Isaiah 42
1 “Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
請看我扶持的僕人，我心靈喜愛的所選者！我在他身上傾注了我的神，叫他給萬民傳佈真道。
2 He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.
他不呼喊，不喧嚷，在街市上也聽不到他的聲音。
3 A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
破傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄的燈心，他不吹滅；他將忠實地傳佈真道。
4 He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
他不沮喪，也不失望，直到他在世上奠定了真道，因為海島都期待著他的教誨。
5 This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
那創造且展布天空，舖張大地和佈置大地的產物，給世人賜予氣息，並給在地上行動的，賜與呼吸的天主上主這樣說：「
6 “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
我，上主，因仁義召叫了你，我必提攜你，保護你，立你作人民的盟約，萬民的光明，
7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
為開啟盲人的眼目，從獄中領出被囚的人，從牢裏領出住在黑暗的人。
8 I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
我是上主，這是我的名字；我決不將我的光榮讓與另一位，決不將我應受的讚美歸於偶像。
9 Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
先前的事，看，已經成就；我再宣告新近的事，在事未發生之前，我先告訴你們。」
10 Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.
你們應向上主高唱新歌，稱述他的榮耀直到地極！ 願海洋和其中一切，願島嶼和其上的居民讚美他！
11 Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.
願曠野和那裏的城邑，刻達爾人所居住的村落歡呼！願色拉的居民高聲歌唱，從山頂上吶喊！
12 Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.
願眾人都歸光榮於上主，在島嶼上稱述他的榮耀！
13 The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:
上主出征有如勇士，激起怒火有如戰士；他要高喊呼叫，對自己的敵人顯出他的英勇。
14 “I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
「我已緘默好久，安靜自抑；然而現今我要像待產的婦女，呼喊、呻吟和哀嘆。
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
我要使大山丘陵乾透，使上邊的草木枯槁；我要使河流化為旱地，使池沼涸竭。
16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
我要領瞎子走他們不知道的路，帶他們行不認識的道；使黑暗在他們前化為光明，使崎嶇之途變為平坦；這些事我都要作，我決不放棄。
17 But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
凡依賴偶像且向神像說：「你們是我的神」的人，必要敗退，蒙受奇辱。」
18 Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
聾子，你們聽！瞎子，你們睜眼看！
19 Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
除了我的僕人外，誰還那麼瞎呢﹖誰如同我派遣的人那麼聾呢﹖誰像與我立和約的人那樣瞎呢﹖誰似上主的僕人那樣聾呢﹖
20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
他雖然看見了許多事，卻一無所覺；耳朵開著，卻沒有聽見。
21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
上主為了自己的仁義，本來願意把法律發揚廣大，
22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
但這民族遭受了洗劫和搶掠，被束縛於桎梏之中，隱伏於監獄之內；他們成了搶掠之物，而無人搭救；受人劫奪，而無人敢說：「交出來！」
23 Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
你們中有誰靜聽這事，今後傾耳靜聽呢﹖
24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
是誰把雅各伯交付給搶掠者﹖是誰將以色列交給了劫奪者﹖不是他們所得罪的，不肯行他的道路，不肯聽從他的法律的那位上主嗎﹖
25 So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
因此他在這民族身上發洩了自己的烈怒和戰火；火已在她四周燒起，她仍不理會，已燃燒著她，她仍未放在心上。
