Isaiah 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord will ascend upon a lofty cloud, and he will enter into Egypt, and the false images of Egypt will be moved before his face, and the heart of Egypt will waste away in its midst.
論埃及的默示： 看哪，耶和華乘駕快雲， 臨到埃及。 埃及的偶像在他面前戰兢； 埃及人的心在裏面消化。
2 And I will cause Egyptian to rush against Egyptian. And they will fight: a man against his brother, and a man against his friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
我必激動埃及人攻擊埃及人－ 弟兄攻擊弟兄， 鄰舍攻擊鄰舍； 這城攻擊那城， 這國攻擊那國。
3 And the spirit of Egypt will be ruptured to its very core. And I will cast down their plan violently. And they will seek answers from their false images, and their diviners, and those led by demons, and their seers.
埃及人的心神必在裏面耗盡； 我必敗壞他們的謀略。 他們必求問偶像和念咒的、 交鬼的、行巫術的。
4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king will dominate them, says the Lord, the God of hosts.
我必將埃及人交在殘忍主的手中； 強暴王必轄制他們。 這是主－萬軍之耶和華說的。
5 And the waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will be desolate and dry.
海中的水必絕盡， 河也消沒乾涸。
6 And the rivers will fail. The streams of its banks will diminish and dry up. The reed and the bulrush will wither away.
江河要變臭； 埃及的河水都必減少枯乾。 葦子和蘆荻都必衰殘；
7 The channel of the river will be stripped down to its source, and everything irrigated by it will dry up and wither and be no more.
靠尼羅河旁的草田， 並沿尼羅河所種的田，都必枯乾。 莊稼被風吹去，歸於無有。
8 And the fishermen will grieve. And all who cast a hook into the river will mourn. And those who cast a net upon the surface of its waters will languish.
打魚的必哀哭。 在尼羅河一切釣魚的必悲傷； 在水上撒網的必都衰弱。
9 Those who work with linen, combing and weaving fine textiles, will be confounded.
用梳好的麻造物的 和織白布的都必羞愧；
10 And its irrigated places will begin to fail, with all those who make pools to take fish.
國柱必被打碎， 所有傭工的，心必愁煩。
11 The leaders of Tanis are foolish. The wise counselors of Pharaoh have given foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh: “I am the son of wise men, the son of the kings of antiquity?”
瑣安的首領極其愚昧； 法老大有智慧的謀士， 所籌劃的成為愚謀。 你們怎敢對法老說： 我是智慧人的子孫， 我是古王的後裔？
12 Where are your wise men now? Let them announce it to you, and let them reveal what the Lord of hosts intends for Egypt.
你的智慧人在哪裏呢？ 萬軍之耶和華向埃及所定的旨意， 他們可以知道，可以告訴你吧！
13 The leaders of Tanis have become foolish. The leaders of Memphis have decayed. They have deceived Egypt, the corner of its people.
瑣安的首領都變為愚昧； 挪弗的首領都受了迷惑。 當埃及支派房角石的， 使埃及人走錯了路。
14 The Lord has mixed a spirit of giddiness into its midst. And they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, like a drunken man who staggers and vomits.
耶和華使乖謬的靈攙入埃及中間； 首領使埃及一切所做的都有差錯， 好像醉酒之人嘔吐的時候東倒西歪一樣。
15 And there will be no work for Egypt that would produce a head or a tail, one who bows down or one who refrains from bowing down.
埃及中，無論是頭與尾， 棕枝與蘆葦，所做之工都不成就。
16 In that day, Egypt will be like women, and they will be stupefied and fearful before the presence of the shaking hand of the Lord of hosts, the hand which he will move over them.
到那日，埃及人必像婦人一樣，他們必因萬軍之耶和華在埃及以上所掄的手，戰兢懼怕。
17 And the land of Judah will be a dread to Egypt. Everyone who thinks about it will be terrified before the presence of the plan of the Lord of hosts, the plan which he has decided concerning them.
猶大地必使埃及驚恐，向誰提起猶大地，誰就懼怕。這是因萬軍之耶和華向埃及所定的旨意。
18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan, and which swear by the Lord of hosts. One will be called the City of the Sun.
當那日，埃及地必有五城的人說迦南的方言，又指着萬軍之耶和華起誓。有一城必稱為「滅亡城」。
19 In that day, there will be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a monument of the Lord beside its borders.
當那日，在埃及地中必有為耶和華築的一座壇；在埃及的邊界上必有為耶和華立的一根柱。
20 This shall be a sign and a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they will cry out to the Lord before the face of the tribulation, and he will send them a savior and a defender who will free them.
這都要在埃及地為萬軍之耶和華作記號和證據。埃及人因為受人的欺壓哀求耶和華，他就差遣一位救主作護衛者，拯救他們。
21 And the Lord will be acknowledged by Egypt, and the Egyptians will recognize the Lord in that day, and they will worship him with sacrifices and gifts. And they will make vows to the Lord, and they will fulfill them.
耶和華必被埃及人所認識。在那日，埃及人必認識耶和華，也要獻祭物和供物敬拜他，並向耶和華許願還願。
22 And the Lord will strike Egypt with a scourge, and he will heal them. And they will return to the Lord. And he will be placated toward them, and he will heal them.
耶和華必擊打埃及，又擊打又醫治，埃及人就歸向耶和華。他必應允他們的禱告，醫治他們。
23 In that day, there will be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian will enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian will be with the Assyrians, and the Egyptians will serve Assur.
當那日，必有從埃及通亞述去的大道。亞述人要進入埃及，埃及人也進入亞述；埃及人要與亞述人一同敬拜耶和華。
24 In that day, will Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the Assyrian, a blessing in the midst of the earth,
當那日，以色列必與埃及、亞述三國一律，使地上的人得福；
25 which the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands for the Assyrian, but Israel is my inheritance.
因為萬軍之耶和華賜福給他們，說：「埃及－我的百姓，亞述－我手的工作，以色列－我的產業，都有福了！」
