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1 [神視五:號上主消滅惡人無一倖免]我看見吾主站在祭壇旁,擊打柱帽,門限震動。衪說:「我要砍下他們眾人的頭,剩下的要用刀殺盡;他們中一個也逃不了,一個也不能幸免生存。
I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: 'Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head — all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive.
2 既使鑽入陰府,我的手必從那裏將他們揪出;既使飛上高天,我也必從那裏將他們拉下; (Sheol )
If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down. (Sheol )
3 既使藏在加爾默耳山頂,我必去搜尋,從那裏逮回;既使避開我的眼目逃入海底,我也必令蛟龍將他們咬死;
And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.
4 既使在敵人面前被擄去充軍,我必命刀劍殺死他們;我的眼注視他們,是為加害,不是為祝福。」
And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From thence I command the sword, And it hath slain them, And I have set Mine eye on them for evil, And not for good.
5 吾主上主一觸摸大地,大地就溶化,地上所有的居民便都哀號,全地泛濫有如尼羅,退落有如埃及大河。
And [it is] the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Who is striking against the land, and it melteth, And mourned have all the inhabitants in it, And come up as a flood hath all of it, And it hath sunk — like the flood of Egypt.
6 衪在高天建造了樓閣,在地上奠定了穹蒼,召海水傾流於地面,衪名叫「雅威」。
Who is building in the heavens His upper chambers; As to His troop, Upon earth He hath founded it, Who is calling for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out on the face of the land, Jehovah [is] His name.
7 以色列子民! 你們對我豈不是像雇士子民﹖──上主的斷語──豈不是我由埃及領出了以色列,由加非托爾領出了培肋舍特人,由克爾領出了阿蘭人﹖
As sons of Cushim are ye not to Me? O sons of Israel — an affirmation of Jehovah. Israel did I not bring up out of the land of Egypt? And the Philistines from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?
8 看,吾主上主的眼注視這犯罪的國家,我必由此地面上將她消滅。然而我不全然消滅雅各伯家──上主的斷語──
Lo, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah [are] on the sinful kingdom, And I have destroyed it from off the face of the ground, Only, I destroy not utterly the house of Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.
9 看,我必下令,要在萬民中如人用篩子篩以色列,不讓一粒落在地上。
For lo, I am commanding, And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As [one] doth shake with a sieve, And there falleth not a grain [to] the earth.
10 我百姓中那些人說:「災禍不會臨近,不會來到我們身上」的一罪人,都要死在刀下。
By sword die do all sinners of My people, Who are saying, 'Not overtake, or go before, For our sakes, doth evil.'
11 在那一天,我必樹起達味已塌蹋的帳幕,修補它的缺口,重建它的廢壚:使它重建有如往日,
In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old.
12 使他們征服厄木田的遣民和屬於我名下的萬民──行這事的上主的斷語──
So that they possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations on whom My name is called, An affirmation of Jehovah — doer of this.
13 看,時日將到,──上主的斷語──那時耕田的人要緊靠著收割的人,榨洒的人要緊靠著播種的人;山嶺要滴下新酒,丘陵都要溶化奔流。
Lo, days are coming — an affirmation of Jehovah, And come nigh hath the ploughman to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropped juice, And all the hills do melt.
14 我必要轉變我民以色列的命運,他們必要重建已荒廢的城市,再住在其中;栽植葡萄園,飲其中的美酒;耕種田園,吃其中出產。
And I have turned back [to] the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit.
15 我要將他們栽植在自己的地內,他們不會再從我賜與他們的地上被拔除──上主你的天主說。
And I have planted them on their own ground, And they are not plucked up any more from off their own ground, That I have given to them, said Jehovah thy God!