以賽亞書 25
1 上主！你是我的天主，我要稱揚你，我要讚頌你的名，因為你忠實真誠地成就了你舊日的奇妙計劃。
O Yahweh! my God, thou art, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name, For thou hast done a wonderful thing, —Purposes of long ago Faithfulness in truth.
2 因為你使那城成了一堆瓦礫，使設防的城市化為一片荒涼，使傲慢人的城堡不像城市，永遠不得重建。
For thou hast made, of a citadel, a mound, of a defenced city, a ruin, —palaces for foreigners to be no city, To times age-abiding, shall it not be built.
3 為此，強大的民族要頌揚你，威武邦國的城市要敬畏你。
For this cause! shall glorify thee—a strong people, the city of tyrannous nations shall revere thee;
4 因為你是窮苦人的屏障，是患難中貧乏人的屏障，避風暴的藏身處，避炎熱的蔭涼所；因為殘暴人的狂怒有如冬日的暴風，
For thou didst become A refuge to the weak. A refuge to the needy, when distress was upon him, —A shelter from the storm. A shade from the heat, When the blast of tyrants was like a storm against a wall.
5 有如旱地上的炎熱。傲慢人的狂暴你已抑止，有如濃蔭減輕了熱氣；連殘暴人的歌聲也從此低降。
As heat in a desert, the pomp of foreigners, wilt thou subdue, —Heat—with the shade of a cloud, The song of tyrants! become low.
6 萬軍的上主在這座山上，要為萬民擺設肥甘的盛宴，美酒的盛宴；肥甘是精選的，美酒是醇清的。
Then will Yahweh of hosts prepare for all the peoples in this mountain, A banquet of fat things, A banquet of old wines, —Of fat things full of marrow, Of old wines well refined;
7 在這座山上，你要撤除那封在萬民上的封面，那蓋在各國上的帷幔。
And he will swallow up in this mountain, The mask of the veil, the veil that is upon all the peoples, —And the web that is woven over all the nations.
8 他要永遠取消死亡，吾主上主要從人人的臉上拭去淚痕，要由整個地面除去自己民族的恥辱：因為上主說了。
Having swallowed up death itself victoriously, My Lord, Yahweh, will wipe away, tears from off all faces, —And the reproach of his own people, will he remove from off all the earth, For, Yahweh, hath spoken.
9 到那一天，人要說：「看！這是我們所依賴拯救我們的天主；這是我們所依賴的上主，我們要因他的救援鼓舞喜樂，
So shall it be said, in that day, Lo! our God, is this! We waited for him, that he might save us, —This, is Yahweh! We waited for him, Let us exult and rejoice in his salvation.
10 因為上主的手停留在這山上。」敵人要在自己的地方受踐踏，有如禾湝被踐踏在糞坑之中。
For the hand of Yahweh will settle down in this mountain, —Then shall Moab be trodden down in its place, Like the treading down of a strawheap in the water of a dunghill;
11 他要在其中伸開雙手，如同游泳的伸手游泳；但他的傲慢和他的手段已受了挫折。
Should he spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, As a swimmer spreadeth forth to swim, Then would be laid low his pride, together with the devices of his hands.
12 他城牆上高聳的保壘必被打倒、推翻，倒在地上化為塵埃。
Yea, the lofty stronghold of thy walls, Hath he brought down—Laid low—Levelled to the ground even unto the dust.
