以賽亞書 33:1-4
現代中文譯本(2019)
1 我們的敵人要遭殃了!他們一向搶奪別人,卻從來沒有被人搶奪過;他們欺詐人,卻沒有被人欺詐過。但是等他們不能再搶奪欺詐,他們就要被人家搶奪欺詐了。
2 上主啊,求你憐憫我們。我們把希望寄託於你。求你天天保護我們,在我們危急的時候拯救我們。
3 當你為我們打仗,萬國就在喊殺聲中逃跑了。
4 他們的戰利品都被敵人搶走,像農作物被過境的蝗蟲吃光一樣。
ESV
1 Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
3 At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
4 and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
《舊約-聖經背景註釋》
蝗蟲
成群的蝗蟲摧枯拉朽,吃凈地上的收成與財富這個意象,在約珥書一4~12與阿摩司書七1~2更形完熟。亦請參:申命記二十八42注釋。以賽亞的經文流露出反諷的意味,因為先前的毀滅者亞述,如今比起那些當年受她所害的國家遭遇的更慘。