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以賽亞得默示

¹當烏西雅、約坦、亞哈斯、希西家作猶大王的時候，亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示，論到猶大和耶路撒冷。This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

悖逆的兒女

²天哪，要聽！地啊，側耳而聽！因為耶和華說：我養育兒女，將他們養大，他們竟悖逆我。Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

³牛認識主人，驢認識主人的槽，以色列卻不認識；我的民卻不留意。The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

⁴嗐！犯罪的國民，擔著罪孽的百姓；行惡的種類，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，與他生疏，往後退步。Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

⁵你們為甚麼屢次悖逆，還要受責打嗎？你們已經滿頭疼痛，全心發昏。Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

⁶從腳掌到頭頂，沒有一處完全的，盡是傷口、青腫，與新打的傷痕，都沒有收口，沒有纏裹，也沒有用膏滋潤。From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

⁷你們的地土已經荒涼；你們的城邑被火焚毀。你們的田地在你們眼前為外邦人所侵吞，既被外邦人傾覆就成為荒涼。Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

⁸僅存錫安城（原文是女子），好像葡萄園的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被圍困的城邑。And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

⁹若不是萬軍之耶和華給我們稍留餘種，我們早已像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的樣子了。Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

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虛浮的祭物

¹⁰你們這所多瑪的官長啊，要聽耶和華的話！你們這蛾摩拉的百姓啊，要側耳聽我們　神的訓誨！Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

¹¹耶和華說：你們所獻的許多祭物與我何益呢？公綿羊的燔祭和肥畜的脂油，我已經夠了；公牛的血，羊羔的血，公山羊的血，我都不喜悅。“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

¹²你們來朝見我，誰向你們討這些，使你們踐踏我的院宇呢？When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

¹³你們不要再獻虛浮的供物。香品是我所憎惡的；月朔和安息日，並宣召的大會，也是我所憎惡的；作罪孽，又守嚴肅會，我也不能容忍。Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

¹⁴你們的月朔和節期，我心裡恨惡，我都以為麻煩；我擔當，便不耐煩。I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵你們舉手禱告，我必遮眼不看；就是你們多多地祈禱，我也不聽。你們的手都滿了殺人的血。When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

你們來，我們彼此辯論

¹⁶你們要洗濯、自潔，從我眼前除掉你們的惡行，要止住作惡，Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

¹⁷學習行善，尋求公平，解救受欺壓的；給孤兒伸冤，為寡婦辨屈。Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

¹⁸耶和華說：你們來，我們彼此辯論。你們的罪雖像硃紅，必變成雪白；雖紅如丹顏，必白如羊毛。“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

¹⁹你們若甘心聽從，必吃地上的美物，If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

²⁰若不聽從，反倒悖逆，必被刀劍吞滅。這是耶和華親口說的。But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

忠信的城變為妓女

²¹可歎，忠信的城變為妓女！從前充滿了公平，公義居在其中，現今卻有兇手居住。See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

²²你的銀子變為渣滓；你的酒用水攙對。Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

²³你的官長居心悖逆，與盜賊作伴，各都喜愛賄賂，追求贓私。他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

²⁴因此，主─萬軍之耶和華、以色列的大能者說：哎！我要向我的對頭雪恨，向我的敵人報仇。Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.

²⁵我必反手加在你身上，煉盡你的渣滓，除淨你的雜質。I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

²⁶我也必復還你的審判官，像起初一樣，復還你的謀士，像起先一般。然後，你必稱為公義之城，忠信之邑。I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

²⁷錫安必因公平得蒙救贖；其中歸正的人必因公義得蒙救贖。Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

²⁸但悖逆的和犯罪的必一同敗亡；離棄耶和華的必致消滅。But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

²⁹那等人必因你們所喜愛的橡樹抱愧；你們必因所選擇的園子蒙羞。Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

³⁰因為，你們必如葉子枯乾的橡樹，好像無水澆灌的園子。For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

³¹有權勢的必如麻瓤；他的工作好像火星，都要一同焚毀，無人撲滅。The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

萬民流歸耶和華的山

¹亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示，論到猶大和耶路撒冷。This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

²末後的日子，耶和華殿的山必堅立，超乎諸山，高舉過於萬嶺；萬民都要流歸這山。In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

³必有許多國的民前往，說：來吧，我們登耶和華的山，奔雅各　神的殿。主必將他的道教訓我們；我們也要行他的路。因為訓誨必出於錫安；耶和華的言語必出於耶路撒冷。And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

⁴他必在列國中施行審判，為許多國民斷定是非。他們要將刀打成犁頭，把槍打成鐮刀。這國不舉刀攻擊那國；他們也不再學習戰事。Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.

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⁵雅各家啊，來吧！我們在耶和華的光明中行走。Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

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耶和華降罰的日子

⁶耶和華，你離棄了你百姓雅各家，是因他們充滿了東方的風俗，作觀兆的，像非利士人一樣，並與外邦人擊掌。For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

⁷他們的國滿了金銀，財寶也無窮；他們的地滿了馬匹，車輛也無數。Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

⁸他們的地滿了偶像；他們跪拜自己手所造的，就是自己指頭所做的。Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

⁹卑賤人屈膝；尊貴人下跪；所以不可饒恕他們。So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

¹⁰你當進入巖穴，藏在土中，躲避耶和華的驚嚇和他威嚴的榮光。Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.

¹¹到那日，眼目高傲的必降為卑；性情狂傲的都必屈膝；惟獨耶和華被尊崇。The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²必有萬軍耶和華降罰的一個日子，要臨到驕傲狂妄的；一切自高的都必降為卑；For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—

¹³又臨到黎巴嫩高大的香柏樹和巴珊的橡樹；against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴又臨到一切高山的峻嶺；against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

¹⁵又臨到高臺和堅固城牆；against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

¹⁶又臨到他施的船隻並一切可愛的美物。against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

¹⁷驕傲的必屈膝；狂妄的必降卑。在那日，惟獨耶和華被尊崇；So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

¹⁸偶像必全然廢棄。and the idols will vanish completely.

¹⁹耶和華興起，使地大震動的時候，人就進入石洞，進入土穴，躲避耶和華的驚嚇和他威嚴的榮光。Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

²⁰到那日，人必將為拜而造的金偶像、銀偶像拋給田鼠和蝙蝠。In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

²¹到耶和華興起，使地大震動的時候，人好進入磐石洞中和巖石穴裡，躲避耶和華的驚嚇和他威嚴的榮光。They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

²²你們休要倚靠世人。他鼻孔裡不過有氣息；他在一切事上可算甚麼呢？Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

倚靠的被除掉

¹主─萬軍之耶和華從耶路撒冷和猶大，除掉眾人所倚靠的，所仗賴的，就是所倚靠的糧，所仗賴的水；For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

²除掉勇士和戰士，審判官和先知，占卜的和長老，the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

³五十夫長和尊貴人，謀士和有巧藝的，以及妙行法術的。the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

⁴主說：我必使孩童作他們的首領，使嬰孩轄管他們。“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

⁵百姓要彼此欺壓；各人受鄰舍的欺壓。少年人必侮慢老年人；卑賤人必侮慢尊貴人。The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

⁶人在父家拉住弟兄，說：你有衣服，可以作我們的官長。這敗落的事歸在你手下吧！A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

⁷那時，他必揚聲說：我不作醫治你們的人；因我家中沒有糧食，也沒有衣服，你們不可立我作百姓的官長。On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

⁸耶路撒冷敗落，猶大傾倒；因為他們的舌頭和行為與耶和華反對，惹了他榮光的眼目。For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

⁹他們的面色證明自己的不正；他們述說自己的罪惡，並不隱瞞，好像所多瑪一樣。他們有禍了！因為作惡自害。The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

¹⁰你們要論義人說：他必享福樂，因為要吃自己行為所結的果子。Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

¹¹惡人有禍了！他必遭災難！因為要照自己手所行的受報應。Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

¹²至於我的百姓，孩童欺壓他們，婦女轄管他們。我的百姓啊，引導你的使你走錯，並毀壞你所行的道路。Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

神審判長老和首領

¹³耶和華起來辯論，站著審判眾民。The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.

¹⁴耶和華必審問他民中的長老和首領，說：吃盡葡萄園果子的就是你們；向貧窮人所奪的都在你們家中。The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵主─萬軍之耶和華說：你們為何壓制我的百姓，搓磨貧窮人的臉呢？Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

錫安狂傲的女子

¹⁶耶和華又說：因為錫安的女子狂傲，行走挺項，賣弄眼目，俏步徐行，腳下玎璫，The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

¹⁷所以，主必使錫安的女子頭長禿瘡；耶和華又使她們赤露下體。the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

¹⁸到那日，主必除掉她們華美的腳釧、髮網、月牙圈、In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

¹⁹耳環、手鐲、蒙臉的帕子、their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

²⁰華冠、足鍊、華帶、香盒、符囊、their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;

²¹戒指、鼻環、their signet rings and nose rings;

²²吉服、外套、雲肩、荷包、their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;

²³手鏡、細麻衣、裹頭巾、蒙身的帕子。and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

²⁴必有臭爛代替馨香，繩子代替腰帶，光禿代替美髮，麻衣繫腰代替華服，烙傷代替美容。Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

²⁵你的男丁必倒在刀下；你的勇士必死在陣上。Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

²⁶錫安（原文是她）的城門必悲傷、哀號；她必荒涼坐在地上。And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

¹在那日，七個女人必拉住一個男人，說：「我們吃自己的食物，穿自己的衣服，但求你許我們歸你名下；求你除掉我們的羞恥。」In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

耶和華發生的苗

²到那日，耶和華發生的苗必華美尊榮，地的出產必為以色列逃脫的人顯為榮華茂盛。On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

^3–4主以公義的靈和焚燒的靈，將錫安女子的污穢洗去，又將耶路撒冷中殺人的血除淨。那時，剩在錫安、留在耶路撒冷的，就是一切住耶路撒冷、在生命冊上記名的，必稱為聖。Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living— when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

⁵耶和華也必在錫安全山，並各會眾以上，使白日有煙雲，黑夜有火焰的光。因為在全榮耀之上必有遮蔽。Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

⁶必有亭子，白日可以得蔭避暑，也可以作為藏身之處，躲避狂風暴雨。a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

葡萄園之歌

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

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。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!

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

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？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?

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。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.

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。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.”

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（或譯：倒流人血）；指望的是公義，誰知倒有冤聲。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.

六個禍哉

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。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.

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

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

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

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。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.

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

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

¹⁵卑賤人被壓服；尊貴人降為卑；眼目高傲的人也降為卑。So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

¹⁶惟有萬軍之耶和華因公平而崇高；聖者　神因公義顯為聖。But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

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

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

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。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!”

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。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.

²¹禍哉！那些自以為有智慧，自看為通達的人。Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

²²禍哉！那些勇於飲酒，以能力調濃酒的人。Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

²³他們因受賄賂，就稱惡人為義，將義人的義奪去。who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

²⁴火苗怎樣吞滅碎秸，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。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.

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。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.

遠方的國民急速奔來

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。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!

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

²⁸他們的箭快利，弓也上了弦。馬蹄算如堅石，車輪好像旋風。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.

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。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.

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。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.

從前死在過犯中

¹你們死在過犯罪惡之中，他叫你們活過來。And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

²那時，你們在其中行事為人，隨從今世的風俗，順服空中掌權者的首領，就是現今在悖逆之子心中運行的邪靈。in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

³我們從前也都在他們中間，放縱肉體的私慾，隨著肉體和心中所喜好的去行，本為可怒之子，和別人一樣。All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

神叫我們活過來

⁴然而，　神既有豐富的憐憫，因他愛我們的大愛，But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁵當我們死在過犯中的時候，便叫我們與基督一同活過來。你們得救是本乎恩。made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

⁶他又叫我們與基督耶穌一同復活，一同坐在天上，And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

⁷要將他極豐富的恩典，就是他在基督耶穌裡向我們所施的恩慈，顯明給後來的世代看。in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

得救本乎恩，也因著信

⁸你們得救是本乎恩，也因著信；這並不是出於自己，乃是　神所賜的；For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁹也不是出於行為，免得有人自誇。not by works, so that no one can boast.

¹⁰我們原是他的工作，在基督耶穌裡造成的，為要叫我們行善，就是　神所預備叫我們行的。For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

從前遠離神的外邦人

¹¹所以你們應當記念：你們從前按肉體是外邦人，是稱為沒受割禮的；這名原是那些憑人手在肉身上稱為受割禮之人所起的。Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

¹²那時，你們與基督無關，在以色列國民以外，在所應許的諸約上是局外人，並且活在世上沒有指望，沒有　神。remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

¹³你們從前遠離　神的人，如今卻在基督耶穌裡，靠著他的血，已經得親近了。But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

拆毀中間隔斷的牆

¹⁴因他使我們和睦（原文是因他是我們的和睦），將兩下合而為一，拆毀了中間隔斷的牆；For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

¹⁵而且以自己的身體廢掉冤仇，就是那記在律法上的規條，為要將兩下藉著自己造成一個新人，如此便成就了和睦。by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

¹⁶既在十字架上滅了冤仇，便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體，與　神和好了，and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

¹⁷並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人，也給那近處的人。He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

¹⁸因為我們兩下藉著他被一個聖靈所感，得以進到父面前。For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

同被建造成神的家

¹⁹這樣，你們不再作外人和客旅，是與聖徒同國，是　神家裡的人了；Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

²⁰並且被建造在使徒和先知的根基上，有基督耶穌自己為房角石，built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

²¹各（或譯：全）房靠他聯絡得合式，漸漸成為主的聖殿。In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

²²你們也靠他同被建造，成為　神藉著聖靈居住的所在。And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.