Isaiah

1cho những kẻ bị ma men quật ngã.

2Người thẳng tay giáng trên mặt đất.

3của bọn Ép-ra-im say sưa,

4ai thấy và hái được là nuốt ngay tức khắc.

5cho số còn sót lại của dân Người,

6nên sức hùng cho người đẩy lui chiến tranh xa cổng thành.

7chếnh choáng trong thị kiến, loạng quạng khi xét xử.

8Quả thật, chúng nôn mửa đầy bàn, không còn chỗ nào sạch.

9Có chăng là cho trẻ thơ cai sữa vừa thôi bú !”

10cáp la-cáp, cáp la-cáp, dơ-e sam, dơ-e sam !”

11và tiếng nói xa lạ mà nói với dân này.

12Nhưng chúng chẳng thèm nghe.

13chúng sẽ bị tan nát, sẽ sa vào bẫy, và sẽ bị bắt giam.

14những kẻ đang cai trị dân này ở Giê-ru-sa-lem.

15vì hầm trú của ta là dối trá, nơi ẩn núp của ta là xảo quyệt.”

16ai tin tưởng sẽ không hề nao núng.

17nước lũ sẽ cuốn trôi nơi trú ẩn.

18Khi tai ương khốc liệt tràn qua, các ngươi sẽ bị chà đạp.

19nghe tin và hiểu được rồi, thì chỉ còn biết run lên cầm cập.

20chăn sẽ quá hẹp, nằm co cũng không kín.

21để thực hiện công trình của Người, công trình tuyệt tác.

22đã quyết thi hành án tận diệt trên khắp mọi miền.

23Hãy lắng tai nghe tiếng của tôi, hãy để tâm nghe lời tôi nói.

24cứ cuốc sâu bừa kỹ ruộng của mình ?

25và lúa mì nâu ở ven bờ ruộng.

26chính Thiên Chúa của anh dạy bảo anh.

27nhưng lấy gậy đập tảo vĩ, lấy đòn xóc đập thì là.

28chứ không phải là để nghiền nát.

29Kế hoạch sao nhiệm mầu, sự khôn ngoan thật là cao cả !

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.