1以下是關於大馬士革的預言： 「看啊，大馬士革城必不復存在，淪為廢墟。2亞羅珥的眾城邑必被廢棄， 羊群將在那裡棲息， 沒有人驚擾牠們。3以法蓮*的堡壘必被摧毀， 大馬士革的王權必喪失。 倖存的亞蘭人必像以色列人一樣失去榮耀。」 這是萬軍之耶和華說的。4「到那日，雅各的榮耀必消失， 他肥胖的身軀必漸漸消瘦。5國家好像一塊已收割的田地， 又像撿淨麥穗的利乏音谷。6倖存者寥寥無幾，就像打過的橄欖樹上剩下的果子， 或兩三個掛在樹梢， 或四五個殘存在枝頭。」 這是以色列的上帝耶和華說的。7到那日，人們必仰望他們的創造主，向以色列的聖者求助。8那時他們不再仰望自己製造的祭壇，也不再供奉自己指頭所造的亞舍拉神像和香壇。9到那日，他們因以色列人到來而遺棄的堅城必變為山林和高崗，一片荒涼。10以色列人啊， 你們忘記了拯救你們的上帝， 不記得那保護你們的磐石。 所以，你們雖然栽種佳美的秧子， 插上遠方運來的樹苗，11使它們在栽種的當天早上就生長開花， 也必一無所獲。 你們得到的只是艱難和無盡的痛苦。12看啊，列國喧囂，如怒海洶湧； 萬民騷動，如洪水滔滔。13雖然萬民喧囂如洶湧的洪水， 但上帝一聲斥責，他們便逃往遠方， 像山頂上被風捲走的糠秕， 又如狂風颳走的塵埃。14他們晚上令人恐懼，早晨已無影無蹤。這就是擄掠我們之人的下場，搶奪我們之人的報應。
English Standard Version
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
1An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.2The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts.4And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.5And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.6Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the Lord God of Israel.7In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.8He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.9In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,11though you make them grow* on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away* in a day of grief and incurable pain.12Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!13The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.14At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
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