耶和华说，祸哉，这些悖逆的儿女；他们设谋却不由于我，结盟却不由于我的灵，以致罪上加罪；
Woe to the rebellious children, / Declares Jehovah, / Who devise counsel, but not of Me, / And who make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, / In order to add / Sin upon sin;

他们起身下埃及去，并没有求问我；要投奔于法老的保障，并投靠在埃及的荫下；
Who go down to Egypt, / Yet do not ask of My mouth, / To take refuge in the refuge of Pharaoh, / And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt.

所以法老的保障必成为你们的羞辱，投靠在埃及的荫下，必成为你们的羞愧。
Therefore the refuge of Pharaoh will be your shame, / And shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

他们的首领已在琐安，他们的使臣到了哈内斯。
For their princes are at Zoan, / And their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

他们都必因那不利于他们的民蒙羞；那民并非帮助，也非利益，只是羞耻，也是凌辱。
All are ashamed / Of a people that cannot profit them, / Nor be a help or profit to them, / But rather a shame and also a reproach.

关于南方牲畜的默示：他们把财物驮在驴驹的脊背上，将宝物驮在骆驼的肉鞍上，经过艰难困苦之地，就是有母狮、公狮、蝮蛇、会飞的火蛇出没之地，往那不利于他们的民那里去。
The burden concerning the beasts of the Negev: / Through the land of distress and anguish, / From which come lioness and lion, / Viper and flying fiery serpent, / They carry their riches upon young donkeys' backs / And their treasures upon camels' humps / To a people that cannot profit them;

埃及的帮助是徒然且空洞的；所以我称她为坐而不动的拉哈伯。
For Egypt helps in a vain and empty way. / Therefore I call her / Rahab, who sits still.

现今你去，在他们面前将这话写在版上，记在书卷上，以便日后作证据到永远。
Go now; write it on a tablet before them, / And inscribe it on a scroll, / That it may be, for the time to come, / As a witness forever.

因为他们是悖逆的百姓，说谎的儿女，不肯听从耶和华训诲的儿女；
For this is a rebellious people, / False children, / Children who refuse to hear / The instruction of Jehovah;

他们对观看的说，不要见异象；对有异象的说，不要向我们讲真异象；要向我们说动听的话，讲虚幻的异象；
Who say to those who see, Do not see; / And to those who have visions, Do not give us true visions; / Speak pleasant things to us; / Give us illusions as your visions;

你们要离开正道，转离直路；不要在我们面前再提说以色列的圣者。
Get out of the way; / Turn aside from the path; / Cause the Holy One of Israel / To cease from before us.

所以以色列的圣者如此说，因为你们藐视这话，倚赖欺压和乖僻，以此为可靠的；
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, / Because you despise this word / And trust in oppression and guile, / And rely on them,

故此，这罪孽对于你们，好像高墙上凸出来，将要塌下的裂口，顷刻之间，忽然坍塌。
Therefore this iniquity / Will be to you / Like a breach ready to fall, / Sticking out on a high wall, / Whose crashing comes / In an instant, suddenly.

坍塌时好像把窑匠的瓦器打碎，毫不顾惜的打成碎块，甚至碎块中找不到一片，可用以从炉内取火，从池中舀水。
And its crashing will be like the crashing of the potters' vessel: / Crushed — he will not spare; / And there will not be found / Among the crushed pieces a shard / With which to take fire from the hearth / Or to draw water from the cistern.

主耶和华以色列的圣者如此说，你们得救在于归回安息；你们得力在于平静信靠；你们竟自不肯。
For thus says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, / In returning and rest you will be saved; / In quietness and in trust will be your strength; / But you were not willing,

你们却说，不然，我们要骑马奔逃；所以你们必然奔逃。又说，我们要骑飞快的牲口；所以追赶你们的，也必飞快。
And said, No, for we will flee on horses; / Therefore you will flee. / And, We will ride upon the swift; / Therefore those who chase you will be swift.

一人叱喝，必令千人奔逃；五人叱喝，你们都必奔逃，以致剩下的，好像山顶的旗杆，冈上的旌旗。
One thousand will flee at the rebuke of one; / At the rebuke of five you will flee, / Until you are left / Like a bare mast upon a mountaintop / And a standard on a hill.

所以耶和华必然等候，好施恩给你们；祂必留在高处，好怜恤你们；因为耶和华是公平的神；凡等候祂的都是有福的。
And therefore Jehovah waits to be gracious to you, / And therefore He remains on high to have compassion on you; / For Jehovah is a God of justice; / Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

必有百姓在锡安在耶路撒冷居住；你必不再哭泣；主必因你哀求的声音多多施恩给你；祂听见的时候，就必应允你。
For a people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem — / You will weep no more; / He will be most gracious to you at the sound of your cry; / When He hears it, He will answer you.

主虽以艰难给你当饼，以困苦给你当水，你的教师却不再隐藏，你眼必看见你的教师。
And though the Lord has given you / The bread of adversity and the water of oppression, / Your Teacher will no longer hide Himself in a corner, / But your eyes will see your Teacher.

你或向左、或向右，耳中必听见后边有话说，这是正路，要行在其间。
And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, / This is the way, walk in it, / When you turn to the right or turn to the left.

你雕制偶像所包的银子，和铸造偶像所镀的金子，你要玷污，要扬弃它们好像污秽之物；你要对偶像说，去吧！
And you will defile the silver covering of your graven images / And the gold plating of your molten idols; / You will scatter them like some dirty thing; / You will say to it, Go away!

你将种子撒在地里，主必赐雨在其上，地所出的粮必肥美丰盛；到那日，你的牲畜必在宽阔的草场吃草。
Then He will give rain for your seed, / Which you will sow in the ground, / And the bread of the increase of the ground; / And it will be fat and plenteous. / Your livestock will feed in that day / In a vast pasture.

耕地的牛和驴驹必吃加盐的料，这料是用铲子和杈子扬净的。
And the oxen and donkeys that work the ground / Will eat salted fodder that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

在大行杀戮的日子，高台倒塌的时候，各高山和耸起的冈陵必有川流河涌。
And upon every high mountain / And upon every prominent hill / There will be brooks and streams of water / In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

当耶和华缠裹祂百姓的伤口、医治祂民受祂击打之伤的日子，月光必像日光，日光必加七倍，像七日的光一样。
And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, / And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, / On the day when Jehovah binds up the breach of His people / And heals the wound left from His stroke.

看哪，耶和华的名从远方来，祂的怒气烧起，密烟上腾；祂的嘴唇满有忿恨，祂的舌头像吞灭的火；
Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from a distance, / Burning with His anger and heavy with smoke; / His lips are full of indignation, / And His tongue is like a devouring fire;

祂的气如涨溢的河水，直涨到颈项，要用毁灭的筛把列国筛净；并且在众民的口中，有使人错行的嚼环。
His breath, like an overflowing stream, / Reaches up to the neck, / To sift the nations with the sieve of nothingness; / And a bridle that leads them to err is in the jaws of the peoples.

你们必唱歌，像守圣别节期的夜间一样；并且心中喜乐，像人按笛声前行，去耶和华的山，到以色列的磐石那里。
You will have a song / As in the night when the feast is sanctified, / And gladness of heart as when one marches to the flute / To go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.

耶和华必使人听见祂威严的声音，又以祂爆发的怒气并吞灭的火焰与豪雨、暴风、冰雹，使人看见祂降罚的膀臂。
And Jehovah will cause the majesty of His voice to be heard / And the descending of His arm to be seen, / With the blasting of anger and the flame of devouring fire, / In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.

亚述人必因耶和华的声音惊惶；耶和华必用杖击打他。
For at the voice of Jehovah, Assyria will be dismayed; / With a staff He will strike.

耶和华必将命定的杖加在他身上，每打一下，人必击鼓弹琴；打仗的时候，耶和华必抡起手来与他交战。
And every pass of the appointed rod, / Which Jehovah will lay upon him, / Will be with tambourines and harps; / And in battles of brandishing weapons He will fight against them.

原来祂早已将陀斐特安排好，是为王预备的，作得又深又宽。其中堆的是火与许多木柴；耶和华的气如一股硫磺火，使它着起来。
For Topheth has been arranged since long ago; / Indeed it has been prepared for the king; / He made it deep; He made it large. / The pile in it is of fire and much wood; / The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, / Sets it on fire.