以賽亞書 17
1 論大馬士革的默示： 看哪，大馬士革已被廢棄，不再為城， 必變作亂堆。
A message about Damascus. Look, Damascus will cease to exist as city. Instead it will become a pile of ruins.
2 亞羅珥的城邑已被撇棄， 必成為牧羊之處； 羊在那裏躺臥，無人驚嚇。
The towns of Aroer will be abandoned. Flocks will live in the streets and rest there, because there won't be anyone to chase them away.
3 以法蓮不再有保障； 大馬士革不再有國權； 亞蘭所剩下的 必像以色列人的榮耀消滅一樣。 這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, Damascus will no longer be a kingdom, and those that are left of the Arameans will be like the lost glory of Israel, declares the Lord Almighty.
4 到那日，雅各的榮耀必至枵薄； 他肥胖的身體必漸瘦弱。
At that time the glory of Jacob will fade away; he will lose his strength.
5 就必像收割的人收斂禾稼， 用手割取穗子， 又像人在利乏音谷拾取遺落的穗子。
It will look as empty as fields after reapers have harvested the grain, gathering up the grain in their arms. It will be like when people pick the heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 其間所剩下的不多，好像人打橄欖樹－ 在儘上的枝梢上只剩兩三個果子； 在多果樹的旁枝上只剩四五個果子。 這是耶和華－以色列的上帝說的。
Yet there will be some left behind, like an olive tree that has been shaken—two or three ripe olives are left at the top of the tree, four or five on its lower branches, declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 當那日，人必仰望造他們的主，眼目重看以色列的聖者。
At that time people will pay attention to their Creator and look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 他們必不仰望祭壇，就是自己手所築的，也不重看自己指頭所做的，無論是木偶是日像。
They won't believe in the altars they built and the idols they made; they will not look to the Asherah poles or the altars of incense.
9 在那日，他們的堅固城必像樹林中和山頂上所撇棄的地方，就是從前在以色列人面前被人撇棄的。這樣，地就荒涼了。
At that time their fortified cities will be like places left to be taken over by bushes and trees, just as they were previously abandoned when the Israelites invaded. The country will become completely desolate.
10 因你忘記救你的上帝， 不記念你能力的磐石； 所以，你栽上佳美的樹秧子， 插上異樣的栽子。
You have forgotten the God who saves you; you have not remembered the Rock who protects you. So, even though you plant beautiful plants and grow exotic vines,
11 栽種的日子，你周圍圈上籬笆， 又到早晨使你所種的開花； 但在愁苦極其傷痛的日子， 所收割的都飛去了。
even though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and have them blossom in the morning that you sow them, your harvest will heap of trouble on a day of grief and pain that cannot be cured.
12 唉！多民鬨嚷，好像海浪匉訇； 列邦奔騰，好像猛水滔滔；
Disaster is coming to the many nations that growl, growling like the raging sea! Disaster is coming to the peoples who roar, roaring like thundering waters!
13 列邦奔騰，好像多水滔滔； 但上帝斥責他們，他們就遠遠逃避， 又被追趕，如同山上的風前糠， 又如暴風前的旋風土。
The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he confronts them, and they run far away, blown by the wind like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweeds driven by a storm.
14 到晚上有驚嚇，未到早晨他們就沒有了。這是擄掠我們之人所得的分，是搶奪我們之人的報應。
Sudden terror comes in the evening! By morning, they're gone! This is what happens to those who loot us, the fate of those who plunder us.
