< Isaiah 2 >

1 The worde that Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sawe vpon Iudah and Ierusalem.
阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞關於猶大和耶路撒冷所見的事情:
2 It shall be in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the house of the Lord shalbe prepared in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the hilles, and all nations shall flowe vnto it.
到末日,上主的聖殿山必要矗立在群山之上,超乎一切山岳,萬民都要向它湧來。
3 And many people shall go, and say, Come, and let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the house of the God of Iaakob, and hee will teach vs his wayes, and we will walke in his paths: for the Lawe shall go foorth of Zion, and the worde of the Lord from Ierusalem,
將有許多民族前去,說:「來!我們攀登上主的聖山,往雅各伯天主的殿裏去!他必指示我們他的道路,教給我們循行他的途徑。因為法律將出自熙雍,上主的話將出自耶路撒冷。」
4 And he shall iudge among the nations, and rebuke many people: they shall breake their swords also into mattocks, and their speares into siethes: nation shall not lift vp a sworde against nation, neither shall they learne to fight any more.
他將統治萬邦,治理眾民;致使眾人都把自己的刀劍鑄成鋤頭,將自己的槍矛製成鐮刀;民族與民族不再持刀相向,人也不再學習戰鬥。
5 O house of Iaakob, come ye, and let vs walke in the Lawe of the Lord.
雅各伯家! 來讓我們在上主的光明中行走罷!
6 Surely thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Iaakob, because they are full of the East maners, and are sorcerers as the Philistims, and abound with strange children.
是的!上主拋棄了自己的百姓──雅各伯家族──因為他們充滿了術士和占卜者,有如培肋舍特人一樣,且與異民握手言歡。
7 Their land also was full of siluer and golde, and there was none ende of their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their charets were infinite.
他們的地域充滿了金銀,財寶不可估計;他們的地域充滿了馬匹,戰車不可勝數。
8 Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.
遍地都是偶像,人人崇拜自己手做的東西,崇拜自己手指的造像。
9 And a man bowed himselfe, and a man humbled himselfe: therefore spare them not.
如此,人自甘卑下,自甘墮落,對他們決無救援。
10 Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie.
當上主起來震撼大地時,你要潛入巖穴,躲在土中,為逃避上主的威嚇和他顯赫的光輝。
11 The hie looke of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day.
目空一切的人必被抑制,性情高傲的人必被屈服:那一日,唯有上主受尊崇。
12 For the day of the Lord of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe.
因為萬軍的上主必有一日,要攻擊所有驕矜自誇和自高自大的人,並加以抑制。
13 Euen vpon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are hie and exalted, and vpon all the okes of Bashan,
必要攻擊黎巴嫩的一切高大香柏樹和巴商的一切樟樹;
14 And vpon all the hie mountaines, and vpon all the hilles that are lifted vp,
必要攻擊一切高山和聳峙的山嶺,
15 And vpon euery hie tower, and vpon euery strong wall,
一切高塔和一切堅固的城牆,
16 And vpon all the shippes of Tarshish, and vpon all pleasant pictures.
塔爾史士的一切船隻和一切美觀的畫舫。
17 And the hautinesse of men shalbe brought low, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day.
人的傲慢必被屈服,人的驕矜必被抑制:那一日唯有上主受尊崇。
18 And the idoles will he vtterly destroy.
上主必要完全毀滅偶像。
19 Then they shall goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the caues of the earth, from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall arise to destroy the earth.
當上主起來震撼大地時,你們應潛入巖洞,躲在土穴中,為逃避上主的威嚇和顯嚇的光輝。
20 At that day shall man cast away his siluer idoles, and his golden idoles (which they had made themselues to worship them) to the mowles and to the backes,
那一日,人必將為自己製造來崇拜的銀像和金像,拋給鼴鼠和蝙蝠,
21 To goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the toppes of the ragged rockes from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall rise to destroy the earth.
以便在上主起來震撼大地的時候,逃避上主的威嚇和他顯赫的光輝,而隱藏在磐石的孔洞裏和巖石的隙縫中。
22 Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?
你們不要依恃人,因為他只有一口氣在鼻孔裏,他可算得什麼﹖

< Isaiah 2 >