Isaiah 7
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, came up, to Jerusalem, to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
當烏齊雅的孫子，約堂的兒子阿哈次為猶大王時，阿蘭王勒斤和以色列王勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑，上來攻打耶路撒冷，但是不能攻陷。
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria hath settled down upon Ephraim. Then shook his heart, and the heart of his people, as the trees of a forest shake before a wind.
有人報告達味家說：「阿蘭已經駐紮在厄弗辣因！」君王與人民都膽戰心驚，有如風中搖動的樹木。
3 Then said Yahweh, unto Isaiah, Go forth, I pray thee, to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, —unto the end of the channel of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fuller’s field;
上主對依撒意亞說：「你和你的兒子舍阿爾雅叔布出去，到上池的水溝盡頭，即漂工田間的大道上，去會見阿哈次；
4 and say unto him—Take heed and keep thyself calm—do not fear, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two fag-ends of smoking firebrands, —in spite of the glow of the anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
對他說：你必須審慎，保持鎮定，不必畏懼，不要因那兩個冒煙的火把頭－即勒斤、阿蘭和勒瑪里雅之子－的怒火而膽怯。
5 Because Syria, hath taken counsel against thee, for mischief, —[with] Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
雖然阿蘭、厄弗辣因和勒瑪里雅的兒子同謀，迫害你說：
6 Let us go up against Judah, and besiege it, and break it open, for ourselves, —and set up a king in the midst thereof, even the son of Tabeal,
我們上猶大去，擾亂她，把她佔領過來歸於我們，並在那裏立塔貝耳的兒子為王；
7 Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, —It shall not stand Neither shall it come to pass!
但是吾主上主卻這樣說：這事決不能成立，亦不能發生！
8 For, though the head of Syria is Damascus, And, the head of Damascus, is Rezin, Yet within threescore and five years more, shall Ephraim be broken that it shall not be a people;
因為阿蘭的首都是大馬士革，大馬士革的首領是勒斤；
9 Even though the head of Ephraim is Samaria, And, the head of Samaria, is the son of Remaliah. If ye trust not, Surely, ye cannot be trusted!
厄弗辣因的首都是撒瑪黎雅，撒瑪黎雅的首領是勒瑪里雅的兒子。【六年或五年以後，阿蘭將被消滅，厄弗辣因將要衰敗。】假使你們不肯相信，你們必然不能存立。」
10 And again spake Yahweh unto Ahaz saying—
上主又對阿哈次說：「
11 Ask thee a sign, of Yahweh thy God, —Go down deep for a request, Or ascend on high! (Sheol h7585)
你向上主你的天主要求一個徵兆罷 ！或求諸陰府深處，或求諸上天高處。」 (Sheol h7585)
12 But Ahaz said, —I will not ask Nor will I put Yahweh to the proof.
阿哈次回答說：「我不要求，我不願試探上主。」
13 Then said he—Hear, I pray you, O house of David! Is it, too little, for you to weary men, that ye must weary even my God?
依撒意亞說：「達味的家族，你們聽著罷 ！你們使人厭惡還不夠，還要使我的天主厭惡嗎﹖
14 Wherefore let My Lord Himself give you a sign, —Lo! a Virgin, being with child and giving birth to a son, thou wilt call his name Immanuel.
因此，吾主要親自給你們一個徵兆：看，有位貞女要懷孕生子，給他起名叫厄瑪奴耳。
15 Curds and honey, shall he eat, by the time that he knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good;
到他知道棄惡揚善的時候，要吃乳酪和蜂蜜；
16 for before the boy knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good, forsaken shall be the land, at which, thou, art alarmed, of the presence of both her kings.
因為在這孩子尚未知道棄惡擇善以前，你在那兩個君王面前所擔心的國土，必將荒廢。
17 Yahweh will bring upon thee and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have not come, from the day when Ephraim departed from Judah, —even the king of Assyria.
上主必使患難的日子臨於你、你的百姓和你的父家身上；這是從厄弗辣因叛離猶大那一天所未有過的，【即亞述王加禍的日子。】
18 And it shall come to pass in that day that Yahweh will give a signal—To the fly that is in the uttermost part of the Nile-canals of Egypt, And to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
那一日，上主要喚來埃及大河盡頭的蠅和亞述境內的蜂，
19 And they shall all of them come and settle down—In the desolate torrent-valleys, And in the rents of the crags, —And on all the thorn-bushes, And on all the pastures,
牠們將要前來，一起落在荒谷、巖穴，以及一切荊棘叢中和一切水溝上。
20 In that day, will My Lord shave, with a hired razor, even with them of the lands over the River Euphrates, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, —yea, even the beard, will it sweep off.
那一日，吾主要用由大河那邊借來的剃刀【即亞述王】剃去你的頭髮和恥毛，連鬍鬚也要刮掉。
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow and two sheep.
到那一日，人僅能餵養一隻牛犢和兩隻母山羊，
22 Yea it shall come to pass for the abundance of the yield of milk, that he shall eat curds, —for, curds and honey, shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.
因為出奶很多，人將以乳酪為食，因而境內所有的遺民，都將以乳酪和蜂蜜為食。
23 And it shall some to pass in that day, that, every place wherein there used to be a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver, —yea, even for briars and thorns, shall it be.
到那一日，先前所有種植一千棵葡萄，值一千塊銀子的地方，必將叢生荊棘和蒺藜。
24 With arrows and with a bow, shall one come in thither, —for briars and thorns, shall be all the land.
人往那裏去，必須攜帶弓箭，因為遍地都是荊棘和蒺藜。
25 But all the hills which, with the hoe, can be weeded, —there shall not come thither, the fear of briars and thorns, —but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the tread of lesser cattle.
先前用鋤頭開墾的山地，沒有人敢到那裏，因為害怕荊棘蒺藜。那裏將成為放牛和羊群踐踏的地區。
