以赛亚书 21
1 论海旁旷野的默示： 有仇敌从旷野，从可怕之地而来， 好像南方的旋风，猛然扫过。
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
2 令人凄惨的异象已默示于我。 诡诈的行诡诈，毁灭的行毁灭。 以拦哪，你要上去！ 米底亚啊，你要围困！ 主说：我使一切叹息止住。
A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
3 所以，我满腰疼痛； 痛苦将我抓住， 好像产难的妇人一样。 我疼痛甚至不能听； 我惊惶甚至不能看。
Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.
4 我心慌张，惊恐威吓我。 我所羡慕的黄昏，变为我的战兢。
My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
5 他们摆设筵席， 派人守望，又吃又喝。 首领啊，你们起来， 用油抹盾牌。
Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
6 主对我如此说： 你去设立守望的， 使他将所看见的述说。
For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
7 他看见军队， 就是骑马的一对一对地来， 又看见驴队，骆驼队， 就要侧耳细听。
And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.
8 他像狮子吼叫，说： 主啊，我白日常站在望楼上， 整夜立在我守望所。
And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
9 看哪，有一队军兵骑着马， 一对一对地来。 他就说：巴比伦倾倒了！倾倒了！ 他一切雕刻的神像都打碎于地。
Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.
10 我被打的禾稼，我场上的谷啊， 我从万军之耶和华— 以色列的 神那里所听见的，都告诉你们了。
O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
11 论度玛的默示： 有人声从西珥呼问我说： 守望的啊，夜里如何？ 守望的啊，夜里如何？
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
12 守望的说： 早晨将到，黑夜也来。 你们若要问就可以问， 可以回头再来。
The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
13 论阿拉伯的默示： 底但结伴的客旅啊， 你们必在阿拉伯的树林中住宿。
The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
14 提玛地的居民拿水来，送给口渴的， 拿饼来迎接逃避的。
Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
15 因为他们逃避刀剑和出了鞘的刀， 并上了弦的弓与刀兵的重灾。
For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.
16 主对我这样说：“一年之内，照雇工的年数，基达的一切荣耀必归于无有。
For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
17 弓箭手所余剩的，就是基达人的勇士，必然稀少，因为这是耶和华—以色列的 神说的。”
And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.
