Isaiah 26
1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
那一天，猶大地要詠唱這首歌曲：「我們有座堅城，以救援作城牆與外郭。
2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
你們打開城門，好讓遵守信實的正義民族進去。
3 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
你的意志堅定，因而你保全了永久的和平，故此人對你有信賴。
4 Trust in the LORD forever; for in the LORD, the LORD, is an everlasting Rock.
你們應永遠信賴上主，因為上主是永固的磐石。
5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.
他曾屈服了居高位的人，推翻了高聳的城市，將她推翻在地，使她粉碎，化為塵埃。
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”
踐踏她的，卻是困苦人的腳，是貧窮人的腳。」
7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
義人的道路是正直的，你上主啊，削平了正直人的途徑。
8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
的確，上主！我們在你正義的路上期待你！你的名號，你的記念，是我們心靈的欲望。
9 With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
我們的心靈在夜間渴望你，我們的心神在清晨尋覓你，因為當你的決斷顯於大地時，世上的居民都要學習正義。
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the LORD’s majesty.
惡人雖然蒙受了憐憫，仍然不學習正義，在世上依然顛倒是非，毫不顧及上主的威嚴。
11 LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
上主！你的手雖已高舉，但他們仍看不見；願他們見到你對百姓的熱忱而感到慚愧；並願你為你仇敵所保留的烈火吞滅他們！
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
上主！是你賜與了我們和平，因為凡我們所做的，都是你為我們成就的！
13 LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.
上主，我們的天主！除你以外，還有別的主宰治理過我們；然而我們所稱揚的，只有你，你的名號。
14 The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
死去的人不會再活，幽魂也不會復生，因為你如此懲罰了，並消滅了他們，使他們所有的記念盡被遺忘。
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
你增加了本國的人民，上主，你增加了本國的人民，你得了光榮，你拓展了國家所有的邊界。
16 LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
上主 ！我們在困難之中尋求了你，我們在壓迫之中呼求了你，因為那是你對我們的懲罰。
17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, LORD.
有如懷妊臨產的婦女，在苦痛中痙攣呻吟；同樣，上主！我們在你面前也是如此：
18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
我們也像懷妊痙攣；然而所產的竟是風，沒有給大地帶來救恩，世界的居民也未因此而得生。
19 Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
你的亡者將再生，他們的屍體將要起立；睡在塵埃中的人們都要甦醒歌詠，因為你的朝露是晶瑩的朝露，大地將拋出幽靈。
20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
我的百姓！去，進入你的內室，關上門，隱藏片刻，等待盛怒過去。
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
因為，看哪！上主已由自己的地方出來懲罰大地居民的罪惡，大地要暴露自己吞下的鮮血，不再遮掩被殺的人。
