以賽亞書 24
1 看！上主使大地空虛，使它變為荒涼，翻轉它的面目，使它的居民四散：
Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth and laying it waste, —And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein.
2 那時怎樣對百姓，也怎樣對司祭；怎樣對僕人，也怎樣對主人；怎樣對婢女，也怎樣對主母；怎樣對主顧，也怎樣對商賈；怎樣對債戶，也怎樣對債主；怎樣對貸方，也怎樣對借方。
And it shall be—As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress, —As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor.
3 大地必要完全荒廢，慘遭浩劫，因為上主這樣定了。
Emptied—emptied—shall be the earth yea pillaged—pillaged, —For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word.
4 大地痛哭哀傷，世界衰頹零落，上天與下地一同衰頹。
Mourneth, fadeth, the earth Languisheth, fadeth, the world, —Languished have the lofty of the people of the earth.
5 大地在居民腳下已被玷污，因為他們越規犯法，破壞了永久的盟約。
Yea the earth itself is profaned under them who dwell therein, —For they have Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant.
6 為此詛咒吞噬了大地，其中的居民受了罪罰；為此地上的居民受了折損，剩下來的人數極少。
For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein, —For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining—are few.
7 新酒哀傷，葡萄凋殘；心情愉快的，都長聲嘆息！
Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine, —Sighing are all the merryhearted:
8 小鼓的喜樂已停止，歡笑的喧嚷已終結，琴瑟的喜樂已止息。
Ceased hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended is the noise of the uproarious, —Ceased hath the mirth of the lyre:
9 人不再飲酒作樂，喝了濃酒的反覺酸苦！
With a song, they drink not wine, —Bitter is strong drink, to them who drink it:
10 空虛的城市已破殘，家家戶戶都已關門閉戶！
Broken down is the city of desolation, —Shut up every house that it cannot be entered.
11 廣場上有人為酒而嗟歎，萬般娛樂已闌盡，大地的喜樂遭放逐！
There is an outcry concerning wine in the streets, —Darkened is all joy, Departed the gladness of the earth.
12 城中所留的只是淒涼，門戶被打得粉碎！
There is left in the city. desolation, —And to ruins, have been broken the gate.
13 誠然，大地間萬民中，必像打過的橄欖樹，或如收割葡萄後所餘的殘粒。
When, thus, it shall be in the earth in the midst of the peoples, [There shall be] like the shaking of an olive-tree, like the going round to pick when closed is the harvest.
14 他們要提高聲音歌頌上主的尊嚴：「萬民啊！ 你們歡呼罷！
They, shall lift up their voice—shall raise a tremulous note, —On account of the splendour of Yahweh, have they made a shrill cry, on the West;
15 你們在東方的，應頌揚上主！住在海島上的，應頌揚上主，以色列的天主的名！
For this cause, In the Regions of Light, give ye glory to Yahweh, —In the Coastlands of the Sea, unto the Name of Yahweh. God of Israel,
16 我們從地極聽到了歌聲：光榮屬於正義者。」然而我說：「我有禍了！我有禍了！我好可憐！反叛的仍在反叛，反叛的仍在極力的反叛！」
From the uttermost part of the earth, melodies, have we heard—Beauty, to the righteous one! But I had said—Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! Traitors, have betrayed, Yea traitorously, have traitors betrayed!
17 地上的居民啊！恐怖、陷阱、羅網，都聚集在你身上。
Terror and pit and snare, —are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth!
18 那逃得了恐怖聲音的，必要落在陷阱裏；那由陷阱中跳出來的，必要落在羅網中！ 的確，天上閘門已開放，大地基礎已動盪。
So shall it be—He that fleeth from the sound of the terror! shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the midst of the pit, shall be captured in the snare, —For, the windows on high, have opened, And shaken are the foundations of earth.
19 大地必將粉碎又粉碎，大地必將崩裂又崩裂，大地必將動搖又動搖！
The earth breaketh, breaketh, —The earth crasheth, crasheth, The earth tottereth, tottereth;
20 大地必東搖西晃，有如一個醉漢，搖盪得好比一座帳幕；自己的罪惡又重壓在上面，倒塌了不能再起！
The earth staggereth—staggereth like a drunken man, And rocketh to and fro like a night-hut, —So shall be heavy upon her, her transgression, And she shall fall and not again rise.
21 到那一天，上主要在高天審視天上所有的軍旅，要在下地察考地上所有的君王。
And it shall be in that day, That Yahweh will bring punishment Upon the host of the height in the height, —And upon the kings of the ground on the ground.
22 他們將被聚集起來，關在深坑內，監禁在監牢裏；待過了許多時日，將受懲罰。
And they shall be swept together in a crowd, fettered for a pit, And shall be lowered into a dungeon, —And, after many days, shall they be punished.
23 那時，月亮要臉紅，太陽要羞慚，因為萬軍的上主要 在熙雍山上，要在耶路撒冷為王，在他的長老面前要備受頌揚。
Then shall blush the silvery moon, Then turn pale the glowing sun, —Because Yahweh of hosts hath become king In Mount Zion And in Jerusalem, And before his Elders in glory,
