耶51:1 耶和华这样说：“看哪！我必激动毁灭者的心，去攻击巴比伦和住在立加米的人。
耶51:1 The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;
耶51:2 我必打发外族人去巴比伦簸扬它，扬净它的地；在它遭祸的日子，他们必从四围攻击它。
耶51:2 And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.
耶51:3 不要容拉弓的拉他的弓，也不要容战士穿上盔甲站起来；不要顾惜巴比伦的年轻人，要把它的全军灭绝。
耶51:3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.
耶51:4 它的全军必在迦勒底人的地被杀倒下，在它的街道上被刺死。”
耶51:4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
耶51:5 虽然以色列和犹大境内（“以色列和犹大境内”或译：“巴比伦境内”）充满了违背以色列圣者的罪恶，以色列和犹大却不会被他们的 神万军之耶和华遗弃。
耶51:5 For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.
耶51:6 你仍要从巴比伦境内逃出来，各自逃命！不要因它的罪孽灭亡；因为这是耶和华报复的时候，他必向巴比伦施行应得的报应。
耶51:6 Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.
耶51:7 巴比伦曾是耶和华手中的金杯，使全地都喝醉；列国喝了它的酒，就都疯狂乱性。
耶51:7 Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.
耶51:8 巴比伦必突然倾覆毁灭，你们要为它哀号！拿乳香来消除它的痛楚，也许可以治好它。
耶51:8 Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.
耶51:9 我们本想医治巴比伦，但它没有治好。我们离开它，各归本地去吧！因为它的刑罚极大，上达于天，直到云霄。
耶51:9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.
耶51:10 耶和华已为我们伸冤；来吧！我们要在锡安宣扬耶和华我们 神的作为。
耶51:10 The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.
耶51:11 你们要磨尖箭头，拿起盾牌（“拿起盾牌”《七十士译本》译作“装满箭袋”）；耶和华定意要毁灭巴比伦，所以激动玛代诸王的心；这是耶和华的报复，就是为他的殿而施行的报复。
耶51:11 Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.
耶51:12 你们要竖起旗帜，攻击巴比伦的城墙，并要加强防卫，设立防哨，布下埋伏；因为耶和华不但定意，也必作成他攻击巴比伦居民的话。
耶51:12 Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.
耶51:13 你这住在众水旁，多有财宝的啊！你的结局到了，你被剪除的时刻到了。
耶51:13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
耶51:14 万军之耶和华指着自己起誓，说：“我必使敌人充满你，像蝗虫一样布满你的全地，他们必对你发出胜利的吶喊。”
耶51:14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.
耶51:15 耶和华用自己的能力创造了大地，用自己的智慧坚立了世界，又用自己的聪明展开了诸天。
耶51:15 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:
耶51:16 他一发声，空中诸水就澎湃；他使云雾从地极上腾；他造了闪电和雷雨，又使风从他的仓库里吹出来。
耶51:16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
耶51:17 人人都是顽梗无知；所有的金匠都因偶像羞愧，因为他们铸造的像都是虚假，没有气息。
耶51:17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
耶51:18 偶像都是虚无的，是荒谬可笑的作品；到了讨罪的时候，它们必被除灭。
耶51:18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
耶51:19 那作雅各产业的并不像这些偶像，因为他是万物的创造者；以色列是属他的民族，万军之耶和华是他的名。
耶51:19 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
耶51:20 耶和华说：“你是我的铁锤，作我的兵器；我用你们打碎列国，用你毁灭万邦。
耶51:20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
耶51:21 我用你打碎战马和骑马的，用你打碎战车和坐战车的。
耶51:21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;
耶51:22 我用你打碎男人和妇女，用你打碎老年人和少年人，用你打碎少男和少女。
耶51:22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;
耶51:23 我用你打碎牧人和他的羊群，用你打碎农夫和他的耕牛，用你打碎省长和总监。
耶51:23 With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.
耶51:24 “但我必在你们眼前报复巴比伦和迦勒底所有的居民在锡安所作的一切恶事。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶51:24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
耶51:25 “行毁灭的山哪，就是毁灭全地的山哪！我要和你作对，我要伸手攻击你，使你从山岩上滚下来，使你成为烧毁了的山。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶51:25 See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.
耶51:26 “人必不从你那里取石头作房角石，也不从你那里取石头作基石，因为你必永远荒凉。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶51:26 And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.
耶51:27 “你们要在地上竖起旗帜，在列国中吹号角，使列国作好准备攻击巴比伦，把亚拉腊、米尼、亚实基拿等国召来攻击她，又指派元帅来攻击她，使马匹像蝗虫汹涌上来。
耶51:27 Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.
耶51:28 你们要使列国作好准备攻击她，使玛代诸王，和她的省长、总监，以及他们辖下各地的人民都作好准备攻击她。
耶51:28 Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.
耶51:29 大地震动翻腾，因为耶和华攻击巴比伦所定的旨意立定不移，要使巴比伦的地荒凉，没有人居住。
耶51:29 And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.
耶51:30 巴比伦的勇士停止作战，留在堡垒里面；他们的勇士消退，变成像妇人一样软弱。巴比伦的房屋被火焚烧，她的门闩都被折断。
耶51:30 Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.
耶51:31 驿卒一个接一个跑来，报信的也相继而至，向巴比伦王报告，他的京城已经完全被攻取了。
耶51:31 One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:
耶51:32 渡口已经被占据了，生满芦苇的沼泽也被火烧了，军兵都惊慌失措。”
耶51:32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.
耶51:33 因为万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说：“巴比伦城（“城”原文作“女子”）好像正被踹平的禾场，再过片时，她被收割的时候就到了。”
耶51:33 For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.
耶51:34 以色列人说：“巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒吞灭了我们，使我们十分混乱，又使我们成为空的器皿；他像怪兽把我们吞下，他的肚塞满了我们的美物，他却把我们吐出去。”
耶51:34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
耶51:35 锡安的居民要说：“愿巴比伦以强暴待我们（“我们”或译：“我和我骨肉之亲”）的罪归到巴比伦身上。”耶路撒冷要说：“愿流我血的罪归到迦勒底的居民身上。”
耶51:35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.
耶51:36 因此，耶和华这样说：“看哪！我必为你的案件申诉，为你报仇；我必使巴比伦的河水枯竭，使它们的水源干涸。
耶51:36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
耶51:37 巴比伦必变成乱堆，成为野狗的巢穴，成为令人惊骇和嗤笑的对象，没有人居住。
耶51:37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
耶51:38 巴比伦人必像少壮狮子一起吼叫，又像幼狮咆哮。
耶51:38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
耶51:39 他们食欲大动的时候，我必为他们摆设筵席，使他们喝醉，狂欢乱叫，然后永远沉睡，不再醒来（这是耶和华的宣告）。
耶51:39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
耶51:40 我必使他们像羊羔，像公绵羊和公山羊一样下到屠宰之地。
耶51:40 I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
耶51:41 示沙克怎么竟被攻取！全地所称赞的怎么竟被占领！巴比伦在列国中怎么竟成了令人惊骇的对象！
耶51:41 How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
耶51:42 大海上涨漫过巴比伦，它被汹涌的波浪淹没。
耶51:42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
耶51:43 它的城镇变为荒凉，成为干旱的地和沙漠，没有人住在里面，也没有人经过。
耶51:43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
耶51:44 我必惩罚巴比伦的彼勒，使它从口中吐出它所吞噬的；列国必不再归附它，巴比伦的城墙也倒塌了。
耶51:44 And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.
耶51:45 我的子民哪！你们要从它那里出来，各自逃命，躲避耶和华的烈怒。
耶51:45 My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
耶51:46 你们不要心惊胆怯，也不要因在境内听到的谣言惧怕；因为今年有谣言传来，明年也会有谣言传来，境内有强暴的事，官长互相攻击。
耶51:46 So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
耶51:47 因此，你看，日子快到，我必惩罚巴比伦的偶像；巴比伦全地都必蒙羞，所有被刺杀的人都必倒在境内。
耶51:47 For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.
耶51:48 那时天地和其中的一切，都必因巴比伦的倾覆欢呼，因为行毁灭的要从北方来攻击她。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶51:48 And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
耶51:49 “巴比伦必因以色列被刺杀的人而倒下，就如全地被刺杀的人因巴比伦而倒下。
耶51:49 As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.
耶51:50 那些已逃脱了刀剑的人哪！走吧！不要站着，要从远方记念耶和华，心中惦念耶路撒冷。
耶51:50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
耶51:51 我们因听见辱骂而蒙羞，满面惭愧；因为外族人进入了耶和华殿的圣所。
耶51:51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.
耶51:52 因此，看哪！日子快到，这是耶和华的宣告。我必惩罚巴比伦的偶像，在巴比伦全境到处都有被刺伤的人在唉哼。
耶51:52 For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.
耶51:53 即使巴比伦升到天上，即使它在高处建造难以进侵的堡垒，但必有行毁灭的从我这里去攻击它。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶51:53 Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.
耶51:54 “听啊！有哀号的声音从巴比伦传出，有大毁灭的声音从迦勒底人的地发出。
耶51:54 There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:
耶51:55 因为耶和华正在毁灭巴比伦，使城中喧闹的声音灭绝。敌军好像洪水，波浪澎湃，发出吶喊的声音。
耶51:55 For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:
耶51:56 因为有一位行毁灭的来攻击巴比伦，巴比伦的勇士被擒住，他们的弓弩折断了，因为耶和华是报应的 神，他必报复巴比伦。
耶51:56 For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
耶51:57 我必使巴比伦的领袖和智慧人，省长、总监和勇士都喝醉，永远沉睡，不再醒来。”这是君王的宣告，万军之耶和华是他的名。
耶51:57 And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
耶51:58 万军之耶和华这样说：“巴比伦宽阔的城墙必被夷为平地，它高大的城门必被焚烧；万民所劳碌的都必成空，万族所辛劳的都付诸一炬。”
耶51:58 The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.
耶51:59 犹大王西底家执政的第四年，玛西雅的孙子、尼利亚的儿子西莱雅和王同去巴比伦的时候，耶利米先知有话吩咐西莱雅，他是掌管住宿事务的官员。
耶51:59 The order which Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his rule. Now Seraiah was the chief controller of the house.
耶51:60 耶利米把一切将要临到巴比伦的灾祸，就是这一切论到巴比伦的话，都写在一卷书上。
耶51:60 And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.
耶51:61 耶利米对西莱雅说：“你到了巴比伦以后，一定要宣读这一切话，
耶51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;
耶51:62 然后你要说：‘耶和华啊！论到这地方，你曾经亲自说过要把它剪除，使这地永远荒凉，没有人畜居住。’
耶51:62 And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.
耶51:63 你宣读完这书卷以后，要把一块石头和书拴在一起，丢进幼发拉底河里，
耶51:63 And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:
耶51:64 然后说：‘巴比伦必因耶和华（“耶和华”原文作“我”）所要降给它的灾祸，照样沉下去，不再浮上来；它的人民也必灭没。’”耶利米的话到此为止。
耶51:64 And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.