以賽亞書 28-29
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
北國必遭審判
28 以法蓮酒徒引以為榮的華冠有禍了！
它座落在醉酒者肥美的山谷頂上，
它的榮美如將殘之花。
2 看啊，主已經派來一位強壯有力的人，
他像冰雹和毀滅的暴風，
又像洶湧氾濫的洪水，
他必把那華冠猛力摔在地上。
3 以法蓮酒徒引以為榮的華冠必被踐踏。
4 那肥美山谷上將殘的榮美之花，
必像夏季到來之前早熟的無花果，
人一看見它就把它摘去吞掉。
5 到那日，萬軍之耶和華必做祂餘民的榮冠和華冕。
6 祂必使審判官公正斷案，
賜力量給守城退敵之人。
7 但祭司和先知也因喝酒而搖搖晃晃，
因烈酒而東倒西歪。
他們因烈酒而搖搖晃晃、
酩酊大醉、東倒西歪，
他們錯解異象，糊塗判案。
8 桌子上到處都是嘔吐之物，
一片狼藉。
9 他們抱怨我說：
「他想教導誰知識呢？
他想把信息解釋給誰呢？
是剛剛斷奶、離開母懷的嬰孩嗎？
10 因為他的教導只是命命令令、命命令令、律律例例、律律例例、這裡一點、那裡一點。」
11 因此，耶和華必用外族人的口和語言來教訓他們。
12 耶和華曾對他們說：
「這是安歇之地，
讓疲乏的人安歇吧。
這是安歇之地。」
他們卻不肯聽。
13 所以，對他們來說，
耶和華的話成了命命令令、命命令令、律律例例、律律例例、這裡一點、那裡一點，
以致他們走路時仰面跌倒，摔傷，落網，被捉。
14 你們這些好譏諷、在耶路撒冷統管百姓的人啊，
要聽耶和華的話。
15 你們說：
「我們已經和死亡立約，
與陰間結盟。
災難席捲而來的時候，
我們會安然無恙，
因為我們以謊言為庇護所，
以詭詐為藏身處。」
16 所以主耶和華說：
「看啊，我要在錫安放一塊基石，
一塊經過考驗的石頭，
一塊根基穩固的寶貴房角石，
信靠的人必不致蒙羞。
17 我必以公平為準繩，
以公義作線錘。
冰雹必砸碎你們虛謊的庇護所，
洪水必淹沒你們的藏身處。
18 你們和死亡所立的約必被廢棄，
與陰間的結盟必不能長久。
災難席捲而來的時候，
你們必遭毀滅。
19 災難必不分晝夜、日復一日地掃過，
每次掃過都必將你們擄去。」
明白這信息的人都必驚恐萬分。
20 你們的床太小，不能舒身；
你們的被子太窄，不足裹身。[a]
21 耶和華必像在毗拉心山一樣挺身而出，
像在基遍谷一樣發怒，
要完成祂奇異的作為，
成就祂不尋常的工作。
22 現在你們不要再譏諷了，
以免捆綁你們的繩索勒得更緊，
因為我已從主——萬軍之耶和華那裡聽到毀滅全國的諭旨。
23 你們要側耳聽我的聲音，
留心聽我的話語。
24 難道農夫會一直耕地而不撒種嗎？
難道他會一直犁地、耙地嗎？
25 他耙平土地之後，
難道不種小茴香、大茴香嗎？
不按行種小麥，
在合適的地方種大麥，
在田邊種粗麥嗎？
26 因為上帝指點他，教導他耕種之道。
27 打小茴香不用大槌，用棍子；
打大茴香不用石磙，用棒子。
28 做餅的糧食要磨碎，
沒有人會不停地在場上碾壓糧食。
馬拉著石磙在場上軋過，
也不會把麥子磨碎。
29 這些知識都是萬軍之耶和華所賜的，
祂有奇妙的謀略和偉大的智慧。
耶路撒冷被圍
29 耶和華說：「亞利伊勒[b]，亞利伊勒，
大衛安營的城啊！
你有禍了！
儘管你年復一年地守節期，
2 我還是要叫你受苦。
你必悲傷哀號，
在我面前成為一座祭壇。
3 我必把你團團圍住，
屯兵圍困你，
修築高臺攻打你。
4 你必一敗塗地，
躺在塵土中說話，
你細微的聲音從土中傳來，
好像地下幽靈的聲音。
你耳語般的低聲從土中傳來。
5 但你的眾仇敵必像纖細的塵埃一樣消散，
眾多的殘暴之徒必如被風颳去的糠秕。
突然，刹那之間，
6 萬軍之耶和華必帶著雷轟、地震、巨響、旋風、暴風和烈火來臨。
7 攻打、圍困耶路撒冷及其堡壘的各國軍隊必如夢幻，
如夜間的異象一樣消失。
8 他們好像饑餓的人夢中吃飯，
醒來仍然饑餓；
像口渴的人夢中喝水，
醒來仍然渴得發昏。
攻打錫安山的各國軍隊結局都必如此。」
9 你們駐足驚奇吧！
你們自我蒙蔽，繼續瞎眼吧！
你們醉了，但不是因為酒；
你們東倒西歪，但不是因為烈酒。
10 因為耶和華把沉睡的靈傾倒在你們身上，
祂封住你們的眼睛，
蓋住你們的頭。
你們的眼睛就是先知，
你們的頭就是先見。
11 對你們而言，所有的啟示都好像封了印的書卷。你們把書卷交給識字的人讀，他會說：「我不能讀，這書卷是封著的。」 12 你們把書卷交給不識字的人讀，他會說：「我不識字。」
13 主說：「這些人嘴上親近我，
尊崇我，心卻遠離我。
他們敬拜我不過是遵行人定的規條。
14 所以，我要再次行奇妙無比的事，使他們震驚。
他們智者的智慧必泯滅，
明哲的聰明必消失。」
15 那些向耶和華深藏計謀的人有禍了！
他們暗中行事，
自以為無人看見也無人知道。
16 他們太愚蠢了！
窯匠怎能跟泥土相提並論？
被造的怎能對造它的說：
「你沒有造我」？
陶器怎能對陶匠說：
「你什麼也不懂」？
17 再過不久，黎巴嫩將變成沃野，
沃野上莊稼茂密如林。
18 那時，聾子必聽見那書卷上的話，
黑暗中的瞎子必能看見。
19 卑微的人必因耶和華而歡喜，
貧窮的人必因以色列的聖者而快樂。
20 殘暴之徒必消失，
嘲諷者必絕跡，
所有心懷不軌者必被剷除。
21 他們誣陷人，
暗算審判官，
冤枉無辜。
22 因此，關於雅各家，
救贖亞伯拉罕的耶和華說：
「雅各的子孫必不再羞愧，
臉上再無懼色。
23 因為他們看見我賜給他們的子孫時，
必尊我的名為聖，
必尊雅各的聖者為聖，
必敬畏以色列的上帝。
24 心裡迷惘的必明白真理，
發怨言的必欣然受教。」
Isaiah 28-29
King James Version
28 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
29 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.