Isaiah 14

1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

1 耶和华必怜悯雅各，再次拣选以色列人，把他们安置在他们自己的土地上。外族人必与他们联合，归入雅各家。

2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

2 列邦必带他们重返故乡。在耶和华赐给他们的土地上，外族人必做他们的仆婢。他们必掳掠以前掳掠他们的人，统治以前压迫他们的人。

3 On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

3 耶和华使他们脱离痛苦、悲伤和残酷奴役的时候，

4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

4 他们必这样讥笑巴比伦王： “暴君灭亡了！ 暴政结束了！

5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

5 耶和华折断了邪恶之人的棍， 折断了掌权者的杖。

6 It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

6 他们曾狂怒地攻伐列邦， 无休无止， 带着怒气征服列国， 大肆迫害。

7 All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.

7 如今天下太平， 人人欢呼歌唱，

8 Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

8 松树和黎巴嫩的香柏树都因你而欢喜，说， ‘自从你灭亡后， 再没有人上来砍伐我们。’

9 Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

9 你下到阴间， 阴间骚动，迎接你的到来； 在世上做过首领的阴魂都起身欢迎你， 列国的先王都从座位上站起来迎候你。

10 They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

10 他们都对你说， ‘你如今也跟我们一样软弱无能！ 你和我们一样了！’

11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

11 你的荣华和琴声一同坠入阴间， 虫成了你的床铺， 蛆成了你的被子。

12 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

12 “明亮的晨星，黎明之子啊， 你怎么从天上坠落下来？ 你这打败列国的怎么被砍倒在地上？

13 You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

13 你曾想，‘我要升到天上， 把我的宝座高高地设立在上帝的众星之上； 我要坐在遥远的北方众神明聚会的山上；

14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

14 我要升到云天之上， 使自己与至高者一样。’

15 But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

15 但你必坠入阴间， 掉进死亡的深坑。

16 Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

16 看见你的都定睛审视你， 心想，‘这就是那曾使大地震动、列国颤抖的人吗？

17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

17 这就是那曾使天下荒凉、城邑倾覆、不肯释放俘虏回家的人吗？’

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

18 列国的君王都躺在自己华丽的陵墓中，

19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

19 只有你像一根毫无用处的树枝， 被抛弃在自己的坟墓外。 你就像一具遭人践踏的尸体， 与丧身刀下的人一同被扔进乱石坑里。

20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

20 你必得不到君王的葬礼， 因为你毁坏国家， 杀害自己的百姓。 “恶人的子孙必永远被遗忘。

21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

21 他们的祖先罪恶深重， 预备杀戮他的子孙吧， 免得他们兴起统治世界、到处建造城邑。”

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

22 万军之耶和华说： “我必起来攻击巴比伦， 铲除巴比伦的名号、余民和子孙后代。 这是耶和华说的。

23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

23 我必用毁灭的扫帚清扫它， 使它成为沼泽之地和刺猬的住所。 这是万军之耶和华说的。”

24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

24 万军之耶和华起誓说： “我所定的计划必实现， 我所定的旨意必成就。

25 I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

25 我必在我的土地上击垮亚述人， 在我的山上践踏他们， 除去他们加在我子民身上的轭， 挪去他们肩头的重担。

26 This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

26 这是我对全世界所定的计划， 是向列国伸出的惩罚之手。”

27 The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

27 万军之耶和华定了计划， 谁能阻挠呢？ 祂的手已经伸出， 谁能叫祂收回呢？

28 In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

28 亚哈斯王驾崩那年，我得到以下预言：

29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

29 非利士人啊， 不要因击打你们的杖已经折断 便高兴。 因为从那条蛇必生出一条更危险的蛇， 一条会飞的毒蛇。

30 Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

30 贫穷人必衣食无忧， 困苦人必安然度日， 但我必用饥荒除掉你们的根， 杀死你们残存的人。

31 Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

31 城门啊，哀号吧！ 城邑啊，哭喊吧！ 非利士人啊，你们都战栗吧！ 因为军队从北方如尘烟滚滚而来， 他们阵容整齐，无人掉队。

32 What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

32 该怎样回复外国的使者呢？ 要告诉他们：“耶和华建立了锡安， 祂困苦的子民必在其中得到保护。”