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仰望耶和华者必蒙福祉

18 耶和华必然等候,要施恩给你们,必然兴起,好怜悯你们,因为耶和华是公平的神。凡等候他的,都是有福的! 19 百姓必在锡安,在耶路撒冷居住,你不再哭泣。主必因你哀求的声音施恩给你,他听见的时候,就必应允你。 20 主虽然以艰难给你当饼,以困苦给你当水,你的教师却不再隐藏,你眼必看见你的教师。 21 你或向左或向右,你必听见后边有声音说:“这是正路,要行在其间。” 22 你雕刻偶像所包的银子和铸造偶像所镀的金子,你要玷污,要抛弃,好像污秽之物,对偶像说:“去吧!”

23 你将种子撒在地里,主必降雨在其上,并使地所出的粮肥美丰盛。到那时,你的牲畜必在宽阔的草场吃草。 24 耕地的牛和驴驹必吃加盐的料,这料是用木锨和杈子扬净的。 25 在大行杀戮的日子,高台倒塌的时候,各高山冈陵必有川流河涌。 26 当耶和华缠裹他百姓的损处,医治他民鞭伤的日子,月光必像日光,日光必加七倍,像七日的光一样。

耶和华怒灭仇敌俾民欢喜

27 看哪,耶和华的名从远方来,怒气烧起,密烟上腾。他的嘴唇满有愤恨,他的舌头像吞灭的火, 28 他的气如涨溢的河水,直涨到颈项,要用毁灭的筛箩筛净列国,并且在众民的口中必有使人错行的嚼环。 29 你们必唱歌,像守圣节的夜间一样;并且心中喜乐,像人吹笛,上耶和华的山,到以色列的磐石那里。 30 耶和华必使人听他威严的声音,又显他降罚的膀臂和他怒中的愤恨,并吞灭的火焰与霹雷、暴风、冰雹。

惩罚亚述

31 亚述人必因耶和华的声音惊惶,耶和华必用杖击打他。 32 耶和华必将命定的杖加在他身上,每打一下,人必击鼓弹琴。打仗的时候,耶和华必抡起手来与他交战。 33 原来陀斐特又深又宽,早已为王预备好了,其中堆的是火与许多木柴,耶和华的气如一股硫磺火,使它着起来。

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18 Yet the Lord longs(A) to be gracious to you;
    therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.(B)
For the Lord is a God of justice.(C)
    Blessed are all who wait for him!(D)

19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.(E) How gracious he will be when you cry for help!(F) As soon as he hears, he will answer(G) you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread(H) of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers(I) will be hidden(J) no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice(K) behind you, saying, “This is the way;(L) walk in it.” 22 Then you will desecrate your idols(M) overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold;(N) you will throw them away like a menstrual(O) cloth and say to them, “Away with you!(P)

23 He will also send you rain(Q) for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich(R) and plentiful.(S) In that day(T) your cattle will graze in broad meadows.(U) 24 The oxen(V) and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder(W) and mash, spread out with fork(X) and shovel. 25 In the day of great slaughter,(Y) when the towers(Z) fall, streams of water will flow(AA) on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun,(AB) and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals(AC) the wounds he inflicted.

27 See, the Name(AD) of the Lord comes from afar,
    with burning anger(AE) and dense clouds of smoke;
his lips are full of wrath,(AF)
    and his tongue is a consuming fire.(AG)
28 His breath(AH) is like a rushing torrent,(AI)
    rising up to the neck.(AJ)
He shakes the nations in the sieve(AK) of destruction;
    he places in the jaws of the peoples
    a bit(AL) that leads them astray.
29 And you will sing
    as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;(AM)
your hearts will rejoice(AN)
    as when people playing pipes(AO) go up
to the mountain(AP) of the Lord,
    to the Rock(AQ) of Israel.
30 The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice(AR)
    and will make them see his arm(AS) coming down
with raging anger(AT) and consuming fire,(AU)
    with cloudburst, thunderstorm(AV) and hail.(AW)
31 The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria;(AX)
    with his rod he will strike(AY) them down.
32 Every stroke the Lord lays on them
    with his punishing club(AZ)
will be to the music of timbrels(BA) and harps,
    as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.(BB)
33 Topheth(BC) has long been prepared;
    it has been made ready for the king.
Its fire pit has been made deep and wide,
    with an abundance of fire and wood;
the breath(BD) of the Lord,
    like a stream of burning sulfur,(BE)
    sets it ablaze.(BF)

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