1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

1 巴比伦的处女啊！ 你下来， 坐在尘土中吧！ 迦勒底的女儿啊！ 你坐在地上吧！ 没有宝座了， 因为你必不再被称为柔弱娇嫩的了。

2 你要拿石磨去磨面， 你要揭开你的帕子， 脱去长裙， 露出大腿， 渡过江河。

3 你的下体必暴露出来， 你的羞耻要被人看见； 我必报仇， 不顾惜任何人。

4 我们的救赎主， 他的名字是万军之耶和华、以色列的圣者， 他说：

5 "迦勒底的女子啊！ 你要静静坐下， 进到黑暗中去， 因为人不再称你为列国之后了。

6 我曾对我的子民发怒， 使我的产业被亵渎， 我把他们交在你的手里， 你却对他们毫无怜悯。你竟把你的轭， 重重压在老年人的身上。

7 你曾说： ‘我必永远作王后！ ’所以你不把这些事放在心上， 也不思想这事的结局。

8 因此， 你这淫逸、安居的， 现在要听这话。你曾心里说： ‘只有我， 除我以外再没有别的； 我必不会寡居， 也不会经历丧子的事。’

9 不料丧子和寡居这两件事， 竟在忽然之间， 一日之内， 要临到你身上！ 正在你多行邪术， 竭力施符咒的时候， 这两件事就必都临到你身上。

10 你向来倚靠自己的邪恶， 说： ‘没有人看见我’； 你的智慧和知识把你引入了歧途。你心里说： ‘只有我， 除了我以外， 再没有别的。’

11 但灾祸必临到你身上， 你却不知道它的来源； 祸患必落在你身上， 你却不能把它除去； 毁灭必忽然临到你身上， 你却不知道。

12 继续使用你从幼年时就劳碌施行的符咒和许多的邪术吧！ 或者你可以得到益处， 也许你能叫人战栗。

13 你因你许多的计划而劳累； 现在让那些划分天象的， 观看星辰的， 在月朔时说预言的， 都站起来， 拯救你脱离要临到你身上的事。

14 看哪！ 他们必像碎秸， 火必要焚烧他们； 他们不能救自己脱离火焰的威力； 这不是可以烤火取暖的火炭， 也不是可以坐在它面前的火。

15 你所劳碌的事， 都要这样与你无益； 从你年幼时与你交易的， 也都必各奔各方， 四处飘流， 没有人拯救你。"