Esias 26
1 In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold a strong city; and he shall make salvation [its] wall and bulwark.
那一天，猶大地要詠唱這首歌曲：「我們有座堅城，以救援作城牆與外郭。
2 Open you the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,
你們打開城門，好讓遵守信實的正義民族進去。
3 supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on you, O Lord,
你的意志堅定，因而你保全了永久的和平，故此人對你有信賴。
4 they have trusted with confidence for ever, the great, the eternal God;
你們應永遠信賴上主，因為上主是永固的磐石。
5 who have humbled and brought down them that dwell on high, you shall cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.
他曾屈服了居高位的人，推翻了高聳的城市，將她推翻在地，使她粉碎，化為塵埃。
6 And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.
踐踏她的，卻是困苦人的腳，是貧窮人的腳。」
7 The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.
義人的道路是正直的，你上主啊，削平了正直人的途徑。
8 For the way of the Lord is judgement: we have hoped in your name, and on the remembrance [of you],
的確，上主！我們在你正義的路上期待你！你的名號，你的記念，是我們心靈的欲望。
9 which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks you very early in the morning, O God, for your commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, you that dwell upon the earth.
我們的心靈在夜間渴望你，我們的心神在清晨尋覓你，因為當你的決斷顯於大地時，世上的居民都要學習正義。
10 For the ungodly one is put down: no one who will not learn righteousness on the earth, shall be able to do the truth: let the ungodly be taken away, that he see not the glory of the Lord.
惡人雖然蒙受了憐憫，仍然不學習正義，在世上依然顛倒是非，毫不顧及上主的威嚴。
11 O Lord, your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not: but when they know they shall be ashamed: jealousy shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.
上主！你的手雖已高舉，但他們仍看不見；願他們見到你對百姓的熱忱而感到慚愧；並願你為你仇敵所保留的烈火吞滅他們！
12 O Lord our God, give us peace: for you have rendered to us all things.
上主！是你賜與了我們和平，因為凡我們所做的，都是你為我們成就的！
13 O Lord our God, take possession of us: O Lord, we know not [any] other beside you: we name your name.
上主，我們的天主！除你以外，還有別的主宰治理過我們；然而我們所稱揚的，只有你，你的名號。
14 But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise [them] up: therefore you have brought [wrath] upon [them], and slain [them], and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;
死去的人不會再活，幽魂也不會復生，因為你如此懲罰了，並消滅了他們，使他們所有的記念盡被遺忘。
15 bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.
你增加了本國的人民，上主，你增加了本國的人民，你得了光榮，你拓展了國家所有的邊界。
16 Lord, in affliction I remembered you; your chastening was to us with small affliction.
上主 ！我們在困難之中尋求了你，我們在壓迫之中呼求了你，因為那是你對我們的懲罰。
17 And as a woman in travail draws near to be delivered, [and] cries out in her pain; so have we been to your beloved.
有如懷妊臨產的婦女，在苦痛中痙攣呻吟；同樣，上主！我們在你面前也是如此：
18 We have conceived, O Lord, because of your fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of your salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.
我們也像懷妊痙攣；然而所產的竟是風，沒有給大地帶來救恩，世界的居民也未因此而得生。
19 The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from you is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.
你的亡者將再生，他們的屍體將要起立；睡在塵埃中的人們都要甦醒歌詠，因為你的朝露是晶瑩的朝露，大地將拋出幽靈。
20 Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.
我的百姓！去，進入你的內室，關上門，隱藏片刻，等待盛怒過去。
21 For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [his] holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.
因為，看哪！上主已由自己的地方出來懲罰大地居民的罪惡，大地要暴露自己吞下的鮮血，不再遮掩被殺的人。
