以賽亞書 29
1 禍哉，阿黎耳，阿黎耳，達味駐紮過的城！任憑一年復一年，任憑節期的循環，
Alas for Ariel, Ariel, The city against which, David encamped, —Add ye a year to a year. Let the festivals, come round;
2 我必圍困阿黎耳，那裏將發生呻吟和悲嘆。你於我必像一個「阿黎耳。」
Yet will I bring Ariel into straits, —And she shall become a bewailing and wailing, Yea she shall become to me a veritable Hearth of God.
3 我要如達味一樣紮營圍攻你，以保壘包圍你，築起高台攻擊你。
And I will encamp round about against thee, —And lay siege against thee with a fort, And raise against thee siege-works;
4 你將降低，要由地下說話，你微弱的言語出自塵土。你的聲音有如幽魂的聲音出於地下，你的言語低聲地出自塵土。
And thou shalt be brought low—Out of the earth, shalt thou speak, And out of the dust, shalt thou lower thine utterance, —And as one that hath a familiar spirit, Out of the earth, shall come thy voice, And out of the dust, thy speech shall chirp;
5 那殘害你的人，將多得有如微細的塵沙；那對你施虐的，將多得有如飛揚的糠屑。但是，忽然，轉瞬之間，
Then shall be as fine dust the multitude of thy foreigners, —And as chaff that passeth away, the multitude of tyrants; And it shall come to pass, in a twinkling, Suddenly,
6 萬軍的上主將帶著雷霆、地震、巨響、颶風、暴風如吞噬的火燄來眷顧你。
From Yahweh of hosts, shalt thou be visited, With thunder, and with earthquake and a great noise, hurricane and storm and flame of fire devouring;
7 那許多攻擊阿黎耳的民族，所有攻擊她並豎起保壘包圍她的人們，都要成為一場夢境，有如夜間的異象。
And it shall be like the dream of a night vision, With the multitude of all the nations who have been making war against Ariel, —Even with all who have been making war against her and her stronghold and who have been laying siege to her;
8 如同飢者夢中得食，及至醒來，仍然枵腹；又有如渴者夢中飲水，及至醒來，依舊疲憊，心裏仍有所欲：那攻擊熙雍山的各種民族，也將如此。
Yea it shall be As when the hungry man dreameth and lo! he is eating, But he awaketh, and his soul, is empty, Or as when the thirsty man dreameth and lo! he is drinking, But he awaketh and lo! he is faint and his soul, is craving, So, shall it be with the multitude of all the nations, that have come forth to war against Mount Zion.
9 你們都在自我愚弄而愚蠢，你們都在自我蒙蔽而迷矇；你們沉醉，不是出於清酒；你們蹣跚，不是出於烈酒；
Stand ye stock still and stare, Besmear your eyes and be blind, —They are drunken but not with wine, They reel, but not with strong drink;
10 而是由於上主將沉睡的神注在你們身上，封閉了你們的眼睛【即先知們，】蒙上了你們的頭顱【即先見們。】
For Yahweh, hath poured out upon you, a spirit of deep sleep, Yea hath tightly shut your eyes—the prophets, —And, your heads—the seers, hath he covered,
11 所有的異像為你們都像是封住的書中的話；若交給識字的人說：「請讀這書！」他將答說：「我不能，因為這書是封著的；」
And so all vision hath become unto you as the words of a writing that is sealed, Which is delivered unto one acquainted with writing, saying, Pray thee read this, And he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed;
12 若將這書交給一個文盲說：「請讀這書！」他將答說：「我不識字！」
And then the writing is delivered to one unacquainted with writing, saying, Pray thee read this, And he saith I am not acquainted with writing.
13 吾主說：「因為這民族祇在口頭上親近我，嘴唇上尊崇我，他們的心卻遠離我，他們對我的敬畏僅是人們所傳習的訓誡。
Wherefore My Lord hath said, —Because this people, hath drawn near with their mouth, And with their lips, have honoured me, But their heart, have they moved far from me, And so their reverence of me hath become A commandment of men in which they have been schooled,
14 所以，看哪！我要向這民族再行奇事，最奇妙的事，致使他們智者的智慧必要消失，他們賢者的聰明必要隱遁。人算不如天算。
Therefore, behold me! again dealing wonderfully with this people, doing wonderfully a wonderful thing, —So shall perish, the wisdom of their wise men, And the intelligence of their intelligent men, shall vanish!
15 禍哉，逃避上主而力圖掩蔽自己計劃的人！禍哉，那些在暗中行事並說：「有誰看見我們，有誰知道我們的人！」
Alas! for them who would fain have been too deep for Yahweh by giving secret counsel, —and therefore in the dark, have been their doings, and they have said Who can see us? and—Who can understand us?
16 你們多麼顛倒事理！豈能看陶工如泥工﹖製造品豈能論製造者說：「他沒有製造我﹖」陶器豈能論陶工說：「他不精明﹖」
Your perverseness! As if like clay, the potter could be reckoned; For shall, the thing made say of him that made it, he made me not? Or hath the thing fashioned ever said of him that fashioned it, He hath no understanding.
17 誠然，再稍過片刻，黎巴嫩即將變成果園，果園將被視為果林。
Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be turned, into garden land, —And garden land, for a forest, be reckoned?
18 到那一日，聾者將聽到書上的話，盲人的眼將由幽暗晦暝中得以看見；
Therefore, in that day, shall the deaf hear the words of a book, —And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;
19 弱小的人將在上主內再得歡樂，貧困的人將因以色列的聖者而喜悅，
And again shall the humbled in Yahweh, have joy, —And the needy of mankind in the Holy One of Israel, exult;
20 因為暴虐者已經絕跡，輕蔑者已經滅亡，一切思念邪惡的人已經剷除：
For the tyrant, hath vanished, And the scoffer, is no more, Yea cut off are all who watch for iniquity: —
21 就是那些使人在訴訟上失敗，在城門口布置羅網陷害判官，用假理由屈枉義人的人。
Who bring a man into condemnation with a rumour, And for him that decideth in the gate, lay a snare, —And have driven away, for a thing of nought, one who was righteous.
22 因此拯救亞巴郎的天主論雅各伯的家這樣說：「雅各伯今後不再慚愧，他的面貌不再失色，
Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the house of Jacob, [even he saith it] who redeemed Abraham, —Not now, shall, Jacob turn pale, And, not now, shall their faces whiten;
23 因為人們看見了我手在他們中所有的工作，必稱頌我名為聖，必稱頌雅各伯的聖者為聖，必敬畏以色列的天主。
For, when he seeth his children the work of my hands, in his midst, They will hallow my Name, —Yea they will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel, will they regard with awe.
24 心內迷亂的人將要獲得知識，怨尤的人必學得教誨。」
Then will they who erred in spirit comprehend, And the murmurers, accept instruction.
