1 "Woe to the rebellious children", says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; 2 who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."
6 The burden of the animals of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still. 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law; 10 who tell the seers, "Don’t see!" and the prophets, "Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." 12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it, 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. 14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused, 16 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;" therefore those who pursue you will be swift. 17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. 19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers; 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it." 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. 25 There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
27 Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire. 28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples. 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock. 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. 31 For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. 32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. 33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
1 耶和华说： "这些悖逆的儿女有祸了！ 他们实行计谋， 却不是出于我的意思， 他们结盟， 却不是出于我的灵， 以致罪上加罪。
2 他们起程下埃及去， 并没有求问我， 却要在法老的保护下， 作避难处， 投靠在埃及的荫庇下。
3 因此， 法老的保护必成为你们的羞耻， 投靠在埃及的荫庇下， 变成你们的耻辱。
4 他们的领袖虽然已在琐安， 他们的使臣虽然已到达哈内斯，
5 但他们都必因那对于他们毫无利益的人民而蒙羞， 那人民带来的不是帮助或益处， 而是羞耻和凌辱。"
6 以下是论南地野兽的默示： 他们把财富驮在驴驹的背上， 把宝物驮在骆驼的峰上， 经过艰难困苦之地， 就是公狮、母狮、蝮蛇和会飞的火蛇出没的地方， 到一个对他们毫无益处的民族那里去。
7 埃及的帮助是徒然的， 是虚幻的， 因此我称它为"坐而不动的拉哈伯"。
8 现在你去， 在他们面前把这话刻在版上， 记在书卷上， 作日后的证据， 直到永永远远。
9 因为这是悖逆的子民， 不忠心的儿女， 不肯听从耶和华教导的儿女。
10 他们对先见说： "你们不要再看异象！ "又对先知说： "你们不要再向我说真确的预言！ 倒要向我说动听的话， 预言虚幻的事吧！
11 你们要离开正道， 转离义路， 不要在我们面前再提以色列的圣者了！ "
12 因此， 以色列的圣者这样说： "因为你们弃绝了这话， 反而信赖欺压和乖僻的手段， 更以此为倚靠，
13 所以这罪孽对于你们， 必像一道有了裂缝， 且凸了出来， 快要倒塌的高墙， 在顷刻之间， 就突然倒塌。
14 它的倒塌好像窑匠的瓦器破碎一般， 毫不顾惜被彻底粉碎， 甚至在碎块中找不到一块， 可以用来从炉里取火， 或从池中舀水。"
15 因为主耶和华以色列的圣者这样说： "你们得救在于悔改和安息， 你们得力在于平静和信靠。"但你们竟不愿意。
16 你们却说： "不！ 我们要骑马奔跑。"所以你们真的要逃跑； 你们又说： "我们要骑快马。"所以那些追赶你们的， 也必快速！
17 一个敌人就可以威吓你们一千个人， 若五个敌人威吓你们， 你们都要逃跑了！ 以致你们所剩下的， 必孤立如同山顶上的旗杆， 冈陵上的旗帜。
18 因此， 耶和华必等候要恩待你们； 他必兴起来怜悯你们， 因为耶和华是公义的 神。等候他的， 都是有福的。
19 锡安的人民、耶路撒冷的居民哪！ 你们必不再哭泣。他必因你哀求的声音恩待你； 他听见的时候， 就必应允你。
20 主虽然以艰难给你们当食物， 以困迫给你们当水， 但你的教师必不再隐藏； 你必亲眼看见你的教师。
21 每当你偏左或偏右的时候， 你必听见后面有声音说： "这是正路， 要行在其中！ "
22 你要拋弃你那些包着银的雕像和镀了金的铸像， 如同污秽之物一般拋弃它们， 又对它们说： "去吧！ "
23 你撒在地里的种子， 主必降雨在其上， 并且使你地里所出产的粮食， 既丰盛又肥美。到那日， 你的牲畜必在宽阔的草场上吃草。
24 耕地的牛和驴驹必吃加盐的饲料， 就是用铲和叉所扬净的。
25 在大行杀戮的日子， 高台倒塌的时候， 各高山冈陵都必有溪水涌流。
26 耶和华包扎他子民的伤口， 医治他们伤痕的日子， 月亮的光必像太阳的光； 太阳的光必增加七倍， 像七日的光一样。
27 看哪！ 耶和华的名从远方而来， 他的怒气烧起， 浓烟上腾； 他的嘴唇充满忿怒， 他的舌头像吞灭的火。
28 他的气息如涨溢的河水， 直涨到颈项， 并要用毁灭的筛把列国筛净， 又在众民口中放入使人步向灭亡的嚼环。
29 你们却必歌唱， 好像守圣节的夜间一样； 你们必心里喜乐， 好像吹着笛行走的人， 必上耶和华的山， 到以色列的磐石那里。
30 耶和华必使人听见他威严的声音， 在烈怒、吞灭一切火焰、大雨、暴风和冰雹之中， 又使人看见他那降下来的膀臂。
31 亚述人必因耶和华的声音惊惶； 耶和华要用杖击打他们。
32 耶和华必把刑罚的杖加在他们身上， 每打一下， 都有击鼓和弹琴的声音； 耶和华在争战的时候， 必挥动着手与他们争战。
33 因为陀斐特那烧着的火早已安排好了， 是为君王预备的， 又深又宽； 其中所堆的， 是火和许多的柴； 耶和华的气像一股硫磺火， 把它燃点起来。