Isaiah

1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

2You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labour to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord, GODof Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

6Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

8He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armour in the house of the forest.

9You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

10You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

11You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago.

12In that day, the Lord, GODof Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

13and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

14The LORDof Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.

15The Lord, GOD of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiselling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

17Behold, the LORD will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

18He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house.

19I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

20It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

21and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

22I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

23I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

24They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

25“In that day,” says the LORD of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken it.”

1Chuyện gì mà leo hết cả lên sân thượng vậy,

2đâu phải bị gươm đâm, đâu có chết vì giao chiến ?

3Người của ngươi bị phát hiện thì đều bị bắt, dù đã trốn đi xa.

4trước cảnh điêu tàn con gái dân tôi phải chịu.”

5Tường thành sụp đổ, tiếng kêu cứu vang lên đỉnh núi.

6còn Kia thì khiên thuẫn sẵn sàng.

7còn kỵ binh thì túc trực trước cổng thành.

8Ngày ấy các ngươi đã nhìn vào binh khí trong Cung Rừng,

9Các ngươi trữ nước ở hồ dưới.

10rồi phá đi một số để củng cố tường thành.

11Đấng từ lâu làm nên mọi sự, các ngươi lại chẳng thấy.

12cạo đầu và quấn áo vải thô.

13“Ăn đi, uống đi, vì ngày mai chúng ta sẽ chết !”

14ĐỨC CHÚA các đạo binh là Chúa Thượng phán như vậy.

15Hãy đi gặp viên quan ấy là Sép-na, tể tướng triều đình, và nói :

16khoét nhà mồ cho ông trong vách đá ?

17sắp túm chặt lấy ông,

18Ông ơi, ông là mối nhục cho nhà của chủ ông.”

19Ta sẽ đuổi ngươi khỏi địa vị.

20là En-gia-kim, con của Khin-ki-gia-hu.

21nó sẽ là cha đối với cư dân Giê-ru-sa-lem và với nhà Giu-đa.

22nó đóng lại thì không ai mở được.

23nó sẽ nên như ngai vinh hiển cho nhà cha nó.”

24Tất cả niềm vinh dự của gia đình, dòng dõi, cháu chắt nó, tất cả các bình lớn nhỏ, từ chén cốc đến chum vò đủ loại, đều treo vào đó.

25Lời sấm của ĐỨC CHÚA các đạo binh : ngày ấy đinh đóng cột sẽ oằn, sẽ gãy, sẽ rơi xuống ; bấy giờ, khối nặng treo ở đó sẽ tan tành. ĐỨC CHÚA phán như vậy.