Isaiah 5
1 Now let me sing for my Beloved, A song of my Beloved as to His vineyard: My beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
我要為我的愛友謳唱一首論及他葡萄園的愛歌：我的愛友有一座葡萄園，位於肥沃的山岡上；
2 And He fences it, and casts out its stones, And plants it [with] a choice vine, And builds a tower in its midst, And has also hewn out a winepress in it, And He waits for the yielding of grapes, And it yields bad ones!
他翻掘了土地，除去了石塊，栽上了精選的葡萄樹，園中築了一座守望台，又鑿了一個榨酒池：原希望它結好葡萄，它反倒結了野葡萄。
3 And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem and man of Judah, Please judge between Me and My vineyard.
耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人啊！現在請你們在我與我葡萄園之間，判別是非：
4 What [is there] to do still to My vineyard, That I have not done in it? For what reason have I waited for the yielding of grapes, And it yields [only] bad ones?
我為我的葡萄園所能做的，還有什麼沒有做到﹖我原希望它結好葡萄，為什麼卻結了野葡萄﹖
5 And now, pray, let Me cause you to know, That which I am doing to My vineyard, To turn its hedge aside, And it has been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it has been for a treading-place.
現在我要告訴你們，我將怎樣對待我的葡萄園：我必撤去它的籬笆，讓它被吞噬；拆毀它的圍牆，讓它受踐踏；
6 And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And brier and thorn have gone up, And I lay a charge on the thick clouds, From raining on it rain.
我要使他變成荒地，不再修剪，不再耕鋤，荊棘和蒺藜將叢叢而生；並且我要命令雲彩不再在它上降下時雨。
7 Because the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts [Is] the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waits for judgment, and behold, oppression, For righteousness, and behold, a cry.
萬軍上主的葡萄園就是以色列家，而猶大人即是他鍾愛的幼苗。他原希望正義，看，竟是流血；他原希望公平，看，卻是冤聲！
8 Woe [to] those joining house to house, They bring field near to field, Until there is no place, And you have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
禍哉，你們這些使房屋毗連房屋，田地接連田地，而只讓你們自己單獨住在那地域內的人！
9 Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!
萬軍的上主在我耳邊宣誓說：那許多房屋必將成為廢墟；巍峨華麗的，必無人居住；
10 For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, And a homer of seed yields an ephah.
十畝葡萄園將只出一「巴特」酒，一「曷默爾」種子，只出一「厄法」穀。
11 Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames them!
禍哉，那些早晨一起來即追求烈酒，留連至深夜，飲至酒酣耳熱的人！
12 And harp, and stringed instrument, tambourine, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And they do not behold the work of YHWH, Indeed, they have not seen the work of His hands.
在他們的宴會上只有琴、瑟、手鼓、管笛和酒。卻沒有人注視上主的作為，沒有人留意他手中的工作：
13 Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honorable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
因此，我的百姓必因無知而被放逐，顯貴必將餓得要死，民眾必將渴得要命。
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged herself, And has opened her mouth without limit. And its honor has gone down, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one—into her. (Sheol h7585)
為此，陰府張大了咽喉，敞開了無限的大口，顯貴、群眾以及那些喧嘩宴樂的人，都要落在裏面。 (Sheol h7585)
15 And the low is bowed down, and the high humbled, And the eyes of the haughty become low,
人必將屈服，人必被抑制，目空一切的人必低首下心。
16 And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
萬軍的上主必因正義而受尊崇，至聖的天主必因公平而顯為聖。
17 And lambs have fed according to their leading, And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.
羔羊要在那裏吃草，有如在自己的草場上；肥羊要在荒田裏吃草。
18 Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as [with] thick ropes of the cart—sin.
禍哉，那些用牛犢的韁繩引來邪惡，用牛車的繩索勾出罪孽的人，
19 Who are saying, “Let Him hurry, Let Him hurry His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.”
和那些說：「願他趕快，迅速完成他的工作，好使我們看看；願以色列聖者的決策盡速執行，好使我們知道」的人！
20 Woe [to] those saying to evil “good,” and to good “evil,” Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
禍哉，那些稱惡為善，稱善為惡；以暗為光，以光為暗；以苦為甘，以甘為苦的人！
21 Woe [to] the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!
禍哉，那些自視為聰明和自以為通達的人！
22 Woe [to] the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.
禍哉，那些飲酒的英雄，調酒的壯士！
23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.
那些受賄釋放罪人，奪取義人權利的人！
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, And flaming hay falls, Their root is as muck, And their flower goes up as dust. Because they have rejected the Law of YHWH of Hosts, And despised the saying of the Holy One of Israel.
因此，他們必如捲入火舌中的禾湝，焚於烈燄中的枯草；他們的根必要糜爛，他們的嫩芽必要如塵埃般的飛揚，因為他們拋棄了萬軍上主的教導，藐視了以色列聖者的訓誨。
25 Therefore the anger of YHWH has burned among His people, And He stretches out His hand against it, And strikes it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcass is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!
為此，上主向自己的百姓大發雷霆，伸出自己的手來打擊他們；其時，山嶽為之震撼，他們的屍體，有如街道上的糞土。然而他的震怒並未因此而息滅，他的手仍然伸著。
26 And He lifted up an ensign to the far-off nations, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And behold, with haste, it comes swiftly.
上主要向遠方的異民豎起一面旗幟，好由大地的四極號召他們，看，他們將疾趨前來。
27 There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It does not slumber, nor sleep, Nor has the girdle of its loins been opened, Nor the strap of its sandals drawn away.
他們中沒有疲倦的，沒有仆倒的；沒有打盹的，沒有睡覺的；他們的腰帶沒有鬆解，他們的鞋帶也沒有折斷；
28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all its bows bent, Hooves of its horses have been reckoned as flint, And its wheels as a windstorm!
他們的箭矢銳利，他們的弓弩全已張開；他們的馬蹄好似火石，他們的車輪有如旋風；
29 Its roaring [is] like a lioness, It roars like young lions, And it howls, and seizes prey, And carries away safely, and there is none delivering.
他們怒吼有如母獅，吼叫有如幼獅；他們咆哮攫食，攜之而去，無人予以挽救。
30 And it howls against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it has looked attentively to the land, And behold, darkness—distress, And light has been darkened by its abundance!
那一日，他們必如海嘯般向這民族怒號。人若注視大地，看，盡是黑暗痛苦；光明遮蔽在密雲中，成了晦暗。
