以賽亞書 48
1 雅各伯家請聽這話：──你們以以色列的名字自稱，出自猶大之後，奉上主的名字起誓，又稱揚「以色列的天主，」但都不是出自誠心誠意；
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the spring of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, —not in truth, nor in righteousness.
2 雖然你們自稱是出自聖城，依賴名為「萬軍上主」的以色列的天主──「
For of the holy city they call themselves, and upon the God of Israel they stay themselves, —The Lord of hosts is his name.
3 那過去的事，我早就預言過了，由我口中所發出的，也叫人聽見了；轉瞬間我行了那事，那事也就成就了。
The former things have I declared from the beginning; and out of my mouth went they forth, and I announced them: suddenly did I accomplish them, and they came to pass;
4 因為我知道你是頑固的，你的頸項似鐵槓，你的額是銅製的，
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, that like an iron sinew is thy neck, and thy brow of copper;
5 為此我早就告訴了你，在事未發生之前我就向你說明了，免得你說：「是我的神像行了這事，是我雕刻鑄成的神像命定了這事。」
And I declared it to thee from the beginning; before yet it came to pass did I let thee hear it: lest thou should say, My idol hath done these things, and my graven image, and my molten image, have ordained them.
6 你既聽見了，也看見了這一切，難道你們不該作證嗎﹖如今我要宣佈新事，即你不知的隱密事。
Thou hast heard it; see it all now; and you—will you not declare it? I caused thee to hear new things, from this time, even hidden things which thou hadst not known.
7 這些事是現今而不是從前造成的，是今日之前你從沒有聽說過的，免得你說：「看，我早就知道了！」
Now are they created, and not from the beginning; and before the day [that I announced them] thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 你從來沒有聽過，也不知道，也是你的耳朵聞所未聞的。因為我知道你好背信叛逆，你實在可稱為「胎生的叛徒。」
But neither hadst thou heard it; nor didst thou know; nor had in ancient times thy ear been opened; for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and a transgressor wast thou called from thy birth.
9 但是為了我名的緣故，我暫緩發怒；為了我榮譽的緣故，我抑制了我自己，而沒有消滅你。
For the sake of my name will I defer my anger, and because of my praise will I restrain it toward thee, so that I may not cut thee off.
10 看啊！我只是鍛煉了你，有如銀子，在患難的爐中磨煉了你。
Behold, I have refined thee, though not into silver: I have approved thee in the crucible of affliction.
11 為了我自己，為了我自己的緣故，我必要去行。我豈能讓我的名字受褻瀆﹖我決不將我的光榮讓與別人。」
For my own sake will I do it: for how would [my name] be dishonored? and my glory will I not give unto another.
12 雅各伯啊！我所召叫的以色列啊！你聽我說：我就是那位，我是元始， 我也是終末。
Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel, my called one; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13 我的手奠定了大地，我的右手展開了諸天；我一叫它們，它們就一同出現。
My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned out the heavens: I call unto them, they stand forward together.
14 你們都集合起來聽罷！邪神中有誰預言了這事呢﹖「我所愛的，必實行我的旨意：攻擊巴比倫和加色丁的苗裔。」
Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear: Who among them hath told these things? He whom the Lord loveth, will do his pleasure on Babylon, and [display] his arm [on] the Chaldeans.
15 只有我，只有我預言了這事，召叫了他，引導了他，使他所行的道路順利。
I, even I, have spoken it, I have also called him: I have brought him, and he shall be prosperous on his way.
16 你們走近我前，聽這話罷！我從起初就沒有在暗處說過話，從實現之時起，我就在那裏。我上主現在即要施行救援。
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; never from the beginning have I spoken in secret; from the time that it occurred, was I there. And now the Lord Eternal hath sent me, and his Spirit.
17 你的救主上主，以色列的聖者這樣說：「我是上主你的天主，教訓你為你有益的事，引你走當走的道路。
Thus hath said the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord thy God who teach thee for thy profit, who lead thee by the way thou shouldst go.
18 恨不得你一向聽從我的命令！ 那麼你的安樂將似江河，你的幸福將似海濤；
Oh that thou hadst but listened to my commandments! then would have been as a river thy peace, and thy prosperity as the waves of the sea:
19 你的子孫多如海沙，出於你身的苗裔多似沙粒；你的名字在我前決不會抹去，也決不會被刪除。」
And then would have been as the sand thy seed, and the offspring of thy body like the pebbles of the sea-shore; yet shall his name not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
20 你們出離巴比倫，逃出加色丁罷！你們要以歡樂的呼聲宣告此事，叫人聽見，傳佈到地極說：「上主救贖了他的僕人雅各伯。」
Go forth out of Babylon, flee away from the Chaldeans, with the voice of singing declare, announce this, carry it forth as far as the end of the earth; say, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21 當上主率領他們過曠野時，他們並不覺渴，因為他使水由巖石中流出給他們喝；他分開了巖石，水就湧流出來。
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; waters out of the rock he let drop down for them: and he cleaved the rock, and the waters gushed out.
22 上主說：惡人決無平安！
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
