Isaiah 34
1 O nations and peoples: draw near, and listen, and pay attention! Let the earth and its fullness hear, the entire world and all its offspring.
萬民，你們前來聆聽！列邦，你們側耳靜聽！大地與充塞其中的一切，世界與其所有的產物，都要諦聽！
2 For the indignation of the Lord is over all the nations, and his fury is over all their armies. He has put them to death, and he has given them over to slaughter.
因為上主向萬民生了氣，對他們的一切軍隊發了怒，他注定了他們的劫數，命定了他們遭受屠殺。
3 Their slain will be cast out, and from their carcasses a foul odor will rise up. The mountains will languish because of their blood.
他們的被殺者被棄於外，他們屍體的腥臭浮浮上騰，他們的血溶化了諸山。
4 And the entire army of the heavens will languish, and the heavens will be folded like a book. And their entire army will fall away, as a leaf falls from the vine or from the fig tree.
天上的萬象必將解體，諸天要如卷軸般捲起；天上的星辰必將隕墜，有如葡萄葉的凋零，有如無花果葉的萎謝。
5 “For my sword in heaven has been inebriated. Behold, it will descend upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter, unto judgment.”
當上主的刀在天上痛飲之後，看哪！它將若在厄東，落在他所毀滅的百姓身上，實行懲罰。
6 The sword of the Lord has been filled with blood. It has been thickened by the blood of lambs and he-goats, by the innermost blood of rams. For the victim of the Lord is in Bozrah, and a great slaughter is in the land of Edom.
上主的刀劍染滿了血，漬滿了脂油，就是羔羊和羚羊的血，以及公羊腎臟的脂油：因為上主在波責辣舉行了一番祭祀，在厄東地方施行了一場屠殺。
7 And the single-horned beasts will descend with them, and the bulls along with the mighty. Their land will be inebriated by blood, and their ground by the fat of their lazy ones.
野牛與肥畜必同墮死，牛犢與公牛必同跌斃。他們的地區浸滿了血，他們的地面漬染了脂油。
8 For this is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of retribution for the judgment of Zion.
因為這是上主復讎的日子，是為報復熙雍敵人的一年。
9 And its torrents will be turned into tar, and its soil into sulfur. And its land will become burning tar.
她的河水將變為瀝青，她的土壤將變為硫磺：大地成了燃灼的瀝青，
10 Night and day, it will not be extinguished; its smoke will rise up without ceasing. From generation to generation it will remain desolate. No one will pass through it, forever and ever.
晝夜燃燒不息，濃煙永遠上升；世世代代成為荒野，永久無人經過此地。
11 The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it. And the ibis and the raven will live in it. And a measuring line will be extended over it, so that it may be reduced to nothing, and a plumb line, unto desolation.
鵜鶘和刺蝟據守其地，鴞鴟和烏鴉棲於其間；上主將以破壞性的繩墨和毀滅性的線錘測量那地。
12 Its nobles will not be in that place. Instead, they will call upon the king, and all its leaders will be as nothing.
顯貴中沒有一個在那裏能夠建國，她所有的王侯都歸於烏有。
13 And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.
她的宮闕將生滿荊棘，她的保壘將繁生蒺藜和薊草；她將成為豺狼的洞穴，鴕鳥的苑囿。
14 And demons and monsters will meet, and the hairy ones will cry out to one another. There, the ogress has lain down and found rest for herself.
野貓在那裏將與野狗相會，野羊將呼叫牠的同類；夜間的魑魅將在那裏休憩，尋得一個安息的處所。
15 In that place, the hedgehog has kept its den, and has raised its young, and has dug around them, and has kept them warm in its shadow. In that place, the birds of prey have joined together, one to another.
箭頭蛇將在那裏築穴、下蛋、伏卵，並加以孵化；鷙鳥群集其間，雌雄相配。
16 Search and read diligently in the book of the Lord. Not one of them was lacking; not one has sought for the other. For what has proceeded from my mouth, he has commanded, and his very Spirit has gathered them.
你們可查看上主的書，且閱讀一下，牠們中一種也不會缺少，沒有一個沒有配偶的，因為上主的口已這樣命定，他的神集合了牠們。
17 And he has cast lots over them. And his hand has distributed this to them by measure. They will possess it, even unto eternity. From generation to generation, they will dwell in it.
上主親自要為牠們抽籤，他親手用繩索將為牠們分開這地；牠們將永久佔有這地，世世代代住在那裏。
