| 依撒依亞 | Isaiah |
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| 1貝耳塌下了，乃波傾倒了，他們的神像，負在走獸和牲口身上；他們的重載，重壓著筋疲的畜類。 | 1Bel bows down, Nebo collapses, the carriages are weighed down with their idols. Their sacred objects have become a burden for the weary feasts. |
| 2他們都一齊傾倒了，塌下了，神像不但不能救助馱運他們的畜類，甚至連自己也該流徙遠配。 | 2They cringe and crouch together, powerless to save those who carry them, as they themselves are taken captive. |
| 3雅各伯家啊！以色列家所有的遺民啊！請你們聽我：自出母胎我就抱著你，自離母腹我就懷著你； | 3Hear me, O people of Jacob,
and all who remain of Israel,
whom I have cared for since you were conceived,
and carried since you were born. |
| 4直到你年老，我仍是一樣；直到你白頭，我依然扶持你。我既然如此做了，我必要提攜你，扶持你，拯救你。 | 4Even to your old age, I am he
and I will sustain you
even when your hair turns gray.
It is I who have done this,
and who bear the burdens,
I will sustain and save you. |
| 5你們拿我同誰比擬，與誰相等，跟誰比較，以求我們相同呢？ | 5To whom will you compare me or consider me equal?
Against whom will you match me,
as though we were alike? |
| 6有些人從錢囊中把金子倒出，放銀子在天平上衡量；以後僱了一個金匠，製造了一個神像，遂向它屈膝朝拜； | 6Some pour out gold from their purses,
and with silver weighed on the scales
they hire a goldsmith to make an image
before which they bow and worship. |
| 7又將神像抬起，放在肩上扛著，以後安置在一個地方，它就立在那裡，再不能離開那地方；人呼求它，它也不答應，也不能救人脫離災殃。 | 7They carry it upon their shoulders
and set it up in its place;
and there it stands, unmoving and silent.
They cry out to it, but it does not answer,
it delivers no one from distress and disaster. |
| 8你們應記住這事，應站穩！叛逆的人啊！你們應記在心頭！ | 8Bear it well in mind, you rebels, |
| 9你們應追憶以前古時所發生的事，因為我是天主，沒有另一個；我是天主，沒有與我相似的； | 9recall those things of long ago.
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me. |
| 10我從起初就預言了末後的事，早就宣佈了未來的事；我如今說：「我的計劃必要成功，我的旨意都要實現；」 | 10From the beginning I foretold the outcome,
from ancient times, what was yet to come.
I say, and my plan will be fulfilled;
and what I wish, I will accomplish. |
| 11我要把老鷹從東方召來，把履行我計劃的人由遠方叫來；我說了，必要去行；我決定了，必要去做。 | 11From the east I call forth a bird of prey,
from a distant land, a man to carry out my plan.
Yes, I have spoken, it will be done;
I have planned, it will be executed. |
| 12心硬的人！遠離正義的人！聽我說罷！ | 12Listen to me, you without hope,
you who are deprived of any right. |
| 13我的仁義來近了，已不遠了，我的救恩不再延遲；我必在熙雍賜與救恩，把我的光榮賜給以色列。 | 13I am bringing my justice, it is not far away;
my salvation will not delay.
I will make salvation appear in Zion,
upon Israel I will bestow my glory. |
