< Isaiah 30 >
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that form projects, but not of My spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
耶和华说: 祸哉!这悖逆的儿女。 他们同谋,却不由于我, 结盟,却不由于我的灵, 以致罪上加罪;
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
起身下埃及去,并没有求问我; 要靠法老的力量加添自己的力量, 并投在埃及的荫下。
3 Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion.
所以,法老的力量必作你们的羞辱; 投在埃及的荫下,要为你们的惭愧。
4 For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.
他们的首领已在琐安; 他们的使臣到了哈内斯。
5 They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
他们必因那不利于他们的民蒙羞。 那民并非帮助,也非利益, 只作羞耻凌辱。
6 The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
论南方牲畜的默示: 他们把财物驮在驴驹的脊背上, 将宝物驮在骆驼的肉鞍上, 经过艰难困苦之地, 就是公狮、母狮、蝮蛇、火焰的飞龙之地, 往那不利于他们的民那里去。
7 For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still.
埃及的帮助是徒然无益的; 所以我称她为“坐而不动的拉哈伯”。
8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
现今你去, 在他们面前将这话刻在版上, 写在书上, 以便传留后世,直到永永远远。
9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;
因为他们是悖逆的百姓、说谎的儿女, 不肯听从耶和华训诲的儿女。
10 That say to the seers: 'See not,' and to the prophets: 'Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions;
他们对先见说:不要望见不吉利的事, 对先知说:不要向我们讲正直的话; 要向我们说柔和的话, 言虚幻的事。
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.'
你们要离弃正道,偏离直路, 不要在我们面前再提说以色列的圣者。
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon;
所以,以色列的圣者如此说: 因为你们藐视这训诲的话, 倚赖欺压和乖僻,以此为可靠的,
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
故此,这罪孽在你们身上, 好像将要破裂凸出来的高墙, 顷刻之间忽然坍塌;
14 And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.
要被打碎,好像把窑匠的瓦器打碎, 毫不顾惜, 甚至碎块中找不到一片可用以从炉内取火, 从池中舀水。
15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: in sitting still and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not.
主耶和华—以色列的圣者曾如此说: 你们得救在乎归回安息; 你们得力在乎平静安稳; 你们竟自不肯。
16 But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses'; therefore shall ye flee; and: 'We will ride upon the swift'; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
你们却说:不然,我们要骑马奔走。 所以你们必然奔走; 又说:我们要骑飞快的牲口。 所以追赶你们的,也必飞快。
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one, at the rebuke of five shall ye flee; till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
一人叱喝,必令千人逃跑; 五人叱喝,你们都必逃跑; 以致剩下的,好像山顶的旗杆, 冈上的大旗。
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have compassion upon you; for the LORD is a God of justice, happy are all they that wait for Him.
耶和华必然等候,要施恩给你们; 必然兴起,好怜悯你们。 因为耶和华是公平的 神; 凡等候他的都是有福的!
19 For, O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem, thou shalt weep no more; He will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry, when He shall hear, He will answer thee.
百姓必在锡安、在耶路撒冷居住;你不再哭泣。主必因你哀求的声音施恩给你;他听见的时候就必应允你。
20 And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water, yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more, but thine eyes shall see thy Teacher;
主虽然以艰难给你当饼,以困苦给你当水,你的教师却不再隐藏;你眼必看见你的教师。
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying: 'This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.'
你或向左或向右,你必听见后边有声音说:“这是正路,要行在其间。”
22 And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver, and thy molten images covered with gold; thou shalt put them far away as one unclean; thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'
你雕刻偶像所包的银子和铸造偶像所镀的金子,你要玷污,要抛弃,好像污秽之物,对偶像说:“去吧!”
23 And He will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou sowest the ground, and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous; in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
你将种子撒在地里,主必降雨在其上,并使地所出的粮肥美丰盛。到那时,你的牲畜必在宽阔的草场吃草。
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
耕地的牛和驴驹必吃加盐的料;这料是用木杴和杈子扬净的。
25 And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill streams and watercourses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
在大行杀戮的日子,高台倒塌的时候,各高山冈陵必有川流河涌。
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the bruise of His people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
当耶和华缠裹他百姓的损处,医治他民鞭伤的日子,月光必像日光,日光必加七倍,像七日的光一样。
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, with His anger burning, and in thick uplifting of smoke; His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue is as a devouring fire;
看哪,耶和华的名从远方来, 怒气烧起,密烟上腾。 他的嘴唇满有忿恨; 他的舌头像吞灭的火。
28 And His breath is as an overflowing stream, that divideth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.
他的气如涨溢的河水,直涨到颈项, 要用毁灭的筛箩筛净列国, 并且在众民的口中必有使人错行的嚼环。
29 Ye shall have a song as in the night when a feast is hallowed; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with the pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
你们必唱歌,像守圣节的夜间一样,并且心中喜乐,像人吹笛,上耶和华的山,到以色列的磐石那里。
30 And the LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of His arm, with furious anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a bursting of clouds, and a storm of rain, and hailstones.
耶和华必使人听他威严的声音,又显他降罚的膀臂和他怒中的忿恨,并吞灭的火焰与霹雷、暴风、冰雹。
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall Asshur be dismayed, the rod with which He smote.
亚述人必因耶和华的声音惊惶;耶和华必用杖击打他。
32 And in every place where the appointed staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps; and in battles of wielding will He fight with them.
耶和华必将命定的杖加在他身上;每打一下,人必击鼓弹琴。打杖的时候,耶和华必抡起手来,与他交战。
33 For a hearth is ordered of old; yea, for the king it is prepared, deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
原来陀斐特又深又宽,早已为王预备好了;其中堆的是火与许多木柴。耶和华的气如一股硫磺火使他着起来。