以賽亞書 34

1 萬民，你們前來聆聽！列邦，你們側耳靜聽！大地與充塞其中的一切，世界與其所有的產物，都要諦聽！

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and ye people, hearken: let the earth hear, and all that filleth it; the world, and all things that spring forth of it.

2 因為上主向萬民生了氣，對他們的一切軍隊發了怒，他注定了他們的劫數，命定了他們遭受屠殺。

For the indignation of the Lord is [enkindled] over all the nations, and his fury over all their army: he hath devoted them, he hath given them up to the slaughter:

3 他們的被殺者被棄於外，他們屍體的腥臭浮浮上騰，他們的血溶化了諸山。

And their slain also shall be cast out, and as regardeth their carcasses their stench shall ascend upward, and the mountains shall be melted through their blood.

4 天上的萬象必將解體，諸天要如卷軸般捲起；天上的星辰必將隕墜，有如葡萄葉的凋零，有如無花果葉的萎謝。

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a book: and all their host shall wither, as the leaf withereth from the vine, and as withering fruit from the fig-tree.

5 當上主的刀在天上痛飲之後，看哪！它將若在厄東，落在他所毀滅的百姓身上，實行懲罰。

For my sword is sated in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people I have devoted to punishment.

6 上主的刀劍染滿了血，漬滿了脂油，就是羔羊和羚羊的血，以及公羊腎臟的脂油：因為上主在波責辣舉行了一番祭祀，在厄東地方施行了一場屠殺。

The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is enriched with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 野牛與肥畜必同墮死，牛犢與公牛必同跌斃。他們的地區浸滿了血，他們的地面漬染了脂油。

And wild oxen shall sink down with them, and steers with bullocks; and their land shall be sated with blood, and their dust enriched with fat.

8 因為這是上主復讎的日子，是為報復熙雍敵人的一年。

For it is the day of vengeance unto the Lord, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.

9 她的河水將變為瀝青，她的土壤將變為硫磺：大地成了燃灼的瀝青，

And its brooks shall be changed into pitch, and its dust into sulfur, and its land shall become burning pitch.

10 晝夜燃燒不息，濃煙永遠上升；世世代代成為荒野，永久無人經過此地。

Night and day shall it not be quenched; for ever shall ascend the smoke thereof: from generation to generation shall it lie waste; no one shall for ever and ever pass through it.

11 鵜鶘和刺蝟據守其地，鴞鴟和烏鴉棲於其間；上主將以破壞性的繩墨和毀滅性的線錘測量那地。

But pelican and hedgehog shall take possession of it; night-owl also and raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out over it the line of destruction, and the weights of desolation.

12 顯貴中沒有一個在那裏能夠建國，她所有的王侯都歸於烏有。

Their nobles—no one is there they could call [to] the kingdom, and all its princes shall be no more.

13 她的宮闕將生滿荊棘，她的保壘將繁生蒺藜和薊草；她將成為豺狼的洞穴，鴕鳥的苑囿。

And thorns shall spring up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of monsters, and a court for ostriches.

14 野貓在那裏將與野狗相會，野羊將呼叫牠的同類；夜間的魑魅將在那裏休憩，尋得一個安息的處所。

And the martens shall meet with the jackals, and one goat shall call to his fellow; only the screech-owl shall rest there, and find for herself a place of repose.

15 箭頭蛇將在那裏築穴、下蛋、伏卵，並加以孵化；鷙鳥群集其間，雌雄相配。

There shall nestle the arrow-snake, and lay eggs, and hatch, and gather its young under its shadow: only vultures shall assemble there, every one with her mate.

16 你們可查看上主的書，且閱讀一下，牠們中一種也不會缺少，沒有一個沒有配偶的，因為上主的口已這樣命定，他的神集合了牠們。

Inquire out of the book of the Lord, and read: not one of these shall be absent, not one shall miss her mate; for my mouth it is that hath ordained it, and its breath it is that hath gathered them.

17 上主親自要為牠們抽籤，他親手用繩索將為牠們分開這地；牠們將永久佔有這地，世世代代住在那裏。

And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it out unto them by the measuring line: for ever shall they possess it, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.