以賽亞書 40
1 「你們安慰，安慰我的百姓罷！」你們的天主說。
Comfort you, comfort you my people, says God.
2 你們應向耶路撒冷說寬心的話，並向她宣告：她的苦役已滿期，她的罪債已清償，因為她為了自己的一切罪過，已由上主手中承受了雙倍的懲罰。
Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double [the amount of] her sins.
3 有一個呼聲喊說：「你們要在曠野中預備上主的道路，在荒原中為我們的天主修平一條大路！
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
4 一切深谷要填滿，一切山陵要產平，隆起的要削為平地，崎嶇的要闢成坦途！
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] plains.
5 上主的光榮要顯示出來，凡有血肉的都會看見：這是上主親口說的。」
And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken [it].
6 有個聲音說：「呼喊罷！」我答說：「我呼喊什麼﹖」「凡有血肉的都似草，他的美麗似田野的花；
The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:
7 上主的風吹來，草必枯萎，花必凋謝。【的確，人民好像草。】
8 草能枯萎，花能凋謝，但我們天主的話永遠常存。」
The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.
9 給熙雍傳喜訊的啊！請登上高山！給耶路撒冷報喜訊的啊！請大聲疾呼！ 高呼罷！不要畏懼！向猶大各城報告說：你們的天主來了！
O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Juda, Behold your God!
10 吾主上主帶著威能來到，他的手臂獲得了勝利；他的勝利品與他同在，他獲得的酬勞在他面前。
Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [his] arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and [his] work before him.
11 他必如牧人，牧放自己的羊群，以自己的手臂集合小羊，把牠們抱在自己的懷中，溫良地領導哺乳的母羊。
He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
12 誰曾用手心量過海水，用手掌測量過天，用升斗量過地上的塵土，用天秤稱過高山，用戥子撐過丘陵呢﹖
Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
13 誰曾指揮過上主的心靈；或做過他的參謀，教導過他呢﹖
Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?
14 他曾向誰請教過，請他教導自己，指導自己正路，教授自己智識，指示明智的行徑呢﹖
Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;
15 看哪！萬民像桶中的一滴水，如天秤上的一粒沙；看，島嶼重如一粒灰塵。
since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?
16 黎巴嫩不夠當柴燒，其中的野獸不足作燔祭。
And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering:
17 萬民在他面前好像烏有，在他看來只是空虛淨無。
and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
18 你們要把天主同誰相比擬呢﹖你們把他與什麼相對照呢﹖
To whom have you compared the Lord? and with what likeness have you compared him?
19 與偶像嗎﹖偶像是工匠鑄造，金匠再包上金子，然後再鑄銀鍊圍起來。
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, [and] made it a similitude?
20 精於選料的人，在選擇一塊不朽的木頭，再尋找一位精明的工匠，將鑄像立定，不致倒下。
For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.
21 難道你們不知道﹖難道你們沒有聽說﹖難道從起初沒有人告訴過你們﹖難道由大地肇基以來你們沒有細察過嗎﹖
Will you not know? will you not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth?
22 他坐在大地的穹窿之上，地上的居民有如蝗蟲一般。他展開天幕有如帷幔，伸開天空有如居住的蓬帳。
[It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:
23 他使王侯化為烏有，叫地上的士紳成為虛無。
he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.
24 他們剛被栽上，剛被種植，剛在土中扎根，他向他們一噓氣，他們一噓氣，他們便立即枯萎，暴風捲枯湝似的將他們捲走。「
For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.
25 你們把我同誰比擬呢﹖要我與誰相似呢﹖」聖者如此說。
Now then to whom have you compared me, that I may be exalted? says the Holy One.
26 你們舉目向上，看看是誰造了這些呢﹖是他按照數目展開了他的萬軍，按照次序一一點名，在這強有力和威能者前，沒有一個敢缺席的。
Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.
27 雅各伯！你為什麼說﹖以色列！你為什麼講：「上主看不見我的命運！天主忽略了我的案件！」
For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed?
28 難道你不知道，或者沒有聽說：上主是永生的天主，是創造地極之主嗎﹖他縱不疲倦，決不困乏，他的智慧高深莫測。
And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.
29 他賜給疲倦者力量，賜給無力者勇氣。
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
30 少年人能疲倦困乏，青年人能失足跌倒；
For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless:
31 然而仰望上主的，必獲得新力量，必能振翼高飛有如兀鷹，疾馳而不困乏，奔走而不疲倦。
but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
