Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught, but you did not even know it. You were found and captured because you pitted yourself against the LORD.

巴比伦哪，我为你设下网罗，你不知不觉被缠住。你被寻着，也被捉住；因为你与耶和华争竞。

巴比伦哪，我为你设下罗网，你被缠住，竟不自觉。你被寻着，也被捉住，因为你对抗耶和华。

巴比伦哪，我为你设下罗网，你被缠住，竟不自觉。你被寻着，也被捉住，因为你对抗耶和华。

巴比伦啊，我给你设下了陷阱，你在懵然不知中被捉住，因为你与耶和华为敌。

“巴比伦哪！我设下网罗捉拿你，你被捉住，仍不自觉；你被发现，也被抓住，因为你和耶和华争斗。”

巴比倫哪，我為你設下網羅，你不知不覺被纏住。你被尋着，也被捉住；因為你與耶和華爭競。

巴比倫哪，我為你設下羅網，你被纏住，竟不自覺。你被尋着，也被捉住，因為你對抗耶和華。

巴比倫哪，我為你設下羅網，你被纏住，竟不自覺。你被尋着，也被捉住，因為你對抗耶和華。

巴比倫啊，我給你設下了陷阱，你在懵然不知中被捉住，因為你與耶和華為敵。

“巴比倫哪！我設下網羅捉拿你，你被捉住，仍不自覺；你被發現，也被抓住，因為你和耶和華爭鬥。”

巴比倫哪，我設下網羅捉拿你，你不知不覺被纏住；你被尋着，也被捉住，因為你跟永恆主爭競。

巴比倫歟、我為爾設機檻、爾不覺而陷之、為人所遇、為人所擒、以爾與耶和華爭也、

巴比倫人逆我耶和華、故我設坎阱、乘彼不覺、陷於其中。

巴比倫歟、我為爾設機械、爾不覺陷於其中、爾被人尋得、被人擒獲、皆因爾抗逆主、

I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord.

Babylon, I set a trap for you. And you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured. That is because you opposed me.

I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the Lord.

Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord.

I set a trap for you and you were also caught, Babylon, While you yourself were not aware; You have been found and also seized Because you have engaged in conflict with the Lord.”

I have laid a snare for you; You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the Lord.

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught, but you did not even know it. You were found and captured because you fought against the Lord.

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

God is wise and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?

That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who argues with God give an answer.

Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

“ Woe to the one who argues with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it,‘ What are you making?’ Or does your work say,‘ He has no hands’?

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him,“ This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.

For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm for her wound— perhaps she can be healed.

I will make her princes and sages drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the King’s declaration; the LORD of Armies is his name.

Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror.Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!

I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their iniquities. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways, give her that much torment and grief. For she says in her heart,“ I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.”For this reason her plagues will come in just one day— death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

Messenger races to meet messenger, and herald to meet herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the fighting men are terrified.For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.“ King 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.Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon,” says the inhabitant of Zion.“ Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I am about to champion your cause and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her fountain run dry.Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the LORD’s declaration.