You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won’t be able to help them.

你的儿女必归与别国的民；你的眼目终日切望，甚至失明，你手中无力拯救。

你的儿女被交给别国的民；你的眼目终日切望，甚至失明，你的手却无能为力。

你的儿女被交给别国的民；你的眼目终日切望，甚至失明，你的手却无能为力。

自己的儿女被外族人掳走，你们终日望眼欲穿，却无能为力。

你的儿女必被交给别国的民，你必亲眼看见，日日为他们焦虑；你必无能为力。

你的兒女必歸與別國的民；你的眼目終日切望，甚至失明，你手中無力拯救。

你的兒女被交給別國的民；你的眼目終日切望，甚至失明，你的手卻無能為力。

你的兒女被交給別國的民；你的眼目終日切望，甚至失明，你的手卻無能為力。

自己的兒女被外族人擄走，你們終日望眼欲穿，卻無能為力。

你的兒女必被交給別國的民，你必親眼看見，日日為他們焦慮；你必無能為力。

你的兒女給了別族之民，你親眼看着；終日渴望他們、以至失明；你手也沒有能力作甚麼。

子女付於異族、爾將終日瞻望、至於目盲、無力拯之、

爾子女擄於異邦、使爾終日瞻望、至於目盲、欲拯無力。

爾子女被擄於異邦、原文作爾子女必付諸異邦民使爾終日盼望、至於目盲、無力拯救、

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.

Your children will be given to another nation. Day after day you will watch for them to come back. But you will only wear out your eyes. You won’t be able to help your children.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing you can do.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

Thy sons and thy daughters[ shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail[ with longing] for them all the day long: and[ there shall be] no might in thine hand.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, so they could take them far from their homeland.

Because of this, our fathers have been killed in battle, and our sons and daughters and wives have been captured.

My eyes are straining to see your promises come true. When will you comfort me?

My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.

They were saying,“ We have such large families. We need more food to survive.”Others said,“ We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine.”And others said,“ We have had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.We belong to the same family as those who are wealthy, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others.”

They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

But the wicked will be blinded. They will have no escape. Their only hope is death.”

I have cried until the tears no longer come; my heart is broken. My spirit is poured out in agony as I see the desperate plight of my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.

I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.

Writhe and groan like a woman in labor, you people of Jerusalem, for now you must leave this city to live in the open country. You will soon be sent in exile to distant Babylon. But the Lord will rescue you there; he will redeem you from the grip of your enemies.

So I will send you into exile, to a land east of Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of Heaven’s Armies.

Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.

I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities and take away the children you hold dear. I will destroy my own people, because they refuse to change their evil ways.There will be more widows than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will cause anguish and terror to come upon them suddenly.The mother of seven grows faint and gasps for breath; her sun has gone down while it is still day. She sits childless now, disgraced and humiliated. And I will hand over those who are left to be killed by the enemy. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Then the Lord said to me,“ Son of man, on the day I take away their stronghold— their joy and glory, their heart’s desire, their dearest treasure— I will also take away their sons and daughters.

Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”

What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab! You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh! Chemosh has left his sons as refugees, his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.

Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

“ Do not get married or have children in this place.For this is what the Lord says about the children born here in this city and about their mothers and fathers:They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.”

We looked in vain for our allies to come and save us, but we were looking to nations that could not help us.

There among those nations you will find no peace or place to rest. And the Lord will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.