< 以赛亚书 51 >
1 你们这追求公义、 寻求耶和华的,当听我言! 你们要追想被凿而出的磐石, 被挖而出的岩穴。
Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock — ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit — ye have been digged.
2 要追想你们的祖宗亚伯拉罕 和生养你们的撒拉; 因为亚伯拉罕独自一人的时候, 我选召他,赐福与他, 使他人数增多。
Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah — she bringeth you forth, For — one — I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.
3 耶和华已经安慰锡安 和锡安一切的荒场, 使旷野像伊甸, 使沙漠像耶和华的园囿; 在其中必有欢喜、快乐、感谢, 和歌唱的声音。
For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.
4 我的百姓啊,要向我留心; 我的国民哪,要向我侧耳; 因为训诲必从我而出; 我必坚定我的公理为万民之光。
Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light, Peoples I do cause to rest.
5 我的公义临近; 我的救恩发出。 我的膀臂要审判万民; 海岛都要等候我,倚赖我的膀臂。
Near [is] My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on Mine arm they do wait with hope.
6 你们要向天举目, 观看下地; 因为天必像烟云消散, 地必如衣服渐渐旧了; 其上的居民也要如此死亡。 惟有我的救恩永远长存; 我的公义也不废掉。
Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.
7 知道公义、将我训诲存在心中的民, 要听我言! 不要怕人的辱骂, 也不要因人的毁谤惊惶。
Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart [is] My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,
8 因为蛀虫必咬他们,好像咬衣服; 虫子必咬他们,如同咬羊绒。 惟有我的公义永远长存, 我的救恩直到万代。
For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.
9 耶和华的膀臂啊,兴起!兴起! 以能力为衣穿上, 像古时的年日、上古的世代兴起一样。 从前砍碎拉哈伯、 刺透大鱼的,不是你吗?
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as [in] days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!
10 使海与深渊的水干涸、 使海的深处变为赎民经过之路的, 不是你吗?
Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?
11 耶和华救赎的民必归回, 歌唱来到锡安; 永乐必归到他们的头上。 他们必得着欢喜快乐; 忧愁叹息尽都逃避。
And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during [is] on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,
12 惟有我,是安慰你们的。 你是谁,竟怕那必死的人? 怕那要变如草的世人?
I — I [am] He — your comforter, Who [art] thou — and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man — grass he is made!
13 却忘记铺张诸天、立定地基、 创造你的耶和华? 又因欺压者图谋毁灭要发的暴怒, 整天害怕, 其实那欺压者的暴怒在哪里呢?
And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
14 被掳去的快得释放, 必不死而下坑; 他的食物也不致缺乏。
Hastened hath a wanderer to be loosed, And he doth not die at the pit, And his bread is not lacking.
15 我是耶和华—你的 神— 搅动大海,使海中的波浪匉訇— 万军之耶和华是我的名。
And I [am] Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.
16 我将我的话传给你, 用我的手影遮蔽你, 为要栽定诸天,立定地基, 又对锡安说:你是我的百姓。
And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, 'My people [art] thou.'
17 耶路撒冷啊,兴起! 兴起!站起来! 你从耶和华手中喝了他忿怒之杯, 喝了那使人东倒西歪的爵,以致喝尽。
Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.
18 她所生育的诸子中,没有一个引导她的; 她所养大的诸子中,没有一个搀扶她的。
There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.
19 荒凉、毁灭、饥荒、刀兵, 这几样临到你, 谁为你举哀? 我如何能安慰你呢?
These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction — Famine and sword, who — I comfort thee?
20 你的众子发昏, 在各市口上躺卧, 好像黄羊在网罗之中, 都满了耶和华的忿怒 —你 神的斥责。
Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox [in] a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.
Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,
22 你的主耶和华— 就是为他百姓辨屈的 神如此说: 看哪,我已将那使人东倒西歪的杯, 就是我忿怒的爵, 从你手中接过来; 你必不致再喝。
Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth [for] his people: 'Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to drink it any more.
23 我必将这杯递在苦待你的人手中; 他们曾对你说:你屈身, 由我们践踏过去吧! 你便以背为地, 好像街市,任人经过。
And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!'