主必統治萬邦
1亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞看到以下有關猶大和耶路撒冷的異象。
2在末後的日子，耶和華殿所在的山必聳立，
高過群山，超過萬嶺，
萬族都要湧向它。
3眾民都必來，說：
「來吧！讓我們登耶和華的山，
去雅各之上帝的殿。
祂必將祂的路指示給我們，
使我們走祂的道。」
因為訓誨必出於錫安，
耶和華的話語必來自耶路撒冷。
4祂必在各國施行審判，
為列邦平息紛爭。
他們必將刀劍打成犁頭，
把矛槍製成鐮刀。
國與國不再刀兵相見，
人們不用再學習戰事。
5雅各家啊，來吧！
讓我們走在耶和華的光中。
耶和華審判的日子
6耶和華啊，你離棄了你的子民——雅各的後裔，
因為他們當中充滿了東方的惡俗，
像非利士人一樣占卜，
跟外族人同流合污。
7他們境內金銀遍地，
財寶無窮；
他們境內馬匹充裕，
戰車無數。
8他們境內偶像林立，
他們跪拜自己用手所造的物品，
跪拜自己用指頭所造之物。
9他們必遭羞辱和貶抑。
耶和華啊，
求你不要赦免他們。
10要躲進岩穴，藏入地洞，
逃避耶和華的憤怒和威榮！
11到那日，狂妄的人將被挫敗，
驕傲的人將遭貶抑；
唯獨耶和華將受尊崇。
12因為萬軍之耶和華已定了日子，
要懲罰一切驕傲狂妄和自高自大的人，
使他們淪為卑賤；
13祂必毀滅黎巴嫩高大的香柏樹和巴珊的橡樹，
14毀滅一切崇山峻嶺，
15毀滅高聳的城樓和堅固的城牆，
16毀滅他施的商船和一切華美的船隻。
17到那日，狂妄的人必被挫敗，
驕傲的人必遭貶抑，
唯獨耶和華受尊崇。
18偶像必被徹底剷除。
19耶和華使大地震動的時候，
眾人躲進岩穴，藏入地洞，
逃避祂的憤怒和威榮。
20到那日，眾人必把造來敬拜的金銀偶像丟給田鼠和蝙蝠。
21耶和華使大地震動的時候，
眾人必躲進山洞和岩縫，
逃避祂的憤怒和威榮。
22不要再倚靠世人，
他們的生命不過是一口氣，
他們有什麼值得稱道的呢？
The Mountain of the Lord
1This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2In the last days
the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
3Many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.
5Come, descendants of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The Day of the Lord
6You, Lord, have abandoned your people,
the descendants of Jacob.
They are full of superstitions from the East;
they practice divination like the Philistines
and embrace pagan customs.
7Their land is full of silver and gold;
there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is full of horses;
there is no end to their chariots.
8Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
9So people will be brought low
and everyone humbled—
do not forgive them.2:9 Or not raise them up
10Go into the rocks, hide in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty!
11The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled
and human pride brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12The Lord Almighty has a day in store
for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted
(and they will be humbled),
13for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
and all the oaks of Bashan,
14for all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,
15for every lofty tower
and every fortified wall,
16for every trading ship2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish
and every stately vessel.
17The arrogance of man will be brought low
and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
18and the idols will totally disappear.
19People will flee to caves in the rocks
and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
20In that day people will throw away
to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
which they made to worship.
21They will flee to caverns in the rocks
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
22Stop trusting in mere humans,
who have but a breath in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?
