< 以赛亚书 14 >
1 耶和华要怜恤雅各,必再拣选以色列,将他们安置在本地。寄居的必与他们联合,紧贴雅各家。
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
2 外邦人必将他们带回本土;以色列家必在耶和华的地上得外邦人为仆婢,也要掳掠先前掳掠他们的,辖制先前欺压他们的。
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 当耶和华使你脱离愁苦、烦恼,并人勉强你做的苦工,得享安息的日子,
It will happen in the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
4 你必题这诗歌论巴比伦王说: 欺压人的何竟息灭? 强暴的何竟止息?
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased. How the attacker has ceased."
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
6 就是在忿怒中连连攻击众民的, 在怒气中辖制列国, 行逼迫无人阻止的。
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.
8 松树和黎巴嫩的香柏树 都因你欢乐,说: 自从你仆倒, 再无人上来砍伐我们。
Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."
9 你下到阴间, 阴间就因你震动来迎接你, 又因你惊动在世曾为首领的阴魂, 并使那曾为列国君王的, 都离位站起。 (Sheol )
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (Sheol )
10 他们都要发言对你说: 你也变为软弱像我们一样吗? 你也成了我们的样子吗?
They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"
11 你的威势和你琴瑟的声音都下到阴间。 你下铺的是虫,上盖的是蛆。 (Sheol )
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you. (Sheol )
12 明亮之星,早晨之子啊, 你何竟从天坠落? 你这攻败列国的何竟被砍倒在地上?
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn. How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low.
13 你心里曾说: 我要升到天上; 我要高举我的宝座在 神众星以上; 我要坐在聚会的山上,在北方的极处。
You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High."
15 然而,你必坠落阴间, 到坑中极深之处。 (Sheol )
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit. (Sheol )
16 凡看见你的都要定睛看你, 留意看你,说: 使大地战抖, 使列国震动,
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
17 使世界如同荒野, 使城邑倾覆, 不释放被掳的人归家, 是这个人吗?
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who did not release his prisoners to their home?"
All the kings of the nations lie in splendor, everyone in his own house.
19 惟独你被抛弃, 不得入你的坟墓, 好像可憎的枝子, 以被杀的人为衣, 就是被刀刺透, 坠落坑中石头那里的; 你又像被践踏的尸首一样。
But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
20 你不得与君王同葬; 因为你败坏你的国,杀戮你的民。 恶人后裔的名,必永不提说。
You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be mentioned forever.
21 先人既有罪孽, 就要预备杀戮他的子孙, 免得他们兴起来,得了遍地, 在世上修满城邑。
Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
22 万军之耶和华说: 我必兴起攻击他们, 将巴比伦的名号和所余剩的人, 连子带孙一并剪除。 这是耶和华说的。
"I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says the LORD.
23 我必使巴比伦为箭猪所得, 又变为水池; 我要用灭亡的扫帚扫净它。 这是万军之耶和华说的。
"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.
24 万军之耶和华起誓说: 我怎样思想,必照样成就; 我怎样定意,必照样成立,
The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 就是在我地上打折亚述人, 在我山上将他践踏。 他加的轭必离开以色列人; 他加的重担必离开他们的肩头。
that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
26 这是向全地所定的旨意; 这是向万国所伸出的手。
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
27 万军之耶和华既然定意,谁能废弃呢? 他的手已经伸出,谁能转回呢?
For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
29 非利士全地啊, 不要因击打你的杖折断就喜乐。 因为从蛇的根必生出毒蛇; 它所生的是火焰的飞龙。
Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
30 贫寒人的长子必有所食; 穷乏人必安然躺卧。 我必以饥荒治死你的根; 你所余剩的人必被杀戮。
The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
31 门哪,应当哀号! 城啊,应当呼喊! 非利士全地啊,你都消化了! 因为有烟从北方出来, 他行伍中并无乱队的。
Howl, gate. Cry, city. You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 可怎样回答外邦的使者呢? 必说:耶和华建立了锡安; 他百姓中的困苦人必投奔在其中。
What then is one to answer the messengers of this nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.