Isaiah

神要施怜悯

1你们一切干渴的都当就近水来； 没有银钱的也可以来。 你们都来，买了吃； 不用银钱，不用价值， 也来买酒和奶。

2你们为何花钱买那不足为食物的？ 用劳碌得来的买那不使人饱足的呢？ 你们要留意听我的话就能吃那美物， 得享肥甘，心中喜乐。

3你们当就近我来； 侧耳而听，就必得活。 我必与你们立永约， 就是应许大卫那可靠的恩典。

4我已立他作万民的见证， 为万民的君王和司令。

5你素不认识的国民，你也必召来； 素不认识你的国民也必向你奔跑， 都因耶和华—你的 神以色列的圣者， 因为他已经荣耀你。

6当趁耶和华可寻找的时候寻找他， 相近的时候求告他。

7恶人当离弃自己的道路； 不义的人当除掉自己的意念。 归向耶和华，耶和华就必怜恤他； 当归向我们的 神，因为 神必广行赦免。

8耶和华说：我的意念非同你们的意念； 我的道路非同你们的道路。

9天怎样高过地， 照样，我的道路高过你们的道路； 我的意念高过你们的意念。

10雨雪从天而降，并不返回，却滋润地土，使地上发芽结实， 使撒种的有种，使要吃的有粮。

11我口所出的话也必如此， 决不徒然返回， 却要成就我所喜悦的， 在我发他去成就的事上必然亨通。

12你们必欢欢喜喜而出来， 平平安安蒙引导。 大山小山必在你们面前发声歌唱； 田野的树木也都拍掌。

13松树长出，代替荆棘； 番石榴长出，代替蒺藜。 这要为耶和华留名， 作为永远的证据，不能剪除。

Invitation to the Needy

1“Come, all you who are thirsty,come to the waters;and you without money,come, buy, and eat!Come, buy wine and milkwithout money and without cost!

2Why spend money on that which is not bread,and your labor on that which does not satisfy?Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

3Incline your ear and come to Me;listen, so that your soul may live.I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations,a leader and commander of the peoples.

5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know,and nations who do not know you will run to you.For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel,has bestowed glory on you.”

6Seek the LORD while He may be found;call on Him while He is near.

7Let the wicked man forsake his wayand the unrighteous man his thoughts;let him return to the LORD,that He may have compassion,and to our God,for He will freely pardon.

8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways My ways,”declares the LORD.

9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

10For just as rain and snow fall from heavenand do not return without watering the earth,making it bud and sprout,and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

11so My word that proceeds from My mouthwill not return to Me empty,but it will accomplish what I please,and it will prosper where I send it.

12You will indeed go out with joyand be led forth in peace;the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

13Instead of the thornbush, the cypresswill grow,and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up;this will make a name for the LORD,an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”