< Ezekiel 8 >
1 And it came to pass, in the sixth year in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, I being seated in my house, and the elders of Judah being seated before me, then fell upon me there the hand of My Lord Yahweh.
第六年六月初五日,我坐在家中;猶大的眾長老坐在我面前。在那裏主耶和華的靈降在我身上。
2 So I looked, and lo! a likeness as the appearance of a man, from the appearance of his loins and downward fire, and from his loins and upwards as an appearance of shining, as the look of amber,
我觀看,見有形像彷彿火的形狀,從他腰以下的形狀有火,從他腰以上有光輝的形狀,彷彿光耀的精金。
3 Then put he forth the similitude of a hand, and took me by the forelock of my head, —and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in the visions of God into the opening of the inner gate that looketh toward the north, where was the seat of the Statue of Jealousy. that provoketh to jealousy;
他伸出彷彿一隻手的樣式,抓住我的一綹頭髮,靈就將我舉到天地中間,在上帝的異象中,帶我到耶路撒冷朝北的內院門口,在那裏有觸動主怒偶像的坐位,就是惹動忌邪的。
4 and lo! there, the glory of the God of Israel, like the appearance which I had seen in the valley.
誰知,在那裏有以色列上帝的榮耀,形狀與我在平原所見的一樣。
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man Lift up. I pray thee thine eyes, the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and lo! on the north by the gate of the altar, this Statue of Jealousy, in the entrance.
上帝對我說:「人子啊,你舉目向北觀看。」我就舉目向北觀看,見祭壇門的北邊,在門口有這惹忌邪的偶像;
6 Then said he unto me, Son of man Canst thou see what they are doing, —the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, that I should go faraway from my sanctuary? Howbeit yet again, shalt thou see great abominations.
又對我說:「人子啊,以色列家所行的,就是在此行這大可憎的事,使我遠離我的聖所,你看見了嗎?你還要看見另有大可憎的事。」
7 So he brought me into the opening of the court, —and I looked, and lo! a single hole in the wall.
他領我到院門口。我觀看,見牆上有個窟窿。
8 Then said he unto me Son of man Break I pray thee through the wall. So I broke through the wall, and lo! a single opening.
他對我說:「人子啊,你要挖牆。」我一挖牆,見有一門。
9 Then said he unto me, — Go in, and see the wicked abominations. which they are committing here.
他說:「你進去,看他們在這裏所行可憎的惡事。」
10 So I went in. and looked, and lo! every similitude of creeping thing, and detestable beast, and all the manufactured gods of the house of Israel, - portrayed upon the wall round about on every side;
我進去一看,誰知,在四面牆上畫着各樣爬物和可憎的走獸,並以色列家一切的偶像。
11 and seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan, who stood in their midst were standing before them, even every man with his censer in his hand, —and the fragrance of the cloud of incense ascending.
在這些像前有以色列家的七十個長老站立,沙番的兒子雅撒尼亞也站在其中。各人手拿香爐,煙雲的香氣上騰。
12 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen Son of man what the elders of the house of Israel, are doing in the dark, every man in his image-chambers? for they are saying— Yahweh doth not see us! Yahweh hath forsaken the land!
他對我說:「人子啊,以色列家的長老暗中在各人畫像屋裏所行的,你看見了嗎?他們常說:『耶和華看不見我們;耶和華已經離棄這地。』」
13 Then said he unto me, — Yet again, shalt thou see great abominations, which they are committing.
他又說:「你還要看見他們另外行大可憎的事。」
14 So he brought me into the opening of the gate of the house of Yahweh, which was toward the north, —and Lo! there, women sitting, weeping for Tammuz.
他領我到耶和華殿外院朝北的門口。誰知,在那裏有婦女坐着,為搭模斯哭泣。
15 Then said he unto me Hast thou seen O son of man? Yet again, shalt thou see greater abominations than these.
他對我說:「人子啊,你看見了嗎?你還要看見比這更可憎的事。」
16 So he brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and lo! at the opening of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, —their backs towards the temple of Yahweh and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward unto the Sun.
他又領我到耶和華殿的內院。誰知,在耶和華的殿門口、廊子和祭壇中間,約有二十五個人背向耶和華的殿,面向東方拜日頭。
17 Then said he unto me Hast thou seen O son of man? Is it too small a thing for the house of Judah, to be committing the abominations which they have committed here, —that they have filled the land with violence and have again provoked me to anger and there they are! putting the branch to my nose.
他對我說:「人子啊,你看見了嗎?猶大家在此行這可憎的事還算為小嗎?他們在這地遍行強暴,再三惹我發怒,他們手拿枝條舉向鼻前。
18 Therefore even I, will act with indignation, Mine eye shall not shield. Neither will I pity, — Though they have cried in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
因此,我也要以忿怒行事,我眼必不顧惜,也不可憐他們;他們雖向我耳中大聲呼求,我還是不聽。」