Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say.
你們的上帝說： 你們要安慰，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.
要對耶路撒冷說安慰的話， 又向她宣告說， 她爭戰的日子已滿了； 她的罪孽赦免了； 她為自己的一切罪， 從耶和華手中加倍受罰。
3 A voyce cryeth in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make streight in the desert a path for our God.
有人聲喊着說： 在曠野預備耶和華的路， 在沙漠地修平我們上帝的道。
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.
一切山窪都要填滿， 大小山岡都要削平； 高高低低的要改為平坦， 崎崎嶇嶇的必成為平原。
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.
耶和華的榮耀必然顯現； 凡有血氣的必一同看見； 因為這是耶和華親口說的。
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.
有人聲說：你喊叫吧！ 有一個說：我喊叫甚麼呢？ 說：凡有血氣的盡都如草； 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.
草必枯乾，花必凋殘， 因為耶和華的氣吹在其上； 百姓誠然是草。
8 The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth: but the worde of our God shall stand for euer.
草必枯乾，花必凋殘， 惟有我們上帝的話必永遠立定。
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.
報好信息給錫安的啊， 你要登高山； 報好信息給耶路撒冷的啊， 你要極力揚聲。 揚聲不要懼怕， 對猶大的城邑說： 看哪，你們的上帝！
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,
主耶和華必像大能者臨到； 他的膀臂必為他掌權。 他的賞賜在他那裏； 他的報應在他面前。
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.
他必像牧人牧養自己的羊群， 用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在懷中， 慢慢引導那乳養小羊的。
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?
誰曾用手心量諸水， 用手虎口量蒼天， 用升斗盛大地的塵土， 用秤稱山嶺， 用天平平岡陵呢？
13 Who hath instructed ye Spirit of the Lord? or was his counseler or taught him?
誰曾測度耶和華的心， 或作他的謀士指教他呢？
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?
他與誰商議，誰教導他， 誰將公平的路指示他， 又將知識教訓他， 將通達的道指教他呢？
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，萬民都像水桶的一滴， 又算如天平上的微塵； 他舉起眾海島，好像極微之物。
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
黎巴嫩的樹林不夠當柴燒； 其中的走獸也不夠作燔祭。
17 All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
萬民在他面前好像虛無， 被他看為不及虛無，乃為虛空。
18 To whom then wil ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?
你們究竟將誰比上帝， 用甚麼形像與上帝比較呢？
19 The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.
偶像是匠人鑄造， 銀匠用金包裹， 為它鑄造銀鍊。
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.
窮乏獻不起這樣供物的， 就揀選不能朽壞的樹木， 為自己尋找巧匠， 立起不能搖動的偶像。
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?
你們豈不曾知道嗎？ 你們豈不曾聽見嗎？ 從起初豈沒有人告訴你們嗎？ 自從立地的根基， 你們豈沒有明白嗎？
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.
上帝坐在地球大圈之上； 地上的居民好像蝗蟲。 他鋪張穹蒼如幔子， 展開諸天如可住的帳棚。
23 He bringeth the princes to nothing, and maketh the iudges of the earth, as vanitie,
他使君王歸於虛無， 使地上的審判官成為虛空。
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.
他們是剛才栽上， 剛才種上， 根也剛才扎在地裏， 他一吹在其上，便都枯乾； 旋風將他們吹去，像碎稭一樣。
25 To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?
那聖者說：你們將誰比我， 叫他與我相等呢？
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.
你們向上舉目， 看誰創造這萬象， 按數目領出， 他一一稱其名； 因他的權能， 又因他的大能大力， 連一個都不缺。
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，你為何說， 我的道路向耶和華隱藏？ 以色列啊，你為何言， 我的冤屈上帝並不查問？
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.
你豈不曾知道嗎？ 你豈不曾聽見嗎？ 永在的上帝耶和華，創造地極的主， 並不疲乏，也不困倦； 他的智慧無法測度。
29 But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no strength, he encreaseth power.
疲乏的，他賜能力； 軟弱的，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； 強壯的也必全然跌倒。
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.
但那等候耶和華的必重新得力。 他們必如鷹展翅上騰； 他們奔跑卻不困倦， 行走卻不疲乏。
