Isaiah 47
1 Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
巴比倫處女！下去，坐在塵土中罷！加色丁貞女！讓位，坐在地上罷！因為你已不再稱為「嬌媚」「柔嫩」了。
2 Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.
揭去面紗，拿磨去磨麵罷！捲起長裙，露出大腿去涉河罷！
3 The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,
你的裸體要暴露，你的羞恥要現出！我要復仇，決不憐惜任何人。
4 Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
我們的救主－－他的名字是萬軍的上主－－說。
5 Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of Kingdoms.
加色丁處女！靜靜地坐下：進入黑暗中罷！因為你不再稱為「萬國之后！」
6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
我曾向我的人民發怒，污辱了我的產業；我將他們交在你手中，可是你對他們沒有表示仁慈，將你的軛重重地壓在老者身上。
7 And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.
你說過：「我永久要作王后！」但你心中從沒有考慮過這事，也沒有想過這事的結局。
8 So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
你這淫逸安居的人，你心裏想：「只有我而沒有別人！我決不會寡居，也決不會喪子！ 」如今你聽這話：
9 But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.
這兩樣在一天內會突然一起降在你身上；雖然你能行許多巫術，能念極威力的符咒，喪子與守寡仍要完全降到你身上。
10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
你自恃於惡說：「沒有人看見我！ 」那是你的聰明和知識迷惑了你，叫你心中妄想：「只有我而沒有別人。」
11 Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.
災禍必要臨到你身上，你卻不能禳災；患難要降在你身上，但你不能阻止；你從未料到的滅亡，要突然來到你身上。
12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.
請你繼續行你自幼即勞碌習行的咒術和那無數的巫術罷！這或許能於你有利，或者能叫人害怕。
13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
你也許聽倦了那許多計謀，現在讓那些測天體，觀星辰和每月預告你未來之事的人們前來拯救你罷！
14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
看哪！他們都像枯草，必為火所焚燒；他們連自己也不能由火的威力中救出，因為這不是為取煖的炭火，也不是座前的爐火。
15 Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.
你那些自幼與之共同勞碌的巫士，為你都是如此；他們各散東西，沒有誰來救你。
