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。
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to 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。
David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble 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 Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on 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。
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and 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 plotted evil against you, 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’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
7 但是吾主上主卻這樣說：這事決不能成立，亦不能發生！
This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
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. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be 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。」
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
10 上主又對阿哈次說：「
Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
“Ask a sign of Yahweh your 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 won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”
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﹖
He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of 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 will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will 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；
He shall eat butter and honey when he knows 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 knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
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。】
Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your 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，
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle 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。
They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
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 that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with 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，
It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive 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。
It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within 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。
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will 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。
People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be 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。
All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
