< 以西結書 5 >
1 「人子啊,你要拿一把快刀,當作剃頭刀,用這刀剃你的頭髮和你的鬍鬚,用天平將鬚髮平分。
'And thou, son of man, take to thee a sharp weapon, the barber's razor thou dost take to thee, and thou hast caused [it] to pass over thy head, and over thy beard, and thou hast taken to thee weighing scales, and apportioned them.
2 圍困城的日子滿了,你要將三分之一在城中用火焚燒,將三分之一在城的四圍用刀砍碎,將三分之一任風吹散;我也要拔刀追趕。
A third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them.
And thou hast taken thence a few in number — and hast bound them in thy skirts;
4 再從這幾根中取些扔在火中焚燒,從裏面必有火出來燒入以色列全家。
and of them thou dost take again, and hast cast them unto the midst of the fire, and hast burned them in the fire — out of it cometh forth a fire unto all the house of Israel.
5 主耶和華如此說:這就是耶路撒冷。我曾將她安置在列邦之中;列國都在她的四圍。
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: this [is] Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her [are] the lands.
6 她行惡,違背我的典章,過於列國;干犯我的律例,過於四圍的列邦,因為她棄掉我的典章。至於我的律例,她並沒有遵行。
And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that [are] round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes — they have not walked in them.
7 所以主耶和華如此說:因為你們紛爭過於四圍的列國,也不遵行我的律例,不謹守我的典章,並以遵從四圍列國的惡規尚不滿意,
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your multiplying above the nations that [are] around you, In My statutes ye have not walked, And My judgments ye have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That [are] round about you ye have not done.
8 所以主耶和華如此說:看哪,我與你反對,必在列國的眼前,在你中間,施行審判;
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, even I, And I have done in thy midst judgments, Before the eyes of the nations.
9 並且因你一切可憎的事,我要在你中間行我所未曾行的,以後我也不再照着行。
And I have done in thee that which I have not done, And that which I do not its like again, Because of all thine abominations.
10 在你中間父親要吃兒子,兒子要吃父親。我必向你施行審判,我必將你所剩下的分散四方。」
Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.
11 主耶和華說:「我指着我的永生起誓,因你用一切可憎的物、可厭的事玷污了我的聖所,故此,我定要使你人數減少,我眼必不顧惜你,也不可憐你。
Therefore, I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?
12 你的民三分之一必遭瘟疫而死,在你中間必因饑荒消滅;三分之一必在你四圍倒在刀下;我必將三分之一分散四方,並要拔刀追趕他們。
Thy third part — by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in thy midst, And the third part, by sword they fall round about thee, And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out after them.
13 「我要這樣成就怒中所定的;我向他們發的忿怒止息了,自己就得着安慰。我在他們身上成就怒中所定的那時,他們就知道我-耶和華所說的是出於熱心;
And completed hath been Mine anger, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them.
14 並且我必使你在四圍的列國中,在經過的眾人眼前,成了荒涼和羞辱。
And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that [are] round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.
15 這樣,我必以怒氣和忿怒,並烈怒的責備,向你施行審判。那時,你就在四圍的列國中成為羞辱、譏刺、警戒、驚駭。這是我-耶和華說的。
And it hath been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that [are] round about thee, In My doing in thee judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Jehovah, have spoken.
16 那時,我要將滅人、使人饑荒的惡箭,就是射去滅人的,射在你們身上,並要加增你們的饑荒,斷絕你們所倚靠的糧食;
In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread.
17 又要使饑荒和惡獸到你那裏,叫你喪子,瘟疫和流血的事也必盛行在你那裏;我也要使刀劍臨到你。這是我-耶和華說的。」
And I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, And they have bereaved thee, And pestilence and blood pass over on thee, And a sword I do bring in against thee, I, Jehovah, have spoken!'