1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, 4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!" 5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. 8 Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us." 9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?" 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
12 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!" 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?"
18 All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house. 19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. 20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. 22 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son," says Yahweh. 23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.
24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. 26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. 30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
1 耶和华怜悯雅各， 再拣选以色列， 使他们安居在自己的国土上的时候， 外族人必与他们联合， 归属于雅各家。
2 以色列人必把他们带回自己的国土去， 以色列家必在耶和华所赐的地上得着这些外族人作仆婢； 也要掳掠那些掳掠过他们的， 并且统治那些欺压过他们的。
3 耶和华使你脱离痛苦、愁烦、被迫作的苦工， 得享安息的日子，
4 你必唱出这首诗歌来讽刺巴比伦王， 说： "欺压人的， 怎么止息了呢！ 强暴怎么止住了呢！
5 耶和华折断了恶人的杖和统治者的棒，
6 就是那在忿怒中不住击打众民、在怒气中管辖列国、毫无抑制地施行迫害的。
7 现在全地都平静安息， 各人都发声欢呼。
8 连松树和黎巴嫩的香柏树都因你欢乐， 说： ‘自从你躺下以后， 再没有砍伐的人上来砍伐我们了。’
9 地下的阴间因你震动， 并迎接你的来临； 又因你而唤醒了所有曾在地上作过领袖的阴魂； 又使所有曾在列国中作君王的， 都离位站起来。
10 他们都必答话， 对你说： ‘你也变为衰弱， 像我们一样吗？你也与我们相似吗？’
11 你的威势和你的琴瑟音乐， 都被带下阴间了； 你下面铺的是虫， 上面盖的是蛆。
12 明亮之星、清晨之子啊！ 你怎么从天上坠落？你这倾覆列国的， 怎么被砍倒在地上？
13 你心里曾说： ‘我要升到天上， 我要高举我的宝座到 神的众星之上， 我要坐在聚会的山上， 在北方的极处。
14 我要升到云的高处， 我要使自己像那至高者一般。’
15 然而， 你却被拋下阴间， 落到坑中的极处。
16 那些看见你的， 都必定睛看你， 他们必注视着你， 说： ‘那使大地震动， 使列国摇撼，
17 使世界如同荒野， 倾覆城镇， 又不释放囚犯的， 就是这人吗？’
18 列国的君王都在荣耀中安睡， 各在自己的坟墓里。
19 但你要从你的坟墓中被逐出， 好像一根被厌弃的树枝， 你被那些遭刀剑所杀的人掩盖， 就是那些被拋到坑中石头那里的人。你就像一具遭人践踏的尸体。
20 你必不得与别的君王同葬， 因为你败坏了你的国， 杀戮了你的人民； 愿那些恶人的后裔永远不被人提说。
21 因为他们的祖宗犯了罪孽， 你们要为他的子孙预备屠杀之处； 不要让他们兴起来， 占有地土， 在世上布满城镇。"
22 万军之耶和华说： "我必兴起攻击他们， 把巴比伦的名号、所剩余的人， 以及后裔子孙， 都一同剪除。"这是耶和华说的。
23 "我必使巴比伦被箭猪所占， 又使它变为泥沼之地； 我必用毁灭的扫帚把它扫净。"这是万军之耶和华说的。
24 万军之耶和华起了誓， 说： "我怎样想， 事就怎样成就； 我怎样计划， 事就怎样立定，
25 就是在我的地上粉碎亚述人， 在我的山上践踏他们； 他们所加的轭必离开以色列人， 他们所加的重担必离开以色列人的肩头。"
26 这就是对全地所定的旨意， 就是向列国伸出的手。
27 因为万军之耶和华决定的事， 谁能阻拦呢？他的手伸了出来， 谁能使他收回呢？
28 亚哈斯王去世的那一年， 有以下的默示：
29 非利士全地啊！ 不要因为那击打你们的杖折断了就欢喜， 因为从蛇的根必生出毒蛇来， 它所生的， 是会飞的蛇。
30 最贫寒的人必有食物吃， 贫乏人必安然躺卧； 我必用饥荒毁灭你的根， 你余剩的人， 必被饥荒所杀。
31 城门啊， 要哀号！ 城镇啊， 要呼叫！ 非利士全地啊， 要战栗发软！ 因为有烟从北方来， 在他的行伍中没有离队逃走的。
32 人要怎样回答外族的使者呢？要说： "耶和华建立了锡安， 他子民中的困苦人必在其中避难。"