Isaiah 47
1 “Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For they no longer cry to you, O tender and delicate one.
巴比倫處女！下去，坐在塵土中罷！加色丁貞女！讓位，坐在地上罷！因為你已不再稱為「嬌媚」「柔嫩」了。
2 Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove your veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
揭去面紗，拿磨去磨麵罷！捲起長裙，露出大腿去涉河罷！
3 Your nakedness is revealed, indeed, your reproach is seen, I take vengeance, and I do not meet a man.”
你的裸體要暴露，你的羞恥要現出！我要復仇，決不憐惜任何人。
4 Our redeemer [is] YHWH of Hosts, His Name [is] the Holy One of Israel.
我們的救主－－他的名字是萬軍的上主－－說。
5 “Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For they no longer cry to you, Mistress of kingdoms.
加色丁處女！靜靜地坐下：進入黑暗中罷！因為你不再稱為「萬國之后！」
6 I have been angry against My people, I have defiled My inheritance And I give them into your hand, You have not appointed mercies for them, You have made your yoke very heavy on the aged,
我曾向我的人民發怒，污辱了我的產業；我將他們交在你手中，可是你對他們沒有表示仁慈，將你的軛重重地壓在老者身上。
7 And you say, I am mistress for all time, While you have not laid these things to your heart, You have not remembered the latter end of it.
你說過：「我永久要作王后！」但你心中從沒有考慮過這事，也沒有想過這事的結局。
8 And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, I [am], and none else, I do not sit [as] a widow, nor know bereavement.
你這淫逸安居的人，你心裏想：「只有我而沒有別人！我決不會寡居，也決不會喪子！ 」如今你聽這話：
9 And these two things come to you, In a moment, in one day: childlessness and widowhood, They have come on you according to their perfection, In the multitude of your sorceries, In the exceeding might of your charms.
這兩樣在一天內會突然一起降在你身上；雖然你能行許多巫術，能念極威力的符咒，喪子與守寡仍要完全降到你身上。
10 And you are confident in your wickedness, You have said, There is none seeing me, Your wisdom and your knowledge, It is turning you back, And you say in your heart, I [am], and none else.
你自恃於惡說：「沒有人看見我！ 」那是你的聰明和知識迷惑了你，叫你心中妄想：「只有我而沒有別人。」
11 And evil has come in on you, You do not know its rising, And disaster falls on you, You are not able to pacify it, And desolation comes on you suddenly, You do not know.
災禍必要臨到你身上，你卻不能禳災；患難要降在你身上，但你不能阻止；你從未料到的滅亡，要突然來到你身上。
12 Now stand in your charms, And in the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have labored from your youth, It may be you are able to profit, It may be you terrify!
請你繼續行你自幼即勞碌習行的咒術和那無數的巫術罷！這或許能於你有利，或者能叫人害怕。
13 You have been wearied in the multitude of your counsels, Now stand up and let them save you—The charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months—From those things that come on you!
你也許聽倦了那許多計謀，現在讓那些測天體，觀星辰和每月預告你未來之事的人們前來拯救你罷！
14 Behold, they have been as stubble! Fire has burned them, They do not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.
看哪！他們都像枯草，必為火所焚燒；他們連自己也不能由火的威力中救出，因為這不是為取煖的炭火，也不是座前的爐火。
15 So they have been to you with whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth, They have each wandered to his passage, None is saving you!”
你那些自幼與之共同勞碌的巫士，為你都是如此；他們各散東西，沒有誰來救你。
