Isaiah

1cũng chẳng phải Người nặng tai không nghe được,

2để khỏi nhìn, khỏi nghe các ngươi.

3lưỡi các ngươi thốt ra điều bất công.

4cưu mang chuyện xấu xa, đẻ ra điều gian ác.

5giả như trứng vỡ, sẽ nở ra rắn con !

6và bàn tay chúng đầy những việc bạo tàn.

7chúng đi đâu cũng bạo hành tàn phá.

8ai đi theo đường đó không hề được bình an.

9mong xán lạn huy hoàng, lại bước đi trong mù mịt tối tăm.

10đang sung sức mà như người đã chết.

11mong được cứu thoát, nhưng sao quá xa vời !

12lỗi chúng con, chúng con biết cả rồi :

13ngấm ngầm mưu tính và lẩm nhẩm thốt lời điêu ngoa.

14sự liêm chính không thể chen chân.

15ĐỨC CHÚA thấy rồi và gai cả mắt, vì chẳng có chi là chính trực.

16và đức công chính của Người đã phù trợ.

17và lấy ghen tuông làm áo choàng.

18Người trả báo các đảo xa xăm.

19và thần khí của ĐỨC CHÚA đẩy nó mạnh thêm.

20Đó là sấm ngôn của ĐỨC CHÚA.

21Phần Ta, đây là giao ước của Ta với chúng –ĐỨC CHÚA phán– : thần khí của Ta ở trên ngươi, và các lời Ta đặt nơi miệng ngươi sẽ không rời khỏi miệng ngươi, khỏi miệng con cái ngươi, và khỏi miệng cháu chắt ngươi –ĐỨC CHÚA phán–, từ nay cho đến mãi muôn đời.

1Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

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

3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

9¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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

13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

16¶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

17For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

19So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

20¶ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

21As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.