Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say.
你们的 神说： 你们要安慰，安慰我的百姓。
2 Speake comfortably to Ierusalem, and crye vnto her, that her warrefare is accomplished, that her iniquitie is pardoned: for she hath receiued of the Lords hand double for all her sinnes.
要对耶路撒冷说安慰的话， 又向她宣告说， 她争战的日子已满了； 她的罪孽赦免了； 她为自己的一切罪， 从耶和华手中加倍受罚。
3 A voyce cryeth in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make streight in the desert a path for our God.
有人声喊着说： 在旷野预备耶和华的路， 在沙漠地修平我们 神的道。
4 Euery valley shall be exalted, and euery mountaine and hill shall be made lowe: and the crooked shalbe streight, and the rough places plaine.
一切山洼都要填满， 大小山冈都要削平； 高高低低的要改为平坦， 崎崎岖岖的必成为平原。
5 And the glory of the Lord shalbe reueiled, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
耶和华的荣耀必然显现； 凡有血气的必一同看见； 因为这是耶和华亲口说的。
6 A voyce saide, Crie. And he saide, What shall I crie? All flesh is grasse, and all the grace thereof is as the floure of the fielde.
有人声说：你喊叫吧！ 有一个说：我喊叫什么呢？ 说：凡有血气的尽都如草； 他的美容都像野地的花。
7 The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.
草必枯干，花必凋残， 因为耶和华的气吹在其上； 百姓诚然是草。
8 The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth: but the worde of our God shall stand for euer.
草必枯干，花必凋残， 惟有我们 神的话必永远立定。
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee vp into the hie mountaine: O Ierusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift vp thy voyce with strength: lift it vp, be not afraide: say vnto the cities of Iudah, Beholde your God.
报好信息给锡安的啊， 你要登高山； 报好信息给耶路撒冷的啊， 你要极力扬声。 扬声不要惧怕， 对犹大的城邑说： 看哪，你们的 神！
10 Beholde, the Lord God will come with power, and his arme shall rule for him: beholde, his rewarde is with him, and his worke before him,
主耶和华必像大能者临到； 他的膀臂必为他掌权。 他的赏赐在他那里； 他的报应在他面前。
11 He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his arme, and cary them in his bosome, and shall guide them with young.
他必像牧人牧养自己的羊群， 用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在怀中， 慢慢引导那乳养小羊的。
12 Who hath measured the waters in his fist? and counted heauen with the spanne, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure? and weighed ye mountaines in a weight, and the hilles in a balance?
谁曾用手心量诸水， 用手虎口量苍天， 用升斗盛大地的尘土， 用秤称山岭， 用天平平冈陵呢？
13 Who hath instructed ye Spirit of the Lord? or was his counseler or taught him?
谁曾测度耶和华的心， 或作他的谋士指教他呢？
14 Of whom tooke he counsell, and who instructed him and taught him in the way of iudgement? or taught him knowledge, and shewed vnto him the way of vnderstanding?
他与谁商议，谁教导他， 谁将公平的路指示他， 又将知识教训他， 将通达的道指教他呢？
15 Beholde, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance: beholde, he taketh away the yles as a litle dust.
看哪，万民都像水桶的一滴， 又算如天平上的微尘； 他举起众海岛，好像极微之物。
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
黎巴嫩的树林不够当柴烧； 其中的走兽也不够作燔祭。
17 All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
万民在他面前好像虚无， 被他看为不及虚无，乃为虚空。
18 To whom then wil ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?
你们究竟将谁比 神， 用什么形象与 神比较呢？
19 The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.
偶像是匠人铸造， 银匠用金包裹， 为它铸造银链。
20 Doeth not the poore chuse out a tree that will not rot, for an oblation? he seeketh also vnto him a cunning workeman, to prepare an image, that shall not be moued.
穷乏献不起这样供物的， 就拣选不能朽坏的树木， 为自己寻找巧匠， 立起不能摇动的偶像。
21 Know ye nothing? haue ye not heard it? hath it not bene tolde you from the beginning? haue ye not vnderstand it by the foundation of the earth?
你们岂不曾知道吗？ 你们岂不曾听见吗？ 从起初岂没有人告诉你们吗？ 自从立地的根基， 你们岂没有明白吗？
22 He sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers, hee stretcheth out ye heauens, as a curtaine, and spreadeth them out, as a tent to dwell in.
神坐在地球大圈之上； 地上的居民好像蝗虫。 他铺张穹苍如幔子， 展开诸天如可住的帐棚。
23 He bringeth the princes to nothing, and maketh the iudges of the earth, as vanitie,
他使君王归于虚无， 使地上的审判官成为虚空。
24 As though they were not plated, as though they were not sowen, as though their stocke tooke no roote in the earth: for he did euen blow vpon them, and they withered, and the whirlewinde will take them away as stubble.
他们是刚才栽上， 刚才种上， 根也刚才扎在地里， 他一吹在其上，便都枯干； 旋风将他们吹去，像碎秸一样。
25 To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?
那圣者说：你们将谁比我， 叫他与我相等呢？
26 Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power and mightie strength nothing faileth.
你们向上举目， 看谁创造这万象， 按数目领出， 他一一称其名； 因他的权能， 又因他的大能大力， 连一个都不缺。
27 Why sayest thou, O Iaakob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God?
雅各啊，你为何说， 我的道路向耶和华隐藏？ 以色列啊，你为何言， 我的冤屈 神并不查问？
28 Knowest thou not? or hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the Lord hath created the endes of the earth? he neither fainteth, nor is wearie: there is no searching of his vnderstanding.
你岂不曾知道吗？ 你岂不曾听见吗？ 永在的 神耶和华，创造地极的主， 并不疲乏，也不困倦； 他的智慧无法测度。
29 But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no strength, he encreaseth power.
疲乏的，他赐能力； 软弱的，他加力量。
30 Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble and fall.
就是少年人也要疲乏困倦； 强壮的也必全然跌倒。
31 But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renue their strength: they shall lift vp the wings as the eagles: they shall runne, and not be wearie, and they shall walke and not faint.
但那等候耶和华的必从新得力。 他们必如鹰展翅上腾； 他们奔跑却不困倦， 行走却不疲乏。
