以賽亞書 59
1 看哪！並非上主的手短小而不能施救，並非他的耳朵沈重而不能聽見；
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
2 而是你們的罪孽，使你們與你們的天主隔絕；是你們的罪惡，使他掩面不肯俯聽你們，
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
3 因為你們的手沾滿了血，你們的手指沾滿了罪惡；你們的口唇說了謊言，你們的舌頭吐出了惡語。
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
4 沒有人按正義起訴，沒有人照公正行審；都依賴虛無講說空話，孕育著詭詐，產生邪惡。
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 他們所孵化的是毒蛇的蛋，他們所紡織的是蜘蛛的網；誰吃了這些蛋，必定要死；蛋若破了，出來的是條毒蛇。
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
6 他們結的蛛網不能製作衣服，他們的手工不能遮蓋自己；他們的作為都是罪惡的作為，他們手中只有欺壓的行為。
Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 他們的腳趨向邪惡，急於傾流無辜者的血；他們的思念都是邪惡的思念，在他們的行徑上只有蹂躪與毀滅。
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
8 和平的道路他們不認識，他們的行徑中決無公正；他們彎曲了自己的途徑，凡在上面行走的，必不認識和平。
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
9 因此公平遠離了我們，正義不與我們接近；我們尋求光明，看！仍是黑暗；希望光亮，仍在幽暗中徘徊。
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 我們摸索著牆壁，好像瞎子；我們摸索，有如無眼的人；我們在正午顛仆，有如處於黃昏；我們在健壯人中，卻如死人。
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
11 我們一起號叫，有如狗熊；呻吟哀鳴，宛如鴿子；我們尋求公平，卻沒有公平；尋找救恩，救恩卻遠離了我們，
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 因為我們的悖逆在你面前太多了，我們的罪過作證反對我們，因為我們的悖逆都擺在我們面前，我們認清了我們的罪過：
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
13 背叛和否認上主，轉背離開我們的天主，說欺騙與反叛的話，從心中說出虛妄的言語；
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
14 因此公平被制止，正義立在遠處，真誠在街市上仆倒於地，正義不得進入。
So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
15 真誠消逝了，避惡的人已蕩然無存。上主見了，實在不悅，因為一點正直也沒有了；
Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
16 他看不見一個人，他詫異連一個調停者也沒有了，遂以自己的手臂來施救，以自己的正義來扶持。
He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
17 他身穿正義作鎧甲，頭戴救恩作鋼盔，身佩復仇作衣服，外披妒恨作外氅。
He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
18 他要按照各人的行為施行報復，向他的敵人發怒，向他的仇人復仇。【也向群島施行報應。】
So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
19 西方的人要看見上主的名號，東方的人要看見他的榮耀，因為他要來臨，好似被強烈的風催促的急流。
So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
20 拯救者必要臨於熙雍，臨於雅各伯家中的棄邪歸依者：上主的斷語。
“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,”
21 至於我──上主說──這是我與他們所立的盟約：我在你身上所賦的神，我在你口中所放的話，總不離開你的口和你子孫的口，以及你子子孫孫的口，上主說，從現今直到永遠。
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
