Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which 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 listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and 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 crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
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 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
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 should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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 even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed 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 desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as 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 shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, 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 Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as 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 LORD’s word, 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 are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says the LORD. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
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 at your hand, 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 vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil 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 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing 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 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. 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 yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do 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 well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for 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’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as 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, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth 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 was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are 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 dross, 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 rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to 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 the Lord, GOD of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on 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 on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
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. Afterward you shall 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 shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
熙雍將因正直獲得救贖，她的居民將因正義蒙受救恩；
28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
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 they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for 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 shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as 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 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。
