Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not too short to save; neither his ear too heavy for hearing;
耶和华的膀臂并非缩短，不能拯救， 耳朵并非发沉，不能听见，
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.
但你们的罪孽使你们与 神隔绝； 你们的罪恶使他掩面不听你们。
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue uttereth deception.
因你们的手被血沾染， 你们的指头被罪孽沾污， 你们的嘴唇说谎言， 你们的舌头出恶语。
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.
无一人按公义告状， 无一人凭诚实辨白； 都倚靠虚妄，说谎言。 所怀的是毒害； 所生的是罪孽。
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.
他们抱毒蛇蛋， 结蜘蛛网； 人吃这蛋必死。 这蛋被踏，必出蝮蛇。
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.
所结的网不能成为衣服； 所做的也不能遮盖自己。 他们的行为都是罪孽； 手所做的都是强暴。
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.
他们的脚奔跑行恶； 他们急速流无辜人的血； 意念都是罪孽， 所经过的路都荒凉毁灭。
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.
平安的路，他们不知道； 所行的事没有公平。 他们为自己修弯曲的路； 凡行此路的都不知道平安。
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，公平离我们远， 公义追不上我们。 我们指望光亮，却是黑暗， 指望光明，却行幽暗。
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.
我们摸索墙壁，好像瞎子； 我们摸索，如同无目之人。 我们晌午绊脚，如在黄昏一样； 我们在肥壮人中，像死人一般。
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.
我们咆哮如熊， 哀鸣如鸽； 指望公平，却是没有； 指望救恩，却远离我们。
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;
我们的过犯在你面前增多， 罪恶作见证告我们； 过犯与我们同在。 至于我们的罪孽，我们都知道：
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.
就是悖逆、不认识耶和华， 转去不跟从我们的 神， 说欺压和叛逆的话， 心怀谎言，随即说出。
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.
并且公平转而退后， 公义站在远处； 诚实在街上仆倒， 正直也不得进入。
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.
诚实少见； 离恶的人反成掠物。 那时，耶和华看见没有公平， 甚不喜悦。
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.
他见无人拯救， 无人代求，甚为诧异， 就用自己的膀臂施行拯救， 以公义扶持自己。
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.
他以公义为铠甲， 以拯救为头盔， 以报仇为衣服， 以热心为外袍。
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.
他必按人的行为施报， 恼怒他的敌人， 报复他的仇敌 向众海岛施行报应。
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.
如此，人从日落之处必敬畏耶和华的名， 从日出之地也必敬畏他的荣耀； 因为仇敌好像急流的河水冲来， 是耶和华之气所驱逐的。
20 But unto Zion shall come the redeemer, and unto those who return from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
必有一位救赎主来到锡安— 雅各族中转离过犯的人那里。 这是耶和华说的。
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.
耶和华说：“至于我与他们所立的约乃是这样：我加给你的灵，传给你的话，必不离你的口，也不离你后裔与你后裔之后裔的口，从今直到永远；这是耶和华说的。”
