But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them and loot, with no one saying,“ Give it back!”

但这百姓是被抢被夺的，都牢笼在坑中，隐藏在狱里；他们作掠物，无人拯救，作掳物，无人说交还。

但这百姓是被抢被夺的，全都陷在洞穴中，关在监牢里；他们成了掠物，无人拯救，成了掳物，无人索还。

但这百姓是被抢被夺的，全都陷在洞穴中，关在监牢里；他们成了掠物，无人拯救，成了掳物，无人索还。

但这些百姓饱受劫掠，都被困在坑中，囚在监内。他们沦为俘虏，无人搭救；被当作战利品掳走，无人追回。

但这人民是被抢劫和被掠夺的，全都困陷在洞穴中，被收藏在监牢里；他们作了掠物，无人搭救；他们成了掳物，无人说：“要归还！”

但这子民是被掠夺、被抢掠的，全被困陷在洞穴中，被关藏在牢房里。他们成了掠物，无人解救；他们成了掳物，无人说：“把他们还回来！”

但這百姓是被搶被奪的，都牢籠在坑中，隱藏在獄裏；他們作掠物，無人拯救，作擄物，無人說交還。

但這百姓是被搶被奪的，全都陷在洞穴中，關在監牢裏；他們成了掠物，無人拯救，成了擄物，無人索還。

但這百姓是被搶被奪的，全都陷在洞穴中，關在監牢裏；他們成了掠物，無人拯救，成了擄物，無人索還。

但這些百姓飽受劫掠，都被困在坑中，囚在監內。他們淪為俘虜，無人搭救；被當作戰利品擄走，無人追回。

但這人民是被搶劫和被掠奪的，全都困陷在洞穴中，被收藏在監牢裡；他們作了掠物，無人搭救；他們成了擄物，無人說：“要歸還！”

但這人民卻被掠劫被搶掠；他們都被機檻捉住於洞穴中，被藏沒於監牢裏；他們做被掠物，而無人援救；做被擄者，而無人說『要交還！』

但這子民是被掠奪、被搶掠的，全被困陷在洞穴中，被關藏在牢房裡。他們成了掠物，無人解救；他們成了擄物，無人說：「把他們還回來！」

惟斯民被掠見奪、皆羈於穴幽於獄、被掠而無人施拯、見奪而無人曰返之、

斯民必遭攘奪、囚於幽暗、拘於囹圄、既罹災害、無人拯之、既被俘囚、無人釋之、

彼為被擄掠遭強奪之民、囚於獄、拘於監、被刼掠無人救援、遭攘奪無人言反、

But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say,“ Send them back.”

Enemies have carried off everything they own. All my people are trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They themselves have become like stolen goods. No one can save them. They have been carried off. And there is no one who will say,“ Send them back.”

But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say,“ Restore!”

But his own people have been robbed and plundered, enslaved, imprisoned, and trapped. They are fair game for anyone and have no one to protect them, no one to take them back home.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them and loot, with no one saying,“ Give it back!”

But this is a people plundered and pillaged; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become plunder, with no one to save them, And spoils with no one to say,“ Give them back!”

But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says,“ Restore!”

But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison- houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

But this[ is] a people robbed and spoiled;[ they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says,“ Bring that back!”

But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says,‘ Restore them!’

I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you: Lie down, so we can walk over you. You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.

who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home?”

to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to set free those condemned to die,

“ Understand this, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to rescue you.

For this is what the Lord God says:“ At first My people went down to Egypt to live there, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.So now what have I here”— this is the Lord’s declaration—“ that My people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail”— this is the Lord’s declaration—“ and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.

in order to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

Whoever flees at the sound of panic will fall into a pit, and whoever escapes from the pit will be caught in a trap. For the windows are opened from heaven, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.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.A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

sends couriers by sea, in reed vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

“ When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that its desolation has come near.Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains! Those inside the city must leave it, and those who are in the country must not enter it,because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all the things that are written.Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire; foreigners devour your fields before your very eyes— a desolation demolished by foreigners.

“ Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty dish; he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies; he has vomited me out,”says the inhabitant of Zion;“ Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon. Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall all around it.The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him.The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders.Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,saying,“ If you knew this day what would bring peace— but now it is hidden from your eyes.For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

I have raised him up in righteousness, and will level all roads for him. He will rebuild My city, and set My exiles free, not for a price or a bribe,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last one who crushed his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon; after many days they will be punished.

All you animals of the field and forest, come and eat!