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, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned [it on] its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.
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 hath been — as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting [it] on himself.
3 大地必要完全荒廢，慘遭浩劫，因為上主這樣定了。
Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah 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。
Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they — the high place of the people of the land.
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。
And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
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。
Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.
7 新酒哀傷，葡萄凋殘；心情愉快的，都長聲嘆息！
Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
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 joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.
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 those drinking it.
10 空虛的城市已破殘，家家戶戶都已關門閉戶！
It was broken down — a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
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！
A cry over the wine [is] in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.
12 城中所留的只是淒涼，門戶被打得粉碎！
Left in the city [is] desolation, And [with] wasting is the gate smitten.
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 is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,
14 他們要提高聲音歌頌上主的尊嚴：「萬民啊！ 你們歡呼罷！
They — they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea.
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！
Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, 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 skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, 'Leanness [is] to me, Leanness [is] to me, woe [is] to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
17 地上的居民啊！恐怖、陷阱、羅網，都聚集在你身上。
Fear, and a snare, and a gin, [Are] on thee, O inhabitant of the land.
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。
And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.
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！
Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.
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！
Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to 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 hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land.
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 have been gathered — A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
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。
And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders — honour!
