Isaiah 24
1 Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.
看！上主使大地空虛，使它變為荒涼，翻轉它的面目，使它的居民四散：
2 He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
那時怎樣對百姓，也怎樣對司祭；怎樣對僕人，也怎樣對主人；怎樣對婢女，也怎樣對主母；怎樣對主顧，也怎樣對商賈；怎樣對債戶，也怎樣對債主；怎樣對貸方，也怎樣對借方。
3 Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; everything valuable will be destroyed. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it.
大地必要完全荒廢，慘遭浩劫，因為上主這樣定了。
4 [Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
大地痛哭哀傷，世界衰頹零落，上天與下地一同衰頹。
5 The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws; they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.
大地在居民腳下已被玷污，因為他們越規犯法，破壞了永久的盟約。
6 Therefore, [Yahweh] will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and [only a] few people will remain [alive].
為此詛咒吞噬了大地，其中的居民受了罪罰；為此地上的居民受了折損，剩下來的人數極少。
7 The grapevines will wither, and there will be no [grapes to make] wine. All [the people] who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
新酒哀傷，葡萄凋殘；心情愉快的，都長聲嘆息！
8 People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily [during their celebrations].
小鼓的喜樂已停止，歡笑的喧嚷已終結，琴瑟的喜樂已止息。
9 People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
人不再飲酒作樂，喝了濃酒的反覺酸苦！
10 [Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
空虛的城市已破殘，家家戶戶都已關門閉戶！
11 [Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
廣場上有人為酒而嗟歎，萬般娛樂已闌盡，大地的喜樂遭放逐！
12 Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
城中所留的只是淒涼，門戶被打得粉碎！
13 It will be like that all over the earth: [there will only be a few people still alive], like what happens when [workers] beat all the olives off a tree [and there are only a few left], [or] when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left [on the vines].
誠然，大地間萬民中，必像打過的橄欖樹，或如收割葡萄後所餘的殘粒。
14 But [those who are left alive] will sing joyfully; people [in nations] to the west [of Israel] will declare that Yahweh is very great;
他們要提高聲音歌頌上主的尊嚴：「萬民啊！ 你們歡呼罷！
15 people in nations to the east [of Israel will also] praise Yahweh [MTY]; in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
你們在東方的，應頌揚上主！住在海島上的，應頌揚上主，以色列的天主的名！
16 We will hear [people] in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to [Yahweh], the [truly] righteous one. But [now], I am [SYN] very sad. Weep for me, [because] I have become thin and weak. Terrible things are happening! Treacherous [people still] betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].
我們從地極聽到了歌聲：光榮屬於正義者。」然而我說：「我有禍了！我有禍了！我好可憐！反叛的仍在反叛，反叛的仍在極力的反叛！」
17 You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
地上的居民啊！恐怖、陷阱、羅網，都聚集在你身上。
18 Those who [try to] flee because they are terrified will fall into [deep] pits, and those who climb out of the pits will be caught by traps/snares. The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] [of rain will fall]; the foundations of the earth will shake.
那逃得了恐怖聲音的，必要落在陷阱裏；那由陷阱中跳出來的，必要落在羅網中！ 的確，天上閘門已開放，大地基礎已動盪。
19 The earth will split apart and be shattered; it will shake violently.
大地必將粉碎又粉碎，大地必將崩裂又崩裂，大地必將動搖又動搖！
20 [It will be as though] the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut [shakes in a windstorm]. It will collapse and not [be able to] rise again, [because] the guilt of the people who rebel [against Yahweh] is very great.
大地必東搖西晃，有如一個醉漢，搖盪得好比一座帳幕；自己的罪惡又重壓在上面，倒塌了不能再起！
21 At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
到那一天，上主要在高天審視天上所有的軍旅，要在下地察考地上所有的君王。
22 They will [all] be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit. They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit, and later they will be punished.
他們將被聚集起來，關在深坑內，監禁在監牢裏；待過了許多時日，將受懲罰。
23 At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; [it will be as though] they are ashamed [in the presence of] Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously (on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem), in the presence of the leaders [of his people].
那時，月亮要臉紅，太陽要羞慚，因為萬軍的上主要 在熙雍山上，要在耶路撒冷為王，在他的長老面前要備受頌揚。
