神赐福给以色列
“人子啊，你要对以色列群山说预言：以色列群山哪，要听耶和华的话。
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
2主耶和华如此说，因仇敌说：‘啊哈！这古老的丘坛都归我们为业了！’Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3所以你要预言，说：主耶和华如此说：因为敌人使你荒凉，四围践踏你，要叫你归其余的列国为业，使你们成为各族的话柄与百姓的笑谈；Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4因此，以色列群山哪，要听主耶和华的话。对那遭四围其余列国占据、讥刺的大山小冈、水沟山谷、荒废之地、被弃之城，主耶和华如此说；Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
5所以，主耶和华如此说：我因妒火中烧，就责备其余的列国和以东的众人。他们快乐满怀，心存恨恶，将我的地占为己有，视为被抛弃的掠物。Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6所以，你要指着以色列地说预言，对大山小冈、水沟山谷说，主耶和华如此说：看哪，我在妒忌和愤怒中宣布：因你们曾受列国的羞辱，Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
7所以我起誓说，你们四围的列国要担当自己的羞辱。这是主耶和华说的。Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8“以色列群山哪，要长出枝条，为我子民以色列结出果子，因为他们即将来到。But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9看哪，我是帮助你们的，我要转向你们，使你们得以耕作栽种。For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
10我要使以色列全家在你们那里人数增多，城镇有人居住，废墟重新建造。And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
11我要使人丁和牲畜在你们那里加增，他们必生养众多。我要使你们那里像以前一样有人居住，并要赐福，比先前更多；你们就知道我是耶和华。And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
12我要使我的子民以色列在你们那里行走，他们必得你为业；你就成为他们的产业，不再使他们丧失儿女。Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
13主耶和华如此说，因为人对你们说‘你是吞吃人的，又使国民丧失儿女’，Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
14所以你必不再吞吃人，也不再使国民丧失儿女。这是主耶和华说的。Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
15我使你不再听见列国的羞辱；你必不再受万民的辱骂，也不再使国民绊跌。这是主耶和华说的。”Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
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16耶和华的话临到我，说：Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17“人子啊，以色列家住本地的时候，所作所为使那地玷污。他们的行为在我面前，好像妇人在经期中那样污秽。Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18所以我因他们在那地流人的血，且以偶像使那地玷污，就把我的愤怒倾倒在他们身上。Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19我将他们分散到列国，四散在列邦，按他们的所作所为惩罚他们。And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20他们到了☛“他们到了”是根据一些古卷和七十士译本；原文是“他到了”。所去的列国，使我的圣名被亵渎；因为人谈论他们说，这是耶和华的子民，却从耶和华的地出来。And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
21但我顾惜我的圣名，就是以色列家在所到的列国中亵渎的。But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22“所以，你要对以色列家说，主耶和华如此说：以色列家啊，我做这事不是为你们，而是为了我的圣名，就是你们在所到的列国中亵渎的。Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23我要使我至大的名显为圣；这名在列国中已遭亵渎，是你们在他们中间亵渎的。我在他们眼前，在你们身上显为圣的时候，他们就知道我是耶和华。这是主耶和华说的。And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24我必从列国带领你们，从列邦聚集你们，领你们回到本地。For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25我必洒清水在你们身上，你们就洁净了。我要洁净你们，使你们脱离一切的污秽，弃绝一切的偶像。Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26我也要赐给你们一颗新心，将新灵放在你们里面，又从你们的肉体中除掉石心，赐给你们肉心。A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27我必将我的灵放在你们里面，使你们顺从我的律例，谨守遵行我的典章。And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28你们必住在我所赐给你们祖先之地；你们要作我的子民，我要作你们的神。And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29我要救你们脱离一切的污秽，也要令五谷丰登，使你们不再遭遇饥荒。I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30我要使树木多结果子，田地多出土产，好叫你们不再因饥荒被列国凌辱。And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
31那时，你们必追念自己的恶行和不好的作为，就因你们的罪孽和可憎的事厌恶自己。Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
32你们要知道，我这样做不是为你们。以色列家啊，你们当为自己的行为抱愧蒙羞。这是主耶和华说的。Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33“主耶和华如此说：我洁净你们，使你们脱离一切罪孽的日子，必使城镇有人居住，废墟重新建造。Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
34这荒芜的土地，曾被过路的人看为荒芜，现今却得以耕种。And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35他们必说：‘这荒芜之地，现在成了像伊甸园一样；这荒凉、荒废、毁坏的城镇，现今坚固，有人居住。’And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36那时，在你们四围其余的列国必知道，我─耶和华修造那毁坏之处，开垦那荒芜之地。我─耶和华说了这话，就必成就。Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
37“主耶和华如此说：我要回应以色列家的求问，成全他们，增添他们的人数，使他们多如羊群。Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
38在耶路撒冷守节时，作为祭物所献的羊群有多少，照样，荒凉的城镇必为人群所充满；他们就知道我是耶和华。”As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.