< 以西結書 5 >
1 「人子,你拿一把快刀,當理髮的剃刀用,剃去你的頭髮和鬍鬚,然後拿一個天平,分開那些鬚髮。
“And you, son of man, take a sharp weapon for yourself, take the barber’s razor for yourself, and you have caused [it] to pass over your head, and over your beard, and you have taken weighing scales for yourself, and apportioned them.
2 等被困的日子一滿,把三分之一在城內用火燒掉;再拿三分之一在城四周用劍擊砍;其他三分之一,要揚在風中,我要拔出劍來追趕他們。
You burn a third part with fire in the midst of the city, at the fullness of the days of the siege; and you have taken the third part, you strike with a weapon around it; and the third part you scatter to the wind, and I draw out a weapon after them.
And you have taken there a few in number—and have bound them in your skirts;
4 再從其中取出幾根投入火中,讓火燒掉;然後你向以色列全家說:
and you take of them again, and have cast them into the midst of the fire, and have burned them in the fire—out of it comes forth a fire to all the house of Israel.”
5 吾主上主這樣說:這就是耶路撒冷! 我將她安置在萬民之中,使萬國環繞著她;
Thus said Lord YHWH: “This [is] Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, And the lands [are] around her.
6 但是她違背了我的法令,作惡甚於異民,違背我的法律甚於環繞她的列國,因為她們輕視了我的法令,沒有照我的法律行事。
And she changes My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that [are] around her, For they have kicked against My judgments, And My statutes—they have not walked in them.”
7 為此,吾主上主這樣說:因為你們比環繞你們的異民更為叛逆,沒有照我的法律行事;沒有遵行我的法令,也沒有按照環繞你們異民的法律行事;
Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “Because of your multiplying above the nations that [are] around you, You have not walked in My statutes, And you have not done My judgments, According to the judgments of the nations that [are] around you, you have not done.”
8 因此吾主上主這樣說:看,我要親自對付你;在你中間,在異民眼前實行懲罰。
Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “Behold, I [am] against you, even I, And I have done judgments in your midst, Before the eyes of the nations.
9 為了你的一切醜惡,我要對你實習未曾實行過的,將來也不會實行的事;
And I have done in you that which I have not done, And the like of which I do not do again, Because of all your abominations.
10 在你境內,為父的要吃自己的兒子,為子的要吃自己的父親。我必如此在你境內實行懲罰,且把遺民分散到四方。
Therefore fathers eat sons in your midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done judgments in you, And have scattered all your remnant to every wind.
11 為此我指著我的生命起誓說:──吾主上主的斷語──因為你用你的一切可憎和可惡之物玷污了我的聖所,我必將你剷除,我的眼決不憐視,一點也不憐惜。
Therefore, [as] I live,” a declaration of Lord YHWH, “Because you have defiled My sanctuary With all your detestable things, And with all your abominations, Therefore I also diminish you, And My eye does not pity, and I do not spare.
12 你三分之一的人民要在你境內死於瘟疫,亡於饑荒;另三分之一,在你四周各地喪身刀下;其他三分之一,我要分散到各地。我且拔出劍來追趕他們。
Your third part dies by pestilence, And are consumed by famine in your midst, And the third part fall by sword around you, And the third part I scatter to every wind, And I draw out a sword after them.
13 這樣,我的忿怒纔可以發洩,我的怒火在他們身上纔會平息,得到了報復;當我的憤怒在他們身上發洩時,他們要承認我,上主,在妒火中講了話。
And My anger has been completed, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, YHWH, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them.
14 我要使你成為荒野,使你在環繞你的異民前,和所有的過客前,成為辱罵的對象。
And I give you for a ruin, And for a reproach among nations that [are] around you, Before the eyes of everyone passing by.
15 當我大發憤怒,以嚴厲的懲罰在你身上施行裁判時,你就成為環繞你的異民凌辱、恥笑、警戒和警駭的對象:這是我上主說的。
And it has been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that [are] around you, In My doing judgments in you, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, YHWH, have spoken.
16 當我向你們射出饑荒的毒箭──射出毀滅的箭,毀滅你們時──我必使饑荒在你們境內更加嚴重,斷絕你們的糧源。
In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And I am adding famine on you, And I have broken your staff of bread.
17 我必使饑荒和猛獸危害你們,掠去你們的子女,並使瘟疫和血案在你境內盛行,還有刀兵來打擊你:這是我上主說的。」
And I have sent famine and evil beasts on you, And they have bereaved you, And pestilence and blood pass over on you, And I bring a sword in against you, I, YHWH, have spoken!”