Isaiah 59

English Standard Version

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1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; (Nu 11:23; Isa 50:2)2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. (Jer 5:25)3 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. (Isa 1:15)4 No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. (Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Isa 59:14)5 They hatch adders’ eggs; they weave the spider’s web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.6 Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. (Job 8:14)7 Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. (Pr 1:16; Ro 3:15)8 The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace. (Isa 48:22; Isa 57:21)9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. (Isa 59:11; Isa 60:2)10 We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men. (De 28:29; Job 5:14; Job 12:25; Isa 42:18; 1Co 4:9)11 We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. (Isa 38:14; Isa 46:13; Isa 56:1; Isa 59:9)12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:13 transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. (Isa 59:3)14 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. (Isa 51:4)15 Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him[1] that there was no justice.16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him. (Isa 51:18; Isa 63:5)17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak. (Isa 9:7; Eph 6:13; 1Th 5:8)18 According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment. (Isa 41:1; Isa 41:5; Isa 63:4; Isa 63:6)19 So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream,[2] which the wind of the Lord drives. (Ps 113:3; Isa 30:27)20 “And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord. (Isa 40:9; Isa 43:14; Joe 2:32; Ro 11:26)21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.” (De 4:10; Isa 51:16; Jer 31:31; Heb 8:10; Heb 10:16)

Isaiah 59

圣经当代译本修订版

from Biblica
1 看啊,耶和华的臂膀并非没有力量拯救, 祂的耳朵并非聋得听不见。2 你们的罪过使你们与上帝隔绝, 你们的罪恶使祂转脸不看你们, 也不听你们的祈求。3 你们的手染满了血污, 手指沾满了罪恶。 你们的嘴唇吐出谎言, 舌头嘀咕恶事。4 无人按公义诉讼, 无人凭诚实申辩。 你们依靠诡辩,口出谎言, 心怀鬼胎,生出罪恶。5 你们孵毒蛇蛋, 人吃了这蛋必死, 蛋破后爬出毒蛇。 你们编蜘蛛网,6 这网不能做衣服遮盖你们。 你们行为邪恶, 做事残暴。7 你们奔向邪恶, 急于滥杀无辜; 你们心怀恶念, 所到之处大肆毁灭。8 你们不知道平安之路, 你们的行径毫无公正; 你们走歪门邪道, 跟从你们的必得不到平安。9 因此,正义远离我们, 公义临不到我们。 我们渴望光明,却得到黑暗; 我们渴望曙光,却仍然走在幽暗中。10 我们像盲人一样沿墙摸索, 像无眼睛的人一样探路。 我们在中午也跌跌撞撞, 如同走在晚上。 我们在强壮人当中如同死人。11 我们像熊一样咆哮, 如鸽子一般哀鸣。 我们渴望正义,却得不到; 渴望得到拯救,却遥不可及。12 因为我们在上帝面前过犯累累, 我们的罪恶向我们发出控诉。 我们被过犯缠身,自知有罪。13 我们悖逆,否认耶和华, 离弃我们的上帝, 说欺压、叛逆的话, 吐露心中编织的谎言。14 正义被赶逐, 公义不能靠近, 真理倒在街上, 正直被拒之门外。15 真理无处可寻, 远离恶事的人反成了猎物。 耶和华因正义荡然无存而不悦。16 祂因无人、 无一个人主持公道而惊讶, 于是亲自伸出臂膀, 以自己的公义施行拯救。17 祂以公义作铠甲, 以救恩作头盔, 以复仇作衣服, 以热忱作外袍。18 祂必按各人的行为报应各人, 向祂的敌人发烈怒, 惩罚祂的仇敌, 向众海岛施行报应。19 这样,日落之处的人必敬畏耶和华的名, 日出之地的人必对祂的荣耀肃然起敬。 祂必奔来,如被耶和华之气推动的急流。20 耶和华说:“必有一位救赎主来到锡安, 到雅各那些离弃罪恶的子孙那里。”21 耶和华说:“我亲自与他们立约,我赐给他们的灵和我放在他们口中的话,必不离开他们和他们的子子孙孙,从现在直到永远。这是耶和华说的。”