1葡萄園的比喻我要為我所愛的唱歌，這歌是關於他的葡萄園：我所愛的人有一個葡萄園，在肥美的山岡上。
1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
2他把園子周圍的泥土挖鬆了，撿去石頭，栽種了上好的葡萄樹；在園中建造了一座守望樓，又鑿了一個榨酒池。他期望結出好葡萄，卻結出野葡萄。
2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
3耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人哪！現在請你們在我與我的葡萄園之間斷定是非吧！
3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
4我為我的葡萄園所作的以外，還有甚麼要作的呢？我期望它結出好葡萄，它為甚麼倒結出野葡萄呢？
4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
5現在我告訴你們，我要怎樣處理我的葡萄園：我要把它的籬笆撤去，使它被吞滅；我要把它的圍牆拆毀，使它被踐踏。
5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
6我要使它荒廢，不再修剪，也不再耕耘，荊棘和蒺藜卻要長起來；我也要吩咐雲不再降雨在園子上。
6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
7因為萬軍之耶和華的葡萄園就是以色列家，他喜悅的樹就是猶大人；他期望的是公平，但看到的只是流血的事；他期望的是公義，聽到的只是哀叫聲。
7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
8人民的惡行──六禍那些使房屋連接房屋，使田地連接田地，以致不留餘地的人，有禍了！你們只可以獨居在境內。
8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
9我聽聞萬軍之耶和華說：“必有許多房屋變成荒涼，甚至那些又大又美的房屋也沒有人居住。
9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
10十公頃葡萄園只出二十二公升酒；二百二十公升穀種只結二十二公升糧食。”
10For ten acres literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares. of vineyard shall yield one bath, 1 bath is about 22 litres or 5.8 U. S. gallons and a homer 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels of seed shall yield an ephah. 1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)—only one tenth of what was sown. ”
11那些清早起來，追求濃酒，留連到晚上，以致因酒發燒的人，有禍了！
11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
12在他們的筵席上，有琴、瑟、手鼓、笛和酒，但他們不理耶和華的作為，也不留心他手所作的。
12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
13所以我的人民因無知被擄去；他們的尊貴人十分飢餓；他們的群眾極其乾渴。
13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
14故此，陰間擴張它的咽喉，張大它的口，沒有限量；耶路撒冷城的榮耀、群眾、喧嚷的人和在城中作樂的人，都要下到陰間。
14Therefore Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
15卑賤人俯首，尊貴人降卑，眼目高傲的也降卑。
15So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
16唯獨萬軍之耶和華，因公平被高舉；至聖的 神，因公義顯為聖。
16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
17那時羊羔必來吃草，像在自己的草場一樣；富裕者的荒場被寄居者隨意吃用。
17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
18那些人虛假的繩索牽引罪孽，又像用車繩拉罪惡的人，有禍了！
18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;
19他們說：“願他趕快、迅速地成就他的作為，給我們看看！願以色列的聖者所計劃的臨近！願它來到，好讓我們知道！”
19Who say, “Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
20那些稱惡為善，稱善為惡，以暗為光，以光為暗，以苦為甜，以甜為苦的人，有禍了！
20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21那些自以為有智慧，自視為聰明的人，有禍了！
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22那些勇於喝酒，又精於調和濃酒的人，有禍了！
22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
23他們因受了賄賂，就稱惡人為義；卻把義人的權益奪去。
23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
24因此，火舌怎樣吞滅碎秸，乾草怎樣落在火燄之中，照樣，他們的根必像腐朽之物，他們的花必像塵土飛揚；因為他們棄絕萬軍之耶和華的訓誨，藐視以色列聖者的話。
24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25所以耶和華的怒氣向他的子民發作，他伸出手來擊打他們，群山都震動，他們的屍體在街上好像糞土，雖然這樣，他的怒氣還未轉消，他的手仍然伸出。
25Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
26懲罰快要來臨他必豎立旗幟，招一國的人從遠方而來，發出哨聲把他們從地極召來；看！他們必急速快奔而來。
26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
27他們當中沒有疲倦的，沒有絆倒的，沒有打盹的，也沒有睡覺的；他們的腰帶沒有放鬆，鞋帶也沒有折斷。
27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28他們的箭銳利，所有的弓都上了弦；他們的馬蹄看來像火石，車輛似旋風。
28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29他們的吼叫像母獅，他們的咆哮如幼獅；他們咆哮，攫取獵物，把它叼去，無人援救。
29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
30到那日，他們要向以色列人咆哮，像海浪的澎湃聲一樣；人若望著這地，就只見黑暗與災難；光在雲中也成了黑暗。
30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.