Isaiah 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and it will be like a heap of stones in ruin.
論大馬士革的默示： 看哪，大馬士革已被廢棄，不再為城， 必變作亂堆。
2 The cities in ruin will be left for the flocks, and they will take rest there, and there will be no one who may terrify them.
亞羅珥的城邑已被撇棄， 必成為牧羊之處； 羊在那裏躺臥，無人驚嚇。
3 And assistance will cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom will cease from Damascus. And the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.
以法蓮不再有保障； 大馬士革不再有國權； 亞蘭所剩下的 必像以色列人的榮耀消滅一樣。 這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
4 And this shall be in that day: the glory of Jacob will be thinned, and the fatness of his flesh will be reduced.
到那日，雅各的榮耀必至枵薄； 他肥胖的身體必漸瘦弱。
5 And it shall be like the gathering of the harvest which remains, and his arm will pick the ears of grain. And it shall be like a search for grain in the valley of Rephaim.
就必像收割的人收斂禾稼， 用手割取穗子， 又像人在利乏音谷拾取遺落的穗子。
6 And what is left behind in it will be like one cluster of grapes, or like a shaken olive tree with two or three olives at the top of a branch, or like four or five olives at the top of a tree, says the Lord God of Israel.
其間所剩下的不多，好像人打橄欖樹－ 在儘上的枝梢上只剩兩三個果子； 在多果樹的旁枝上只剩四五個果子。 這是耶和華－以色列的上帝說的。
7 In that day, a man will bow before his Maker, and his eyes will consider the Holy One of Israel.
當那日，人必仰望造他們的主，眼目重看以色列的聖者。
8 And he will not bow before the altars that his hands have made. And he will not consider the things that his fingers have made, the sacred groves and the shrines.
他們必不仰望祭壇，就是自己手所築的，也不重看自己指頭所做的，無論是木偶是日像。
9 In that day, his strong cities will be abandoned, like the plows and the grain fields which were left behind before the face of the sons of Israel, and you shall be deserted.
在那日，他們的堅固城必像樹林中和山頂上所撇棄的地方，就是從前在以色列人面前被人撇棄的。這樣，地就荒涼了。
10 For you have forgotten God your Savior, and you have not remembered your strong Helper. Because of this, you will plant trustworthy plants, but you will sow a foreign seed.
因你忘記救你的上帝， 不記念你能力的磐石； 所以，你栽上佳美的樹秧子， 插上異樣的栽子。
11 In the day of your planting, the wild grapevine and your morning seed will flourish. The harvest has been taken away to the day of inheritance, and you will grieve heavily.
栽種的日子，你周圍圈上籬笆， 又到早晨使你所種的開花； 但在愁苦極其傷痛的日子， 所收割的都飛去了。
12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples, like the multitude of the roaring sea! Woe to the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters!
唉！多民鬨嚷，好像海浪匉訇； 列邦奔騰，好像猛水滔滔；
13 The peoples will make a noise, like the noise of waters overflowing, but he will rebuke him, and so he will flee far away. And he will be quickly taken away, like the dust of the mountains before the face of the wind, and like a whirlwind before a tempest.
列邦奔騰，好像多水滔滔； 但上帝斥責他們，他們就遠遠逃避， 又被追趕，如同山上的風前糠， 又如暴風前的旋風土。
14 In the time of the evening, behold: there will be a disturbance. When it is early morning, he will not remain. This is the portion of those who have devastated us, and this is the lot of those who have plundered us.
到晚上有驚嚇，未到早晨他們就沒有了。這是擄掠我們之人所得的分，是搶奪我們之人的報應。
