Capítulo 47

¹'Come 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 shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

¹巴比倫的處女啊，下來坐在塵埃；迦勒底的閨女啊，沒有寶座，要坐在地上；因為你不再稱為柔弱嬌嫩的。

²'Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

²要用磨磨麵，揭去帕子，脫去長衣，露腿逿河。

³'Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.'

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。

⁴Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

⁴我們救贖主的名是萬軍之耶和華─以色列的聖者。

⁵'Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

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主母。

⁶'I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage And gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them, On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.

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。

⁷'Yet you said, 'I will be a queen forever.' These things you did not consider Nor remember the outcome of them.

⁷你自己說：我必永為主母，所以你不將這事放在心上，也不想這事的結局。

⁸'Now, then, hear this, you sensual one, Who dwells securely, Who says in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.'

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。

⁹'But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.

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。

¹⁰'You felt secure in your wickedness and said, 'No one sees me,' Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.'

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。

¹¹'But evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly.

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。

¹²'Stand [fast] now in your spells And in your many sorceries With which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you may cause trembling.

¹²站起來罷！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。

¹³'You are wearied with your many counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who prophesy by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

¹³你籌劃太多，以致疲倦。讓那些觀天象的，看星宿的，在月朔說預言的，都站起來，救你脫離所要臨到你的事。

¹⁴'Behold, they have become like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; There will be no coal to warm by [Nor] a fire to sit before!

¹⁴他們要像碎秸被火焚燒，不能救自己脫離火燄之力；這火並非可烤的炭火，也不是可以坐在其前的火。

¹⁵'So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is none to save you.

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。