< 以賽亞書 51 >
1 你們追求正義,尋覓上主的人,請聽我說:你們又細察那巖石,你們是從那上邊鑿下來的;要細察那石穴,你們是從那裏挖出來的。
Heare me, ye that follow after righteousnes, and ye that seeke the Lord: looke vnto the rocke, whence ye are hewen, and to the hole of the pit, whence ye are digged.
2 你們要細察你們的父親亞巴郎和產生你們的撒辣,因為當我召叫他時,只有他一人,但我祝福了他,使他繁盛。
Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 的確,上主必要憐憫熙雍,憐憫她所有的廢墟,使她的荒野成為伊甸,使她的沙漠變為上主的樂園,其中必有歡樂和愉快,歌頌和絃樂之聲。
Surely the Lord shall comfort Zion: he shall comfort all her desolations, and he shall make her desert like Eden, and her wildernes like the garden of the Lord: ioy and gladnesse shalbe founde therein: praise, and the voyce of singing.
4 萬民啊!請傾聽我;萬邦啊!請側耳聽我:法律將由我而出,我的正義要作為萬民的光明。
Hearken ye vnto me, my people, and giue eare vnto me, O my people: for a Law shall proceede from me, and I will bring foorth my iudgement for the light of the people.
5 我的正義要迅速降臨,我的救恩業已出現,我的手臂要掌管萬民;諸島嶼都仰望我,依賴我的手臂。
My righteousnes is neere: my saluation goeth foorth, and mine armes shall iudge the people: the yles shall waite for me, and shall trust vnto mine arme.
6 你們仰觀諸天,俯察大地:縱然諸天將如煙雲消散,大地要像衣服破舊,地上的居民要如蚊子死去,然而我的救恩永遠常存,我的正義決不廢除。
Lift vp your eyes to the heauens, and looke vpon the earth beneath: for the heauens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall waxe olde like a garment, and they that dwell therein, shall perish in like maner: but my saluation shall be for euer, and my righteousnesse shall not bee abolished.
7 你們認識正義,心懷法律的人民,請聽我說:不要怕人家的侮辱,對他們的嘲笑也不必驚恐;
Hearken vnto me, ye that know righteousnesse, the people in whose heart is my Lawe. Feare ye not the reproche of men, neither be ye afraide of their rebukes.
8 因為他們必如衣服一樣,為蠹蟲所吃掉;如羊毛一樣,為衣魚所吃掉;然而我的正義永遠常存,我的救恩直到萬世。
For the mothe shall eate them vp like a garment, and the worme shall eate them like wool: but my righteousnesse shalbe for euer, and my saluation from generation to generation.
9 上主的手臂!醒來,醒來!施展威能罷!醒來有如在古時古代一樣。不是你斬了辣哈布,刺殺了巨龍嗎﹖
Rise vp, rise vp, and put on strength, O arme of the Lord: rise vp as in the olde time in the generations of the worlde. Art not thou the same, that hath cutte Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 不是你令海令大洋的水涸竭了嗎﹖不是你使海底變為大路,叫蒙救的人走過嗎﹖
Art not thou the same, which hath dried the Sea, euen the waters of the great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer?
11 上主所解救的人必要歸來,快樂地來到熙雍,永久的歡樂將臨於他們頭上;他們將享盡歡欣與快樂,憂愁與悲哀必將遠遁。
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come with ioy vnto Zion, and euerlasting ioy shalbe vpon their head: they shall obtaine ioy, and gladnesse: and sorow and mourning shall flee away.
12 是我,是我親自安慰了你,你怎麼還怕那有死的人,怕那命如草芥的人子呢﹖
I, euen I am he, that comfort you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest feare a mortall man, and the sonne of man, which shalbe made as grasse?
13 你怎麼竟忘記了那創造你,展開諸天,奠定大地的上主,而終日不斷對那壓迫你,決意要消滅你的人的狂怒恐怖呢﹖如今壓迫你者的狂怒在那裏呢﹖
And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath spred out the heauens, and layde the foundations of the earth? and hast feared continually all the day, because of the rage of the oppressour, which is readie to destroy? Where is now the rage of the oppressour?
14 囚禁的人即將釋放,不致死於深坑,他的口糧也不會缺乏。
The captiue hasteneth to be loosed, and that hee should not die in the pitte, nor that his bread should faile.
15 我是上主你的天主,即那攪動海洋使浪濤澎湃的,他的名字是「萬軍的上主。」
And I am the Lord thy God that deuided the Sea, when his waues roared: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
16 是我把我的話放在你的口中,將你掩護在我的手蔭之下;是我展開了諸天,奠定了大地,並給熙雍說:「你是我的百姓。」
And I haue put my wordes in thy mouth, and haue defended thee in the shadowe of mine hand, that I may plant the heauens, and lay the foundation of the earth, and say vnto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 起來,起來!耶路撒冷!立起來!你這由上主手中飲了他震怒之杯,啜盡了那麻醉爵中渣滓的!
Awake, awake, and stande vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the hande of the Lord the cup of his wrath: thou hast drunken the dregges of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 她所生的兒子中沒有一個來引領她的,她養大的兒子中沒有一個來扶持她手的。
There is none to guide her among all the sonnes, whome she hath brought foorth: there is none that taketh her by the hand of all the sonnes that she hath brought vp.
19 這兩件事臨到了你身上,有誰哀憐你呢﹖就是荒涼與滅亡,饑饉與兵燹,有誰安慰你呢﹖
These two thinges are come vnto thee: who will lament thee? desolation and destruction and famine, and the sworde: by whome shall I comfort thee?
20 你的兒子昏迷不醒,躺在街頭,像陷入羅網的羚羊;他們還飽嘗了上主的憤怒,受盡了你的天主的恐嚇。
Thy sonnes haue fainted, and lye at the head of all the streetes as a wilde bull in a nette, and are full of the wrath of the Lord, and rebuke of thy God.
21 為此,你這受苦難的,非因酒而醉倒的,請聽這事!
Therefore heare nowe this, thou miserable and drunken, but not with wine.
22 你的主宰上主,為自己的人民辯護的天主,這樣說:「看!我已從你手中取回了那麻醉的杯,我憤怒的爵,你必不再喝,
Thus saith thy Lord God, euen God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Beholde, I haue taken out of thine hande the cuppe of trembling, euen the dregges of the cuppe of my wrath: thou shalt drinke it no more.
23 我將此杯放在壓迫你者的手中,就是曾對你說:「躺下來!讓我們走過去!」你便使你的背脊作為平地,作為街道,任他們走過去的那些人。
But I will put it into their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to thy soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer, and thou hast layde thy bodie as the grounde, and as the streete to them that went ouer.