以賽亞書 1
1 當烏西雅、約坦、亞哈斯、希西家作猶大王的時候，亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示，論到猶大和耶路撒冷。
This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 天哪，要聽！地啊，側耳而聽！ 因為耶和華說： 我養育兒女，將他們養大， 他們竟悖逆我。
Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
3 牛認識主人， 驢認識主人的槽， 以色列卻不認識； 我的民卻不留意。
An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
4 嗐！犯罪的國民， 擔着罪孽的百姓； 行惡的種類， 敗壞的兒女！ 他們離棄耶和華， 藐視以色列的聖者， 與他生疏，往後退步。
What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.
5 你們為甚麼屢次悖逆， 還要受責打嗎？ 你們已經滿頭疼痛， 全心發昏。
Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.
6 從腳掌到頭頂， 沒有一處完全的， 盡是傷口、青腫，與新打的傷痕， 都沒有收口，沒有纏裹， 也沒有用膏滋潤。
You're injured from head to toe, bruised and sore, with open wounds that haven't been cleaned or bandaged or treated with olive oil.
7 你們的地土已經荒涼； 你們的城邑被火焚毀。 你們的田地在你們眼前為外邦人所侵吞， 既被外邦人傾覆就成為荒涼。
Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.
8 僅存錫安城， 好像葡萄園的草棚， 瓜田的茅屋， 被圍困的城邑。
The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.
9 若不是萬軍之耶和華給我們稍留餘種， 我們早已像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的樣子了。
If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
10 你們這所多瑪的官長啊， 要聽耶和華的話！ 你們這蛾摩拉的百姓啊， 要側耳聽我們上帝的訓誨！
Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 耶和華說： 你們所獻的許多祭物與我何益呢？ 公綿羊的燔祭和肥畜的脂油， 我已經夠了； 公牛的血，羊羔的血，公山羊的血， 我都不喜悅。
What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
12 你們來朝見我， 誰向你們討這些， 使你們踐踏我的院宇呢？
When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?
13 你們不要再獻虛浮的供物。 香品是我所憎惡的； 月朔和安息日，並宣召的大會， 也是我所憎惡的； 作罪孽，又守嚴肅會， 我也不能容忍。
Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
14 你們的月朔和節期，我心裏恨惡， 我都以為麻煩； 我擔當，便不耐煩。
I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!
15 你們舉手禱告，我必遮眼不看； 就是你們多多地祈禱，我也不聽。 你們的手都滿了殺人的血。
When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because your hands are full of blood.
16 你們要洗濯、自潔， 從我眼前除掉你們的惡行， 要止住作惡，
Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
17 學習行善， 尋求公平， 解救受欺壓的； 給孤兒伸冤， 為寡婦辨屈。
Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
18 耶和華說： 你們來，我們彼此辯論。 你們的罪雖像硃紅，必變成雪白； 雖紅如丹顏，必白如羊毛。
Come on, let's argue this out, says the Lord. Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will become white like snow. Even though they are red like crimson, they will become like wool.
19 你們若甘心聽從， 必吃地上的美物，
If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.
20 若不聽從，反倒悖逆， 必被刀劍吞滅。 這是耶和華親口說的。
But if you are defiant, and if you are rebellious, you'll be killed by the sword. This is what the Lord has declared!
21 可歎，忠信的城變為妓女！ 從前充滿了公平， 公義居在其中， 現今卻有兇手居住。
The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
22 你的銀子變為渣滓； 你的酒用水攙對。
Your silver has become worthless waste; you wine has been watered down.
23 你的官長居心悖逆， 與盜賊作伴， 各都喜愛賄賂， 追求贓私。 他們不為孤兒伸冤； 寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。
Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
24 因此，主－萬軍之耶和華、 以色列的大能者說： 哎！我要向我的對頭雪恨， 向我的敵人報仇。
So this is what the Lord says, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will take satisfaction in punishing my enemies, by paying back those who hate me!
25 我必反手加在你身上， 煉盡你的渣滓， 除淨你的雜質。
I will turn against you. I will refine you in a furnace, removing all impurities.
26 我也必復還你的審判官，像起初一樣， 復還你的謀士，像起先一般。 然後，你必稱為公義之城， 忠信之邑。
I will give you good leaders as you used to have before, wise counselors as you had in the beginning. After that you will once again be called the City of Integrity, the Faithful City.
27 錫安必因公平得蒙救贖； 其中歸正的人必因公義得蒙救贖。
Zion will be rescued by justice, those who repent by doing right.
28 但悖逆的和犯罪的必一同敗亡； 離棄耶和華的必致消滅。
But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.
29 那等人必因你們所喜愛的橡樹抱愧； 你們必因所選擇的園子蒙羞。
You will be ashamed about how you enjoyed your pagan worship among the oak trees; you will be embarrassed because you chose the pleasure gardens of idols.
30 因為，你們必如葉子枯乾的橡樹， 好像無水澆灌的園子。
As a result you will become like an oak whose leaves have withered, a dried-out garden that has no water.
31 有權勢的必如麻瓤； 他的工作好像火星， 都要一同焚毀，無人撲滅。
Your strong people will become like tinder, and their work will become like a spark. They will burn together, and nobody will be able to put out the flames.
