< Isaiah 31 >
1 Woe [to] those going down to Egypt for help, And [who] lean on horses, And trust on chariots, because [they are] many, And on horsemen, because [they are] very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And have not sought YHWH.
禍哉,那些南下埃及求救,依靠戰馬,信賴他們戰車眾多,依恃他們鐵騎驍勇,而不仰望以色列的聖者,也不求問上主的人!
2 And He [is] also wise, and brings in evil, And He has not turned aside His words, And He has risen against a house of evildoers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.
但是上主仍然能降下災禍,他決不收回自己的言語;他必要起來攻擊惡人的家,攻擊助人作惡的人。
3 And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And YHWH stretches out His hand, And the helper has stumbled, And the helped one has fallen, And together all of them are consumed.
埃及人是人,並不是神;他們的戰馬是血肉,並不是靈;只要上主一伸手,施助的人必將仆倒,受助的人必要顛覆:二者同歸於盡。
4 For thus said YHWH to me: “As the lion and the young lion growl over his prey, Against whom a multitude of shepherds is called, He is not frightened from their voice, And he is not humbled from their noise; So YHWH of Hosts comes down To war on Mount Zion, and on her height.
因為上主曾這樣對我說:「猶如壯獅或幼獅為了獵物而怒吼,即使召集許多牧人攻擊牠,牠並不因他們的叫囂而畏懼,也不因他們的喧嚷而驚慌;同樣,萬軍的上主必要降下,為熙雍和她的丘嶺作戰。
5 As birds flying, so does YHWH of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.”
有如飛鳥展翼護雛,萬軍的上主也要這樣扞衛耶路撒冷,加以保護、拯救、憐恤、保存。」
6 Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.
以色列子民啊!再歸到你們所遠離的上主那裏罷!
7 For in that day each despises His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you—a sin.
因為到那一天,人人必要拋棄自己的銀偶像和金偶像,即你們以污穢的手所製造的。
8 And Asshur has fallen by sword, not of the high, Indeed, a sword—not of the low, consumes him, And he has fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.
亞述必將傾覆於超人的刀下,超人的刀必將吞噬她;她將由刀劍面前逃走,她的壯丁必要充作苦役。
9 And he passes on [to] his rock from fear, And his princes have been frightened by the ensign—a declaration of YHWH, Who has a light in Zion, And who has a furnace in Jerusalem!
她的磐石由於震驚必要逃避,她的王侯,由於恐慌必將放棄軍旗:這是在熙雍有火,在耶路撒冷有爐的上主的斷語。