以賽亞書 55
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
上帝施恩典
55 耶和華說：「口渴的人啊，來喝水吧！
沒有錢的人啊，
來買東西吃吧！
買酒買奶都不用付錢。
2 你們為什麼花錢買不能充饑的食物？
為什麼拿辛苦賺來的錢買不能令人飽足的東西？
要留心聽我的話，
就可以吃美物，
享受豐盛的佳餚。
3 你們要到我這裡來，
側耳聽我的話，就必得到生命。
我要跟你們立永久的約，
將應許給大衛的可靠恩福賜給你們。
4 我使他統管萬民，
向萬民做見證。
5 看啊，你必召集不認識的國民，
不認識你的國民必來投奔你，
因為以色列的聖者——你的上帝耶和華賜給你榮耀。」
6 要趁著還可以找到耶和華的時候尋找祂，
趁祂還在附近的時候求告祂。
7 願邪惡的人停止作惡，
不義的人除掉惡念。
願他們歸向耶和華，
祂必憐憫他們；
願他們歸向我們的上帝，
祂必仁慈地赦免他們。
8 耶和華說：「我的意念並非你們的意念，
我的道路並非你們的道路。
9 正如天高過地，
我的道路也高過你們的道路，
我的意念也高過你們的意念。
10 雨雪從天降下，並不返回，
而是要滋潤大地，
使地上的植物發芽生長，
叫播種的有種子，
吃飯的有食糧。
11 同樣，我口中所出的話也不會徒然返回，
而是要成就我的旨意，
實現我的計劃。
12 你們必歡歡喜喜地出來，
平平安安地蒙引導，
大山小山都要在你們面前歌唱，
田野的樹木也都拍掌。
13 曾經的荊棘之地必長出松樹，
曾經的蒺藜之地必長出番石榴。
這便是永遠長存的記號，
以宣揚耶和華的名。」
Isaiah 55
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Come to the Lord
55 “Come, everyone who is thirsty,(A)
come to the waters;
and you without money,
come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost!
2 Why do you spend money on what is not food,
and your wages on what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.[a]
3 Pay attention and come to Me;
listen, so that you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,(B)
the promises assured to David.(C)
4 Since I have made him a witness to the peoples,(D)
a leader and commander for the peoples,(E)
5 so you will summon a nation you do not know,(F)
and nations who do not know you will run to you.(G)
For the Lord your God,
even the Holy One of Israel,(H)
has glorified you.”(I)
6 Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.(J)
7 Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;(K)
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.(L)
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
9 “For as heaven is higher than earth,(M)
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven
and do not return there
without saturating the earth
and making it germinate and sprout,
and providing seed to sow
and food to eat,(N)
11 so My word that comes from My mouth
will not return to Me empty,
but it will accomplish what I please
and will prosper in what I send it to do.”(O)
12 You will indeed go out with joy
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.(P)
13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;(Q)
it will make a name for Yahweh(R)
as an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 55:2 Lit enjoy fatness
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