以赛亚书 47
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
巴比伦的覆灭
47 “巴比伦的少女啊，
下来坐在尘土中吧！
迦勒底的姑娘啊，
坐在没有宝座的地上吧！
因为你必不再娇柔细嫩。
2 你要推磨磨面，
揭下面纱，掀起裙子，
露出大腿，涉水过河。
3 你必赤身裸体，
露出羞处。
我必报仇，不放过一人。
4 我们的救赎主是以色列的圣者，
祂名叫万军之耶和华。
5 “迦勒底的姑娘啊，
要静静地坐着，进入黑暗中，
因为你不再被称为列国之后。
6 我曾向我的子民发怒，
让我的产业被玷污，
把他们交在你手中。
你对他们毫不留情，
甚至让老人负极重的轭。
7 你声称要永远做王后，
不把这些事放在心上，
也不思想以后的结局。
8 “淫逸安舒的人啊，听着！
你以为天地间唯你独尊，
你必不致寡居，
也不会遭丧子之痛。
9 谁知寡居、丧子二事却忽然在同一天临到你身上。
即使你懂得许多邪术和符咒，
也于事无补。
10 “你肆无忌惮地行恶，
自以为没有人看见。
你被自己的聪明智慧欺骗，
自以为天下无双。
11 你必大祸临头，
不知如何祛灾避祸。
灾祸必落在你身上，
无可挽回。
你意想不到的祸患必突然来到。
12 “你自幼就勤练符咒和五花八门的邪术，继续施展吧！
也许会有用处，
也许会令人害怕。
13 众多的计谋使你疲惫不堪，
让那些观天象、
每月说预言的占星家来救你脱离将临的灾祸吧！
14 “看啊，他们不过像枯草，
必遭焚烧，
无法救自己脱离烈焰。
这火并非取暖的炭火，
也不是人可以靠近的火。
15 你自幼交往的占星家帮不上你，
他们都四散奔逃，无人救你。
Isaiah 47
Easy-to-Read Version
God’s Message to Babylon
47 “Fall down and sit in the dirt, Virgin Daughter Babylon.
You have no throne, so sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans.[a]
You are not the ruler now.
You are no longer the beautiful young princess that people said you were.
2 Get the millstones ready
and grind the grain into flour.
Take off your veil and fancy clothes.
Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers.[b]
3 Men will see your naked body
and use you for sex.
I will make you pay for the bad things you did,
and I will not let anyone help you.
4 “My people say, ‘God saves us.
His name is the Lord All-Powerful, the Holy One of Israel.’”
5 “So Babylon, sit down and shut up.
Daughter of the Chaldeans, go into the dark prison.
You will no longer be ‘The Queen of the Kingdoms.’
6 “I was angry with my people.
They were mine, but I turned against them.
I let you punish them,
but you showed them no mercy.
Even for those who were old
you made the work hard.
7 You said, ‘I will live forever.
I will always be the queen.’
You didn’t care what you did to my people.
You didn’t think about what might happen later.
8 So now listen, you who love only pleasure!
Feeling so safe, you tell yourself,
‘I alone am important, and no one else matters.
I will never be a widow or lose my children.’
9 These two things will happen to you:
First, you will lose your children and then your husband.
And none of your magic spells will help you.
10 You do bad things but still feel safe.[c]
You say to yourself, ‘No one sees the wrong I do.’
You thought that your wisdom and knowledge would save you.
You tell yourself, ‘I alone am important,
and no one else matters.’
11 “But disaster is coming your way.
You don’t know when it will happen, but disaster is coming.
And there is nothing you can do to stop it.
12 You worked hard all your life
learning magic and spells.
So start using that magic.
Maybe those spells will help you.
Maybe you will be able to frighten someone.
13 You have many advisors.
Are you tired of the advice they give?
Then send out your men who read the stars.
They can tell when the month starts,
so maybe they can tell you when your troubles will come.
14 But they cannot even save themselves.
They will burn like straw.
They will burn so fast that there will be no coals left to cook bread.
There will be no fire left to sit by.
15 That’s what will happen to those you have worked with,
the people you did business with all your life.
They will all go their own way.
There will be no one left to save you.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 47:1 Virgin Daughter Babylon, daughter of the Chaldeans Names for the city of Babylon.
- Isaiah 47:2 rivers The Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Babylon was between these two rivers.
- Isaiah 47:10 You … safe Or “You put your trust in your evil.”
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