以賽亞書 30
1 禍哉，悖逆的子民－－上主的斷語！他們自作主張，不請示於我；自訂盟約，不依照我的精神，致使罪上加罪。
“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
2 他們沒有請求我的許可，便起程南下埃及，想託庇於法郎的保障之下，想隱匿於埃及的蔭庇之下。
who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
3 但是法郎的保障將是你們的羞恥，隱匿於埃及的蔭庇之下，將是一種污辱。
Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 雖然他的首領已在左罕，他的使者已到達哈乃斯；
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
5 但是他們都要因這於他們毫無裨益的民族而受到羞慚，因為這民族為他們不但毫無幫助，毫無益處，反而是一種羞恥和污辱。
They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
6 他們以牲畜帶著貴物經過南方－－殘酷苦痛的地域，即壯獅和牝獅咆哮，蝮蛇和火蛇飛行的地域－－驢背上駝著他們的財富，駱駝背上駝著他們的寶物，到一個於他們毫無裨益的民族那裏去。
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
7 埃及人的援助是無用的，是空虛的，因此我稱呼她是「靜坐的辣哈布。」
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
8 你現在去，當他們面前，寫在版上，記在書中，為後世作證據：「
Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
9 這是一個反叛的民族，不忠實的子女，拒絕聽從上主法律的子民。」
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
10 他們曾對先見者說：「你們不要再看異象。」對先知說：「你們不要給我們說什麼預言，給我們說些好聽的話，預示些幻想故事罷！
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
11 離開你們的正道罷！轉移你們的路線罷！在我們面前不要再提以色列的聖者！」
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
12 因此，以色列的聖者這樣說：「因為你們藐視了這話，而依賴邪說謬論，且傾心信賴；
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
13 所以這罪惡，為你們將如一堵高牆上突起而將倒下的缺口，頃刻之間就會突然坍塌，
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
14 坍塌得有如毫不痛惜地被摔碎的陶器，碎得找不到一塊碎片，能用以從爐中取火，從井裏取水。」
He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
15 因為吾主上主，以色列的聖者這樣說過：「你們的得救是在於歸依和安靜，你們的力量是在於寧靜和信賴。」然而你們不願意；
For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
16 你們反說：「不！我們要騎馬逃去！」的確，你們必要逃去。「我們要乘駿馬疾馳。」的確，追擊你們的必然疾馳。
but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
17 千人要逃避一人的叱咋，萬人要逃避五人的叱咋，直到你們所剩餘的，有如山頂上的木杆，或山嶺上的旗幟。
One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
18 然而上主仍舊等著向你們施惠，仍高興向你們表示憐愛，因為上主是正義的天主，凡仰賴他的人是有福的。
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
19 熙雍的百姓，耶路撒冷的居民啊 ！你不會再慟哭，他必垂憐你呼求的聲音，他一聽見必要應允你。
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
20 吾主縱然給你們困苦的食物和酸辛的水，但你的教師再不躲藏，你的眼睛必能常見到你的教師。
Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
21 當你偏左或偏右時，你必會親耳聽到你後面有聲音說：「這是正路，你們要在這上面行！」
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
22 你必以那包銀的木偶和包金的神像為不潔之物，將它們拋棄，有如拋棄月經布一樣，並對它說：「去罷！」
You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
23 你把種子種在地裏，上主必使雨降在其上，並使你地裏出產的食糧豐盛富饒；那一日你的群畜必將在廣闊的草場上牧放。
He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
24 耕田的牛和驢駒必吃用木杴或簸箕揚淨而拌上鹽的芻料。
The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
25 大行慘殺之日，當保樓倒塌之時，所有的高山峻嶺必有溪水涓涓細流。
There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 當上主包紮他百姓的創口，治療他們傷痕的那日，月亮的光華將似太陽的光華，而太陽的光華必增加七倍，有如積累了七天的光華。
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
27 看哪！上主的名由遠方而來，他怒火如焚，濃煙衝天；他的口唇滿了敵愾，他的舌頭有如吞噬的火燄；
Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.
28 他的氣息如氾濫的河川，漲到人的頸項；他要用盪滅的篩子篩淨列國，用引入歧途的馬勒拑住萬民的下顎。
His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
29 你們必要謳歌，有如歡祝慶節之夜；內心愉快，有如在笛聲之下登上主的山，到以色列的磐石那裏去一樣。
You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.
30 上主必使人聽見他尊嚴的聲音，見到他降臨的手臂，在狂怒之中，在吞噬的火燄中，在狂風、暴雨、冰雹之中。
Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
31 亞述必因上主的聲音而戰慄，上主必用刑杖擊打亞述。
For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.
32 當上主懲戒的刑杖加於他們身上時，每次擊撻都是在敲鼓和彈琴的聲中執行的。他將以激烈的戰爭擊敗他們。
Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
33 因為托斐特已準備好多時，還是為君王而設的，又深又廣，堆滿了許多柴火；上主的氣 息有如一條硫磺河流，把它點燃起來。
For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
