Chapter 59

Isa 59:1 耶和華的膀臂、並非縮短不能拯救．耳朵、並非發沉不能聽見．

Isa 59:1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

Isa 59:2 但你們的罪孽使你們與 神隔絕、你們的罪惡使他掩面不聽你們。

Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Isa 59:3 因你們的手被血沾染、你們的指頭被罪孽沾污．你們的嘴唇說謊言、你們的舌頭出惡語。

Isa 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Isa 59:4 無一人按公義告狀、無一人憑誠實辨白．都倚靠虛妄、說謊言．所懷的是毒害、所生的是罪孽．

Isa 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Isa 59:5 他們菢毒蛇蛋、結蜘蛛網．人吃這蛋必死．這蛋被踏、必出蝮蛇．

Isa 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Isa 59:6 所結的網、不能成為衣服、所作的、也不能遮蓋自己．他們的行為都是罪孽、手所作的都是強暴。

Isa 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Isa 59:7 他們的腳奔跑行惡、他們急速流無辜人的血．意念都是罪孽．所經過的路都荒涼毀滅。

Isa 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isa 59:8 平安的路、他們不知道．所行的事、沒有公平．他們為自己修彎曲的路．凡行此路的、都不知道平安。

Isa 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Isa 59:9 因此公平離我們遠、公義追不上我們．我們指望光亮、卻是黑暗．指望光明、卻行幽暗。

Isa 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isa 59:10 我們摸索牆壁、好像瞎子．我們摸索、如同無目之人．我們晌午絆腳、如在黃昏一樣．我們在肥壯人中、像死人一般。

Isa 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Isa 59:11 我們咆哮如熊、哀鳴如鴿．指望公平、卻是沒有．指望救恩、卻遠離我們。

Isa 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isa 59:12 我們的過犯在你面前增多、罪惡作見證告我們．過犯與我們同在．至於我們的罪孽、我們都知道．

Isa 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

Isa 59:13 就是悖逆不認識耶和華、轉去不跟從我們的 神、說欺壓和叛逆的話、心懷謊言、隨即說出。

Isa 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isa 59:14 並且公平轉而退後、公義站在遠處．誠實在街上仆倒、正直也不得進入。

Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Isa 59:15 誠實少見．離惡的人反成掠物。那時、耶和華看見沒有公平、甚不喜悅。

Isa 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Isa 59:16 他見無人拯救、無人代求、甚為詫異．就用自己的膀臂施行拯救．以公義扶持自己。

Isa 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

Isa 59:17 他以公義為鎧甲、〔或作護心鏡〕以拯救為頭盔、以報仇為衣服、以熱心為外袍。

Isa 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

Isa 59:18 他必按人的行為施報、惱怒他的敵人、報復他的仇敵、向眾海島施行報應。

Isa 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

Isa 59:19 如此、人從日落之處、必敬畏耶和華的名．從日出之地、也必敬畏他的榮耀．因為仇敵好像急流的河水沖來、是耶和華之氣所驅逐的。

Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

Isa 59:20 必有一位救贖主、來到錫安雅各族中轉離過犯的人那裏．這是耶和華說的。

Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

Isa 59:21 耶和華說、至於我與他們所立的約、乃是這樣．我加給你的靈、傳給你的話、必不離你的口、也不離你後裔與你後裔之後裔的口、從今直到永遠．這是耶和華說的。

Isa 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.