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以赛亚得默示

¹当乌西雅、约坦、亚哈斯、希西家作犹大王的时候，亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示，论到犹大和耶路撒冷。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.

悖逆的儿女

²天哪，要听！地啊，侧耳而听！因为耶和华说：我养育儿女，将他们养大，他们竟悖逆我。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牛认识主人，驴认识主人的槽，以色列却不认识；我的民却不留意。The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

⁴嗐！犯罪的国民，担着罪孽的百姓；行恶的种类，败坏的儿女！他们离弃耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，与他生疏，往后退步。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你们为什么屡次悖逆，还要受责打吗？你们已经满头疼痛，全心发昏。Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

⁶从脚掌到头顶，没有一处完全的，尽是伤口、青肿，与新打的伤痕，都没有收口，没有缠裹，也没有用膏滋润。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你们的地土已经荒凉；你们的城邑被火焚毁。你们的田地在你们眼前为外邦人所侵吞，既被外邦人倾覆就成为荒凉。Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

⁸仅存锡安城（原文是女子），好像葡萄园的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被围困的城邑。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若不是万军之耶和华给我们稍留余种，我们早已像所多玛、蛾摩拉的样子了。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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虚浮的祭物

¹⁰你们这所多玛的官长啊，要听耶和华的话！你们这蛾摩拉的百姓啊，要侧耳听我们　神的训诲！Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

¹¹耶和华说：你们所献的许多祭物与我何益呢？公绵羊的燔祭和肥畜的脂油，我已经够了；公牛的血，羊羔的血，公山羊的血，我都不喜悦。“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你们来朝见我，谁向你们讨这些，使你们践踏我的院宇呢？When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

¹³你们不要再献虚浮的供物。香品是我所憎恶的；月朔和安息日，并宣召的大会，也是我所憎恶的；作罪孽，又守严肃会，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你们的月朔和节期，我心里恨恶，我都以为麻烦；我担当，便不耐烦。I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵你们举手祷告，我必遮眼不看；就是你们多多地祈祷，我也不听。你们的手都满了杀人的血。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.

你们来，我们彼此辩论

¹⁶你们要洗濯、自洁，从我眼前除掉你们的恶行，要止住作恶，Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

¹⁷学习行善，寻求公平，解救受欺压的；给孤儿伸冤，为寡妇辨屈。Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

¹⁸耶和华说：你们来，我们彼此辩论。你们的罪虽像朱红，必变成雪白；虽红如丹颜，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你们若甘心听从，必吃地上的美物，If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

²⁰若不听从，反倒悖逆，必被刀剑吞灭。这是耶和华亲口说的。But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

忠信的城变为妓女

²¹可叹，忠信的城变为妓女！从前充满了公平，公义居在其中，现今却有凶手居住。See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

²²你的银子变为渣滓；你的酒用水搀对。Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

²³你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼作伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿伸冤；寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。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—万军之耶和华、以色列的大能者说：哎！我要向我的对头雪恨，向我的敌人报仇。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，炼尽你的渣滓，除净你的杂质。I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

²⁶我也必复还你的审判官，像起初一样，复还你的谋士，像起先一般。然后，你必称为公义之城，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锡安必因公平得蒙救赎；其中归正的人必因公义得蒙救赎。Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

²⁸但悖逆的和犯罪的必一同败亡；离弃耶和华的必致消灭。But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

²⁹那等人必因你们所喜爱的橡树抱愧；你们必因所选择的园子蒙羞。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因为，你们必如叶子枯干的橡树，好像无水浇灌的园子。For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

³¹有权势的必如麻瓤；他的工作好像火星，都要一同焚毁，无人扑灭。The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

万民流归耶和华的山

¹亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示，论到犹大和耶路撒冷。This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

²末后的日子，耶和华殿的山必坚立，超乎诸山，高举过于万岭；万民都要流归这山。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必有许多国的民前往，说：来吧，我们登耶和华的山，奔雅各　神的殿。主必将他的道教训我们；我们也要行他的路。因为训诲必出于锡安；耶和华的言语必出于耶路撒冷。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他必在列国中施行审判，为许多国民断定是非。他们要将刀打成犁头，把枪打成镰刀。这国不举刀攻击那国；他们也不再学习战事。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，来吧！我们在耶和华的光明中行走。Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

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耶和华降罚的日子

⁶耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，作观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。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他们的国满了金银，财宝也无穷；他们的地满了马匹，车辆也无数。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他们的地满了偶像；他们跪拜自己手所造的，就是自己指头所做的。Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

⁹卑贱人屈膝；尊贵人下跪；所以不可饶恕他们。So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

¹⁰你当进入岩穴，藏在土中，躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。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，眼目高傲的必降为卑；性情狂傲的都必屈膝；惟独耶和华被尊崇。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必有万军耶和华降罚的一个日子，要临到骄傲狂妄的；一切自高的都必降为卑；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又临到黎巴嫩高大的香柏树和巴珊的橡树；against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴又临到一切高山的峻岭；against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

¹⁵又临到高台和坚固城墙；against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

¹⁶又临到他施的船只并一切可爱的美物。against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

¹⁷骄傲的必屈膝；狂妄的必降卑。在那日，惟独耶和华被尊崇；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偶像必全然废弃。and the idols will vanish completely.

¹⁹耶和华兴起，使地大震动的时候，人就进入石洞，进入土穴，躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。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，人必将为拜而造的金偶像、银偶像抛给田鼠和蝙蝠。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到耶和华兴起，使地大震动的时候，人好进入磐石洞中和岩石穴里，躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。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你们休要倚靠世人。他鼻孔里不过有气息；他在一切事上可算什么呢？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—万军之耶和华从耶路撒冷和犹大，除掉众人所倚靠的，所仗赖的，就是所倚靠的粮，所仗赖的水；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除掉勇士和战士，审判官和先知，占卜的和长老，the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

³五十夫长和尊贵人，谋士和有巧艺的，以及妙行法术的。the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

⁴主说：我必使孩童作他们的首领，使婴孩辖管他们。“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

⁵百姓要彼此欺压；各人受邻舍的欺压。少年人必侮慢老年人；卑贱人必侮慢尊贵人。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，说：你有衣服，可以作我们的官长。这败落的事归在你手下吧！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那时，他必扬声说：我不作医治你们的人；因我家中没有粮食，也没有衣服，你们不可立我作百姓的官长。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耶路撒冷败落，犹大倾倒；因为他们的舌头和行为与耶和华反对，惹了他荣光的眼目。For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

⁹他们的面色证明自己的不正；他们述说自己的罪恶，并不隐瞒，好像所多玛一样。他们有祸了！因为作恶自害。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你们要论义人说：他必享福乐，因为要吃自己行为所结的果子。Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

¹¹恶人有祸了！他必遭灾难！因为要照自己手所行的受报应。Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

¹²至于我的百姓，孩童欺压他们，妇女辖管他们。我的百姓啊，引导你的使你走错，并毁坏你所行的道路。Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

神审判长老和首领

¹³耶和华起来辩论，站着审判众民。The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.

¹⁴耶和华必审问他民中的长老和首领，说：吃尽葡萄园果子的就是你们；向贫穷人所夺的都在你们家中。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—万军之耶和华说：你们为何压制我的百姓，搓磨贫穷人的脸呢？Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

锡安狂傲的女子

¹⁶耶和华又说：因为锡安的女子狂傲，行走挺项，卖弄眼目，俏步徐行，脚下玎珰，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，主必使锡安的女子头长秃疮；耶和华又使她们赤露下体。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，主必除掉她们华美的脚钏、发网、月牙圈、In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

¹⁹耳环、手镯、蒙脸的帕子、their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

²⁰华冠、足链、华带、香盒、符囊、their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;

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

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

²³手镜、细麻衣、裹头巾、蒙身的帕子。and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

²⁴必有臭烂代替馨香，绳子代替腰带，光秃代替美发，麻衣系腰代替华服，烙伤代替美容。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；你的勇士必死在阵上。Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

²⁶锡安（原文是她）的城门必悲伤、哀号；她必荒凉坐在地上。And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

¹在那日，七个女人必拉住一个男人，说：“我们吃自己的食物，穿自己的衣服，但求你许我们归你名下；求你除掉我们的羞耻。”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!”

耶和华发生的苗

²到那日，耶和华发生的苗必华美尊荣，地的出产必为以色列逃脱的人显为荣华茂盛。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主以公义的灵和焚烧的灵，将锡安女子的污秽洗去，又将耶路撒冷中杀人的血除净。那时，剩在锡安、留在耶路撒冷的，就是一切住耶路撒冷、在生命册上记名的，必称为圣。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耶和华也必在锡安全山，并各会众以上，使白日有烟云，黑夜有火焰的光。因为在全荣耀之上必有遮蔽。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，白日可以得荫避暑，也可以作为藏身之处，躲避狂风暴雨。a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

葡萄园之歌

¹我要为我所亲爱的唱歌，是我所爱者的歌，论他葡萄园的事：我所亲爱的有葡萄园在肥美的山冈上。I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

²他刨挖园子，捡去石头，栽种上等的葡萄树，在园中盖了一座楼，又凿出压酒池；指望结好葡萄，反倒结了野葡萄。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耶路撒冷的居民和犹大人哪，请你们现今在我与我的葡萄园中，断定是非。“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

⁴我为我葡萄园所做之外，还有什么可做的呢？我指望结好葡萄，怎么倒结了野葡萄呢？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现在我告诉你们，我要向我葡萄园怎样行：我必撤去篱笆，使它被吞灭，拆毁墙垣，使它被践踏。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我必使它荒废，不再修理，不再锄刨，荆棘蒺藜倒要生长。我也必命云不降雨在其上。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.”

⁷万军之耶和华的葡萄园就是以色列家；他所喜爱的树就是犹大人。他指望的是公平，谁知倒有暴虐（或译：倒流人血）；指望的是公义，谁知倒有冤声。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.

六个祸哉

⁸祸哉！那些以房接房，以地连地，以致不留余地的，只顾自己独居境内。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我耳闻万军之耶和华说：必有许多又大又美的房屋成为荒凉，无人居住。I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

¹⁰三十亩葡萄园只出一罢特酒；一贺梅珥谷种只结一伊法粮食。For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

¹¹祸哉！那些清早起来追求浓酒，留连到夜深，甚至因酒发烧的人。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他们在筵席上弹琴，鼓瑟，击鼓，吹笛，饮酒，却不顾念耶和华的作为，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，我的百姓因无知就被掳去；他们的尊贵人甚是饥饿，群众极其干渴。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，阴间扩张其欲，开了无限量的口；他们的荣耀、群众、繁华，并快乐的人都落在其中。Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

¹⁵卑贱人被压服；尊贵人降为卑；眼目高傲的人也降为卑。So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

¹⁶惟有万军之耶和华因公平而崇高；圣者　神因公义显为圣。But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

¹⁷那时，羊羔必来吃草，如同在自己的草场；丰肥人的荒场被游行的人吃尽。Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

¹⁸祸哉！那些以虚假之细绳牵罪孽的人！他们又像以套绳拉罪恶，Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

¹⁹说：任他急速行，赶快成就他的作为，使我们看看；任以色列圣者所谋划的临近成就，使我们知道。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祸哉！那些称恶为善，称善为恶，以暗为光，以光为暗，以苦为甜，以甜为苦的人。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祸哉！那些自以为有智慧，自看为通达的人。Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

²²祸哉！那些勇于饮酒，以能力调浓酒的人。Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

²³他们因受贿赂，就称恶人为义，将义人的义夺去。who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

²⁴火苗怎样吞灭碎秸，干草怎样落在火焰之中，照样，他们的根必像朽物，他们的花必像灰尘飞腾；因为他们厌弃万军之耶和华的训诲，藐视以色列圣者的言语。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，耶和华的怒气向他的百姓发作。他的手伸出攻击他们，山岭就震动；他们的尸首在街市上好像粪土。虽然如此，他的怒气还未转消；他的手仍伸不缩。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.

远方的国民急速奔来

²⁶他必竖立大旗，招远方的国民，发嘶声叫他们从地极而来；看哪，他们必急速奔来。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其中没有疲倦的，绊跌的；没有打盹的，睡觉的；腰带并不放松，鞋带也不折断。None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

²⁸他们的箭快利，弓也上了弦。马蹄算如坚石，车轮好像旋风。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他们要吼叫，像母狮子，咆哮，像少壮狮子；他们要咆哮抓食，坦然叼去，无人救回。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，他们要向以色列人吼叫，像海浪匉訇；人若望地，只见黑暗艰难，光明在云中变为昏暗。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.

从前死在过犯中

¹你们死在过犯罪恶之中，他叫你们活过来。And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

²那时，你们在其中行事为人，随从今世的风俗，顺服空中掌权者的首领，就是现今在悖逆之子心中运行的邪灵。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我们从前也都在他们中间，放纵肉体的私欲，随着肉体和心中所喜好的去行，本为可怒之子，和别人一样。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.

神叫我们活过来

⁴然而，　神既有丰富的怜悯，因他爱我们的大爱，But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁵当我们死在过犯中的时候，便叫我们与基督一同活过来。你们得救是本乎恩。made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

⁶他又叫我们与基督耶稣一同复活，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要将他极丰富的恩典，就是他在基督耶稣里向我们所施的恩慈，显明给后来的世代看。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，也因着信

⁸你们得救是本乎恩，也因着信；这并不是出于自己，乃是　神所赐的；For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁹也不是出于行为，免得有人自夸。not by works, so that no one can boast.

¹⁰我们原是他的工作，在基督耶稣里造成的，为要叫我们行善，就是　神所预备叫我们行的。For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

从前远离神的外邦人

¹¹所以你们应当记念：你们从前按肉体是外邦人，是称为没受割礼的；这名原是那些凭人手在肉身上称为受割礼之人所起的。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那时，你们与基督无关，在以色列国民以外，在所应许的诸约上是局外人，并且活在世上没有指望，没有　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你们从前远离　神的人，如今却在基督耶稣里，靠着他的血，已经得亲近了。But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

拆毁中间隔断的墙

¹⁴因他使我们和睦（原文是因他是我们的和睦），将两下合而为一，拆毁了中间隔断的墙；For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

¹⁵而且以自己的身体废掉冤仇，就是那记在律法上的规条，为要将两下借着自己造成一个新人，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既在十字架上灭了冤仇，便借这十字架使两下归为一体，与　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并且来传和平的福音给你们远处的人，也给那近处的人。He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

¹⁸因为我们两下借着他被一个圣灵所感，得以进到父面前。For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

同被建造成神的家

¹⁹这样，你们不再作外人和客旅，是与圣徒同国，是　神家里的人了；Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

²⁰并且被建造在使徒和先知的根基上，有基督耶稣自己为房角石，built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

²¹各（或译：全）房靠他联络得合式，渐渐成为主的圣殿。In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

²²你们也靠他同被建造，成为　神借着圣灵居住的所在。And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.