1For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. (代下36:22; 诗102:13; 亚1:17; 亚8:22; 弗2:12)2And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land as male and female slaves.[1] They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. (赛49:22; 赛60:9; 赛60:14; 赛61:5; 赛66:20; 珥3:8)
Israel’s Remnant Taunts Babylon
3When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury[2] ceased! (耶51:13; 弥2:4; 哈2:6; 启18:16)5The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, (赛9:4)6that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution. (耶50:23)7The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. (赛44:23; 赛49:13; 赛54:1; 赛55:12)8The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’ (赛2:13; 赛37:24; 结31:16)9Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.10All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’ (耶51:48)11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.12“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! (伯38:7; 赛24:21; 赛34:3)13You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;[3] (耶51:53; 但5:22; 摩9:2; 太11:23; 路10:15; 帖后2:4)14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’15But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. (结32:23; 太11:23; 路10:15)16Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, (耶50:23)17who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’ (耶50:33)18All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;[4]19but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot. (结32:20)20You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. “May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named! (伯18:19; 诗21:10; 诗109:13)21Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.” (出20:5; 太23:35)22“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. (创21:23; 伯18:19; 耶51:50; 耶51:62)23“And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog,[5] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts. (赛34:11; 番2:14)
An Oracle Concerning Assyria
24The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, (箴19:21)25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.” (赛9:4; 赛10:27; 赛37:36)26This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. (申4:34)27For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? (代下20:6; 伯9:12; 诗33:11; 箴21:30; 赛14:26; 但4:31; 但4:33; 但4:35)
An Oracle Concerning Philistia
28In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle: (王下16:20; 赛13:1)29Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent. (出15:14; 民21:6; 诗60:8; 诗87:4; 诗108:9; 赛10:24; 赛30:6; 耶46:22)30And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay. (赛29:19; 番3:12)31Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. (赛13:6; 赛14:29; 赛20:1; 赛24:12)32What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.” (诗87:1; 诗87:5; 诗102:16; 诗132:13; 赛28:16)