1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
1葡萄園的比喻我要為我所愛的唱歌，這歌是關於他的葡萄園：我所愛的人有一個葡萄園，在肥美的山岡上。
2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
2他把園子周圍的泥土挖鬆了，撿去石頭，栽種了上好的葡萄樹；在園中建造了一座守望樓，又鑿了一個榨酒池。他期望結出好葡萄，卻結出野葡萄。
3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
3耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人哪！現在請你們在我與我的葡萄園之間斷定是非吧！
4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
4我為我的葡萄園所作的以外，還有甚麼要作的呢？我期望它結出好葡萄，它為甚麼倒結出野葡萄呢？
5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
5現在我告訴你們，我要怎樣處理我的葡萄園：我要把它的籬笆撤去，使它被吞滅；我要把它的圍牆拆毀，使它被踐踏。
6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
6我要使它荒廢，不再修剪，也不再耕耘，荊棘和蒺藜卻要長起來；我也要吩咐雲不再降雨在園子上。
7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
7因為萬軍之耶和華的葡萄園就是以色列家，他喜悅的樹就是猶大人；他期望的是公平，但看到的只是流血的事；他期望的是公義，聽到的只是哀叫聲。
8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
8人民的惡行──六禍那些使房屋連接房屋，使田地連接田地，以致不留餘地的人，有禍了！你們只可以獨居在境內。
9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
9我聽聞萬軍之耶和華說：“必有許多房屋變成荒涼，甚至那些又大又美的房屋也沒有人居住。
10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
10十公頃葡萄園只出二十二公升酒；二百二十公升穀種只結二十二公升糧食。”
11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
11那些清早起來，追求濃酒，留連到晚上，以致因酒發燒的人，有禍了！
12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
12在他們的筵席上，有琴、瑟、手鼓、笛和酒，但他們不理耶和華的作為，也不留心他手所作的。
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
13所以我的人民因無知被擄去；他們的尊貴人十分飢餓；他們的群眾極其乾渴。
14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
14故此，陰間擴張它的咽喉，張大它的口，沒有限量；耶路撒冷城的榮耀、群眾、喧嚷的人和在城中作樂的人，都要下到陰間。
15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
15卑賤人俯首，尊貴人降卑，眼目高傲的也降卑。
16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
16唯獨萬軍之耶和華，因公平被高舉；至聖的 神，因公義顯為聖。
17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
17那時羊羔必來吃草，像在自己的草場一樣；富裕者的荒場被寄居者隨意吃用。
18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
18那些人虛假的繩索牽引罪孽，又像用車繩拉罪惡的人，有禍了！
19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
19他們說：“願他趕快、迅速地成就他的作為，給我們看看！願以色列的聖者所計劃的臨近！願它來到，好讓我們知道！”
20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
20那些稱惡為善，稱善為惡，以暗為光，以光為暗，以苦為甜，以甜為苦的人，有禍了！
21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
21那些自以為有智慧，自視為聰明的人，有禍了！
22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
22那些勇於喝酒，又精於調和濃酒的人，有禍了！
23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
23他們因受了賄賂，就稱惡人為義；卻把義人的權益奪去。
24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
24因此，火舌怎樣吞滅碎秸，乾草怎樣落在火燄之中，照樣，他們的根必像腐朽之物，他們的花必像塵土飛揚；因為他們棄絕萬軍之耶和華的訓誨，藐視以色列聖者的話。
25Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
25所以耶和華的怒氣向他的子民發作，他伸出手來擊打他們，群山都震動，他們的屍體在街上好像糞土，雖然這樣，他的怒氣還未轉消，他的手仍然伸出。
26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
26懲罰快要來臨他必豎立旗幟，招一國的人從遠方而來，發出哨聲把他們從地極召來；看！他們必急速快奔而來。
27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
27他們當中沒有疲倦的，沒有絆倒的，沒有打盹的，也沒有睡覺的；他們的腰帶沒有放鬆，鞋帶也沒有折斷。
28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
28他們的箭銳利，所有的弓都上了弦；他們的馬蹄看來像火石，車輛似旋風。
29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
29他們的吼叫像母獅，他們的咆哮如幼獅；他們咆哮，攫取獵物，把它叼去，無人援救。
30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
30到那日，他們要向以色列人咆哮，像海浪的澎湃聲一樣；人若望著這地，就只見黑暗與災難；光在雲中也成了黑暗。