Isaiah 25

1 The LORD, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

上主！你是我的天主，我要稱揚你，我要讚頌你的名，因為你忠實真誠地成就了你舊日的奇妙計劃。

2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

因為你使那城成了一堆瓦礫，使設防的城市化為一片荒涼，使傲慢人的城堡不像城市，永遠不得重建。

3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

為此，強大的民族要頌揚你，威武邦國的城市要敬畏你。

4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

因為你是窮苦人的屏障，是患難中貧乏人的屏障，避風暴的藏身處，避炎熱的蔭涼所；因為殘暴人的狂怒有如冬日的暴風，

5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

有如旱地上的炎熱。傲慢人的狂暴你已抑止，有如濃蔭減輕了熱氣；連殘暴人的歌聲也從此低降。

6 In this mountain, the LORD of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

萬軍的上主在這座山上，要為萬民擺設肥甘的盛宴，美酒的盛宴；肥甘是精選的，美酒是醇清的。

7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

在這座山上，你要撤除那封在萬民上的封面，那蓋在各國上的帷幔。

8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.

他要永遠取消死亡，吾主上主要從人人的臉上拭去淚痕，要由整個地面除去自己民族的恥辱：因為上主說了。

9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

到那一天，人要說：「看！這是我們所依賴拯救我們的天主；這是我們所依賴的上主，我們要因他的救援鼓舞喜樂，

10 For the LORD’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

因為上主的手停留在這山上。」敵人要在自己的地方受踐踏，有如禾湝被踐踏在糞坑之中。

11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

他要在其中伸開雙手，如同游泳的伸手游泳；但他的傲慢和他的手段已受了挫折。

12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

他城牆上高聳的保壘必被打倒、推翻，倒在地上化為塵埃。