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.
巴比倫的處女啊， 下來坐在塵埃； 迦勒底的閨女啊， 沒有寶座，要坐在地上； 因為你不再稱為柔弱嬌嫩的。
2 Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove your veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
要用磨磨麵， 揭去帕子， 脫去長衣，露腿詵河。
3 Your nakedness is revealed, indeed, your reproach is seen, I take vengeance, and I do not meet a man.”
你的下體必被露出； 你的醜陋必被看見。 我要報仇， 誰也不寬容。
4 Our redeemer [is] YHWH of Hosts, His Name [is] the Holy One of Israel.
我們救贖主的名是 萬軍之耶和華－以色列的聖者。
5 “Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For they no longer cry to you, Mistress of kingdoms.
迦勒底的閨女啊， 你要默然靜坐，進入暗中， 因為你不再稱為列國的主母。
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,
我向我的百姓發怒， 使我的產業被褻瀆， 將他們交在你手中， 你毫不憐憫他們， 把極重的軛加在老年人身上。
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.
你自己說：我必永為主母， 所以你不將這事放在心上， 也不思想這事的結局。
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.
你這專好宴樂、安然居住的， 現在當聽這話。 你心中說：惟有我， 除我以外再沒有別的。 我必不致寡居， 也不遭喪子之事。
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.
哪知，喪子、寡居這兩件事 在一日轉眼之間必臨到你； 正在你多行邪術、廣施符咒的時候， 這兩件事必全然臨到你身上。
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.
你素來倚仗自己的惡行，說： 無人看見我。 你的智慧聰明使你偏邪， 並且你心裏說：惟有我， 除我以外再沒有別的。
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.
因此，禍患要臨到你身； 你不知何時發現， 災害落在你身上， 你也不能除掉； 所不知道的毀滅也必忽然臨到你身。
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!
站起來吧！ 用你從幼年勞神施行的符咒和你許多的邪術； 或者可得益處， 或者可得強勝。
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!
你籌劃太多，以致疲倦。 讓那些觀天象的，看星宿的， 在月朔說預言的，都站起來， 救你脫離所要臨到你的事。
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.
他們要像碎稭被火焚燒， 不能救自己脫離火焰之力； 這火並非可烤的炭火， 也不是可以坐在其前的火。
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!”
你所勞神的事都要這樣與你無益； 從幼年與你貿易的也都各奔各鄉，無人救你。
