Isaiah 8
1 Then the Lord told me, “Get a large tablet and write on it in with an ordinary pen, ‘Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’
上主對我說：「你拿一塊大板，用通用的字體在上面寫：瑪赫爾、沙拉耳、哈市、巴次」
2 I will need Uriah the priest and Zechariah, son of Jeberekiah, to be my trustworthy witnesses.”
我就叫了兩個忠直的證人，即司祭烏黎雅和耶貝勒基雅的兒子則加黎雅，為我作證。
3 Then I slept with my wife the prophetess, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
我接近了女先知，她便懷孕，生了一個兒子；上主對我說：「你給他起名叫瑪赫爾沙拉耳哈市巴次，
4 For even before the boy knows how to say ‘Daddy’ or ‘Mommy,’ the king of Assyria will carry off Damascus' wealth and Samaria's possessions.”
因為在這孩子會喊「爸爸」「媽媽」以前，大馬士革的財富和撒瑪黎雅的贓物必要運到亞述王前。」
5 Then the Lord spoke to me again, saying,
上主又曉諭我說：
6 “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that gently flow and instead have rejoiced with Rezin and Remaliah's son,
因為這民族厭棄了緩緩徐流的史羅亞水，因而在勒斤和勒瑪里雅之子面前驚慌；
7 the Lord is going to bring the powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River against them—the king of Assyria with all his glorious army. It will flood all its channels and overflow all its banks.
為此，看，吾主必使洶湧澎湃的河水－－即亞述王和他所有的軍隊－－上來淹沒他們；他必將瀉出一切河道，溢出一切河岸，
8 It will sweep on into Judah, overflowing and flooding through, reaching up to the neck. Like outspread wings it will engulf the whole of your land, Immanuel!
直沖入猶大，漲溢氾濫，高達人的頸項。厄瑪奴耳啊！他展開的兩翼，將掩蓋你廣闊的疆土！
9 Pay attention, you nations, and be smashed! Listen, all you distant lands, get ready, but you will be smashed. Get ready, but you will be smashed.
眾民啊！覺悟罷！你們終必喪膽！ 遠方的一切民族啊！聆聽罷 ！任憑你們怎樣束腰，終必喪膽！任憑你們怎樣束腰，終必喪膽。
10 You can plan your strategy, but it will be foiled; you can say what you're intending, but it won't happen, for God is with us.”
你們雖然策劃，必然落空；你們雖然說定，決不能實現，因為天主與我們同在。
11 For this is what the Lord told me, holding me with a strong hand, instructing me not to follow the way of this people. He said,
當上主以手握住我，警惕我不要走這民族的道路時，這樣對我說：
12 Don't call a conspiracy everything that these people call a conspiracy. Don't fear what they fear. Don't be overawed!
這民族稱為聖的，你們不得稱之為聖！他們畏懼的，你們不必畏懼，也不必戰兢！
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you should see as holy. He is the one you should fear, he is the one you should be in awe of.
萬軍的上主，你們惟應以他為聖；他是你們當敬畏的，是你們當恐懼的。
14 He will be a sanctuary for you. But to the royal families of both Israel and Judah he will be a stone they trip over and a rock that makes them stumble, a trap and a snare to the people who live in Jerusalem.
他將是以色列兩家的絆腳石和失足的暗礁，是耶路撒冷居民的羅網和陷阱。
15 Many people will stumble over them. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.
他們中間有許多人將失足跌倒而折傷，陷於圈套而被捕。
16 Safeguard this testimony, seal these instructions—they are for my disciples.
證件已綁好，訓誨在我門徒中已封緘，
17 I will wait for the Lord, the one who is hiding his face from Jacob's descendants. I will wait in hope for him.
我只仰望那位現在轉面不顧雅各伯家的上主，我要等待他。
18 Look, I'm here, together with the children the Lord has given me. They are signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who lives on Mount Zion.
看哪！我和上主賞給我的孩子，在以色列中成了標識和預兆：這原是出於住在熙雍山上的萬軍的上主！
19 When someone suggests to you, “Go and ask mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter,” shouldn't people ask their God? Why should they ask the dead on behalf of the living?
有人或對你們說：「你們詢問那些喃喃細語的巫覡和術士罷！百姓豈不能詢問自己的神，為活人而詢問幽魂嗎﹖」「
20 Go and examine God's law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God's word, there will be no dawn for them.
應到訓誨和證件中去尋！」誰若不照這話答覆，為他便沒有曙光。
21 They will wander round the country, depressed and hungry. When they are starving they will become furious, and looking up they will curse their king and their God.
人將忍受著痛苦和飢餓，經過此地；當他由於飢餓而暴發忿怒時，必詛咒自己的君王和自己的神明；他無論仰望上天，
22 Then they will look towards the earth and see only misery and gloom and agonizing depression, and they will be thrown out into the darkness.
或注視大地，他只見苦惱和幽暗，昏黯和恐怖！但黑暗畢竟要被驅除，
