旧约 - 以赛亚书(Isaiah)第47章

"Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate.
Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.
Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one."
Our Redeemer--the LORD Almighty is his name--is the Holy One of Israel.
"Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms.
I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.
You said, 'I will continue forever--the eternal queen!' But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.
"Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'
Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.'
Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.
"Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.
All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone; here is no fire to sit by.
That is all they can do for you--these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.
以赛亚书第四十七章   赛 47 章 > 先知的预言有没有偶然巧合的可能? 

  47 章 以赛亚发出巴比伦覆灭预言的时间,比实际发生的时间早 150 年,那时候巴比伦还没有成为地上的强国。虽然骄傲的巴比伦帝国后来毁灭了犹大和耶路撒冷,但巴比伦人自己也在公元前 539 年成为俘虏。是神,而不是巴比伦人有至高无上的权柄。神使用巴比伦人惩罚犯了罪的百姓;神使用玛代波斯捣毁了巴比伦,并释放了祂的百姓。 

  赛 47:8-9> 怎样使用自己的一生去荣耀神,而不是荣耀自己呢? 

  47:8-9 在追求权力和享乐下,巴比伦认为自己伟大,并声称自己是地上惟一的强权。巴比伦感到绝对的安全。尼布甲尼撒王称自己为“神”。但真正的神给了他一个有力的教训,夺去了他所有的一切(参但 4:28-37 )。我们的社会也沉溺于享乐和权力之中,但是这些都会很快地过去。看看我们自己的生活,问问自己如何更加负责地对待神给的恩赐。 

  赛 47:12-15> 命相、命理有时好像蛮准的,偶尔试试也无妨吧……是吗?