Isaiah

神掌管未来

1雅各家，称为以色列名下， 从犹大水源出来的，当听我言！ 你们指着耶和华的名起誓， 提说以色列的 神， 却不凭诚实，不凭公义。

2他们自称为圣城的人， 所倚靠的是 名为万军之耶和华—以色列的 神。

3主说：早先的事，我从古时说明， 已经出了我的口， 也是我所指示的； 我忽然行做，事便成就。

4因为我素来知道你是顽梗的— 你的颈项是铁的； 你的额是铜的。

5所以，我从古时将这事给你说明， 在未成以先指示你， 免得你说：这些事是我的偶像所行的， 是我雕刻的偶像和我铸造的偶像所命定的。

6你已经听见，现在要看见这一切； 你不说明吗？ 从今以后，我将新事， 就是你所不知道的隐密事指示你。

7这事是现今造的，并非从古就有； 在今日以先，你也未曾听见， 免得你说：这事我早已知道了。

8你未曾听见，未曾知道； 你的耳朵从来未曾开通。 我原知道你行事极其诡诈， 你自从出胎以来， 便称为悖逆的。

9我为我的名暂且忍怒， 为我的颂赞向你容忍， 不将你剪除。

10我熬炼你，却不像熬炼银子； 你在苦难的炉中，我拣选你。

11我为自己的缘故必行这事， 我焉能使我的名被亵渎？ 我必不将我的荣耀归给假神。

耶和华拣选塞鲁士为领导者

12雅各—我所选召的以色列啊， 当听我言： 我是耶和华， 我是首先的，也是末后的。

13我手立了地的根基； 我右手铺张诸天； 我一招呼便都立住。

14你们都当聚集而听， 他们内中谁说过这些事？ 耶和华所爱的人必向巴比伦行他所喜悦的事； 他的膀臂也要加在迦勒底人身上。

15惟有我曾说过，我又选召他， 领他来，他的道路就必亨通。

16你们要就近我来听这话： 我从起头并未曾在隐密处说话； 自从有这事，我就在那里。 现在，主耶和华差遣我和他的灵来。

耶和华对他子民的计划

17耶和华—你的救赎主， 以色列的圣者如此说： 我是耶和华—你的 神， 教训你，使你得益处， 引导你所当行的路。

18甚愿你素来听从我的命令！ 你的平安就如河水； 你的公义就如海浪。

19你的后裔也必多如海沙； 你腹中所生的也必多如沙粒。 他的名在我面前必不剪除， 也不灭绝。

20你们要从巴比伦出来， 从迦勒底人中逃脱， 以欢呼的声音传扬说： 耶和华救赎了他的仆人雅各！ 你们要将这事宣扬到地极。

21耶和华引导他们经过沙漠。 他们并不干渴； 他为他们使水从磐石而流， 分裂磐石，水就涌出。

22耶和华说： 恶人必不得平安！

1Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.

2For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.

3The former things of old I have declared, and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and they came to pass.

4For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

5I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them.

6See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you declared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things are kept which thou knowest not:

7They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.

8Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

9For my name’s sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

10Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.

11For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.

12Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

13My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.

14Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his way is made prosperous.

16Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

17Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest.

18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

19And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.

20Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

21They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out.

22There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.