Isaiah 42
1 Behold, my seruaunt: I will stay vpon him: mine elect, in whom my soule deliteth: I haue put my Spirit vpon him: he shall bring forth iudgement to the Gentiles.
請看我扶持的僕人，我心靈喜愛的所選者！我在他身上傾注了我的神，叫他給萬民傳佈真道。
2 He shall not crie, nor lift vp, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streete.
他不呼喊，不喧嚷，在街市上也聽不到他的聲音。
3 A bruised reede shall hee not breake, and the smoking flaxe shall he not quench: he shall bring foorth iudgement in trueth.
破傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄的燈心，他不吹滅；他將忠實地傳佈真道。
4 He shall not faile nor be discouraged till he haue set iudgement in the earth: and the yles shall waite for his lawe.
他不沮喪，也不失望，直到他在世上奠定了真道，因為海島都期待著他的教誨。
5 Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)
那創造且展布天空，舖張大地和佈置大地的產物，給世人賜予氣息，並給在地上行動的，賜與呼吸的天主上主這樣說：「
6 I the Lord haue called thee in righteousnesse, and will hold thine hand, and I will keepe thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, and for a light of the Gentiles,
我，上主，因仁義召叫了你，我必提攜你，保護你，立你作人民的盟約，萬民的光明，
7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.
為開啟盲人的眼目，從獄中領出被囚的人，從牢裏領出住在黑暗的人。
8 I am the Lord, this is my Name, and my glory wil I not giue to another, neither my praise to grauen images.
我是上主，這是我的名字；我決不將我的光榮讓與另一位，決不將我應受的讚美歸於偶像。
9 Beholde, the former thinges are come to passe, and newe things doe I declare: before they come foorth, I tell you of them.
先前的事，看，已經成就；我再宣告新近的事，在事未發生之前，我先告訴你們。」
10 Sing vnto the Lord a newe song, and his praise from the ende of the earth: yee that goe downe to the sea, and all that is therein: the yles and the inhabitants thereof.
你們應向上主高唱新歌，稱述他的榮耀直到地極！ 願海洋和其中一切，願島嶼和其上的居民讚美他！
11 Let the wildernesse and the cities thereof lift vp their voyce, the townes that Kedar doeth inhabite: let the inhabitants of the rocks sing: let them shoute from the toppe of the mountaines.
願曠野和那裏的城邑，刻達爾人所居住的村落歡呼！願色拉的居民高聲歌唱，從山頂上吶喊！
12 Let them giue glorie vnto the Lord, and declare his praise in the ylands.
願眾人都歸光榮於上主，在島嶼上稱述他的榮耀！
13 The Lord shall go forth as a gyant: he shall stirre vp his courage like a man of warre: he shall shout and crie, and shall preuaile against his enemies.
上主出征有如勇士，激起怒火有如戰士；他要高喊呼叫，對自己的敵人顯出他的英勇。
14 I haue a long time holden my peace: I haue beene still and refrained my selfe: nowe will I crie like a trauailing woman: I will destroy and deuoure at once.
「我已緘默好久，安靜自抑；然而現今我要像待產的婦女，呼喊、呻吟和哀嘆。
15 I will make waste mountaines, and hilles, and drie vp all their herbes, and I will make the floods ylands, and I will drie vp the pooles.
我要使大山丘陵乾透，使上邊的草木枯槁；我要使河流化為旱地，使池沼涸竭。
16 And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
我要領瞎子走他們不知道的路，帶他們行不認識的道；使黑暗在他們前化為光明，使崎嶇之途變為平坦；這些事我都要作，我決不放棄。
17 They shall be turned backe: they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in grauen images, and say to the molten images, Yee are our gods.
凡依賴偶像且向神像說：「你們是我的神」的人，必要敗退，蒙受奇辱。」
18 Heare, ye deafe: and ye blinde, regarde, that ye may see.
聾子，你們聽！瞎子，你們睜眼看！
19 Who is blinde but my seruaunt? or deafe as my messenger, that I sent? who is blind as the perfit, and blinde as the Lordes seruant?
除了我的僕人外，誰還那麼瞎呢﹖誰如同我派遣的人那麼聾呢﹖誰像與我立和約的人那樣瞎呢﹖誰似上主的僕人那樣聾呢﹖
20 Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he heareth not?
他雖然看見了許多事，卻一無所覺；耳朵開著，卻沒有聽見。
21 The Lord is willing for his righteousnesse sake that he may magnifie the Lawe, and exalt it.
上主為了自己的仁義，本來願意把法律發揚廣大，
22 But this people is robbed and spoiled, and shalbe all snared in dungeons, and they shalbe hid in prison houses: they shall be for a pray, and none shall deliuer: a spoile, and none shall say, Restore.
但這民族遭受了洗劫和搶掠，被束縛於桎梏之中，隱伏於監獄之內；他們成了搶掠之物，而無人搭救；受人劫奪，而無人敢說：「交出來！」
23 Who among you shall hearken to this, and take heede, and heare for afterwardes?
你們中有誰靜聽這事，今後傾耳靜聽呢﹖
24 Who gaue Iaakob for a spoyle, and Israel to the robbers? Did not ye Lord, because we haue sinned against him? for they woulde not walke in his waies, neither be obedient vnto his Lawe.
是誰把雅各伯交付給搶掠者﹖是誰將以色列交給了劫奪者﹖不是他們所得罪的，不肯行他的道路，不肯聽從他的法律的那位上主嗎﹖
25 Therefore hee hath powred vpon him his fierce wrath, and the strength of battell: and it set him on fire round about, and he knewe not, and it burned him vp, yet he considered not.
因此他在這民族身上發洩了自己的烈怒和戰火；火已在她四周燒起，她仍不理會，已燃燒著她，她仍未放在心上。
