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1 上主這樣說:「我離棄你們母親的離婚書在那裏呢﹖或者我把你們賣給了我的那一位債主呢﹖看!因了你們的惡行,你們纔被出賣,因了你們的過犯,你們的母親纔被離棄。
Thus says the Lord: What is this bill of divorce for your mother, by which I have dismissed her? Or who is my creditor, to whom I have sold you? Behold, you were sold by your iniquities, and I have dismissed your mother for your wickedness.
2 為什麼我來到的時候,沒有人在呢﹖為什麼我召呼的時候,無人答應﹖難道我的手短小而不能施救﹖或者我再無救助之力﹖看!我一怒喝,海便涸竭,江河便成為曠野,其中的魚類因無水而萎縮渴死。
For I arrived, and there was no man. I called out, and there was no one who would hear. Has my hand been shortened and become small, so that I am unable to redeem? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke, I will make the sea into a desert. I will turn rivers into dry land. The fish will rot for lack of water and will die of thirst.
3 我可使黑暗籠罩諸天,使麻衣掩蔽天際。」
I will clothe the heavens in darkness, and I will make sackcloth their covering.
4 吾主上主賜給了我一個受教的口舌,叫我會用言語援助疲倦的人。他每天清晨喚醒我,喚醒我的耳朵,叫我如同學子一樣靜聽。
The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher.
5 吾主上主開啟了我的耳朵,我並沒有違抗,也沒有退避。
The Lord God has opened my ear. And I do not contradict him. I have not turned back.
6 我將我的背轉給打擊我的人,把我的腮轉給扯我鬍鬚的人;對於侮辱和唾污,我沒有遮掩我的面。
I have given my body to those who strike me, and my cheeks to those who plucked them. I have not averted my face from those who rebuked me and who spit on me.
7 因為吾主上主協助我,因此我不以為羞恥;所以我板著臉,像一塊燧石,因我知道我不會受恥辱。
The Lord God is my helper. Therefore, I have not been confounded. Therefore, I have set my face like a very hard rock, and I know that I will not be confounded.
8 那給我伸冤者已來近了。誰要和我爭辯,讓我們一齊站起來罷!誰是我的對頭,叫他到我這裏來罷!
He who justifies me is near. Who will speak against me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him approach me.
9 請看!有吾主上主扶助我,誰還能定我的罪呢﹖看!他們都像衣服一樣要破舊,為蠹蟲所侵蝕。
Behold, the Lord God is my helper. Who is the one who would condemn me? Behold, they will all be worn away like a garment; the moth will devour them.
10 你們中凡敬畏上主的,應聽他僕人的聲音!凡於黑暗中行走而不見光明的,該依靠上主的名字,並仰仗自己的天主。
Who is there among you who fears the Lord? Who hears the voice of his servant? Who has walked in darkness, and there is no light in him? Let him hope in the name of the Lord, and let him lean upon his God.
11 看哪!凡你們點了火,燃了火把的,必要在你們所點的火燄裏,在你們所燃的火把中行走!這是我的手所加於你們的,你們必倒臥在痛苦之中。
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, wrapped in flames: walk in the light of your fire and in the flames that you have kindled. This has been done to you by my hand. You will sleep in anguish.

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