< Isaiah 52 >
1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
錫安哪,興起!興起! 披上你的能力! 聖城耶路撒冷啊,穿上你華美的衣服! 因為從今以後, 未受割禮、不潔淨的必不再進入你中間。
2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
耶路撒冷啊,要抖下塵土! 起來坐在位上! 錫安被擄的居民哪, 要解開你頸項的鎖鍊!
3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
耶和華如此說:「你們是無價被賣的,也必無銀被贖。
4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
主耶和華如此說:起先我的百姓下到埃及,在那裏寄居,又有亞述人無故欺壓他們。
5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed.
耶和華說:我的百姓既是無價被擄去,如今我在這裏做甚麼呢?耶和華說:轄制他們的人呼叫,我的名整天受褻瀆。
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I [am] he that doth speak: behold, [it is] I.
所以,我的百姓必知道我的名;到那日他們必知道說這話的就是我。看哪,是我!」
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
那報佳音,傳平安, 報好信,傳救恩的, 對錫安說:你的上帝作王了! 這人的腳登山何等佳美!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
聽啊,你守望之人的聲音, 他們揚起聲來,一同歌唱; 因為耶和華歸回錫安的時候, 他們必親眼看見。
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
耶路撒冷的荒場啊, 要發起歡聲,一同歌唱; 因為耶和華安慰了他的百姓, 救贖了耶路撒冷。
10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
耶和華在萬國眼前露出聖臂; 地極的人都看見我們上帝的救恩了。
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean [thing; ] go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
你們離開吧!離開吧! 從巴比倫出來。 不要沾不潔淨的物; 要從其中出來。 你們扛抬耶和華器皿的人哪, 務要自潔。
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your rereward.
你們出來必不致急忙, 也不致奔逃。 因為,耶和華必在你們前頭行; 以色列的上帝必作你們的後盾。
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
我的僕人行事必有智慧, 必被高舉上升, 且成為至高。
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
許多人因他驚奇; 他的面貌比別人憔悴; 他的形容比世人枯槁。
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them shall they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they consider.
這樣,他必洗淨許多國民; 君王要向他閉口。 因所未曾傳與他們的,他們必看見; 未曾聽見的,他們要明白。