以賽亞書 13
1 阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞所見有關巴比倫的神諭：
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 你們在禿山上樹起旗幟，向他們高呼揮手，叫他們走進王侯的御門！
Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 我已向我聖潔的人下令，並為了我的憤怒，召集了我的戰士，我那驕矜自喜的常勝軍。
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness.
4 聽！山上有喧囂聲，好像有無數的人群。聽！列國的嘈雜聲，萬民正在聚集；萬軍的上主正在檢閱赴敵的部隊：
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5 他們都來自遠方，來自天邊。上主和他盛怒的工具，要來毀滅整個大地。
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 號啕罷！因為上主的日子近了，它來有如全能者實行毀滅；
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 為此，人手將要鬆懈，人心將要消融，
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 人人都驚慌失措，劇疼和痛苦侵襲他們，痙攣得有如臨產的婦女；他們彼此驚愕相視，面容有如火燄。
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.
9 看哪！上主的日子來到，必有殘忍、雷霆和烈怒，為使大地變為荒涼，為殲滅地上的罪人。
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 那時，天上的眾星與群宿不再發光，太陽一升起即變為昏黑，月亮也不再放光明。
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 我要懲罰世界，是為了它的罪惡；懲罰惡人，是為了他們的惡行；要抑制自負者的驕橫，要屈服暴虐者的傲慢；
And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 我要使人比提煉的黃金更少見，使人比敖非爾純金更希罕。
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 為此，由於萬軍上主的憤怒，在他暴發怒火之日，天要震撼，地要震動，離其本位。
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 那時，人們將如被追逐的羚羊，又如無人率領的羊群，各自轉向自己的民族，各自逃回自己的故鄉。
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 凡被捕獲的，都要被刺殺；凡被擒住的，都要喪身刀下。
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
16 他們的嬰兒將在他們眼前被人摔死，他們的房屋將被洗劫，他們的婦女要受姦污。
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 我要鼓勵瑪待人來攻擊他們，這些人既不重視白銀，也必貪愛黃金。
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 他們的弓箭要刺死青年，對腹中的胎兒毫不憐恤，對於嬰兒，他們的眼睛也毫不憐視。
[Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 巴比倫－－萬國的光輝，加色丁的驕矜榮耀，必要被上主傾覆，如同索多瑪和哈摩辣一樣，
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 永遠再沒有居民，世世代代無人居住；阿剌伯人不在那裏設帳，牧人也不在那裏立欄；
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 臥在那裏的只有野獸，他們的房屋滿了鴟鴞；駝鳥在那裏棲息，魍魎在那裏舞蹈；
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 豺狼在宮殿裏嗥叫，野狗在御苑內呼應；她的時期已來近了，她的日子不會久延。
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
