Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
「你們安慰，安慰我的百姓罷！」你們的天主說。
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
你們應向耶路撒冷說寬心的話，並向她宣告：她的苦役已滿期，她的罪債已清償，因為她為了自己的一切罪過，已由上主手中承受了雙倍的懲罰。
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
有一個呼聲喊說：「你們要在曠野中預備上主的道路，在荒原中為我們的天主修平一條大路！
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.
一切深谷要填滿，一切山陵要產平，隆起的要削為平地，崎嶇的要闢成坦途！
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see [it]: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
上主的光榮要顯示出來，凡有血肉的都會看見：這是上主親口說的。」
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] as the flower of the field:
有個聲音說：「呼喊罷！」我答說：「我呼喊什麼﹖」「凡有血肉的都似草，他的美麗似田野的花；
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
上主的風吹來，草必枯萎，花必凋謝。【的確，人民好像草。】
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall shall stand forever.
草能枯萎，花能凋謝，但我們天主的話永遠常存。」
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
給熙雍傳喜訊的啊！請登上高山！給耶路撒冷報喜訊的啊！請大聲疾呼！ 高呼罷！不要畏懼！向猶大各城報告說：你們的天主來了！
10 Behold, the LORD GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm will rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
吾主上主帶著威能來到，他的手臂獲得了勝利；他的勝利品與他同在，他獲得的酬勞在他面前。
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those that are with young.
他必如牧人，牧放自己的羊群，以自己的手臂集合小羊，把牠們抱在自己的懷中，溫良地領導哺乳的母羊。
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
誰曾用手心量過海水，用手掌測量過天，用升斗量過地上的塵土，用天秤稱過高山，用戥子撐過丘陵呢﹖
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counselor hath taught him?
誰曾指揮過上主的心靈；或做過他的參謀，教導過他呢﹖
14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
他曾向誰請教過，請他教導自己，指導自己正路，教授自己智識，指示明智的行徑呢﹖
15 Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
看哪！萬民像桶中的一滴水，如天秤上的一粒沙；看，島嶼重如一粒灰塵。
16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering.
黎巴嫩不夠當柴燒，其中的野獸不足作燔祭。
17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
萬民在他面前好像烏有，在他看來只是空虛淨無。
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?
你們要把天主同誰相比擬呢﹖你們把他與什麼相對照呢﹖
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
與偶像嗎﹖偶像是工匠鑄造，金匠再包上金子，然後再鑄銀鍊圍起來。
20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image [that] shall not be moved.
精於選料的人，在選擇一塊不朽的木頭，再尋找一位精明的工匠，將鑄像立定，不致倒下。
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
難道你們不知道﹖難道你們沒有聽說﹖難道從起初沒有人告訴過你們﹖難道由大地肇基以來你們沒有細察過嗎﹖
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
他坐在大地的穹窿之上，地上的居民有如蝗蟲一般。他展開天幕有如帷幔，伸開天空有如居住的蓬帳。
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
他使王侯化為烏有，叫地上的士紳成為虛無。
24 Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
他們剛被栽上，剛被種植，剛在土中扎根，他向他們一噓氣，他們一噓氣，他們便立即枯萎，暴風捲枯湝似的將他們捲走。「
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equaled? saith the Holy One.
你們把我同誰比擬呢﹖要我與誰相似呢﹖」聖者如此說。
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that [he] is strong in power; not one faileth.
你們舉目向上，看看是誰造了這些呢﹖是他按照數目展開了他的萬軍，按照次序一一點名，在這強有力和威能者前，沒有一個敢缺席的。
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?
雅各伯！你為什麼說﹖以色列！你為什麼講：「上主看不見我的命運！天主忽略了我的案件！」
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding.
難道你不知道，或者沒有聽說：上主是永生的天主，是創造地極之主嗎﹖他縱不疲倦，決不困乏，他的智慧高深莫測。
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
他賜給疲倦者力量，賜給無力者勇氣。
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
少年人能疲倦困乏，青年人能失足跌倒；
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
然而仰望上主的，必獲得新力量，必能振翼高飛有如兀鷹，疾馳而不困乏，奔走而不疲倦。
