< 以賽亞書 47 >
1 巴比倫的處女啊, 下來坐在塵埃; 迦勒底的閨女啊, 沒有寶座,要坐在地上; 因為你不再稱為柔弱嬌嫩的。
"Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 要用磨磨麵, 揭去帕子, 脫去長衣,露腿詵河。
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
3 你的下體必被露出; 你的醜陋必被看見。 我要報仇, 誰也不寬容。
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man,"
4 我們救贖主的名是 萬軍之耶和華-以色列的聖者。
says our Redeemer; the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 迦勒底的閨女啊, 你要默然靜坐,進入暗中, 因為你不再稱為列國的主母。
"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
6 我向我的百姓發怒, 使我的產業被褻瀆, 將他們交在你手中, 你毫不憐憫他們, 把極重的軛加在老年人身上。
I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
7 你自己說:我必永為主母, 所以你不將這事放在心上, 也不思想這事的結局。
You said, 'I shall be a mistress forever;' so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the latter end of it.
8 你這專好宴樂、安然居住的, 現在當聽這話。 你心中說:惟有我, 除我以外再沒有別的。 我必不致寡居, 也不遭喪子之事。
"Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, 'I am, and there is no other besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:'
9 哪知,喪子、寡居這兩件事 在一日轉眼之間必臨到你; 正在你多行邪術、廣施符咒的時候, 這兩件事必全然臨到你身上。
but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
10 你素來倚仗自己的惡行,說: 無人看見我。 你的智慧聰明使你偏邪, 並且你心裏說:惟有我, 除我以外再沒有別的。
For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no other besides me.'
11 因此,禍患要臨到你身; 你不知何時發現, 災害落在你身上, 你也不能除掉; 所不知道的毀滅也必忽然臨到你身。
Therefore disaster will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and calamity will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly and unexpectedly.
12 站起來吧! 用你從幼年勞神施行的符咒和你許多的邪術; 或者可得益處, 或者可得強勝。
"Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
13 你籌劃太多,以致疲倦。 讓那些觀天象的,看星宿的, 在月朔說預言的,都站起來, 救你脫離所要臨到你的事。
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; those who conjure the heavens, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
14 他們要像碎稭被火焚燒, 不能救自己脫離火焰之力; 這火並非可烤的炭火, 也不是可以坐在其前的火。
Look, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
15 你所勞神的事都要這樣與你無益; 從幼年與你貿易的也都各奔各鄉,無人救你。
Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.