Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not too short to save; neither his ear too heavy for hearing;
看哪！並非上主的手短小而不能施救，並非他的耳朵沈重而不能聽見；
2 But your iniquities have ever made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have caused him to hide his face from you, so that he would not hear.
而是你們的罪孽，使你們與你們的天主隔絕；是你們的罪惡，使他掩面不肯俯聽你們，
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue uttereth deception.
因為你們的手沾滿了血，你們的手指沾滿了罪惡；你們的口唇說了謊言，你們的舌頭吐出了惡語。
4 No one admonisheth with righteousness, and no one executeth justice in truth; men trust in naught, and speak lies; they have conceived mischief, and bring forth wickedness.
沒有人按正義起訴，沒有人照公正行審；都依賴虛無講說空話，孕育著詭詐，產生邪惡。
5 Basilisk's eggs do they hatch, and spider's webs do they weave: he that eateth of their eggs must die, and if one be crushed, a viper will break forth.
他們所孵化的是毒蛇的蛋，他們所紡織的是蜘蛛的網；誰吃了這些蛋，必定要死；蛋若破了，出來的是條毒蛇。
6 Their webs cannot serve for garments, and they cannot clothe themselves with their works: their works are works of wickedness, and the deed of violence is in their hands.
他們結的蛛網不能製作衣服，他們的手工不能遮蓋自己；他們的作為都是罪惡的作為，他們手中只有欺壓的行為。
7 Their feet run to what is evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; wasting and destruction are on their highways.
他們的腳趨向邪惡，急於傾流無辜者的血；他們的思念都是邪惡的思念，在他們的行徑上只有蹂躪與毀滅。
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice on their tracks: their paths they have made unto themselves crooked; whosoever walketh therein knoweth not peace.
和平的道路他們不認識，他們的行徑中決無公正；他們彎曲了自己的途徑，凡在上面行走的，必不認識和平。
9 Therefore is justice far from us, nor will happiness overtake us: we ever hope for light, but behold there is darkness; for brightness, but in obscurity must we walk.
因此公平遠離了我們，正義不與我們接近；我們尋求光明，看！仍是黑暗；希望光亮，仍在幽暗中徘徊。
10 We grope like the blind on the wall, and as if we had no eyes do we grope: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in complete darkness like the dead.
我們摸索著牆壁，好像瞎子；我們摸索，有如無眼的人；我們在正午顛仆，有如處於黃昏；我們在健壯人中，卻如死人。
11 We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.
我們一起號叫，有如狗熊；呻吟哀鳴，宛如鴿子；我們尋求公平，卻沒有公平；尋找救恩，救恩卻遠離了我們，
12 For our transgressions are numerous in thy presence, and our sins testify against us; for of our transgressions are we aware; and our iniquities—we know them;
因為我們的悖逆在你面前太多了，我們的罪過作證反對我們，因為我們的悖逆都擺在我們面前，我們認清了我們的罪過：
13 We transgressed and denied the Lord, and departed away from our God; we spoke oppression and revolt, conceived and brought forth in our heart words of falsehood.
背叛和否認上主，轉背離開我們的天主，說欺騙與反叛的話，從心中說出虛妄的言語；
14 And justice is forced to turn backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbled in the street, and equity is not able to enter.
因此公平被制止，正義立在遠處，真誠在街市上仆倒於地，正義不得進入。
15 And thus is the truth missing; and he that departeth from evil is regarded as foolish: and the Lord saw it, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice.
真誠消逝了，避惡的人已蕩然無存。上主見了，實在不悅，因為一點正直也沒有了；
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore his arm brought him aid, and his righteousness, —yea, this sustained him.
他看不見一個人，他詫異連一個調停者也沒有了，遂以自己的手臂來施救，以自己的正義來扶持。
17 And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and [placed] the helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance as raiment, and wrapped himself with zeal as with a cloak.
他身穿正義作鎧甲，頭戴救恩作鋼盔，身佩復仇作衣服，外披妒恨作外氅。
18 According to the demerits, so will he repay [all], fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands will he repay what they have merited.
他要按照各人的行為施行報復，向他的敵人發怒，向他的仇人復仇。【也向群島施行報應。】
19 And they shall fear from the west the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun his glory; for there shall come distress like the stream which the Spirit of the Lord urgeth forward.
西方的人要看見上主的名號，東方的人要看見他的榮耀，因為他要來臨，好似被強烈的風催促的急流。
20 But unto Zion shall come the redeemer, and unto those who return from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
拯救者必要臨於熙雍，臨於雅各伯家中的棄邪歸依者：上主的斷語。
21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy children, nor out of the mouth of thy children's children, saith the Lord, from henceforth and unto all eternity.
至於我──上主說──這是我與他們所立的盟約：我在你身上所賦的神，我在你口中所放的話，總不離開你的口和你子孫的口，以及你子子孫孫的口，上主說，從現今直到永遠。
