< Isaiah 65 >
1 “I have been inquired of by those who did not ask, I have been found by those who did not seek Me, I have said, Behold Me, behold Me, To a nation not calling on My Name.
從未求問我的,我要讓他尋求我;從未尋找我的,我要讓他找到我;我對那從未稱呼我名的民族說:「看,我在這裏!我在這裏!」
2 I have spread out My hands all the day To an apostate people, Who are going in the way [that is] not good, After their own thoughts.
我整天向悖逆的民族,即隨自己的思念走邪辟路的人,伸出我的手。
3 The people who are continually provoking Me to anger, To My face, Sacrificing in gardens, and making incense on the bricks:
這民族時常在我面前惹我發怒,在園中獻祭,在磚台上焚香;
4 Who are dwelling among tombs, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominations—their vessels.
他們住在墳墓內,宿在隱密處,吃豬肉,在他們的器皿中都是些不潔之物,
5 Who are saying, Keep to yourself, do not come near to me, For I have declared you unholy. These [are] smoke in My anger, A fire burning all the day.
他們還對人說:「站遠點,別靠近我,怕我聖潔了你。」這些事真叫我鼻子冒煙,整日冒火。
6 Behold, it is written before Me: I am not silent, but have repaid; And I have repaid into their bosom,
看哪!這一切已在我面前寫定;我決不緘默,我非報復不可。
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,” said YHWH, “Who have made incense on the mountains, And have reproached Me on the heights, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.”
我要一起報復他們的罪惡和他們祖先的罪惡:上主說。因為他們在山上燒過香,在丘陵上褻謾過我,所以我要量好他們應得的報酬,報應到他們的懷中。
8 Thus said YHWH: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one has said, Do not destroy it for a blessing [is] in it, So I do for My servants’ sake, Not to destroy the whole.
上主這樣說:「就如當人發現葡萄內尚有酒汁時,就說:不要破壞它,因為裏面還有祝福;我為了我的僕人也要這樣作,不將他們完全消滅。
9 And I have brought out a Seed from Jacob, And from Judah a Possessor of My mountain, And My chosen ones possess it, And My servants dwell there.
我要使雅各伯生出苗裔,使猶大生出繼承我山的人;我的選民要以她為業,我的僕人要住在那裏。
10 And Sharon has been for the habitation of a flock, And the Valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.
為那尋求我的百姓,沙龍將成為羊群的牧場,阿苛爾山谷為那尋求我的百姓,要成為牛群的棲所。」「
11 And you [are] those forsaking YHWH, Who are forgetting My holy mountain, Who are setting a table in array for Gad, And who are filling a mixture for Meni.
至於你們這些離棄上主,忘記我的聖山,為加得神設宴,給默尼神注滿調和的酒的人,
12 And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you bow down for slaughter, Because I called, and you have not answered, I have spoken, and you have not listened, And you do evil in My eyes, And on that which I did not desire—fixed.”
我注定了你們歸於刀下,你們要屈身受戮;因為我喊叫你們,你們沒有回答;我說話,你們不肯聽,反而去行我視為惡的事,揀選我所不喜歡的事。」
13 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “Behold, My servants eat, and you hunger, Behold, My servants drink, and you thirst, Behold, My servants rejoice, and you are ashamed,
因此吾主上主這樣說:「你們要看見我的僕人有得吃,你們卻要飢餓;你們看見我的僕人有得喝,你們卻要口渴;你們看見我的僕人喜樂,你們卻要哭泣;
14 Behold, My servants sing from joy of heart, And you cry from pain of heart, And you howl from breaking of spirit.
你們看見我的僕人因心中快樂而歡慶,你們卻要因心中憂苦而悲號,因喪氣而哀傷。
15 And you have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And Lord YHWH has put you to death, And He gives another name to His servants;
你們將留下你們的名給我的選民作咒詞:『吾主上主將如此叫你死!』但是我的僕人要有另一個名字作稱呼。」
16 So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Blesses himself in the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Swears by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from My eyes.
所以那在地上為自己求福的,要向真實的天主求福;那在地上起誓的,要指著真實的天主起誓,因為先前的苦難都已忘記,從我的眼前隱匿了。
17 For behold, I am creating new heavens and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.
因為,看,我要創造新天新地,先前的不再被記憶,不再被關心。
18 But rejoice, and rejoice forever, that I [am] Creator, For behold, I am creating Jerusalem [to be] a rejoicing, And her people a joy.
人們都要因我所造的而永遠喜悅快樂;因為,看,我要造一座令人喜悅的耶路撒冷,一個令人歡樂的百姓。
19 And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, And have rejoiced in My people, And the voice of weeping is not heard in her anymore, and the voice of crying.
我要因耶路撒冷而喜悅,因我的百姓而歡欣,其中再聽不到哭泣和哀號的聲音。
20 There is not a suckling of [mere] days there anymore, And an aged man who does not complete his days, For the youth dies one hundred years old, And the sinner, one hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.
那裏再沒有夭折的嬰兒和不滿壽數的老人;百歲死去的人算是青年,凡活不到百歲的人算是被詛咒的。
21 And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.
他們要建築房舍,自居其中;種植葡萄,自食其果;
22 They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree [are] the days of My people, And My chosen wear out the work of their hands.
並不是他們建築而別人來住,他們種植而別人來吃,因為我百姓的壽數有如樹木的年數,我的選民要享用她自己的勞作。
23 They do not labor for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For they [are] the seed of the blessed of YHWH, And their offspring with them.
他們不再徒然勤勞,生子不再受驚,因為他們是上主祝福的苗裔,他們的子孫亦將如此。
24 And it has come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
那時,他們還未呼求,我已答應了;他們還在祈禱,我已俯允了。
25 Wolf and lamb feed as one, And a lion eats straw as an ox, As for the serpent—its food [is] dust, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain,” said YHWH!
豺狼和羔羊將要一齊牧放,獅子要如牛犢一般吃草,塵土將是大蛇的食物;在我的整個聖山上,再沒有誰作惡,也沒有誰害人:上主說。