以賽亞書 49
1 諸島嶼，請聽我！遠方的人民，請靜聽！上主由母腹中就召叫了我，自母胎中就給我起了名字。
Hearken, ye Coastlands, unto me, And give ear ye peoples afar off, —Yahweh, called me, from my birth, From my nativity, made he mention of my name;
2 他使我的口好似利劍，將我掩護在他的手蔭下，使我像一支磨光的箭，將我隱藏在他的箭囊中。
And he made my mouth, like a sharp sword, In the shadow of his hand, he concealed me, —And made of me a polished arrow, In his quiver, he hid me;
3 他對我說：你是我的僕人，是我驕矜的「以色列。」
And said to me My Servant, thou art, —Israel, in whom I will get myself glory.
4 但是我說：「我白白勤勞了，我枉費了氣力而毫無益處；但是我的權利是在上主那裏，我的報酬在我的天主面前。」
But I, said, To no purpose, have I toiled, For waste and mist—my vigour, have I spent, —Surely, my vindication, is, with, Yahweh, And, my recompence, with my God.
5 我在上主眼中是光榮的，天主是我的力量。那由母胎形成我作他的僕人，將雅各伯領回到他前，並把以色列聚在他前的上主，如今說：「
Now, therefore, said Yahweh—Fashioning me from birth To be Servant to him, To restore Jacob unto him, And that, Israel, unto him, might be gathered And I be honourable in the eyes of Yahweh, And, my God, be proved to have been my strength,
6 你作我的僕人，復興雅各伯支派，領回以色列遺留下的人，還是小事，我更要使你作萬民的光明，使我的救恩達於地極。」
Yea he said—It is too small a thing, for being my Servant, That thou shouldest raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel, shouldst restore, —So I will give thee to become a light of nations, That, my salvation, may reach as far as the end of the earth.
7 上主，以色列的救主和聖者，向那極受輕慢，為列國所憎惡，且作統治者奴役的人這樣說：「列王必要見而起立，諸侯必要見而下拜：這是因為上主忠實可靠，以色列的聖者揀選了你的緣故。」
Thus, saith Yahweh—the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One To him that is despised of the soul, To the abhorred of the nation To the servant of rulers, Kings, shall see and arise, Princes, lo! they have bowed themselves down, —Because of Yahweh, who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel, lo! he hath chosen thee.
8 上主這樣說：在悅納的時候，我俯允了你；在救恩的日期，我幫助了你；我必保護你，使你作為人民的盟約，復興國家，分得荒蕪的產業，
Thus, saith Yahweh—In a time of acceptance, have I answered thee, In a day of salvation, have I helped thee, —That I may preserve thee And give thee as the covenant of a people, To establish the land, To bring into possession the desolate heritages;
9 好向俘虜說：「你們出來罷！」向在黑暗中的人說：「你們出現罷！」他們將在各路上被牧放，他們的牧場是在一切荒嶺上。
Saying To them who are bound Go forth, To them who are in darkness, Shew yourselves, —By the roads, shall they graze, And on all bare places, shall be their pasture:
10 他們不餓也不渴，熱風和列日也不損傷他們，因為那憐憫他們的率領著他們，引領他們到水泉傍。
They shall neither hunger, nor thirst, Nor shall smite them the glowing sand, or the glaring sun, —For, he that hath compassion upon them, will lead them, And unto springs of water, will he conduct them.
11 我要使我的一切山嶺變為大路，並把我的街道修高。
Then will I make of all my mountains, a road, And my highways, shall be upraised.
12 看啊！有的由遠方而來，有的由北方和西方而來，還有些由息寧而來。
Lo! these, from afar, shall come in, —And lo! these, from the North and from the West, And these, from the land of Sinim.
13 諸天要歡樂，大地要踴躍，山嶺要歡呼高唱，因為上主安慰了他的百姓，憐恤了他受苦的人們。
Shout in triumph—O heavens! And exult—O earth! And break forth, ye mountains, into shouts of triumph, —For Yahweh hath comforted his people, And on his humbled ones, taketh he compassion.
14 熙雍曾說過：「上主離棄了我，吾主忘掉了我。」
But Zion had said. Yahweh hath forsaken me, —Even, My Lord, hath forgotten me!
15 婦女豈能忘掉自己的乳嬰﹖出為人母的，豈能忘掉親生的兒子﹖縱然她們能忘掉，我也不能忘掉你啊﹖
Can, a woman, forget, her sucking child, Past taking compassion on the son of her womb? Even these, may forget, Yet will, I, not forget, thee:
16 看哪！我已把你刻在我的手掌上，你的城牆時常在我的眼前。
Lo! on the palms of my hands, have I portrayed thee, —Thy walls are before me continually.
17 建築你的工人急速動工，那毀滅你和破壞你的，要離你遠去。
In haste are thy sons, —They who have been tearing thee down and laying thee waste, out of thee, let them go forth!
18 你舉目四望罷！他們都已集合到你這裏來；我永遠生活－－上主的斷語－－他們必如裝飾品穿戴在你身上，把你裝扮得有如新娘。
Lift up, round about, thine eyes and see, All those, have gathered themselves together—have come to thee! As I live, Declareth Yahweh, —Surely all those as an ornament, shalt thou put on, And bind them about thee for a girdle as a bride.
19 至於你的廢址，你那荒蕪和遭蹂躪之地，如今為你的居民都太狹小了，因為吞噬你的人已遠離他去。
Surely, as for thy wastes, and thy desolations, and thy land of ruins, Surely, now, shalt thou be too strait for thine inhabitants, And, far off, shall be they who have been swallowing thee up.
20 連你在不孕期中所生的子女也要說給你聽：「這地方為我太狹小了，請給我一個住處罷！」
The children of whom thou wast bereaved shall yet say in thine ears, —Too strait for me, is the place Make room for me that I may settle down.
21 那時你心裏會問：「誰給我生育了這些人呢﹖我原是不妊不孕的，【且是流放被逐的，】這些人是誰給我養大的﹖看！我本是孤苦零丁的，他們卻是從那裏來的﹖」
Then shalt thou say in thy heart, —Who hath borne me, these, Seeing, I, have been bereaved and unfruitful, a captive and banished? These, therefore, who hath brought them up? Lo! I, was left, alone, These, where were they?
22 吾主上主這樣說：「看！我要向列邦高舉我的手，向萬民樹起我的旗幟；他們必要把你的兒子抱在懷中帶來，把你的女兒放在肩上背來。
Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh—Lo! I will lift up, unto nations my hand, Yea unto peoples, will I raise high my banner, —And they shall bring in thy sons in their bosom, And, thy daughters, on the shoulder shall be borne;
23 列王要作你的養父，皇后要當你的保姆。他們要在你面前俯伏在地，並要舔去你腳上的塵土；那時你將知道：我是上主；凡仰賴我的，決不會蒙羞。」
And, kings, shall be, thy foster-fathers. And their queens, thy nursing mothers, With face to the ground, shall they bow down to thee, The dust of thy feet, shall they lick, —So shalt thou know that, I, am Yahweh, In that, they shall not be put to shame, Who were waiting for me.
24 獵物豈能由勇士手中奪回﹖俘虜豈能由強者手中救出﹖
Shall prey, be taken from a mighty one? Or the captive of one in the right, be delivered?
25 但是，上主這樣說：「俘虜必要由勇士手中奪回，獵物必要由強者手中救出。我必與同你爭奪的人爭奪，我必拯救你的子孫。
Surely, thus, saith Yahweh—Even the captive of the mighty one, shall be taken away, And the prey of the tyrant, be delivered; And thine opposers, I, will oppose, And thy children, I, will save;
26 我要使壓迫你的人吃自己的肉，喝自己的血如喝新酒。如此，凡有血肉的人都知道我是上主，是你的拯救者，是你的救主，是雅各伯的大能者。」
Then will I feed thy tormentors with their own flesh, And as with new wine—with their own blood, shall they be drunk, —So shall all flesh, know, that, I—Yahweh, am thy Saviour, And, thy Redeemer, is the Mighty One of Jacob.
