以賽亞書 31
1 禍哉！那些下埃及求幫助的， 是因仗賴馬匹，倚靠甚多的車輛， 並倚靠強壯的馬兵， 卻不仰望以色列的聖者， 也不求問耶和華。
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
2 其實，耶和華有智慧； 他必降災禍， 並不反悔自己的話， 卻要興起攻擊那作惡之家， 又攻擊那作孽幫助人的。
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
3 埃及人不過是人，並不是上帝； 他們的馬不過是血肉，並不是靈。 耶和華一伸手，那幫助人的必絆跌， 那受幫助的也必跌倒，都一同滅亡。
But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
4 耶和華對我如此說： 獅子和少壯獅子護食咆哮， 就是喊許多牧人來攻擊牠， 牠總不因他們的聲音驚惶， 也不因他們的喧嘩縮伏。 如此，萬軍之耶和華 也必降臨在錫安山岡上爭戰。
For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
5 雀鳥怎樣搧翅覆雛， 萬軍之耶和華也要照樣保護耶路撒冷。 他必保護拯救， 要越門保守。
Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
6 以色列人哪，你們深深地悖逆耶和華，現今要歸向他。
Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
7 到那日，各人必將他金偶像銀偶像，就是親手所造、陷自己在罪中的，都拋棄了。
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
8 亞述人必倒在刀下，並非人的刀； 有刀要將他吞滅，並非人的刀。 他必逃避這刀； 他的少年人必成為服苦的。
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
9 他的磐石必因驚嚇挪去； 他的首領必因大旗驚惶。 這是那有火在錫安、 有爐在耶路撒冷的耶和華說的。
Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
