以西結書 39
1 「人子，你講預言攻斥哥格說：吾主上主這樣說：默舍客和突巴耳的最高領袖哥格，看，我要攻擊你，
“Son of man, prophesy against Gog and announce that this is what the Lord God says: Watch out, because I'm condemning you Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
2 我要引誘你，挾持你，使你從極北之地上來，領你到以色列的山上，
I will send you in a different direction, drag you along, bring you from the distant places of the north, and send you to attack the mountains of Israel.
3 在那裏我要打掉你左手上的弓，打落你右手上的箭。
Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand and make you drop the arrows from your right hand.
4 你和你所有的軍隊，以及同你聯合的眾民，都要喪亡在以色列的山上；我要使你成為各種猛禽和野獸的食物。
You will be killed on the mountains of Israel, you and your whole army and armies of your allies. I will provide you as food to all kinds of flesh-eating birds and animals.
5 你要喪亡在原野之上，這原是我親口說的──吾主上主的斷語──
You will fall and die out in the open, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
6 我要使火降到瑪哥格和那些安居在群島的人們身上：如此，他們必承認我是上主。
I will set Magog on fire, as well as the coastlands where people think it's safe to live, and then they will acknowledge that I am the Lord.
7 我也要在我的百姓以色列中間，顯揚我的聖名，再不讓我的名受到褻瀆：如此，異民便承認我是上主，是以色列的聖者。
In this way I will make my reputation for holiness known among my people Israel and won't allow it to be ruined anymore. Then the nations will acknowledge that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
8 看，我所說的那一天，已經來近，必要實現──吾主上主的斷語。
Yes, it's coming! It will definitely happen, declares the Lord God. This is the day that I have spoken about.
9 那時住在以色列各城的人必要出來，點火焚燒武器：有大小盾牌、弓、箭、槍和茅；他們將用來燒火，七年之久。
Then those living in the towns of Israel will go out to light fires and burn the weapons—the large and small shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. They will use the weapons to make fires for seven years.
10 他們不必到田間拾柴，也不必到林中伐木，因為也武器可作柴燒；他們還要搶奪那些搶奪過他們的人，劫掠那些劫掠過他們的人──吾主上主的斷語──
They won't need to go and gather firewood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, because they'll use the weapons to make fires. They will loot and plunder those who looted and plundered them, declares the Lord God.
11 在那一天，我要在以色列把一出名的地方，即死海以東阿巴陵山谷，給哥格作墳地；這山谷使過路的人止步，哥格和他的一切軍隊要埋在那裏，因此人叫那地方為『哥格群眾谷。』
At that time I will give Gog a place to be buried in Israel, the Travelers' Valley, east of the Sea. People won't be able to travel through because all his army will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Gog's Army.
12 以色列家族埋葬他們，為清除此地，要費時七個月。
It will take the people of Israel seven months to bury them in order to make the country clean.
13 那地方的全體百姓都要埋葬他們。在我顯示光榮的日子，為他們也要光榮──吾主上主的斷語──
Everyone in the country will be involved in burying them, and this will give them a good reputation when I reveal my glory, declares the Lord God.
14 他們還要派定一些人不斷巡邏那地，尋找在那地方遺留下的屍體，為清除那地；七個月之後它們仍繼續尋找。
Men will be chosen to go repeatedly through the country to make it clean it by burying the bodies of the invaders that are still left lying the ground. They will start doing this at the end of the seven months.
15 過路的人經過那地的時候，若發見一個人的骨骸，就在他旁邊放一個記號，等待埋葬的人將他埋葬在『哥格群眾谷。』
As they search the country, if they find a human bone they will place a marker next to it so that those in charge of burials can have it buried in the Valley of Gog's Army.
16 那裏有一座城，要叫哈摩納。他們就這樣清除了那地。
Even the town there will be named Hamonah. In this way they will make the country clean.
17 吾主上主這樣說：人子，你要向各種飛鳥，各樣野獸說：你們應集合前來，從四方來參加我給你們在以色列山上所準備的隆重祭餐，你們要吃肉飲血。
Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Call out to every kind of flesh-eating bird and wild animal: Come from everywhere around and gather for the sacrifice I'm going to prepare for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel where you'll have flesh to eat and blood to drink.
18 你們要吃將士的肉，飲各地王侯的血；還有山羊、綿羊、公山羊、牛犢，都是巴商的肥畜。
You will eat the flesh of the powerful and drink the blood of the world's leaders just as if they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals that come from Bashan.
19 你們要在我給你們準備的祭餐中，吃肉吃到飽，飲血飲到醉。
You will eat fat until you are totally full and drink blood until you are drunk at the sacrifice I'm going to prepare.
20 你們在我的宴席上要飽食馬肉，戰馬、將士和所有軍人的肉──吾主上主的斷語。
You will eat at my table until you're full, consuming horses and riders, powerful men and all kinds of warriors, declares the Lord God.
21 我要在異民中顯示我的光榮，萬民要看見我所施行的懲罰，看見是我舉手打擊了他們。
I will reveal my glory to the other nations, and all of them will see the punishment I hand out to them.
22 從那天起，以色列家族必要承認我，上主是他們的天主。
From that time on the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.
23 異民也要知道以色列家族充軍，是為了他們的罪惡，因為他們違背了我，我遂掩面不顧他們，把他們交在敵人手中，全都喪身刀下。
The nations will realize that the people of Israel were taken prisoner because of their sins, because they were unfaithful to me. So I gave up on them and handed them over to their enemies, so that they were all killed by the sword.
24 我按他們的罪過和惡行對待了他們，掩面不看他們。
I dealt with them because of their uncleanness and sins, and I gave up on them.
25 為此吾主上主這樣說：現今我要轉變雅各伯的命運，憐恤以色列家族。為我的聖名而大發妒火。
So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will bring back the descendants of Jacob from exile and I will show mercy to all the people of Israel, and I will demonstrate my reputation for holiness.
26 當他們安居在自己的地域中，沒有人來驚擾時，他們將忘記自己的恥辱和違背我所犯的一切抗命之罪。
They will forget their shameful actions and all the ways they were unfaithful to me once they live in safety in their country, with no one to threaten them.
27 當我從各民族中把他們領回，從他們敵人的地方聚集他們，在眾異民眼前，在他們身上顯聖時，
When I bring them home from the nations, gathering them from the countries of their enemies, I will reveal my holiness among as many nations watch.
28 他們必承認我上主是他們的天主，因為我將他們放逐於異民之中以後，又把他們聚集到自己的地方，一個也沒有留在異民中。
Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, when I bring them home to their own country again, not leaving any of them behind.
29 我不再掩面不看他們，因為我將我的神已傾注於以色列家族──吾主上主的斷語。」
I won't give up on them anymore, for I will fill the people of Israel with my Spirit, declares the Lord God.”
