< Esias 14 >
1 And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yes, shall be added to the house of Jacob.
耶和华要怜恤雅各,必再拣选以色列,将他们安置在本地。寄居的必与他们联合,紧贴雅各家。
2 And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives [to them]; and they that had lordship over them shall be under [their] rule.
外邦人必将他们带回本土;以色列家必在耶和华的地上得外邦人为仆婢,也要掳掠先前掳掠他们的,辖制先前欺压他们的。
3 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation, [and from] your hard servitude wherein you did serve them.
当耶和华使你脱离愁苦、烦恼,并人勉强你做的苦工,得享安息的日子,
4 And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
你必题这诗歌论巴比伦王说: 欺压人的何竟息灭? 强暴的何竟止息?
5 The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.
耶和华折断了恶人的杖, 辖制人的圭,
6 Having struck a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, striking a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared [them] not, he rested in quiet.
就是在忿怒中连连攻击众民的, 在怒气中辖制列国, 行逼迫无人阻止的。
7 All the earth cries aloud with joy:
现在全地得安息,享平静; 人皆发声欢呼。
8 the trees also of Libanus rejoice against you, and the cedar of Libanus, [saying], From the time that you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.
松树和黎巴嫩的香柏树 都因你欢乐,说: 自从你仆倒, 再无人上来砍伐我们。
9 Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (Sheol )
你下到阴间, 阴间就因你震动来迎接你, 又因你惊动在世曾为首领的阴魂, 并使那曾为列国君王的, 都离位站起。 (Sheol )
10 All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered amongst us.
他们都要发言对你说: 你也变为软弱像我们一样吗? 你也成了我们的样子吗?
11 Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering. (Sheol )
你的威势和你琴瑟的声音都下到阴间。 你下铺的是虫,上盖的是蛆。 (Sheol )
12 How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent [orders] to all the nations is crushed to the earth.
明亮之星,早晨之子啊, 你何竟从天坠落? 你这攻败列国的何竟被砍倒在地上?
13 But you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains towards the north:
你心里曾说: 我要升到天上; 我要高举我的宝座在 神众星以上; 我要坐在聚会的山上,在北方的极处。
14 I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.
我要升到高云之上; 我要与至上者同等。
15 But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth. (Sheol )
然而,你必坠落阴间, 到坑中极深之处。 (Sheol )
16 They that see you shall wonder at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;
凡看见你的都要定睛看你, 留意看你,说: 使大地战抖, 使列国震动,
17 that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.
使世界如同荒野, 使城邑倾覆, 不释放被掳的人归家, 是这个人吗?
18 All the kings of the nations lie in honour, [every] man in his house.
列国的君王 俱各在自己阴宅的荣耀中安睡。
19 But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.
惟独你被抛弃, 不得入你的坟墓, 好像可憎的枝子, 以被杀的人为衣, 就是被刀刺透, 坠落坑中石头那里的; 你又像被践踏的尸首一样。
20 As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be pure; because you have destroyed my land, and have slain my people: you shall not endure for ever, —[you] an evil seed.
你不得与君王同葬; 因为你败坏你的国,杀戮你的民。 恶人后裔的名,必永不提说。
21 Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.
先人既有罪孽, 就要预备杀戮他的子孙, 免得他们兴起来,得了遍地, 在世上修满城邑。
22 And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus says the Lord.
万军之耶和华说: 我必兴起攻击他们, 将巴比伦的名号和所余剩的人, 连子带孙一并剪除。 这是耶和华说的。
23 And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell [there], and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
我必使巴比伦为箭猪所得, 又变为水池; 我要用灭亡的扫帚扫净它。 这是万军之耶和华说的。
24 Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so [the matter] shall remain:
万军之耶和华起誓说: 我怎样思想,必照样成就; 我怎样定意,必照样成立,
25 [even] to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.
就是在我地上打折亚述人, 在我山上将他践踏。 他加的轭必离开以色列人; 他加的重担必离开他们的肩头。
26 This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.
这是向全地所定的旨意; 这是向万国所伸出的手。
27 For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?
万军之耶和华既然定意,谁能废弃呢? 他的手已经伸出,谁能转回呢?
28 In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.
亚哈斯王崩的那年,就有以下的默示:
29 Rejoice not, all you Philistines, because the yoke of him that struck you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents,
非利士全地啊, 不要因击打你的杖折断就喜乐。 因为从蛇的根必生出毒蛇; 它所生的是火焰的飞龙。
30 And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he shall destroy your seed with hunger, and shall destroy your remnant.
贫寒人的长子必有所食; 穷乏人必安然躺卧。 我必以饥荒治死你的根; 你所余剩的人必被杀戮。
31 Howl, you gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, [even] all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no [possibility] of living.
门哪,应当哀号! 城啊,应当呼喊! 非利士全地啊,你都消化了! 因为有烟从北方出来, 他行伍中并无乱队的。
32 And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.
可怎样回答外邦的使者呢? 必说:耶和华建立了锡安; 他百姓中的困苦人必投奔在其中。