以赛亚书 49
1 众海岛啊，当听我言！ 远方的众民哪，留心而听！ 自我出胎，耶和华就选召我； 自出母腹，他就提我的名。
Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
2 他使我的口如快刀， 将我藏在他手荫之下； 又使我成为磨亮的箭， 将我藏在他箭袋之中；
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.
3 对我说：你是我的仆人以色列； 我必因你得荣耀。
He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4 我却说：我劳碌是徒然； 我尽力是虚无虚空。 然而，我当得的理必在耶和华那里； 我的赏赐必在我 神那里。
But I said, “I have laboured in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God.”
5 耶和华从我出胎，造就我作他的仆人， 要使雅各归向他， 使以色列到他那里聚集。 原来耶和华看我为尊贵； 我的 神也成为我的力量。
Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honourable in the LORD’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
6 现在他说：你作我的仆人， 使雅各众支派复兴， 使以色列中得保全的归回尚为小事， 我还要使你作外邦人的光， 叫你施行我的救恩，直到地极。
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
7 救赎主—以色列的圣者耶和华 对那被人所藐视、本国所憎恶、 官长所虐待的如此说： 君王要看见就站起， 首领也要下拜； 都因信实的耶和华， 就是拣选你—以色列的圣者。
The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
8 耶和华如此说： 在悦纳的时候，我应允了你； 在拯救的日子，我济助了你。 我要保护你， 使你作众民的中保； 复兴遍地， 使人承受荒凉之地为业。
The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
9 对那被捆绑的人说：出来吧！ 对那在黑暗的人说：显露吧！ 他们在路上必得饮食， 在一切净光的高处必有食物。
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
10 不饥不渴， 炎热和烈日必不伤害他们； 因为怜恤他们的必引导他们， 领他们到水泉旁边。
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
11 我必使我的众山成为大道； 我的大路也被修高。
I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 看哪，这些从远方来； 这些从北方、从西方来； 这些从秦国来。
Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.”
13 诸天哪，应当欢呼！ 大地啊，应当快乐！ 众山哪，应当发声歌唱！ 因为耶和华已经安慰他的百姓， 也要怜恤他困苦之民。
Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
14 锡安说：耶和华离弃了我； 主忘记了我。
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
15 妇人焉能忘记她吃奶的婴孩， 不怜恤她所生的儿子？ 即或有忘记的， 我却不忘记你。
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
16 看哪，我将你铭刻在我掌上； 你的墙垣常在我眼前。
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.
17 你的儿女必急速归回； 毁坏你的，使你荒废的，必都离你出去，
Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
18 你举目向四方观看； 他们都聚集来到你这里。 耶和华说：我指着我的永生起誓： 你必要以他们为妆饰佩戴， 以他们为华带束腰，像新妇一样。
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says the LORD, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
19 至于你荒废凄凉之处， 并你被毁坏之地， 现今众民居住必显为太窄； 吞灭你的必离你遥远。
“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 你必听见丧子之后所生的儿女说： 这地方我居住太窄， 求你给我地方居住。
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
21 那时你心里必说：我既丧子独居， 是被掳的，漂流在外。 谁给我生这些？ 谁将这些养大呢？ 撇下我一人独居的时候， 这些在哪里呢？
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”
22 主耶和华如此说： 我必向列国举手， 向万民竖立大旗； 他们必将你的众子怀中抱来， 将你的众女肩上扛来。
The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 列王必作你的养父； 王后必作你的乳母。 他们必将脸伏地，向你下拜， 并舔你脚上的尘土。 你便知道我是耶和华； 等候我的必不致羞愧。
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”
24 勇士抢去的岂能夺回？ 该掳掠的岂能解救吗？
Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
25 但耶和华如此说： 就是勇士所掳掠的，也可以夺回； 强暴人所抢的，也可以解救。 与你相争的，我必与他相争； 我要拯救你的儿女。
But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.
26 并且我必使那欺压你的吃自己的肉， 也要以自己的血喝醉，好像喝甜酒一样。 凡有血气的必都知道我—耶和华是你的救主， 是你的救赎主，是雅各的大能者。
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Saviour and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
