我要站在我的守望所，立在堡垒上观望，看耶和华要对我说什么，我要怎样为我的诉冤有所回应。
I will stand at my watch / And station myself on the fortress, / And I will watch to see what He will speak to me / And what I will reply concerning my complaint.

耶和华回答我说，将这异象明明地写在版上，使读的人容易读。
Then Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and render it plainly upon tablets, / That even he who runs by may read it.

因为这异象有一定的时期，快要达到终局，并非虚谎；虽然迟延，还要等候；因为必然临到，不再耽延。
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, / And it hastens toward the end and will not lie. / Though it tarries, wait for it; / For it will surely come; it will not delay.

看哪，自高自大的人，心不正直；只是义人必本于信得生。
See, he who is puffed up, his soul is not upright within him, / But the righteous one will live by his faith.

然而，那因酒诡诈，狂傲之人，不住在家中，扩充欲望好像阴间，又像死亡不能知足，却聚集万国，堆积万民，都归自己。
Furthermore his wine is treacherous: / A boasting man, he does not abide at home, / He who enlarges his appetite like Sheol, / And is like death and cannot be satisfied, / But gathers to himself all the nations / And collects for himself all the peoples.

这些国的民岂不都要提起比喻，就是讥诮歌和谜语，指着他说，祸哉，那增添不属自己之财物，满载别人抵押品的；他这样作，要到几时呢？
Will not all of these take up a parable against him, / Indeed a mocking song and a riddle against him, and say, / Woe to him who increases what is not his (For how long?) / And who loads himself with the burden of pledges?

咬伤你的岂不忽然起来，搅扰你的岂不醒起，你就成了他们的掳物么？
Will not those who bite you rise up suddenly, / And those who shake you awake, / And you will become booty to them?

因你抢夺许多的国，杀人流血，向地上城邑，并其中一切居民施行强暴，所以各族余剩的人都必抢夺你。
Because you have plundered many nations; / All the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, / Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land, / To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it.

为自己的家强夺不义之财，在高处搭窝，为要脱离灾祸的有祸了！
Woe to him who by violence takes evil gain for his house, / So as to place his nest on high / That he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

你剪除多族的人，正是图谋使自己的家蒙羞，犯罪自害己命。
You have devised shame against your own house / By cutting off many peoples, / And have sinned against your own soul.

墙里的石头必呼叫，木料中的椽子必应声。
For the stone will cry out from the wall, / And the rafter will answer it from the timber.

借流人血建城，以罪孽立邑的有祸了！
Woe to him who builds a city by bloodshed / And establishes a town by iniquity!

众民所劳碌得来的被火焚烧，列国由劳乏而得的归于虚空，不都是出于万军之耶和华么？
Indeed is it not of Jehovah of hosts / That the peoples toil for the fire / And the nations weary themselves for vanity?

对耶和华之荣耀的认识，要充满遍地，好像水充满洋海一般。
For the earth will be filled / With the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah / As water covers the sea.

给邻舍酒喝，又加上他的毒物，使邻舍喝醉，好看见他赤身的，有祸了！
Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink, / Adding in his poison, / And also making him drunk / In order to look at their nakedness!

你满受羞辱，不得荣耀。你也喝吧，显出是未受割礼的！耶和华右手的杯必传到你那里，你的荣耀就变为极大的羞辱。
You are sated with shame, not glory. / You also, drink and be shown to be uncircumcised! / The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you, / And disgrace will be upon your glory.

你向利巴嫩所行的强暴，与残害惊吓野兽的事，必遮盖你，因你杀人流血，向地上城邑，并其中一切居民施行强暴。
For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, / As well as the destruction of the beasts which frightened them, / Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land, / To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it.

雕制的偶像，人将它雕制出来，有什么益处呢？铸造的偶像，就是虚谎的师傅，制造者倚靠所造的，他制造哑巴偶像，有什么益处呢？
What profit is the graven idol that its maker should engrave it, / Or the molten idol, even the teacher of lies, / That he who forms its form depends on it / To make dumb idols?

对木头说，醒起，对哑巴石头说，起来，那人有祸了！这东西能教训人么？看哪，是包裹金银的，其中毫无气息。
Woe to him who says to wood, Awake! / And, Arise! to silent stone. / Will it teach him? / Behold, it is set in gold and silver, / And there is no breath at all within it.

惟耶和华在祂的圣殿中：全地都当在祂面前静默无声！
But Jehovah is in His holy temple: / Be silent before Him, all the earth!