以赛亚书 40
1 你们的 神说： 你们要安慰，安慰我的百姓。
Comfort you, comfort you my people, says God.
2 要对耶路撒冷说安慰的话， 又向她宣告说， 她争战的日子已满了； 她的罪孽赦免了； 她为自己的一切罪， 从耶和华手中加倍受罚。
Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double [the amount of] her sins.
3 有人声喊着说： 在旷野预备耶和华的路， 在沙漠地修平我们 神的道。
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
4 一切山洼都要填满， 大小山冈都要削平； 高高低低的要改为平坦， 崎崎岖岖的必成为平原。
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] plains.
5 耶和华的荣耀必然显现； 凡有血气的必一同看见； 因为这是耶和华亲口说的。
And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken [it].
6 有人声说：你喊叫吧！ 有一个说：我喊叫什么呢？ 说：凡有血气的尽都如草； 他的美容都像野地的花。
The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:
7 草必枯干，花必凋残， 因为耶和华的气吹在其上； 百姓诚然是草。
8 草必枯干，花必凋残， 惟有我们 神的话必永远立定。
The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.
9 报好信息给锡安的啊， 你要登高山； 报好信息给耶路撒冷的啊， 你要极力扬声。 扬声不要惧怕， 对犹大的城邑说： 看哪，你们的 神！
O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Juda, Behold your God!
10 主耶和华必像大能者临到； 他的膀臂必为他掌权。 他的赏赐在他那里； 他的报应在他面前。
Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [his] arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and [his] work before him.
11 他必像牧人牧养自己的羊群， 用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在怀中， 慢慢引导那乳养小羊的。
He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
12 谁曾用手心量诸水， 用手虎口量苍天， 用升斗盛大地的尘土， 用秤称山岭， 用天平平冈陵呢？
Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
13 谁曾测度耶和华的心， 或作他的谋士指教他呢？
Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?
14 他与谁商议，谁教导他， 谁将公平的路指示他， 又将知识教训他， 将通达的道指教他呢？
Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;
15 看哪，万民都像水桶的一滴， 又算如天平上的微尘； 他举起众海岛，好像极微之物。
since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?
16 黎巴嫩的树林不够当柴烧； 其中的走兽也不够作燔祭。
And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering:
17 万民在他面前好像虚无， 被他看为不及虚无，乃为虚空。
and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
18 你们究竟将谁比 神， 用什么形象与 神比较呢？
To whom have you compared the Lord? and with what likeness have you compared him?
19 偶像是匠人铸造， 银匠用金包裹， 为它铸造银链。
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, [and] made it a similitude?
20 穷乏献不起这样供物的， 就拣选不能朽坏的树木， 为自己寻找巧匠， 立起不能摇动的偶像。
For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.
21 你们岂不曾知道吗？ 你们岂不曾听见吗？ 从起初岂没有人告诉你们吗？ 自从立地的根基， 你们岂没有明白吗？
Will you not know? will you not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth?
22 神坐在地球大圈之上； 地上的居民好像蝗虫。 他铺张穹苍如幔子， 展开诸天如可住的帐棚。
[It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:
23 他使君王归于虚无， 使地上的审判官成为虚空。
he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.
24 他们是刚才栽上， 刚才种上， 根也刚才扎在地里， 他一吹在其上，便都枯干； 旋风将他们吹去，像碎秸一样。
For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.
25 那圣者说：你们将谁比我， 叫他与我相等呢？
Now then to whom have you compared me, that I may be exalted? says the Holy One.
26 你们向上举目， 看谁创造这万象， 按数目领出， 他一一称其名； 因他的权能， 又因他的大能大力， 连一个都不缺。
Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.
27 雅各啊，你为何说， 我的道路向耶和华隐藏？ 以色列啊，你为何言， 我的冤屈 神并不查问？
For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed?
28 你岂不曾知道吗？ 你岂不曾听见吗？ 永在的 神耶和华，创造地极的主， 并不疲乏，也不困倦； 他的智慧无法测度。
And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.
29 疲乏的，他赐能力； 软弱的，他加力量。
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
30 就是少年人也要疲乏困倦； 强壮的也必全然跌倒。
For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless:
31 但那等候耶和华的必从新得力。 他们必如鹰展翅上腾； 他们奔跑却不困倦， 行走却不疲乏。
but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
