2/24 (二)
以賽亞書 51:22-23
現代文譯本(2019)
22 至高的上主—你們的上帝為你們辯護,說:
我要把那使你們搖晃的杯挪去,
那是我生氣的時候給你們的杯;
你們用不著再喝了。
23 我要把這杯給壓迫你們的人,
給那些使你們倒在街道上、
從你們身上走過去的人。
ESV
22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
23 and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.”
《舊約-聖經背景註釋》
踐踏被擄之人 主前第三千年紀早期的埃及國王被描寫為踐踏潰敗敵軍的屍體。例如,我們看見可能是埃及最早的統一者那瑪爾(Namar),他以令牌擊打敵人,踐踏其上。同樣的,拉加什的蘇美國王被描寫為行進於敵人屍首之上。踐踏敵人的傳統,繼續到主前第一千年紀的亞述與巴比倫。
