< Ezekiel 9 >
1 And He cries [with] a loud voice in my ears, saying, “Inspectors of the city have drawn near, and each [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.”
以後我聽見他高聲喊說:「懲罰此城的,快來! 每人手中應拿著毀滅的工具。」
2 And behold, six men are coming from the way of the upper gate, that is facing the north, and each [with] his slaughter-weapon in his hand, and one man in their midst is clothed with linen, and a scribe’s inkhorn at his loins, and they come in, and stand near the bronze altar.
看,有六個人從上邊朝北的門走來,每人拿著破壞的武器。他們中間有一個人身穿細麻衣,腰間帶著書記的墨盒。他們來到,就站在銅祭壇旁。
3 And the glory of the God of Israel has gone up from off the cherub, on which it has been, to the threshold of the house.
那停在革魯賓上的以色列的天主光榮,就由革魯賓身上升起,來到聖殿的門限上,叫將那身穿細麻衣,腰間帶著墨盒的人召來。
4 And He calls to the man who is clothed with linen, who has the scribe’s inkhorn at his loins, and YHWH says to him, “Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and you have made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.”
上主對他說:「你要走遍此城,即走遍耶路撒冷,凡因城充發生的醜惡之事而悲痛哀號的人,要在他們額上劃一個十字記號。」
5 And to the others he said in my ears, “Pass on into the city after him, and strike; your eye does not pity, nor do you spare;
以後我聽見他向其餘的人說:「你們也跟著他走遍全城擊殺,你們的眼不要憐視,一點也不要顧惜;
6 aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, you slay—to destruction; and against any man on whom [is] the mark you do not go near, and you begin from My sanctuary.”
把老人、少年、處女、嬰兒和婦女都要殺盡滅絕;但凡額上有十字記號的人,不可走近。你們從聖所這裏開始。」果然他們就從在聖殿前的長老開始。
7 And they begin among the aged men who [are] before the house, and He says to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.” And they have gone forth and have struck in the city.
以後又向他們說:「你們要玷污這聖殿,使被殺者充塞整個庭院,然後出去!」他們就出去,在城中擊殺。
8 And it comes to pass, as they are striking, and I am left—that I fall on my face, and cry, and say, “Aah! Lord YHWH, are You destroying all the remnant of Israel, in Your pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”
他們去擊殺時,只留下我一人。我就伏地掩面呼求說:「哎! 吾主上主,你在耶路撒冷發洩你的憤怒,要滅絕以色列的遺民嗎﹖」
9 And He says to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very, very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city has been full of perverseness, for they have said: YHWH has forsaken the land, and YHWH is not seeing.
他回答我說:「以色列和猶大的家族,實在罪大惡極;此地充滿了血債,滿城都是暴行,他們還說:上主已離棄了此地,上主看不見。
10 And I also, My eye does not pity, nor do I spare; I have put their way on their own head.”
因此,我的眼也決不憐視,一點也不顧惜;反而我要把他們的行為,歸在他們頭上。」
11 And behold, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins [is] the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, “I have done as You have commanded me.”
看啊,那身穿細麻衣,腰間帶著墨盒的人,回來報告說:「我已照你的吩咐的做了。」