Isaiah 21
1 The oracle of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
论海旁旷野的默示： 有仇敌从旷野，从可怕之地而来， 好像南方的旋风，猛然扫过。
2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack. I have stopped all of Media's sighing.
令人凄惨的异象已默示于我。 诡诈的行诡诈，毁灭的行毁灭。 以拦哪，你要上去！ 米底亚啊，你要围困！ 主说：我使一切叹息止住。
3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.
所以，我满腰疼痛； 痛苦将我抓住， 好像产难的妇人一样。 我疼痛甚至不能听； 我惊惶甚至不能看。
4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
我心慌张，惊恐威吓我。 我所羡慕的黄昏，变为我的战兢。
5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield.
他们摆设筵席， 派人守望，又吃又喝。 首领啊，你们起来， 用油抹盾牌。
6 For YHWH said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
主对我如此说： 你去设立守望的， 使他将所看见的述说。
7 When he sees chariots, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently."
他看见军队， 就是骑马的一对一对地来， 又看见驴队，骆驼队， 就要侧耳细听。
8 Then the lookout shouted: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
他像狮子吼叫，说： 主啊，我白日常站在望楼上， 整夜立在我守望所。
9 Look, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
看哪，有一队军兵骑着马， 一对一对地来。 他就说：巴比伦倾倒了！倾倒了！ 他一切雕刻的神像都打碎于地。
10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor." That which I have heard from YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
我被打的禾稼，我场上的谷啊， 我从万军之耶和华— 以色列的 神那里所听见的，都告诉你们了。
11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
论度玛的默示： 有人声从西珥呼问我说： 守望的啊，夜里如何？ 守望的啊，夜里如何？
12 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
守望的说： 早晨将到，黑夜也来。 你们若要问就可以问， 可以回头再来。
13 The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
论阿拉伯的默示： 底但结伴的客旅啊， 你们必在阿拉伯的树林中住宿。
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
提玛地的居民拿水来，送给口渴的， 拿饼来迎接逃避的。
15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
因为他们逃避刀剑和出了鞘的刀， 并上了弦的弓与刀兵的重灾。
16 For YHWH said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, the glory of Kedar will fail,
主对我这样说：“一年之内，照雇工的年数，基达的一切荣耀必归于无有。
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the warriors of the people of Kedar, will be few; for YHWH, the God of Israel, has spoken it."
弓箭手所余剩的，就是基达人的勇士，必然稀少，因为这是耶和华—以色列的 神说的。”
