< Isaiah 51 >

1 Listen to me, you who follow what is just and who seek the Lord. Pay attention to the rock from which you have been hewn, and to the walls of the pit from which you have been dug.
你們這追求公義、 尋求耶和華的,當聽我言! 你們要追想被鑿而出的磐石, 被挖而出的巖穴。
2 Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.
要追想你們的祖宗亞伯拉罕 和生養你們的撒拉; 因為亞伯拉罕獨自一人的時候, 我選召他,賜福與他, 使他人數增多。
3 Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.
耶和華已經安慰錫安 和錫安一切的荒場, 使曠野像伊甸, 使沙漠像耶和華的園囿; 在其中必有歡喜、快樂、感謝, 和歌唱的聲音。
4 Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my tribes. For a law will go forth from me, and my judgment will rest as a light for the nations.
我的百姓啊,要向我留心; 我的國民哪,要向我側耳; 因為訓誨必從我而出; 我必堅定我的公理為萬民之光。
5 My just one is near. My savior has gone forth. And my arms will judge the people. The islands will hope in me, and they will patiently wait for my arm.
我的公義臨近; 我的救恩發出。 我的膀臂要審判萬民; 海島都要等候我,倚賴我的膀臂。
6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth below. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will be worn away like a garment, and its inhabitants will pass away in like manner. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will not fail.
你們要向天舉目, 觀看下地; 因為天必像煙雲消散, 地必如衣服漸漸舊了; 其上的居民也要如此死亡。 惟有我的救恩永遠長存; 我的公義也不廢掉。
7 Listen to me, you who know what is just, my people who have my law in their heart. Do not be afraid of disgrace among men, and do not dread their blasphemies.
知道公義、將我訓誨存在心中的民, 要聽我言! 不要怕人的辱罵, 也不要因人的毀謗驚惶。
8 For the worm will consume them like a garment, and the moth will devour them like wool. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will be from generation to generation.
因為蛀蟲必咬他們,好像咬衣服; 蟲子必咬他們,如同咬羊絨。 惟有我的公義永遠長存, 我的救恩直到萬代。
9 Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?
耶和華的膀臂啊,興起!興起! 以能力為衣穿上, 像古時的年日、上古的世代興起一樣。 從前砍碎拉哈伯、 刺透大魚的,不是你嗎?
10 Have not you dried up the sea, the waters of the great abyss, and turned the depths of the sea into a road, so that the delivered could cross over it?
使海與深淵的水乾涸、 使海的深處變為贖民經過之路的, 不是你嗎?
11 And now, those who have been redeemed by the Lord will return. And they will arrive in Zion, praising. And everlasting rejoicing will be upon their heads. They will take hold of gladness and rejoicing. Anguish and mourning will flee away.
耶和華救贖的民必歸回, 歌唱來到錫安; 永樂必歸到他們的頭上。 他們必得着歡喜快樂; 憂愁歎息盡都逃避。
12 It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?
惟有我,是安慰你們的。 你是誰,竟怕那必死的人? 怕那要變如草的世人?
13 And have you forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who extended the heavens, and who founded the earth? And have you been in constant dread, all day long, at the face of his fury, of the one who afflicted you and who had prepared to destroy you? Where is the fury of the oppressor now?
卻忘記鋪張諸天、立定地基、 創造你的耶和華? 又因欺壓者圖謀毀滅要發的暴怒, 整天害怕, 其實那欺壓者的暴怒在哪裏呢?
14 Advancing quickly, he will arrive to be revealed, and he will not kill unto utter destruction, nor will his bread fail.
被擄去的快得釋放, 必不死而下坑; 他的食物也不致缺乏。
15 But I am the Lord, your God, who stirs up the sea, and who makes the waves swell. The Lord of hosts is my name.
我是耶和華-你的上帝- 攪動大海,使海中的波浪匉訇- 萬軍之耶和華是我的名。
16 I have placed my words in your mouth, and I have protected you in the shadow of my hand, so that you might plant the heavens, and found the earth, and so that you might say to Zion, “You are my people.”
我將我的話傳給你, 用我的手影遮蔽你, 為要栽定諸天,立定地基, 又對錫安說:你是我的百姓。
17 Lift up, Lift up! Arise, O Jerusalem! You drank, from the hand of the Lord, the cup of his wrath. You drank, even to the bottom of the cup of deep sleep. And you were given to drink, all the way to the dregs.
耶路撒冷啊,興起! 興起!站起來! 你從耶和華手中喝了他忿怒之杯, 喝了那使人東倒西歪的爵,以致喝盡。
18 There is no one who can uphold her, out of all the sons whom she has conceived. And there is no one who would take her by the hand, out of all the sons whom she has raised.
她所生育的諸子中,沒有一個引導她的; 她所養大的諸子中,沒有一個攙扶她的。
19 There are two things which have happened to you. Who will be saddened over you? There is devastation and destruction, and famine and sword. Who will console you?
荒涼、毀滅、饑荒、刀兵, 這幾樣臨到你, 誰為你舉哀? 我如何能安慰你呢?
20 Your sons have been cast out. They have slept at the head of all the roads, and they have been ensnared like a gazelle. They have been filled by the indignation of the Lord, by the rebuke of your God.
你的眾子發昏, 在各市口上躺臥, 好像黃羊在網羅之中, 都滿了耶和華的忿怒 -你上帝的斥責。
21 Therefore, listen to this, O poor little ones, and you who have been inebriated, but not by wine.
因此,你這困苦卻非因酒而醉的, 要聽我言。
22 Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord, and your God, who will fight on behalf of his people: Behold, I have taken the cup of deep sleep from your hand. You shall no longer drink from the bottom of the cup of my indignation.
你的主耶和華- 就是為他百姓辨屈的上帝如此說: 看哪,我已將那使人東倒西歪的杯, 就是我忿怒的爵, 從你手中接過來; 你必不致再喝。
23 And I will set it in the hand of those who have humiliated you, and who have said to your soul: “Bow down, so that we pass over.” And you placed your body on the ground, as a path for them to pass over.
我必將這杯遞在苦待你的人手中; 他們曾對你說:你屈身, 由我們踐踏過去吧! 你便以背為地, 好像街市,任人經過。

< Isaiah 51 >