Isaiah 31

1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

禍哉，那些南下埃及求救，依靠戰馬，信賴他們戰車眾多，依恃他們鐵騎驍勇，而不仰望以色列的聖者，也不求問上主的人！

2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

但是上主仍然能降下災禍，他決不收回自己的言語；他必要起來攻擊惡人的家，攻擊助人作惡的人。

3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

埃及人是人，並不是神；他們的戰馬是血肉，並不是靈；只要上主一伸手，施助的人必將仆倒，受助的人必要顛覆：二者同歸於盡。

4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

因為上主曾這樣對我說：「猶如壯獅或幼獅為了獵物而怒吼，即使召集許多牧人攻擊牠，牠並不因他們的叫囂而畏懼，也不因他們的喧嚷而驚慌；同樣，萬軍的上主必要降下，為熙雍和她的丘嶺作戰。

5 Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.

有如飛鳥展翼護雛，萬軍的上主也要這樣扞衛耶路撒冷，加以保護、拯救、憐恤、保存。」

6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

以色列子民啊！再歸到你們所遠離的上主那裏罷！

7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

因為到那一天，人人必要拋棄自己的銀偶像和金偶像，即你們以污穢的手所製造的。

8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

亞述必將傾覆於超人的刀下，超人的刀必將吞噬她；她將由刀劍面前逃走，她的壯丁必要充作苦役。

9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

她的磐石由於震驚必要逃避，她的王侯，由於恐慌必將放棄軍旗：這是在熙雍有火，在耶路撒冷有爐的上主的斷語。