以賽亞書 40
1 「你們安慰，安慰我的百姓罷！」你們的天主說。
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your 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 comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD’s hand double for all 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 who calls out, “Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for 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 exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
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。」
The LORD’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of 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 out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
7 上主的風吹來，草必枯萎，花必凋謝。【的確，人民好像草。】
The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
8 草能枯萎，花能凋謝，但我們天主的話永遠常存。」
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
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！
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “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 GOD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense 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 will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their 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 waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills 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 directed the LORD’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counsellor?
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﹖
Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed 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。
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
16 黎巴嫩不夠當柴燒，其中的野獸不足作燔祭。
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 萬民在他面前好像烏有，在他看來只是空虛淨無。
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
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 then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to 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。
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
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。
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skilful workman to set up a carved image for him that will 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﹖
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from 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 who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
23 他使王侯化為烏有，叫地上的士紳成為虛無。
who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
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。「
They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
25 你們把我同誰比擬呢﹖要我與誰相似呢﹖」聖者如此說。
“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” 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 created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
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！」
Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?
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。
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29 他賜給疲倦者力量，賜給無力者勇氣。
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
30 少年人能疲倦困乏，青年人能失足跌倒；
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
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 those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
