¹葡萄园之歌

¹In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword — the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan — a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan — a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.

²到那日，有个出酒的葡萄园，你们必指着这园歌唱说：

²In that day, `A desirable vineyard,` respond ye to her,

³“我耶和华是看守葡萄园的；我时刻浇灌着它，并且为免有人毁坏它，我日夜都看守着。

³I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!

⁴我再没有忿怒，若荆棘和蒺藜与我交战，我就上前践踏它们，把它们全部焚毁。

⁴Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier — a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

⁵除非他们抓住我作他们的避难所，与我和好，与我和好。”

⁵Or — he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

⁶在将来的日子里，雅各要扎根，以色列要发芽开花，他们的果实必遍布地面。

⁶Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world [with] increase.

⁷以色列民受罚耶和华击打以色列人，岂像击打那些击打他们的呢？主杀戮以色列人，岂像杀戮那些杀戮他们的呢？

⁷As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?

⁸不，你只是渐渐地，借着他们被掳与他们相争；在吹东风的日子，就用暴风把他们逐去。

⁸In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

⁹借此，雅各的罪孽才得赦免；他的罪过得以除掉的条件全都在于此，就是他叫祭坛上所有的石头都变为破碎的灰石，使亚舍拉和香坛不再竖立。

⁹Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this [is] all the fruit — To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not — shrines and images.

¹⁰坚固的城变为凄凉，成了被撇下、被放弃的居所，像旷野一样；牛犊必在那里吃草，在那里躺卧，并且吃尽那里的树枝。

¹⁰For the fenced city [is] alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.

¹¹以色列民回归枝条枯干了，就必被折断；妇女必来，拿去生火，因为这人民愚昧无知，所以他们的创造主不怜悯他们，那造成他们的，不向他们施恩。

¹¹In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

¹²到那日，耶和华要从幼发拉底的溪流，直到埃及小河，收集他的谷物；以色列人哪！你们必一个一个被捡拾回来。

¹²And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.

¹³到那日，必有大号角吹响，那些在亚述地快要灭亡的，以及那些被赶散在埃及地的，都要前来，在耶路撒冷的圣山上敬拜耶和华。

¹³And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount — in Jerusalem!