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以賽亞書 45:9-13
現代文譯本(2019)
9 跟創造主對抗的人遭殃了!
瓦器能跟造它的陶匠爭辯嗎?
泥土能問陶匠他在做些什麼嗎?
它能埋怨陶匠的手藝不高明嗎?
10 誰敢對父母抗議說:
為什麼把我生成這個樣子?
11 上主—以色列神聖的上帝、
那掌握未來的創造主這樣說:
你無權過問有關我兒女的事,
無權告訴我,我應該做些什麼。
12 我是這大地的創造主;
我創造地上的人類。
我用我的能力張開天幕,
我控制太陽、月亮、星辰。
13 我使塞魯士得勝、行公義;
我要填平他走的道路。
他要重建我的城市耶路撒冷,
使我被擄的子民得自由。
沒有人雇用或賄賂他做這事。
上主—萬軍的統帥這樣宣布了。
ESV
9 “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
12 I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
13 I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.
《聖經背景注釋》
古列王的歸回重建政策 古列王讓流放的民族歸回原地,在廢墟上重建城市的政策,不只嘉惠於猶大而已。例如,他聲稱將瑪爾杜克恢覆到原來的巴比倫神的地位,也讓很多民族回到自己的家鄉(包括流離的巴比倫人),並且重建他們的神殿與其他公共建築(進一步數據請參看:拉一2~4)。巴比倫有很多建築是在古列執政期間重建。
