Isaiah

先知指责百姓的罪恶

1耶和华的膀臂并非缩短，不能拯救， 耳朵并非发沉，不能听见，

2但你们的罪孽使你们与 神隔绝； 你们的罪恶使他掩面不听你们。

3因你们的手被血沾染， 你们的指头被罪孽沾污， 你们的嘴唇说谎言， 你们的舌头出恶语。

4无一人按公义告状， 无一人凭诚实辨白； 都倚靠虚妄，说谎言。 所怀的是毒害； 所生的是罪孽。

5他们抱毒蛇蛋， 结蜘蛛网； 人吃这蛋必死。 这蛋被踏，必出蝮蛇。

6所结的网不能成为衣服； 所做的也不能遮盖自己。 他们的行为都是罪孽； 手所做的都是强暴。

7他们的脚奔跑行恶； 他们急速流无辜人的血； 意念都是罪孽， 所经过的路都荒凉毁灭。

8平安的路，他们不知道； 所行的事没有公平。 他们为自己修弯曲的路； 凡行此路的都不知道平安。

百姓悔罪

9因此，公平离我们远， 公义追不上我们。 我们指望光亮，却是黑暗， 指望光明，却行幽暗。

10我们摸索墙壁，好像瞎子； 我们摸索，如同无目之人。 我们晌午绊脚，如在黄昏一样； 我们在肥壮人中，像死人一般。

11我们咆哮如熊， 哀鸣如鸽； 指望公平，却是没有； 指望救恩，却远离我们。

12我们的过犯在你面前增多， 罪恶作见证告我们； 过犯与我们同在。 至于我们的罪孽，我们都知道：

13就是悖逆、不认识耶和华， 转去不跟从我们的 神， 说欺压和叛逆的话， 心怀谎言，随即说出。

14并且公平转而退后， 公义站在远处； 诚实在街上仆倒， 正直也不得进入。

15诚实少见； 离恶的人反成掠物。耶和华准备拯救他的子民那时，耶和华看见没有公平， 甚不喜悦。

16他见无人拯救， 无人代求，甚为诧异， 就用自己的膀臂施行拯救， 以公义扶持自己。

17他以公义为铠甲， 以拯救为头盔， 以报仇为衣服， 以热心为外袍。

18他必按人的行为施报， 恼怒他的敌人， 报复他的仇敌 向众海岛施行报应。

19如此，人从日落之处必敬畏耶和华的名，从日出之地也必敬畏他的荣耀； 因为仇敌好像急流的河水冲来， 是耶和华之气所驱逐的。

20必有一位救赎主来到锡安— 雅各族中转离过犯的人那里。 这是耶和华说的。

21耶和华说：「至于我与他们所立的约乃是这样：我加给你的灵，传给你的话，必不离你的口，也不离你后裔与你后裔之后裔的口，从今直到永远；这是耶和华说的。」

1Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

2But your iniquities have separated you and your God,and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

3For your hands are defiled with blood,and your fingers with iniquity.Your lips have spoken lies.Your tongue mutters wickedness.

4No one sues in righteousness,and no one pleads in truth.They trust in vanityand speak lies.They conceive mischiefand give birth to iniquity.

5They hatch adders’ eggsand weave the spider’s web.He who eats of their eggs dies;and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

6Their webs won’t become garments.They won’t cover themselves with their works.Their works are works of iniquity,and acts of violence are in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil,and they hurry to shed innocent blood.Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

8They don’t know the way of peace;and there is no justice in their ways.They have made crooked paths for themselves;whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

9Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.We look for light, but see darkness;for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

10We grope for the wall like the blind.Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

11We all roar like bearsand moan sadly like doves.We look for justice, but there is none,for salvation, but it is far off from us.

12For our transgressions are multiplied before you,and our sins testify against us;for our transgressions are with us,and as for our iniquities, we know them:

13transgressing and denying the LORD,and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14Justice is turned away backward,and righteousness stands far away;for truth has fallen in the street,and uprightness can’t enter.

15Yes, truth is lacking;and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it,and it displeased him that there was no justice.

16He saw that there was no man,and wondered that there was no intercessor.Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;and his righteousness sustained him.

17He put on righteousness as a breastplate,and a helmet of salvation on his head.He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

18According to their deeds,he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due.

19So they will fear the LORD’s name from the west,and his glory from the rising of the sun;for he will come as a rushing stream,which the LORD’s breath drives.

20“A Redeemer will come to Zion,and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says the LORD.

21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.”