Isaiah 23
1 The Burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish, For it has been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.
有關提洛的神諭：你們哀號罷！塔爾史士的船隻！因為你們的保壘已遭破壞。由基廷地歸來的，他們得到了這消息。
2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the island, Trader of Sidon, passing the sea, they filled you.
海濱的居民，靜默罷！漆冬的商賈曾充實了你。
3 And the seed of Sihor [is] in many waters, Her increase [is] the harvest of the brook, And she is a market of nations.
在大水之上運來的，是史曷爾的穀物；尼羅河的收穫，是她的財富；她成了萬民的商場。
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea spoke, The strength of the sea, saying, “I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, [nor] brought up virgins.”
漆冬！羞慚罷！因為海說過：【即海中的保壘說過：】「我沒有分娩過，也沒有生產過；沒有撫養過青年，也沒有養育過處女。」
5 As they are pained [at] the report of Egypt, So [at] the report of Tyre.
這風聲一傳到了埃及，大家都為了提洛的消息而戰慄。
6 Pass over to Tarshish, howl, you inhabitants of the island,
你門過海到塔爾史士去罷！海濱的居民你們哀號罷！
7 Is this your exulting one? Her antiquity [is] from the days of old, Her own feet carry her far off to sojourn.
這就是你們所誇耀的城嗎﹖她本起源於上古，她的雙腳曾將她帶至遠方寄居。
8 Who has counseled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, Her merchants—the honored of earth?
是誰策劃了這事，來反對加過冕的提洛﹖她得商賈本來都是王侯，商販本來都是地上的顯要。
9 YHWH of Hosts has counseled it, To defile the excellence of all beauty, To make light all the honored of earth.
是萬軍的上主策劃了這事，為打擊她一切自矜的狂傲，侮辱地上所有的顯要。
10 Pass through your land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, There is no longer a girdle.
塔爾史士女兒！耕種你的地罷！海港也不在了！
11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea, He has caused kingdoms to tremble, YHWH has charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.
上主的手已伸在海上，使萬國戰慄震驚；上主對客納罕已決定，要摧毀她的要塞。
12 And He says, “You do not add to exult anymore, O oppressed one, virgin daughter of Sidon, To Chittim arise, pass over, Even there—there is no rest for you.”
他說過：「漆冬女兒！遭虐待的處女，你不要再歡樂！起來，往基廷去！在那裏你也得不到安寧！」
13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this people was not, Asshur founded it for desert-dwellers, They raised its watchtowers, They lifted up her palaces—He has appointed her for a ruin!
看基廷的地域！【她已不成為民族，亞述已將她委棄予野獸；】人設立了高塔，毀壞了她的宮殿，使她成了一片廢 墟。
14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, For your strength has been destroyed.
塔爾史士的船隻！ 你們哀號罷！ 因為你們的保壘已遭破壞！
15 And it has come to pass in that day, That Tyre is forgotten seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.
到那天，提洛將被遺忘七十年之久，有如一位君王的歲月。過了七十年，提洛要像妓女歌曲中所唱的：「
16 Take a harp, go around the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, Multiply song that you may be remembered.
被遺忘的妓女！拿琴遊城罷﹖巧彈多唱罷！好使人再記起你來！」
17 And it has come to pass, At the end of seventy years YHWH inspects Tyre, And she has returned to her wage, And she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.
過了七十年，上主要眷顧提洛，她要再接受纏頭，與地面世上各國交易。
18 And her merchandise and her wage have been holy to YHWH, Not treasured up nor stored, For her merchandise is to those sitting before YHWH, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!
她的贏利和她的進項將祝聖與上主，必不再貯藏積蓄起來，因為她的贏利將歸於那些在上主面前度日的人，使他們吃得飽，穿得體面。
