因为这默示有一定的日期，快要应验，并不虚谎。虽然迟延，还要等候。因为必然临到，不再迟延。
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直。惟义人因信得生。
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
迦勒底人因酒诡诈，狂傲，不住在家中，扩充心欲，好像阴间。他如死不能知足，聚集万国，堆积万民，都归自己。
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
咬伤你的岂不忽然起来，扰害你的岂不兴起，你就作他们的掳物吗。
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
为本家积蓄不义之财，在高处搭窝，指望免灾的有祸了。
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
墙里的石头必呼叫，房内的楝梁必应声。
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
以人血建城，以罪孽立邑的有祸了。
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
众民所劳碌得来的被火焚烧，列国由劳乏而得的，归于虚空，不都是出于万军之耶和华吗。
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
给人酒喝，又加上毒物，使他喝醉，好看见他下体的，有祸了。
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
你满受羞辱，不得荣耀。你也喝吧，显出是未受割礼的。耶和华右手的杯，必传到你那里，你的荣耀，就变为大大地羞辱。
Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.