Isaiah 59
1 Lo! the hand of Yahweh is not too short to save, —Neither is his ear too heavy to hear.
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 become separators betwixt you and your God, And your sins, have caused a hiding of face from you that he should-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, and Your tongue, muttereth, perversity.
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 None, sueth in righteousness, and None, pleadeth in faithfulness, —Men are trusting in confusion, And speaking vanity, Conceiving wickedness And bringing forth iniquity:
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 Viper’s eggs, do they hatch, Spider’s threads, do they weave, —He that eateth of their eggs, dieth, And, that which is crushed, bringeth forth an adder;
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 threads, shall not become a garment, Neither shall they cover themselves with their fabrics, —Their fabrics, are fabrics of iniquity, Yea the product 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, to mischief, do run, And they speed to shed innocent blood, —Their devices, are devices of iniquity, Wasting and destruction, are in their high roads;
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 well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, —Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well—being.
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 For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not, —We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, 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, as blind men for a wall, Yea, as men without eyes, do we grope, —We have stumbled at broad noon as though it were twilight, In desolate places 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 like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo, —We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation 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 have multiplied before thee, And, our sins, have witnessed against us, —For, our transgressions, are with us, And as for our iniquities, we acknowledge 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 Transgressing, and denying Yahweh, And turning away from following our God, —Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving, and muttering from the 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 So then there hath been a driving back of justice, And righteousness, afar off, standeth, —For truth, hath stumbled in the broad-way, And, right, cannot 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 the truth hath been found missing, And he that hath turned away from wrong is liable to be despoiled, And when, Yahweh, looked, Then was it grievous 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 When he saw that there was no mighty man, Then was he astonished that there was none to interpose, —So his own arm brought him salvation, And his own righteousness, the same, upheld 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 a helmet of victory upon his head, —And he put on the garments of avenging, for clothing, And wrapped about him as a cloak—jealousy,
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 their deeds, accordingly, will he repay, Indignation to his adversaries, Recompense to his enemies, —To the Coastlands—recompense, will he repay:
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 That they may revere—From the West the name of Yahweh, And from the Rising of the Sun his glory, For he will come in like a rushing stream, the breath of Yahweh, driving it on;
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 So shall come in for Zion, a Redeemer, Even for such as are turning from transgression in Jacob, —Declareth Yahweh.
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, shall be my covenant with them, Saith Yahweh: My spirit that is upon thee, And my words which I have put in thy mouth, —Shall not be taken out of thy mouth—Nor out of the mouth of thy seed. Nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, Saith Yahweh, From henceforth even unto times age-abiding.
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。
