< Isaiah 51 >
1 “Listen to Me, you pursuing righteousness, Seeking YHWH, Look attentively to the rock—you have been hewn, And to the hole of the pit—you have been dug.
你們這追求公義、 尋求耶和華的,當聽我言! 你們要追想被鑿而出的磐石, 被挖而出的巖穴。
2 Look attentively to your father Abraham, And to Sarah—she brings you forth, For—one—I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.”
要追想你們的祖宗亞伯拉罕 和生養你們的撒拉; 因為亞伯拉罕獨自一人的時候, 我選召他,賜福與他, 使他人數增多。
3 For YHWH has comforted Zion, He has comforted all her ruins, And He sets her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of YHWH, Joy, indeed, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.
耶和華已經安慰錫安 和錫安一切的荒場, 使曠野像伊甸, 使沙漠像耶和華的園囿; 在其中必有歡喜、快樂、感謝, 和歌唱的聲音。
4 “Attend to Me, O My people, And, O My nation, give ear to Me. For a law goes out from Me, And My judgment to the light, I cause peoples to rest.
我的百姓啊,要向我留心; 我的國民哪,要向我側耳; 因為訓誨必從我而出; 我必堅定我的公理為萬民之光。
5 My righteousness [is] near, My salvation has gone out, And My arms judge peoples, Islands wait on Me, Indeed, on My arm they wait with hope.
我的公義臨近; 我的救恩發出。 我的膀臂要審判萬民; 海島都要等候我,倚賴我的膀臂。
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look attentively to the earth beneath, For the heavens have vanished as smoke, And the earth wears out as a garment, And its inhabitants die as gnats, And My salvation is for all time, And My righteousness is not broken.
你們要向天舉目, 觀看下地; 因為天必像煙雲消散, 地必如衣服漸漸舊了; 其上的居民也要如此死亡。 惟有我的救恩永遠長存; 我的公義也不廢掉。
7 Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart [is] My law, Do not fear the reproach of men, And do not be frightened of their reviling,
知道公義、將我訓誨存在心中的民, 要聽我言! 不要怕人的辱罵, 也不要因人的毀謗驚惶。
8 For a moth eats them as a garment, And a worm eats them as wool, And My righteousness is for all time, And My salvation from generation to generation.”
因為蛀蟲必咬他們,好像咬衣服; 蟲子必咬他們,如同咬羊絨。 惟有我的公義永遠長存, 我的救恩直到萬代。
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH, Awake, as [in] days of old, generations of the ages, Are You not it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon?
耶和華的膀臂啊,興起!興起! 以能力為衣穿上, 像古時的年日、上古的世代興起一樣。 從前砍碎拉哈伯、 刺透大魚的,不是你嗎?
10 Are You not it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That has made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?
使海與深淵的水乾涸、 使海的深處變為贖民經過之路的, 不是你嗎?
11 And the ransomed of YHWH return, And they have come to Zion with singing, And continuous joy [is] on their head, They attain gladness and joy, Sorrow and sighing have fled away,
耶和華救贖的民必歸回, 歌唱來到錫安; 永樂必歸到他們的頭上。 他們必得着歡喜快樂; 憂愁歎息盡都逃避。
12 “I [am] He who comforts you, Who [are] you—and you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of man—he is made [like] grass!
惟有我,是安慰你們的。 你是誰,竟怕那必死的人? 怕那要變如草的世人?
13 And you forget YHWH your Maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And you continually fear all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he has prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
卻忘記鋪張諸天、立定地基、 創造你的耶和華? 又因欺壓者圖謀毀滅要發的暴怒, 整天害怕, 其實那欺壓者的暴怒在哪裏呢?
14 A wanderer has hurried to be loosed, And he does not die in the pit, And his bread is not lacking.
被擄去的快得釋放, 必不死而下坑; 他的食物也不致缺乏。
15 And I [am] your God YHWH, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name.
我是耶和華-你的上帝- 攪動大海,使海中的波浪匉訇- 萬軍之耶和華是我的名。
16 And I put My words in your mouth, And have covered you with the shadow of My hand, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, You [are] My people.”
我將我的話傳給你, 用我的手影遮蔽你, 為要栽定諸天,立定地基, 又對錫安說:你是我的百姓。
17 Stir yourself, stir yourself, rise, Jerusalem, You who have drunk from the hand of YHWH The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, you have drunk, You have wrung out.
耶路撒冷啊,興起! 興起!站起來! 你從耶和華手中喝了他忿怒之杯, 喝了那使人東倒西歪的爵,以致喝盡。
18 There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she has borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she has nourished.
她所生育的諸子中,沒有一個引導她的; 她所養大的諸子中,沒有一個攙扶她的。
19 These two are meeting you, Who is moved for you? Spoiling and destruction, famine and sword! By whom do I comfort you?
荒涼、毀滅、饑荒、刀兵, 這幾樣臨到你, 誰為你舉哀? 我如何能安慰你呢?
20 Your sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as an antelope [in] a dragnet, They are full of the fury of YHWH, The rebuke of Your God.
你的眾子發昏, 在各市口上躺臥, 好像黃羊在網羅之中, 都滿了耶和華的忿怒 -你上帝的斥責。
21 Therefore, please hear this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,
因此,你這困苦卻非因酒而醉的, 要聽我言。
22 Thus said your Lord YHWH, and your God, He pleads [for] His people: “Behold, I have taken the cup of trembling out of your hand, The goblet, the cup of My fury, You do not add to drink it anymore.
你的主耶和華- 就是為他百姓辨屈的上帝如此說: 看哪,我已將那使人東倒西歪的杯, 就是我忿怒的爵, 從你手中接過來; 你必不致再喝。
23 And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting you, Who have said to your soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And you make your body as the earth, And as the street to those passing by!”
我必將這杯遞在苦待你的人手中; 他們曾對你說:你屈身, 由我們踐踏過去吧! 你便以背為地, 好像街市,任人經過。