Isaiah

1Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

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

3For your hands are defiled with blood,and your fingers with iniquity.Your lips have spoken lies.Your tongue mutters wickedness.

4No one sues in righteousness,and no one pleads in truth.They trust in vanityand speak lies.They conceive mischiefand give birth to iniquity.

5They hatch adders’ eggsand weave the spider’s web.He who eats of their eggs dies;and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

6Their webs won’t become garments.They won’t cover themselves with their works.Their works are works of iniquity,and acts of violence are in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil,and they hurry to shed innocent blood.Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

8They don’t know the way of peace;and there is no justice in their ways.They have made crooked paths for themselves;whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

9Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.We look for light, but see darkness;for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

10We grope for the wall like the blind.Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

11We all roar like bearsand moan sadly like doves.We look for justice, but there is none,for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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

13transgressing and denying the LORD,and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14Justice is turned away backward,and righteousness stands far away;for truth has fallen in the street,and uprightness can’t enter.

15Yes, truth is lacking;and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it,and it displeased him that there was no justice.

16He saw that there was no man,and wondered that there was no intercessor.Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;and his righteousness sustained him.

17He put on righteousness as a breastplate,and a helmet of salvation on his head.He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

18According to their deeds,he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due.

19So they will fear the LORD’s name from the west,and his glory from the rising of the sun;for he will come as a rushing stream,which the LORD’s breath drives.

20“A Redeemer will come to Zion,and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says the LORD.

21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.”

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.