< 以賽亞書 31 >
1 禍哉,那些南下埃及求救,依靠戰馬,信賴他們戰車眾多,依恃他們鐵騎驍勇,而不仰望以色列的聖者,也不求問上主的人!
Woe [to] those going down to Egypt for help, And [who] lean on horses, And trust on chariots, because [they are] many, And on horsemen, because [they are] very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And have not sought YHWH.
2 但是上主仍然能降下災禍,他決不收回自己的言語;他必要起來攻擊惡人的家,攻擊助人作惡的人。
And He [is] also wise, and brings in evil, And He has not turned aside His words, And He has risen against a house of evildoers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.
3 埃及人是人,並不是神;他們的戰馬是血肉,並不是靈;只要上主一伸手,施助的人必將仆倒,受助的人必要顛覆:二者同歸於盡。
And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And YHWH stretches out His hand, And the helper has stumbled, And the helped one has fallen, And together all of them are consumed.
4 因為上主曾這樣對我說:「猶如壯獅或幼獅為了獵物而怒吼,即使召集許多牧人攻擊牠,牠並不因他們的叫囂而畏懼,也不因他們的喧嚷而驚慌;同樣,萬軍的上主必要降下,為熙雍和她的丘嶺作戰。
For thus said YHWH to me: “As the lion and the young lion growl over his prey, Against whom a multitude of shepherds is called, He is not frightened from their voice, And he is not humbled from their noise; So YHWH of Hosts comes down To war on Mount Zion, and on her height.
5 有如飛鳥展翼護雛,萬軍的上主也要這樣扞衛耶路撒冷,加以保護、拯救、憐恤、保存。」
As birds flying, so does YHWH of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.”
Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.
7 因為到那一天,人人必要拋棄自己的銀偶像和金偶像,即你們以污穢的手所製造的。
For in that day each despises His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you—a sin.
8 亞述必將傾覆於超人的刀下,超人的刀必將吞噬她;她將由刀劍面前逃走,她的壯丁必要充作苦役。
And Asshur has fallen by sword, not of the high, Indeed, a sword—not of the low, consumes him, And he has fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.
9 她的磐石由於震驚必要逃避,她的王侯,由於恐慌必將放棄軍旗:這是在熙雍有火,在耶路撒冷有爐的上主的斷語。
And he passes on [to] his rock from fear, And his princes have been frightened by the ensign—a declaration of YHWH, Who has a light in Zion, And who has a furnace in Jerusalem!