Isaiah 47
1 Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'O tender and delicate one.'
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 millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
要用磨磨麵， 揭去帕子， 脫去長衣，露腿詵河。
3 Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach, Vengeance I take, and I meet not 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 [is] Jehovah of Hosts, His name [is] 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 silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'Mistress 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 have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,
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 And thou sayest, 'To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.
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 And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently — Who is saying in her heart, 'I [am], and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.'
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 And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.
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 And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, 'There is none seeing me,' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, 'I [am], and none else.'
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 And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.
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 Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!
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 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!
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 Lo, they have been as stubble! Fire hath burned them, They deliver not themselves from the power of the flame, There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.
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 So have they been to thee with whom thou hast laboured, Thy merchants from thy youth, Each to his passage they have wandered, Thy saviour is not!
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。
