< Isaiah 51 >

1 Listen to me O [those who] pursue righteousness [those who] seek Yahweh look to [the] rock [which] you were dug and to [the] excavation of [the] pit [which] you were dug out.
你們追求正義,尋覓上主的人,請聽我說:你們又細察那巖石,你們是從那上邊鑿下來的;要細察那石穴,你們是從那裏挖出來的。
2 Look to Abraham ancestor your and to Sarah [who] she gave birth to you if one [person] I called him and I blessed him and I multiplied him.
你們要細察你們的父親亞巴郎和產生你們的撒辣,因為當我召叫他時,只有他一人,但我祝福了他,使他繁盛。
3 For he will comfort Yahweh Zion he will comfort all waste places its and he made wilderness its like Eden and desert plain its like [the] garden of Yahweh joy and gladness it will be found in it thanksgiving and [the] sound of music.
的確,上主必要憐憫熙雍,憐憫她所有的廢墟,使她的荒野成為伊甸,使她的沙漠變為上主的樂園,其中必有歡樂和愉快,歌頌和絃樂之聲。
4 Pay attention to me O people my and O nation my to me give ear for law from with me it will go out and justice my a light of peoples I will make suddenly.
萬民啊!請傾聽我;萬邦啊!請側耳聽我:法律將由我而出,我的正義要作為萬民的光明。
5 [is] near Righteousness my it has gone out salvation my and arms my peoples they will judge to me islands they will wait and to arm my they will hope!
我的正義要迅速降臨,我的救恩業已出現,我的手臂要掌管萬民;諸島嶼都仰望我,依賴我的手臂。
6 Lift up to the heavens eyes your and look to the earth beneath for [the] heavens like smoke they will be dispersed and the earth like garment it will wear out and inhabitants its like gnat[s] they will die! and salvation my for ever it will be and righteousness my not it will be broken.
你們仰觀諸天,俯察大地:縱然諸天將如煙雲消散,大地要像衣服破舊,地上的居民要如蚊子死去,然而我的救恩永遠常存,我的正義決不廢除。
7 Listen to me O [those who] know righteousness a people [which] law my [is] in heart their may not you fear [the] reproach of humankind and from reviling words their may not you be dismayed.
你們認識正義,心懷法律的人民,請聽我說:不要怕人家的侮辱,對他們的嘲笑也不必驚恐;
8 For like garment it will eat them moth and like wool it will eat them clothes-moth and righteousness my for ever it will be and salvation my to a generation of generations.
因為他們必如衣服一樣,為蠹蟲所吃掉;如羊毛一樣,為衣魚所吃掉;然而我的正義永遠常存,我的救恩直到萬世。
9 Awake awake put on strength O arm of Yahweh awake like days of antiquity generations of antiquiti ¿ not [are] you she who cut in pieces Rahab [who] pierced [the] sea monster.
上主的手臂!醒來,醒來!施展威能罷!醒來有如在古時古代一樣。不是你斬了辣哈布,刺殺了巨龍嗎﹖
10 ¿ Not [are] you she who dried up [the] sea [the] water of [the] deep great who made [the] depths of [the] sea a way to pass over redeemed [people].
不是你令海令大洋的水涸竭了嗎﹖不是你使海底變為大路,叫蒙救的人走過嗎﹖
11 And [the] [people] ransomed of Yahweh they will return! and they will come Zion with a shout of joy and gladness of perpetuity [will be] on head their joy and gladness they will overtake [them]! they will flee sorrow and sighing.
上主所解救的人必要歸來,快樂地來到熙雍,永久的歡樂將臨於他們頭上;他們將享盡歡欣與快樂,憂愁與悲哀必將遠遁。
12 I I [am] he [who] comforts you who? [are] you and you have been afraid from a person [who] he dies and from a child of humankind [who] grass he is made.
是我,是我親自安慰了你,你怎麼還怕那有死的人,怕那命如草芥的人子呢﹖
13 And you have forgotten Yahweh [who] made you [who] stretched out [the] heavens and [who] founded [the] earth and you have been in dread continually all the day of [the] anger of the oppressor when he has prepared to destroy and where? [is] [the] anger of the oppressor.
你怎麼竟忘記了那創造你,展開諸天,奠定大地的上主,而終日不斷對那壓迫你,決意要消滅你的人的狂怒恐怖呢﹖如今壓迫你者的狂怒在那裏呢﹖
14 He will hasten [one who] stoops to be let loose and not he will die to the pit and not he will lack food his.
囚禁的人即將釋放,不致死於深坑,他的口糧也不會缺乏。
15 And I [am] Yahweh God your [who] stirs up the sea and they roared waves its [is] Yahweh of hosts name his.
我是上主你的天主,即那攪動海洋使浪濤澎湃的,他的名字是「萬軍的上主。」
16 And I have put words my in mouth your and with [the] shadow of hand my I have covered you to plant [the] heavens and to found [the] earth and to say to Zion [are] people my you.
是我把我的話放在你的口中,將你掩護在我的手蔭之下;是我展開了諸天,奠定了大地,並給熙雍說:「你是我的百姓。」
17 Rouse yourself rouse yourself arise O Jerusalem who you have drunk from [the] hand of Yahweh [the] cup of anger his [the] bowl of [the] cup of staggering you have drunk you have drained.
起來,起來!耶路撒冷!立起來!你這由上主手中飲了他震怒之杯,啜盡了那麻醉爵中渣滓的!
18 There not [is one who] leads her of all [the] children [whom] she has borne and there not [is one who] takes hold on hand her from all [the] children [whom] she has brought up.
她所生的兒子中沒有一個來引領她的,她養大的兒子中沒有一個來扶持她手的。
19 Two [things] they [have] happened to you who? does he show sympathy to you the devastation and the destruction and the famine and the sword who? do I comfort you.
這兩件事臨到了你身上,有誰哀憐你呢﹖就是荒涼與滅亡,饑饉與兵燹,有誰安慰你呢﹖
20 Children your they have become faint they have lain down at [the] head of all [the] streets like an antelope of a net which [are] full [the] anger of Yahweh [the] rebuke of God your.
你的兒子昏迷不醒,躺在街頭,像陷入羅網的羚羊;他們還飽嘗了上主的憤怒,受盡了你的天主的恐嚇。
21 Therefore hear please this O afflicted [one] and O drunken [one] and not from wine.
為此,你這受苦難的,非因酒而醉倒的,請聽這事!
22 Thus he says lord your Yahweh and God your [who] he conducts a case for people his here! I have taken from hand your [the] cup of staggering [the] bowl of [the] cup of anger my not you will repeat to drink it again.
你的主宰上主,為自己的人民辯護的天主,這樣說:「看!我已從你手中取回了那麻醉的杯,我憤怒的爵,你必不再喝,
23 And I will put it in [the] hand of [those who] torment you who they said to self your lie down so let us pass over [you] and you made like the ground back your and like the street for [those who] pass over.
我將此杯放在壓迫你者的手中,就是曾對你說:「躺下來!讓我們走過去!」你便使你的背脊作為平地,作為街道,任他們走過去的那些人。

< Isaiah 51 >