Isaiah 13

1 This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

1 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示，论巴比伦。

2 Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

2 应当在净光的山竖立大旗， 向群众扬声招手， 使他们进入贵胄的门。

3 I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

3 我吩咐我所挑出来的人； 我招呼我的勇士— 就是那矜夸高傲之辈， 为要成就我怒中所定的。

4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

4 山间有多人的声音， 好像是大国人民。 有许多国的民聚集哄嚷的声音； 这是万军之耶和华点齐军队，预备打仗。

5 They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

5 他们从远方来， 从天边来， 就是耶和华并他恼恨的兵器 要毁灭这全地。

6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

6 你们要哀号， 因为耶和华的日子临近了！ 这日来到， 好像毁灭从全能者来到。

7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

7 所以，人手都必软弱； 人心都必消化。

8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

8 他们必惊惶悲痛； 愁苦必将他们抓住。 他们疼痛，好像产难的妇人一样， 彼此惊奇相看，脸如火焰。

9 Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

9 耶和华的日子临到， 必有残忍、忿恨、烈怒， 使这地荒凉， 从其中除灭罪人。

10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

10 天上的众星群宿都不发光； 日头一出就变黑暗； 月亮也不放光。

11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

11 我必因邪恶刑罚世界， 因罪孽刑罚恶人， 使骄傲人的狂妄止息， 制伏强暴人的狂傲。

12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

12 我必使人比精金还少， 使人比俄斐纯金更少。

13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

13 我—万军之耶和华在忿恨中发烈怒的日子， 必使天震动， 使地摇撼，离其本位。

14 Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

14 人必像被追赶的鹿， 像无人收聚的羊， 各归回本族， 各逃到本土。

15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

15 凡被仇敌追上的必被刺死； 凡被捉住的必被刀杀。

16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

16 他们的婴孩必在他们眼前摔碎； 他们的房屋必被抢夺； 他们的妻子必被玷污。

17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

17 我必激动米底亚人来攻击他们。 米底亚人不注重银子， 也不喜爱金子。

18 Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

18 他们必用弓击碎少年人， 不怜悯妇人所生的， 眼也不顾惜孩子。

19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

19 巴比伦素来为列国的荣耀， 为迦勒底人所矜夸的华美， 必像 神所倾覆的所多玛、蛾摩拉一样。

20 She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

20 其内必永无人烟， 世世代代无人居住。 阿拉伯人也不在那里支搭帐棚； 牧羊的人也不使羊群卧在那里。

21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

21 只有旷野的走兽卧在那里； 咆哮的兽满了房屋。 鸵鸟住在那里； 野山羊在那里跳舞。

22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

22 豺狼必在它宫中呼号； 野狗必在它华美殿内吼叫。 巴比伦受罚的时候临近； 它的日子必不长久。