Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Joatham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
在烏齊雅、約堂、阿哈次和希則克雅為猶大王時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞，關於猶大和耶路撒冷所見的異象如下：
2 Listen, O heavens, and pay attention, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nurtured and raised children, but they have spurned me.
諸天，請諦聽！大地，請側耳！ 因為上主有話說：「我把孩子撫養長大，他們竟背叛了我 ！
3 An ox knows his owner, and a donkey knows the manger of his lord, but Israel has not known me, and my people have not understood.
牛認識自己的主人，驢也認識自己主人的槽，以色列卻毫不知情，我的百姓卻一點不懂。」
4 Woe to a sinful nation, a people burdened by iniquity, a wicked offspring, accursed children. They have abandoned the Lord. They have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel. They been taken away backwards.
禍哉，犯罪的民族，惡貫滿盈的百姓，作惡的後裔，敗壞的子孫！他們離棄了上主，蔑視了以色列的聖者，轉身背棄了他。
5 For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving.
你們為什麼還繼續叛逆，再遭受打擊呢﹖整個頭已患了病，整個心已經焦悴；
6 From the sole of the foot, even to the top of the head, there is no soundness within. Wounds and bruises and swelling sores: these are not bandaged, nor treated with medicine, nor soothed with oil.
從腳掌直到頭頂已體無完膚，盡是創痍、傷痕和新的傷口；沒有擠淨，沒有包紮，也沒有軟膏滋潤。
7 Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies.
你們的地區變成荒蕪，你們的城市被火燒盡，你們面前的莊田被異民吞併，變成一片荒涼，宛如索多瑪的廢墟；
8 And the daughter of Zion will be left behind, like an arbor in a vineyard, and like a shelter in a cucumber field, and like a city being laid to waste.
僅存的熙雍女兒，有如葡萄園裏的茅舍，胡瓜園中的草廬，被圍困著的城市。
9 If the Lord of hosts had not bequeathed us offspring, we would have been like Sodom, and we would have been comparable to Gomorrah.
若非萬軍的上主給我們留下些許殘餘，我們早已如同索多瑪，相似哈摩辣了。
10 Listen to the Word of the Lord, you leaders of the people of Sodom. Listen closely to the law of our God, O people of Gomorrah.
索多瑪的統治者，請聽上主的話！哈摩辣的百姓，請聽天主的訓示：「
11 The multitude of your sacrifices, what is that to me, says the Lord? I am full. I do not desire holocausts of rams, nor the fat of fatlings, nor the blood of calves and of lambs and of he-goats.
你們為什麼向我奉獻那麼多的犧牲﹖－－上主說：我已飽饜了公羊的燔祭和肥犢的脂膏；牛犢、羔羊和山羊的血我已不喜歡；
12 When you approach before my sight, who is it that requires these things from your hands, so that you would walk in my courts?
你們來見我的面時，誰向你們要求了這些東西﹖這簡直是蹂躪我的殿院。
13 You should no longer offer sacrifice in vain. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and the Sabbaths and the other feast days, I will not receive. Your gatherings are iniquitous.
不要再奉獻無謂的祭品！馨香已為我所憎惡，月朔、安息日、集會、齋戒和盛大的宴會，我已都不能容受。
14 My soul hates your days of proclamation and your solemnities. They have become bothersome to me. I labor to endure them.
我的心痛恨你們的月朔和你們的慶節，它們為我是種累贅，使我忍無可忍。
15 And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.
你們伸出手時，我必掩目不看；你們行大祈禱時，我決不俯聽，因為你們的手染滿了血！
16 Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.
你們應該洗滌，應該自潔，從我眼前革除你們的惡行，停止作孽，
17 Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.
學習行善，尋求正義，責斥壓迫人的人，為孤兒伸冤，為寡婦辯護。
18 And then approach and accuse me, says the Lord. Then, if your sins are like scarlet, they shall be made white like snow; and if they are red like vermillion, they shall become white like wool.
現在你們來，讓我們互相辯論－－上主說：你們的罪雖似朱紅，將變成雪一樣的潔白；雖紅得發紫，仍能變成羊毛一樣的皎潔。
19 If you are willing, and you listen to me, then you will eat the good things of the land.
假使你們樂意服從，你們將享用地上的美物；
20 But if you are not willing, and you provoke me to anger, then the sword will devour you. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
假使你們拒絕反抗，你們將為刀劍所吞滅。」這是上主親口說的。
21 How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers.
忠貞的城邑，怎麼變成了蕩婦！ 昔日充滿著正義，寄居著公平的，現今卻住滿了謀殺的兇手！
22 Your silver has turned into dross. Your wine has been mixed with water.
你的銀子變成了渣滓，你的美酒攙和了水份；
23 Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow’s case is not brought before them.
你的首領謀反作亂，成了盜賊的幫兇；他們都愛好賄賂，索取報酬，不為孤兒伸冤，不受理寡婦的訴訟。
24 Because of this, the Lord God of hosts, the Strength of Israel, says: Ah! I will be consoled over my enemies, and I will be vindicated from my adversaries.
因此吾主，萬軍的上主，以色列的大能者說：「哎！我必向我的敵人雪恨，我必向我的仇人復仇。
25 And I will turn my hand to you. And I will temper your dross unto purity, and I will take away all your tin.
我必向你伸出我的手，用爐火煉盡你的渣滓，除去你所有的鉛錫。
26 And I will restore your judges, so that they will be as before, and your counselors as in times long past. After this, you shall be called the City of the Just, the Faithful City.
我要使你的民長復興如初；使你的參謀恢復如初；以後你將被稱為正義的城市，忠貞的城邑。」
27 Zion will be redeemed in judgment, and they will lead her back to justice.
熙雍將因正直獲得救贖，她的居民將因正義蒙受救恩；
28 And he shall crush the accursed and sinners together. And those who have abandoned the Lord will be consumed.
然而惡人和罪人必將一同滅亡，背棄上主的人必要滅絕。
29 For they shall be confounded because of the idols, to which they have sacrificed. And you shall be ashamed over the gardens that you chose,
你們必因你們所喜愛的橡樹而蒙羞，必因你們所選擇的花園而慚愧；
30 when you were like an oak with falling leaves, and like a garden without water.
你們將變成一棵落葉的橡樹，一座無水的花園。
31 And your strength will be like the embers from stubble, and your work will be like a spark, and both will burn together, and there will be no one to extinguish it.
強者將似麻絮，他的工作猶如火花：二者必要同時焚燒，無人予以熄滅。
