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斥恃埃及不仰望耶和華之愚

31 禍哉,那些下埃及求幫助的!是因仗賴馬匹,倚靠甚多的車輛,並倚靠強壯的馬兵,卻不仰望以色列的聖者,也不求問耶和華。 其實耶和華有智慧,他必降災禍,並不反悔自己的話,卻要興起攻擊那作惡之家,又攻擊那作孽幫助人的。 埃及人不過是人,並不是神;他們的馬不過是血肉,並不是靈。耶和華一伸手,那幫助人的必絆跌,那受幫助的也必跌倒,都一同滅亡。

勸民歸誠

耶和華對我如此說:「獅子和少壯獅子護食咆哮,就是喊許多牧人來攻擊牠,牠總不因他們的聲音驚惶,也不因他們的喧嘩縮伏。如此,萬軍之耶和華也必降臨在錫安山岡上爭戰。 雀鳥怎樣扇翅覆雛,萬軍之耶和華也要照樣保護耶路撒冷。他必保護拯救,要越門保守。」 以色列人哪,你們深深地悖逆耶和華,現今要歸向他。 到那日,各人必將他金偶像、銀偶像,就是親手所造陷自己在罪中的,都拋棄了。

預言亞述必滅

亞述人必倒在刀下,並非人的刀;有刀要將他吞滅,並非人的刀。他必逃避這刀,他的少年人必成為服苦的。 他的磐石必因驚嚇挪去,他的首領必因大旗驚惶。」這是那有火在錫安、有爐在耶路撒冷的耶和華說的。

Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
    and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
    and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
    or consult the Lord!
And (D)yet he is wise and brings disaster;
    (E)he does not call back his words,
but (F)will arise against the house of the evildoers
    and against the helpers of (G)those who work iniquity.
The Egyptians are man, and not God,
    and their horses (H)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
    the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
    and they will all perish together.

For thus the Lord said to me,
(I)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
(J)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight[b] on Mount Zion and on its hill.
(K)Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”

(L)Turn to him from whom people[c] have (M)deeply revolted, O children of Israel. For in that day (N)everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

(O)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
    and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
    and his young men shall be (P)put to forced labor.
(Q)His rock shall pass away in terror,
    and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose (R)fire is in Zion,
    and whose (S)furnace is in Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,
  2. Isaiah 31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike
  3. Isaiah 31:6 Hebrew they