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13:1 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示论巴比伦。
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
13:2 应当在净光的山竖立大旗，向群众扬声招手，使他们进入贵胄的门。
Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3 我吩咐我所挑出来的人。我招呼我的勇士，就是那矜夸高傲之辈，为要成就我怒中所定的。
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4 山间有多人的声音，好像是大国人民。有许多国的民聚集哄囔的声音。这是万军之耶和华点齐军队，豫备打仗。
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
13:5 他们从远方来，从天边来，就是耶和华并他恼恨的兵器，要毁灭这全地。
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
13:6 你们要哀号，因为耶和华的日子临近了。这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 所以人手都必软弱，人心都必消化。
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
13:8 他们必惊惶悲痛。愁苦必将他们抓住。他们疼痛，好像产难的妇人一样。彼此惊奇相看，脸如火焰。
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
13:9 耶和华的日子临到，必有残忍，忿恨，烈怒。使这地荒凉，从其中除灭罪人。
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10 天上得众星群宿，都不发光。日头一出，就变黑暗，月亮也不放光。
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
13:11 我必因邪恶，刑罚世界，因罪孽，刑罚恶人。使骄傲人的狂妄止息，制伏强暴人的狂傲。
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
13:12 我必使人比精金还少，使人比俄斐纯金更少。
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 我万军之耶和华在忿恨中发烈怒的日子，必使天震动，使地摇憾，离其本位。
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 人必像被追赶的鹿，像无人收聚的羊，各归回本族，各逃到本土。
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
13:15 凡被仇敌追上的，必被刺死。凡被捉住的，必被刀杀。
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
13:16 他们的婴孩，必在他们眼前摔碎。他们的房屋，必被抢夺。他们的妻子，必被玷污。
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 我必激动玛代人来攻击他们。玛代人不注重银子，也不喜爱金子。
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18 他们必用弓击碎少年人，不怜悯妇人所生的，眼也不顾惜孩子。
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
13:19 巴比伦素来为列国的荣耀，为迦勒底人所矜夸的华美，必像神所倾覆的所多玛蛾摩拉一样。
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20 其内必永无人烟，世世代代无人居住。阿拉伯人也不在那里支搭帐蓬。牧羊的人，也不使羊群卧在那里。
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
13:21 只有旷野的走兽卧在那里。咆哮的兽满了房屋。鸵鸟住在那里。野山羊在那里跳舞。
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
13:22 豺狼必在他宫中呼号。野狗必在他华美殿内吼叫。巴比伦受罚的时候临近，他的日子，必不长久。
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
以赛亚书13参考
先知论到巴比伦时，它处于何种状况？
13章 1至12章说的是对南国的审判，其次是对北国的。13至23章谈的是对其他国家的审判。13章是神对巴比伦的信息或默示。早在巴比伦成为世界大国对犹大构成威胁之前，以赛亚就讲到了它的灭亡。巴比伦是“洪水”之后反抗神的中心（参创11章）。在启示录17和18章中巴比伦成了神的敌人的象徵。当预言发出的时候，巴比伦还是亚述帝国的一部分。以赛亚就在这时给了百姓这挑战性和充满希望的信息。他告诉他们不要信靠其他国家，只管专心依赖神；并让他们知道，从神而来的惩罚才是他们的大敌。
俄斐位于──
13:12 俄斐以出产稀有贵重的黄金著称。据认为，它坐落在阿拉伯西南海岸。
尚没有崛起，已有人为它敲响丧钟……
13:20 就在巴比伦成为世界大国之前，以赛亚已经预言它虽发光一时，但毁灭很快就要临到，而且这块土地上再无人居住。巴比伦在现在的伊拉克，仍然一如以赛亚所描述的那样，躺在废墟、烧焦的灰尘和沙土层下。