Ezekiel 8
1 In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.
六年六月五日，當我坐在我屋內，猶大的長老門坐在我面前時，吾主上主的手臨於我。
2 Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.
我觀望，看，有一個形像，形狀如人，在他相似腰部的下面，有一團火，在他腰部的上面好像有一道光輝，像發亮的金屬。
3 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
他伸出一隻像手的形狀，抓住我的一綹頭髮，有一種神力把我提到天地之間，在神視中將我提往耶路撒冷去，到了內門的北門門口，在那裏供奉著引起上主妒火的偶像。
4 And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.
在那裏出現了以色列天主的光榮，相似我在平原所見的異像。
5 “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
他向我說：「人子，舉目向北方看! 」我遂舉目向北方看；看見在靠近祭壇的北門門口，有那引起上主妒火的偶像。
6 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
他又向我說：「人子，你看他們作的是什麼﹖以色列家族在這裏所行的極其醜惡之事，使我非離開我的聖所不可，但你還要看見更為醜惡的事。」
7 Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
以後，他引我到外院的大門口，我看見在牆上有一個洞。
8 “Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.
他向我說：「人子，把這牆穿一個洞! 」我遂在牆上穿了一個洞，出現了一道門。
9 Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”
他又向我說：「你進去看一看他們在那裏所做的窮凶極惡的醜行。」
10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
我便進去，看見有各種爬蟲和走獸的像，都是可憎惡的；還有以色列家的各種偶像，都刻畫在四周的牆上。
11 Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
以色列家族的七十長老，沙番的兒子雅匝尼雅也在他們中間，都站在那些像前，每人手中拿著香爐，燒的香煙如濃雲，正在上騰。
12 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
他對我說：「人子，你看見了以色列的長老在黑暗中，每人在藏神像的暗室中所行的事嗎﹖他們說：上主看不見我們，上主已離棄了此地。」
13 Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.”
他又向我說：「你還要看見他們所行的更醜惡的事。」
14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
以後，他引我到了上主的聖殿朝北的大門口。看，有些婦女坐在那裏，哀悼塔慕次。
15 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”
他向我說：「人子，你看見了嗎﹖但你還要看見比這更醜惡的事。」
16 So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
以後，他引我到了上主聖殿的內庭院內；看，在上主聖所的門口，在走廊和祭壇中間約有二十五個人，背向上主的聖所，面向東方，他們正在向東方朝拜太陽。
17 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
他又向我說：「人子，你看見了嗎﹖在這裏行的這些醜惡之事，為猶大家還不夠嗎﹖他們還將此地充滿了殘暴之事，時時惹我忿怒。看，他們還把枝條舉到自己鼻子上。
18 Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
我必大發憤怒，我的眼決不憐視，一點也不顧惜；極使他們在我耳旁高聲喊叫，我仍不俯聽他們。」
