Isaiah

1Thị kiến ông I-sai-a, con ông A-mốc, đã được thấy, liên quan đến Giu-đa và Giê-ru-sa-lem, thời các vua Út-di-gia-hu, Giô-tham, A-khát, Khít-ki-gia cai trị Giu-đa.

2nhưng chúng đã phản nghịch cùng Ta.

3Nhưng Ít-ra-en thì không biết, dân Ta chẳng hiểu gì.

4đã khinh Đức Thánh của Ít-ra-en, mà quay lưng đi.

5Đầu chỗ nào cũng đau, tim tan nát cả rồi !

6chưa có ai lau chùi, chưa có ai băng bó, chưa có ai thoa dầu.

7khiến trở nên hoang tàn như bị quân ngoại bang giày xéo.

8như cái chòi trong vườn dưa, như thành bị vây hãm.

9thì chúng ta đã ra như Xơ-đôm, đã giống Gô-mô-ra.

10hãy lắng tai nghe Thiên Chúa chúng ta dạy bảo.

11Máu bò, máu chiên dê, Ta chẳng thèm !

12ai khiến các ngươi phải giẫm lên khuôn viên của Ta ?

13rồi lại cứ lễ lạt linh đình.

14Ta không chịu nổi nữa.

15Vì tay các ngươi đầy những máu.

16Đừng làm điều ác nữa.

17biện hộ cho quả phụ.

18có thẫm tựa vải điều, cũng hoá trắng như bông.

19các ngươi sẽ được hưởng dùng hoa mầu trong xứ.

20Miệng ĐỨC CHÚA đã phán như vậy.

21sao nay lại đầy lũ giết người ?

22rượu ngon thì bị pha nước vào.

23cũng chẳng quan tâm đến quyền lợi quả phụ.

24sẽ báo oán những kẻ thù của Ta.

25Mọi cặn bã của ngươi, Ta sẽ loại bỏ.

26là “Thành phố của đức công minh”, là “Đô thị trung tín”.

27sẽ được giải thoát nhờ đức công minh.

28đều phải tiêu vong.

29sẽ phải nhục nhã vì những khu vườn các ngươi đã chọn,

30tựa khu vườn không còn nước.

31khiến cả hai cùng cháy mà không ai dập đi.”

1The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.

2Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

4Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

5For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

6From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

7Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.

8And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

9Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.

10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

12When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

13Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

14My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

15And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,

17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

18And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

22Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.

23Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cometh not in to them.

24Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.

25And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.

26And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.

27Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

28And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.

29For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

30When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.

31And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.