Isaiah 47
1 “Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
巴比倫的處女啊， 下來坐在塵埃； 迦勒底的閨女啊， 沒有寶座，要坐在地上； 因為你不再稱為柔弱嬌嫩的。
2 Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
要用磨磨麵， 揭去帕子， 脫去長衣，露腿詵河。
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”
你的下體必被露出； 你的醜陋必被看見。 我要報仇， 誰也不寬容。
4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
我們救贖主的名是 萬軍之耶和華－以色列的聖者。
5 “Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
迦勒底的閨女啊， 你要默然靜坐，進入暗中， 因為你不再稱為列國的主母。
6 I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
我向我的百姓發怒， 使我的產業被褻瀆， 將他們交在你手中， 你毫不憐憫他們， 把極重的軛加在老年人身上。
7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
你自己說：我必永為主母， 所以你不將這事放在心上， 也不思想這事的結局。
8 “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’
你這專好宴樂、安然居住的， 現在當聽這話。 你心中說：惟有我， 除我以外再沒有別的。 我必不致寡居， 也不遭喪子之事。
9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
哪知，喪子、寡居這兩件事 在一日轉眼之間必臨到你； 正在你多行邪術、廣施符咒的時候， 這兩件事必全然臨到你身上。
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
你素來倚仗自己的惡行，說： 無人看見我。 你的智慧聰明使你偏邪， 並且你心裏說：惟有我， 除我以外再沒有別的。
11 Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.
因此，禍患要臨到你身； 你不知何時發現， 災害落在你身上， 你也不能除掉； 所不知道的毀滅也必忽然臨到你身。
12 “Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
站起來吧！ 用你從幼年勞神施行的符咒和你許多的邪術； 或者可得益處， 或者可得強勝。
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
你籌劃太多，以致疲倦。 讓那些觀天象的，看星宿的， 在月朔說預言的，都站起來， 救你脫離所要臨到你的事。
14 Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
他們要像碎詡被火焚燒， 不能救自己脫離火焰之力； 這火並非可烤的炭火， 也不是可以坐在其前的火。
15 The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.
你所勞神的事都要這樣與你無益； 從幼年與你貿易的也都各奔各鄉，無人救你。
