以赛亚书 17
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
关于大马士革的预言
17 以下是关于大马士革的预言：
“看啊，大马士革城必不复存在，沦为废墟。
2 亚罗珥的众城邑必被废弃，
羊群将在那里栖息，
没有人惊扰它们。
3 以法莲[a]的堡垒必被摧毁，
大马士革的王权必丧失。
幸存的亚兰人必像以色列人一样失去荣耀。”
这是万军之耶和华说的。
4 “到那日，雅各的荣耀必消失，
他肥胖的身躯必渐渐消瘦。
5 国家好像一块已收割的田地，
又像捡净麦穗的利乏音谷。
6 幸存者寥寥无几，就像打过的橄榄树上剩下的果子，
或两三个挂在树梢，
或四五个残存在枝头。”
这是以色列的上帝耶和华说的。
7 到那日，人们必仰望他们的创造主，向以色列的圣者求助。 8 那时他们不再仰望自己制造的祭坛，也不再供奉自己指头所造的亚舍拉神像和香坛。 9 到那日，他们因以色列人到来而遗弃的坚城必变为山林和高岗，一片荒凉。
10 以色列人啊，
你们忘记了拯救你们的上帝，
不记得那保护你们的磐石。
所以，你们虽然栽种佳美的秧子，
插上远方运来的树苗，
11 使它们在栽种的当天早上就生长开花，
也必一无所获。
你们得到的只是艰难和无尽的痛苦。
12 看啊，列国喧嚣，如怒海汹涌；
万民骚动，如洪水滔滔。
13 虽然万民喧嚣如汹涌的洪水，
但上帝一声斥责，他们便逃往远方，
像山顶上被风卷走的糠秕，
又如狂风刮走的尘埃。
14 他们晚上令人恐惧，早晨已无影无踪。这就是掳掠我们之人的下场，抢夺我们之人的报应。
Footnotes
- 17:3 旧约中常用以法莲代表以色列国。
Isaiah 17
King James Version
17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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