¹关于大马士革的预言

¹The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, And it hath been a heap — a ruin.

²亚罗珥的城市必被撇弃，成为牧放羊群之处，羊群必在那里躺卧，没有人惊扰它们。

²Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.

³以法莲的堡垒必失去，大马士革的国权也必消逝；亚兰的余民必像以色列人的荣耀一般消灭。”这是万军之耶和华说的。

³And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

⁴“到那日，雅各的荣耀必衰落，他肥胖的身体必消瘦。

⁴And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.

⁵就像收割的人收聚庄稼，用手割取穗子；又像人在利乏音谷，拾取遗落的穗子。

⁵And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,

⁶虽然其中有少许遗下的穗子，却好像橄榄树被打过一样。在树顶上，只剩下两三个果子；在那本是多结果子的果树枝上，只留下四五个果子。”这是耶和华以色列的　神说的。

⁶And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two — three berries on the top of a branch, Four — five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!

⁷到那日，人必仰望他们的创造主，他们必亲眼看见以色列的圣者。

⁷In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,

⁸他们必不仰望自己双手所做的祭坛，也不再看着自己指头所做的，无论是亚舍拉，或是香坛。

⁸And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not — the shrines and the images.

⁹到那日，他们那些因以色列人而撇弃的坚固城，必像树林中和山顶上被撇弃的地方，这样，地就荒凉了。

⁹In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.

¹⁰忘记　神的结果因为你忘记了那拯救你的　神，又不记念那作你避难所的磐石，所以你虽然栽下佳美的树秧子，种下异种的幼苗，

¹⁰Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

¹¹又在你栽种的日子里，细心地在周围圈上篱笆，到早晨，又使你所栽种的开花，但在愁苦与极度伤痛的日子里，所收割的就只有一小堆。

¹¹In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap [is] the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

¹²以色列的敌人受罚唉！许多民族在喧哗，他们喧嚷好像海浪澎湃；列国在咆哮，他们吼叫，好像洪水奔流。

¹²Wo [to] the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And [to] the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.

¹³万族怒号，好像众水涌流，但　神必斥责他们，使他们远远逃跑；他们又被追赶，如同山上风前的糠秕，又像暴风前的尘土卷动。

¹³Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

¹⁴在晚上有惊恐，未到早晨，他们就没有了，这是那些抢夺我们的人所得的分，是那些掠劫我们的人应得的报应。

¹⁴At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!