< 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 yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde from the rocke of the wildernesse, vnto the mountaine of the daughter Zion.
2 摩押的居民在亞嫩渡口, 必像遊飛的鳥,如拆窩的雛。
For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes of 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。
Gather a cousel, execute iudgement: make thy shadowe as the night in the midday: hide them that are chased out: bewray not him that is fled.
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 my banished dwell with thee: Moab be thou their couert from the face of the destroyer: for the extortioner shall ende: the destroyer shalbe consumed, and the oppressour shall cease 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 in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and hee shall sit vpon it in stedfastnesse, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging, and seeking iudgement, and hasting iustice.
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 haue heard of the pride of Moab, (he is very proud) euen his pride, and his arrogancie, and his indignation, but his lies shall not be so.
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 howle vnto Moab: euery one shall howle: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourne, yet they shalbe striken.
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 ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes of the heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof: they are come vnto Iaazer: they wandred in the wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out them selues, and went ouer 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 will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.
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 gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing 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。
Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde like an harpe for Moab, and mine inwarde partes for Ker-haresh.
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 when it shall appeare that Moab shall be wearie of his hie places, then shall hee come to his temple to praie, but he shall not preuaile.
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.
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 nowe the Lord hath spoken, saying, In three yeres, as the yeeres of a hireling, and the glorie of Moab shall be contemned in all the great multitude, and the remnant shalbe very small and feeble.