Esias 13
1 THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS SAW AGAINST BABYLON.
阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞所見有關巴比倫的神諭：
2 Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open [the gates], ye rulers.
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 give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.
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 A voice of many nations on the mountains, [even] like [to that] of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,
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 to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors [are coming] to destroy all the world.
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 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.
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 every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
為此，人手將要鬆懈，人心將要消融，
8 The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
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 For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, [a day] of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of 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 Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her 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 And I will command evils for the whole world, and [will visit] their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.
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 And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.
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 For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.
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 And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather [them]: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own 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 For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall 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 And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.
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 you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of 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 They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy 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, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as [when] God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.
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 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.
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 wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there, and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.
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；
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。
