Isaiah 34
1 Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
萬民，你們前來聆聽！列邦，你們側耳靜聽！大地與充塞其中的一切，世界與其所有的產物，都要諦聽！
2 The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
因為上主向萬民生了氣，對他們的一切軍隊發了怒，他注定了他們的劫數，命定了他們遭受屠殺。
3 Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
他們的被殺者被棄於外，他們屍體的腥臭浮浮上騰，他們的血溶化了諸山。
4 All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
天上的萬象必將解體，諸天要如卷軸般捲起；天上的星辰必將隕墜，有如葡萄葉的凋零，有如無花果葉的萎謝。
5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
當上主的刀在天上痛飲之後，看哪！它將若在厄東，落在他所毀滅的百姓身上，實行懲罰。
6 The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
上主的刀劍染滿了血，漬滿了脂油，就是羔羊和羚羊的血，以及公羊腎臟的脂油：因為上主在波責辣舉行了一番祭祀，在厄東地方施行了一場屠殺。
7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
野牛與肥畜必同墮死，牛犢與公牛必同跌斃。他們的地區浸滿了血，他們的地面漬染了脂油。
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
因為這是上主復讎的日子，是為報復熙雍敵人的一年。
9 Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
她的河水將變為瀝青，她的土壤將變為硫磺：大地成了燃灼的瀝青，
10 It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
晝夜燃燒不息，濃煙永遠上升；世世代代成為荒野，永久無人經過此地。
11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
鵜鶘和刺蝟據守其地，鴞鴟和烏鴉棲於其間；上主將以破壞性的繩墨和毀滅性的線錘測量那地。
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
顯貴中沒有一個在那裏能夠建國，她所有的王侯都歸於烏有。
13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
她的宮闕將生滿荊棘，她的保壘將繁生蒺藜和薊草；她將成為豺狼的洞穴，鴕鳥的苑囿。
14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
野貓在那裏將與野狗相會，野羊將呼叫牠的同類；夜間的魑魅將在那裏休憩，尋得一個安息的處所。
15 There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
箭頭蛇將在那裏築穴、下蛋、伏卵，並加以孵化；鷙鳥群集其間，雌雄相配。
16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
你們可查看上主的書，且閱讀一下，牠們中一種也不會缺少，沒有一個沒有配偶的，因為上主的口已這樣命定，他的神集合了牠們。
17 He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
上主親自要為牠們抽籤，他親手用繩索將為牠們分開這地；牠們將永久佔有這地，世世代代住在那裏。
