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¹And Jehovah saith unto me, `Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.`

²我要叫两个诚实的见证人，就是乌利亚祭司和耶比利家的儿子撒迦利亚，来为我作见证。”

²And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.

³我亲近了女先知，就是我妻子，她就怀孕生子。耶和华对我说：“给他起名叫‘玛黑珥．沙拉勒．哈施．罢斯’，

³And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

⁴因为在这孩子晓得喊叫父母以先，大马士革的财宝和撒玛利亚的掳物，必在亚述王面前被搬了去。”

⁴for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.`

⁵亚述入侵耶和华又再告诉我说：

⁵And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:

⁶“这子民既然厌弃了西罗亚缓流的水，却喜悦利汛和利玛利的儿子，

⁶`Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

⁷因此，主必使大河又强又大的水临到他们，就是亚述王和他一切威荣，水必涨起来，高过所有的水道；水要泛滥，漫过所有的河岸；

⁷Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.

⁸然后必冲入犹大，涨溢泛滥，直到颈项，以马内利啊！它展开的翅膀必遮遍你广阔的地土。”

⁸And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O Emmanu-El!

⁹列国之民啊！你们尽管作恶，但你们终必毁灭！所有在远处的人民啊，要留心听！你们尽管束腰吧，你们终必毁灭！你们尽管束腰吧，你们终必毁灭！

⁹Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.

¹⁰你们尽管计划阴谋吧，这些终必失败；你们尽管提议吧，这些终必不能成立，因为　神与我们同在。

¹⁰Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!`

¹¹当远离偶像与邪术耶和华以大能的手托住我，教导我不要走这子民所走的道路；他对我这样说：

¹¹For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

¹²“这子民所称为阴谋的，你们都不要称为阴谋；他们所怕的，你们不要怕，也不要畏惧。

¹²`Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.

¹³你们要尊万军之耶和华为圣，他是你们当怕的，也是你们当畏惧的。

¹³Jehovah of Hosts — Him ye do sanctify, And He [is] your Fear, and He your Dread,

¹⁴他必向信靠他的人作圣所，却向以色列两家作绊脚的石头、跌人的磐石；又向耶路撒冷的居民作陷阱和网罗。

¹⁴And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵许多人必在其上绊跌、仆倒、跌碎，并且陷入网罗被捉住。”

¹⁵And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

¹⁶你要卷起律法书，在我的门徒中间封住训诲。

¹⁶Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.

¹⁷我要等候那掩面不顾雅各家的耶和华，我要仰视他。

¹⁷And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

¹⁸看哪！我和耶和华赐给我的孩子，在以色列中作预兆与奇迹，都是从住在锡安山的万军之耶和华来的。

¹⁸Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, [Are] for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.

¹⁹有人对你们说：“要求问那些交鬼的和行巫术的，就是那些喃喃细语的人。”一族之民不应当求问自己的　神吗？他们怎能为活人求问死人呢？

¹⁹And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? — For the living unto the dead!

²⁰他们应当求问　神的训诲和法度；他们若不照着这些准则说话，就见不到曙光。

²⁰To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.`

²¹他们必经过这地，受困迫、受饥饿；他们饥饿的时候，就恼怒，咒骂自己的王和自己的　神；

²¹— And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.

²²他们仰脸向天观望，又俯视大地，只见困苦、黑暗、可怕的幽暗；他们必被赶入幽黑的黑暗中。

²²And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! — Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!