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。
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
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。
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
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。
For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
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。
“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
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 righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
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 up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be 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；
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
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 moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
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﹖
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
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﹖
Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
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。
Those ransomed by the LORD will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing 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, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
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﹖
Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
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 captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.
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。」
For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. the LORD of Armies 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。」
I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are 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! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
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 no one to guide her amongst all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand amongst all the sons whom she has brought up.
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 things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?
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。
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
21 為此，你這受苦難的，非因酒而醉倒的，請聽這事！
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, 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，
Your Lord GOD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any 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。
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
