< Isaiah 6 >
1 During the year that King Uzziah died, [Yahweh showed me a vision. In the vision], I saw Yahweh sitting on a throne, high above everyone. He [was wearing a very long] robe that covered [the floor of] the temple.
烏齊雅王逝世那年,我看見吾主坐在崇高的御座上,他的衣邊拖曳滿殿。「
2 Above him were standing [several] winged creatures. Each of them had six wings. They covered their faces with two of their wings, they covered their feet with two of their wings, and they flew using two of their wings.
色辣芬」侍立在他左右,各有六個翅膀:兩個蓋住臉,兩個蓋住腳,兩個用來飛翔。
3 They were calling to each other, saying, “The Commander of the armies of angels is holy; he is completely holy! The entire earth is filled with his glory.”
他們互相高呼說:「聖!聖!聖!萬軍的上主!他的光榮充滿大地!」
4 When they spoke, it caused the doorposts of the temple to shake, and the temple was filled with smoke.
由於呼喊的聲音,門限的基石也震撼了;殿宇內充滿了煙霧。
5 Then I said, “Terrible things will happen to me, because everything that I say [MTY] is sinful, and I live among people who constantly say [MTY] sinful things. I will be destroyed because I have seen the Commander of the armies of angels!”
我遂說:「我有禍了!我完了!因為我是個唇舌不潔的人,住在唇舌不潔的人民中間,竟親眼見了君王--萬軍的上主!」
6 Then one of the winged creatures took a hot coal from the altar, using a pair of tongs. He flew to me
當時有一個「色辣芬」飛到我面前,手中拿著鉗子,從祭壇上取了一塊火炭,
7 and touched my lips with the coal. Then he said, “Look [at what I have done]. I have touched your lips [with this coal]. [Now] your guilt is ended, and your sins are forgiven [DOU].”
接觸我的口說:「你看,這炭接觸了你的口唇,你的邪惡已經消除,你的罪孽已獲赦免!」
8 Then I heard Yahweh asking, “Whom shall I send [to be a messenger to my people]? Who will go [and speak] for us?” I replied, “I will. Send me!”
那時我聽見吾主的聲音說:「我將派遣誰呢﹖誰肯為我們去呢﹖」我回答說:「我在這裏,請派遣我 !」
9 Then he said, “[Okay], go, and say to the [Israeli] people, ‘You will listen carefully [to what I say], but you will not understand it. You will look very carefully [at the things that I am doing], but you will not understand them.’
他說:「你去對這民族說:你們聽是聽,但不明白;看是看,卻不理解。
10 [What you(sg) say will] cause these people to become stubborn [IDM]; [it will cause them] to not be able to hear [what I say] and see [what I do]. [As a result, they will not] see [what I want them to see] or hear [what I want them to hear], and they will not understand it, and they will not turn to me and be saved [from being punished].”
你要使這民族的心遲鈍,使他們的耳朵沉重,使他們的眼睛迷矇,免得他們的眼睛看見,耳朵聽見,心裏覺悟而悔改,獲得痊癒。」
11 Then I said, “How long [do you want me to continue to do that]?” He replied, “[Do it] until their cities are ruined [by their enemies], [until] no one is living in their houses, [do it until] all the crops are stolen from their fields and the fields are ruined.
我追問說:「吾主!要到幾時呢﹖」他回答說:「直到城邑變成廢墟,沒有居民,房屋無人居住,田地變為荒蕪。」
12 [Do it] until I have (exiled everyone/forced everyone to go to their enemies’ lands) far away, and the whole land [of Israel] is deserted.
上主必將人民遷到遠方,本地區荒蕪異常。
13 If [even] one tenth [of the people survive and] stay there, [their enemies] will [invade the land again and] burn everything. [But, just] like [MET] when an oak [tree] is cut down, a stump is left [from which new shoots will grow], the people who remain [in this land will be a group that will become large again] and be (set apart for/dedicated to) me.”
境內雖只留下十分之一,還要遭受摧殘;就如松樹和樟樹在伐倒後,尚留有餘幹,聖善的苗裔將由這餘幹產生。