Esias 40
1 Comfort you, comfort you my people, says God.
你們的上帝說： 你們要安慰，安慰我的百姓。
2 Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double [the amount of] her sins.
要對耶路撒冷說安慰的話， 又向她宣告說， 她爭戰的日子已滿了； 她的罪孽赦免了； 她為自己的一切罪， 從耶和華手中加倍受罰。
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
有人聲喊着說： 在曠野預備耶和華的路， 在沙漠地修平我們上帝的道。
4 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] plains.
一切山窪都要填滿， 大小山岡都要削平； 高高低低的要改為平坦， 崎崎嶇嶇的必成為平原。
5 And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken [it].
耶和華的榮耀必然顯現； 凡有血氣的必一同看見； 因為這是耶和華親口說的。
6 The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:
有人聲說：你喊叫吧！ 有一個說：我喊叫甚麼呢？ 說：凡有血氣的盡都如草； 他的美容都像野地的花。
草必枯乾，花必凋殘， 因為耶和華的氣吹在其上； 百姓誠然是草。
8 The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.
草必枯乾，花必凋殘， 惟有我們上帝的話必永遠立定。
9 O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Juda, Behold your God!
報好信息給錫安的啊， 你要登高山； 報好信息給耶路撒冷的啊， 你要極力揚聲。 揚聲不要懼怕， 對猶大的城邑說： 看哪，你們的上帝！
10 Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [his] arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and [his] work before him.
主耶和華必像大能者臨到； 他的膀臂必為他掌權。 他的賞賜在他那裏； 他的報應在他面前。
11 He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
他必像牧人牧養自己的羊群， 用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在懷中， 慢慢引導那乳養小羊的。
12 Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
誰曾用手心量諸水， 用手虎口量蒼天， 用升斗盛大地的塵土， 用秤稱山嶺， 用天平平岡陵呢？
13 Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?
誰曾測度耶和華的心， 或作他的謀士指教他呢？
14 Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgement, or who has taught him the way of understanding;
他與誰商議，誰教導他， 誰將公平的路指示他， 又將知識教訓他， 將通達的道指教他呢？
15 since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?
看哪，萬民都像水桶的一滴， 又算如天平上的微塵； 他舉起眾海島，好像極微之物。
16 And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering:
黎巴嫩的樹林不夠當柴燒； 其中的走獸也不夠作燔祭。
17 and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
萬民在他面前好像虛無， 被他看為不及虛無，乃為虛空。
18 To whom have you compared the Lord? and with what likeness have you compared him?
你們究竟將誰比上帝， 用甚麼形像與上帝比較呢？
19 Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, [and] made it a similitude?
偶像是匠人鑄造， 銀匠用金包裹， 為它鑄造銀鍊。
20 For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.
窮乏獻不起這樣供物的， 就揀選不能朽壞的樹木， 為自己尋找巧匠， 立起不能搖動的偶像。
21 Will you not know? will you not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth?
你們豈不曾知道嗎？ 你們豈不曾聽見嗎？ 從起初豈沒有人告訴你們嗎？ 自從立地的根基， 你們豈沒有明白嗎？
22 [It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:
上帝坐在地球大圈之上； 地上的居民好像蝗蟲。 他鋪張穹蒼如幔子， 展開諸天如可住的帳棚。
23 he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.
他使君王歸於虛無， 使地上的審判官成為虛空。
24 For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.
他們是剛才栽上， 剛才種上， 根也剛才扎在地裏， 他一吹在其上，便都枯乾； 旋風將他們吹去，像碎詡一樣。
25 Now then to whom have you compared me, that I may be exalted? says the Holy One.
那聖者說：你們將誰比我， 叫他與我相等呢？
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.
你們向上舉目， 看誰創造這萬象， 按數目領出， 他一一稱其名； 因他的權能， 又因他的大能大力， 連一個都不缺。
27 For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed?
雅各啊，你為何說， 我的道路向耶和華隱藏？ 以色列啊，你為何言， 我的冤屈上帝並不查問？
28 And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.
你豈不曾知道嗎？ 你豈不曾聽見嗎？ 永在的上帝耶和華，創造地極的主， 並不疲乏，也不困倦； 他的智慧無法測度。
29 He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
疲乏的，他賜能力； 軟弱的，他加力量。
30 For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless:
就是少年人也要疲乏困倦； 強壯的也必全然跌倒。
31 but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
但那等候耶和華的必重新得力。 他們必如鷹展翅上騰； 他們奔跑卻不困倦， 行走卻不疲乏。
