Isaiah 42
1 Behold, My servant, I take hold on Him, My Chosen One—My soul has accepted, I have put My Spirit on Him, He brings forth judgment to nations.
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 does not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
他不呼喊，不喧嚷，在街市上也聽不到他的聲音。
3 A bruised reed He does not break, And faded flax He does not quench, He brings forth judgment to truth.
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 does not become weak nor bruised, Until He sets judgment in the earth, And islands wait with hope for His law.
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 said God, YHWH, Creating the heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.
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, YHWH, called you in righteousness, And I lay hold on your hand, and keep you, And I give you for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.
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 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth the bound one from prison, Those sitting in darkness from the house of restraint.
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] YHWH, this [is] My Name, And I do not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to carved 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 The former things, behold, have come, And I am declaring new things, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.
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 a new song to YHWH, His praise from the end of the earth, You who are going down to the sea, and its fullness, Islands, and their inhabitants.
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 The wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], Kedar inhabits the villages, The inhabitants of Sela sing, They cry from the top of mountains.
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 They ascribe to YHWH glory, And they declare His praise in the islands.
願眾人都歸光榮於上主，在島嶼上稱述他的榮耀！
13 YHWH goes forth as a mighty one. He stirs up zeal as a man of war, He cries, indeed, He shrieks, He shows Himself mighty 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 have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain Myself, I cry out as a travailing woman, I desolate and swallow up together.
「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 make desolate mountains and hills, And I dry up all their herbs, And I have made rivers become islands, And I dry up ponds.
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 have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, I cause them to tread in paths they have not known, I make a dark place become light before them, And unleveled places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken 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 Removed backward—utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a carved image, Those saying to a molten image, “You [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 You deaf, hear; and you blind, look to see.
聾子，你們聽！瞎子，你們睜眼看！
19 Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Indeed, blind, as the servant of YHWH?
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, and you do not observe, Opening ears, and he does not hear.
他雖然看見了許多事，卻一無所覺；耳朵開著，卻沒有聽見。
21 YHWH has delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifies law, and makes honorable.
上主為了自己的仁義，本來願意把法律發揚廣大，
22 And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes—all of them, And they were hidden in houses of restraint, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, “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 gives ear [to] this? Attends, and hears afterward?
你們中有誰靜聽這事，今後傾耳靜聽呢﹖
24 Who has given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not YHWH—He against whom we sinned? Indeed, they have not been willing to walk in His ways, Nor have they listened to His law.
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 And He pours fury on him, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it sets him on fire all around, And he has not known, And it burns against him, and he does not lay it to heart!
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。
