:3 For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.
耶50:4 到那些日子、那时候（这是耶和华的宣告），以色列人必和犹大人一同来，边走边哭，要寻找耶和华他们的 神。
耶50:4 In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.
耶50:5 他们要询问往锡安的路，又面向锡安，说：‘来吧！我们要以那永不可忘记的约与耶和华连合。’
耶50:5 They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
耶50:6 我的子民成了迷失的羊，他们的牧人使他们走错了路，使他们在山上徘徊；他们从大山走到小山，忘记了他们安歇之处。
耶50:6 My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
耶50:7 所有遇见他们的都吞吃他们；他们的敌人说：‘我们没有罪，因为他们得罪了耶和华，那真正的居所；耶和华是他们列祖的盼望。’
耶50:7 They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
耶50:8 我的子民哪！你们要从巴比伦中间逃跑，从迦勒底人的地出来；要像公山羊走在羊群前面。
耶50:8 Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.
耶50:9 因为，看哪！我必激动强国从北方之地联群而来，攻击巴比伦；他们要列阵攻打巴比伦；巴比伦就必被攻取。他们的箭必像善战的勇士，不会空手而回。
耶50:9 For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.
耶50:10 迦勒底必成为掠物，掳掠它的都必心满意足。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶50:10 And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.
耶50:11 “抢夺我产业的啊！你们虽然欢喜快乐，像踹谷的小牛跳跃，像雄壮的马嘶叫；
耶50:11 Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;
耶50:12 但你们的母亲必极度羞愧，生你们的必受耻辱。看哪！她要在列国中沦为最弱小的，成为旷野、旱地、沙漠。”
耶50:12 Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.
耶50:13 因耶和华的烈怒，巴比伦必没有人居住，完全荒废；每一个住过巴比伦的，都必因这地遭受的一切创伤而惊骇，并且嗤笑它。
耶50:13 Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
耶50:14 所有拉弓的啊！你们要在巴比伦四围列阵；射箭攻击它，不要吝啬箭枝，因为它得罪了耶和华。
耶50:14 Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.
耶50:15 你们要在它的四周吶喊攻击它；它投降了，它城墙的支柱倒塌了，它的城墙拆毁了。因为这是耶和华的报复；你们要向巴比伦报复，它怎样待人，你们也要怎样待它。
耶50:15 Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.
耶50:16 你们要把播种的，和在收割的时候手持镰刀的，都从巴比伦剪除；因为欺压者的刀剑，他们各人必归回自己的本族，各自逃回自己的故乡。
耶50:16 Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
耶50:17 以色列是被赶散的羊，它被狮子赶逐。先是亚述王把它吞灭，现在巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒要咬碎它的骨头。
耶50:17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
耶50:18 因此，万军之耶和华 神这样说：“看哪！我必惩罚巴比伦王和他的国土，像我以前惩罚亚述王一样，
耶50:18 So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.
耶50:19 我必领以色列回到它的牧场，它必在迦密和巴珊吃草，又在以法莲山地和基列地吃得饱足。
耶50:19 And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
耶50:20 到那些日子，那时候，人要寻查以色列的罪孽，却无所发现；要查究犹大的罪恶，却一无所见；因为我必赦免我留下的那些人。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶50:20 In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.
耶50:21 “你们要攻击米拉大翁的地，上去攻击她，又攻击比割的居民，屠杀他们，把他们彻底消灭，照着我吩咐你们的一切执行。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do.
耶50:22 境内有战争的声音，和极大的毁灭。
耶50:22 There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
耶50:23 击打全地的大锤，怎么被砍断毁掉！巴比伦在列国中，怎么成了令人惊骇的对象呢！
耶50:23 How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
耶50:24 “巴比伦哪！我设下网罗捉拿你，你被捉住，仍不自觉；你被发现，也被抓住，因为你和耶和华争斗。”
耶50:24 I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.
耶50:25 耶和华打开了自己的军械库，拿出他忿怒的武器；因为主万军之耶和华在迦勒底人的地有事要作。
耶50:25 From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.
耶50:26 你们要从四面八方攻击巴比伦，打开它的谷仓，把它堆起来好像堆谷物一样；把它彻底消灭，什么都不留下。
耶50:26 Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.
耶50:27 要击杀它所有的公牛，使他们下去被屠杀！他们有祸了！因为他们的日子，就是他们受惩罚的时候，来到了。
耶50:27 Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
耶50:28 听哪！从巴比伦的地逃出得以脱险的人，在锡安述说耶和华我们 神的报复，就是为他的殿而施行的报复。
耶50:28 The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple.
耶50:29 “要召集弓箭手去攻击巴比伦，要召集所有拉弓的；要在巴比伦的四围安营攻击它，不容一人逃脱。要照着它的所作所为报应它，它怎样待人，你们也要怎样待它；因它狂傲地敌对耶和华，与以色列的圣者为敌。
耶50:29 Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
耶50:30 所以，它的年轻人必仆倒在它的街道上，到那一天，它所有的战士都必被消灭。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶50:30 For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.
耶50:31 “傲慢的人哪！我必敌对你（这是主万军之耶和华的宣告），因为你的日子，就是我惩罚你的时候，来到了。
耶50:31 See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.
耶50:32 那傲慢的必绊跌仆倒，没有人扶他起来；我必在他的城镇中放火，吞灭他四围的一切。”
耶50:32 And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.
耶50:33 万军之耶和华这样说：“以色列人被压迫，犹大人也一样受到欺压；所有俘掳他们的都紧紧抓住他们，不肯释放他们。
耶50:33 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.
耶50:34 但他们的救赎主大有能力，万军之耶和华是他的名；他必认真地为他们的案件申辩，好使那地得到安宁，却使巴比伦的居民惶乱不安。
耶50:34 Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
耶50:35 刀剑必攻击迦勒底人，攻击巴比伦的居民，攻击它的领袖和智慧人。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶50:35 A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.
耶50:36 “刀剑必攻击胡说八道的假先知，他们必变成愚昧；刀剑必攻击它的勇士，他们必惊惶失措；
耶50:36 A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.
耶50:37 刀剑必攻击它的马匹和战车，攻击它境内所有外族的人，他们必像妇女一样柔弱；刀剑必攻击它的一切宝库，它们必被抢掠；
耶50:37 A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.
耶50:38 刀剑（“刀剑”按照《马索拉抄本》应作“干旱”；现参照《七十士译本》翻译）必攻击它的河流，它们必干涸；因为这是偶像的地，人必因可怕的偶像迷失本性。
耶50:38 A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
耶50:39 旷野的走兽和豺狼必住在那里，鸵鸟也必住在其中；那地永远再没有人居住，世世代代不再有人住在那里，
耶50:39 For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.
耶50:40 就像 神倾覆的所多玛、蛾摩拉，和它们邻近的城镇一样；必没有人住在那里，也必没有人在那里寄居。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶50:40 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.
耶50:41 “看哪！有一个民族从北方而来，有一大国和许多君王被激动，从地极来到。
耶50:41 See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
耶50:42 他们紧握弓和枪，性情残忍，毫无怜悯；他们的声音像海洋怒吼；巴比伦的居民哪！他们骑着战马，在战场上如同一人，列阵攻击你们。
耶50:42 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
耶50:43 巴比伦王听了有关他们的消息，手就发软；痛苦紧紧抓住他，他疼痛好像正在生产的妇人。
耶50:43 The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
耶50:44 看哪！狮子怎样从约旦河边的丛林走上来，攻击常绿的牧场，照样，我必在眨眼之间把巴比伦赶走，使它离开这地；谁蒙拣选，我就派谁治理这地。谁能和我相比呢？谁可以把我传来审讯呢？哪一个牧人能在我面前站立得住呢？”
耶50:44 See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me?
耶50:45 因此，你们要听耶和华筹谋对付巴比伦的计划，和他为了攻击迦勒底人的地所定下的策略。他们羊群中最小的也必被拉去，他们的牧场也必因临到它们的灾祸而荒废。
耶50:45 So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
耶50:46 因巴比伦陷落的响声，地就震动；列国都听见它的哀叫声。
耶50:46 At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.