Isaiah

葡萄园之歌

1我要为我所亲爱的唱歌， 是我所爱者的歌，论他葡萄园的事： 我所亲爱的有葡萄园在肥美的山冈上。

2他刨挖园子，捡去石头， 栽种上等的葡萄树， 在园中盖了一座楼， 又凿出压酒池； 指望结好葡萄， 反倒结了野葡萄。

3耶路撒冷的居民和犹大人哪， 请你们现今在我与我的葡萄园中，断定是非。

4我为我葡萄园所做之外， 还有什么可做的呢？ 我指望结好葡萄， 怎么倒结了野葡萄呢？

5现在我告诉你们， 我要向我葡萄园怎样行： 我必撤去篱笆，使它被吞灭， 拆毁墙垣，使它被践踏。

6我必使它荒废，不再修理， 不再锄刨，荆棘蒺藜倒要生长。 我也必命云不降雨在其上。

7万军之耶和华的葡萄园就是以色列家； 他所喜爱的树就是犹大人。 他指望的是公平， 谁知倒有暴虐； 指望的是公义， 谁知倒有冤声。

人的恶行

8祸哉！那些以房接房， 以地连地， 以致不留余地的， 只顾自己独居境内。

9我耳闻万军之耶和华说： 必有许多又大又美的房屋 成为荒凉，无人居住。

10三十亩葡萄园只出一罢特酒； 一贺梅珥谷种只结一伊法粮食。

11祸哉！那些清早起来追求浓酒， 留连到夜深，甚至因酒发烧的人。

12他们在筵席上 弹琴，鼓瑟，击鼓，吹笛，饮酒， 却不顾念耶和华的作为， 也不留心他手所做的。

13所以，我的百姓因无知就被掳去； 他们的尊贵人甚是饥饿， 群众极其干渴。

14故此，阴间扩张其欲， 开了无限量的口； 他们的荣耀、群众、繁华， 并快乐的人都落在其中。

15卑贱人被压服； 尊贵人降为卑； 眼目高傲的人也降为卑。

16惟有万军之耶和华因公平而崇高； 圣者 神因公义显为圣。

17那时，羊羔必来吃草，如同在自己的草场； 丰肥人的荒场被游行的人吃尽。

18祸哉！那些以虚假之细绳牵罪孽的人！ 他们又像以套绳拉罪恶，

19说：任他急速行，赶快成就他的作为， 使我们看看； 任以色列圣者所谋划的临近成就， 使我们知道。

20祸哉！那些称恶为善，称善为恶， 以暗为光，以光为暗， 以苦为甜，以甜为苦的人。

21祸哉！那些自以为有智慧， 自看为通达的人。

22祸哉！那些勇于饮酒， 以能力调浓酒的人。

23他们因受贿赂，就称恶人为义， 将义人的义夺去。

24火苗怎样吞灭碎秸， 干草怎样落在火焰之中， 照样，他们的根必像朽物， 他们的花必像灰尘飞腾； 因为他们厌弃万军之耶和华的训诲， 藐视以色列圣者的言语。

25所以，耶和华的怒气向他的百姓发作。 他的手伸出攻击他们，山岭就震动； 他们的尸首在街市上好像粪土。 虽然如此，他的怒气还未转消； 他的手仍伸不缩。

26他必竖立大旗，招远方的国民， 发嘶声叫他们从地极而来； 看哪，他们必急速奔来。

27其中没有疲倦的，绊跌的； 没有打盹的，睡觉的； 腰带并不放松， 鞋带也不折断。

28他们的箭快利， 弓也上了弦。 马蹄算如坚石， 车轮好像旋风。

29他们要吼叫，像母狮子， 咆哮，像少壮狮子； 他们要咆哮抓食， 坦然叼去，无人救回。

30那日，他们要向以色列人吼叫， 像海浪匉訇； 人若望地，只见黑暗艰难， 光明在云中变为昏暗。

1I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.

2And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it broutht forth wild grapes.

3And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

4What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it?

5And now I will shew you wnat I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

6And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

8Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?

9These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.

11Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

12The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

13Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.

14Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

15And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

16And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

17And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

18Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

19That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

20Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

21Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

23That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

24Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.

27There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.

28Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.

29Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

30And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.