< Obadiah 1 >
1 Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, 'Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.'
亞北底亞神視]吾主上主關於厄東這樣說:我從上主聽到了一個消息,有一位傳令員已被派往萬民那裏說:「起來! 我們起來向她進攻! 」
2 Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly.
看,我必使你在萬民中成為弱小的,極受人輕視。
3 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down [to] earth?')
你心中的驕傲欺騙了你:你住在磐石裂縫中,安居高處,心中說:「誰能我跌在地上﹖」
4 If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
既使你高棲如鷹,既便你將巢穴安置星辰上,我也要從那裏把你推下──上主的斷語──
5 If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?
如果盜賊,或夜間的強盜來到你那裏,他們豈不要偷個夠嗎﹖如果收葡萄的來到你那裏,豈不只給氮留下些殘粒嗎﹖你將來也是如此荒涼!
6 How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,
厄撒烏怎樣被人搜過了,她的寶藏怎樣被人探索了!
7 Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him!
與你聯盟的人,愚弄了你,將你驅至邊境;與你友好的人,克服了你;與你共食人,給你暗設了陷阱,而你竟一點也沒有理會。
8 Is it not in that day — an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?
在那一天──上主的斷語──我豈能不撲滅厄東的智者,掃除厄撒烏山上的明哲﹖
9 And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.
特曼,你的勇士必驚惶失措,至使厄撒烏山上的人盡遭滅亡。你既然好殺,
10 For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.
傷害了你的兄弟雅各伯,你必蒙受羞辱,永遭滅亡:
11 In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou [art] as one of them!
因為當外邦人擄掠他財寶的那一天,蠻族來到了他的城門下,對耶路撒冷拈鬮時,你也置身其間,好像他們中的一個。
12 And — thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.
你兄弟遭難的日子,你不應旁觀;猶大子民滅亡的那天,你也不應引以為樂;在患難的日子上,你也不應大言不慚。
13 Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,
在我的的百姓遭的時日,你不應闖進他們的門;在他遭難的時日,你更不應伸手劫掠他的財物。
14 Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.
你不應站在交叉路口,截殺他的難民;在患難之日,你不應交出他的劫後餘生。
15 For near [is] the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.
因為上主的日子已臨近萬民,人必按你所作的,照樣對待你;你的行為必歸於你的頭上。
16 For — as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been.
正如你們曾在我的聖山上痛飲過,萬民也要不斷痛飲:他們要痛飲,要飲醉,而終歸消滅。
17 And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.
在熙雍山上必有救援,熙雍將是神聖的;並且雅各伯家要侵佔那侵佔過他們的人。
18 And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.
雅各伯家將成為火,若瑟家將成為火焰,厄撒烏家卻要成為草楷;雅各伯家和若瑟家要焚燒吞滅他們;厄撒烏家必沒有一個餘生,因為上主說了。
19 And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.
他們要佔領南方,厄撒烏的山頂與培肋舍特的平原,要佔領厄弗辣因地和撒馬黎雅地以及阿孟子民的基肋阿得。
20 And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That [is with] the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that [is] with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.
這支充軍在外的叵子民的軍旅,要佔領客納罕人的土地,直到匝爾法特;流亡在色法辣特的耶路撒冷人,要佔領南方的城邑。
21 And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!'
那時,獲救者必上熙雍山,統治厄撒烏王;王權必歸於上主。