以赛亚书 13
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
论巴比伦之预言
13 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示论巴比伦。
耶和华震怒爰整其军
2 “应当在净光的山竖立大旗，向群众扬声招手，使他们进入贵胄的门！ 3 我吩咐我所挑出来的人，我招呼我的勇士，就是那矜夸高傲之辈，为要成就我怒中所定的。” 4 山间有多人的声音，好像是大国人民。有许多国的民聚集哄嚷的声音，这是万军之耶和华点齐军队，预备打仗。 5 他们从远方来，从天边来，就是耶和华并他恼恨的兵器，要毁灭这全地。
6 你们要哀号，因为耶和华的日子临近了！这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。 7 所以人手都必软弱，人心都必消化。 8 他们必惊惶悲痛，愁苦必将他们抓住，他们疼痛好像产难的妇人一样。彼此惊奇相看，脸如火焰。 9 耶和华的日子临到，必有残忍、愤恨、烈怒，使这地荒凉，从其中除灭罪人。 10 天上的众星群宿都不发光，日头一出就变黑暗，月亮也不放光。 11 “我必因邪恶刑罚世界，因罪孽刑罚恶人，使骄傲人的狂妄止息，制伏强暴人的狂傲。 12 我必使人比精金还少，使人比俄斐纯金更少。 13 我万军之耶和华在愤恨中发烈怒的日子，必使天震动，使地摇撼离其本位。 14 人必像被追赶的鹿，像无人收聚的羊，各归回本族，各逃到本土。 15 凡被仇敌追上的必被刺死，凡被捉住的必被刀杀。 16 他们的婴孩必在他们眼前摔碎，他们的房屋必被抢夺，他们的妻子必被玷污。
巴比伦必如所多玛之倾覆
17 “我必激动玛代人来攻击他们，玛代人不注重银子，也不喜爱金子。 18 他们必用弓击碎少年人，不怜悯妇人所生的，眼也不顾惜孩子。 19 巴比伦素来为列国的荣耀，为迦勒底人所矜夸的华美，必像神所倾覆的所多玛、蛾摩拉一样。 20 其内必永无人烟，世世代代无人居住。阿拉伯人也不在那里支搭帐篷，牧羊的人也不使羊群卧在那里。 21 只有旷野的走兽卧在那里，咆哮的兽满了房屋，鸵鸟住在那里，野山羊在那里跳舞。 22 豺狼必在她宫中呼号，野狗必在她华美殿内吼叫。巴比伦受罚的时候临近，她的日子必不长久。”
Isaiah 13
Amplified Bible
Prophecies about Babylon
13 The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([a]a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:
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Lift up a signal banner on the bare mountain,
Summon them [the Medes and Persians] with a loud voice,
Wave the [beckoning] hand so that they may enter the doorways of the [Babylonian] nobles.
3
I [the Lord] have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My great warriors,
My proudly exulting ones [the Medes and the Persians who triumph for My honor]—
To execute My anger.
4
A sound of tumult on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of the uproar of the kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts is mustering an army for battle.
5
They are coming from a distant country,
From the end of heaven [the farthest horizon]—
The Lord and the weapons of His indignation—
To destroy the whole land.(A)
Judgment on the Day of the Lord
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Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand!
It will come as [b]destruction from the [c]Almighty (All Sufficient One—Invincible God)!(B)
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Therefore [d]all hands will fall limp,
And every man’s heart will melt.
8
They [of Babylon] will be shocked and terrified,
Pains and anguish will grip them;
They will be in pain like a woman in childbirth.
They will stare aghast and horrified at one another,
Their faces aflame [from the effects of the unprecedented warfare].
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Listen carefully, the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with wrath and raging anger,
To make the land a horror [of devastation];
And He shall exterminate its sinners from it.(C)
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For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash with their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises,
And the moon will not shed its light.
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In this way I will punish the world for its evil
And the wicked for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing];
I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud
And will abase the arrogance of the tyrant.
12
I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold,
And mankind [scarcer] than the pure gold of Ophir.
13
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
And the earth will be shaken from its place
At the wrath of the Lord of hosts
In the day of His burning anger.
14
And like the hunted gazelle,
Or like sheep that no man gathers,
Each [foreign resident] will turn [and go back] to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.
15
Anyone who is found will be pierced through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16
Their children also will be smashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be looted
And their wives ravished.
Babylon Will Fall to the Medes
17
Listen carefully, I will put the Medes [in motion] against them,
Who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold [and therefore cannot be bribed].
18
Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon];
They will take no pity on the fruit of the womb,
Their eyes will not look with compassion on the children.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the [e]Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
20
Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.
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But desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and [f]wild goats will dance there.
22
[g]Hyenas will howl in their castles,
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time has nearly come,
And her days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:1 I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.
- Isaiah 13:6 Shod in Hebrew, forming a word play with Shaddai.
- Isaiah 13:6 Heb Shaddai.
- Isaiah 13:7 Babylon was taken by surprise on the night of Belshazzar’s sacrilegious feast when Belshazzar was killed, and Darius the Mede was made king over Babylonia, the realm of the Chaldeans (Dan 5:30). The Chaldeans became the dominant people in Babylonia when Merodach-baladan declared himself king of Babylon. The words “Chaldean” and “Babylonian” are used interchangeably.
- Isaiah 13:19 The Chaldeans dominated and ruled Babylonia from 625 b.c., until their empire fell in 539 b.c., but they were known as early as 1000 b.c. as an aggressive, tribal people in the southern region of Babylonia. They were highly skilled in both the science of astronomy and the pseudo-science of astrology. They kept meticulous records of celestial motion and correctly calculated the length of a year to within just a few minutes. Babylon, their capital city, was the center of trade and learning in the western part of Asia. The classical literature of the Chaldeans was written in cuneiform, but the common language, both written and spoken in Babylon, was Akkadian that was increasingly influenced by Aramaic.
- Isaiah 13:21 Another possibility is goat demons.
- Isaiah 13:22 This prophecy was written well over a century before Babylon’s downfall in 539 b.c.
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