< Isaiah 17 >
1 A declaration about Damascus.
论大马士革的默示: 看哪,大马士革已被废弃,不再为城, 必变作乱堆。
2 The cities of Aroer will be abandoned. They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will frighten them.
亚罗珥的城邑已被撇弃, 必成为牧羊之处; 羊在那里躺卧,无人惊吓。
3 Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram—they will be like the glory of the people of Israel—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
以法莲不再有保障; 大马士革不再有国权; 亚兰所剩下的 必像以色列人的荣耀消灭一样。 这是万军之耶和华说的。
4 It will come about on that day that the glory of Jacob will become thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
到那日,雅各的荣耀必至枵薄; 他肥胖的身体必渐瘦弱。
5 It will be as when a harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the heads of grain. It will be as when one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
就必像收割的人收敛禾稼, 用手割取穗子, 又像人在利乏音谷拾取遗落的穗子。
6 Gleanings will be left, however, as when the olive tree is shaken: two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the highest branches of a fruitful tree—this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
其间所剩下的不多,好像人打橄榄树— 在尽上的枝梢上只剩两三个果子; 在多果树的旁枝上只剩四五个果子。 这是耶和华—以色列的 神说的。
7 On that day men will look toward their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
当那日,人必仰望造他们的主,眼目重看以色列的圣者。
8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they look to what their fingers have made, the Asherah poles or the sun images.
他们必不仰望祭坛,就是自己手所筑的,也不重看自己指头所做的,无论是木偶是日像。
9 On that day their strong cities will be like the abandoned wooded slopes on the hill summits, that were forsaken because of the people of Israel and that will become a desolation.
在那日,他们的坚固城必像树林中和山顶上所撇弃的地方,就是从前在以色列人面前被人撇弃的。这样,地就荒凉了。
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength. So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger,
因你忘记救你的 神, 不记念你能力的磐石; 所以,你栽上佳美的树秧子, 插上异样的栽子。
11 on the day you plant and hedge and cultivate. Soon your seed will grow, but the harvest will fail on a day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
栽种的日子,你周围圈上篱笆, 又到早晨使你所种的开花; 但在愁苦极其伤痛的日子, 所收割的都飞去了。
12 Woe! The uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
唉!多民哄嚷,好像海浪匉訇; 列邦奔腾,好像猛水滔滔;
13 The nations will roar like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them and they will flee far away, they will be chased before the wind like chaff on the mountains, and like weeds whirling before a storm.
列邦奔腾,好像多水滔滔; 但 神斥责他们,他们就远远逃避, 又被追赶,如同山上的风前糠, 又如暴风前的旋风土。
14 In the evening, see, terror! Before the morning they will be gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who rob us.
到晚上有惊吓,未到早晨他们就没有了。这是掳掠我们之人所得的分,是抢夺我们之人的报应。