Isaiah 47
1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. You will no longer be called dainty and delicate.
巴比倫的處女啊， 下來坐在塵埃； 迦勒底的閨女啊， 沒有寶座，要坐在地上； 因為你不再稱為柔弱嬌嫩的。
2 Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your flowing robe, uncover your legs, cross the streams.
要用磨磨麵， 揭去帕子， 脫去長衣，露腿詵河。
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen: I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.
你的下體必被露出； 你的醜陋必被看見。 我要報仇， 誰也不寬容。
4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
我們救贖主的名是 萬軍之耶和華－以色列的聖者。
5 Sit in silence and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you will no longer be called queen of kingdoms.
迦勒底的閨女啊， 你要默然靜坐，進入暗中， 因為你不再稱為列國的主母。
6 I was angry with my people; I defiled my heritage and gave them over into your hand, but you showed them no mercy; you placed a very heavy yoke on the old people.
我向我的百姓發怒， 使我的產業被褻瀆， 將他們交在你手中， 你毫不憐憫他們， 把極重的軛加在老年人身上。
7 You said, “I will rule forever as sovereign queen.” You did not take these things to heart, nor did you consider how they would turn out.
你自己說：我必永為主母， 所以你不將這事放在心上， 也不思想這事的結局。
8 So now hear this, you who love pleasure and sit securely; you who say in your heart, “I exist, and there is no one else like me; I will never sit as a widow, nor will I ever experience loss of children.”
你這專好宴樂、安然居住的， 現在當聽這話。 你心中說：惟有我， 除我以外再沒有別的。 我必不致寡居， 也不遭喪子之事。
9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood; in full force they will come on you, despite your sorceries and your many incantations and amulets.
哪知，喪子、寡居這兩件事 在一日轉眼之間必臨到你； 正在你多行邪術、廣施符咒的時候， 這兩件事必全然臨到你身上。
10 You have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge lead you astray, but you say in your heart, “I exist, and there is no one else like me.”
你素來倚仗自己的惡行，說： 無人看見我。 你的智慧聰明使你偏邪， 並且你心裏說：惟有我， 除我以外再沒有別的。
11 Disaster will overcome you; you will not be able to drive it away with your incantations. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to ward it off. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you know it.
因此，禍患要臨到你身； 你不知何時發現， 災害落在你身上， 你也不能除掉； 所不知道的毀滅也必忽然臨到你身。
12 Persist in casting your spells and your many sorceries which you have faithfully recited since your childhood; perhaps you will be successful, perhaps you will scare away disaster.
站起來吧！ 用你從幼年勞神施行的符咒和你許多的邪術； 或者可得益處， 或者可得強勝。
13 You are tired out with your many consultations; let those men stand up and save you—those who chart the heavens and look at the stars, those who declare the new moons—let them save you from what will happen to you.
你籌劃太多，以致疲倦。 讓那些觀天象的，看星宿的， 在月朔說預言的，都站起來， 救你脫離所要臨到你的事。
14 See, they will become like stubble. The fire will burn them up. They will not save themselves from the hand of the flame. There are no coals to warm them and no fire for them to sit by!
他們要像碎稭被火焚燒， 不能救自己脫離火焰之力； 這火並非可烤的炭火， 也不是可以坐在其前的火。
15 This is what they have become to you— those with whom you have worked, and you have bought and sold with them since your youth— they wandered about each one in his own direction; there is no one who can rescue you.”
你所勞神的事都要這樣與你無益； 從幼年與你貿易的也都各奔各鄉，無人救你。
