你们躲避刀剑的要快走，不要站住。要在远方记念耶和华，心中追想耶路撒冷。
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
我们听见辱骂就蒙羞，满面惭愧，因为外邦人进入耶和华殿的圣所。
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
耶和华说，日子将到，我必刑罚巴比伦雕刻的偶像，通国受伤的人必唉哼。
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
巴比伦虽升到天上，虽使她坚固的高处更坚固，还有行毁灭的从我这里到她那里。这是耶和华说的。
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
有哀号的声音从巴比伦出来。有大毁灭的响声从迦勒底人之地发出。
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
这是行毁灭的临到巴比伦。巴比伦的勇士被捉住，他们的弓折断了。因为耶和华是施行报应的神，必定施行报应。
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
万军之耶和华如此说，巴比伦宽阔的城墙必全然倾倒。她高大的城门必被火焚烧。众民所劳碌的必致虚空。列国所劳碌的被火焚烧，他们都必困乏。
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
犹大王西底家在位第四年，上巴比伦去的时候，玛西雅的孙子，尼利亚的儿子西莱雅与王同去（西莱雅是王宫的大臣），先知耶利米有话吩咐他。
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
耶利米对西莱雅说，你到了巴比伦务要念这书上的话。
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
又说，耶和华阿，你曾论到这地方说，要剪除，甚至连人带牲畜没有在这里居住的，必永远荒凉。
Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.