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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 on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.
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 also [is] wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, 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 Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, 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 Jehovah unto me: 'As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts 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 doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.'
6 以色列子民啊!再歸到你們所遠離的上主那裏罷!
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 despise doth each 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 fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword — not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath 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 [to] his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes — an affirmation of Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem!

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