以賽亞書 23 – CCBT & NIV

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

以賽亞書 23:1-18

關於泰爾的預言

1以下是關於泰爾的預言:

他施的船隻哀號吧!

因為從基提23·1 基提」就是現在的塞浦路斯。傳來消息,

泰爾已被毀滅,

房屋和港口都蕩然無存。

2海邊的居民,西頓23·2 先知在本預言中提到西頓,是因為泰爾和西頓都在同一地區,都屬於腓尼基人。的商賈啊,

要靜默無言。

你們的商人飄洋過海,

3西曷的糧食、尼羅河流域的農產都運到泰爾

泰爾成為列國的商埠。

4西頓啊,你要羞愧!

你這海上的堡壘啊,

大海否認你,說:

「我沒有經歷過產痛,

沒有生過孩子,

也未曾養育過兒女。」

5埃及人聽見泰爾的消息,

都感到傷痛。

6海邊的居民啊,你們要去他施

你們要哀號!

7這就是你們那歷史悠久、

充滿歡樂的城嗎?

她曾經派人到遠方居住。

8泰爾曾是封王之地,

她的商賈是王侯,

她的商人名聞天下。

但她如今的遭遇是誰定的?

9是萬軍之耶和華定的,

為要摧毀因榮耀而生的驕傲,

羞辱世上的尊貴者。

10他施的人民啊,

要像尼羅河一樣穿行在自己的土地上,

因為再沒有人壓制你們。

11耶和華已經在大海之上伸出懲罰之手,

使列國震動。

祂已下令毀滅迦南的堡壘。

12祂說:「受欺壓的西頓人啊,

你們再也不能歡樂了!

你們就是逃到基提

也得不到安寧。」

13看看迦勒底人的土地,那裡已杳無人煙!亞述人使它成為野獸出沒之地,他們築起圍城的高臺,摧毀它的宮殿,使它淪為廢墟。

14他施的船隻都哀號吧!

因為你們的堡壘已被摧毀。

15到那日,泰爾必被遺忘七十年,正好一個王的壽數。七十年之後,泰爾必如歌中所描述的妓女:

16「被遺忘的妓女啊,

拿起琴,走遍全城。

要彈得美妙,要多唱幾首歌,

好使人再記起你。」

17那時,耶和華必眷顧泰爾。她必重操舊業,與天下萬國交易。 18但她得到的利潤和收入不會被積攢或儲存起來,而是要被獻給耶和華,用來供應那些事奉耶和華的人,使他們吃得飽足,穿得精美。

New International Version

Isaiah 23:1-18

A Prophecy Against Tyre

1A prophecy against Tyre:

Wail, you ships of Tarshish!

For Tyre is destroyed

and left without house or harbor.

From the land of Cyprus

word has come to them.

2Be silent, you people of the island

and you merchants of Sidon,

whom the seafarers have enriched.

3On the great waters

came the grain of the Shihor;

the harvest of the Nile23:2,3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3 are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile, was the revenue of Tyre,

and she became the marketplace of the nations.

4Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;

I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”

5When word comes to Egypt,

they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.

6Cross over to Tarshish;

wail, you people of the island.

7Is this your city of revelry,

the old, old city,

whose feet have taken her

to settle in far-off lands?

8Who planned this against Tyre,

the bestower of crowns,

whose merchants are princes,

whose traders are renowned in the earth?

9The Lord Almighty planned it,

to bring down her pride in all her splendor

and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.

10Till23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through your land as they do along the Nile,

Daughter Tarshish,

for you no longer have a harbor.

11The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea

and made its kingdoms tremble.

He has given an order concerning Phoenicia

that her fortresses be destroyed.

12He said, “No more of your reveling,

Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;

even there you will find no rest.”

13Look at the land of the Babylonians,23:13 Or Chaldeans

this people that is now of no account!

The Assyrians have made it

a place for desert creatures;

they raised up their siege towers,

they stripped its fortresses bare

and turned it into a ruin.

14Wail, you ships of Tarshish;

your fortress is destroyed!

15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16“Take up a harp, walk through the city,

you forgotten prostitute;

play the harp well, sing many a song,

so that you will be remembered.”

17At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.