Your shepherds are asleep, O Assyrian king; your princes lie dead in the dust. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together.

亚述王啊，你的牧人睡觉；你的贵胄安歇；你的人民散在山间，无人招聚。

亚述王啊，你的牧人睡觉，你的贵族躺卧，你的百姓散在山间，无人招聚。

亚述王啊，你的牧人睡觉，你的贵族躺卧，你的百姓散在山间，无人招聚。

亚述王啊！你的牧人沉睡，贵族酣眠，你的百姓分散在群山上，无人招聚他们。

亚述王啊！你的牧人睡觉，你的贵族安歇，你的子民分散在各山上，没有人招聚他们。

亞述王啊，你的牧人睡覺；你的貴冑安歇；你的人民散在山間，無人招聚。

亞述王啊，你的牧人睡覺，你的貴族躺臥，你的百姓散在山間，無人招聚。

亞述王啊，你的牧人睡覺，你的貴族躺臥，你的百姓散在山間，無人招聚。

亞述王啊！你的牧人沉睡，貴族酣眠，你的百姓分散在群山上，無人招聚他們。

亞述王啊！你的牧人睡覺，你的貴族安歇，你的子民分散在各山上，沒有人招聚他們。

亞述王啊，你的牧民者在睡覺呢！你的貴族在安歇着呢！你的人民四散在山間，無人招聚呢！

亞述王乎、爾之民牧寢矣、爾之顯者休矣、民眾散於山間、無人集之、

亞述王乎、爾之牧伯顯宦、俱偃而卧、爾之庶民、散於岡巒、不得復聚、

亞述王歟、爾之牧伯皆寢、爾之顯臣顯臣或作英雄偃臥、爾之庶民、散於山間、無人復集之、

King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

King of Assyria, your leaders are asleep. Your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains. No one is left to gather them together.

Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.

King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together.

Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; Your officers are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains And there is no one to gather them.

Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; Your nobles rest in the dust. Your people are scattered on the mountains, And no one gathers them.

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together.

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell[ in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth[ them].

Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!

Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

Then Micaiah told him,“ In a vision I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd. And the Lord said,‘ Their master has been killed. Send them home in peace.’”

Our boldest enemies have been plundered. They lie before us in the sleep of death. No warrior could lift a hand against us.At the blast of your breath, O God of Jacob, their horses and chariots lay still.

I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her captains, officers, and warriors. They will fall asleep and never wake up again!” says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd. They will try to find their own people and flee to their own land.

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says:“ Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.

terror and dread fall upon them. The power of your arm makes them lifeless as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people you purchased pass by.

“ Assyria lies there surrounded by the graves of its army, those who were slaughtered by the sword.Their graves are in the depths of the pit, and they are surrounded by their allies. They struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere, but now they have been slaughtered by the sword.

And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, and they will never wake up again,” says the Lord.

The king shouts to his officers; they stumble in their haste, rushing to the walls to set up their defenses.The river gates have been torn open! The palace is about to collapse!

Come, wild animals of the field! Come, wild animals of the forest! Come and devour my people!For the leaders of my people— the Lord’s watchmen, his shepherds— are blind and ignorant. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie around, sleeping and dreaming.

Then everyone— the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person— all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

“ Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate.

You are like mighty Assyria, which was once like a cedar of Lebanon, with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade and with its top high among the clouds.Deep springs watered it and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant. The water flowed around it like a river, streaming to all the trees nearby.This great tree towered high, higher than all the other trees around it. It prospered and grew long thick branches because of all the water at its roots.The birds nested in its branches, and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth. All the great nations of the world lived in its shadow.It was strong and beautiful, with wide spreading branches, for its roots went deep into abundant water.No other cedar in the garden of God could rival it. No cypress had branches to equal it; no plane tree had boughs to compare. No tree in the garden of God came close to it in beauty.Because I made this tree so beautiful, and gave it such magnificent foliage, it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden, the garden of God.“ Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because Egypt became proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others, with its top reaching to the clouds,I will hand it over to a mighty nation that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it.A foreign army— the terror of the nations— has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.“ The birds roost on its fallen trunk, and the wild animals lie among its branches.Let the tree of no other nation proudly exult in its own prosperity, though it be higher than the clouds and it be watered from the depths. For all are doomed to die, to go down to the depths of the earth. They will land in the pit along with everyone else on earth.“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When Assyria went down to the grave, I made the deep springs mourn. I stopped its rivers and dried up its abundant water. I clothed Lebanon in black and caused the trees of the field to wilt.I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of its fall, for I sent it down to the grave with all the others who descend to the pit. And all the other proud trees of Eden, the most beautiful and the best of Lebanon, the ones whose roots went deep into the water, took comfort to find it there with them in the depths of the earth.Its allies, too, were all destroyed and had passed away. They had gone down to the grave— all those nations that had lived in its shade.“ O Egypt, to which of the trees of Eden will you compare your strength and glory? You, too, will be brought down to the depths with all these other nations. You will lie there among the outcasts who have died by the sword. This will be the fate of Pharaoh and all his hordes. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”