Isaiah

从流亡中归回

1耶和华要怜恤雅各，必再拣选以色列，将他们安置在本地。寄居的必与他们联合，紧贴雅各家。

2外邦人必将他们带回本土；以色列家必在耶和华的地上得外邦人为仆婢，也要掳掠先前掳掠他们的，辖制先前欺压他们的。

巴比伦王下到阴间

3当耶和华使你脱离愁苦、烦恼，并人勉强你做的苦工，得享安息的日子，

4你必题这诗歌论巴比伦王说：欺压人的何竟息灭？ 强暴的何竟止息？

5耶和华折断了恶人的杖， 辖制人的圭，

6就是在忿怒中连连攻击众民的， 在怒气中辖制列国， 行逼迫无人阻止的。

7现在全地得安息，享平静； 人皆发声欢呼。

8松树和黎巴嫩的香柏树 都因你欢乐，说： 自从你仆倒， 再无人上来砍伐我们。

9你下到阴间， 阴间就因你震动来迎接你， 又因你惊动在世曾为首领的阴魂， 并使那曾为列国君王的， 都离位站起。

10他们都要发言对你说： 你也变为软弱像我们一样吗？ 你也成了我们的样子吗？

11你的威势和你琴瑟的声音都下到阴间。 你下铺的是虫，上盖的是蛆。

12明亮之星，早晨之子啊， 你何竟从天坠落？ 你这攻败列国的何竟被砍倒在地上？

13你心里曾说： 我要升到天上； 我要高举我的宝座在 神众星以上； 我要坐在聚会的山上，在北方的极处。

14我要升到高云之上； 我要与至上者同等。

15然而，你必坠落阴间， 到坑中极深之处。

16凡看见你的都要定睛看你， 留意看你，说： 使大地战抖， 使列国震动，

17使世界如同荒野， 使城邑倾覆， 不释放被掳的人归家， 是这个人吗？

18列国的君王 俱各在自己阴宅的荣耀中安睡。

19惟独你被抛弃， 不得入你的坟墓， 好像可憎的枝子， 以被杀的人为衣， 就是被刀刺透， 坠落坑中石头那里的； 你又像被践踏的尸首一样。

20你不得与君王同葬； 因为你败坏你的国，杀戮你的民。 恶人后裔的名，必永不提说。

21先人既有罪孽， 就要预备杀戮他的子孙， 免得他们兴起来，得了遍地， 在世上修满城邑。

神要毁灭巴比伦

22万军之耶和华说： 我必兴起攻击他们， 将巴比伦的名号和所余剩的人， 连子带孙一并剪除。 这是耶和华说的。

23我必使巴比伦为箭猪所得， 又变为水池； 我要用灭亡的扫帚扫净它。 这是万军之耶和华说的。

神要毁灭亚述

24万军之耶和华起誓说： 我怎样思想，必照样成就； 我怎样定意，必照样成立，

25就是在我地上打折亚述人， 在我山上将他践踏。 他加的轭必离开以色列人； 他加的重担必离开他们的肩头。

26这是向全地所定的旨意； 这是向万国所伸出的手。

27万军之耶和华既然定意，谁能废弃呢？ 他的手已经伸出，谁能转回呢？

神要毁灭非利士

28亚哈斯王崩的那年，就有以下的默示：

29非利士全地啊， 不要因击打你的杖折断就喜乐。 因为从蛇的根必生出毒蛇； 它所生的是火焰的飞龙。

30贫寒人的长子必有所食； 穷乏人必安然躺卧。 我必以饥荒治死你的根； 你所余剩的人必被杀戮。

31门哪，应当哀号！ 城啊，应当呼喊！ 非利士全地啊，你都消化了！ 因为有烟从北方出来， 他行伍中并无乱队的。

32可怎样回答外邦的使者呢？ 必说：耶和华建立了锡安； 他百姓中的困苦人必投奔在其中。

1Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.

2And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken them, and shall subdue their oppressors.

3And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,

4Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

5The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,

6That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

7The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.

8The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut us down.

9Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations.

10All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us.

11Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?

13And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.

14I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

15But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.

16They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,

17That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

18All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.

19But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

20Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.

21Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

22And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord.

23And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord of hosts.

24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,

25So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.

26This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.

27For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?

28In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:

29Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.

30And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.

31Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop.

32And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.