Isaiah 10 – NIRV & CCB

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.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

以赛亚书 10:1-34

1制定不义律例、起草不公法令的人啊,

你们有祸了!

2你们冤枉穷人,

夺去我子民中困苦者的权利,

掳掠寡妇,抢劫孤儿。

3在惩罚的日子,

当灾祸从远方临到你们头上时,

你们怎么办?

你们能跑到谁那里去求救呢?

你们能把财物藏在哪里呢?

4你们将不是被掳就是被杀。

虽然如此,耶和华的怒气还没有止息,

祂降罚的手没有收回。

主要审判亚述

5耶和华说:“亚述王有祸了!

他是我的愤怒之棍,

他手中拿着我发烈怒的杖。

6我要差遣他去攻打一个不虔敬的国家,

一个惹我发怒的民族,

去抢夺、掳掠他们的财物,

像践踏街上的泥土一样践踏他们。

7可是他却不这样想,

心里也不这样盘算,

他只想毁灭许多国家。

8他说,‘我的臣仆都要做藩王!

9迦勒挪岂不是和迦基米施一样吗?

哈马岂不是和亚珥拔一样吗?

撒玛利亚岂不是和大马士革一样吗?

它们不是都被我征服了吗?

10这些国家都在我的手中,

他们雕刻的偶像不胜过耶路撒冷撒玛利亚的偶像吗?

11我怎样毁灭撒玛利亚和它的偶像,

也必怎样毁灭耶路撒冷和它的偶像。’”

12主完成在锡安山和耶路撒冷要做的事后,必惩罚心里狂妄、眼目高傲的亚述王。

13因为亚述王说:

“我靠自己的力量和智慧成就了此事,

因为我很聪明。

我废除列国的疆界,

掳掠他们的财物,

像勇士一样征服他们的君王。

14我夺取列国的财物,

好像探囊取物;

我征服天下,

不过是手到擒来;

无人反抗,无人吭声。”

15然而,斧头怎能向舞动它的人自夸呢?

锯子怎能向用锯的人炫耀呢?

难道棍子可以挥动举它的人吗?

手杖可以举起它的主人吗?

16因此,主——万军之耶和华必使亚述王强健的士兵疾病缠身,

使火焰吞噬他的荣耀。

17以色列的光必成为火焰,

他们的圣者必成为烈火,

一日之间烧光亚述王的荆棘和蒺藜。

18他茂盛的树林和肥美的田园必被彻底摧毁,

犹如病人渐渐消亡。

19林中剩下的树木稀少,

连小孩子也能数清。

以色列的余民

20到那日,以色列的余民,就是雅各家的幸存者,将不再倚靠欺压他们的亚述,他们将真心倚靠耶和华——以色列的圣者, 21重新归向全能的上帝。 22以色列啊,你的人民虽多如海沙,将只有剩余的人归回。充满公义的毁灭之事已定。 23因为主——万军之耶和华必按所定的在整个大地上施行毁灭。

24因此,主——万军之耶和华说:“我锡安的子民啊,虽然亚述人像埃及人一样挥舞着棍棒毒打你们,你们不要惧怕。 25因为很快我就不再向你们发怒,我要向他们发怒,毁灭他们。” 26万军之耶和华要鞭打他们,就像在俄立磐石击杀米甸人,就像祂向海伸杖,使海水淹没埃及人。 27到那日,祂必除去亚述人加在你们肩头的重担和颈上的轭;那轭必因你们肥壮而折断。

28亚述大军攻占了亚叶

穿过米矶仑

把辎重存放在密抹

29他们过了关口,

迦巴宿营。

拉玛人战战兢兢,

扫罗的乡亲基比亚人仓皇逃跑。

30迦琳人啊,高声喊叫吧!

莱煞人啊,可怜的亚拿突人啊,

留心听吧!

31玛得米纳人逃跑,

基柄人躲藏。

32那时,亚述王必屯兵挪伯

向着锡安10:32 ”希伯来文是“女子”,可能是对锡安的昵称,下同16:152:262:11的山岭,

向着耶路撒冷的山丘摩拳擦掌。

33看啊,主——万军之耶和华要以大能削去树枝。

高大的树必被斩断,

挺拔的大树必被砍倒,

34茂密的树林必被铁斧砍掉,

黎巴嫩的大树也要倒在全能的上帝面前。