Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
論海旁曠野的默示： 有仇敵從曠野，從可怕之地而來， 好像南方的旋風，猛然掃過。
2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
令人悽慘的異象已默示於我。 詭詐的行詭詐，毀滅的行毀滅。 以攔哪，你要上去！ 米底亞啊，你要圍困！ 主說：我使一切歎息止住。
3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labour. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
所以，我滿腰疼痛； 痛苦將我抓住， 好像產難的婦人一樣。 我疼痛甚至不能聽； 我驚惶甚至不能看。
4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
我心慌張，驚恐威嚇我。 我所羨慕的黃昏，變為我的戰兢。
5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
他們擺設筵席， 派人守望，又吃又喝。 首領啊，你們起來， 用油抹盾牌。
6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
主對我如此說： 你去設立守望的， 使他將所看見的述說。
7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
他看見軍隊， 就是騎馬的一對一對地來， 又看見驢隊，駱駝隊， 就要側耳細聽。
8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
他像獅子吼叫，說： 主啊，我白日常站在望樓上， 整夜立在我守望所。
9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
看哪，有一隊軍兵騎着馬， 一對一對地來。 他就說：巴比倫傾倒了！傾倒了！ 他一切雕刻的神像都打碎於地。
10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
我被打的禾稼，我場上的穀啊， 我從萬軍之耶和華－ 以色列的上帝那裏所聽見的，都告訴你們了。
11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
論度瑪的默示： 有人聲從西珥呼問我說： 守望的啊，夜裏如何？ 守望的啊，夜裏如何？
12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will enquire, enquire. Come back again.”
守望的說： 早晨將到，黑夜也來。 你們若要問就可以問， 可以回頭再來。
13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
論阿拉伯的默示： 底但結伴的客旅啊， 你們必在阿拉伯的樹林中住宿。
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
提瑪地的居民拿水來，送給口渴的， 拿餅來迎接逃避的。
15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
因為他們逃避刀劍和出了鞘的刀， 並上了弦的弓與刀兵的重災。
16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
主對我這樣說：「一年之內，照雇工的年數，基達的一切榮耀必歸於無有。
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
弓箭手所餘剩的，就是基達人的勇士，必然稀少，因為這是耶和華－以色列的上帝說的。」
