Isaiah 14
1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
上主必要憐恤雅各伯，再揀選以色列，使他們安居在自己的國土；外方人要與他們聯合，加入雅各伯的家族。
2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the LORD’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
選民要接受他們，要帶領他們回歸故里；以色列家族，在上主的國土內，要佔有他們為奴婢；於是以色列人要俘擄那俘擄過他們的人，要統治壓迫他們的人。
3 It will happen in the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
當上主賜你擺脫困苦、憂患和你受的苦役時，那天，
4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
你要對巴比倫王高唱這首諷刺詩說：怎麼，暴虐者住手了！強橫止息了！
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,
邪惡者的棍棒，統治者的權杖，已為上主折斷，
6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
就是那懷著怒氣，三番五次痛擊過萬民，在忿恨中以無情的殘虐，蹂躪過萬邦的棍杖。
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.
大地安謐寧靜，人人興高采烈；
8 Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
連松樹和黎巴嫩的香柏也都因你而喜慶：「自從你仆倒後，再沒有誰上我們這裏來砍伐！」
9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (Sheol h7585)
地下的陰府為了你而激動，為歡迎你的來臨；並為了你，喚醒幽魂及地上所有的貴卿，使列國的君王由自己的寶座上起立； (Sheol h7585)
10 They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
眾人都開口對你說：「連你也衰弱得和我們一樣啊！你也與我們相同啊！」
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you. (Sheol h7585)
你的豪華，你琴瑟的樂聲，也墮入了陰府；你下面舖的是蛆，上面蓋的是蟲。 (Sheol h7585)
12 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
朝霞的兒子－－晨星！你怎會從天墜下﹖傾覆萬邦者！你怎麼也被砍倒在地﹖
13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
你心中曾說過：「我要直沖霄漢，高置我的御座在天主的星宿以上；我要坐在盛會的山上，極北之處；
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
我要升越雲表，與至高者相平衡！」
然而你卻下到了陰府，深淵的極處。 (Sheol h7585)
16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
看見你的，必注視你，仔細端詳你說：「這不是那使大地戰慄，列國動盪，
17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
化世界為荒野，摧毀城邑，不為俘囚開放監獄的人嗎﹖」
18 All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
萬邦的君王都在榮耀中安葬，各在自己的陰宅裏；
19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
但是你卻被拋於墳外，像一個叫人厭惡的流產胎兒，為刀箭殺戮的死者所掩蓋，有如遭踐踏的死屍。連那些被拋在石坑裏的，
20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
你也不得與他們一同埋葬，因為你破壞了你的國土，殘殺了你的人民：惡人的後代永不為人所提念。
21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
你們應為他們的兒子準備屠場，因為他們的父親有了罪孽；他們決不能再興起，佔據大地，而使地面滿是荒涼。
22 “I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says the LORD.
我要起來攻擊他們－－萬軍上主的斷語－－我要抹去巴比倫的名號、遺民、後裔和子孫－－上主的斷語。
23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Armies.
我要使她成為刺蝟的領土和池沼，我以毀滅的掃帚將她掃淨－－萬軍上主的斷語。
24 The LORD of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
萬軍的上主起誓說：「實在，我怎樣想，必怎樣實現；我怎樣計劃，必怎樣成功：
25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
我要在我的國土內粉碎亞述，在我的山嶺上將她踐踏；她的重擔必要由他們肩上卸下。」
26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
這是對全地所決定的計劃，這是向萬邦所伸展的手臂，
27 For the LORD of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
因為萬軍的上主已決定，誰能阻止﹖他的手已伸出，誰能使它收回﹖
28 This burden was in the year that King Ahaz died.
在阿哈次駕崩那年有以下這個神諭：「
29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
全體培肋舍特啊！ 你不要因為打擊你的棍棒折斷了就喜悅，因為由蛇的根子將生出毒蝮，而牠的子息必是飛龍。
30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
貧苦的人在我的牧場上必得飼養，窮困的人要泰然安息；但是我要以饑荒餓死你的餘生，殺絕你的遺民。
31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
門啊！ 哀號罷！城啊！悲鳴罷！全體培肋舍特啊！戰慄罷！因為有煙從北而來，在她的隊伍中沒有落伍者。」
32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
然而要怎樣答覆外邦的使者﹖「上主建立了熙雍，使他民族中的憂患者，在那裏獲得保護。」
