< Isaiah 34 >

1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth of it
萬民,你們前來聆聽!列邦,你們側耳靜聽!大地與充塞其中的一切,世界與其所有的產物,都要諦聽!
2 For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, and fury against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
因為上主向萬民生了氣,對他們的一切軍隊發了怒,他注定了他們的劫數,命定了他們遭受屠殺。
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stink of their carcases shall come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
他們的被殺者被棄於外,他們屍體的腥臭浮浮上騰,他們的血溶化了諸山。
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
天上的萬象必將解體,諸天要如卷軸般捲起;天上的星辰必將隕墜,有如葡萄葉的凋零,有如無花果葉的萎謝。
5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
當上主的刀在天上痛飲之後,看哪!它將若在厄東,落在他所毀滅的百姓身上,實行懲罰。
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
上主的刀劍染滿了血,漬滿了脂油,就是羔羊和羚羊的血,以及公羊腎臟的脂油:因為上主在波責辣舉行了一番祭祀,在厄東地方施行了一場屠殺。
7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
野牛與肥畜必同墮死,牛犢與公牛必同跌斃。他們的地區浸滿了血,他們的地面漬染了脂油。
8 For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, the year of recompence in the controversy of Zion.
因為這是上主復讎的日子,是為報復熙雍敵人的一年。
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
她的河水將變為瀝青,她的土壤將變為硫磺:大地成了燃灼的瀝青,
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
晝夜燃燒不息,濃煙永遠上升;世世代代成為荒野,永久無人經過此地。
11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
鵜鶘和刺蝟據守其地,鴞鴟和烏鴉棲於其間;上主將以破壞性的繩墨和毀滅性的線錘測量那地。
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her princes shall be nothing.
顯貴中沒有一個在那裏能夠建國,她所有的王侯都歸於烏有。
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
她的宮闕將生滿荊棘,她的保壘將繁生蒺藜和薊草;她將成為豺狼的洞穴,鴕鳥的苑囿。
14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
野貓在那裏將與野狗相會,野羊將呼叫牠的同類;夜間的魑魅將在那裏休憩,尋得一個安息的處所。
15 There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
箭頭蛇將在那裏築穴、下蛋、伏卵,並加以孵化;鷙鳥群集其間,雌雄相配。
16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
你們可查看上主的書,且閱讀一下,牠們中一種也不會缺少,沒有一個沒有配偶的,因為上主的口已這樣命定,他的神集合了牠們。
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
上主親自要為牠們抽籤,他親手用繩索將為牠們分開這地;牠們將永久佔有這地,世世代代住在那裏。

< Isaiah 34 >