以西結書 8
1 六年六月五日，當我坐在我屋內，猶大的長老門坐在我面前時，吾主上主的手臨於我。
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord GOD’s hand fell on me there.
2 我觀望，看，有一個形像，形狀如人，在他相似腰部的下面，有一團火，在他腰部的上面好像有一道光輝，像發亮的金屬。
Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire—from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire, and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
3 他伸出一隻像手的形狀，抓住我的一綹頭髮，有一種神力把我提到天地之間，在神視中將我提往耶路撒冷去，到了內門的北門門口，在那裏供奉著引起上主妒火的偶像。
He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks towards the north, where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
4 在那裏出現了以色列天主的光榮，相似我在平原所見的異像。
Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
5 他向我說：「人子，舉目向北方看! 」我遂舉目向北方看；看見在靠近祭壇的北門門口，有那引起上主妒火的偶像。
Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way towards the north.” So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 他又向我說：「人子，你看他們作的是什麼﹖以色列家族在這裏所行的極其醜惡之事，使我非離開我的聖所不可，但你還要看見更為醜惡的事。」
He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
7 以後，他引我到外院的大門口，我看見在牆上有一個洞。
He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
8 他向我說：「人子，把這牆穿一個洞! 」我遂在牆上穿了一個洞，出現了一道門。
Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.” When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.
9 他又向我說：「你進去看一看他們在那裏所做的窮凶極惡的醜行。」
He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”
10 我便進去，看見有各種爬蟲和走獸的像，都是可憎惡的；還有以色列家的各種偶像，都刻畫在四周的牆上。
So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.
11 以色列家族的七十長老，沙番的兒子雅匝尼雅也在他們中間，都站在那些像前，每人手中拿著香爐，燒的香煙如濃雲，正在上騰。
Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.
12 他對我說：「人子，你看見了以色列的長老在黑暗中，每人在藏神像的暗室中所行的事嗎﹖他們說：上主看不見我們，上主已離棄了此地。」
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘The LORD doesn’t see us. The LORD has forsaken the land.’”
13 他又向我說：「你還要看見他們所行的更醜惡的事。」
He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”
14 以後，他引我到了上主的聖殿朝北的大門口。看，有些婦女坐在那裏，哀悼塔慕次。
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was towards the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.
15 他向我說：「人子，你看見了嗎﹖但你還要看見比這更醜惡的事。」
Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”
16 以後，他引我到了上主聖殿的內庭院內；看，在上主聖所的門口，在走廊和祭壇中間約有二十五個人，背向上主的聖所，面向東方，他們正在向東方朝拜太陽。
He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house; and I saw at the door of the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs towards the LORD’s temple and their faces towards the east. They were worshipping the sun towards the east.
17 他又向我說：「人子，你看見了嗎﹖在這裏行的這些醜惡之事，為猶大家還不夠嗎﹖他們還將此地充滿了殘暴之事，時時惹我忿怒。看，他們還把枝條舉到自己鼻子上。
Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
18 我必大發憤怒，我的眼決不憐視，一點也不顧惜；極使他們在我耳旁高聲喊叫，我仍不俯聽他們。」
Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
