以賽亞書 42
1 請看我扶持的僕人，我心靈喜愛的所選者！我在他身上傾注了我的神，叫他給萬民傳佈真道。
"Look, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.
2 他不呼喊，不喧嚷，在街市上也聽不到他的聲音。
He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
3 破傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄的燈心，他不吹滅；他將忠實地傳佈真道。
He won't break a bruised reed. And he won't extinguish a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
4 他不沮喪，也不失望，直到他在世上奠定了真道，因為海島都期待著他的教誨。
He will not grow dim or be crushed, until he has established justice on the earth, and in his name the coastlands will hope."
5 那創造且展布天空，舖張大地和佈置大地的產物，給世人賜予氣息，並給在地上行動的，賜與呼吸的天主上主這樣說：「
Thus says God, YHWH, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
6 我，上主，因仁義召叫了你，我必提攜你，保護你，立你作人民的盟約，萬民的光明，
"I, YHWH, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
7 為開啟盲人的眼目，從獄中領出被囚的人，從牢裏領出住在黑暗的人。
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
8 我是上主，這是我的名字；我決不將我的光榮讓與另一位，決不將我應受的讚美歸於偶像。
"I am YHWH. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
9 先前的事，看，已經成就；我再宣告新近的事，在事未發生之前，我先告訴你們。」
Look, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."
10 你們應向上主高唱新歌，稱述他的榮耀直到地極！ 願海洋和其中一切，願島嶼和其上的居民讚美他！
Sing to YHWH a new song, and his praise from the remotest parts of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the islands and their inhabitants.
11 願曠野和那裏的城邑，刻達爾人所居住的村落歡呼！願色拉的居民高聲歌唱，從山頂上吶喊！
Let the desert and its cities cry out, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 願眾人都歸光榮於上主，在島嶼上稱述他的榮耀！
Let them give glory to YHWH, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 上主出征有如勇士，激起怒火有如戰士；他要高喊呼叫，對自己的敵人顯出他的英勇。
YHWH will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
14 「我已緘默好久，安靜自抑；然而現今我要像待產的婦女，呼喊、呻吟和哀嘆。
"I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
15 我要使大山丘陵乾透，使上邊的草木枯槁；我要使河流化為旱地，使池沼涸竭。
I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
16 我要領瞎子走他們不知道的路，帶他們行不認識的道；使黑暗在他們前化為光明，使崎嶇之途變為平坦；這些事我都要作，我決不放棄。
I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know. I will lead them in paths that they do not know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
17 凡依賴偶像且向神像說：「你們是我的神」的人，必要敗退，蒙受奇辱。」
"Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
18 聾子，你們聽！瞎子，你們睜眼看！
"Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 除了我的僕人外，誰還那麼瞎呢﹖誰如同我派遣的人那麼聾呢﹖誰像與我立和約的人那樣瞎呢﹖誰似上主的僕人那樣聾呢﹖
Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as YHWH's servant?
20 他雖然看見了許多事，卻一無所覺；耳朵開著，卻沒有聽見。
You see many things, but do not observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.
21 上主為了自己的仁義，本來願意把法律發揚廣大，
It pleased YHWH, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
22 但這民族遭受了洗劫和搶掠，被束縛於桎梏之中，隱伏於監獄之內；他們成了搶掠之物，而無人搭救；受人劫奪，而無人敢說：「交出來！」
But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them.'
23 你們中有誰靜聽這事，今後傾耳靜聽呢﹖
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 是誰把雅各伯交付給搶掠者﹖是誰將以色列交給了劫奪者﹖不是他們所得罪的，不肯行他的道路，不肯聽從他的法律的那位上主嗎﹖
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Did not YHWH, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
25 因此他在這民族身上發洩了自己的烈怒和戰火；火已在她四周燒起，她仍不理會，已燃燒著她，她仍未放在心上。
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he did not know; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart."
