Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
「你們安慰，安慰我的百姓罷！」你們的天主說。
2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
你們應向耶路撒冷說寬心的話，並向她宣告：她的苦役已滿期，她的罪債已清償，因為她為了自己的一切罪過，已由上主手中承受了雙倍的懲罰。
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
有一個呼聲喊說：「你們要在曠野中預備上主的道路，在荒原中為我們的天主修平一條大路！
4 Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain.
一切深谷要填滿，一切山陵要產平，隆起的要削為平地，崎嶇的要闢成坦途！
5 And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
上主的光榮要顯示出來，凡有血肉的都會看見：這是上主親口說的。」
6 A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? — All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
有個聲音說：「呼喊罷！」我答說：「我呼喊什麼﹖」「凡有血肉的都似草，他的美麗似田野的花；
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
上主的風吹來，草必枯萎，花必凋謝。【的確，人民好像草。】
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever.
草能枯萎，花能凋謝，但我們天主的話永遠常存。」
9 O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into a high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest glad tidings, lift up thy voice with strength: lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
給熙雍傳喜訊的啊！請登上高山！給耶路撒冷報喜訊的啊！請大聲疾呼！ 高呼罷！不要畏懼！向猶大各城報告說：你們的天主來了！
10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.
吾主上主帶著威能來到，他的手臂獲得了勝利；他的勝利品與他同在，他獲得的酬勞在他面前。
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.
他必如牧人，牧放自己的羊群，以自己的手臂集合小羊，把牠們抱在自己的懷中，溫良地領導哺乳的母羊。
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with [his] span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
誰曾用手心量過海水，用手掌測量過天，用升斗量過地上的塵土，用天秤稱過高山，用戥子撐過丘陵呢﹖
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, [as] his counsellor, hath taught him?
誰曾指揮過上主的心靈；或做過他的參謀，教導過他呢﹖
14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
他曾向誰請教過，請他教導自己，指導自己正路，教授自己智識，指示明智的行徑呢﹖
15 Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.
看哪！萬民像桶中的一滴水，如天秤上的一粒沙；看，島嶼重如一粒灰塵。
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
黎巴嫩不夠當柴燒，其中的野獸不足作燔祭。
17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
萬民在他面前好像烏有，在他看來只是空虛淨無。
18 To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?
你們要把天主同誰相比擬呢﹖你們把他與什麼相對照呢﹖
19 The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].
與偶像嗎﹖偶像是工匠鑄造，金匠再包上金子，然後再鑄銀鍊圍起來。
20 He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
精於選料的人，在選擇一塊不朽的木頭，再尋找一位精明的工匠，將鑄像立定，不致倒下。
21 — Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?
難道你們不知道﹖難道你們沒有聽說﹖難道從起初沒有人告訴過你們﹖難道由大地肇基以來你們沒有細察過嗎﹖
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
他坐在大地的穹窿之上，地上的居民有如蝗蟲一般。他展開天幕有如帷幔，伸開天空有如居住的蓬帳。
23 that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
他使王侯化為烏有，叫地上的士紳成為虛無。
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
他們剛被栽上，剛被種植，剛在土中扎根，他向他們一噓氣，他們一噓氣，他們便立即枯萎，暴風捲枯湝似的將他們捲走。「
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
你們把我同誰比擬呢﹖要我與誰相似呢﹖」聖者如此說。
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.
你們舉目向上，看看是誰造了這些呢﹖是他按照數目展開了他的萬軍，按照次序一一點名，在這強有力和威能者前，沒有一個敢缺席的。
27 Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?
雅各伯！你為什麼說﹖以色列！你為什麼講：「上主看不見我的命運！天主忽略了我的案件！」
28 Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.
難道你不知道，或者沒有聽說：上主是永生的天主，是創造地極之主嗎﹖他縱不疲倦，決不困乏，他的智慧高深莫測。
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
他賜給疲倦者力量，賜給無力者勇氣。
30 Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
少年人能疲倦困乏，青年人能失足跌倒；
31 but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew [their] strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.
然而仰望上主的，必獲得新力量，必能振翼高飛有如兀鷹，疾馳而不困乏，奔走而不疲倦。
