Isaiah 5

1 I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

1 我要為我所親愛的唱歌， 是我所愛者的歌，論他葡萄園的事： 我所親愛的有葡萄園在肥美的山岡上。

2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

2 他刨挖園子，撿去石頭， 栽種上等的葡萄樹， 在園中蓋了一座樓， 又鑿出壓酒池； 指望結好葡萄， 反倒結了野葡萄。

3 “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

3 耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人哪， 請你們現今在我與我的葡萄園中，斷定是非。

4 What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

4 我為我葡萄園所做之外， 還有甚麼可做的呢？ 我指望結好葡萄， 怎麼倒結了野葡萄呢？

5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

5 現在我告訴你們， 我要向我葡萄園怎樣行： 我必撤去籬笆，使它被吞滅， 拆毀牆垣，使它被踐踏。

6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

6 我必使它荒廢，不再修理， 不再鋤刨，荊棘蒺藜倒要生長。 我也必命雲不降雨在其上。

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

7 萬軍之耶和華的葡萄園就是以色列家； 他所喜愛的樹就是猶大人。 他指望的是公平， 誰知倒有暴虐 ； 指望的是公義， 誰知倒有冤聲。

8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

8 禍哉！那些以房接房， 以地連地， 以致不留餘地的， 只顧自己獨居境內。

9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

9 我耳聞萬軍之耶和華說： 必有許多又大又美的房屋 成為荒涼，無人居住。

10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

10 三十畝葡萄園只出一罷特酒； 一賀梅珥穀種只結一伊法糧食。

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

11 禍哉！那些清早起來追求濃酒， 留連到夜深，甚至因酒發燒的人。

12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

12 他們在筵席上 彈琴，鼓瑟，擊鼓，吹笛，飲酒， 卻不顧念耶和華的作為， 也不留心他手所做的。

13 Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

13 所以，我的百姓因無知就被擄去； 他們的尊貴人甚是飢餓， 群眾極其乾渴。

14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

14 故此，陰間擴張其欲， 開了無限量的口； 他們的榮耀、群眾、繁華， 並快樂的人都落在其中。

15 So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

15 卑賤人被壓服； 尊貴人降為卑； 眼目高傲的人也降為卑。

16 But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

16 惟有萬軍之耶和華因公平而崇高； 聖者上帝因公義顯為聖。

17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

17 那時，羊羔必來吃草，如同在自己的草場； 豐肥人的荒場被遊行的人吃盡。

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

18 禍哉！那些以虛假之細繩牽罪孽的人！ 他們又像以套繩拉罪惡，

19 to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

19 說：任他急速行，趕快成就他的作為， 使我們看看； 任以色列聖者所謀劃的臨近成就， 使我們知道。

20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

20 禍哉！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。

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

21 禍哉！那些自以為有智慧， 自看為通達的人。

22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

22 禍哉！那些勇於飲酒， 以能力調濃酒的人。

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

23 他們因受賄賂，就稱惡人為義， 將義人的義奪去。

24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

24 火苗怎樣吞滅碎稭， 乾草怎樣落在火焰之中， 照樣，他們的根必像朽物， 他們的花必像灰塵飛騰； 因為他們厭棄萬軍之耶和華的訓誨， 藐視以色列聖者的言語。

25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

25 所以，耶和華的怒氣向他的百姓發作。 他的手伸出攻擊他們，山嶺就震動； 他們的屍首在街市上好像糞土。 雖然如此，他的怒氣還未轉消； 他的手仍伸不縮。

26 He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

26 他必豎立大旗，招遠方的國民， 發嘶聲叫他們從地極而來； 看哪，他們必急速奔來。

27 None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

27 其中沒有疲倦的，絆跌的； 沒有打盹的，睡覺的； 腰帶並不放鬆， 鞋帶也不折斷。

28 Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

28 他們的箭快利， 弓也上了弦。 馬蹄算如堅石， 車輪好像旋風。

29 Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.

29 他們要吼叫，像母獅子， 咆哮，像少壯獅子； 他們要咆哮抓食， 坦然叼去，無人救回。

30 In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

30 那日，他們要向以色列人吼叫， 像海浪匉訇； 人若望地，只見黑暗艱難， 光明在雲中變為昏暗。