1 "Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon.
Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans.
For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones and grind flour.
Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,
and wade through the rivers.
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered.
Yes, your shame will be seen.
I will take vengeance,
and will spare no one."
4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,
is the Holy One of Israel.
5 "Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
daughter of the Chaldeans.
For you shall no longer be called
the mistress of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people.
I profaned my inheritance
and gave them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy.
You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’
so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,
nor did you remember the results.
8 "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.
I won’t sit as a widow,
neither will I know the loss of children.’
9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day:
the loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in their full measure,
in the multitude of your sorceries,
and the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness.
You have said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.
You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
11 Therefore disaster will come on you.
You won’t know when it dawns.
Mischief will fall on you.
You won’t be able to put it away.
Desolation will come on you suddenly,
which you don’t understand.
12 "Stand now with your enchantments
and with the multitude of your sorceries,
in which you have labored from your youth,
as if you might profit,
as if you might prevail.
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
14 Behold, they are like stubble.
The fire will burn them.
They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame.
It won’t be a coal to warm at
or a fire to sit by.
15 The things that you labored in will be like this:
those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.
There will be no one to save you.
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。"