Isaiah 13
1 This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞所見有關巴比倫的神諭：
2 Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
你們在禿山上樹起旗幟，向他們高呼揮手，叫他們走進王侯的御門！
3 I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.
我已向我聖潔的人下令，並為了我的憤怒，召集了我的戰士，我那驕矜自喜的常勝軍。
4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
聽！山上有喧囂聲，好像有無數的人群。聽！列國的嘈雜聲，萬民正在聚集；萬軍的上主正在檢閱赴敵的部隊：
5 They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of His wrath— to destroy the whole country.
他們都來自遠方，來自天邊。上主和他盛怒的工具，要來毀滅整個大地。
6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
號啕罷！因為上主的日子近了，它來有如全能者實行毀滅；
7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
為此，人手將要鬆懈，人心將要消融，
8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
人人都驚慌失措，劇疼和痛苦侵襲他們，痙攣得有如臨產的婦女；他們彼此驚愕相視，面容有如火燄。
9 Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
看哪！上主的日子來到，必有殘忍、雷霆和烈怒，為使大地變為荒涼，為殲滅地上的罪人。
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
那時，天上的眾星與群宿不再發光，太陽一升起即變為昏黑，月亮也不再放光明。
11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
我要懲罰世界，是為了它的罪惡；懲罰惡人，是為了他們的惡行；要抑制自負者的驕橫，要屈服暴虐者的傲慢；
12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
我要使人比提煉的黃金更少見，使人比敖非爾純金更希罕。
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.
為此，由於萬軍上主的憤怒，在他暴發怒火之日，天要震撼，地要震動，離其本位。
14 Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.
那時，人們將如被追逐的羚羊，又如無人率領的羊群，各自轉向自己的民族，各自逃回自己的故鄉。
15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
凡被捕獲的，都要被刺殺；凡被擒住的，都要喪身刀下。
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
他們的嬰兒將在他們眼前被人摔死，他們的房屋將被洗劫，他們的婦女要受姦污。
17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
我要鼓勵瑪待人來攻擊他們，這些人既不重視白銀，也必貪愛黃金。
18 Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
他們的弓箭要刺死青年，對腹中的胎兒毫不憐恤，對於嬰兒，他們的眼睛也毫不憐視。
19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
巴比倫－－萬國的光輝，加色丁的驕矜榮耀，必要被上主傾覆，如同索多瑪和哈摩辣一樣，
20 She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
永遠再沒有居民，世世代代無人居住；阿剌伯人不在那裏設帳，牧人也不在那裏立欄；
21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
臥在那裏的只有野獸，他們的房屋滿了鴟鴞；駝鳥在那裏棲息，魍魎在那裏舞蹈；
22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
豺狼在宮殿裏嗥叫，野狗在御苑內呼應；她的時期已來近了，她的日子不會久延。
