21:1 论海旁旷野的默示。有仇敌从旷野，从可怕之地而来，好像南方的旋风，猛然扫过。

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

 

21:2 令人凄惨的异象，已默示于我。诡诈的行诡诈，毁灭的行毁灭。以拦哪，你要上去。玛代阿，你要围困。主说，我使一切叹息止住。

A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

 

21:3 所以我满腰疼痛。痛苦将我抓住，好像产难的妇人一样。我疼痛甚至不能听。我惊惶甚至不能看。

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

 

21:4 我心慌张，惊恐威吓我，我所羡慕的黄昏，变为我的战兢。

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

 

21:5 他们摆设筵席，派人守望，又吃又喝。首领阿，你们起来，用油抹盾牌。

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

 

21:6 主对我如此说，你去设立守望的，使他将所看见的述说。

For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

 

21:7 他看见军队，就是骑马的一对一对的来，又看见驴队，骆驼队，就要侧耳细听。

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

 

21:8 他像狮子吼叫，说，主阿，我白日常站在望楼上，整夜立在我守望所。

And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

 

21:9 看哪，有一队军兵骑着马，一对一对的来。他就说，巴比伦倾倒了。倾倒了，他一切雕刻的神像，都打碎于地。

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

 

21:10 我被打的禾稼，我场上的谷阿，我从万军之耶和华以色列的神那里所听见的，都告诉你们了。

O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

 

21:11 论度玛的默示。有人声从西珥呼问我，说，守望的阿，夜里如何。守望的阿，夜里如何。

The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

 

21:12 守望的说，早晨将到，黑夜也来。你们若要问，就可以问，可以回头再来。

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

 

21:13 论阿拉伯的默示。底但结伴的客旅阿，你们必在阿拉伯的树林中住宿。

The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

 

21:14 提玛地的居民拿水来，送给口渴的，拿饼来迎接逃避的。

The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

 

21:15 因为他们逃避刀剑，和出了鞘的刀，并上了弦的弓，与刀兵的重灾。

For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

 

21:16 主对我这样说，一年之内，照雇工的年数，基达的一切荣耀必归于无有。

For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

 

21:17 弓箭手所馀剩的，就是基达人的勇士，必然稀少。因为这是耶和华以色列的神说的。

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.