Isaiah 31章 ESV | 微讀聖經

Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

1Woe31:1 Or Ah, to 31:1 ch. 30:2; 36:6those who go down to Egypt for help

and rely on horses,

who 31:1 Ps. 20:7; [ch. 30:16; 36:9] trust in chariots because they are many

and in horsemen because they are very strong,

but 31:1 [ch. 22:11]do not look to the Holy One of Israel

or consult the Lord!

2And 31:2 [Ps. 94:8-10] yet he is wise and brings disaster;

31:2 [Num. 23:19] he does not call back his words,

but 31:2 [ch. 22:14] will arise against the house of the evildoers

and against the helpers of 31:2 Ps. 94:4those who work iniquity.

3The Egyptians are man, and not God,

and their horses 31:3 Jer. 17:5are flesh, and not spirit.

When the Lord stretches out his hand,

the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,

and they will all perish together.

4For thus the Lord said to me,

31:4 Hos. 11:10; Amos 1:2; 3:8“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,

and when a band of shepherds is called out against him

he is not terrified by their shouting

or daunted at their noise,

31:4 [ch. 42:13]so the Lord of hosts will come down

to fight31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike on Mount Zion and on its hill.

531:5 Deut. 32:11; [Ps. 91:4]Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts

will protect Jerusalem;

he will protect and deliver it;

he will spare and rescue it.”

631:6 [ch. 30:15] Turn to him from whom people31:6 Hebrew they have 31:6 ch. 1:5deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

7For in that day 31:7 ch. 2:20; 30:22everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

831:8 ch. 37:36“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;

and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;

and he shall flee from the sword,

and his young men shall be 31:8 [Gen. 49:15; Prov. 12:24]put to forced labor.

931:9 Deut. 32:31; See ch. 30:29His rock shall pass away in terror,

and his officers desert the standard in panic,”

declares the Lord, whose 31:9 ch. 30:33fire is in Zion,

and whose 31:9 Ps. 21:9; Mal. 4:1furnace is in Jerusalem.

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