Isaiah 16
1 Send a lamb [to] the ruler of the land, From Selah in the wilderness, To the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
那地的主宰從曠野的磐石，應傳達一言，至熙雍女兒的山嶺！
2 And it has come to pass, As a wandering bird, cast out of a nest, Are daughters of Moab, [at] fords of Arnon.
當時摩阿布女兒，在阿爾農渡口，猶如逃遁的小鳥，傾巢的幼雛。
3 Bring in counsel, do judgment, Make your shadow as night in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, do not reveal the wanderer.
「請給我們出個主意，快下個決斷！使你的蔭影在日中有如黑夜，遮蔽被驅逐的人，不要暴露出逃的人！
4 My outcasts sojourn in you, O Moab, Be a secret hiding place for them, From the face of a destroyer, For the extortioner has ceased, Devastation has been finished, The tramplers are consumed out of the land.
讓被驅逐的摩阿布人僑居在你處，做他們的藏身地，以逃避劫掠者的面。」當壓迫終止，劫掠停止，蹂躪大地的人消滅時，
5 And the throne is established in kindness, And [One] has sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hastening righteousness.
必有一個寶座建立在慈惠中，在達味的帳幕內，必有一位尋求公義，急行正義的判官，憑真實坐於寶座之上。
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath—his boastings [are] not right.
我們曾聽到摩阿布的驕傲，極其傲慢；聽到她的驕矜，她的傲慢，她的自負，她狂妄的矜誇。
7 Therefore Moab howls for Moab, all of it howls, It meditates for the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth, They are surely struck.
為此，摩阿布必將哀哭，人人都要為摩阿布哀哭：為克爾哈勒色特的葡萄乾餅，人人只有傷心嘆息！
8 Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations beat her choice vines, They have come to Jazer, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.
因為赫市朋的田園已零落，息貝瑪的葡萄已凋謝！枝蔓為列國的君王所斬斷；那些枝蔓曾蔓延到雅則爾，漫遊至曠野；那些枝條曾向外伸展，越過了海洋！
9 Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I water you [with] my tear, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For—for your summer fruits, and for your harvest, The shouting has fallen.
為此我要參與雅則爾的痛哭，來痛哭息貝瑪的葡萄；赫市朋啊！厄肋阿肋啊！我要用我的眼淚來灌溉你！因為在你夏收和秋收時，戰爭的呼聲驟然降臨！
10 And gladness and joy have been removed from the fruitful field, And they do not sing in vineyards, nor shout, The treader does not tread wine in the presses, I have caused shouting to cease.
田園中的喜樂與歡欣已歛跡，葡萄園中再也沒有歌聲與歡呼；搾酒的人不再在搾酒池上搾酒，歡呼的歌聲已斷絕！
11 Therefore my bowels sound as a harp for Moab, And my inward parts for Kir-Haresh.
為此，我的肝腸為摩阿布哀鳴，有如琴瑟；我的五內為克爾哈肋勒斯鳴咽，有如簫笙。
12 And it has come to pass, when it has been seen, That Moab has been weary on the high place, And he has come to his sanctuary to pray, And is not able.
摩阿布在高丘上縱然現得疲勞，縱然到廟宇裏去祈禱，盡屬枉然 ！
13 This [is] the word that YHWH has spoken to Moab from that time,
這是上主以前反對摩阿布所說的話。
14 And now YHWH has spoken, saying, “In three years, as years of a hired worker, The glory of Moab is lightly esteemed, With all the great multitude, And the remnant [is] little, small, not mighty!”
但是現在，上主聲明說：「照僱工的年限計，三年之內，摩阿布的光榮將變為羞辱；縱然她的人數眾多，剩下來的甚是稀少，毫無勢力。」
