Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示，論巴比倫。
2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
應當在淨光的山豎立大旗， 向群眾揚聲招手， 使他們進入貴冑的門。
3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
我吩咐我所挑出來的人； 我招呼我的勇士－ 就是那矜誇高傲之輩， 為要成就我怒中所定的。
4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
山間有多人的聲音， 好像是大國人民。 有許多國的民聚集鬨嚷的聲音； 這是萬軍之耶和華點齊軍隊，預備打仗。
5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
他們從遠方來， 從天邊來， 就是耶和華並他惱恨的兵器 要毀滅這全地。
6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
你們要哀號， 因為耶和華的日子臨近了！ 這日來到， 好像毀滅從全能者來到。
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
所以，人手都必軟弱； 人心都必消化。
8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
他們必驚惶悲痛； 愁苦必將他們抓住。 他們疼痛，好像產難的婦人一樣， 彼此驚奇相看，臉如火焰。
9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
耶和華的日子臨到， 必有殘忍、忿恨、烈怒， 使這地荒涼， 從其中除滅罪人。
10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
天上的眾星群宿都不發光； 日頭一出就變黑暗； 月亮也不放光。
11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
我必因邪惡刑罰世界， 因罪孽刑罰惡人， 使驕傲人的狂妄止息， 制伏強暴人的狂傲。
12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
我必使人比精金還少， 使人比俄斐純金更少。
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
我－萬軍之耶和華在忿恨中發烈怒的日子， 必使天震動， 使地搖撼，離其本位。
14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
人必像被追趕的鹿， 像無人收聚的羊， 各歸回本族， 各逃到本土。
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
凡被仇敵追上的必被刺死； 凡被捉住的必被刀殺。
16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
他們的嬰孩必在他們眼前摔碎； 他們的房屋必被搶奪； 他們的妻子必被玷污。
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
我必激動米底亞人來攻擊他們。 米底亞人不注重銀子， 也不喜愛金子。
18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
他們必用弓擊碎少年人， 不憐憫婦人所生的， 眼也不顧惜孩子。
19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
巴比倫素來為列國的榮耀， 為迦勒底人所矜誇的華美， 必像上帝所傾覆的所多瑪、蛾摩拉一樣。
20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
其內必永無人煙， 世世代代無人居住。 阿拉伯人也不在那裏支搭帳棚； 牧羊的人也不使羊群臥在那裏。
21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
只有曠野的走獸臥在那裏； 咆哮的獸滿了房屋。 鴕鳥住在那裏； 野山羊在那裏跳舞。
22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
豺狼必在它宮中呼號； 野狗必在它華美殿內吼叫。 巴比倫受罰的時候臨近； 它的日子必不長久。
