Isaiah:Chapter 8

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Isaiah:Chapter 8

依撒意亞	Isaiah
¹上主對我說：「你拿一塊大板，用通用的字體在上面寫『瑪赫爾、沙拉耳、哈市、巴次』。」	¹The Lord said to me, "Take a large cylindrical seal and write on it in ordinary characters: Quick to plunder-Booty is Close.
²我就叫了兩個忠直的證人，即司祭烏黎雅和耶貝勒基雅的兒子則加黎雅，為我作證。	²Do this before Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah my reliable witness."
³我接近了女先知，她便懷孕，生了一個兒子；上主對我說：「你給他起名叫瑪赫爾沙拉耳哈市巴次，	³I went to my wife; she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then Yahweh said to me, "Call him Quick to plunder-Booty is Close, for this is Yahweh's word:
⁴因為在這孩子會喊『爸爸』『媽媽』以前，大馬士革的財富和撒瑪黎雅的贓物必要運到亞述王前。」	⁴Before the child knows how to say "father" or "mother", the wealth of Damascus and the booty of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."
⁵上主又曉諭我說：	⁵Again Yahweh spoke to me:
⁶因為這民族厭棄了緩緩徐流的史羅亞水，因而在勒斤和勒瑪里雅之子面前驚慌；	⁶"Because this people refuses the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, and cowers in fear before Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
⁷為此，看，吾主必使洶湧澎湃的河水──即亞述王和他所有的軍隊──上來淹沒他們；他必將瀉出一切河道，溢出一切河岸，	⁷therefore the Lord will bring against them the waters of the River, deep and mighty - the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will rise over all its channels and overflow all its banks;
⁸直沖入猶大，漲溢氾濫，高達人的頸項。厄瑪奴耳啊！他展開的兩翼，將掩蓋你廣闊的疆土！	⁸it will sweep on to Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching up to the neck. It will spread its wings over the whole breadth of your land, O Immanuel!
⁹眾民啊！覺悟罷！你們終必喪膽！遠方的一切民族啊！聆聽罷！任憑你們怎樣束腰，終必喪膽！任憑你們怎樣束腰，終必喪膽。	⁹Know it, O you nations. Hear, O you distant lands; gird yourselves for war and be dismayed!
¹⁰你們雖然策劃，必然落空；你們雖然說定，決不能實現，因為天主與我們同在。	¹⁰Devise a plan and it will be thwarted, make a resolve and it will not stand, for God-is-with-us.
¹¹當上主以手握住我，警惕我不要走這民族的道路時，這樣對我說：	¹¹Thus Yahweh spoke to me when his hand grasped me and he warned me not to walk in the way of these people:
¹²這民族稱為聖的，你們不得稱之為聖！他們畏懼的，你們不必畏懼，也不必戰兢！	¹²"Do not speak of conspiracy whenever these people dread conspiracy; do not fear what they fear nor be in dread.
¹³萬軍的上主，你們惟應以他為聖；他是你們當敬畏的，是你們當恐懼的。	¹³Only Yahweh Sabaoth must you hold in veneration, only him must you fear, only him must you dread.
¹⁴他將是以色列兩家的絆腳石和失足的暗礁，是耶路撒冷居民的羅網和陷阱。	¹⁴He will be a sanctuary and at the same time a stumbling-stone, the rock that brings down, for both houses of Israel. He will be like trap and snare for the people of Jerusalem.
¹⁵他們中間有許多人將失足跌倒而折傷，陷於圈套而被捕。	¹⁵Many of them will stumble, many will fall and be broken, be trapped and captured."
¹⁶證件已綁好，訓誨在我門徒中已封緘，	¹⁶Yahweh added: "Bind this testimony and seal it in the midst of my disciples."
¹⁷我只仰望那位現在轉面不顧雅各伯家的上主，我要等待他。	¹⁷So I will wait for Yahweh who hides his face from the people of Jacob. I will hope in him.
¹⁸看哪！我和上主賞給我的孩子，在以色列中成了標識和預兆：這原是出於住在熙雍山上的萬軍的上主！	¹⁸Here am I and the children he has given me. We are signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh Sabaoth, who dwells on Mount Zion.
¹⁹有人或對你們說：「你們詢問那些喃喃細語的巫覡和術士罷！百姓豈不能詢問自己的神，為活人而詢問幽魂嗎？」	¹⁹Should people tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, you must say to them: "A people, of course, must consult its gods! On behalf of the living, will you consult the dead?"
²⁰「應到訓誨和證件中去尋！」誰若不照這話答覆，為他便沒有曙光。	²⁰This is what is said through the law and revelations: this word will not fade away.
²¹人將忍受着痛苦和飢餓，經過此地；當他由於飢餓而暴發忿怒時，必詛咒自己的君王和自己的神明；他無論仰望上天，	²¹Distressed and famished, they will roam the land. In their hunger they will fume and curse their God and their king. They will look upward,
²²或注視大地，他只見苦惱和幽暗，昏黯和恐怖！但黑暗畢竟要被驅除，	²²and then look towards the earth, but they will only find distress and darkness, and frightening gloom.
²³因為遭受災難的，必將免於黑暗。往昔上主曾使則步隆和納斐塔里地域受了侮辱，但日後卻使沿海之路，約但東岸，外方人的加里肋亞獲得了光榮。	²³Yet, where there was but anguish, darkness will disappear. He has just afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the future he will confer glory on the way of the sea, on the land beyond the Jordan - the pagans' Galilee.

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