以赛亚书 34

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

审判列国

34 列国啊，近前来听吧！

列邦啊，留心听吧！
大地和地上的万物、世界和世上的一切都要听。
²因为耶和华向列国发怒，
向他们的军队发烈怒。
祂要毁灭他们，杀尽他们。
³他们必暴尸在外，
臭气熏天，
血浸山岭。
⁴天上的万象必融化，
穹苍像书卷卷起；
星辰陨落，
像凋零的葡萄叶，
又像枯落的无花果。
⁵耶和华的刀剑在天上饱饮了血后，
必降下来惩罚以东——祂决意要毁灭的民族。
⁶祂的刀沾满了血和脂肪，
如同羊羔、公山羊的血和公绵羊肾脏上的脂肪。
因为耶和华要在波斯拉献祭，
在以东大行杀戮。
⁷他们像野牛、牛犊和公牛一样倒下。
他们的土地被血浸透，
土壤被脂肪覆盖。
⁸因为这是耶和华报应的日子，
是祂为锡安报仇之年。
⁹以东的河流要变为沥青，
土壤要变成硫磺，
大地要成为燃烧的沥青，
¹⁰昼夜燃烧，浓烟滚滚，
永不止息。
以东必世世代代荒废，
人踪绝迹。
¹¹鹈鹕和刺猬必占据那里，
猫头鹰和乌鸦必在那里做窝。
耶和华要用准绳和线锤丈量以东，
使它空虚混沌。
¹²以东没有一个显贵可以做王，
那里所有的首领全都消失。

¹³那里的宫殿荆棘丛生，
蒺藜、刺草遍布坚城，
成了野狗的巢穴和鸵鸟的住处。
¹⁴在那里，豺狼和旷野的其他走兽出没，
野山羊对叫，
夜间的怪物栖息，
找到安歇之处。
¹⁵猫头鹰要在那里做窝，
产卵，孵化，
把幼鸟保护在翅膀底下，
鸷鸟也成双成对地聚集在那里。

¹⁶你们要去查考、阅读耶和华的书卷：
以上的动物一个也不会少，
无一缺少配偶。
因为这是耶和华亲口说的，
祂的灵必把它们聚在一起。
¹⁷祂亲手为它们抽签，
用准绳为它们分地。
它们必永远占据那里，
世世代代住在那里。

Isaiah 34

International Standard Version

Judgment of the Nations

34 “Come near, you nations, to listen,
    and pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
    the world, and all that comes out of it.
²For the Lord is angry against all the nations,
    and furious against all their armies.
He has doomed them to destruction,
    and^[a] given them up to be slaughtered.^[b]
³Their slain^[c] will be thrown out;
    and as for their dead bodies—
their stench will ascend;
    the^[d] mountains will be soaked with their blood.
⁴The valleys will be split,
    all the stars^[e] in the heavens will fall down,^[f]
        and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll.
All their starry host will fade away
    like leaves withering on a vine,
        or fruit withering on a fig tree.

⁵For my sword will be seen^[g] in the heavens.
    Look! It descends in judgment on Edom,
        on the people I have doomed to destruction.
⁶The Lord has a sword bathed in blood;
    it’s covered^[h] with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
    and with fat from the kidneys of rams.”

Judgment on Bozrah and Edom

“For the Lord holds a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷Wild oxen will fall together with them—
    young steers and mighty bulls.
Their land will be drenched^[i] with blood,
    and their soil will be swollen with fat.
⁸For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for Zion’s cause.
⁹Edom’s^[j] streams will be turned into burning sulfur,
    and its dust into sulfur;
        its land will become pitch.
¹⁰It will burn night and day,
    and will never be extinguished.
Its smoke will rise from generation to generation,
    and it will lie desolate forever and ever.
        And no one will pass through it.^[k]

¹¹“But hawks and hedgehogs will possess it;
    owls and ravens will nest in it.
God^[l] will stretch out over it a measuring line, and chaos,^[m]
    and plumb lines of emptiness, and its nobles.^[n]
¹²They will name it “No Kingdom There,”
    and all its princes will come to nothing.
¹³Thorns will grow over its palaces,
    nettles and brambles its fortresses.
It will become a haunt for jackals,
    a home for ostriches.
¹⁴And desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
    and goat-demons will call out to each other.
There also Liliths^[o] will settle,
    and find for themselves^[p] a resting place.
¹⁵Owls^[q] will nest there, lay eggs,
    hatch them, and care for their young
        under the shadow of their wings;^[r]
yes^[s] indeed, vultures will gather there,
    each one with its mate.”

The Certainty of God’s Deliverance

¹⁶“Study and read from the book of the Lord:
    And not one^[t] will be missing,
        each will not long for its mate.^[u]
For it is the mouth of the Lord that has issued the order,
    and it is his Spirit that has gathered them.
¹⁷It is he who has allotted their portions,^[v]
    and his hand has divided it for them with a measuring line forever.^[w]
They will possess it forever;^[x]
    from generation to generation they will live in it.”^[y]

Footnotes

Isaiah 34:2 So 1QIsa^a; the Heb. lacks and
Isaiah 34:2 So 1QIsa^a; MT LXX read for slaughter
Isaiah 34:3 Or mortally wounded
Isaiah 34:3 So 1QIsa^a; the Heb. lacks the
Isaiah 34:4 Lit. host
Isaiah 34:4 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads All the stars of the heavens will rot away ; LXX lacks this line
Isaiah 34:5 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads has drunk its fill; cf. LXX
Isaiah 34:6 Or satiated
Isaiah 34:7 So 1QIsa^a LXX; MT reads drench
Isaiah 34:9 Lit. Its
Isaiah 34:10 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads blazing pitch. ¹⁰Night and day it will not be extinguished. Its smoke will go up forever; from generation to generation it will lie desolate. No one will ever pass through it again. LXX lacks the last line
Isaiah 34:11 Lit. He
Isaiah 34:11 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads a measuring line of chaos
Isaiah 34:11 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads And plumb lines of emptiness are ¹²its nobles; LXX reads and satyrs will live in it. ¹²Its nobles
Isaiah 34:14 I.e. desert demons of the night
Isaiah 34:14 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads The Lilith will settle, and find for itself
Isaiah 34:15 Or tree-snakes; LXX reads Hedgehogs
Isaiah 34:15 Lit. in her shadow
Isaiah 34:15 So 1QIsa^a; MT lacks yes
Isaiah 34:16 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads Not one of them
Isaiah 34:16 So MT; 1QIsa^a reads each its mate
Isaiah 34:17 Lit. has cast the lot for them
Isaiah 34:17 So 1QIsa^a; the Heb. lacks forever
Isaiah 34:17 So MT; 1QIsa^a lacks Forever
Isaiah 34:17 So MT; 1QIsa^a corrector reads will they possess … live in it.

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