以賽亞書 5:1-7
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
葡萄園之歌
5 我要為我所愛的歌唱，唱一首有關他葡萄園的歌：
我所愛的在肥美的山岡上有一個葡萄園。
2 他鬆土，清除石頭，
栽種了上好的葡萄，
在園中建了一座瞭望塔，
鑿了榨酒池。
他期望收穫好葡萄，
得到的卻是壞葡萄。
3 他說，「耶路撒冷和猶大的居民啊，
請你們在我和葡萄園之間評評理。
4 我不遺餘力地料理葡萄園，
希望得到好葡萄，
為什麼得到的只是壞葡萄呢？
5 「現在，我告訴你們我會怎樣處理這葡萄園，
我要除去籬笆，任它被毀壞；
我要拆毀圍牆，任它被踐踏。
6 我不再修剪，不再鋤地，
也不再降雨，
任由它荒廢，長滿荊棘和蒺藜。」
7 萬軍之耶和華的葡萄園就是以色列，
祂所喜愛的葡萄樹就是猶大人。
祂希望看到公平，
卻只看見殺戮；
指望看到公義，
卻只聽見冤聲。
Isaiah 5:1-7
Wycliffe Bible
5 I shall sing for my darling the song of mine uncle’s son, of his vineyard. A vinery was made to my darling, in the horn, that is, in an high place and excellent, in the son of oil, that is, in a place full of olives, of whose fruit is wrung out oil. (I shall sing for my darling the song of my darling’s vineyard. A vineyard was made for my darling in the horn, that is, in a high and an excellent place, in the son of oil, that is, in a place full of olives, where oil is wrung out of the fruit.)
2 And he hedged it, and chose (the) stones thereof, and planted a chosen vinery; and he builded a tower in the midst thereof, and reared (up) a (wine)press therein; and he abode, that it should make grapes, and it made wild grapes (and he waited, for it to yield sweet new grapes, but only sour wild grapes grew there).
3 Now therefore, ye dwellers of Jerusalem, and ye men of Judah, deem between me and my vinery. (And so now, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.)
4 What is it that I ought to do more to my vinery, and I did not to it? whether that I abode, that it should make grapes, and it made wild grapes? (What more could I have done for my vineyard, that I did not do for it? but why, when I waited for it to yield sweet grapes, did it instead bring forth only sour wild grapes?)
5 And now I shall show to you, what I shall do to my vinery. I shall take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be into ravishing (and it shall be eaten up); I shall cast down the wall thereof, and it shall be into defouling;
6 and I shall set it deserted, either forsaken. It shall not be cut, and it shall not be digged, and briars and thorns shall grow upon it; and I shall command to [the] clouds, that they rain not rain on it.
7 Forsooth the vinery of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah be the delightable burgeoning of him. I abode, that it shall make doom, and lo! wickedness; and that it should do rightfulness, and lo! cry. (And the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah be his delightful burgeoning. I waited for them to yield justice, but lo! wickedness; and that they should do righteousness, or do what is right, but lo! cries of distress/cries for justice.)
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