¹与埃及结盟必受祸害

¹Wo [to] apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

²他们起程下埃及去，并没有求问我，却要在法老的保护下，作避难处，投靠在埃及的荫庇下。

²Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

³因此，法老的保护必成为你们的羞耻，投靠在埃及的荫庇下，变成你们的耻辱。

³And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,

⁴他们的领袖虽然已在琐安，他们的使臣虽然已到达哈内斯，

⁴For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.

⁵但他们都必因那对于他们毫无利益的人民而蒙羞，那人民带来的不是帮助或益处，而是羞耻和凌辱。”

⁵All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

⁶以下是论南地野兽的默示：他们把财富驮在驴驹的背上，把宝物驮在骆驼的峰上，经过艰难困苦之地，就是公狮、母狮、蝮蛇和会飞的火蛇出没的地方，到一个对他们毫无益处的民族那里去。

⁶The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence [are] viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.

⁷埃及的帮助是徒然的，是虚幻的，因此我称它为“坐而不动的拉哈伯”。

⁷Yea, Egyptians [are] vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: `Their strength [is] to sit still.`

⁸悖逆不听圣言的子民现在你去，在他们面前把这话刻在版上，记在书卷上，作日后的证据，直到永永远远。

⁸No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,

⁹因为这是悖逆的子民，不忠心的儿女，不肯听从耶和华教导的儿女。

⁹That a rebellious people [is] this, sons — liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

¹⁰他们对先见说：“你们不要再看异象！”又对先知说：“你们不要再向我说真确的预言！倒要向我说动听的话，预言虚幻的事吧！

¹⁰Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,` And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

¹¹你们要离开正道，转离义路，不要在我们面前再提以色列的圣者了！”

¹¹Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.`

¹²因此，以色列的圣者这样说：“因为你们弃绝了这话，反而信赖欺压和乖僻的手段，更以此为倚靠，

¹²Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,

¹³所以这罪孽对于你们，必像一道有了裂缝，且凸了出来，快要倒塌的高墙，在顷刻之间，就突然倒塌。

¹³Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

¹⁴它的倒塌好像窑匠的瓦器破碎一般，毫不顾惜被彻底粉碎，甚至在碎块中找不到一块，可以用来从炉里取火，或从池中舀水。”

¹⁴And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters` bottle, Beaten down — He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

¹⁵因为主耶和华以色列的圣者这样说：“你们得救在于悔改和安息，你们得力在于平静和信靠。”但你们竟不愿意。

¹⁵For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.

¹⁶你们却说：“不！我们要骑马奔跑。”所以你们真的要逃跑；你们又说：“我们要骑快马。”所以那些追赶你们的，也必快速！

¹⁶And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.

¹⁷一个敌人就可以威吓你们一千个人，若五个敌人威吓你们，你们都要逃跑了！以致你们所剩下的，必孤立如同山顶上的旗杆，冈陵上的旗帜。

¹⁷One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.

¹⁸等候　神的必蒙眷顾因此，耶和华必等候要恩待你们；他必兴起来怜悯你们，因为耶和华是公义的　神。等候他的，都是有福的。

¹⁸And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment [is] Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.

¹⁹锡安的人民、耶路撒冷的居民哪！你们必不再哭泣。他必因你哀求的声音恩待你；他听见的时候，就必应允你。

¹⁹For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.

²⁰主虽然以艰难给你们当食物，以困迫给你们当水，但你的教师必不再隐藏；你必亲眼看见你的教师。

²⁰And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,

²¹每当你偏左或偏右的时候，你必听见后面有声音说：“这是正路，要行在其中！”

²¹And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This [is] the way, go ye in it,` When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

²²你要拋弃你那些包着银的雕像和镀了金的铸像，如同污秽之物一般拋弃它们，又对它们说：“去吧！”

²²And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,` thou sayest to it.

²³你撒在地里的种子，主必降雨在其上，并且使你地里所出产的粮食，既丰盛又肥美。到那日，你的牲畜必在宽阔的草场上吃草。

²³And He hath given rain [for] thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.

²⁴耕地的牛和驴驹必吃加盐的饲料，就是用铲和叉所扬净的。

²⁴And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.

²⁵在大行杀戮的日子，高台倒塌的时候，各高山冈陵都必有溪水涌流。

²⁵And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets — streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.

²⁶耶和华包扎他子民的伤口，医治他们伤痕的日子，月亮的光必像太阳的光；太阳的光必增加七倍，像七日的光一样。

²⁶And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of Jehovah`s binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.

²⁷　神惩罚亚述看哪！耶和华的名从远方而来，他的怒气烧起，浓烟上腾；他的嘴唇充满忿怒，他的舌头像吞灭的火。

²⁷Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue [is] as a devouring fire.

²⁸他的气息如涨溢的河水，直涨到颈项，并要用毁灭的筛把列国筛净，又在众民口中放入使人步向灭亡的嚼环。

²⁸And His breath [is] as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, [Is] on the jaws of the peoples.

²⁹你们却必歌唱，好像守圣节的夜间一样；你们必心里喜乐，好像吹着笛行走的人，必上耶和华的山，到以色列的磐石那里。

²⁹Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.

³⁰耶和华必使人听见他威严的声音，在烈怒、吞灭一切火焰、大雨、暴风和冰雹之中，又使人看见他那降下来的膀臂。

³⁰And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.

³¹亚述人必因耶和华的声音惊惶；耶和华要用杖击打他们。

³¹For from the voice of Jehovah broken down [is] Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.

³²耶和华必把刑罚的杖加在他们身上，每打一下，都有击鼓和弹琴的声音；耶和华在争战的时候，必挥动着手与他们争战。

³²And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.

³³因为陀斐特那烧着的火早已安排好了，是为君王预备的，又深又宽；其中所堆的，是火和许多的柴；耶和华的气像一股硫磺火，把它燃点起来。

³³For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its pile [is] fire and much wood, The breath of Jehovah, As a stream of brim stone, is burning in it!