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.

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.

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.

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 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 in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?

That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

“ Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”

Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

“ Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it,‘ What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say,‘ He has no hands’?

So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him,“ Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews:‘ How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

“ And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men, Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the King, Whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield!

“ I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart,‘ I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

One runner will run to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;The passages are blocked, The reeds they have burned with fire, And the men of war are terrified.For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:“ The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her; Yet a little while And the time of her harvest will come.”“ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon Has devoured me, he has crushed me; He has made me an empty vessel, He has swallowed me up like a monster; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,” The inhabitant of Zion will say;“ And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!” Jerusalem will say.Therefore thus says the Lord:“ Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions’ whelps.In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the Lord.