Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the hand of the Lord has not been shortened, so that it cannot save, and his ear has not been blocked, so that it cannot hear.
看哪！並非上主的手短小而不能施救，並非他的耳朵沈重而不能聽見；
2 But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.
而是你們的罪孽，使你們與你們的天主隔絕；是你們的罪惡，使他掩面不肯俯聽你們，
3 For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity.
因為你們的手沾滿了血，你們的手指沾滿了罪惡；你們的口唇說了謊言，你們的舌頭吐出了惡語。
4 There is no one who calls for justice, and there is no one who judges truly. For they trust in nothing, and they speak emptiness. They have conceived hardship, and they have given birth to iniquity.
沒有人按正義起訴，沒有人照公正行審；都依賴虛無講說空話，孕育著詭詐，產生邪惡。
5 They have ruptured the eggs of asps, and they have woven the webs of spiders. Whoever will eat of their eggs will die. For what has been incubated will hatch into a king snake.
他們所孵化的是毒蛇的蛋，他們所紡織的是蜘蛛的網；誰吃了這些蛋，必定要死；蛋若破了，出來的是條毒蛇。
6 Their weavings will not be for clothing, nor will they cover themselves with their handiwork. Their works are useless things, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.
他們結的蛛網不能製作衣服，他們的手工不能遮蓋自己；他們的作為都是罪惡的作為，他們手中只有欺壓的行為。
7 Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are useless thoughts; devastation and destruction are in their ways.
他們的腳趨向邪惡，急於傾流無辜者的血；他們的思念都是邪惡的思念，在他們的行徑上只有蹂躪與毀滅。
8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths have become crooked for them. Anyone who treads in them knows no peace.
和平的道路他們不認識，他們的行徑中決無公正；他們彎曲了自己的途徑，凡在上面行走的，必不認識和平。
9 Because of this, judgment is far from us, and justice will not take hold of us. We waited for light, and behold, darkness; we waited for brightness, and we walked in darkness.
因此公平遠離了我們，正義不與我們接近；我們尋求光明，看！仍是黑暗；希望光亮，仍在幽暗中徘徊。
10 We groped for the wall, like one who is blind, and we felt our way, like one without eyes. We stumbled at midday, as if in darkness; and in darkness, as if in death.
我們摸索著牆壁，好像瞎子；我們摸索，有如無眼的人；我們在正午顛仆，有如處於黃昏；我們在健壯人中，卻如死人。
11 We will all roar like bears, and we will sigh like despondent doves. We hoped for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it is far from us.
我們一起號叫，有如狗熊；呻吟哀鳴，宛如鴿子；我們尋求公平，卻沒有公平；尋找救恩，救恩卻遠離了我們，
12 For our iniquities have been multiplied in your sight, and our sins have answered us. For our wickedness is with us, and we have acknowledged our iniquities:
因為我們的悖逆在你面前太多了，我們的罪過作證反對我們，因為我們的悖逆都擺在我們面前，我們認清了我們的罪過：
13 sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away, not so as to go after our God, and so that we were speaking calumny and transgression. We have conceived, and spoken from the heart, words of falsehood.
背叛和否認上主，轉背離開我們的天主，說欺騙與反叛的話，從心中說出虛妄的言語；
14 And judgment has been turned backwards, and justice has stood far away. For truth has fallen down in the street, and fairness was not able to enter.
因此公平被制止，正義立在遠處，真誠在街市上仆倒於地，正義不得進入。
15 And the truth has gone into oblivion. And he who withdraws from evil endures plunder. And the Lord saw this, and it seemed evil in his eyes. For there is no judgment.
真誠消逝了，避惡的人已蕩然無存。上主見了，實在不悅，因為一點正直也沒有了；
16 And he saw that there was no good man. And he was astonished that there was no one to meet him. And his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice strengthened him.
他看不見一個人，他詫異連一個調停者也沒有了，遂以自己的手臂來施救，以自己的正義來扶持。
17 He clothed himself with justice as with a breastplate, and with a helmet of salvation upon his head. He put on the vestments of vengeance, and he was covered with zeal as with a cloak.
他身穿正義作鎧甲，頭戴救恩作鋼盔，身佩復仇作衣服，外披妒恨作外氅。
18 This was for vindication, as a repayment of indignation to his adversaries, and as a sudden reversal for his enemies. He will repay the islands in their turn.
他要按照各人的行為施行報復，向他的敵人發怒，向他的仇人復仇。【也向群島施行報應。】
19 And those from the west will fear the name of the Lord, and those from the rising of the sun will fear his glory, when he arrives like a violent river, which the Spirit of the Lord urges on.
西方的人要看見上主的名號，東方的人要看見他的榮耀，因為他要來臨，好似被強烈的風催促的急流。
20 And the Redeemer will arrive in Zion, and to those who return from the iniquity within Jacob, says the Lord.
拯救者必要臨於熙雍，臨於雅各伯家中的棄邪歸依者：上主的斷語。
21 This is my pact with them, says the Lord. My Spirit is within you, and my words, which I have put in your mouth, will not withdraw from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring, says the Lord, from this moment, and even forever.
至於我──上主說──這是我與他們所立的盟約：我在你身上所賦的神，我在你口中所放的話，總不離開你的口和你子孫的口，以及你子子孫孫的口，上主說，從現今直到永遠。
