以賽亞書 29：4-8
現代中文譯本（2019）
4 耶路撒冷的人不敢作聲，蹲在地上，憋著喉嚨講話，像鬼從地底下講話一樣。
5 耶路撒冷啊，所有攻擊你的仇敵都要像灰塵一樣被吹散；他們令人恐懼的軍隊要像糠秕一般被風颳走。忽然，出乎意料地，
6 上主—萬軍的統帥要用猛烈的雷轟和地震，要差遣巨響、暴風，和烈火來拯救你。
7 然後，來攻擊上帝祭壇的各國軍隊都要潰敗；他們的武器和軍備都像夢，像夜間的幻象一樣消逝。
8 來攻擊耶路撒冷的各國軍隊要像一個快餓死的人在夢中大嚼，醒來的時候仍然飢餓；他們像快渴死的人在夢中大喝，醒來的時候依舊乾渴。
ESV
4 And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
5 But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
6 you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
8 As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
《舊約-聖經背景註釋》
神顯現的特征
為了顯出神的能力，人看到神顯現的時候，通常有煙雲、火焰、強風、暴雨、地震（見：書十11；王上十九11～13注釋）。神同在的彰顯當然有其目的，通常是為了呼召領袖或先知來服事，或是傳達對敵國（哈三13），或是對惡人（詩九十四1～3）的審判。神靈顯現在烏加列史詩也很常見（亞拿特與凱雷特都領受了神明的異象），而美索不達米亞文獻也常常出現對祭司，或是對國王顯靈的異夢。
