< Esias 66 >
1 Thus says the Lord, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will you build me? and of what kind [is to be] the place of my rest?
耶和華如此說: 天是我的座位; 地是我的腳凳。 你們要為我造何等的殿宇? 哪裏是我安息的地方呢?
2 For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] my words?
耶和華說:這一切都是我手所造的, 所以就都有了。 但我所看顧的, 就是虛心痛悔、 因我話而戰兢的人。
3 But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as [one that offers] swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.
假冒為善的宰牛,好像殺人, 獻羊羔,好像打折狗項, 獻供物,好像獻豬血, 燒乳香,好像稱頌偶像。 這等人揀選自己的道路, 心裏喜悅行可憎惡的事。
4 I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not listen to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.
我也必揀選迷惑他們的事, 使他們所懼怕的臨到他們; 因為我呼喚,無人答應; 我說話,他們不聽從; 反倒行我眼中看為惡的, 揀選我所不喜悅的。
5 Hear the words of the Lord, you that tremble at his word; speak you, our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear their joy; but they shall be ashamed.
你們因耶和華言語戰兢的人當聽他的話: 你們的弟兄-就是恨惡你們, 因我名趕出你們的,曾說: 願耶和華得榮耀, 使我們得見你們的喜樂; 但蒙羞的究竟是他們!
6 A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to [his] adversaries.
有喧嘩的聲音出自城中! 有聲音出於殿中! 是耶和華向仇敵施行報應的聲音!
7 Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped [it] and brought forth a male.
錫安未曾劬勞就生產, 未覺疼痛就生出男孩。
8 Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?
國豈能一日而生? 民豈能一時而產? 因為錫安一劬勞便生下兒女, 這樣的事誰曾聽見? 誰曾看見呢?
9 But I have raised this expectation, yet you have not remembered me, says the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? says your God.
耶和華說:我既使她臨產, 豈不使她生產呢? 你的上帝說:我既使她生產, 豈能使她閉胎不生呢?
10 Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all you that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that [now] mourn over her:
你們愛慕耶路撒冷的 都要與她一同歡喜快樂; 你們為她悲哀的 都要與她一同樂上加樂;
11 that you may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that you may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.
使你們在她安慰的懷中吃奶得飽, 使他們得她豐盛的榮耀, 猶如擠奶,滿心喜樂。
12 For thus says the Lord, Behold, I turn towards them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.
耶和華如此說: 我要使平安延及她,好像江河, 使列國的榮耀延及她,如同漲溢的河。 你們要從中享受; 你們必蒙抱在肋旁,搖弄在膝上。
13 As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
母親怎樣安慰兒子,我就照樣安慰你們; 你們也必因耶路撒冷得安慰。
14 And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall thrive like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.
你們看見,就心中快樂; 你們的骨頭必得滋潤像嫩草一樣; 而且耶和華的手向他僕人所行的必被人知道; 他也要向仇敵發惱恨。
15 For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.
看哪,耶和華必在火中降臨; 他的車輦像旋風, 以烈怒施行報應, 以火焰施行責罰;
16 For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.
因為耶和華在一切有血氣的人身上, 必以火與刀施行審判; 被耶和華所殺的必多。
17 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the Lord.
「那些分別為聖、潔淨自己的,進入園內跟在其中一個人的後頭,吃豬肉和倉鼠並可憎之物,他們必一同滅絕;這是耶和華說的。
18 And I [know] their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
「我知道他們的行為和他們的意念。時候將到,我必將萬民萬族聚來,看見我的榮耀,
19 And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory amongst the Gentiles.
我要顯神蹟在他們中間。逃脫的,我要差到列國去,就是到他施、普勒、拉弓的路德和土巴、雅完,並素來沒有聽見我名聲、沒有看見我榮耀遼遠的海島;他們必將我的榮耀傳揚在列國中。
20 And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters [drawn by] mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.
他們必將你們的弟兄從列國中送回,使他們或騎馬,或坐車,坐轎,騎騾子,騎獨峰駝,到我的聖山耶路撒冷,作為供物獻給耶和華,好像以色列人用潔淨的器皿盛供物奉到耶和華的殿中;這是耶和華說的。
21 And I will take of them priests and Levites, says the Lord.
耶和華說:我也必從他們中間取人為祭司,為利未人。」
22 For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.
耶和華說:我所要造的新天新地, 怎樣在我面前長存; 你們的後裔和你們的名字也必照樣長存。
23 And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath, [that] all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, says the Lord.
每逢月朔、安息日, 凡有血氣的必來在我面前下拜。 這是耶和華說的。
24 And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.
他們必出去觀看那些違背我人的屍首; 因為他們的蟲是不死的; 他們的火是不滅的; 凡有血氣的都必憎惡他們。