< 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!那些下埃及求幫助的, 是因仗賴馬匹,倚靠甚多的車輛, 並倚靠強壯的馬兵, 卻不仰望以色列的聖者, 也不求問耶和華。
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.
其實,耶和華有智慧; 他必降災禍, 並不反悔自己的話, 卻要興起攻擊那作惡之家, 又攻擊那作孽幫助人的。
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.
埃及人不過是人,並不是上帝; 他們的馬不過是血肉,並不是靈。 耶和華一伸手,那幫助人的必絆跌, 那受幫助的也必跌倒,都一同滅亡。
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.
耶和華對我如此說: 獅子和少壯獅子護食咆哮, 就是喊許多牧人來攻擊牠, 牠總不因他們的聲音驚惶, 也不因他們的喧嘩縮伏。 如此,萬軍之耶和華 也必降臨在錫安山岡上爭戰。
5 As birds flying, so does YHWH of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.”
雀鳥怎樣搧翅覆雛, 萬軍之耶和華也要照樣保護耶路撒冷。 他必保護拯救, 要越門保守。
6 Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.
以色列人哪,你們深深地悖逆耶和華,現今要歸向他。
7 For in that day each despises His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you—a sin.
到那日,各人必將他金偶像銀偶像,就是親手所造、陷自己在罪中的,都拋棄了。
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.
亞述人必倒在刀下,並非人的刀; 有刀要將他吞滅,並非人的刀。 他必逃避這刀; 他的少年人必成為服苦的。
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!
他的磐石必因驚嚇挪去; 他的首領必因大旗驚惶。 這是那有火在錫安、 有爐在耶路撒冷的耶和華說的。