Isaiah:Chapter 59

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Isaiah:Chapter 59

依撒意亞	Isaiah
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，孕育着詭詐，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我們摸索着牆壁，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.

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