Isaiah 55
1 Ho, euery one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and ye that haue no siluer, come, bye and eate: come, I say, bye wine and milke without siluer and without money.
啊！凡口渴的，請到水泉來！那沒有錢的，也請來罷！請來買不花錢，不索值的酒和奶吃！
2 Wherefore doe ye lay out siluer and not for bread? and your labour without being satisfied? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate that which is good, and let your soule delite in fatnes.
你們為什麼為那些不能充食的東西花錢，為那些不足果腹的東西浪費薪金呢﹖你們若細心聽我，你們就能吃豐美的食物，你們的心靈必因脂膏而喜悅。
3 Encline your eares, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shall liue, and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
你們如側耳，走近我前來聽，你們必將獲得生命；我要與你們訂立一項永久的盟約，即誓許於達味的慈惠。
4 Beholde, I gaue him for a witnes to the people, for a prince and a master vnto the people.
看，我立了你為萬民的證人，為列國的領袖與主宰。
5 Beholde, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee, shall runne vnto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and the holy one of Israel: for hee hath glorified thee.
看哪！你要召見你不認識的民族，不曾認識你的民族也要奔向你；這都是為了上主你的天主，為了那光榮了你的以色列的聖者的緣故。
6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere.
趁上主可找到的時候，你們應尋找他；趁他在近處的時候，你們應呼求他。
7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.
罪人應離開自己的行徑，惡人該拋棄自己的思念，來歸附上主，好讓上主憐憫他；來歸附我們的天主，因為他是富於仁慈的。
8 For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord.
因為我的思念不是你們的思念，你們的行徑也不是我的行徑：上主的斷語。
9 For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.
就如天離地有多高，我的行徑離你們的行徑，我的思念離你們的思念也有多高。
10 Surely as the raine commeth downe and the snow from heauen, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it to bring forth and bud, that it may giue seede to the sower, and bread vnto him that eateth,
譬如雨和雪從天降下，不再返回原處，只有灌溉田地，使之生長萌芽，償還播種者種子，供給吃飯者食糧；
11 So shall my worde be, that goeth out of my mouth: it shall not returne vnto me voyde, but it shall accomplish that which I will, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
同樣，從我口中發出的言語，不能空空地回到我這裏來；反之，它必實行我的旨意，完成我派遣它的使命。
12 Therefore ye shall go out with ioy, and be led forth with peace: the mountaines and the hilles shall breake foorth before you into ioye, and all the trees of the fielde shall clap their handes.
的確，你們必要喜歡地出來，平安地為上主所引導，高山丘陵必在你們面前高呼歡騰，田間所有的樹木必要鼓掌。
13 For thornes there shall grow firre trees: for nettles shall growe the myrrhe tree, and it shalbe to the Lord for a name, and for an euerlasting signe that shall not be taken away.
松柏要長起來代替荊棘，桃金娘要生出來代替苧麻：這將為上主留名，作為一座不能磨滅的永久紀念碑。
