以賽亞書 21
1 論海旁曠野的默示： 有仇敵從曠野，從可怕之地而來， 好像南方的旋風，猛然掃過。
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. Like windstorms in the south for passing through, It has come from the wilderness, From a fearful land.
2 令人悽慘的異象已默示於我。 詭詐的行詭詐，毀滅的行毀滅。 以攔哪，你要上去！ 米底亞啊，你要圍困！ 主說：我使一切歎息止住。
A hard vision has been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, I have caused all its sighing to cease.
3 所以，我滿腰疼痛； 痛苦將我抓住， 好像產難的婦人一樣。 我疼痛甚至不能聽； 我驚惶甚至不能看。
Therefore my loins have been filled [with] great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.
4 我心慌張，驚恐威嚇我。 我所羨慕的黃昏，變為我的戰兢。
My heart has wandered, trembling has terrified me, He has made the twilight of my desire a fear to me,
5 他們擺設筵席， 派人守望，又吃又喝。 首領啊，你們起來， 用油抹盾牌。
Arrange the table, watch in the watchtower, Eat, drink, rise, you heads, anoint the shield,
6 主對我如此說： 你去設立守望的， 使他將所看見的述說。
For thus said the Lord to me: “Go, station the watchman, Let him declare that which he sees.”
7 他看見軍隊， 就是騎馬的一對一對地來， 又看見驢隊，駱駝隊， 就要側耳細聽。
And he has seen a chariot—a couple of horsemen, The rider of a donkey, the rider of a camel, And he has given attention—He has increased attention!
8 他像獅子吼叫，說： 主啊，我白日常站在望樓上， 整夜立在我守望所。
And he cries, “A lion, my lord! I am continually standing on a watchtower by day, And I am stationed on my ward whole nights.
9 看哪，有一隊軍兵騎着馬， 一對一對地來。 他就說：巴比倫傾倒了！傾倒了！ 他一切雕刻的神像都打碎於地。
And behold, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.” And he answers and says: “Fallen, fallen has Babylon, And He has broken all the carved images of her gods to the earth.
10 我被打的禾稼，我場上的穀啊， 我從萬軍之耶和華－ 以色列的上帝那裏所聽見的，都告訴你們了。
O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!”
11 論度瑪的默示： 有人聲從西珥呼問我說： 守望的啊，夜裏如何？ 守望的啊，夜裏如何？
The burden of Dumah. [One] is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
12 守望的說： 早晨將到，黑夜也來。 你們若要問就可以問， 可以回頭再來。
The watchman has said, “Morning has come, and also night, If you inquire, inquire, return, come.”
13 論阿拉伯的默示： 底但結伴的客旅啊， 你們必在阿拉伯的樹林中住宿。
The burden on Arabia. You lodge in a forest in Arabia, O caravans of Dedanim.
14 提瑪地的居民拿水來，送給口渴的， 拿餅來迎接逃避的。
Inhabitants of the land of Tema Have brought water to meet the thirsty, With his bread they came before a fugitive.
15 因為他們逃避刀劍和出了鞘的刀， 並上了弦的弓與刀兵的重災。
For they fled from the face of destructions, From the face of an outstretched sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.
16 主對我這樣說：「一年之內，照雇工的年數，基達的一切榮耀必歸於無有。
For thus said the Lord to me: “Within a year, as years of a hired worker, All the glory of Kedar has been consumed.
17 弓箭手所餘剩的，就是基達人的勇士，必然稀少，因為這是耶和華－以色列的上帝說的。」
And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar, are few, For YHWH, God of Israel, has spoken!”
