以賽亞書 10 – CCBT & NIRV

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

以賽亞書 10:1-34

1制定不義律例、起草不公法令的人啊,

你們有禍了!

2你們冤枉窮人,

奪去我子民中困苦者的權利,

擄掠寡婦,搶劫孤兒。

3在懲罰的日子,

當災禍從遠方臨到你們頭上時,

你們怎麼辦?

你們能跑到誰那裡去求救呢?

你們能把財物藏在哪裡呢?

4你們將不是被擄就是被殺。

雖然如此,耶和華的怒氣還沒有止息,

祂降罰的手沒有收回。

主要審判亞述

5耶和華說:「亞述王有禍了!

他是我的憤怒之棍,

他手中拿著我發烈怒的杖。

6我要差遣他去攻打一個不虔敬的國家,

一個惹我發怒的民族,

去搶奪、擄掠他們的財物,

像踐踏街上的泥土一樣踐踏他們。

7可是他卻不這樣想,

心裡也不這樣盤算,

他只想毀滅許多國家。

8他說,『我的臣僕都要做藩王!

9迦勒挪豈不是和迦基米施一樣嗎?

哈馬豈不是和亞珥拔一樣嗎?

撒瑪利亞豈不是和大馬士革一樣嗎?

它們不是都被我征服了嗎?

10這些國家都在我的手中,

他們雕刻的偶像不勝過耶路撒冷撒瑪利亞的偶像嗎?

11我怎樣毀滅撒瑪利亞和它的偶像,

也必怎樣毀滅耶路撒冷和它的偶像。』」

12主完成在錫安山和耶路撒冷要做的事後,必懲罰心裡狂妄、眼目高傲的亞述王。

13因為亞述王說:

「我靠自己的力量和智慧成就了此事,

因為我很聰明。

我廢除列國的疆界,

擄掠他們的財物,

像勇士一樣征服他們的君王。

14我奪取列國的財物,

好像探囊取物;

我征服天下,

不過是手到擒來;

無人反抗,無人吭聲。」

15然而,斧頭怎能向舞動它的人自誇呢?

鋸子怎能向用鋸的人炫耀呢?

難道棍子可以揮動舉它的人嗎?

手杖可以舉起它的主人嗎?

16因此,主——萬軍之耶和華必使亞述王強健的士兵疾病纏身,

使火焰吞噬他的榮耀。

17以色列的光必成為火焰,

他們的聖者必成為烈火,

一日之間燒光亞述王的荊棘和蒺藜。

18他茂盛的樹林和肥美的田園必被徹底摧毀,

猶如病人漸漸消亡。

19林中剩下的樹木稀少,

連小孩子也能數清。

以色列的餘民

20到那日,以色列的餘民,就是雅各家的倖存者,將不再倚靠欺壓他們的亞述,他們將真心倚靠耶和華——以色列的聖者, 21重新歸向全能的上帝。 22以色列啊,你的人民雖多如海沙,將只有剩餘的人歸回。充滿公義的毀滅之事已定。 23因為主——萬軍之耶和華必按所定的在整個大地上施行毀滅。

24因此,主——萬軍之耶和華說:「我錫安的子民啊,雖然亞述人像埃及人一樣揮舞著棍棒毒打你們,你們不要懼怕。 25因為很快我就不再向你們發怒,我要向他們發怒,毀滅他們。」 26萬軍之耶和華要鞭打他們,就像在俄立磐石擊殺米甸人,就像祂向海伸杖,使海水淹沒埃及人。 27到那日,祂必除去亞述人加在你們肩頭的重擔和頸上的軛;那軛必因你們肥壯而折斷。

28亞述大軍攻佔了亞葉

穿過米磯崙

把輜重存放在密抹

29他們過了關口,

迦巴宿營。

拉瑪人戰戰兢兢,

掃羅的鄉親基比亞人倉皇逃跑。

30迦琳人啊,高聲喊叫吧!

萊煞人啊,可憐的亞拿突人啊,

留心聽吧!

31瑪得米納人逃跑,

基柄人躲藏。

32那時,亞述王必屯兵挪伯

向著錫安10·32 」希伯來文是「女子」,可能是對錫安的暱稱,下同16·152·262·11的山嶺,

向著耶路撒冷的山丘摩拳擦掌。

33看啊,主——萬軍之耶和華要以大能削去樹枝。

高大的樹必被斬斷,

挺拔的大樹必被砍倒,

34茂密的樹林必被鐵斧砍掉,

黎巴嫩的大樹也要倒在全能的上帝面前。

New International Reader’s Version

Isaiah 10:1-34

1How terrible it will be for you

who make laws that aren’t fair!

How terrible for you

who write laws that make life hard for others!

2You take away the rights of poor people.

You hold back what is fair from my people who are suffering.

You take for yourselves what belongs to widows.

You rob children whose fathers have died.

3What will you do on the day when the Lord punishes you?

On that day trouble will come from far away.

Who will you run to for help?

Who will you trust your riches with?

4All you can do is bow down in fear among the prisoners.

All you can do is fall among those who have died in battle.

Even then, the Lord is still angry.

His hand is still raised against them.

The Lord Will Judge Assyria

5The Lord says, “How terrible it will be for the people of Assyria!

They are the war club that carries out my anger.

6I will send them against the ungodly nation of Judah.

I will order them to fight against my own people.

My people make me angry.

I will order Assyria to take their goods and carry them away.

I will order Assyria to walk on my people

as if they were walking on mud.

7But that is not what the king of Assyria plans.

It is not what he has in mind.

His purpose is to destroy many nations.

His purpose is to put an end to them.

8‘Aren’t all my commanders kings?’ he says.

9‘I took over Kalno just as I took Carchemish.

I took over Hamath just as I did Arpad.

I took Samaria just as I did Damascus.

10My powerful hand grabbed hold of kingdoms

whose people worship statues of gods.

They had more gods than Jerusalem and Samaria did.

11I took over Samaria and its statues of gods.

In the same way, I will take Jerusalem and its gods.’ ”

12The Lord will finish everything he has planned to do against Mount Zion and Jerusalem. Then he’ll say, “Now I will punish the king of Assyria. I will punish him because his heart and his eyes are so proud. 13The king of Assyria says,

“ ‘By my power

I have taken over all these nations.

I am very wise.

I have great understanding.

I have wiped out the borders between nations.

I’ve taken their treasures.

Like a great hero I’ve brought their kings under my control.

14I’ve taken the wealth of the nations.

It was as easy as reaching into a bird’s nest.

I’ve gathered the riches of all these countries.

It was as easy as gathering eggs

that have been left in a nest.

Not a single baby bird flapped its wings.

Not one of them opened its mouth to chirp.’ ”

15Does an ax claim to be more important

than the person who swings it?

Does a saw brag that it is better

than the one who uses it?

That would be like a stick

swinging the person who picks it up!

It would be like a war club

waving the one who carries it!

16So the Lord who rules over all will send a sickness.

The Lord will send it on the king of Assyria’s strong fighting men.

It will make them weaker and weaker.

The army he was so proud of will be completely destroyed.

It will be as if it had been burned up in a fire.

17The Lord is the Light of Israel.

He will become a fire.

Israel’s Holy One will become a flame.

In a single day he will burn up all Assyria’s bushes.

He will destroy all their thorns.

18He will completely destroy the beauty

of their forests and rich farm lands.

The Assyrian army will be like a sick person

who becomes weaker and weaker.

19It will be like the trees of their forests.

So few of them will be left standing

that even a child could count them.

The Israelites Who Are Left Alive

20In days to come, some people will still be left alive in Israel.

They will be from Jacob’s family line.

But they won’t depend any longer on

the nation that struck them down.

Instead, they will truly depend on the Lord.

He is the Holy One of Israel.

21The people of Jacob who are still alive

will return to the Mighty God.

22Israel, your people might be as many as the grains of sand by the sea.

But only a few of them will return.

The Lord has handed down a death sentence.

He will destroy his people.

What he does is right.

23The Lord who rules over all will carry out his sentence.

The Lord will destroy the whole land.

24The Lord rules over all. The Lord says,

“My people who live in Zion,

do not be afraid of the Assyrian army.

They beat you with rods.

They lift up war clubs against you,

just as the Egyptians did.

25Very soon I will not be angry with you anymore.

I will turn my anger against the Assyrians.

I will destroy them.”

26The Lord who rules over all will beat them with a whip.

He will strike them down as he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb.

And he will stretch out his walking stick over the waters.

That’s what he did in Egypt.

27People of Zion, in days to come he will help you.

He will lift the heavy load of the Assyrians from your shoulders.

He will remove their yokes from your necks.

Their yokes will be broken

because you have become so strong.

28The Assyrian army has entered the town of Aiath.

They have passed through Migron.

They have stored up supplies at Mikmash.

29They have marched through the pass there. They said,

“Let’s camp for the night at Geba.”

The people of Ramah tremble with fear.

Those who live in Gibeah of Saul run away.

30Town of Gallim, cry out!

Laishah, listen!

Poor Anathoth!

31The people of Madmenah are running away.

Those who live in Gebim are hiding.

32Today the Assyrians have stopped at Nob.

They are shaking their fists

at Mount Zion in the city of Jerusalem.

33The Assyrian soldiers are like trees in a forest.

The Lord who rules over all

will chop them down.

The Lord will cut off their branches

with his great power.

He will chop the tall trees down.

He will cut down even the highest ones.

34The Mighty One will chop down the forest with his ax.

He will cut down the cedar trees in Lebanon.