| 厄則克耳 |
Ezekiel |
| 1上主的話傳給我說： |
1Thus the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2「人子，你應開庭裁判這座流人血的城，叫她知道自己的醜惡。 |
2You, son of man, would you judge, would you judge the bloody city? Then make known all her abominations, |
| 3你應說：吾主上主這樣說：那流人血，使時辰迫近，製造偶像，自染不潔的城，是有禍的！ |
3and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the city which sheds blood within herself so that her time has come, and which has made idols for her own defilement. |
| 4因你傾流人血，自負血債；因你製造偶像，自染不潔，致使你的日子已近，你的年限已到；為此，我要使你成為萬民所侮辱，萬邦所恥笑的對象。 |
4By the blood which you shed you have been made guilty, and with the idols you made you have become defiled; you have brought on your day, so that the end of your years has come. Therefore I make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all foreign lands. |
| 5那離你近，離你遠的，都要恥笑你為一惡名多亂的城。 |
5Those near you and those far off shall deride you because of your foul reputation and your great perversity. |
| 6看，以色列的首領，在你中間各逞其能，傾流人的血。 |
6See! the princes of Israel, family by family, are in you only for bloodshed. |
| 7在你中間有人輕視父母，在你中間有人壓迫外方人，在你中間也有人欺壓孤兒寡婦。 |
7Within you, father and mother are despised; in your midst, they extort from the resident alien; within you, they oppress orphans and widows. |
| 8你藐視了我的聖物，褻瀆了我的安息日。 |
8What is holy to me you have spurned, and my sabbaths you have desecrated. |
| 9在你中間有人誹謗，好傾流人血。在你中間有人到山上吃祭物，在你中間有人行淫亂。 |
9There are those in you who slander to cause bloodshed; within you are those who feast on the mountains; in your midst are those who do lewd things. |
| 10在你中間有人揭開父親的下體，在你中間有人玷污行經不潔的婦女。 |
10In you are those who uncover the nakedness of their fathers, and in you those who coerce women in their menstrual period. |
| 11在你中間有人同鄰人的妻子行醜惡之事，有人姦污自己的兒媳，有人玷辱自己的姊妹，即父親的女兒。 |
11There are those in you who do abominable things with the wives of their neighbors, men who defile their daughters-in-law by incest, men who coerce their sisters, the daughters of their own fathers. |
| 12在你中間有人接受賄賂，以傾流人血。你收息金，放重利，用強力剝削你的近人，而你竟忘了我──吾主上主的斷語── |
12There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you despoil your neighbors violently; and me you have forgotten, says the Lord GOD. |
| 13看，對你所放的重利，對在你中間所流的血債，我要鼓掌。 |
13See, I am brushing one hand against the other because of the unjust profits you have made and because of the blood shed in your midst. |
| 14在我與你算賬的那天，難道你的心還能忍受，你的手還能堅強？我，上主言出必行。 |
14Can your heart remain firm, will your hands be strong, in the days when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act. |
| 15我要將你驅逐在異民中，將你散布在各地，消除你的污穢。 |
15I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you over foreign lands, so that I may purge your uncleanness. |
| 16以後在異民眼前，我必再使你做我的產業：如此你要承認我是上主。」 |
16In you I will allow myself to be profaned in the eyes of the nations; thus you shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 17上主的話傳給我說： |
17Thus the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 18「人子，以色列家族對我好像是渣滓，他們成了爐中的銅、錫、鐵和鋁，他們都成了銀渣。 |
18Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross for me. All of them are bronze and tin, iron and lead (in the midst of a furnace): dross from silver have they become. |
| 19因此吾主上主這樣說：因為你們都成了渣滓，為此，看，我必將你們聚集在耶路撒冷， |
19Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because all of you have become dross, therefore I must gather you together within Jerusalem. |
| 20如把銀、銅、鐵、鉛和錫聚集在煉爐中，在上面吹火，使它們鎔化；照樣，我也要把你們聚集在我的怒火和憤恨中，將你們拋在裏面鎔化。 |
20Just as silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered into a furnace and smelted in the roaring flames, so I will gather you together in my furious wrath, put you in, and smelt you. |
| 21我要聚集你們，在你們身上吹起我的怒火，使你們鎔化在耶路撒冷； |
21When I have assembled you, I will blast you with the fire of my anger and smelt you with it. |
| 22就像銀子在煉爐中鎔化，你們也照樣在城中鎔化：如此，你們就承認我是上主，是我在你們身上發洩了怒火。」 |
22You shall be smelted by it just as silver is smelted in a furnace. Thus you shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out my fury on you. |
| 23上主的話傳給我說： |
23Thus the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 24「人子，你應對此城說：你是一塊在震怒之日無雨無水之地。 |
24Son of man, say to her: You are a land unrained on (that is, not rained on) at the time of my fury. |
| 25城中的王侯像撕裂獵物的吼獅，他們吞噬人民，搶奪財物和珍寶，增加了城中的寡婦。 |
25Her princes are like roaring lions that tear prey; they devour people, seizing their wealth and precious things, and make widows of many within her. |
| 26城中司祭違犯我的法律，褻瀆我的聖物，不分別聖與俗，不辨明潔與不潔，且掩目不顧我的安息日，致使我在他們中蒙受褻瀆。 |
26Her priests violate my law and profane what is holy to me; they do not distinguish between the sacred and the profane, nor teach the difference between the unclean and the clean; they pay no attention to my sabbaths, so that I have been profaned in their midst. |
| 27城中的首長像撕裂獵物的豺狼，傾流人血，殺害人命，以圖謀不義之財。 |
27Her nobles within her are like wolves that tear prey, shedding blood and destroying lives to get unjust gain. |
| 28城中的先知還為他們掩飾罪過，所見的都是假異象，所說的都是欺詐的預言。他們說：吾主上主這樣說，其實上主並沒有說。 |
28Her prophets cover them with whitewash, pretending to visions that are false and performing lying divinations, saying, "Thus says the Lord GOD," although the LORD has not spoken. |
| 29本地的人民蠻橫強暴，劫奪搶掠，欺壓窮苦貧困的人，迫害外方人，無法無天。 |
29The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they afflict the poor and the needy, and oppress the resident alien without justice. |
| 30我在他們中找尋一個能修理城牆的人，能在我面前為保護本地，站在缺口處，免得我去破壞那地方的人；但我沒找到一個。 |
30Thus I have searched among them for someone who could build a wall or stand in the breach before me to keep me from destroying the land; but I found no one. |
| 31為此，我向他們發洩我的怒氣，用我的怒火消滅他們，把他們的行為報復在他們頭上──吾主上主的斷語。」 |
31Therefore I have poured out my fury upon them; with my fiery wrath I have consumed them; I have brought down their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord GOD. |
