以赛亚书 28
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
北国必遭审判
28 以法莲酒徒引以为荣的华冠有祸了！
它坐落在醉酒者肥美的山谷顶上，
它的荣美如将残之花。
2 看啊，主已经派来一位强壮有力的人，
他像冰雹和毁灭的暴风，
又像汹涌泛滥的洪水，
他必把那华冠猛力摔在地上。
3 以法莲酒徒引以为荣的华冠必被践踏。
4 那肥美山谷上将残的荣美之花，
必像夏季到来之前早熟的无花果，
人一看见它就把它摘去吞掉。
5 到那日，万军之耶和华必做祂余民的荣冠和华冕。
6 祂必使审判官公正断案，
赐力量给守城退敌之人。
7 但祭司和先知也因喝酒而摇摇晃晃，
因烈酒而东倒西歪。
他们因烈酒而摇摇晃晃、
酩酊大醉、东倒西歪，
他们错解异象，糊涂判案。
8 桌子上到处都是呕吐之物，
一片狼藉。
9 他们抱怨我说：
“他想教导谁知识呢？
他想把信息解释给谁呢？
是刚刚断奶、离开母怀的婴孩吗？
10 因为他的教导只是命命令令、命命令令、律律例例、律律例例、这里一点、那里一点。”
11 因此，耶和华必用外族人的口和语言来教训他们。
12 耶和华曾对他们说：
“这是安歇之地，
让疲乏的人安歇吧。
这是安歇之地。”
他们却不肯听。
13 所以，对他们来说，
耶和华的话成了命命令令、命命令令、律律例例、律律例例、这里一点、那里一点，
以致他们走路时仰面跌倒，摔伤，落网，被捉。
14 你们这些好讥讽、在耶路撒冷统管百姓的人啊，
要听耶和华的话。
15 你们说：
“我们已经和死亡立约，
与阴间结盟。
灾难席卷而来的时候，
我们会安然无恙，
因为我们以谎言为庇护所，
以诡诈为藏身处。”
16 所以主耶和华说：
“看啊，我要在锡安放一块基石，
一块经过考验的石头，
一块根基稳固的宝贵房角石，
信靠的人必不致蒙羞。
17 我必以公平为准绳，
以公义作线锤。
冰雹必砸碎你们虚谎的庇护所，
洪水必淹没你们的藏身处。
18 你们和死亡所立的约必被废弃，
与阴间的结盟必不能长久。
灾难席卷而来的时候，
你们必遭毁灭。
19 灾难必不分昼夜、日复一日地扫过，
每次扫过都必将你们掳去。”
明白这信息的人都必惊恐万分。
20 你们的床太小，不能舒身；
你们的被子太窄，不足裹身。[a]
21 耶和华必像在毗拉心山一样挺身而出，
像在基遍谷一样发怒，
要完成祂奇异的作为，
成就祂不寻常的工作。
22 现在你们不要再讥讽了，
以免捆绑你们的绳索勒得更紧，
因为我已从主——万军之耶和华那里听到毁灭全国的谕旨。
23 你们要侧耳听我的声音，
留心听我的话语。
24 难道农夫会一直耕地而不撒种吗？
难道他会一直犁地、耙地吗？
25 他耙平土地之后，
难道不种小茴香、大茴香吗？
不按行种小麦，
在合适的地方种大麦，
在田边种粗麦吗？
26 因为上帝指点他，教导他耕种之道。
27 打小茴香不用大槌，用棍子；
打大茴香不用石磙，用棒子。
28 做饼的粮食要磨碎，
没有人会不停地在场上碾压粮食。
马拉着石磙在场上轧过，
也不会把麦子磨碎。
29 这些知识都是万军之耶和华所赐的，
祂有奇妙的谋略和伟大的智慧。
Footnotes
- 28:20 此处的床和被子象征他们虚假的安全感。
Isaiah 28
1599 Geneva Bible
28 Against the pride and drunkenness of Israel. 9 The untowardness of them that should learn the word of God. 24 God doeth all things in time and place.
1 Woe to the [a]crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim: for his glorious beauty shall be a fading flower, which is upon the head of the [b]valley of them that be fat, and are overcome with wine.
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and [c]strong host like a tempest of hail, and a whirlwind that overthroweth, like a tempest of mighty waters that overflow, which throw to the ground mightily.
3 They shall be trodden under foot, even the crown and the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.
4 For his glorious beauty shall be a fading flower, which is upon the head of the valley of them that be fat, and as [d]the hasty fruit afore Summer, which when he hath looketh upon it, seeth it, while it is in his hand, he eateth it.
5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty unto the [e]residue of his people:
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for [f]strength unto them that turn away the battle to the gate.
7 But [g]they have erred because of wine, and are out of the way by strong drink: the Priest and the prophet have erred by strong drink: they are swallowed up with wine: they have gone astray through strong drink: they fail in vision: they stumble in judgment.
8 For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting: no place is clean.
9 [h]Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the things that he heareth? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For [i]precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little, and there a little.
11 For with a stammering [j]tongue, and with a strange language shall he speak unto this people.
12 Unto whom [k]he said, [l]This is the rest: [m]give rest unto him that is weary, and this is the refreshing, but they would not hear.
13 Therefore shall the word of the [n]Lord be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little and there a little: that they may go and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people, which is at Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a [o]covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: though a scourge run over, and pass through, it shall not come at us: for we have made [p]falsehood our refuge, and under vanity are we hid,
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lay in Zion a stone, a [q]tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth, [r]shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the rule, and [s]righteousness to the balance, and the [t]hail shall sweep away the vain confidence, and the waters shall overflow [u]the secret place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall ye be trodden down by it.
19 When it passeth over, it shall take you away: for it shall pass through every morning in the day and in the night, and there shall be only [v]fear, to make you to understand the hearing.
20 For the bed is [w]strait, that it cannot suffice, and the covering narrow, that one cannot wrap himself.
21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount [x]Perazim: he shall be wroth as in the valley [y]of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be no mockers, lest your bonds increase: for I have heard of the Lord of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Hearken ye, and hear my voice: hearken ye, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all the day, to sow? doth he open, and break the clots of his ground?
25 When he hath made it [z]plain, will he not then sow the fitches, and sow cumin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barley and rye in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to have discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For fitches shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, neither shall a cartwheel be turned about upon the cumin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
28 Bread corn when it is threshed, he doth not always thresh it, neither doth the wheel of his cart still make a noise, neither will he break it with the teeth thereof.
29 This also cometh from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in works.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 28:1 Meaning, the proud kingdom of the Israelites, which were drunken with worldly prosperity.
- Isaiah 28:1 Because the Israelites for the most part dwelt in plentiful valleys, he meaneth hereby the valley of them that had abundance of worldly prosperity, and were as it were crowned therewith as with garlands.
- Isaiah 28:2 He seemeth to mean the Assyrians, by whom the ten tribes were carried away.
- Isaiah 28:4 Which is not of long continuance, but is soon ripe and first eaten.
- Isaiah 28:5 Signifying, that the faithful, which put not their trust in any worldly prosperity, but made God their glory, shall be preserved.
- Isaiah 28:6 He will give counsel to the governor, and strength to the captain, to drive the enemies in at their own gates.
- Isaiah 28:7 Meaning, the hypocrites which were among them, and were altogether corrupt in life and doctrine, which is here meant by drunkenness and vomiting.
- Isaiah 28:9 For there was none that was able to understand any good doctrine: but were foolish and as unmeet as young babes.
- Isaiah 28:10 They must have one thing ofttimes told.
- Isaiah 28:11 Let one teach what he can, yet they shall no more understand him, than if he spake in a strange language.
- Isaiah 28:12 That is, the Prophet, whom God should send.
- Isaiah 28:12 This is the doctrine, whereupon ye ought to stay and rest.
- Isaiah 28:12 Show to them that are weary and have need of rest, what is the true rest.
- Isaiah 28:13 Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it cometh of their own malice, if after their hearts be so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, Isa. 6:9.
- Isaiah 28:15 They thought they had shifts to avoid God’s judgments, and that they could escape though all others perished.
- Isaiah 28:15 Though the prophets condemned their idols and vain trust of falsehood and vanity, yet the wicked thought in themselves that they would trust in these things.
- Isaiah 28:16 That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, Ps. 118:22; Matt. 21:42; Acts 4:11; Rom. 9:33; 1 Pet. 2:6.
- Isaiah 28:16 He shall be quiet, and seek none other remedies, but be content with Christ.
- Isaiah 28:17 In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice shall reign.
- Isaiah 28:17 God’s corrections and afflictions.
- Isaiah 28:17 Affliction shall discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves.
- Isaiah 28:19 Terror and destruction shall make you to learn that, which exhortations and gentleness could not bring you unto.
- Isaiah 28:20 Your affliction shall be so sore, that you are not able to endure it.
- Isaiah 28:21 When David overcame the Philistines, 2 Sam. 5:20; 1 Chron. 14:11.
- Isaiah 28:21 Where Joshua discomfited five kings of the Amorites, Josh. 10:12.
- Isaiah 28:25 As the plowman hath his appointed time, and divers instruments for his labor, so hath the Lord for his vengeance: for he punisheth some at one time, and some at another, some after one sort, and some after another, so that his chosen seed is beaten and tried, but not broken, as are the wicked.
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