Isaiah 55
1 “Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the water, and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
啊！凡口渴的，請到水泉來！那沒有錢的，也請來罷！請來買不花錢，不索值的酒和奶吃！
2 Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and why do you labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.
你們為什麼為那些不能充食的東西花錢，為那些不足果腹的東西浪費薪金呢﹖你們若細心聽我，你們就能吃豐美的食物，你們的心靈必因脂膏而喜悅。
3 Turn your ears and come to me! Listen, that you may live! I will make an everlasting covenant with you—my reliable, faithful love that I promised to David.
你們如側耳，走近我前來聽，你們必將獲得生命；我要與你們訂立一項永久的盟約，即誓許於達味的慈惠。
4 Look, I have placed him as a witness to the nations, as a leader and commander to the peoples.
看，我立了你為萬民的證人，為列國的領袖與主宰。
5 Look, you will call to a nation that you did not know; and a nation that did not know you will run to you because of Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified you.”
看哪！你要召見你不認識的民族，不曾認識你的民族也要奔向你；這都是為了上主你的天主，為了那光榮了你的以色列的聖者的緣故。
6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call on him while he is nearby.
趁上主可找到的時候，你們應尋找他；趁他在近處的時候，你們應呼求他。
7 Let the wicked leave his path, and the man of sin his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will pity him, and to our God, who will abundantly forgive him.
罪人應離開自己的行徑，惡人該拋棄自己的思念，來歸附上主，好讓上主憐憫他；來歸附我們的天主，因為他是富於仁慈的。
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—this is Yahweh's declaration—
因為我的思念不是你們的思念，你們的行徑也不是我的行徑：上主的斷語。
9 for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
就如天離地有多高，我的行徑離你們的行徑，我的思念離你們的思念也有多高。
10 For as the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there unless they saturate the earth and make it produce and sprout and give seed to the farmer who sows and bread to the eater,
譬如雨和雪從天降下，不再返回原處，只有灌溉田地，使之生長萌芽，償還播種者種子，供給吃飯者食糧；
11 so also my word will be that goes from my mouth—it will not return to me empty, but it will achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
同樣，從我口中發出的言語，不能空空地回到我這裏來；反之，它必實行我的旨意，完成我派遣它的使命。
12 For you will go out in joy and be led along peacefully; the mountains and the hills will break out in joyful shouts before you, and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
的確，你們必要喜歡地出來，平安地為上主所引導，高山丘陵必在你們面前高呼歡騰，田間所有的樹木必要鼓掌。
13 Instead of the thornbushes, the cypress will grow; and instead of the brier, the myrtle tree will grow, and it will be for Yahweh, for his name, as an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
松柏要長起來代替荊棘，桃金娘要生出來代替苧麻：這將為上主留名，作為一座不能磨滅的永久紀念碑。
