Esias 51
1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord: look to the solid rock, which ye have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which ye have dug.
你們追求正義，尋覓上主的人，請聽我說：你們又細察那巖石，你們是從那上邊鑿下來的；要細察那石穴，你們是從那裏挖出來的。
2 Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.
你們要細察你們的父親亞巴郎和產生你們的撒辣，因為當我召叫他時，只有他一人，但我祝福了他，使他繁盛。
3 And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.
的確，上主必要憐憫熙雍，憐憫她所有的廢墟，使她的荒野成為伊甸，使她的沙漠變為上主的樂園，其中必有歡樂和愉快，歌頌和絃樂之聲。
4 Hear me, hear me, my people; and ye kings, hearken to me: for a law shall proceed from me, and my judgment [shall be] for a light of the nations.
萬民啊！請傾聽我；萬邦啊！請側耳聽我：法律將由我而出，我的正義要作為萬民的光明。
5 My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and my salvation shall go forth as light, and on mine arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
我的正義要迅速降臨，我的救恩業已出現，我的手臂要掌管萬民；諸島嶼都仰望我，依賴我的手臂。
6 Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.
你們仰觀諸天，俯察大地：縱然諸天將如煙雲消散，大地要像衣服破舊，地上的居民要如蚊子死去，然而我的救恩永遠常存，我的正義決不廢除。
7 Hear me, ye that know judgment, the people in whose heart is my law: fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.
你們認識正義，心懷法律的人民，請聽我說：不要怕人家的侮辱，對他們的嘲笑也不必驚恐；
8 For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, [so shall they be consumed]; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all generations.
因為他們必如衣服一樣，為蠹蟲所吃掉；如羊毛一樣，為衣魚所吃掉；然而我的正義永遠常存，我的救恩直到萬世。
9 Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.
上主的手臂！醒來，醒來！施展威能罷！醒來有如在古時古代一樣。不是你斬了辣哈布，刺殺了巨龍嗎﹖
10 Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, [even] the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?
不是你令海令大洋的水涸竭了嗎﹖不是你使海底變為大路，叫蒙救的人走過嗎﹖
11 for by [the help of] the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.
上主所解救的人必要歸來，快樂地來到熙雍，永久的歡樂將臨於他們頭上；他們將享盡歡欣與快樂，憂愁與悲哀必將遠遁。
12 I, [even] I, am he that comforts thee: consider who thou art, that thou wast afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.
是我，是我親自安慰了你，你怎麼還怕那有死的人，怕那命如草芥的人子呢﹖
13 And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for [whereas] he counselled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?
你怎麼竟忘記了那創造你，展開諸天，奠定大地的上主，而終日不斷對那壓迫你，決意要消滅你的人的狂怒恐怖呢﹖如今壓迫你者的狂怒在那裏呢﹖
14 For in thy deliverance he shall not halt, nor tarry;
囚禁的人即將釋放，不致死於深坑，他的口糧也不會缺乏。
15 for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.
我是上主你的天主，即那攪動海洋使浪濤澎湃的，他的名字是「萬軍的上主。」
16 I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of mine hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and [the Lord] shall say to Sion, Thou art my people.
是我把我的話放在你的口中，將你掩護在我的手蔭之下；是我展開了諸天，奠定了大地，並給熙雍說：「你是我的百姓。」
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:
起來，起來！耶路撒冷！立起來！你這由上主手中飲了他震怒之杯，啜盡了那麻醉爵中渣滓的！
18 and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thine hand, not even of all the children whom thou has reared.
她所生的兒子中沒有一個來引領她的，她養大的兒子中沒有一個來扶持她手的。
19 Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?
這兩件事臨到了你身上，有誰哀憐你呢﹖就是荒涼與滅亡，饑饉與兵燹，有誰安慰你呢﹖
20 Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.
你的兒子昏迷不醒，躺在街頭，像陷入羅網的羚羊；他們還飽嘗了上主的憤怒，受盡了你的天主的恐嚇。
21 Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, [but] not with wine;
為此，你這受苦難的，非因酒而醉倒的，請聽這事！
22 thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more.
你的主宰上主，為自己的人民辯護的天主，這樣說：「看！我已從你手中取回了那麻醉的杯，我憤怒的爵，你必不再喝，
23 And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.
我將此杯放在壓迫你者的手中，就是曾對你說：「躺下來！讓我們走過去！」你便使你的背脊作為平地，作為街道，任他們走過去的那些人。
