以賽亞書 7
1 當烏齊雅的孫子，約堂的兒子阿哈次為猶大王時，阿蘭王勒斤和以色列王勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑，上來攻打耶路撒冷，但是不能攻陷。
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 有人報告達味家說：「阿蘭已經駐紮在厄弗辣因！」君王與人民都膽戰心驚，有如風中搖動的樹木。
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 上主對依撒意亞說：「你和你的兒子舍阿爾雅叔布出去，到上池的水溝盡頭，即漂工田間的大道上，去會見阿哈次；
Then said Yhwh unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
4 對他說：你必須審慎，保持鎮定，不必畏懼，不要因那兩個冒煙的火把頭－即勒斤、阿蘭和勒瑪里雅之子－的怒火而膽怯。
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 雖然阿蘭、厄弗辣因和勒瑪里雅的兒子同謀，迫害你說：
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 我們上猶大去，擾亂她，把她佔領過來歸於我們，並在那裏立塔貝耳的兒子為王；
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7 但是吾主上主卻這樣說：這事決不能成立，亦不能發生！
Thus saith the Lord Yhwh, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 因為阿蘭的首都是大馬士革，大馬士革的首領是勒斤；
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9 厄弗辣因的首都是撒瑪黎雅，撒瑪黎雅的首領是勒瑪里雅的兒子。【六年或五年以後，阿蘭將被消滅，厄弗辣因將要衰敗。】假使你們不肯相信，你們必然不能存立。」
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10 上主又對阿哈次說：「
Moreover Yhwh spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Ask thee a sign of Yhwh thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. (Sheol h7585)
12 阿哈次回答說：「我不要求，我不願試探上主。」
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yhwh.
13 依撒意亞說：「達味的家族，你們聽著罷 ！你們使人厭惡還不夠，還要使我的天主厭惡嗎﹖
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 因此，吾主要親自給你們一個徵兆：看，有位貞女要懷孕生子，給他起名叫厄瑪奴耳。
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 到他知道棄惡揚善的時候，要吃乳酪和蜂蜜；
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 因為在這孩子尚未知道棄惡擇善以前，你在那兩個君王面前所擔心的國土，必將荒廢。
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17 上主必使患難的日子臨於你、你的百姓和你的父家身上；這是從厄弗辣因叛離猶大那一天所未有過的，【即亞述王加禍的日子。】
Yhwh shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 那一日，上主要喚來埃及大河盡頭的蠅和亞述境內的蜂，
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yhwh shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 牠們將要前來，一起落在荒谷、巖穴，以及一切荊棘叢中和一切水溝上。
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 那一日，吾主要用由大河那邊借來的剃刀【即亞述王】剃去你的頭髮和恥毛，連鬍鬚也要刮掉。
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 到那一日，人僅能餵養一隻牛犢和兩隻母山羊，
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 因為出奶很多，人將以乳酪為食，因而境內所有的遺民，都將以乳酪和蜂蜜為食。
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 到那一日，先前所有種植一千棵葡萄，值一千塊銀子的地方，必將叢生荊棘和蒺藜。
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24 人往那裏去，必須攜帶弓箭，因為遍地都是荊棘和蒺藜。
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 先前用鋤頭開墾的山地，沒有人敢到那裏，因為害怕荊棘蒺藜。那裏將成為放牛和羊群踐踏的地區。
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
