1葡萄園之歌到那日,耶和華要施用他銳利、巨大和有力的刀,懲罰鱷魚,就是那快行的蛇;懲罰鱷魚,就是那曲行的蛇;並且要殺海中的大龍。
1In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
2到那日,有個出酒的葡萄園,你們必指著這園歌唱說:
2In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
3“我耶和華是看守葡萄園的;我時刻澆灌著它,並且為免有人毀壞它,我日夜都看守著。
3I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
4我再沒有忿怒,若荊棘和蒺藜與我交戰,我就上前踐踏它們,把它們全部焚毀。
4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
5除非他們抓住我作他們的避難所,與我和好,與我和好。”
5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
6在將來的日子裡,雅各要扎根,以色列要發芽開花,他們的果實必遍布地面。
6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
7以色列民受罰耶和華擊打以色列人,豈像擊打那些擊打他們的呢?主殺戮以色列人,豈像殺戮那些殺戮他們的呢?
7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
8不,你只是漸漸地,藉著他們被擄與他們相爭;在吹東風的日子,就用暴風把他們逐去。
8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9藉此,雅各的罪孽才得赦免;他的罪過得以除掉的條件全都在於此,就是他叫祭壇上所有的石頭都變為破碎的灰石,使亞舍拉和香壇不再豎立。
9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
10堅固的城變為淒涼,成了被撇下、被放棄的居所,像曠野一樣;牛犢必在那裡吃草,在那裡躺臥,並且吃盡那裡的樹枝。
10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
11以色列民回歸枝條枯乾了,就必被折斷;婦女必來,拿去生火,因為這人民愚昧無知,所以他們的創造主不憐憫他們,那造成他們的,不向他們施恩。
11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12到那日,耶和華要從幼發拉底的溪流,直到埃及小河,收集他的穀物;以色列人哪!你們必一個一個被撿拾回來。
12It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
13到那日,必有大號角吹響,那些在亞述地快要滅亡的,以及那些被趕散在埃及地的,都要前來,在耶路撒冷的聖山上敬拜耶和華。
13It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.