1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
2 He dug it up,
gathered out its stones,
planted it with the choicest vine,
built a tower in the middle of it,
and also cut out a wine press in it.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
please judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
6 I will lay it a wasteland.
It won’t be pruned or hoed,
but it will grow briers and thorns.
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.
He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,
for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
8 Woe to those who join house to house,
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate,
even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,
who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
Their honorable men are famished,
and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire,
and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
15 So man is brought low,
mankind is humbled,
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,
and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
and wickedness as with cart rope,
19 who say, "Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
that we may know it!"
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
and champions at mixing strong drink;
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice for the innocent!
24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust,
because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,
and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.
The mountains tremble,
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is still stretched out.
26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away,
and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;
no one shall slumber nor sleep,
neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
28 whose arrows are sharp,
and all their bows bent.
Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29 Their roaring will be like a lioness.
They will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
and seize their prey and carry it off,
and there will be no one to deliver.
30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.
1 我要为我所爱的唱歌， 这歌是关于他的葡萄园： 我所爱的人有一个葡萄园， 在肥美的山冈上。
2 他把园子周围的泥土挖松了， 捡去石头， 栽种了上好的葡萄树； 在园中建造了一座守望楼， 又凿了一个榨酒池。他期望结出好葡萄， 却结出野葡萄。
3 耶路撒冷的居民和犹大人哪！ 现在请你们在我与我的葡萄园之间断定是非吧！
4 我为我的葡萄园所作的以外， 还有什么要作的呢？我期望它结出好葡萄， 它为什么倒结出野葡萄呢？
5 现在我告诉你们， 我要怎样处理我的葡萄园： 我要把它的篱笆撤去， 使它被吞灭； 我要把它的围墙拆毁， 使它被践踏。
6 我要使它荒废， 不再修剪， 也不再耕耘， 荆棘和蒺藜却要长起来； 我也要吩咐云不再降雨在园子上。
7 因为万军之耶和华的葡萄园就是以色列家， 他喜悦的树就是犹大人； 他期望的是公平， 但看到的只是流血的事； 他期望的是公义， 听到的只是哀叫声。
8 那些使房屋连接房屋， 使田地连接田地， 以致不留余地的人， 有祸了！ 你们只可以独居在境内。
9 我听闻万军之耶和华说： "必有许多房屋变成荒凉， 甚至那些又大又美的房屋也没有人居住。
10 十公顷葡萄园只出二十二公升酒； 二百二十公升谷种只结二十二公升粮食。"
11 那些清早起来， 追求浓酒， 留连到晚上， 以致因酒发烧的人， 有祸了！
12 在他们的筵席上， 有琴、瑟、手鼓、笛和酒， 但他们不理耶和华的作为， 也不留心他手所作的。
13 所以我的人民因无知被掳去； 他们的尊贵人十分饥饿； 他们的群众极其干渴。
14 故此， 阴间扩张它的咽喉， 张大它的口， 没有限量； 耶路撒冷城的荣耀、群众、喧嚷的人和在城中作乐的人， 都要下到阴间。
15 卑贱人俯首， 尊贵人降卑， 眼目高傲的也降卑。
16 唯独万军之耶和华， 因公平被高举； 至圣的 神， 因公义显为圣。
17 那时羊羔必来吃草， 像在自己的草场一样； 富裕者的荒场被寄居者随意吃用。
18 那些人虚假的绳索牵引罪孽， 又像用车绳拉罪恶的人， 有祸了！
19 他们说： "愿他赶快、迅速地成就他的作为， 给我们看看！ 愿以色列的圣者所计划的临近！ 愿它来到， 好让我们知道！ "
20 那些称恶为善， 称善为恶， 以暗为光， 以光为暗， 以苦为甜， 以甜为苦的人， 有祸了！
21 那些自以为有智慧， 自视为聪明的人， 有祸了！
22 那些勇于喝酒， 又精于调和浓酒的人， 有祸了！
23 他们因受了贿赂， 就称恶人为义； 却把义人的权益夺去。
24 因此， 火舌怎样吞灭碎秸， 干草怎样落在火焰之中， 照样， 他们的根必像腐朽之物， 他们的花必像尘土飞扬； 因为他们弃绝万军之耶和华的训诲， 藐视以色列圣者的话。
25 所以耶和华的怒气向他的子民发作， 他伸出手来击打他们， 群山都震动， 他们的尸体在街上好像粪土， 虽然这样， 他的怒气还未转消， 他的手仍然伸出。
26 他必竖立旗帜， 招一国的人从远方而来， 发出哨声把他们从地极召来； 看！ 他们必急速快奔而来。
27 他们当中没有疲倦的， 没有绊倒的， 没有打盹的， 也没有睡觉的； 他们的腰带没有放松， 鞋带也没有折断。
28 他们的箭锐利， 所有的弓都上了弦； 他们的马蹄看来像火石， 车辆似旋风。
29 他们的吼叫像母狮， 他们的咆哮如幼狮； 他们咆哮， 攫取猎物， 把它叼去， 无人援救。
30 到那日， 他们要向以色列人咆哮， 像海浪的澎湃声一样； 人若望着这地， 就只见黑暗与灾难； 光在云中也成了黑暗。