Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one’s feet,

人将世上被囚的踹在脚下，

把世上所有的囚犯踹在脚下，

把世上所有的囚犯踹在脚下，

将囚犯踩在脚下，

人把地上所有被囚的，都践踏在脚下，

人將世上被囚的踹在腳下，

把世上所有的囚犯踹在腳下，

把世上所有的囚犯踹在腳下，

將囚犯踩在腳下，

人把地上所有被囚的，都踐踏在腳下，

人將國中被囚的都壓在腳下，

足踐世之獄囚、

蹂躪俘囚、罔上陷人、屈害平民者、俱主所不悅兮。

足踐世間被囚者、

To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,

Every time people crush prisoners under their feet, the Lord knows all about it.

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

If people crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one’s feet,

To crush under one’s feet All the prisoners of the land,

To crush under one’s feet All the prisoners of the earth,

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners,

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless cistern.Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you.

This is what your Lord says— Yahweh, even your God, who defends His people—“ Look, I have removed the cup of staggering from your hand; that goblet, the cup of My fury. You will never drink it again.I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you: Lie down, so we can walk over you. You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.

saying to the prisoners: Come out, and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves. They will feed along the pathways, and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

For the Lord listens to the needy and does not despise His own who are prisoners.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, 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.“ 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,”says the inhabitant of Zion;“ Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon. Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her fountain run dry.

to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to set free those condemned to die,

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed. All their captors hold them fast; they refuse to release them.Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He might bring rest to the earth but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

Let the groans of the prisoners reach You; according to Your great power, preserve those condemned to die.

who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home?”

Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last one who crushed his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.