以赛亚书 40
1 你们的 神说： 你们要安慰，安慰我的百姓。
Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, Saith your 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 ye encouragement to Jerusalem, and declare to her, That her hard service is ended; That her iniquity is expiated; That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all 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。
A voice crieth: “Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; Make straight in the desert a highway for 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 exalted, And every mountain and hill be made low; The crooked shall become straight, And the rough places plain.
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。
For the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of Jehovah hath 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。
A voice said, Proclaim! And I said, What shall I proclaim? All flesh is grass, And all its comeliness as the flower of the field.
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。
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, When the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it. Truly the people is grass.
8 草必枯干，花必凋残， 惟有我们 神的话必永远立定。
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, But the word of our God shall stand forever.
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！
Get thee up on the high mountain, O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion; Lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; Lift it up; be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, 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 Jehovah shall come with might, And his arm shall rule for him; Behold, his reward is with him, And his recompense 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 feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather up the lambs in his arms, And carry them in his bosom, And gently lead the nursing ewes.
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 hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, And meted out the heavens with his span, And gathered the dust of the earth into a measure, And weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills in a balance?
13 谁曾测度耶和华的心， 或作他的谋士指教他呢？
Who hath searched out the spirit of Jehovah, Or, being his counsellor, hath taught 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？
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, And taught him the path of justice, And taught him knowledge, And showed 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。
Behold, the nations are as a drop from a bucket, And are accounted as the small dust of the balance; Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing,
16 黎巴嫩的树林不够当柴烧； 其中的走兽也不够作燔祭。
And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, Nor its beasts for a 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。
All the nations are as nothing before him; They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18 你们究竟将谁比 神， 用什么形象与 神比较呢？
To whom then will ye liken God, And what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 偶像是匠人铸造， 银匠用金包裹， 为它铸造银链。
The workman casteth an image, And the smith overlayeth it with gold, And casteth for it silver chains.
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。
He that is too poor to make an oblation Chooseth a piece of wood that will not rot; He seeketh for himself a skilful artificer, To prepare an image that shall 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？
Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have ye not considered 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 sitteth above the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants are to him as grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens as a canopy, And spreadeth them 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。
That bringeth princes to nothing, And reduceth the rulers of the earth to vanity.
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。
Yea, scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, Scarcely hath their stem taken root in the ground, When He bloweth upon them and they wither, And the whirlwind beareth them away like stubble.
25 那圣者说：你们将谁比我， 叫他与我相等呢？
To whom then will ye liken me, And to whom shall I be compared? Saith 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 to the heavens, and behold! Who hath created these? He draweth forth their host by number, He calleth them all by name; Through the greatness of his strength and the mightiness of his power, Not one of them faileth to appear.
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？
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, “My way is hidden from Jehovah, My cause passeth by before my God”?
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。
Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Jehovah is an everlasting God, The creator of the ends of the earth; He fainteth not, nor is he weary; His understanding is unsearchable.
29 疲乏的，他赐能力； 软弱的，他加力量。
He giveth power to the faint; To the feeble abundant strength.
30 就是少年人也要疲乏困倦； 强壮的也必全然跌倒。
The youths shall faint and be weary, And the young warriors shall utterly fall.
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 trust in Jehovah shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.
