¹　神要审判其子民的仇敌

¹Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.

²因为耶和华向列国发怒，向他们所有的军队发烈怒，要把他们灭尽，要把他们交出来受屠杀。

²For wrath [is] to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.

³他们被杀的必被拋弃在外面，尸体的臭气上腾，众山都被他们的血所溶化。

³And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.

⁴天上的万象都必消残；天也像书卷一般被卷起，所有星宿也必衰残，像葡萄树的叶子衰残一样，又像无花果树的叶子凋落一样。

⁴And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.

⁵因为我的刀在天上已经喝足了，看哪！它要落在以东，以及我决定要灭绝的民身上，为要施行审判。

⁵For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.

⁶耶和华的刀染满了血，这刀因脂肪、羊羔和公山羊的血，以及公绵羊腰子的脂肪而滋润，因为耶和华在波斯拉有杀牲献祭的事，在以东地有大屠杀。

⁶A sword [is] to Jehovah — it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice [is] to Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷野牛、牛犊与壮牛要与他们一同倒下，他们的地喝足了血，他们的尘土因脂肪而肥润。

⁷And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.

⁸因为耶和华有报仇的日子，为锡安的案件，必有报应之年。

⁸(For a day of vengeance [is] to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion`s strife,)

⁹以东的河水都要变成石油，它的尘土必变成硫磺，它的地土要变成烧着的石油，

⁹And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

¹⁰昼夜不熄，烟气永远上腾，并且必世世代代变为荒凉，永永远远无人经过。

¹⁰By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

¹¹但鹈鹕与箭猪要占据那地，猫头鹰和乌鸦必住在其中。耶和华必把空虚的准绳、混沌的线铊，拉在其上。

¹¹And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

¹²它的显贵一个也没有了，以致不能称为一国，所有的领袖也没有了。

¹²[To] the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

¹³以东的宫殿必长荆棘，它的堡垒必长蒺藜和刺草；它要作野狗的住处，作鸵鸟的居所。

¹³And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble [are] in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

¹⁴旷野的走兽必与豺狼相遇，野山羊必呼喊它的同伴；连夜间的怪物也必在那里栖身，为自己寻找休息的地方。

¹⁴And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.

¹⁵箭蛇要在那里筑窝、下蛋、孵蛋，并且聚子在它的阴影下；鹞鹰也各与自己的伴偶，聚集在那里。

¹⁵There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

¹⁶你们要查考和阅读耶和华的书卷；这些都无一缺少，也没有一个是没有伴偶的，因为他的口已吩咐了，他的灵已把它们聚集。

¹⁶Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth — it hath commanded, And His spirit — He hath gathered them.

¹⁷他也为它们抽签，他的手用准绳给它们分地；它们必永远得着那地，也要世世代代住在其中。

¹⁷And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned [it] to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!