关于摩押的预言

15 以下是关于摩押的预言:

摩押的亚珥城必在一夜之间被摧毁,沦为废墟;
摩押的基珥城必在一夜之间被摧毁,沦为废墟。
底本城的人上到神庙,
到他们的丘坛痛哭。
摩押人都剃光头发,
刮掉胡须,
为尼波和米底巴城哀号。
他们身披麻衣走在街上,
房顶和广场上都传出号啕大哭的声音。
希实本人和以利亚利人都哭喊,
声音一直传到雅杂,
因此摩押的战士大声喊叫,
胆战心惊。
我为摩押感到悲哀。
她的人民逃难到琐珥和伊基拉·施利施亚。
他们上到鲁希斜坡,边走边哭,
在去何罗念的路上为自己的不幸哀哭。
宁林的河道干涸,
青草枯萎,植被消失,毫无绿色。
因此,摩押人把自己积存的财物都运过柳树河。
摩押境内哀声四起,
号啕声传到以基莲,
传到比珥·以琳。
底门的河里流的都是血,
但我还要降更多灾难给底门:
狮子必吞噬逃出摩押的人和那里的余民。

预言摩押必倾覆

15 关于摩押的默示:

一夜之间,摩押的亚珥受到蹂躏,就灭亡了!

一夜之间,摩押的基珥受到蹂躏,也灭亡了!

他们进入房子(“房子”或译:“庙宇”),又往底本,上到高处去哭泣,

摩押人为尼波和米底巴哀号;

各人头上都光秃,胡须剃净。

他们在街上都腰束麻布;

在房顶上,在广场上,

各人都哀号,流泪痛哭。

希实本和以利亚利都呼喊,

他们的声音达到雅杂,

因此摩押配带武器的人大声呼叫,

各人的心都战兢。

我的心为摩押哀号,

它的逃民一直去到琐珥,如同一头三岁大的牝牛,要挣脱苦轭,

他们登上鲁希的山坡,随走随哭,

他们在何罗念的路上,发出灭亡的哀号。

因为宁林的众水都已荒凉,

青草枯干,嫩草灭没,

完全没有青绿之物。

所以,他们把所得的和所积蓄的财富,

都带过了柳树溪。

哀号的声音传遍了摩押四境,

哀声直达以基莲,又传到比珥.以琳。

底们(按照《死海古卷》和一些古译本,“底们”作“底本”;“底们”大慨是“底本”的另一种写法,为使与原文的“血”字更相似;下同)的水充满了血,

我还要把更多的灾祸加给底们,

使狮子临到摩押逃难的人和那地余下的人中间。

A Prophecy Against Moab(A)

15 A prophecy(B) against Moab:(C)

Ar(D) in Moab is ruined,(E)
    destroyed in a night!
Kir(F) in Moab is ruined,
    destroyed in a night!
Dibon(G) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places(H) to weep;
    Moab wails(I) over Nebo(J) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(K)
    and every beard cut off.(L)
In the streets they wear sackcloth;(M)
    on the roofs(N) and in the public squares(O)
they all wail,(P)
    prostrate with weeping.(Q)
Heshbon(R) and Elealeh(S) cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.(T)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.

My heart cries out(U) over Moab;(V)
    her fugitives(W) flee as far as Zoar,(X)
    as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
    weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim(Y)
    they lament their destruction.(Z)
The waters of Nimrim are dried up(AA)
    and the grass is withered;(AB)
the vegetation is gone(AC)
    and nothing green is left.(AD)
So the wealth they have acquired(AE) and stored up
    they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
    their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
    their lamentation as far as Beer(AF) Elim.
The waters of Dimon[a] are full of blood,
    but I will bring still more upon Dimon[b]
a lion(AG) upon the fugitives of Moab(AH)
    and upon those who remain in the land.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
  2. Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.

15 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.