耶路撒冷被围
1耶和华说：“亚利伊勒29:1 “亚利伊勒”在此处用来指锡安/耶路撒冷，2节、7节同。，亚利伊勒，
大卫安营的城啊！
你有祸了！
尽管你年复一年地守节期，
2我还是要叫你受苦。
你必悲伤哀号，
在我面前成为一座祭坛。
3我必把你团团围住，
屯兵围困你，
修筑高台攻打你。
4你必一败涂地，
躺在尘土中说话，
你细微的声音从土中传来，
好像地下幽灵的声音。
你耳语般的低声从土中传来。
5但你的众仇敌必像纤细的尘埃一样消散，
众多的残暴之徒必如被风刮去的糠秕。
突然，刹那之间，
6万军之耶和华必带着雷轰、地震、巨响、旋风、暴风和烈火来临。
7攻打、围困耶路撒冷及其堡垒的各国军队必如梦幻，
如夜间的异象一样消失。
8他们好像饥饿的人梦中吃饭，
醒来仍然饥饿；
像口渴的人梦中喝水，
醒来仍然渴得发昏。
攻打锡安山的各国军队结局都必如此。”
9你们驻足惊奇吧！
你们自我蒙蔽，继续瞎眼吧！
你们醉了，但不是因为酒；
你们东倒西歪，但不是因为烈酒。
10因为耶和华把沉睡的灵倾倒在你们身上，
祂封住你们的眼睛，
盖住你们的头。
你们的眼睛就是先知，
你们的头就是先见。
11对你们而言，所有的启示都好像封了印的书卷。你们把书卷交给识字的人读，他会说：“我不能读，这书卷是封着的。” 12你们把书卷交给不识字的人读，他会说：“我不识字。”
13主说：“这些人嘴上亲近我，
尊崇我，心却远离我。
他们敬拜我不过是遵行人定的规条。
14所以，我要再次行奇妙无比的事，使他们震惊。
他们智者的智慧必泯灭，
明哲的聪明必消失。”
15那些向耶和华深藏计谋的人有祸了！
他们暗中行事，
自以为无人看见也无人知道。
16他们太愚蠢了！
窑匠怎能跟泥土相提并论？
被造的怎能对造它的说：
“你没有造我”？
陶器怎能对陶匠说：
“你什么也不懂”？
17再过不久，黎巴嫩将变成沃野，
沃野上庄稼茂密如林。
18那时，聋子必听见那书卷上的话，
黑暗中的瞎子必能看见。
19卑微的人必因耶和华而欢喜，
贫穷的人必因以色列的圣者而快乐。
20残暴之徒必消失，
嘲讽者必绝迹，
所有心怀不轨者必被铲除。
21他们诬陷人，
暗算审判官，
冤枉无辜。
22因此，关于雅各家，
救赎亚伯拉罕的耶和华说：
“雅各的子孙必不再羞愧，
脸上再无惧色。
23因为他们看见我赐给他们的子孙时，
必尊我的名为圣，
必尊雅各的圣者为圣，
必敬畏以色列的上帝。
24心里迷惘的必明白真理，
发怨言的必欣然受教。”
The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem
1Jerusalem, how terrible it will be for you!
Ariel, you are the city where David made his home.
The years will come and go.
Keep on celebrating your regular feasts.
2The Lord says, “Ariel, I will surround you.
Jerusalem, I will get ready to attack you.
Your people will mourn.
They will sing songs of sadness.
I will make you like the front of an altar
covered with blood.
3I will be like an army camped against you on all sides.
I will surround you with towers in order to attack you.
I will build my ramps all around you and set up my ladders.
4You will be brought down to the grave.
You will speak from deep down inside the ground.
Your words will be barely heard out of the dust.
Your voice will sound like the voice of a ghost
coming from under the ground.
Your words will sound like a whisper out of the dust.”
5Jerusalem, all your enemies will become like fine dust.
Their terrifying armies will become like straw
that the wind blows away.
All of a sudden, in an instant,
6the Lord who rules over all will come.
He will come with thunder, earthquakes and a lot of noise.
He’ll bring windstorms and rainstorms with him.
He’ll send a blazing fire that will burn up everything.
7Armies from all the nations will fight against Ariel.
They will attack it and its fort.
They’ll surround it completely.
But suddenly those armies will disappear like a dream.
They will vanish like a vision in the night.
8It will be as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
but wakes up still hungry.
It will be as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
but wakes up weak and still thirsty.
In the same way, the armies from all the nations
that fight against Mount Zion will disappear.
9People of Jerusalem, be shocked and amazed.
Make yourselves blind so you can’t see anything.
Get drunk, but not from wine.
Be unsteady on your feet, but not because of beer.
10The Lord has made you fall into a deep sleep.
He has closed the eyes of your prophets.
He has covered the heads of your seers so they can’t see.
11For you, this whole vision is like words that are sealed up in a scroll. Suppose you give it to someone who can read. And suppose you say, “Please read this for us.” Then they’ll answer, “I can’t. It’s sealed up.” 12Or suppose you give the scroll to someone who can’t read. And suppose you say, “Please read this for us.” Then they’ll answer, “I don’t know how to read.”
13The Lord says,
“These people worship me only with their words.
They honor me by what they say.
But their hearts are far away from me.
Their worship doesn’t mean anything to me.
They teach nothing but human rules that they have been taught.
14So once more I will shock these people
with many wonderful acts.
I will destroy the wisdom of those who think they are so wise.
I will do away with the cleverness of those who think they are so smart.”
15How terrible it will be for people who try hard
to hide their plans from the Lord!
They do their work in darkness.
They think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”
16They turn everything upside down.
How silly they are to think that potters are like the clay they work with!
Can what is made say to the one who made it,
“You didn’t make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,
“You don’t know anything”?
17In a very short time, Lebanon will be turned into rich farm lands.
The rich farm lands will seem like a forest.
18At that time those who can’t hear will hear what is read from the scroll.
Those who are blind will come out of gloom and darkness.
They will be able to see.
19Those who aren’t proud will once again find their joy in the Lord.
And those who are in need will find their joy in the Holy One of Israel.
20Those who don’t show any pity will vanish.
Those who make fun of others will disappear.
All those who look for ways to do what is evil will be cut off.
21Without any proof, they claim that a person is guilty.
In court they try to trap
the one who speaks up for others.
By using dishonest witnesses they keep people who aren’t guilty
from being treated fairly.
22Long ago the Lord saved Abraham from trouble. Now he says to Jacob’s people,
“You will not be ashamed anymore.
Your faces will no longer grow pale with fear.
23You will see your children living among you.
I myself will give you those children.
Then you will honor my name.
You will recognize how holy I am.
I am the Holy One of Jacob.
You will have great respect for me.
I am the God of Israel.
24I will give understanding to you
who find yourselves going astray.
You who are always speaking against others
will accept what I teach you.”
