以賽亞書 5
1 我要為我的愛友謳唱一首論及他葡萄園的愛歌：我的愛友有一座葡萄園，位於肥沃的山岡上；
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
2 他翻掘了土地，除去了石塊，栽上了精選的葡萄樹，園中築了一座守望台，又鑿了一個榨酒池：原希望它結好葡萄，它反倒結了野葡萄。
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
3 耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人啊！現在請你們在我與我葡萄園之間，判別是非：
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
4 我為我的葡萄園所能做的，還有什麼沒有做到﹖我原希望它結好葡萄，為什麼卻結了野葡萄﹖
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
5 現在我要告訴你們，我將怎樣對待我的葡萄園：我必撤去它的籬笆，讓它被吞噬；拆毀它的圍牆，讓它受踐踏；
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
6 我要使他變成荒地，不再修剪，不再耕鋤，荊棘和蒺藜將叢叢而生；並且我要命令雲彩不再在它上降下時雨。
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
7 萬軍上主的葡萄園就是以色列家，而猶大人即是他鍾愛的幼苗。他原希望正義，看，竟是流血；他原希望公平，看，卻是冤聲！
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
8 禍哉，你們這些使房屋毗連房屋，田地接連田地，而只讓你們自己單獨住在那地域內的人！
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
9 萬軍的上主在我耳邊宣誓說：那許多房屋必將成為廢墟；巍峨華麗的，必無人居住；
The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
10 十畝葡萄園將只出一「巴特」酒，一「曷默爾」種子，只出一「厄法」穀。
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
11 禍哉，那些早晨一起來即追求烈酒，留連至深夜，飲至酒酣耳熱的人！
Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
12 在他們的宴會上只有琴、瑟、手鼓、管笛和酒。卻沒有人注視上主的作為，沒有人留意他手中的工作：
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
13 因此，我的百姓必因無知而被放逐，顯貴必將餓得要死，民眾必將渴得要命。
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it. (Sheol h7585)
15 人必將屈服，人必被抑制，目空一切的人必低首下心。
And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
16 萬軍的上主必因正義而受尊崇，至聖的天主必因公平而顯為聖。
But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
17 羔羊要在那裏吃草，有如在自己的草場上；肥羊要在荒田裏吃草。
Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
18 禍哉，那些用牛犢的韁繩引來邪惡，用牛車的繩索勾出罪孽的人，
Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
19 和那些說：「願他趕快，迅速完成他的工作，好使我們看看；願以色列聖者的決策盡速執行，好使我們知道」的人！
Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
20 禍哉，那些稱惡為善，稱善為惡；以暗為光，以光為暗；以苦為甘，以甘為苦的人！
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
21 禍哉，那些自視為聰明和自以為通達的人！
Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
22 禍哉，那些飲酒的英雄，調酒的壯士！
Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
23 那些受賄釋放罪人，奪取義人權利的人！
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
24 因此，他們必如捲入火舌中的禾湝，焚於烈燄中的枯草；他們的根必要糜爛，他們的嫩芽必要如塵埃般的飛揚，因為他們拋棄了萬軍上主的教導，藐視了以色列聖者的訓誨。
For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 為此，上主向自己的百姓大發雷霆，伸出自己的手來打擊他們；其時，山嶽為之震撼，他們的屍體，有如街道上的糞土。然而他的震怒並未因此而息滅，他的手仍然伸著。
For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.
26 上主要向遠方的異民豎起一面旗幟，好由大地的四極號召他們，看，他們將疾趨前來。
And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.
27 他們中沒有疲倦的，沒有仆倒的；沒有打盹的，沒有睡覺的；他們的腰帶沒有鬆解，他們的鞋帶也沒有折斷；
There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.
28 他們的箭矢銳利，他們的弓弩全已張開；他們的馬蹄好似火石，他們的車輪有如旋風；
Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.
29 他們怒吼有如母獅，吼叫有如幼獅；他們咆哮攫食，攜之而去，無人予以挽救。
The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
30 那一日，他們必如海嘯般向這民族怒號。人若注視大地，看，盡是黑暗痛苦；光明遮蔽在密雲中，成了晦暗。
And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
