Isaiah

1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

2LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

5The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high.He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.The fear of the LORD is your treasure.

7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

8The highways are desolate.The travelling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

9The land mourns and languishes.Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD.“Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

11You will conceive chaff.You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

12The peoples will be like the burning of lime,like thorns that are cut down and burnt in the fire.

13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

14The sinners in Zion are afraid.Trembling has seized the godless ones.Who amongst us can live with the devouring fire?Who amongst us can live with everlasting burning?

15He who walks righteouslyand speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

16he will dwell on high.His place of defence will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.They will see a distant land.

18Your heart will meditate on the terror.Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

19You will no longer see the fierce people,a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.

20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed.Its stakes will never be plucked up,nor will any of its cords be broken.

21But there the LORD will be with us in majesty,a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

22For the LORD is our judge.The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.

23Your rigging is untied.They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail.Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.The lame took the prey.

24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

1khi ngươi phản bội rồi, ngươi sẽ bị phản bội.

2xin cứu độ chúng con trong lúc ngặt nghèo.

3Ngài đứng lên, các nước tán loạn.

4người ta xông vào lấy, như châu chấu xông vào.

5Người làm cho Xi-on được đầy chính trực công minh.

6sự kính sợ ĐỨC CHÚA, đó chính là kho tàng Người ban.

7các sứ giả hoà bình than khóc đắng cay.

8chẳng coi ai ra gì nữa.

9còn miền Ba-san và núi Các-men hoá ra trơ trụi.

10giờ đây Ta đứng thẳng, giờ đây Ta vươn mình lên.

11Hơi thở của Ta sẽ như lửa thiêu rụi các ngươi.

12chúng như gai bị chặt và thiêu trong lửa.

13kẻ ở gần, khá nhận rằng sức Ta hùng mạnh.”

14Ai trong chúng ta ở gần được hoả hào muôn kiếp ?”

15việc xấu xa, bịt mắt chẳng thèm nhìn.

16nước uống chẳng lo thiếu bao giờ.

17sẽ thấy một miền đất trải rộng.

18Đâu rồi người thanh tra các tháp canh ?”

19giọng nói líu lo, không ai hiểu.

20không một dây lều nào sẽ bị đứt.

21nhưng không có thuyền bè tới lui, và tàu to đẹp cũng không qua lại.

22ĐỨC CHÚA là vua của chúng ta, chính Người sẽ cứu độ chúng ta.

23kẻ què cũng tha hồ hôi của.

24Dân ở đó sẽ được tha tội.