以賽亞書21:1-10

21:1 論海旁曠野的默示：有仇敵從曠野，從可怕之地而來，好像南方的旋風，猛然掃過。
21:2 令人悽慘的異象已默示於我。詭詐的行詭詐，毀滅的行毀滅。以攔哪，你要上去！米底亞啊，你要圍困！主說：我使一切歎息止住。
21:3 所以，我滿腰疼痛；痛苦將我抓住，好像產難的婦人一樣。我疼痛甚至不能聽；我驚惶甚至不能看。
21:4 我心慌張，驚恐威嚇我。我所羨慕的黃昏，變為我的戰兢。
21:5 他們擺設筵席，派人守望，又吃，又喝。首領啊，你們起來，用油抹盾牌。
21:6 主對我如此說：你去設立守望的，使他將所看見的述說。
21:7 他看見軍隊，就是騎馬的一對一對地來，又看見驢隊，駱駝隊，就要側耳細聽。
21:8 他像獅子吼叫，說：主啊，我白日常站在望樓上，整夜立在我守望所。
21:9 看哪，有一隊軍兵騎著馬，一對一對地來。他就說：巴比倫傾倒了！傾倒了！他一切雕刻的神像都打碎於地。
21:10 我被打的禾稼，我場上的穀啊，我從萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝那裡所聽見的，都告訴你們了。

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.

 

As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,

it comes from the desert,

from a terrible land.

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A stern vision is told to me;

the betrayer betrays,

and the destroyer destroys.

Go up, O Elam,

lay siege, O Media;

all the sighing she has caused

I bring to an end.

3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;

pangs have seized me,

like the pangs of a woman in labor;

I am bowed down so that I cannot hear,

I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

4

My mind reels, horror has appalled me;

the twilight I longed for

has been turned for me into trembling.

5

They prepare the table,

they spread the rugs,

they eat, they drink.

Rise up, commanders,

oil the shield!

6

For thus the Lord said to me:

“Go, post a lookout,

let him announce what he sees.

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When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,

riders on donkeys, riders on camels,

let him listen diligently,

very diligently.”

8

Then the watcher called out:

“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,

continually by day,

and at my post I am stationed

throughout the night.

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Look, there they come, riders,

horsemen in pairs!”

Then he responded,

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;

and all the images of her gods

lie shattered on the ground.”

10

O my threshed and winnowed one,

what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,

the God of Israel, I announce to you.

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    巴比倫想要和猶大聯合來牽制亞述，所已派使者來耶路冷，想要與猶大結盟。然而先知在此說到：巴比倫其實是自身難保了，怎麼有那個能耐來和猶大合作，共同抵抗亞述呢？

    先知以賽亞一直在說明，不可以倚靠任何的政治勢力，其他的國家，因為上帝執意讓亞述強大，可以懲罰以色列並且造成猶大的威脅。如此才可以使上帝子民，專一的倚靠上帝

    其實我們既然接受耶穌基督為救主，我們就要專一的倚靠上帝，讓我們單單享受上帝，榮耀上帝，為上帝而活！