以賽亞書 22
1 有關「神視谷」的神諭：你究竟為了什麼上了屋頂﹖
The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?
2 你這座充滿喧嘩嘈雜的城市，享樂的都會！你的被殺者並不是被殺於刀劍，也不是死於戰場。
Filled with clamor, a busy city, an exultant city: your dead have not been slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
3 你所有的官長都結伴逃遁，竄逃遠方；你所有的將士也都集體被俘，棄弓就縛。
All your leaders have fled together, and they have been bound by hardship. All who were found were chained together. They have fled far away.
4 為此我說：「你們不要管我，讓我痛哭一場罷！也不要為了我民族的女兒的零落，有勞你們來安慰我！」
For this reason, I said: “Depart from me. I will weep bitterly. Make no attempt to console me, over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”
5 因為這是一個混亂、蹂躪、惶惑的日子，是屬於吾主萬軍的上主的日子；在「神視谷」內，城牆倒塌，喊聲震撼山岳。
For it is a day of death, and of trampling, and of weeping to the Lord, the God of hosts, in the valley of vision: examining the wall and the magnificence above the mountain.
6 厄藍取了箭囊，阿蘭騎上了戰馬，克爾亮出了盾牌。
And Elam took up the quiver and the chariot of the horseman; and he stripped the wall of the shield.
7 你最富麗的山谷充滿了戰車，騎兵已在門前佈好陣勢。
And your elect valleys will be filled with chariots, and the horsemen will position themselves at the gates.
8 猶大的屏障已被揭開。那天你們只仰望林宮內的武器，
And the covering of Judah will be exposed, and in that day, you will see the weaponry of the forest house.
9 只看見了達味城上的許多裂縫，聚集了下池塘的蓄水，
And you will see breaches in the city of David, for these have been multiplied. But you have gathered together the waters of the lower fish-pool.
10 計算了耶路撒冷的房屋，拆毀了民房來鞏固城牆，
And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem. And you have destroyed the houses in order to fortify the wall.
11 在兩城牆之間，又鑿了個蓄水池，來貯藏池塘的水；卻沒有仰望這事的主事者，也沒有回顧那老早計劃了這事。
And you have made a pit between two walls for the waters of the ancient fish-pool. But you have not gazed upward to him who made it, and you have not considered, even from a distance, its Maker.
12 那天，吾主萬軍的上主本來叫人哭泣、哀號、削髮、腰束苦衣；
And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.
13 但是，看，仍是歡躍喜樂，宰牛殺羊，飲酒食肉：「吃喝罷！明天我們就要死啦！」
But behold: gladness and rejoicing, the killing of calves and the slaughter of rams, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
14 萬軍的上主親自附耳傳示給我說：「決不赦免你們這罪惡，除非你們死去。」吾主萬軍的上主這樣說。
And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you, until you die,” says the Lord, the God of hosts.
15 有關宮殿總管舍布納的神諭：吾主萬軍的上主這樣說：去！到那個在高處給自己鑿墳墓，
Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: Go forth and enter to him who lives in the tabernacle, to Shebna, who is in charge of the temple, and you shall say to him:
16 在巖石間給自己闢寢室的家宰那裏去，對他說：「你在這裏有什麼東西﹖你在這裏有什麼人，竟在這裏為你鑿墳墓﹖
“What are you here, or who are you claiming to be here? For you have hewn a sepulcher for yourself here. You have diligently hewn a memorial in a rock, as a tabernacle to yourself.
17 看哪！上主要大力一擲，把你擲得遠遠的；他要抓緊你，
Behold, the Lord will cause you to be carried away, like a domesticated rooster, and he will remove you, like an outer garment.
18 將你捲了又捲，捲成一團，如一圓球，拋擲到廣闊之地。你要死在那裏，連你的彩車也要毀滅，你這個王宮的恥辱！
He will crown you with a crown of tribulation. He will toss you like a ball into a broad and spacious land. There you will die, and there the chariot of your glory will be, for it is a shame to the house of your Lord.”
19 我要革你的職，撤你的位。
And I will expel you from your station, and I will depose you from your ministry.
20 到那天，我要召希耳克雅的兒子厄里雅金作我的僕人。
And this shall be in that day: I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.
21 我要把你的朝衣給他穿上，把你的玉帶給他束上，將你的治權交在他手中；他將作耶路撒冷居民和猶大家室的慈父。
And I will clothe him with your vestment, and I will strengthen him with your belt, and I will give your authority to his hand. And he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 我要將達味家室的鑰匙放在他肩上；他開了，沒有人能關；他關了，沒有人能開。
And I will place the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And when he opens, no one will close. And when he closes, no one will open.
23 我要堅定他，有如釘在穩固地方的木橛；他將成為他父家榮譽的寶座。
And I will fasten him like a peg in a trustworthy place. And he will be upon a throne of glory in the house of his father.
24 他父家全部的榮耀、細枝、嫩芽、各種細小的物品，自碗具以至各種壺瓶都懸掛在它上面。
And they will suspend over him all the glory of his father’s house: various kinds of vessels and every little article, from the vessels of bowls even to every instrument of music.
25 到那一天－－萬軍上主的斷語－－釘在穩固地方的木橛必將脫落，破裂，掉下來，上面所掛的重載也要摔得粉碎。因為上主說了。
In that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg which was fastened in a trustworthy place shall be taken away. And he will be broken, and he will fall, and he will perish, along with all that had depended upon him, because the Lord has spoken it.
