< 以賽亞書 16 >
1 你們當將羊羔奉給那地掌權的, 從西拉往曠野,送到錫安城的山。
Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, — unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 摩押的居民在亞嫩渡口, 必像遊飛的鳥,如拆窩的雛。
And it shall be [that] as a wandering bird, [as] a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
3 求你獻謀略,行公平, 使你的影子在午間如黑夜, 隱藏被趕散的人,不可顯露逃民。
Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not the fugitive.
4 求你容我這被趕散的人和你同居。 至於摩押,求你作他的隱密處, 脫離滅命者的面。 勒索人的歸於無有, 毀滅的事止息了, 欺壓人的從國中除滅了,
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 必有寶座因慈愛堅立; 必有一位誠誠實實坐在其上, 在大衛帳幕中施行審判, 尋求公平,速行公義。
And a throne shall be established in mercy: and in the tent of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.
6 我們聽說摩押人驕傲, 是極其驕傲; 聽說他狂妄、驕傲、忿怒; 他誇大的話是虛空的。
We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, — [he is] very proud, — of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain.
7 因此,摩押人必為摩押哀號; 人人都要哀號。 你們摩押人要為吉珥‧哈列設的葡萄餅哀歎, 極其憂傷。
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab; every one of them shall howl. For the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, verily afflicted.
8 因為希實本的田地 和西比瑪的葡萄樹都衰殘了。 列國的君主折斷其上美好的枝子; 這枝子長到雅謝延到曠野, 嫩枝向外探出,直探過鹽海。
For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
9 因此,我要為西比瑪的葡萄樹哀哭, 與雅謝人哀哭一樣。 希實本、以利亞利啊, 我要以眼淚澆灌你; 因為有交戰吶喊的聲音 臨到你夏天的果子, 並你收割的莊稼。
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.
10 從肥美的田中奪去了歡喜快樂; 在葡萄園裏必無歌唱,也無歡呼的聲音。 踹酒的在酒醡中不得踹出酒來; 我使他歡呼的聲音止息。
And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry [of the winepress] to cease.
11 因此,我心腹為摩押哀鳴如琴; 我心腸為吉珥‧哈列設也是如此。
Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirheres.
12 摩押人朝見的時候,在高處疲乏,又到他聖所祈禱,也不蒙應允。
And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab.
14 但現在耶和華說:「三年之內,照雇工的年數,摩押的榮耀與他的群眾必被藐視,餘剩的人甚少無幾。」
And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.