Isaiah

安慰的话

1你们的 神说： 你们要安慰，安慰我的百姓。

2要对耶路撒冷说安慰的话， 又向她宣告说， 她争战的日子已满了； 她的罪孽赦免了； 她为自己的一切罪， 从耶和华手中加倍受罚。

3有人声喊着说： 在旷野预备耶和华的路， 在沙漠地修平我们 神的道。

4一切山洼都要填满， 大小山冈都要削平； 高高低低的要改为平坦， 崎崎岖岖的必成为平原。

5耶和华的荣耀必然显现； 凡有血气的必一同看见； 因为这是耶和华亲口说的。

6有人声说：你喊叫吧！ 有一个说：我喊叫什么呢？ 说：凡有血气的尽都如草； 他的美容都像野地的花。

7草必枯干，花必凋残， 因为耶和华的气吹在其上； 百姓诚然是草。

8草必枯干，花必凋残， 惟有我们 神的话必永远立定。

9报好信息给锡安的啊， 你要登高山； 报好信息给耶路撒冷的啊， 你要极力扬声。 扬声不要惧怕， 对犹大的城邑说： 看哪，你们的 神！

10主耶和华必像大能者临到； 他的膀臂必为他掌权。 他的赏赐在他那里； 他的报应在他面前。

11他必像牧人牧养自己的羊群， 用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在怀中， 慢慢引导那乳养小羊的。

以色列的 神无可比拟

12谁曾用手心量诸水， 用手虎口量苍天， 用升斗盛大地的尘土， 用秤称山岭， 用天平平冈陵呢？

13谁曾测度耶和华的心， 或作他的谋士指教他呢？

14他与谁商议，谁教导他， 谁将公平的路指示他， 又将知识教训他， 将通达的道指教他呢？

15看哪，万民都像水桶的一滴， 又算如天平上的微尘； 他举起众海岛，好像极微之物。

16黎巴嫩的树林不够当柴烧； 其中的走兽也不够作燔祭。

17万民在他面前好像虚无， 被他看为不及虚无，乃为虚空。

18你们究竟将谁比 神， 用什么形象与 神比较呢？

19偶像是匠人铸造， 银匠用金包裹， 为它铸造银链。

20穷乏献不起这样供物的， 就拣选不能朽坏的树木， 为自己寻找巧匠， 立起不能摇动的偶像。

21你们岂不曾知道吗？ 你们岂不曾听见吗？ 从起初岂没有人告诉你们吗？ 自从立地的根基， 你们岂没有明白吗？

22神坐在地球大圈之上； 地上的居民好像蝗虫。 他铺张穹苍如幔子， 展开诸天如可住的帐棚。

23他使君王归于虚无， 使地上的审判官成为虚空。

24他们是刚才栽上， 刚才种上， 根也刚才扎在地里， 他一吹在其上，便都枯干； 旋风将他们吹去，像碎秸一样。

25那圣者说：你们将谁比我， 叫他与我相等呢？

26你们向上举目， 看谁创造这万象， 按数目领出， 他一一称其名； 因他的权能， 又因他的大能大力， 连一个都不缺。

27雅各啊，你为何说， 我的道路向耶和华隐藏？ 以色列啊，你为何言， 我的冤屈 神并不查问？

28你岂不曾知道吗？ 你岂不曾听见吗？ 永在的 神耶和华，创造地极的主， 并不疲乏，也不困倦； 他的智慧无法测度。

29疲乏的，他赐能力； 软弱的，他加力量。

30就是少年人也要疲乏困倦； 强壮的也必全然跌倒。

31但那等候耶和华的必从新得力。 他们必如鹰展翅上腾； 他们奔跑却不困倦， 行走却不疲乏。

Prepare the Way for the LORD

1“Comfort, comfort My people,”says your God.

2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and proclaim to herthat her forced labor has been completed;her iniquity has been pardoned.For she has received from the hand of the LORDdouble for all her sins.”

3A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness;make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

4Every valley shall be lifted up,and every mountain and hill made low;the uneven ground will become smooth,and the rugged land a plain.

5And the glory of the LORD will be revealed,and all humanity together will see it.”For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

The Enduring Word

6A voice says, “Cry out!”And I asked, “What should I cry out?”“All flesh is like grass,and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

7The grass withers and the flowers fallwhen the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

8The grass withers and the flowers fall,but the word of our God stands forever.”

Here Is Your God!

9Go up on a high mountain,O Zion, herald of good news.Raise your voice loudly,O Jerusalem, herald of good news.Lift it up,do not be afraid!Say to the cities of Judah,“Here is your God!”

10Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might,and His arm establishes His rule.His reward is with Him,and His recompense accompanies Him.

11He tends His flock like a shepherd;He gathers the lambs in His armsand carries them close to His heart.He gently leads the nursing ewes.

12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,or informed Him as His counselor?

14Whom did He consult to enlighten Him,and who taught Him the paths of justice?Who imparted knowledge to Himand showed Him the way of understanding?

15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islandslike fine dust.

16Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel,nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

17All the nations are as nothing before Him;He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

18To whom will you liken God?To what image will you compare Him?

19To an idol that a craftsman castsand a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

20One lacking such an offeringchooses wood that will not rot.He seeks a skilled craftsmanto set up an idol that will not topple.

21Do you not know?Have you not heard?Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth;its dwellers are like grasshoppers.He stretches out the heavens like a curtain,and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

23He brings the princes to nothingand makes the rulersof the earth meaningless.

24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown,no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground,than He blows on them and they wither,and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

25“To whom will you liken Me,or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

26Lift up your eyes on high:Who created all these?He leads forth the starry host by number;He calls each one by name.Because of His great power and mighty strength,not one of them is missing.

27Why do you say, O Jacob,and why do you assert, O Israel,“My way is hidden from the LORD,and my claim is ignored by my God”?

28Do you not know?Have you not heard?The LORD is the everlasting God,the Creator of the ends of the earth.He will not grow tired or weary;His understanding is beyond searching out.

29He gives power to the faintand increases the strength of the weak.

30Even youths grow tired and weary,and young men stumble and fall.

31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength;they will mount up with wings like eagles;they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not faint.