2:1 我要站在守望所，立在望楼上观看，看耶和华对我说什么话，我可用什么话向他诉冤。（向他诉冤或作回答所疑问的）。
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2:2 他对我说，将这默示明明地写在版上，使读的人容易读（或作随跑随读）。
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
2:3 因为这默示有一定的日期，快要应验，并不虚谎。虽然迟延，还要等候。因为必然临到，不再迟延。
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
2:4 迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直。惟义人因信得生。
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
2:5 迦勒底人因酒诡诈，狂傲，不住在家中，扩充心欲，好像阴间。他如死不能知足，聚集万国，堆积万民，都归自己。
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
2:6 这些国的民，岂不都要提起诗歌，并俗语讥刺他，说，祸哉，迦勒底人，你增添不属自己的财物，多多取人的当头，要到几时为止呢。
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
2:7 咬伤你的岂不忽然起来，扰害你的岂不兴起，你就作他们的掳物吗。
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
2:8 因你抢夺许多的国，杀人流血，向国内的城，并城中一切居民施行强暴，所以各国剩下的民，都必抢夺你。
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2:9 为本家积蓄不义之财，在高处搭窝，指望免灾的有祸了。
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
2:10 你图谋剪除多国的民，犯了罪，使你的家蒙羞，自害己命。
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
2:11 墙里的石头必呼叫，房内的楝梁必应声。
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
2:12 以人血建城，以罪孽立邑的有祸了。
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
2:13 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吗。
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
2:14 认识耶和华荣耀的知识，要充满遍地，好像水充满洋海一般。
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
2:15 给人酒喝，又加上毒物，使他喝醉，好看见他下体的，有祸了。
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
2:16 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，就变为大大地羞辱。
Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
2:17 你向黎巴嫩行强暴，与残害惊吓野兽的事，必遮盖你。因你杀人流血，向国内的城，并城中一切居民，施行强暴。
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
2:18 雕刻的偶像，人将它刻出来，有什么益处呢。铸造的偶像，就是虚谎的师傅。制造者倚靠这哑巴偶像，有什么益处呢。
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
2:19 对木偶说，醒起，对哑巴石像说，起来，那人有祸了。这个还能教训人吗。看哪，是包裹金银的，其中毫无气息。
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
2:20 惟耶和华在他的圣殿中。全地的人，都当在他面前肃敬静默。
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.