Isaiah

对北国的警告

1祸哉！以法莲的酒徒， 住在肥美谷的山上， 他们心里高傲， 以所夸的为冠冕， 犹如将残之花。

2看哪，主有一大能大力者， 像一阵冰雹， 像毁灭的暴风， 像涨溢的大水， 他必用手将冠冕摔落于地。

3以法莲高傲的酒徒， 他的冠冕必被踏在脚下。

4那荣美将残之花， 就是在肥美谷山上的， 必像夏令以前初熟的无花果； 看见这果的就注意， 一到手中就吞吃了。

5到那日，万军之耶和华 必作他余剩之民的荣冠华冕，

6也作了在位上行审判者公平之灵， 并城门口打退仇敌者的力量。

以赛亚和犹大酒醉的先知

7就是这地的人也因酒摇摇晃晃， 因浓酒东倒西歪。 祭司和先知因浓酒摇摇晃晃， 被酒所困， 因浓酒东倒西歪。 他们错解默示， 谬行审判。

8因为各席上满了呕吐的污秽， 无一处干净。

9讥诮先知的说： 他要将知识指教谁呢？ 要使谁明白传言呢？ 是那刚断奶离怀的吗？

10他竟命上加命，令上加令， 律上加律，例上加例， 这里一点，那里一点。

11先知说：不然，主要借异邦人的嘴唇 和外邦人的舌头对这百姓说话。

12他曾对他们说： 你们要使疲乏人得安息， 这样才得安息，才得舒畅， 他们却不肯听。

13所以，耶和华向他们说的话是 命上加命，令上加令， 律上加律，例上加例， 这里一点，那里一点， 以致他们前行仰面跌倒， 而且跌碎，并陷入网罗被缠住。

锡安的房角石

14所以，你们这些亵慢的人， 就是辖管住在耶路撒冷这百姓的， 要听耶和华的话。

15你们曾说： 我们与死亡立约， 与阴间结盟； 敌军如水涨漫经过的时候， 必不临到我们； 因我们以谎言为避所， 在虚假以下藏身。

16所以，主耶和华如此说： 看哪，我在锡安放一块石头作为根基， 是试验过的石头， 是稳固根基，宝贵的房角石； 信靠的人必不着急。

17我必以公平为准绳， 以公义为线铊。 冰雹必冲去谎言的避所； 大水必漫过藏身之处。

18你们与死亡所立的约必然废掉， 与阴间所结的盟必立不住。 敌军如水涨漫经过的时候， 你们必被他践踏；

19每逢经过必将你们掳去。 因为每早晨他必经过， 白昼黑夜都必如此。 明白传言的必受惊恐。

20原来，床榻短，使人不能舒身； 被窝窄，使人不能遮体。

21耶和华必兴起，像在毗拉心山； 他必发怒，像在基遍谷， 好做成他的工，就是非常的工； 成就他的事，就是奇异的事。

22现在你们不可亵慢， 恐怕捆你们的绑索更结实了； 因为我从主—万军之耶和华那里听见， 已经决定在全地上施行灭绝的事。

神的智慧

23你们当侧耳听我的声音， 留心听我的言语。

24那耕地为要撒种的， 岂是常常耕地呢？ 岂是常常开垦耙地呢？

25他拉平了地面， 岂不就撒种小茴香， 播种大茴香， 按行列种小麦， 在定处种大麦， 在田边种粗麦呢？

26因为他的 神教导他务农相宜， 并且指教他。

27原来打小茴香，不用尖利的器具， 轧大茴香，也不用碌碡； 但用杖打小茴香， 用棍打大茴香。

28做饼的粮食是用磨磨碎， 因它不必常打； 虽用碌碡和马打散， 却不磨它。

29这也是出于万军之耶和华— 他的谋略奇妙； 他的智慧广大。

1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.

2Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.

3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.

4And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat it up.

5In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a garland of joy to the residue of his people:

6And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that return out of the battle to the gate.

7But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

8For all tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.

9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.

10For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there.

11For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.

12To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.

13And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again: expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.

15For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

17And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.

18And Sour league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.

19Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.

20For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

21For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.

22And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.

23Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.

24Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

25Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?

26For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him.

27For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a staff.

28But bread corn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.

29This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.