Isaiah 47

1 “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

1 “处女巴比伦啊， 下来坐在尘土中吧！ 少女迦勒底啊， 坐在没有宝座的地上吧！ 因为你必不再称得上娇柔细嫩。

2 Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

2 你要推磨磨面， 揭下面纱，掀起裙子， 露出大腿，涉水过河。

3 Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

3 你必赤身裸体， 露出羞处。 我必报仇，不放过一人。

4 Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.

4 我们的救赎主是以色列的圣者， 祂名叫万军之耶和华。

5 “Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

5 “迦勒底少女啊， 要默默地坐着，进入黑暗中， 因为你不再被称为列国之后。

6 I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

6 我曾向我的子民发怒， 让我的产业被玷污， 把他们交在你手中。 你对他们毫不留情， 甚至让老人负极重的轭。

7 You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

7 你声称要永远做王后， 不把这些事放在心上， 也不思想以后的结局。

8 So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

8 “淫逸安舒的人啊，听着！ 你自以为天下无双， 你必不致寡居， 也不会遭丧子之痛。

9 These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

9 谁知两件事却在同一天忽然临到你。 即使你施展许多邪术和符咒， 寡居和丧子也必全然临到你。

10 You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

10 “你肆无忌惮地行恶， 自以为没有人看见。 你被自己的聪明智慧欺骗， 自以为天下无双。

11 But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

11 你必大祸临头， 不知如何祛灾避祸。 灾祸必落在你身上， 无可挽回。 你意想不到的祸患必突然来到。

12 So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

12 “你自幼就勤练符咒和五花八门的邪术，继续施展吧！ 也许会有用处， 也许会令人害怕。

13 You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

13 众多的计谋使你疲惫不堪， 让那些观天象、 每月说预言的占星家来救你脱离将临的灾祸吧！

14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

14 “看啊，他们不过像碎秸， 必遭焚烧， 无法救自己脱离烈焰。 这火并非取暖的炭火， 也不是人可以靠近的火。

15 This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

15 你自幼交往并一同劳碌的占星家帮不上你， 他们都各陷迷途，无人救你。