以賽亞書 14
1 上主必要憐恤雅各伯，再揀選以色列，使他們安居在自己的國土；外方人要與他們聯合，加入雅各伯的家族。
For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, And will yet choose Israel, And will give them rest upon their own soil, —And the sojourner, shall join himself, unto them, And they shall attach themselves unto the house of Jacob;
2 選民要接受他們，要帶領他們回歸故里；以色列家族，在上主的國土內，要佔有他們為奴婢；於是以色列人要俘擄那俘擄過他們的人，要統治壓迫他們的人。
And peoples shall take them, and bring them into their own place, And the house of Israel shall possess themselves of them upon the soil of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids, —Thus shall they be taking captive their captors, And shall tread down their oppressors.
3 當上主賜你擺脫困苦、憂患和你受的苦役時，那天，
And it shall come to pass, in the day when Yahweh shall give thee rest from thy toil, and from thy disquiet, —and from the hard service which had been laid upon thee,
4 你要對巴比倫王高唱這首諷刺詩說：怎麼，暴虐者住手了！強橫止息了！
that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say: —How hath ceased the oppressor! Ceased the exactress!
5 邪惡者的棍棒，統治者的權杖，已為上主折斷，
Broke hath Yahweh the staff of the lawless, —The sceptre of despots;
6 就是那懷著怒氣，三番五次痛擊過萬民，在忿恨中以無情的殘虐，蹂躪過萬邦的棍杖。
Smiting peoples in passion With stroke unremitting, —Trampling, in anger, on nations, Persecution unhindered.
7 大地安謐寧靜，人人興高采烈；
Quiet, at rest, the whole earth, —Men have burst into shouting!
8 連松樹和黎巴嫩的香柏也都因你而喜慶：「自從你仆倒後，再沒有誰上我們這裏來砍伐！」
Yea the pine-trees, make mirth at thee, Cedars of Lebanon, Since thou wast laid low, No feller hath come up against us!
Hades beneath, is excited about thee To meet thine arrival, —Rousing up, for thee Shades, All the he-goats of earth! Maketh rise from their thrones, All the kings of the nations. (Sheol h7585)
10 眾人都開口對你說：「連你也衰弱得和我們一樣啊！你也與我們相同啊！」
All of them, answer, and say to thee, —Thou too, made strengthless, as we! Unto us, art thou like!
Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet—worms! (Sheol h7585)
12 朝霞的兒子－－晨星！你怎會從天墜下﹖傾覆萬邦者！你怎麼也被砍倒在地﹖
How hast thou fallen from heaven, O Shining One—Son of the Dawn! Hewn down to the earth, O crusher of nations!
13 你心中曾說過：「我要直沖霄漢，高置我的御座在天主的星宿以上；我要坐在盛會的山上，極北之處；
Yet, thou, didst say in thy heart—The heavens, will I ascend, Above the stars of GOD, will I lift up my throne, —That I may sit in the Mount of Assembly In the Recesses of the North:
14 我要升越雲表，與至高者相平衡！」
I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High!
Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down, —To the Recesses of the Pit! (Sheol h7585)
16 看見你的，必注視你，仔細端詳你說：「這不是那使大地戰慄，列國動盪，
They who see thee, upon thee, will gaze, Upon thee, will thoughtfully muse, —Is this the man who startled the earth? Who terrified kingdoms?
17 化世界為荒野，摧毀城邑，不為俘囚開放監獄的人嗎﹖」
Who made the world like a desert? And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not, Each one to his home?
18 萬邦的君王都在榮耀中安葬，各在自己的陰宅裏；
All the kings of the nations—they all, are lying in state Each one in his crypt;
19 但是你卻被拋於墳外，像一個叫人厭惡的流產胎兒，為刀箭殺戮的死者所掩蓋，有如遭踐踏的死屍。連那些被拋在石坑裏的，
But, thou, art flung out from thy grave, Like a scion detested, Beshrouded with slain, the pierced of the sword, Like a carcase trod underfoot:
20 你也不得與他們一同埋葬，因為你破壞了你的國土，殘殺了你的人民：惡人的後代永不為人所提念。
As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit, Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; For thy land, thou didst ruin Thy people, didst slay, —Unnamed to times age-abiding, Be the seed of the wicked!
21 你們應為他們的兒子準備屠場，因為他們的父親有了罪孽；他們決不能再興起，佔據大地，而使地面滿是荒涼。
Prepare—for his sons—shambles. For the iniquity of their fathers, —They shall not rise nor possess the earth, Nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 我要起來攻擊他們－－萬軍上主的斷語－－我要抹去巴比倫的名號、遺民、後裔和子孫－－上主的斷語。
I will rise. Then. against them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts, —And will cut off from Babylon Record and remnant And scion and seed, Declareth Yahweh.
23 我要使她成為刺蝟的領土和池沼，我以毀滅的掃帚將她掃淨－－萬軍上主的斷語。
And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water, —And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.
24 萬軍的上主起誓說：「實在，我怎樣想，必怎樣實現；我怎樣計劃，必怎樣成功：
Yahweh of hosts, hath sworn, saying, —Surely as I intended, so, hath it come to pass, And as I purposed, the same, shall stand: —
25 我要在我的國土內粉碎亞述，在我的山嶺上將她踐踏；她的重擔必要由他們肩上卸下。」
That I will break in pieces the Assyrian in my land, Yea upon my mountains, will I tread him underfoot, —So shall be removed from off them his yoke, And his burden, from off their shoulder shall be removed.
26 這是對全地所決定的計劃，這是向萬邦所伸展的手臂，
This, is the purpose that is purposed upon all the earth, —And, this, the hand outstretched over all the nations;
27 因為萬軍的上主已決定，誰能阻止﹖他的手已伸出，誰能使它收回﹖
For, Yahweh of hosts, hath purposed, —And who shall frustrate? And, his, is the hand outstretched, And who shall turn it back?
28 在阿哈次駕崩那年有以下這個神諭：「
In the year that King Ahaz died, came this oracle: —
29 全體培肋舍特啊！ 你不要因為打擊你的棍棒折斷了就喜悅，因為由蛇的根子將生出毒蝮，而牠的子息必是飛龍。
Do not rejoice, Philistia, any of thee, In that the rod of him that smote thee, is broken, —For, out of the root of the serpent, shall come forth, a viper, And his fruit be a fiery dragon that flieth.
30 貧苦的人在我的牧場上必得飼養，窮困的人要泰然安息；但是我要以饑荒餓死你的餘生，殺絕你的遺民。
Then shall feed the firstborn of the poor, And the needy, in confidence lie down, —And I will kill with famine thy root, And thy residue, shall be slain.
31 門啊！ 哀號罷！城啊！悲鳴罷！全體培肋舍特啊！戰慄罷！因為有煙從北而來，在她的隊伍中沒有落伍者。」
Howl—O gate, Make outcry—O city, Dispersed art thou Philistia, all of thee, —For out of the north, a smoke cometh in, With no straggler in his ranks.
32 然而要怎樣答覆外邦的使者﹖「上主建立了熙雍，使他民族中的憂患者，在那裏獲得保護。」
What, then, shall one answer the messengers of a nation? That Yahweh, hath founded Zion, And in her, shall seek refuge the oppressed of his people.
