< Isaiah 37 >

1 And it was when heard the king Hezekiah and he tore clothes his and he covered himself with sackcloth and he went [the] house of Yahweh.
希則克雅王一聽這話,就撕破了自己的衣服,穿上苦衣,走進了上主的殿;
2 And he sent Eliakim who [was] over the house and - Shebna the scribe and [the] elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah [the] son of Amoz the prophet.
然後打發厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和幾位老司祭,穿著苦衣,去見阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知,
3 And they said to him thus he says Hezekiah [is] a day of distress and rebuke and insult the day this for they have come children to birth and [is] strength there not for giving birth.
對他說:「希則克雅這樣說:今天是受困難、受責罰,受凌辱的日子!因為嬰兒到了要出生的時候,卻沒有產生的力量。
4 Perhaps he will hear Yahweh God your - [the] words of [the] chief commander whom he has sent him [the] king of Assyria - master his to taunt [the] God living and he will rebuke the words which he has heard Yahweh God your and you will lift up prayer for the remnant which is found.
但願上主你的天主聽見了那大將軍的話--即他的主子亞述王派他來辱罵永生的天主所說的話--願上主你的天主聽了那些話而加以懲罰。請你為剩下的人民祈禱罷!」
5 And they came [the] servants of the king Hezekiah to Isaiah.
希則克雅王的臣僕來到了依撒意亞前,
6 And he said to them Isaiah thus you will say! to master your thus - he says Yahweh may not you be afraid of the words which you have heard which they have blasphemed [the] servants of [the] king of Assyria me.
依撒意亞對他們說:「你們要這樣對你們的主上說:上主這樣說:你聽到亞述王的僕人辱罵我的話,不要害怕!
7 Here I [am] about to put in him a spirit and he will hear a report and he will return to own land his and I will make fall him by the sword in own land his.
看,我必叫他感到一種怕情,使他一聽到某種消息,就返回本國;我要使他在本國內喪身刀下。」
8 And he returned [the] chief commander and he found [the] king of Assyria fighting on Libnah if he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
大將軍回去時,正遇見亞述王去攻打里貝納,原來他已聽說君王離開了拉基士。
9 And he heard on Tirhakah [the] king of Cush saying he has come out to do battle with you and he heard and he sent messengers to Hezekiah saying.
那時散乃黑黎布聽人說:雇士王提爾哈卡出來攻打他,就再派使者去見希則克雅,並吩咐說:「
10 Thus you will say! to Hezekiah [the] king of Judah saying may not he deceive you God your whom you [are] trusting in him saying not it will be given Jerusalem in [the] hand of [the] king of Assyria.
你們要這樣對猶大王希則克雅說:不要讓你所依賴的天主哄騙你說:耶路撒冷決不會落在亞述王手中!
11 Here! - you you have heard [that] which they have done [the] kings of Assyria to all the lands by totally destroying them and you will you be delivered?
看,你聽說過亞述的列王對各國所行的,將各國完全消滅了,你還能有救嗎﹖
12 ¿ Did they deliver them [the] gods of the nations which they destroyed ancestors my Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and [the] people of Eden who [were] in Telassar.
我祖先消滅的所有民族如:哥倉、哈郎、勒責夫,以及在特拉撒爾的厄登子民,他們的神何嘗救了他們﹖
13 Where? [is] [the] king of Hamath and [the] king of Arpad and [the] king of Lair Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah.
哈瑪特王、阿帕得王、色法瓦因城的王、赫納王和依瓦王,他們現今都在那裏﹖」
14 And he took Hezekiah the letters from [the] hand of the messengers and he read it and he went up [the] house of Yahweh and he spread out it Hezekiah before Yahweh.
希則克雅從使者手中接過信來,讀了以後,就走進上主的殿;將那信在上主面前展開,
15 And he prayed Hezekiah to Yahweh saying.
然後希則克雅懇求上主說:「
16 O Yahweh of hosts [the] God of Israel [who] sits the cherubim you he [are] God to alone you of all [the] kingdoms of the earth you you have made the heavens and the earth.
萬軍的上主,坐在革魯賓上面的以色列的天主,唯獨你是地上萬國的天主,你創造了天地。
17 Incline O Yahweh - ear your and hear open O Yahweh eyes your and see and hear all [the] words of Sennacherib which he has sent to taunt [the] God living.
上主,請你側耳傾聽! 上主,求你睜眼垂視!細聽那打發使者辱罵永生天主的散乃黑黎布的一切話 !
18 Truly O Yahweh they have made desolate [the] kings of Assyria all the lands and land their.
上主,的確,亞述的列王曾毀滅了所有的民族和他們的土地,
19 And they have put gods their in the fire for not [were] gods they that except [the] work of [the] hands of a person wood and stone and they destroyed them.
將他們的神像投入火中,因為它們不是神,只是人手造成的木石的作品,所以能被消滅。
20 And now O Yahweh God our save us from hand his so they may know all [the] kingdoms of the earth that you [are] Yahweh to alone you.
但是現今,上主,我們的天主,求你拯救我們脫離他的手,好使世上萬國都知道:惟獨你是上主天主。」
21 And he sent Isaiah [the] son of Amoz to Hezekiah saying thus he says Yahweh [the] God of Israel that you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib [the] king of Assyria.
那時,阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞打發人去見希則克雅說:「上主以色列的天主這樣說:你既然為了亞述王散乃黑黎布而向我懇求,我已經俯聽了你。
22 This [is] the word which he has spoken Yahweh on him she has despised you she has mocked you [the] virgin of [the] daughter of Zion behind you a head she has shaken [the] daughter of Jerusalem.
這就是上主論他所說的話:熙雍貞女輕視你,嘲笑你;耶路撒冷少女在你背後搖頭!
23 Whom? have you taunted and have you blasphemed? and on whom? have you raised a voice and have you lifted up? height eyes your against [the] holy [one] of Israel.
你辱罵詛咒的是誰﹖你提高聲音,仰起眼睛攻擊的是誰﹖是攻擊以色列的聖者。
24 By [the] hand of servants your you have taunted - [the] Lord and you have said with [the] abundance of chariotry my I I have gone up [the] height[s] of mountains [the] remotest parts of Lebanon so I may cut down [the] height of cedars its [the] choicest of pines its so I may come [to the] height of end its [the] forest of orchard its.
你藉你的僕人辱罵了吾主,你說:我用我的大批車輛,登上了叢山的極峰,到黎巴嫩的山頂,砍伐了其中 最高的香柏,最好的青松;我衝入了人跡罕到之處,走進了果木的林園。
25 I I have dug and I have drunk water so I may dry up with [the] sole of feet my all [the] canals of Egypt.
我掘了井,喝了外邦的水,用我的腳掌踏乾了埃及所有的河川。
26 ¿ Not have you heard from distant [time] it I appointed from days of antiquity and I planned it now I have brought it and you are [about] to make desolate heaps ruined cities fortified.
難道你沒有聽見:很久以前我所計劃的,昔日我所決定的,現在我就實現,叫你毀壞堅城,化為廢墟,
27 And inhabitants their [were] short of hand they were dismayed and they were ashamed they were [the] vegetation of [the] field and [the] greenery of vegetation grass of roofs and a field before standing grain.
使城中的居民軟弱無力,驚惶失措,有如田野的青草,有如青綠的嫩苗,有如屋頂上被東風吹焦的小草。
28 And sitting down your and going out you and coming in you I know and raging you against me.
你或起或坐,或出或入,以及對我的癲狂,我都知道。
29 Because raging you against me and arrogance your it has come up in ears my and I will put hook my in nose your and bridle my on lips your and I will turn back you by the way which you came by it.
因為你對我的暴怒,和你的狂囂,已達到我的耳鼓,所以我要把環子穿在你的鼻子上,把轡頭套在你的嘴上,由你來的路上將你牽回去。
30 And this for you [will be] the sign you will eat this year self-sown grain and in the year second self-seeded plant[s] and in the year third sow and reap and plant vineyards (and eat *Q(K)*) fruit their.
這是給你的記號:今年你要吃自然所生的,明年你仍要吃自然所生的,第三年你們要播種收穫,栽種葡萄園,吃園中的果實。
31 And it will add [the] escaped remnant of [the] house of Judah which remains a root downwards and it will produce fruit upwards.
猶大家所剩餘的人,仍要向下生根,往上結實。
32 For from Jerusalem it will go out a remnant and an escaped remnant from [the] mountain of Zion [the] zeal of Yahweh of hosts it will accomplish this.
因為剩餘的人將由耶路撒冷而出,逃脫的人將從熙雍山而來:萬軍上主的熱誠必要成就這事。
33 Therefore thus he says Yahweh concerning [the] king of Assyria not he will come into the city this and not he will shoot there an arrow and not he will confront it a shield and not he will pour out on it a mound.
為此,上主論亞述王這樣說:他決不會進入這城,決不會向這城放射一箭,決不會持著盾牌,走近城下,造起土堆攻城。
34 By the way which he came by it he will return and into the city this not he will come [the] utterance of Yahweh.
他必要由來路回去,決不能進入這城:上主的斷語。
35 And I will defend the city this to deliver it for own sake my and for [the] sake of David servant my.
為了我自己,為了我的僕人達味,我必要保護拯救這城。」
36 And he went out - [the] angel of Yahweh and he struck down in [the] camp of Assyria one hundred and eighty and five thousand and they rose early in the morning and there! all of them [were] corpses dead.
於是上主的使者出來,在亞述的營裏殺了十八萬五千人。清晨人們起來,見遍地是死屍。
37 And he set out and he went and he returned Sennacherib [the] king of Assyria and he remained in Nineveh.
亞述王散乃黑黎布於是拔營,班師回國,住在尼尼微。
38 And it was he [was] bowing down [the] house of - Nisroch god his and Adrammelech and Sharezer sons his they struck down him with the sword and they they escaped [the] land of Ararat and he reigned Esar-haddon son his in place his.
當他在自己的神尼色洛客廟裏叩拜的時候,他的兒子阿德辣默肋客和沙勒責爾用劍刺殺了他,然後逃到阿辣辣特地方去了。他的兒子厄撒哈冬繼他為王。

< Isaiah 37 >