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1以色列家啊,要聽耶和華對你們所說的話。Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
2耶和華如此說:你們不要效法列國的行為,也不要為驚惶,因列國為此事驚惶。This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
3眾民的風俗是虛空的;他們在樹林中用斧子砍伐一棵樹,匠人用手工造成偶像。For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
4他們用金銀妝飾它,用釘子和錘子釘穩,使它不動搖。They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.
5它好像,是鏇成的,不能說話,不能行走,必須有人抬著。你們不要怕它;它不能降禍,也無力降福。Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
6耶和華啊,沒有能比你的!你本為大,有大能大力的名。There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
7萬國的王啊,誰不敬畏你?敬畏你本是合宜的;因為在列國的智慧人中,雖有政權的尊榮,也不能比你。Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
8他們盡都是畜類,是愚昧的。偶像的訓誨算甚麼呢?偶像不過是木頭。But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
9有銀子打成片,是從帶來的,並有從烏法來的金子,都是匠人和銀匠的手工,又有的衣服,都是巧匠的工作。Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
10惟耶和華是真 神,是活 神,是永遠的王。他一發怒,大地震動;他一惱恨,列國都擔當不起。But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
11(你們要對他們如此說:不是那創造天地的神,必從地上從天下被除滅!)Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
12耶和華用能力創造大地,用智慧建立世界,用聰明鋪張穹蒼。The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
13他一發聲,空中便有多水激動;他使雲霧從地極上騰;他造電隨雨而閃,從他中帶出風來。When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
14各人都成了畜類,毫無知識;各銀匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧。他所鑄的偶像本是虛假的,其中並無氣息,Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
15都是虛無的,是迷惑人的工作;到追討的時候必被除滅。They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
16雅各的分不像這些,因他是造作萬有的主。以色列也是他產業的支派,萬軍之耶和華是他的名。The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
17受圍困的人哪,當收拾你的財物,從國中帶出去。Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.
18因為耶和華如此說:這時候,我必將此地的居民,好像用甩出去,又必加害在他們身上,使他們覺悟。For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
19民說:禍哉!我受損傷;我的傷痕極其重大。我卻說:這真是我的痛苦,必須忍受。Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
20我的帳棚毀壞;我的繩索折斷。我的兒女離我出去,沒有了。無人再支搭我的帳棚,掛起我的幔子。My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
21因為牧人都成為畜類,沒有求問耶和華,所以不得順利;他們的羊群也都分散。For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
22有風聲!看哪,敵人來了!有大擾亂從北方出來,要使猶大城邑變為荒涼,成為野狗的住處。Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
23耶和華啊,我曉得人的道路不由自己,行路的人也不能定自己的腳步。I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
24耶和華啊,求你懲治我,不要在你的怒中懲治我,恐怕使我歸於無有。Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
25願你將忿怒傾在不認識你的列國中,和不求告你名的各族上;因為他們吞了雅各,不但吞了,而且滅絕,把他的住處變為荒場。Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.