¹耶和华的回答

¹On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof.

²耶和华回答我说：“把异象写下，记在泥版上，使读的人容易明白，

²And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.

³因这异象关乎一定的日期，很快就要实现，决不徒然；纵有迟延，仍当等候，因为它一定会来到，绝不耽误。”

³For yet the vision [is] for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

⁴迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直；然而义人必因信得生（“必因信得生”或译：“必因他的信实得生”）。

⁴Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

⁵财富（传统作“酒”，今照死海古卷译作“财富”）使人奸诈狂傲，不得安宁；扩张欲望，如同阴间；又像死亡，永不满足。他们招聚万国，集合万民，都归自己。

⁵And also, because the wine [is] treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

⁶第一祸这些国民岂不都用譬喻、讽刺、暗语指着他们说：“那些滥得他人财物的，满载别人抵押品的，有祸了！他们这样要到几时呢？”

⁶Do not these — all of them — against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

⁷你的债主（“你的债主”或译：“咬你的”）岂不忽然起来？扰乱你的岂不醒起？你就成了他们的掳物。

⁷Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?

⁸因你抢掠多国，杀人流血，向全地各城施行暴力，所以剩下的人也必抢掠你。

⁸Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man`s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.

⁹第二祸你这为自己的家积聚不义之财，在高处搭窝，以逃避灾害的，有祸了！

⁹Wo [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

¹⁰你剪除多国的民，反害了自己；你所谋算的，使你的家蒙羞。

¹⁰Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul.

¹¹石头必从墙里呼叫，梁木必在树中应声。

¹¹For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

¹²第三祸你这用人血做城，凭邪恶立镇的，有祸了！

¹²Wo [to] him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.

¹³众民劳碌得来的，被火焚烧；列国辛劳而得的，终归无有。这不都出于万军之耶和华吗？

¹³Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

¹⁴认识耶和华之荣耀的知识，必充满全地，好像众水遮盖海洋一样。

¹⁴For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover [the bottom of] a sea.

¹⁵第四祸你这请邻舍喝酒，却把毒物混入，使他醉倒，为要见他赤裸的，有祸了！

¹⁵Wo [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.

¹⁶你满有羞辱，没有尊荣，你也喝到露出下体来吧！耶和华右手的杯必传回来给你，使极大的羞辱取代你的尊荣。

¹⁶Thou hast been filled — shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing [is] on thine honour.

¹⁷因你向黎巴嫩使用暴力，杀灭惊吓野兽；又杀人流血，向全地各城居民施行暴力，就必受到报应（“报应”原文作“遮盖”）。

¹⁷For violence [to] Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man`s blood, and of violence [to] the land, [To] the city, and [to] all dwelling in it.

¹⁸第五祸雕刻的像有什么用处呢？不过是匠人雕刻出来的；铸造的像、虚假的教师，有什么用处呢？匠人竟倚靠自己所做，那不能说话的假神。

¹⁸What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation — to make dumb idols?

¹⁹你这对木头说“起来”，对哑石说“醒吧”的人，有祸了！它怎能教导你呢？看哪！它包金镶银，里面却全无气息。

¹⁹Wo [to] him who is saying to wood, `Awake,` `Stir up,` to a dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, it is overlaid — gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.

²⁰然而耶和华在他的圣殿里，全地当在他面前肃静。

²⁰And Jehovah [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!