Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
在烏齊雅、約堂、阿哈次和希則克雅為猶大王時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞，關於猶大和耶路撒冷所見的異象如下：
2 Hear, heavens, and give ear, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.
諸天，請諦聽！大地，請側耳！ 因為上主有話說：「我把孩子撫養長大，他們竟背叛了我 ！
3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's feeding trough, but Israel does not know, Israel does not understand.”
牛認識自己的主人，驢也認識自己主人的槽，以色列卻毫不知情，我的百姓卻一點不懂。」
4 Woe! Nation, sinners, a people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they have estranged themselves from him.
禍哉，犯罪的民族，惡貫滿盈的百姓，作惡的後裔，敗壞的子孫！他們離棄了上主，蔑視了以色列的聖者，轉身背棄了他。
5 Why are you still being beaten? Why do you rebel more and more? The whole head is sick, the whole heart is weak.
你們為什麼還繼續叛逆，再遭受打擊呢﹖整個頭已患了病，整個心已經焦悴；
6 From the sole of the foot to the head there is no part unharmed; only wounds, and bruises, and fresh open wounds; they have not been closed, cleansed, bandaged, nor treated with oil.
從腳掌直到頭頂已體無完膚，盡是創痍、傷痕和新的傷口；沒有擠淨，沒有包紮，也沒有軟膏滋潤。
7 Your country is ruined; your cities are burned; your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them— abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers.
你們的地區變成荒蕪，你們的城市被火燒盡，你們面前的莊田被異民吞併，變成一片荒涼，宛如索多瑪的廢墟；
8 The daughter of Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, like a shed in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
僅存的熙雍女兒，有如葡萄園裏的茅舍，胡瓜園中的草廬，被圍困著的城市。
9 If Yahweh of hosts had not left for us a small remnant, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
若非萬軍的上主給我們留下些許殘餘，我們早已如同索多瑪，相似哈摩辣了。
10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:
索多瑪的統治者，請聽上主的話！哈摩辣的百姓，請聽天主的訓示：「
11 “What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?” says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats I do not delight.
你們為什麼向我奉獻那麼多的犧牲﹖－－上主說：我已飽饜了公羊的燔祭和肥犢的脂膏；牛犢、羔羊和山羊的血我已不喜歡；
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this of you, to trample my courts?
你們來見我的面時，誰向你們要求了這些東西﹖這簡直是蹂躪我的殿院。
13 Bring no more meaningless offerings; incense is an abomination to me; your new moon and Sabbath assemblies—I cannot tolerate these wicked assemblies.
不要再奉獻無謂的祭品！馨香已為我所憎惡，月朔、安息日、集會、齋戒和盛大的宴會，我已都不能容受。
14 I hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; they are a burden to me; I am tired of enduring them.
我的心痛恨你們的月朔和你們的慶節，它們為我是種累贅，使我忍無可忍。
15 So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
你們伸出手時，我必掩目不看；你們行大祈禱時，我決不俯聽，因為你們的手染滿了血！
16 Wash, cleanse yourselves; remove the evil of your deeds from my sight; stop being evil;
你們應該洗滌，應該自潔，從我眼前革除你們的惡行，停止作孽，
17 learn to do good; seek justice, make straight the oppression, give justice to the fatherless, defend the widow.”
學習行善，尋求正義，責斥壓迫人的人，為孤兒伸冤，為寡婦辯護。
18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh; “though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.
現在你們來，讓我們互相辯論－－上主說：你們的罪雖似朱紅，將變成雪一樣的潔白；雖紅得發紫，仍能變成羊毛一樣的皎潔。
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land,
假使你們樂意服從，你們將享用地上的美物；
20 but if you refuse and rebel, the sword will devour you,” for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
假使你們拒絕反抗，你們將為刀劍所吞滅。」這是上主親口說的。
21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She who was full of justice—she was full of righteousness, but now she is full of murderers.
忠貞的城邑，怎麼變成了蕩婦！ 昔日充滿著正義，寄居著公平的，現今卻住滿了謀殺的兇手！
22 Your silver has become impure, your wine mixed with water.
你的銀子變成了渣滓，你的美酒攙和了水份；
23 Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes and runs after payoffs. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the widow's legal plea come before them.
你的首領謀反作亂，成了盜賊的幫兇；他們都愛好賄賂，索取報酬，不為孤兒伸冤，不受理寡婦的訴訟。
24 Therefore this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Woe to them! I will take vengeance against my adversaries, and avenge myself against my enemies;
因此吾主，萬軍的上主，以色列的大能者說：「哎！我必向我的敵人雪恨，我必向我的仇人復仇。
25 I will turn my hand against you, refine away your dross as with lye, and take away all your dross.
我必向你伸出我的手，用爐火煉盡你的渣滓，除去你所有的鉛錫。
26 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning; after that you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.”
我要使你的民長復興如初；使你的參謀恢復如初；以後你將被稱為正義的城市，忠貞的城邑。」
27 Zion will be redeemed by justice, and her repentant ones by righteousness.
熙雍將因正直獲得救贖，她的居民將因正義蒙受救恩；
28 Rebels and sinners will be crushed together, and those who abandon Yahweh will be done away with.
然而惡人和罪人必將一同滅亡，背棄上主的人必要滅絕。
29 “For you will be ashamed of the sacred oak trees that you desired, and you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
你們必因你們所喜愛的橡樹而蒙羞，必因你們所選擇的花園而慚愧；
30 For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.
你們將變成一棵落葉的橡樹，一座無水的花園。
31 The strong man will be like tinder, and his work like a spark; they will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
強者將似麻絮，他的工作猶如火花：二者必要同時焚燒，無人予以熄滅。
