Isaiah 5
1 Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
我要為我所親愛的唱歌， 是我所愛者的歌，論他葡萄園的事： 我所親愛的有葡萄園在肥美的山岡上。
2 And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it [with] a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
他刨挖園子，撿去石頭， 栽種上等的葡萄樹， 在園中蓋了一座樓， 又鑿出壓酒池； 指望結好葡萄， 反倒結了野葡萄。
3 And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人哪， 請你們現今在我與我的葡萄園中，斷定是非。
4 What — to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
我為我葡萄園所做之外， 還有甚麼可做的呢？ 我指望結好葡萄， 怎麼倒結了野葡萄呢？
5 And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
現在我告訴你們， 我要向我葡萄園怎樣行： 我必撤去籬笆，使它被吞滅， 拆毀牆垣，使它被踐踏。
6 And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
我必使它荒廢，不再修理， 不再鋤刨，荊棘蒺藜倒要生長。 我也必命雲不降雨在其上。
7 Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts [Is] the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
萬軍之耶和華的葡萄園就是以色列家； 他所喜愛的樹就是猶大人。 他指望的是公平， 誰知倒有暴虐； 指望的是公義， 誰知倒有冤聲。
8 Woe [to] those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
禍哉！那些以房接房， 以地連地， 以致不留餘地的， 只顧自己獨居境內。
9 By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!
我耳聞萬軍之耶和華說： 必有許多又大又美的房屋 成為荒涼，無人居住。
10 For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
三十畝葡萄園只出一罷特酒； 一賀梅珥穀種只結一伊法糧食。
11 Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!
禍哉！那些清早起來追求濃酒， 留連到夜深，甚至因酒發燒的人。
12 And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.
他們在筵席上 彈琴，鼓瑟，擊鼓，吹笛，飲酒， 卻不顧念耶和華的作為， 也不留心他手所做的。
13 Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
所以，我的百姓因無知就被擄去； 他們的尊貴人甚是飢餓， 群眾極其乾渴。
14 Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one — into her. (Sheol h7585)
故此，陰間擴張其欲， 開了無限量的口； 他們的榮耀、群眾、繁華， 並快樂的人都落在其中。 (Sheol h7585)
15 And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,
卑賤人被壓服； 尊貴人降為卑； 眼目高傲的人也降為卑。
16 And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
惟有萬軍之耶和華因公平而崇高； 聖者上帝因公義顯為聖。
17 And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
那時，羊羔必來吃草，如同在自己的草場； 豐肥人的荒場被遊行的人吃盡。
18 Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as [with] thick ropes of the cart — sin.
禍哉！那些以虛假之細繩牽罪孽的人！ 他們又像以套繩拉罪惡，
19 Who are saying, 'Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'
說：任他急速行，趕快成就他的作為， 使我們看看； 任以色列聖者所謀劃的臨近成就， 使我們知道。
20 Woe [to] those saying to evil 'good,' And to good 'evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
禍哉！那些稱惡為善，稱善為惡， 以暗為光，以光為暗， 以苦為甜，以甜為苦的人。
21 Woe [to] the wise in their own eyes, And — before their own faces — intelligent!
禍哉！那些自以為有智慧， 自看為通達的人。
22 Woe [to] the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.
禍哉！那些勇於飲酒， 以能力調濃酒的人。
23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.
他們因受賄賂，就稱惡人為義， 將義人的義奪去。
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.
火苗怎樣吞滅碎稭， 乾草怎樣落在火焰之中， 照樣，他們的根必像朽物， 他們的花必像灰塵飛騰； 因為他們厭棄萬軍之耶和華的訓誨， 藐視以色列聖者的言語。
25 Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!
所以，耶和華的怒氣向他的百姓發作。 他的手伸出攻擊他們，山嶺就震動； 他們的屍首在街市上好像糞土。 雖然如此，他的怒氣還未轉消； 他的手仍伸不縮。
26 And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.
他必豎立大旗，招遠方的國民， 發嘶聲叫他們從地極而來； 看哪，他們必急速奔來。
27 There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.
其中沒有疲倦的，絆跌的； 沒有打盹的，睡覺的； 腰帶並不放鬆， 鞋帶也不折斷。
28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!
他們的箭快利， 弓也上了弦。 馬蹄算如堅石， 車輪好像旋風。
29 Its roaring [is] like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.
他們要吼叫，像母獅子， 咆哮，像少壯獅子； 他們要咆哮抓食， 坦然叼去，無人救回。
30 And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness — distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!
那日，他們要向以色列人吼叫， 像海浪匉訇； 人若望地，只見黑暗艱難， 光明在雲中變為昏暗。
