| 依撒依亞 | Isaiah |
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| 1看哪！並非上主的手短小而不能施救，並非他的耳朵沉重而不能聽見； | 1Yahweh's arm is not too short to save nor his ear too dull to hear. |
| 2而是你們的罪孽，使你們與你們的天主隔絕；是你們的罪惡，使他掩面不肯俯聽你們， | 2It is your sins, rather,
that separate you from God.
It is your iniquities that veil his face,
so that he does not hear you. |
| 3因為你們的手沾滿了血，你們的手指沾滿了罪惡；你們的口唇說了謊言，你們的舌頭吐出了惡語。 | 3For your hands are blood-stained,
your fingers blotted with crimes;
your lips have spoken lies,
your tongues have uttered deceit. |
| 4沒有人按正義起訴，沒有人照公正行審；都依賴虛無講說空話，孕育著詭詐，產生邪惡。 | 4No one fights for a right cause;
no one makes a truthful plea.
They all tell lies and rely on vanity;
they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. |
| 5他們所孵化的是毒蛇的蛋，他們所紡織的是蜘蛛的網；誰吃了這些蛋，必定要死；蛋若破了，出來的是條毒蛇。 | 5They hatch vipers' eggs
and weave spiders' webs.
Whoever eats their eggs dies;
and from an egg that is crushed
a venomous snake is hatched. |
| 6他們結的蛛網不能製作衣服，他們的手工不能遮蓋自己；他們的作為都是罪惡的作為，他們手中只有欺壓的行為。 | 6Their thread gives useless cloth;
their works are of help to no one.
Their plans are evil plots
executed in deeds of violence. |
| 7他們的腳趨向邪惡，急於傾流無辜者的血；他們的思念都是邪惡的思念，在他們的行徑上只有蹂躪與毀滅。 | 7Their feet rush to do evil;
they are quick to shed innocent blood.
Their minds are full of wicked thoughts,
leaving in their wake ruin and havoc. |
| 8和平的道路他們不認識，他們的行徑中決無公正；他們彎曲了自己的途徑，凡在上面行走的，必不認識和平。 | 8They do not know the way of peace;
from them no one can expect justice.
They have made their roads tricky and crooked
so that he who follows them is lost or waylaid. |
| 9因此公平遠離了我們，正義不與我們接近，我們尋求光明，看！仍是黑暗；希望光亮，仍在幽暗中徘徊。 | 9So, far away from us lies justice,
and beyond reach is righteousness.
We look for light but behold darkness;
we long for brightness but walk in gloom. |
| 10我們摸索著牆壁，好像瞎子；我們摸索，有如無眼的人；我們在正午顛仆，有如處於黃昏；我們在健壯人中，卻如死人。 | 10Like the blind we grope for the wall,
like those without eyes we feel our way.
We stumble at noon as at twilight;
we are dead in the midst of our sins. |
| 11我們一起號叫，有如狗熊；呻吟哀鳴，宛如鴿子；我們尋求公平，卻沒有公平；尋找救恩，救恩卻遠離了我們， | 11We are like bears that growl;
we are like doves that moan.
We look for justice and find none;
we wait for salvation that never comes. |
| 12因為我們的悖逆在你面前太多了，我們的罪過作證反對我們，因為我們的悖逆都擺在我們面前，我們認清了我們的罪過： | 12For our offenses before you are many,
and our sins bear witness against us.
We acknowledge our offenses;
we know all our iniquities. |
| 13背叛和否認上主，轉背離開我們的天主，說欺騙與反叛的話，從心中說出虛妄的言語； | 13Yes, we have betrayed and deceived Yahweh,
turning away from following our God.
We have planned violence and rebellion;
we have thought and murmured lies. |
| 14因此公平被制止，正義立在遠處，真誠在街市上仆倒於地，正道不得進入。 | 14Justice has been withheld,
righteousness stands aloof,
for truth has fallen in the public square
and integrity is not allowed to enter. |
| 15真誠消逝了，避惡的人已蕩然無存。上主見了，實在不悅，因為一點正直也沒有了； | 15There is no sincerity nor honesty.
The man who turns from evil is despoiled.
Yahweh has seen this and is aggrieved
that justice does not exist. |
| 16他看不見一個人，他詫異連一個調停者也沒有了，遂以自己的手臂來施救，以自己的正義來扶持。 | 16Appalled at seeing none would intervene,
his own arm brought about the victory,
his justice giving him its support. |
| 17他身穿正義作鎧甲，頭戴救恩作鋼盔，身佩復仇作衣服，外披妒恨作外氅。 | 17He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and salvation as a helmet upon his head.
He wrapped himself in garments of vengeance
and put on a mantle of fury. |
| 18他要按照各人的行為施行報復，向他的敵人發怒，向他的仇人復仇（也向群島施行報應。） | 18To each he will pay his due -
wrath to his enemy, reprisal to his foe. |
| 19西方的人要看見上主的名號，東方的人要看見他的榮耀，因為他要來臨，好似被強烈的風催促的急流。 | 19Those in the west will hear the name of Yahweh;
those in the east will see his glory.
For it will come like a pent-up stream
driven by the breath of Yahweh. |
| 20拯救者必要臨於熙雍，臨於雅各伯家中的棄邪歸依者：上主的斷語。 | 20But to Zion he will come as redeemer,
and to those of Jacob who turn from sin.
This is Yahweh speaking. |
| 21至於我──上主說──這是我與他們所立的盟約：我在你身上所賦的神，我在你口中所放的話，總不離開你的口和你子孫的口，以及你子子孫孫的口，上主說，從現今直到永遠。 | 21For my part, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh. My spirit which I have poured out on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will never leave you, nor your children, nor your children's children forever and ever. |
