Jesaja 42 | 聖經當代譯本修訂版 English Standard Version

Jesaja 42 | 聖經當代譯本修訂版

主的僕人

1 「看啊,我所扶持、所揀選、所喜悅的僕人, 我已將我的靈賜給祂, 祂必將正義帶給萬邦。 2 祂不喧嚷,不呼喊, 不在街上高聲說話。 3 壓傷的蘆葦,祂不折斷; 將殘的燈火,祂不吹滅。 祂必信實地帶來正義。 4 祂不灰心也不沮喪, 直到祂在地上設立正義。 四海都渴望祂的訓誨。」 5 創造諸天、鋪展穹蒼、 設立大地和地上的一切、 賜給世人生命氣息和靈性的耶和華上帝說: 6 「我耶和華憑公義呼召你, 我必扶持你,保護你, 使你做我與眾民立約的中保、 成為列國的光, 7 使你開瞎子的眼睛、 從監牢中釋放囚犯、 領出陷在黑暗中的人。 8 我是耶和華,這就是我的名字。 我不會把我的榮耀給假神, 也不會把我當受的讚美給雕刻的偶像。 9 看啊,以前的預言都已應驗, 我現在要宣告新的預言, 把還未發生的事告訴你們。」

讚美主的歌

10 航海的和海中的一切、 眾海島和島上的居民啊, 你們要向耶和華高唱新歌, 從地極讚美祂。 11 曠野和其中的城邑以及基達人居住的村莊, 要一同揚聲頌讚。 西拉的居民要歌唱, 在山頂歡呼。 12 願他們把榮耀歸給耶和華, 在眾海島上頌讚祂。 13 耶和華像出征的勇士, 像鬥志激昂的戰士。 祂必高呼吶喊,戰勝仇敵。

上帝應許幫助以色列人

14 「我已沉默多時,我克制不語, 現在我要發出急促的呐喊, 像分娩的婦人。 15 我要使大山小丘一片荒涼, 上面的草木都枯萎。 我要使河川變成島嶼, 池塘乾涸。 16 我要帶領瞎子走他們不認識的路, 引導他們走陌生的道。 我要把他們面前的黑暗變為光明, 坎坷之地變得平坦。 我必行這些事,我必不離棄他們。 17 但那些信靠雕刻的偶像、 供奉金屬鑄像的必遭唾棄, 羞愧難當。

以色列眼瞎耳聾

18 「耳聾的人啊,聽吧! 眼瞎的人啊,看吧! 19 有誰比我的僕人更瞎, 比我差遣的使者更聾呢? 有誰像那些與我立約的人那樣瞎呢? 有誰像耶和華的僕人那樣瞎呢? 20 你們看見許多事卻不領會, 耳朵開著卻聽不見。」 21 耶和華樂意使祂的律法尊大而榮耀, 因為祂行事公義。 22 但這些百姓飽受劫掠, 都被困在坑中,囚在監內。 他們淪為俘虜,無人搭救; 被當作戰利品擄走,無人追回。 23 你們當中誰肯專心聽呢? 以後誰肯留心傾聽呢? 24 誰把雅各交給了擄掠者, 使以色列任人劫掠? 難道不是被我們得罪的耶和華嗎? 他們不肯遵行祂的道, 也不聽從祂的訓誨。 25 所以,祂把烈怒和戰火傾倒在他們身上。 他們被火包圍,卻不明白; 被烈火焚身,卻不在乎。

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English Standard Version

The Lord’s Chosen Servant

1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; 3 a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. 4 He will not grow faint or be discouraged* till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law. 5 Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: 6 “I am the Lord; I have called you* in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, 7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. 8 I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Sing to the Lord a New Song

10 Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. 11 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the coastlands. 13 The Lord goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes. 14 For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant. 15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands,* and dry up the pools. 16 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. 17 They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.”

Israel’s Failure to Hear and See

18 Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! 19 Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one,* or blind as the servant of the Lord? 20 He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear. 21 The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious. 22 But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!” 23 Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come? 24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey? 25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.