以西结书 36
1 “人子啊，你要对以色列山发预言说：以色列山哪，要听耶和华的话。
“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: Mountains of Israel, listen to this message from the Lord.
2 主耶和华如此说：因仇敌说：‘阿哈！这永久的山冈都归我们为业了！’
This is what the Lord God says: The enemy said about you, ‘Aha! These old high places now belong to us,’
3 所以要发预言说，主耶和华如此说：因为敌人使你荒凉，四围吞吃，好叫你归与其余的外邦人为业，并且多嘴多舌的人提起你来，百姓也说你有臭名。
so you must prophesy and announce that this is what the Lord God says: They have turned you into a wasteland, attacking you from every direction, so that you became the property of other nations and people gossiped about you and slandered you.
4 故此，以色列山要听主耶和华的话。大山小冈、水沟山谷、荒废之地、被弃之城，为四围其余的外邦人所占据、所讥刺的，
So now, mountains of Israel, listen to the message from the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the deserted ruins and abandoned towns, that the other nations around you have looted and mocked.
5 主耶和华对你们如此说：我真发愤恨如火，责备那其余的外邦人和以东的众人。他们快乐满怀，心存恨恶，将我的地归自己为业，又看为被弃的掠物。
Yes, this is what the Lord God says: I have spoken passionately against these other nations, and against all the Edomites, who took over my country and made it theirs, happily celebrating as they looted the land and treated me with complete contempt.
6 所以，你要指着以色列地说预言，对大山小冈、水沟山谷说，主耶和华如此说：我发愤恨和忿怒说，因你们曾受外邦人的羞辱，
So prophesy concerning the country of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord God says: Just watch, for I have spoken passionately about this because you have had to put up with this mockery from other nations.
7 所以我起誓说：你们四围的外邦人总要担当自己的羞辱。这是主耶和华说的。
This is what the Lord God says: I hold up my hand and swear that the other nations around you will suffer their own shame.
8 “以色列山哪，你必发枝条，为我的民以色列结果子，因为他们快要来到。
But you, mountains of Israel, will grow trees that will produce fruit for my people Israel, for soon they'll be coming home.
9 看哪，我是帮助你的，也必向你转意，使你得以耕种。
Look, I am for you and I will help you. Your land will be ploughed, and crops will be sown.
10 我必使以色列全家的人数在你上面增多，城邑有人居住，荒场再被建造。
You will support the people of Israel as they return and grow in number. People will live in the towns again and rebuild the ruins.
11 我必使人和牲畜在你上面加增；他们必生养众多。我要使你照旧有人居住，并要赐福与你比先前更多，你就知道我是耶和华。
The number of your people will grow— they will have many children. The animals too will have many young. I will make sure that you're inhabited just as you used to be, and I will make you more prosperous that you were before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12 我必使人，就是我的民以色列，行在你上面。他们必得你为业；你也不再使他们丧子。
I will have my people Israel walk on you mountains. You will be theirs; you will belong to them, and you will no longer rob your nation of their children.
13 主耶和华如此说：因为人对你说：‘你是吞吃人的，又使国民丧子’，
This is what the Lord God says: Because people say to you, ‘You eat people, and rob your nation of their children,’
14 所以主耶和华说：你必不再吞吃人，也不再使国民丧子。
from now on you won't eat people or rob your nation of their children, declares the Lord God.
15 我使你不再听见各国的羞辱，不再受万民的辱骂，也不再使国民绊跌。这是主耶和华说的。”
I'm going to stop these nations insulting you, and you won't have to put up with their taunts any more, or make the nation fall, declares the Lord God.”
16 耶和华的话又临到我说：
Another message from Lord came to me, saying,
17 “人子啊，以色列家住在本地的时候，在行动作为上玷污那地。他们的行为在我面前，好像正在经期的妇人那样污秽。
“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their country, they made it unclean by the way they behaved, by what they did. The way they were behaving in my presence was like the ceremonial uncleanness of a woman's period.
18 所以我因他们在那地上流人的血，又因他们以偶像玷污那地，就把我的忿怒倾在他们身上。
So I became angry with them because of murders they committed in the country, and because they made it unclean by worshiping idols.
19 我将他们分散在列国，四散在列邦，按他们的行动作为惩罚他们。
I scattered them among the different nations and countries. I judged them according to the way they had behaved and what they did.
20 他们到了所去的列国，就使我的圣名被亵渎；因为人谈论他们说，这是耶和华的民，是从耶和华的地出来的。
But wherever they went among the nations, they ruined my reputation, because people said about them, ‘These are the Lord's people, but they had to leave his country.’
21 我却顾惜我的圣名，就是以色列家在所到的列国中所亵渎的。
So I had to take care of my reputation for holiness which the people of Israel had ruined among the nations where they'd gone.
22 “所以，你要对以色列家说，主耶和华如此说：以色列家啊，我行这事不是为你们，乃是为我的圣名，就是在你们到的列国中所亵渎的。
Tell the people of Israel that this is what the Lord God says: I'm not doing this for you, people of Israel, but for my reputation for holiness, which you ruined among the nations where you went.
23 我要使我的大名显为圣；这名在列国中已被亵渎，就是你们在他们中间所亵渎的。我在他们眼前，在你们身上显为圣的时候，他们就知道我是耶和华。这是主耶和华说的。
I will reveal the holy nature and importance of my reputation, which has been ruined among the nations, the reputation you have ruined among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when I reveal my holiness through you as they watch.
24 我必从各国收取你们，从列邦聚集你们，引导你们归回本地。
For I will bring you back from among the nations, gathering you from all the different countries, and I will lead you back into your own country.
25 我必用清水洒在你们身上，你们就洁净了。我要洁净你们，使你们脱离一切的污秽，弃掉一切的偶像。
I will also pour pure water over you, and you will be clean. I will wash you clean from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.
26 我也要赐给你们一个新心，将新灵放在你们里面，又从你们的肉体中除掉石心，赐给你们肉心。
I will give you a new mind and I will put a new spirit inside you. I will take away your stubborn mind and I will give you a loving mind.
27 我必将我的灵放在你们里面，使你们顺从我的律例，谨守遵行我的典章。
I will put my Spirit inside you so you will follow my laws and remember to do what I tell you.
28 你们必住在我所赐给你们列祖之地。你们要作我的子民，我要作你们的 神。
Then you will live in the country I gave to your forefathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
29 我必救你们脱离一切的污秽，也必命五谷丰登，不使你们遭遇饥荒。
I will save you from everything that makes you unclean. I will make sure you have plenty of grain. I won't send you any famines.
30 我必使树木多结果子，田地多出土产，好叫你们不再因饥荒受外邦人的讥诮。
I will also make sure you have good harvests from your orchards and fields, so that you won't be mocked by other nations anymore because of famine.
31 那时，你们必追想你们的恶行和你们不善的作为，就因你们的罪孽和可憎的事厌恶自己。
Then you will remember your evil ways and terrible things you've done, and you'll hate yourselves for your sins and disgusting actions.
32 主耶和华说：你们要知道，我这样行不是为你们。以色列家啊，当为自己的行为抱愧蒙羞。
You need to realize that I'm not doing this for your sake, declares the Lord God. You should be ashamed and embarrassed for what you've done, people of Israel!
33 “主耶和华如此说：我洁净你们，使你们脱离一切罪孽的日子，必使城邑有人居住，荒场再被建造。
This is what the Lord God says: On the day I make you clean from all your sins, I will have you live in your towns again and make sure the ruins are rebuilt.
34 过路的人虽看为荒废之地，现今这荒废之地仍得耕种。
The land that was deserted will be cultivated again instead of looking abandoned to everyone passing by.
35 他们必说：‘这先前为荒废之地，现在成如伊甸园；这荒废凄凉、毁坏的城邑现在坚固有人居住。’
Then they will say, ‘This deserted land is now like the garden of Eden. The towns that were demolished, abandoned, and destroyed have been restored and strengthened, and people are living in them.’
36 那时，在你们四围其余的外邦人必知道我—耶和华修造那毁坏之处，培植那荒废之地。我—耶和华说过，也必成就。
Then those nations around you that are left will acknowledge that I, the Lord, have rebuilt what was demolished, and that I have replanted what was destroyed. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will carry it out.
37 “主耶和华如此说：我要加增以色列家的人数，多如羊群。他们必为这事向我求问，我要给他们成就。
This is what the Lord God says: I will once again answer the prayers of the people of Israel. This is what I will do for them: I will have them increase in number like a flock.
38 耶路撒冷在守节作祭物所献的羊群怎样多，照样，荒凉的城邑必被人群充满。他们就知道我是耶和华。”
Just like all the many flocks that are brought to Jerusalem to be sacrificed during the religious festivals, so the towns that were once demolished will be full of flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
