Isaiah 7
1 And it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, ascended to Jerusalem to battle against it. But they were not able to defeat it.
當烏齊雅的孫子，約堂的兒子阿哈次為猶大王時，阿蘭王勒斤和以色列王勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑，上來攻打耶路撒冷，但是不能攻陷。
2 And they reported to the house of David, saying: “Syria has withdrawn to Ephraim.” And his heart was shaken, with the heart of his people, just as the trees of the forest are moved by the face of the wind.
有人報告達味家說：「阿蘭已經駐紮在厄弗辣因！」君王與人民都膽戰心驚，有如風中搖動的樹木。
3 And the Lord said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son, Jashub, who was left behind, to the end of the aqueduct, at the upper pool, on the road to the fuller’s field.
上主對依撒意亞說：「你和你的兒子舍阿爾雅叔布出去，到上池的水溝盡頭，即漂工田間的大道上，去會見阿哈次；
4 And you shall say to him: “See to it that you are silent. Do not be afraid. And have no dread in your heart over the two tails of these firebrands, nearly extinguished, which are the wrath of the fury of Rezin, king of Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.”
對他說：你必須審慎，保持鎮定，不必畏懼，不要因那兩個冒煙的火把頭－即勒斤、阿蘭和勒瑪里雅之子－的怒火而膽怯。
5 For Syria has undertaken a plan against you, with the evil of Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:
雖然阿蘭、厄弗辣因和勒瑪里雅的兒子同謀，迫害你說：
6 “Let us ascend to Judah, and stir it up, and tear it away for ourselves, and appoint the son of Tabeel as a king in its midst.”
我們上猶大去，擾亂她，把她佔領過來歸於我們，並在那裏立塔貝耳的兒子為王；
7 Thus says the Lord God: This shall not stand, and this shall not be.
但是吾主上主卻這樣說：這事決不能成立，亦不能發生！
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years from now, Ephraim will cease to be a people.
因為阿蘭的首都是大馬士革，大馬士革的首領是勒斤；
9 For the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you will not continue.
厄弗辣因的首都是撒瑪黎雅，撒瑪黎雅的首領是勒瑪里雅的兒子。【六年或五年以後，阿蘭將被消滅，厄弗辣因將要衰敗。】假使你們不肯相信，你們必然不能存立。」
10 And the Lord spoke further to Ahaz, saying:
上主又對阿哈次說：「
11 Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord your God, from the depths below, even to the heights above. (Sheol h7585)
你向上主你的天主要求一個徵兆罷 ！或求諸陰府深處，或求諸上天高處。」 (Sheol h7585)
12 And Ahaz said, “I will not ask, for I will not tempt the Lord.”
阿哈次回答說：「我不要求，我不願試探上主。」
13 And he said: “Then listen, O house of David. Is it such a small thing for you to trouble men, that you must also trouble my God?
依撒意亞說：「達味的家族，你們聽著罷 ！你們使人厭惡還不夠，還要使我的天主厭惡嗎﹖
14 For this reason, the Lord himself will grant to you a sign. Behold, a virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
因此，吾主要親自給你們一個徵兆：看，有位貞女要懷孕生子，給他起名叫厄瑪奴耳。
15 He will eat butter and honey, so that he may know to reject evil and to choose good.
到他知道棄惡揚善的時候，要吃乳酪和蜂蜜；
16 But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings.
因為在這孩子尚未知道棄惡擇善以前，你在那兩個君王面前所擔心的國土，必將荒廢。
17 The Lord will lead over you, and over your people, and over the house of your father, such days as have not occurred since the days of the separation of Ephraim from Judah by the king of the Assyrians.
上主必使患難的日子臨於你、你的百姓和你的父家身上；這是從厄弗辣因叛離猶大那一天所未有過的，【即亞述王加禍的日子。】
18 And this shall be in that day: the Lord will call for the fly, which is in the most distant parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the swarm, which is in the land of Assur.
那一日，上主要喚來埃及大河盡頭的蠅和亞述境內的蜂，
19 And they will arrive, and they all will rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the caverns of the rocks, and in every thicket, and in every opening.
牠們將要前來，一起落在荒谷、巖穴，以及一切荊棘叢中和一切水溝上。
20 In that day, the Lord will shave with a razor the ones hired by those who are across the river, by the king of the Assyrians, from the head to the hairs of the feet, with the entire beard.
那一日，吾主要用由大河那邊借來的剃刀【即亞述王】剃去你的頭髮和恥毛，連鬍鬚也要刮掉。
21 And this shall be in that day: a man will raise a cow among oxen, and two sheep,
到那一日，人僅能餵養一隻牛犢和兩隻母山羊，
22 and, instead of an abundance of milk, he will eat butter. For all who are left behind in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.
因為出奶很多，人將以乳酪為食，因而境內所有的遺民，都將以乳酪和蜂蜜為食。
23 And this shall be in that day: every place, where there were a thousand grapevines worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.
到那一日，先前所有種植一千棵葡萄，值一千塊銀子的地方，必將叢生荊棘和蒺藜。
24 They will enter such places with arrows and bows. For briers and thorns will be throughout the entire land.
人往那裏去，必須攜帶弓箭，因為遍地都是荊棘和蒺藜。
25 But as for all the mountains, which will be dug with a hoe, the terror of thorns and briers will not approach those places. And there will be pasture land for oxen, and a range for cattle.”
先前用鋤頭開墾的山地，沒有人敢到那裏，因為害怕荊棘蒺藜。那裏將成為放牛和羊群踐踏的地區。
